Top 160 Sally Thorne Quotes (2026 Update)
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101. “I feel like I live in a crack between worlds, and sometimes I feel like I might die inside it.”

— Sally Thorne

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

— Sally Thorne

103. “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

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

— Sally Thorne

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

— Sally Thorne

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

— Sally Thorne

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

— Sally Thorne

108. “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

109. “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

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

— Sally Thorne

111. “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

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

— Sally Thorne

113. “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

114. “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

115. “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

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

— Sally Thorne

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

— Sally Thorne

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

— Sally Thorne

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

— Sally Thorne

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

— Sally Thorne

121. “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

122. “I wish he was my friend.”

— Sally Thorne

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

— Sally Thorne

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

— Sally Thorne

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

— Sally Thorne

126. “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

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

— Sally Thorne

128. “It’ll be hard to invent something the Japanese haven’t thought of.” He considers for a moment. “Like those little mops babies can wear on their hands and feet?” “Yes. Have you seen those pillows shaped like a husband’s shoulder for lonely women to sleep on?” His.”

— Sally Thorne

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

— Sally Thorne

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

— Sally Thorne

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

— Sally Thorne

132. “I can’t seem to stop. It’s like I’m purging something.”

— Sally Thorne

133. “Neither Josh nor his father are easy men. Some men are a delight. Patrick, for example. Reasonable, calm, ready with a smile. Josh has a nickname for him, too. Mr. Nice Guy. It’s true. He is. It takes a strong woman to love someone like Josh, and I think it’s you. Patrick’s an open book. Josh is a safety-deposit box. But he’s worth it.”

— Sally Thorne

134. “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

135. “When you eventually leave, please do it really gently, okay?”

— Sally Thorne

136. “When he kisses my pulse, I know he is thinking about all of my tiny inner miracles and the first tear wells up in my eye.”

— Sally Thorne

137. “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

138. “Anthony, it’s been real.”

— Sally Thorne

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

— Sally Thorne

140. “I hear a husky, soft laugh, nothing like Mr. Bexley’s donkey bray.”

— Sally Thorne

141. “She’s little and cute. No one hates little cute people.”

— Sally Thorne

142. “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

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

— Sally Thorne

144. “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

145. “Brown-eyed sublime being. She of soft, deep cardigan pockets. Bubble-bath taker. Pool jumper. Cheese provider. Sunset glower. Heaven sent.”

— Sally Thorne

146. “Making Tom proud? It’s like snorting a rainbow.”

— Sally Thorne

147. “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

148. “Never again tell me what I think. Never again attempt to convince me of what you think is true.”

— Sally Thorne

149. “He fills a glass and I press my ear to his neck to listen to him swallow.”

— Sally Thorne

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

— Sally Thorne