Ted. > Ted.'s Quotes

“Her normally-poofy exterior remained extra puffed out, and her tail swished up and down. I could tell the cat was pissed off.”
― Matt Dinniman, Dungeon Crawler Carl

“You said it wasn’t a visit. It was an investigation. I didn’t—I wasn’t trying to listen in, but that’s what the others said too. That they were investigating. It’s why I never get to put things up in my room like Talia or Lucy. Because it’s always temporary. Anytime I’ve ever thought I was going to finally have a place to stay, it was taken from me.” He cursed inwardly.”
― T.J. Klune, The House in the Cerulean Sea

“Hate is loud, but I think you’ll learn it’s because it’s only a few people shouting, desperate to be heard. You might not ever be able to change their minds, but so long as you remember you’re not alone, you will overcome.”
― T.J. Klune, The House in the Cerulean Sea

“That doesn’t make any sense. How can people pawn choices?” “ ‘Sense’ is relative,” Toshio said. “There are things that make sense in your world that are ridiculous in mine. I have never been able to understand the purpose of televisions or telephones.”
― Samantha Sotto Yambao, Water Moon

“The door is not locked. You can turn around and leave anytime you want.” “I could, but my father taught me better than to abandon someone simply because it’s easier to walk away.” “You don’t even know me.” “We could change that. You could start by telling me your name.”
― Samantha Sotto Yambao, Water Moon

“We made use of every surface in that cabin when we made love that afternoon. I took my time and gave her what she wanted; pleasing her always turned me on.”
― Alice Feeney, Beautiful Ugly

“People say time is a great healer, but it only seems to hurt more the longer she is gone.”
― Alice Feeney, Beautiful Ugly

“IT TOOK 80 YEARS TO LOOK THIS GOOD. She sees me staring at it. “Age is just a number!” she says with another grin. I smile back, take a metal basket, and look around the shop.”
― Alice Feeney, Beautiful Ugly

“Your mother would be so upset if I told her you lied and that you don’t really know how to play,” he whispered. “I won’t tell, but I need you to do something for me.” I did what he told me to do.”
― Alice Feeney, Beautiful Ugly

“It’s strange to think that this spectacular night sky is always above us, wherever we are. We’re all just too busy looking down to remember to look up.”
― Alice Feeney, Beautiful Ugly

“Mors janua vitae? It’s Latin for ‘death is the gate of life.”
― Alice Feeney, Beautiful Ugly

“Maybe everyone reaches an age when they can’t help thinking that they should have done more, lived more, been more than who they are. I’m not who I wanted to be.”
― Alice Feeney, Beautiful Ugly

“Interesting is an interesting choice of word.”
― Alice Feeney, Beautiful Ugly

“I think you’ve been working too hard, you’re stressed, and you’re taking it out on me. As usual.” Me working so hard benefited both of us, financially and in other ways. I was tired of his complaints about the long hours and late nights.”
― Alice Feeney, Beautiful Ugly

“We stumbled down the hallway like drunk teenagers, tugging at each other’s clothes, until we found an empty bedroom. In the darkness he pulled the hem of my skirt up, my underwear down, and maneuvered me to a vintage armchair in the corner of the room. He fucked me on that chair. There is no other word for it.”
― Alice Feeney, Beautiful Ugly

“One of the many things I love about my dog is that he always agrees with me.”
― Alice Feeney, Beautiful Ugly

“Guilt is such a sticky emotion; you can’t wash the damn thing off.”
― Alice Feeney, Beautiful Ugly

“Everything started to feel right again when I kissed her, and I forgot about everything that was wrong when I was inside her. We made love in the dark. The sex was slow and gentle and instinctive, the variety that can only be had with someone you know better than you know yourself. Afterward we lay in a tangle of sheets wrapped in each other’s arms, watching the sun rise over London.”
― Alice Feeney, Beautiful Ugly

“Miyazaki Hayao’s Studio Ghibli”
― Samantha Sotto Yambao, Water Moon

“Second times were almost always more enjoyable than firsts. Kisses. Sex. Lab experiments.”
― Samantha Sotto Yambao, Water Moon

“Things don’t have to make sense for them to be real.” She took his hand and pressed it over her chest.”
― Samantha Sotto Yambao, Water Moon

“Scars don’t make you any less than what you are. They are simply stories, just like this scroll. You may not see mine, but I have my fair share.”
― Samantha Sotto Yambao, Water Moon

“Hana tugged her collar to the side. The rain fell onto her chest, revealing the glowing vault door that stood guard over her heart.”
― Samantha Sotto Yambao, Water Moon

“It’s DeeAnn.” “What?” “DeeAnn. You pronounce her name ‘DeeAnn.’ ” They had barely been able to get out of the room without laughing. “DeeAnn!” JB had said later, when they told him the story. “Christ! What a pretentious little shit.” “But he’s your pretentious little shit,” Jude had said. And ever since, they had referred to Dean as “DeeAnn.” Unfortunately, however, it appeared that despite JB’s tireless cultivation of DeeAnn, he was no closer to being included in the magazine than he had been three months ago. JB had even let DeeAnn suck him off in the steam room at the gym, and still nothing.”
― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life

“Their friend Lionel used to say that Willem must have been a fisherman in a past life, because he couldn’t help but attract pussy.”
― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life

“He became another fatherless black boy, with a mother who had completed school only after he was born”
― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life

“We don’t get the families we deserve,” Willem had said once when they had been very stoned. He was, of course, speaking of Jude.”
― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life

“The raccoon was back on its branch, one leg extended skyward, earnestly licking its privates.”
― Ransom Riggs, Sunderworld, Vol. I: The Extraordinary Disappointments of Leopold Berry

“It’s part of our routine. Three kisses per day, sex once a month, and Nate is always the one who drives. I am so lucky. I have a beautiful house, a fulfilling career, and a husband who is kind and mild mannered and incredibly handsome. And as Nate pulls the car onto the road and starts driving in the direction of the school, all I can think to myself is that I hope a truck blows through a stop sign, plows into the Honda, and kills us both instantly.”
― Freida McFadden, The Teacher

“My mom is useless. She says all the right stuff, but in the end, she doesn’t have to deal with this. She doesn’t have to deal with the fallout of what happened last year. Of what I did.”
― Freida McFadden, The Teacher