Top 160 Sally Thorne Quotes (2026 Update)
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101. “Take the hoodie off. Please. I’ll only look with my eyes.” He.”

— Sally Thorne

102. “When he puts one hand on my jaw and tilts my head back, I wait for the squeeze to start. At any moment, his warm palm will snap tight and I’ll begin to die. Nose to nose. Breath against breath. One of his fingertips is behind my earlobe and I shiver when it slides. “Shortcake.” The sweet little word dissolves and I swallow. “I’m not going to kill you. You’re so dramatic.” Then he presses his mouth lightly against mine.”

— Sally Thorne

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

— Sally Thorne

104. “Stop. You did the best you could, just like now. You didn’t let it ruin you. You stayed funny and smart and kind. You survived. A lot of people don’t. Take my word for it.”

— Sally Thorne

105. “I think my underwear is curling off me like burning paper.”

— Sally Thorne

106. “I’m going out stalking.”

— Sally Thorne

107. “I’m so scared. It’s all going to end soon, one way or another. I’m hanging on by my fingernails. I have no idea if their investment in me will ever pay off. And I’m so lonely sometimes I could cry. I lost my best friend. I spend all my time with a huge frightening man who wants to kill me, and he’s probably my only friend now, even though he doesn’t want to be. And it breaks my heart.”

— Sally Thorne

108. “There’s a bookcase lining an entire wall. By the window there’s an armchair and another lamp, with a stack of books illuminated beneath it. Even more books on the coffee table. I’m intensely relieved by this. What would I have done if he turned out to be a beautiful illiterate?”

— Sally Thorne

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

— Sally Thorne

110. “I’m missing out on a pale yellow shirt today. It’s the color of nursery walls when the unborn baby’s gender is a surprise. It’s the color of my cowardly soul.”

— Sally Thorne

111. “Have you thought about this very hard?” I shrug. Only obsessively, to the point where I couldn’t sleep.”

— Sally Thorne

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

— Sally Thorne

113. “What are you imagining? Your expression is filthy.”

— Sally Thorne

114. “We are not normal.”

— Sally Thorne

115. “I tug him down to lie on me properly. “I’m pretty heavy. I’ll flatten you.” “I’ve had a good life.”

— Sally Thorne

116. “I am indeed Dr. Templeman. One of them, anyway.” The amusement fades from his face and he coughs and begins to turn away. I catch his sleeve to try to see how much of Josh is in his features. He stills obediently, but his eyes flick to Josh, who is tense as a brick wall behind me. “Sorry, yes. Josh is better looking.” There’s a pause before both brothers laugh. Patrick isn’t remotely offended and Josh’s arm relaxes.”

— Sally Thorne

117. “Mr. Husband,” Bree says to him with supreme satisfaction, “I can’t tell you how long we’ve been waiting for you to show up.”

— Sally Thorne

118. “The vintage St. Patty’s Day T-shirt he’s wearing, probably out of politeness, is stretched wafer thin, trying to cope. If it were a person, it would be an exhausted wraith, gasping, Please, help me. It fits like a dream.”

— Sally Thorne

119. “How somebody can’t recognize their own eyes, I’ll never know.”

— Sally Thorne

120. “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

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

— Sally Thorne

122. “But she never challenged Josh. You have since the first day you met him. You make him angry. You’ve never been scared of him. You’ve taken the time to try to understand him, just to get the upper hand in your little office skirmishes. You notice him.”

— Sally Thorne

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

— Sally Thorne

124. “I’m probably not good at a lot of things, but I will try to be.”

— Sally Thorne

125. “I don’t want to imagine. I want to know.”

— Sally Thorne

126. “He lets out a deep breath and pushes the emergency stop button and we judder to a halt.”

— Sally Thorne

127. “Are you trying to set me up with her? Because I saw her true colors. Nothing could drag me from your side, Rosie Clamshell.”

— Sally Thorne

128. “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

129. “He looks divine and he’s looking at me with memory in his eyes.”

— Sally Thorne

130. “The trick is to find someone who’s strong enough to take it. That one person who can give it back as good as they get.”

— Sally Thorne

131. “The plight of the little humans. There is no dignity for us in this oversize world.”

— Sally Thorne

132. “There’s a full-length mirror, and I see myself, at long last sitting on the bed in his robin’s-egg bedroom. His walls are the blue of my eyes.”

— Sally Thorne

133. “Gamins resented the notion of books as units. Books were, and always would be, something a little magic and something to respect.”

— Sally Thorne

134. “Unpack the equipment,” Tom says in a bass tone I’ve never heard in my life. It’s the kind of voice that should be saying, On your knees. My joints loosen and my body replies, Okay.”

— Sally Thorne

135. “When I say mingling, I mean me carrying Joshua through a succession of social encounters with distant relatives.”

— Sally Thorne

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

— Sally Thorne

137. “Josh thought you were lying about your date because he can’t imagine you with anyone but himself.”

— Sally Thorne

138. “He’s just reading what’s printed on my Underswears.”

— Sally Thorne

139. “I bring homemade cakes to my meetings with the division heads and they all adore me. I’m described as “worth my weight in gold.” Joshua brings bad news to his divisional meetings and his weight is measured in other substances.”

— Sally Thorne

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

— Sally Thorne

141. “I try to not notice that our elbows are touching a little. Elbows are not erogenous. At least, I didn’t think they were. “Who’d.”

— Sally Thorne

142. “I wish he was my friend.”

— Sally Thorne

143. “Anthony, it’s been real.”

— Sally Thorne

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

— Sally Thorne

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

— Sally Thorne

146. “You’re the thousand-dollar dress on the rack in this thrift store and I can’t believe no one’s picked you up yet.”

— Sally Thorne

147. “Show me what you know. Teach me what I don’t.”

— Sally Thorne

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

— Sally Thorne

149. “No matter how I look, it never seems to faze him. He always looks at me exactly the same way.”

— Sally Thorne

150. “Yes, Dr. Templeman? Care to share?” My audacity is breathtaking.”

— Sally Thorne