Sweet Quotes - Page 27

• I suspect he's sweet on Sophie and doesn't like to see her work too hard.' Tessa was glad to hear it. She'd felt awful about her reaction to Sophie's scar, and the thought that Sophie had a male admirer - and a handsome one like that- eased her conscience slightly. 'Perhaps he's in love with Agatha', she said. 'I hope not. I intend to marry Agatha myself. She may be a thousand years old, but she makes an incomparable jam tart. Beauty fades, but cooking is eternal.

  Cassandra Clare

  Years, Cooking, May

  Cassandra Clare (2011). “Clockwork Angel”, p.86, Simon and Schuster

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• ...a box where she was expected to be sweet and sensitive (but not oversensitive); a box for young and pretty girls who were not as bright or powerful as their boyfriends. A box for people who were not forces to be reckoned with.

  E. Lockhart

  Girl, Powerful, People

  E. Lockhart (2014). “The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks”, p.138, Hot Key Books

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• My heart is a ladle of sweet water brimming over.

  Anita Diament

  Heart, Water, My Heart

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• The area was encompassed in a bubble of warm, fragrant steam from the funnel cake deep fryers. It smelled like sweet vanilla cake batter you licked off a spoon.

  Sarah Addison Allen

  Cake, Spoons, Vanilla

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• Then why was his tongue in your mouth? Was he conducting a clinical test of your gag reflex?" He smiled, but not nicely. "How is your gag reflex, Ms. Lane? Are you a hair trigger?" Barrons likes to use sexual innuendo to try to shut me up. I think he expects the well-raised southern belle in me will think eew and back off. Sometimes, I do think eew, but I don't back off. "I'm a spitter, if that's what you're asking." I flashed him a too-sweet smile. "Didn't look that way to me. I think you're a swallower. His tongue was halfway to China and you were still taking it." "Jealous?

  Karen Marie Moning

  Jealous, Thinking, Hair

  Karen Marie Moning (2011). “Faefever”, p.76, Hachette UK

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• Sweet Honey of Dagda, now I was babbling.

  Kevin Hearne

  Honey, Sweet Honey, Babbling

  Kevin Hearne (2014). “The Iron Druid Chronicles 6-Book Bundle: Hounded, Hexed, Hammered, Tricked, Trapped, Hunted”, p.355, Del Rey

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• That a greater fool than Jane Eyre had never breathed the breath of life; that a more fantastic idiot had never surfeited herself on sweet lies, and swallowed poison as if it were nectar.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Lying, Poison, Fool

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.133, Penguin

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• His voice was soft and sweet as molasses; but my mother once told me that you had to trust that the first thing out of a person's mouth was truth. After they have a chance to think about it, they'll change what they say to be more socially acceptable, something they think you'll be happier with, something that will get the results they want.

  Patricia Briggs

  Mother, Thinking, Voice

  Patricia Briggs (2006). “Moon Called”, p.88, Penguin

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• Sweet is the lore which Nature brings; Our meddling intellect Mis-shapes the beauteous forms of things: We murder to dissect.

  William Wordsworth

  Nature, Shapes, Murder

  "The Sayings of William Wordsworth".

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• One series of notes, high and delicate, sang of a sweet moonlight kiss gone sour; another line of music rippled with regret over opportunities forever lost.

  Sharon M. Draper

  Regret, Kissing, Opportunity

  Sharon M. Draper (2011). “The Battle of Jericho”, p.290, Simon and Schuster

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• What delusion has come over me? What sweet madness has seized me?

  Charlotte Bronte

  Madness, Delusion

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.352, Penguin

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• Love is poison. A sweet poison, yes, but it will kill you all the same.

  George R. R. Martin

  Love Is, Poison, Song Of Ice And Fire

  George R. R. Martin (2011). “A Game of Thrones 4-Book Bundle: A Song of Ice and Fire Series: A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, and A Feast for Crows”, p.1362, Bantam

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• You'd think that sweet would be a land far, far away from irritating, but as it turns out they're right next door, and always having border disputes.

  Daniel Handler

  Thinking, Doors, Land

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• No," interrupted Marcia emphatically. "And you're a sweet boy. Come here and kiss me." Horace stopped quickly in front of her. "Why do you want me to kiss you?" he asked intently. "Do you just go round kissing people?" "Why, yes," admitted Marcia, unruffled. "'At's all life is. Just going around kissing people.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Kissing, Boys, People

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2015). “Flappers and Philosophers”, p.77, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• Scared ya, did I? Aw, that's sweet. Don't worry the shocks won't kill me," she whispered. "They only make me stronger. Anyway, it was worth it to give that cow a black eye, ya know?

  Lauren Kate

  Eye, Giving, Worry

  Lauren Kate (2013). “The Fallen Series: 4-Book Collection”, p.51, Delacorte Press

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• I don't suppose that she gave you the job based on looks alone?" Adrian had been staring off but now flashed me a big smile. "Why, Sage, you sweet talker." "That's not what I meant! What happened?" He shrugged. "I told the truth." "Adrian!" "I'm serious. She asked me what my greatest strength was. I said getting along with people." "That's not bad." I admitted. "Then she asked what my greatest weakness was. And I said, 'Where should I start?'" "Adrian!" "Stop saying my name like that. I told her the truth. By the time I was on the fourth one, she told me I could go.

  Richelle Mead

  Jobs, Names, People

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• I know it is something of a cliche to say that love makes all things possible, but I believe it does. It is not a magic wand that can be waved over life to make it all sweet and lovely and trouble free, but it can give the energy to fight the odds and win.

  Mary Balogh

  Believe, Fighting, Winning

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• He looked at the piles of food again, and it was like he was seeing it with new eyes. This is wrong, he thought. Letting food rot while people die of hunger. It's evil.

  Margaret Haddix

  Eye, Smell, People

  "Among the Enemy".

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• He sang his last song. And the words of that have never been written down. But it was sweet and of great beauty, and those that heard it were changed utterly. Some say it was the song that moves the stars.

  Catherine Fisher

  Song, Stars, Moving

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• But thou, contracted to thine own bright eyes, Feed'st thy light's flame with self-substantial fuel, Making a famine where abundance lies, Thyself thy foe, to thy sweet self too cruel.

  William Shakespeare

  Lying, Eye, Light

  William Shakespeare (1840). “Poems”, p.28

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• Love is a smoke rais'd with the fume of sighs; being purg'd, a fire sparkling in lovers' eyes; being vex'd, a sea nourish'd with lovers' tears; what is it else? A madness most discreet, a choking gall, and a preserving sweet.

  William Shakespeare

  Eye, Love Is, Fire

  William Shakespeare (1847). “The Plays of William Shakespeare”, p.148

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• Won? He’s one of them! How exactly is that winning?” Michael shook his head, moved up behind her, and put his hands on her shoulders. He kissed the nape of her neck gently. “I don’t know, Eve. I’m just telling you what I heard. He got some kind of agreement out of the vampires. And it was because Amelie loved him.” “Yeah, loved him enough to kill him and turn him into a bloodsucking fiend,” Eve said grimly. “How sweet. Romance isn’t dead. Oh, wait. It is.

  Rachel Caine

  Winning, Agreement, Hands

  Rachel Caine (2007). “The Dead Girls' Dance: The Morganville Vampires”, p.146, Penguin

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• There was pain, but there was also joy. It was in the tension between the two that life happened. Imperfect as it was, this world was real. Illusion was no substitute. I'd rather live a hard life of fact than a sweet life of lies.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Pain, Real, Lying

  Karen Marie Moning (2016). “The Fever Series 7-Book Bundle: Darkfever, Bloodfever, Faefever, Dreamfever, Shadowfever, Iced, Burned”, p.1384, Dell

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• A smile flickered across Coral’s face. “Have you ever noticed that once you have had a taste of certain sweets—raspberry trifle is my own despair—it is quite impossible not to think, not to want, not to crave until you have taken another bite?” “Lord Swartingham is not a raspberry trifle.” “No, more of a dark chocolate mousse, I should think,” Coral murmured. “And,” Anna continued as if she hadn’t heard the interruption, “I don’t need another bite, uh,night of him.

  Elizabeth Hoyt

  Taken, Dark, Night

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• I think that friendship always makes us feel such sweet gratitude, because the world almost always seems like a very hard desert, and the flowers that grow there seem to grow against such high odds.

  Stephen King

  Gratitude, Flower, Thinking

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