Top 160 Sally Thorne Quotes (2024 Update)
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101. “When you get so little of someone, you take what you can get.”

— Sally Thorne

102. “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

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

— Sally Thorne

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

— Sally Thorne

105. “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

106. “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

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. “You’re always beautiful.”

— Sally Thorne

109. “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

110. “Both love and hate are mirror versions of the same game – and you have to win.”

— Sally Thorne

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

— Sally Thorne

112. “I’ll always remember the drive home as a movie montage, and I knew I was in one. Each detail was vividly bright. I knew I’d need the memories one day.”

— Sally Thorne

113. “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

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

— Sally Thorne

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

— Sally Thorne

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

— Sally Thorne

117. “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

118. “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

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

— Sally Thorne

120. “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

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

— Sally Thorne

122. “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

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

— Sally Thorne

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

— Sally Thorne

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

— Sally Thorne

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

— Sally Thorne

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

— Sally Thorne

128. “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

129. “He sits in silence, and his eyes are definitely not the man I know. They’re wistful, lonely, and so beautiful I have to close mine. “I.”

— Sally Thorne

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

— Sally Thorne

131. “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

132. “I’m going out stalking.”

— Sally Thorne

133. “I wish he was my friend.”

— Sally Thorne

134. “I don’t tell people things in time. I say things in the wrong order, or assume that people will know.”

— Sally Thorne

135. “I am not your average man. I am ready for the challenge of an exceptional woman.”

— Sally Thorne

136. “I love the energy we create between us when we banter like this. It’s the most intense sensation of pleasure, knowing he’ll always have the perfect response ready. I’ve never known anyone like him; as addictive to talk to as he is to kiss. “Truth.”

— Sally Thorne

137. “Why do I require you? What a weird question. I always require you.”

— Sally Thorne

138. “I haven’t seen you today. I’ve been feeling mixed up and desperately sad, and for some reason seeing you might help the weird pain in my chest. I don’t have friends. Except for you. Except you’re not.”

— Sally Thorne

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

— Sally Thorne

140. “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

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

— Sally Thorne

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

— Sally Thorne

143. “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

144. “Where are you actually going?” My voice rings down the empty street. “I just told you. I’m going out stalking.” “What, on foot?” I come closer by another six paces. “You were going to walk?” “I was going to run down the middle of the street like the Terminator.”

— Sally Thorne

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

— Sally Thorne

146. “The sheets are all rumpled and twisted, and on the side where a man should be is strewn with books.”

— Sally Thorne

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

— Sally Thorne

148. “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

149. “I compose a reply. It is an emoticon of a smiling poo. It sums everything up.”

— Sally Thorne

150. “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