Top 160 Sally Thorne Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “All these stupid women who don’t know how to treat a man right.”

— Sally Thorne

2. “I love strawberries. I’m so lovesick, I eat them constantly. Can I nickname you Shortcake? It’ll be a dead giveaway that I love you.”

— Sally Thorne

3. “You are deeply weird.”

— Sally Thorne

4. “Oh, well. He’s seen and heard almost everything now. There’s nothing left to do but fake my own death and start a new life.”

— Sally Thorne

5. “Every day here is a challenge, a privilege, a sacrifice, and a frustration.”

— Sally Thorne

6. “I always thought that love would feel like something gentle, but this isn’t. I feel a clawing, desperate need to hold his heart in my hand and to fend off anything that might damage it.”

— Sally Thorne

7. “You’re always beautiful.”

— Sally Thorne

8. “Every evil overlord needs a fluffy cat to stroke.”

— Sally Thorne

9. “All I want to do is kiss you until I fall asleep. I want to slide in between your sheets, and find out what goes on inside your head, and underneath your clothes. I want to make a fool of myself over you.”

— Sally Thorne

10. “I hope it’s not too forward of me to say, but your eyes are incredible, Lucy. I die when you blink.”

— Sally Thorne

11. “Books were, and always would be, something a little magic and something to respect.”

— Sally Thorne

12. “You wouldn’t have been sitting there alone. I would have been there. It would have been me.”

— Sally Thorne

13. “I love him so much it’s like a thread piercing me. Punching holes. Dragging through. Stitching love into me. I’ll never be able to untangle myself from this feeling. The color of love is surely this robin’s-egg blue.”

— Sally Thorne

14. “He releases the button on my coat with the snap of his fingers. The traitorous garment flips open, as if to say Help yourself, mister!”

— Sally Thorne

15. “It’s a corporate truth universally acknowledged that workers would rather eat rat skeletons than participate in group activities.”

— Sally Thorne

16. “He did not smile back, and somehow I feel like he’s been carrying my smile around in his breast pocket ever since. He’s one up.”

— Sally Thorne

17. “I love you, Lucy Hutton. So much, you have no idea. Please be my best friend.”

— Sally Thorne

18. “The art of holding hands is underrated and it’s embarrassing how much this simple act has me nearly breathless.”

— Sally Thorne

19. “I don’t care what you think, but I want normal people to like me.” “You’re chronically addicted to making people adore you.” The way he says it makes me feel a little sick.”

— Sally Thorne

20. “He holds the elevator door open with one enormous hand and leans out to look at the weather. Then he swings those dark blue eyes to mine, his brow beginning to crease. The familiar bubble forms in my head. I wish he was my friend. I burst it with a pin. “I’ll give you a ride,” he forces out. “Ugh, no way,” I say over my shoulder and run.”

— Sally Thorne

21. “There’s still one solid-gold good man left out there. He’s the high-tide mark in a world of inch-deep puddles.”

— Sally Thorne

22. “A memory of last night drops through my body like a coin. Ripples spread through my stomach, shimmering down.”

— Sally Thorne

23. “La vida ha empezado a parecerme una gran oportunidad para convertir cada experiencia en un nuevo recuerdo.”

— Sally Thorne

24. “I think I’m getting a migraine’... She’s one of those horrific people who pronounces it me-graine.”

— Sally Thorne

25. “We are adults undertaking a team-building activity in a professional capacity, so naturally we spend several minutes horsing around, striking poses with our paintball guns and making sound effects. Joshua and Sergeant Paintball watch us like orderlies at a mental facility.”

— Sally Thorne

26. “The trick is to find the one person who can give it back as good as they can take it.”

— Sally Thorne

27. “Quick, I’m having a winemergency.”

— Sally Thorne

28. “I need your hands more than I’ve ever needed anything.”

— Sally Thorne

29. “The first smile Joshua’s ever had in my presence is pressed against my lips.”

— Sally Thorne

30. “I’ve had a chronic case of the heavy sad sighs lately.”

— Sally Thorne

31. “I think you know there’s going to be no more ragging on Josh. Except by me, because he loves it.”

— Sally Thorne

32. “See,” he says into my mouth. “I don’t hate you, Lucy.”

— Sally Thorne

33. “He taps my window to make me lock the door.”

— Sally Thorne

34. “I crank the shower and it spits and steams. Then I stand in the water and when I cry, the tears wash away. The perfect crime.”

— Sally Thorne

35. “He smells like he always has: a blown-out birthday candle, sharp and smoky. It’s that smell in your nostrils when closing your eyes and making an impossible wish, and your mouth is watering for something sweet.”

— Sally Thorne

36. “Have you ever been caught off guard by the sound of your own heartbeat? Maybe you’ve pressed your ear weirdly on your pillow, and now all you can hear is your own proof of life. You are confronted with your mortality in a base, clock-ticking kind of way: you have an engine room, and it has a finite timeline. What a miracle and a privilege.”

— Sally Thorne

37. “The energy that usually lashes ineffectively inside each of us now has a conduit, forming a loop of electricity between us, cycling through me, into him. My heart is glowing in my chest like a bulb, flashing brighter with each movement of his lips.”

— Sally Thorne

38. “I am not your average man. I am ready for the challenge of an exceptional woman.”

— Sally Thorne

39. “I’m so badly socialized I can barely converse with normal human beings. I want to be at home on my couch with all of the pillows piled on my head.”

— Sally Thorne

40. “I was always covering for you.”

— Sally Thorne

41. “Brute, raw masculinity contrasted with gentleness is the most attractive thing on earth.”

— Sally Thorne

42. “Unfortunately, the next thing I say sounds deranged. “I want to know what’s going on in your brain. I want to juice your head like a lemon.” “Why.”

— Sally Thorne

43. “I’ll always remember the drive home as a movie montage, and I knew I was in one. Each detail was vividly bright. I knew I’d need the memories one day.”

— Sally Thorne

44. “You love him. You love him. You always have. More than you’ve ever hated him. Every day, staring at this man, knowing every color and expression and nuance. Every game you’ve ever played has been to engage with him. Talk to him. Feel his eyes on you. To try to make him notice you.”

— Sally Thorne

45. “I spot a little origami bird made of notepaper I once flicked at him during a meeting. It is balanced on the edge of the bookshelf.”

— Sally Thorne

46. “I want you for more than your body. I want you for your Matchbox cars. – Shortcake.”

— Sally Thorne

47. “If you knew the kind of little miracles happening every moment you breathe in, you wouldn’t be able to handle it. A valve could close and not open; an artery could split, you could die. At any moment. It’s nothing but miracles inside your tiny city.”

— Sally Thorne

48. “He sits in silence, and his eyes are definitely not the man I know. They’re wistful, lonely, and so beautiful I have to close mine. “I.”

— Sally Thorne

49. “That’s a long time.” “Hence me dry-humping you constantly.”

— Sally Thorne

50. “I wanted you here because I always want you with me.”

— Sally Thorne