Top 160 Sally Thorne Quotes (2026 Update)
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101. “All I know is, nothing in life feels that bad when I’m eating carbs and fat. Everything will work out, because of cheese.”

— Sally Thorne

102. “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

103. “Maybe it was because of how alive i felt. So completely young and filled to bursting with the scary, thrilling certainty my life was about to change in a big way.”

— Sally Thorne

104. “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

105. “He’s not a doctor. Deal with it.”

— Sally Thorne

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

— Sally Thorne

107. “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

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

— Sally Thorne

109. “There you go. You’ve got no problem telling me to go to hell. It’s a good start. It kind of suits you. Now try it with other people. You don’t even realize how much people walk all over you. How do you expect to be taken seriously? Quit giving the same people deadline extensions, month after month.”

— 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. “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

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

— Sally Thorne

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

— Sally Thorne

114. “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

115. “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

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

— Sally Thorne

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

— Sally Thorne

118. “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

119. “You’re my designated moral support.”

— Sally Thorne

120. “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

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

— Sally Thorne

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

— Sally Thorne

123. “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

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

— Sally Thorne

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

— Sally Thorne

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

— Sally Thorne

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

— Sally Thorne

128. “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

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

— Sally Thorne

130. “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

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

— Sally Thorne

132. “I’m going out stalking.”

— Sally Thorne

133. “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

134. “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

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

— Sally Thorne

136. “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

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

— Sally Thorne

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

— Sally Thorne

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

— Sally Thorne

140. “We are not normal.”

— Sally Thorne

141. “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

142. “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

143. “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

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

— Sally Thorne

145. “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

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

— Sally Thorne

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

— Sally Thorne

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

— Sally Thorne

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

— Sally Thorne