Top 120 Sherry Thomas Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “We will never accomplish anything worthwhile in life if we require the guarantee of success at the onset.”

— Sherry Thomas

52. “Adversity didn’t improve everyone – or the world would be filled with men and women of flawless character and sublime insight.”

— Sherry Thomas

53. “Are you sure? I might take it as permission to further push my company on you.”

— Sherry Thomas

54. “You have been all my moments of grace.”

— Sherry Thomas

55. “There was a great deal of skill in her smile, a smile meant to make a boy who had done nothing with his life make him feel accomplis and remarkable-vile even.”

— Sherry Thomas

56. “At least once in his life, he would like for her to look at him as she would a morsel of fine French pastry. Or a slice of Victoria sandwich. Or even a humble piece of buttered bread.”

— Sherry Thomas

57. “Some turn the soil and plant seedlings. We garden with words and nurture affinity.”

— Sherry Thomas

58. “He did not look like an archangel – if archangels looked as he did, there would be no women of virtue left in Paradise.”

— Sherry Thomas

59. “I do not like the idea of bartering the use of my reproductive system for a man’s support...”

— Sherry Thomas

60. “Are elderly women easier to fool than seven-year-olds? Which one wants more desperately to believe that a loved one will return against all odds?”

— Sherry Thomas

61. “That the loss of a man, even if he had been the love of her life, was not the end of a woman’s existence.”

— Sherry Thomas

62. “Now he could work her likeness into any story of his choosing. Now he could fight dragons for her. And now he could kiss her again.”

— Sherry Thomas

63. “Here’s to going into the fire.” – Kashkari.”

— Sherry Thomas

64. “She should laugh at such ambitions on his part: nothing about him held any romance for her, not his crown, not his black heart, not his beautiful liar’s face.”

— Sherry Thomas

65. “I will keep you safe,” he murmured. He meant it. As long as he was safe, she was safe. But how long would he remain safe?”

— Sherry Thomas

66. “She wasn’t sure that she wanted to understand the full spectrum of human emotions – everything that remained seemed dire to one degree or another. But this warm, silly mutual delight, this she wouldn’t mind experiencing until she comprehended its place in the world.”

— Sherry Thomas

67. “Someone loved this girl, this utterly useless girl, loved her enough to go on wooing her, even though she was being paraded before all of Europe for takers. A moment of stark despair descended upon her that she would never know such love, that she would go through life sustained only by her facade of invincibility. Then she came to her senses. Love was for fools. Gigi Rowland was many things, but she was never a fool.”

— Sherry Thomas

68. “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

69. “Though I suppose it’s better to marry an idiot than someone who thinks you’re an idiot.”

— Sherry Thomas

70. “At deception he means. Perhaps I am better than some, but every woman has a great deal of experience presenting herself as someone other than who she is, since no girl is ever everything the world wants her to be.”

— Sherry Thomas

71. “Then let me tell you this: I live for you, and you alone.”

— Sherry Thomas

72. “When I was small, it was difficult for me to be around you,” Callista continued. “All your emotions were so intense – your anger like daggers, your unhappiness a poisoned well. Even your love had such sharp corners and dark alleys.”

— Sherry Thomas

73. “You don’t know how to converse. Sometimes I think the spaces between the stars are filled with your silence.”

— Sherry Thomas

74. “Or perhaps I’ve already despaired – and decided that while despair is fine as an occasional indulgence, it can’t be served three times a day.”

— Sherry Thomas

75. “A messy business, rescuing princes.”

— Sherry Thomas

76. “There was so much that he didn’t know, so much that she didn’t feel that she could tell him. So much she’d never told him because she understood him better than he’d understood himself. He had always wanted to give her everything. But it had been an everything that revolved around him.”

— Sherry Thomas

77. “She wanted to run her hands over him as he whispered the impassioned corollaries of non-Euclidean geometry.”

— Sherry Thomas

78. “They say that when an elemental mage called forth flame, she stole a little from every fire in the world. That would make Iolanthe Seabourn quite the thief.”

— Sherry Thomas

79. “Her aunt would be appalled at her forwardness. But Penelope had long ago decided that while the meek might inherit the earth, the non-meek enjoys far more interesting conversations – to say the least.”

— Sherry Thomas

80. “He stopped and looked at her. “Your laughter is the same,” he said. “I used to think you all sophisticated and worldly, until you laughed. You still laugh like a little girl getting tickled, all hiccupy and breathless.”

— Sherry Thomas

81. “The entire point of life was the ability to make one’s own choices. Foreknowledge of anything – especially the circular kind, such as Kashkari’s presence at Eton because he’d dreamed of it – was terribly limiting and ran counter to the concept of free will.”

— Sherry Thomas

82. “He admired her surety. She knew her own worth and did not pretend otherwise for those who judged her on her parentage. But by refusing to tolerate fools and play nice, she’d condemned herself to a solitary path, both in defeat and in victory.”

— Sherry Thomas

83. “But you do not need to worry, Cooper. What is mine, I keep.”

— Sherry Thomas

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

— Sherry Thomas

85. “He used to believe that to forgive was to allow an offense to go unpunished. Now he finally understood that forgiveness was not about the past, but the future.”

— Sherry Thomas

86. “For a journey like theirs, Love was the only thing that would make him strong enough.”

— Sherry Thomas

87. “What do you do when you despair, and there isn’t an August Rain to drown your sorrow?”

— Sherry Thomas

88. “Well, I always enjoy a case more once witnesses start quoting Shakespeare, don’t you?”

— Sherry Thomas

89. “Mrs. Watson feeds me ’round the clock and I haven’t turned anything down. But at the rate I’m going, within the week I’ll reach Maximum Tolerable Chins. Then I’ll be obliged to give up this reckless dining.”

— Sherry Thomas

90. “Mr. Marbleton tilted his head. “Do you really think of happiness as such a fragile entity?” “Mine is,” she answered, still smiling. “I don’t know that I’ve ever been properly happy. I simply careen between moments of intense buoyancy and moments of intense misery. Only my anxiety is constant: When I hope, I’m anxious that my hopes will come to nothing; when I fear, I’m anxious that my fears will all come true.”

— Sherry Thomas

91. “It’s far easier for people who want the same things to fall in love than for people who want different things to remain in love.”

— Sherry Thomas

92. “It really is too bad that sometimes inconvenient facts surface to thumb their noses at remarkably elegant hypotheses.”

— Sherry Thomas

93. “Many people, women especially, she had observed, responded to a compliment by explaining what they had – or hadn’t done – to merit it.”

— Sherry Thomas

94. “You were the moon of my existence; your moods dictated the tides of my heart.”

— Sherry Thomas

95. “That’s the trouble with putting women on a pedestal. You do that, and they always fall off – knocking you over on the way down.”

— Sherry Thomas

96. “And then Sherlock Holmes had turned out to be a woman with loose morals and no remorse.”

— Sherry Thomas

97. “Certainly it’s admirable for any given woman to learn to appreciate her own worth, despite all the countervailing forces. But it cannot be enough for those who are treated as lesser to feel better about themselves. That they are treated as lesser is an injustice. And that injustice itself must be rooted out and eradicated.”

— Sherry Thomas

98. “I am a queen upon this board, Charlotte had once told Lord Ingram, and I do not play to lose.”

— Sherry Thomas

99. “Such a lonely feeling, being hopelessly in love.”

— Sherry Thomas

100. “Miss Holmes smiled. She had dimples. Of course she did – the Good Lord went to ridiculous lengths to make sure that one of the finest minds in existence was housed in a body least likely to be suspected of it.”

— Sherry Thomas