Quotes of: Thoughts Keyword

The logic of worldly success rests on a fallacy: the strange error that our perfection depends on the thoughts and opinions and applause of other men!

The Seven Storey Mountain

Mattia thought that he and Alice were like that, twin primes, alone and lost, close but not close enough to really touch each other.

The Solitude of Prime Numbers

Vimes thought for a moment and said, 'Well, dear, it is a truth universally acknowledged that a man with a lot of wood must be in want of a wife who can handle a great big--

Snuff

This was the mark of deep infatuation, he thought: the desire to watch a woman talk just to see her lips move, to be around her.

Second Shift: Order

Yet this book is to prove that no matter how you travel, how 'successful' your tour, or foreshortened, you always learn something and learn to change your thoughts.

Satori In Paris

The sky, I thought, is not so grand; I 'most could touch it with my hand! And reaching up my hand to try, I screamed to feel it touch the sky.

The Selected Poetry

In a strange way', she thought, 'these absences suit my nature though not my heart. I love him, I miss him, but I have time to put on my humanity again.

The Squire

I'd be more willing to accept religion, even if I didn't believe it, if I thought it made people nicer to each other but I don't think it does.

Sincerely, Andy Rooney

I meant," said Ipslore bitterly, "what is there in this world that truly makes living worthwhile?" Death thought about it. CATS, he said eventually. CATS ARE NICE.

Sourcery

No, I thought. Not just Hell. Really, Heaven was just as guilty. What kind of group could advocate goodness and not allow its members to love?

Succubus Revealed

A kind of annihilation, was what Serena called their coupling, and though Pemberton would never have thought to describe it that way, he knew her words had named the thing exactly.

Serena

In a dream, in her head means in my head, as I have unrestricted access to her thoughts and the innermost parts of her body.

Seriously delirious, but not at all serious

I wonder if there is anyone who is not depraved. A wearisome thought. I want money. Unless I have it.... In my sleep, a natural death!

The Setting Sun

Startled, she said, “Oh, I thought you were somebody else.” “No,” I said, “I’m not somebody else—but my clone is.

So many chairs, and no time to sit

Nine people had died today. And it didn't matter what the FBI had thought of her actions. Her career as a negotiator had ended before it had even begun.

Seduced by the Sniper

The toughness I was learning was not a martyred doggedness, a dumb heroism, but the art of accommodation. I thought: to be tough is to be fragile; to be tender is to be truly fierce.

The Solace of Open Spaces

If my skull were made of glass, I wouldn’t want you to see my thoughts, so I’d fear going bald.

Seriously delirious, but not at all serious

Are you handing me an empty wine glass? You’re so thoughtful. How’d you know I wasn’t in the mood to drink?

So many chairs, and no time to sit

And everyone lived happily, thought maybe not completely honestly, ever after. The End.

The Stinky Cheese Man: And Other Fairly Stupid Tales

Seid was the storm and the winds and the sea. I was his light beacon, keeping him away from the rocks. But he thought I had betrayed him.

Stay

When someone is sleep-Tweeting the sexual thoughts you’re currently having about them while you’re having sex with someone else, miles away, it’s kind of too late.

Stuff