Top 160 Sally Thorne Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “You are deeply weird.”

— Sally Thorne

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

— Sally Thorne

3. “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

4. “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

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

— Sally Thorne

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

— Sally Thorne

7. “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

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

— Sally Thorne

9. “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

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

— Sally Thorne

11. “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

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

— Sally Thorne

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

— Sally Thorne

14. “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

15. “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

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

— Sally Thorne

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

— Sally Thorne

18. “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

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

— Sally Thorne

20. “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

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

— Sally Thorne

22. “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

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

— Sally Thorne

24. “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

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

— Sally Thorne

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

— Sally Thorne

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

— Sally Thorne

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

— Sally Thorne

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

— Sally Thorne

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

— Sally Thorne

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

— Sally Thorne

32. “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

33. “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

34. “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

35. “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

36. “I was always covering for you.”

— Sally Thorne

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

— Sally Thorne

38. “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

39. “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

40. “I’m starting to notice that he always checks to see if I laugh at his jokes.”

— Sally Thorne

41. “But here, it’s only us. Our lips find a rhythm; the gentle upswing of a pendulum, dropping away to the lightest curve, again and again, until there’s nothing left for me in this world but his body, mine, and the water spilling over us, destined to refill a cloud. He.”

— Sally Thorne

42. “In my room, I scrub my eyes with makeup wipes and change into leggings and old band T-shirt. I’ll let my teeth decay tonight.”

— Sally Thorne

43. “Watching you pretend to hate the nickname is the best part of my day.”

— Sally Thorne

44. “Happiness. A better life. Red lipstick and those sunglasses. The.”

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45. “Since the moment I saw you. Since the moment you smiled at me, I felt like I was falling backward off a cliff. The feeling has never stopped. I’ve been trying to drag you down with me. In the worst, most ill-conceived and socially stunted way possible.”

— Sally Thorne

46. “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

47. “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

48. “He smells like birthday-candle wishes.”

— Sally Thorne

49. “This is the best game I’ve ever played in my entire life.”

— Sally Thorne

50. “TODAY IS A magnificent black T-shirt day. Write today in your diaries. Tell your grandchildren stories about it. I tear my eyes away, but they slide back moments later. Underneath that T-shirt is a body that could fog an elderly librarian’s glasses. I think my underwear is curling off me like burning paper.”

— Sally Thorne