Top 160 Sally Thorne Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “Both love and hate are mirror versions of the same game – and you have to win. Why? Your heart and your ego. Trust me, I should know.”

— Sally Thorne

52. “Shortcake.” I ignore him. “Shortcake.” “I do not know anyone by that name.” “Play with me for a minute,” he says it softly, right in my ear. I turn my face to his and try to regulate my breathing. “HR,” I manage. His face is so close to mine I can taste his breath, hot mint sweetness. I can see the tiny stripes in his irises, tiny unexpected sparks of yellow and green. There are so many blues I think of galaxies. Little stars.”

— Sally Thorne

53. “The look of shocked surprise on his face is magnificent. I want to commission a portrait artist to capture it in oils, so I can pass it down to future generations. It. Is. Priceless.”

— Sally Thorne

54. “I need an extension on the monthly report. I think I’m getting a migraine. I can’t look at this screen any longer.” She’s one of those horrific people who pronounces it me-graine.”

— Sally Thorne

55. “Little runts like me usually come across as cute rather than powerful, so I’m pulling out all the stops.”

— Sally Thorne

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

— Sally Thorne

57. “I notice my Post-it note with the kiss on it stuck to the fridge and point at it.”

— Sally Thorne

58. “His smile is worth a thousand of anyone else’s.”

— Sally Thorne

59. “Maybe he’ll murder me down there. I’ll end up dead in a Dumpster. The investigators will see my fishnets and heavy eye makeup and assume I’m a hooker. They’ll follow all the wrong leads. Meanwhile, Joshua will be calmly bleaching all my DNA off his shoes and making himself a sandwich.”

— Sally Thorne

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

— Sally Thorne

61. “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

62. “You think you’re done with me? Because I’m not done with you.”

— Sally Thorne

63. “Are you sure about that?” He looks down to watch my hand spread out over his stomach. I push at the hard flesh. It doesn’t remotely give. “Are you wearing a bullet-proof vest?” “I’ve got to in this office.”

— Sally Thorne

64. “That’s because pizza is a precious natural resource. It can heal tiredness, bad mood, falling morale, and a fading will to live. Pizza realigns the heart chakras.”

— Sally Thorne

65. “Let me deal with him. If he turns up dead in the river you’ll know to keep your mouth shut and provide me an alibi.”

— Sally Thorne

66. “His scent is intensified in here perfectly, baked by summer, preserved by snow, sealed and pressurized inside glass and metal. I inhale like a professional perfumer. Top notes of mint, bitter coffee, and cotton. Mid notes of black pepper and pine. Base notes of leather and cedar. Luxurious as cashmere. If this is what his car smells like, imagine his bed. Good idea. Imagine his bed. He.”

— Sally Thorne

67. “I can’t slow down with you,” he argues. “You make me want to speed up everything.”

— Sally Thorne

68. “I couldn’t. If I’d let myself smile back, and be friends with you, I probably would have fallen in love with you.”

— Sally Thorne

69. “He takes my mug from my hand and takes a slow sip. Every guy watches him do it. They understand what their boss is telling them. Speculation is now in expressions and I wire my jaw shut to stop it from dropping open.”

— Sally Thorne

70. “I want to know what’s going on in your brain. I want to juice your head like a lemon.”

— Sally Thorne

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

— Sally Thorne

72. “Don’t apologize for defending him like that,” she says faintly. I suppose what she means by like that is like a rabid lioness.”

— Sally Thorne

73. “I prefer Law and Order. I love when a restaurant worker finds a body in a Dumpster.”

— Sally Thorne

74. “Now we screech out of here like Thelma and Louise.”

— Sally Thorne

75. “That important, impossible thing that you have nearly given up on ninety-nine times? Finish it. Whether it’s a success or a failure, no one can take your The End prize away from you. Finishing is the most important thing there is. It’s proof of how hard you tried.”

— Sally Thorne

76. “He sees a freckle on my collarbone and loses composure.”

— Sally Thorne

77. “I’ve always suspected people in our lives are here to teach us a lesson.”

— Sally Thorne

78. “He taught me things in the space of two minutes that the span of my lifetime did not.”

— Sally Thorne

79. “Maybe the only way to truly unite people is through battle and pain. Confrontation and competition. Maybe surviving something is the point.”

— Sally Thorne

80. “I’m your walking talking organ donor. I’d better make myself available.” “You’ve got one heart, you idiot.” “I know,” Jamie says. “I’m keeping it warm for you.” My idiot twin still loves me.”

— Sally Thorne

81. “I can never decide if Tom’s hair is the color of caramel fudge or chocolate. Either way, yum. The texture is like a romance novel that’s fallen into the bath, then dried: vaguely sexual crinkle waves with the occasional curled edge and dog-ear. I want to jam my hand in it and make a gentle fist.”

— Sally Thorne

82. “That’s why I’m crying. Because Danny told me I’m a beautiful girl, and I nearly fell off the barstool. You’ve ruined me.”

— Sally Thorne

83. “Underneath that T-shirt is a body that could fog an elderly librarian’s glasses.”

— Sally Thorne

84. “It’s not too late to create a routine. Self-care as an adult is really important.”

— Sally Thorne

85. “The art of holding hands is underrated and it’s embarrassing how much this simple act has me nearly breathless. The pads of each of his fingertips reach across the backs of my hands to my wrist. Large.”

— Sally Thorne

86. “You look like a hot virginal dork who’s been defiled in the backseat of my car.”

— Sally Thorne

87. “I guess it’s true that I’m always observing, listening, and collecting trivia. But not for any nefarious purpose. It’s mainly because I’m a lonely loser.”

— Sally Thorne

88. “Tom Valeska has an animal inside him, and I’ve felt it every time he’s looked at me.”

— Sally Thorne

89. “The only way I can get him to drop his guard is to drop mine.”

— Sally Thorne

90. “Anthony, it’s been real.”

— Sally Thorne

91. “Here’s a fact. Hating someone is exhausting.”

— Sally Thorne

92. “It’s amazing how life works. You can wake up in your current existence and then go to bed with everything changed.”

— Sally Thorne

93. “Yum, this looks good.” I can smell fresh basil. How is he still single? We.”

— Sally Thorne

94. “Don’t seduce Ruthie if I don’t plan on sticking around, because she’s a tender treasure that must be protected at all costs.”

— Sally Thorne

95. “I’m sorry you’ve been bruised so often because of me. I should have protected you from myself. I’ve been set to a default for a long time. Sort of like, I attack before I can be attacked. You’ve been on the receiving end, days, weeks, months, and you’ve handled it like no one else ever could have.”

— Sally Thorne

96. “I feel like I live in a crack between worlds, and sometimes I feel like I might die inside it.”

— Sally Thorne

97. “Walking together, matching our footfalls, we exit the lobby like two television district attorneys gunning for justice.”

— Sally Thorne

98. “I pick an off-white vanilla one, like today’s missing shirt, because I am tragic. “I’m.”

— Sally Thorne

99. “Mom’s kind of loving it. She calls them all Mr. Tuxedo.”

— Sally Thorne

100. “No one else is kissing you anymore,” he tells me in a conversational hush, not breaking our contact. “Your mouth is mine.”

— Sally Thorne