Top 120 Sherry Thomas Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “It doesn’t matter where I am; I’m yours.”

— Sherry Thomas

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2. “What is courage but strength in the face of fear?”

— Sherry Thomas

3. “I love you. I will love you until the end of the world.”

— Sherry Thomas

4. “Even the boy who cried wolf as right about the wolf once.”

— Sherry Thomas

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5. “A woman who has nothing left to lose can prove dangerous.”

— Sherry Thomas

6. “Brotherhood might be unique to men, but loyalty, devotion to friends, and a sense of fairness are not. They are the precise reasons I became a conscript in Dabao’s place. I could never have been at peace with myself knowing that it was within my power to do something for Auntie Xia and Dabao and not have done it.”

— Sherry Thomas

7. “As long as I live and breathe, I will be with you.”

— Sherry Thomas

8. “For what is the Void but the beginning of Light? What is Light but the end of Fear? And what am I, but Light given from? What am I, but the beginning of Eternity?”

— Sherry Thomas

9. “You, sir, are a scoundrel. As if he’d heard her thought, he glanced her way. Their gazes held, a pair of miscreants recognizing each other in a roomful of upstanding people.”

— Sherry Thomas

10. “Do not undervalue what you are ultimately worth because you are at a momentary disadvantage.”

— Sherry Thomas

11. “We women have been taught since birth that virtue is our greatest asset. I have nothing against virtues – I’d like to think that there are many virtues I practice assiduously. But power does not yield to virtue. Power yields only to power.”

— Sherry Thomas

12. “Believe me, I’ve thought long and hard about leaving things alone. But then there will always be this wall between us.” “It’s all ugly things behind the wall,” I said, not looking at him. “I’m not afraid of what’s behind the wall, only the wall itself.” But the wall was my exoskeleton. It was what held me up. Sometimes it was the only thing that held me up.”

— Sherry Thomas

13. “He should not, but he cupped her face and kissed her. Because they were past the point when words were any use. Because he was once again afraid to die. Because he loved her as much as he loved life itself.”

— Sherry Thomas

14. “No matter what you decide, knowing you has been the greatest privilege of my life.”

— Sherry Thomas

15. “Sometimes limbs must be re-broken to set properly, her heart too needed to shatter anew before it could truly heal.”

— Sherry Thomas

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16. “Some people never meet the right person in life. They, on the other hand, met when they were too young to realize what they had found in each other. And when they did at last see the light, it was too late.”

— Sherry Thomas

17. “Worrying about outcomes over which I have no control is punishing myself before the universe has decided whether I ought to be punished.”

— Sherry Thomas

18. “I am not “just” a girl – no woman is. And if Heaven has deposited me at this time and place, then I am meant to deal with these problems, no matter their scale or consequence.”

— Sherry Thomas

19. “If God doesn’t want people to lie, he shouldn’t have given the best liars such earnest and innocent faces.”

— Sherry Thomas

20. “To be thought of as the perfect woman for a man isn’t a compliment to a woman, it’s more about how a man sees himself – and what he needs.”

— Sherry Thomas

21. “I try not to expect people to be who I wish them to be, rather than who they are.”

— Sherry Thomas

22. “Perhaps she had always been a monster, but even the lady monsters of the world couldn’t escape the expectations that came of being women.”

— Sherry Thomas

23. “Remind yourself that you’re far more likely to undercharge than overcharge, my dear, because you don’t yet understand your own value and you’ve never been taught to demand your full worth.”

— Sherry Thomas

24. “He walked to the grandfather clock and pretended to check the time on his watch, when he wanted to grab the poker next to the grate and smash everything in the room. The children they were going to have. The life they were going to share. Everything slashed and burned in a vicious assault by reality. And her, oblivious to his pain, throwing away their happiness as if it were last week’s bread.”

— Sherry Thomas

25. “I only speak the truth. I quite despise myself for these desires that run amok. But run amok they do. I daresay for the rest of my life I will dream of being fondled by you.”

— Sherry Thomas

26. “He kissed the shell of her ear. “Then let me tell you this: I live for you and you alone.”

— Sherry Thomas

27. “You are the beginning of Eternity now, she said silently to Master Haywood. You have arrived at the end of Fear. And I will love you always, for as long as the world endures.”

— Sherry Thomas

28. “She had grown so accustomed to this exterior that she didn’t always remember what truly lay underneath. Nor did she particularly want to. Why fester in disillusion, bewilderment, and anger when she could float above and pretend to be this sunny, charming girl instead?”

— Sherry Thomas

29. “You might be surprised at the strength of the fragile. And for some people it is ordinary life that is most challenging, not so much the extraordinary.”

— Sherry Thomas

30. “What cricket? Grasshopper?”

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31. “Every story must have such a terrible moment, or it wouldn’t be interesting.”

— Sherry Thomas

32. “Wait, here comes Cooper. In which case, carry on with your melodramatic moaning, but put some majesty into it. You know he lives to hear you judge everything as unworthy.”

— Sherry Thomas

33. “Something that will make my kisses taste like chocolate.”

— Sherry Thomas

34. “There was no idiocy bigger than that committed by a man who believed himself the cleverest creature under the sun.”

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35. “Nothing,” he said. “Just that I have loved you, even when I was nothing and no one to you, when you didn’t know my name and barely knew my face.”

— Sherry Thomas

36. “I had this daft idea to come and bury the past. Except the past is not quite dead.”

— Sherry Thomas

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37. “The success of my rule does not rely on my ability to recite obscure Latin verse.”

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38. “There existed something in this world that bound a mage tighter than a blood oath: love. Love was the ultimate chain, the ultimate whip, and the ultimate slave driver.”

— Sherry Thomas

39. “There was no such thing as a marriage with one happy spouse. Both must be or neither.”

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40. “Love was not blind, but it might mimic a deteriorating case of cataracts.”

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41. “To be thought of as the perfect woman for a man isn’t a compliment to a woman, it’s more about how a man sees himself. Should we marry, either I will be exhausted trying to keep his illusion intact – or Lord Bancroft will be severely disappointed in his choice. Likely both.”

— Sherry Thomas

42. “Was unhappiness really so invisible? Or did people simply prefer to turn away, as if from lepers?”

— Sherry Thomas

43. “He was silent. She hoped she’d injured his feelings – assuming he had feelings to injure in the first place.”

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44. “We will never accomplish anything worthwhile in life if we require the guarantee of success at the onset.”

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45. “He sighed. The sound conveyed no impatience, only a deep wistfulness. “You are telling me that before you can be sure of your affections, you must be sure of yourself.”

— Sherry Thomas

46. “He felt as if he stood at the very top of a high cliff. Take a step back and all was safe and familiar. But going forward required a singular leap of faith – and he was a man of little faith, particularly when it came to himself. But he wanted her to look at him again as if he were full of possibilities. As if they were full of possibilities.”

— Sherry Thomas

47. “She’d never thought of herself quite that way. She was more an idiosyncratic ignorer of established boundaries than a glutton for the new and the uncharted. But perhaps they were one and the same, each one implying the other.”

— Sherry Thomas

48. “God gives us only one life. But with good books, we can live a hundred, even a thousand lives in the time we are allotted on this earth.”

— Sherry Thomas

49. “What stupid children they had been, to cause each other such pain and then to hold on to their wounds so fiercely. She.”

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50. “She was proud one moment, covetous the next, and then fearful the moment after that. It would always be like this, wouldn’t it, being the wife of a man she loved but couldn’t trust, whose true motives were as murky as the bottom of the sea?”

— Sherry Thomas