154 Quotes by Sherry Thomas

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

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.

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

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.

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.

Something that will make my kisses taste like chocolate.

A messy business, rescuing princes.

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.

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.