Top 160 Sally Thorne Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “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

102. “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

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

— Sally Thorne

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

— Sally Thorne

105. “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

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

— Sally Thorne

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

— Sally Thorne

108. “Anthony, it’s been real.”

— Sally Thorne

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

— Sally Thorne

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

— Sally Thorne

111. “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

112. “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

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

— Sally Thorne

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

— Sally Thorne

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

— Sally Thorne

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

— Sally Thorne

117. “When you get so little of someone, you take what you can get.”

— Sally Thorne

118. “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

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

— Sally Thorne

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

— Sally Thorne

121. “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

122. “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

123. “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

124. “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

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

— Sally Thorne

126. “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

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

— Sally Thorne

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

— Sally Thorne

129. “Hating someone feels disturbingly similar to being in love with them.”

— Sally Thorne

130. “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

131. “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

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

— Sally Thorne

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

— Sally Thorne

134. “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

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

— Sally Thorne

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

— Sally Thorne

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

— Sally Thorne

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

— Sally Thorne

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

— Sally Thorne

140. “Joshua is glaring at me with angry eyebrows. I use my brainwaves to transmit an insult to him, which he receives and pulls himself up straight.”

— Sally Thorne

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

— Sally Thorne

142. “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

143. “I’m going out stalking.”

— Sally Thorne

144. “I wish he was my friend.”

— Sally Thorne

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

— Sally Thorne

146. “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

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

— Sally Thorne

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

— Sally Thorne

149. “No you don’t,” he tells me. He walks into the building lobby with me under his arm like a rolled-up newspaper. He even checks his mailbox.”

— Sally Thorne

150. “Take the hoodie off. Please. I’ll only look with my eyes.” He.”

— Sally Thorne