“We will never accomplish anything worthwhile in life if we require the guarantee of success at the onset.” — Sherry Thomas Copy Share Image
“What is it?" she mumbled. "Something that will make my kisses taste like chocolate.” — Sherry Thomas Copy Share Image
“Was unhappiness really so invisible? Or did people simply prefer to turn away, as if from lepers?” — Sherry Thomas Sadness Copy Share Image
“I guess what I’m really trying to say is that you used to shatter easily. But now you’ve become less brittle.” — Sherry Thomas Copy Share Image
“Sometimes people change, said a voice inside him. And sometimes they don’t.” — Sherry Thomas Change Copy Share Image
“Her Leo, so bright, so beautiful. And in the end, so catastrophically flawed.” — Sherry Thomas Beauty Copy Share Image
“if she hadn’t been at peace, then at least she wasn’t at war with herself.” — Sherry Thomas Heart Copy Share Image
“Perhaps unrequited love was like a specter in the house, a presence that brushed at the edge of senses, a heat in… — Sherry Thomas Love Copy Share Image
“This time he could no longer hold back his tears. And with them came words that he’d never been able to say… — Sherry Thomas Copy Share Image
“Humans, herself included, held no interest for her except as living machines, mind-bogglingly intricate, beautiful systems that somehow housed individuals not quite… — Sherry Thomas Heart Copy Share Image
“He felt like a pilgrim standing on the shores of Lake Sahara, having walked barefoot over hundreds of miles, yet all the… — Sherry Thomas Copy Share Image
“Sometimes people fall in love with those who do not return the same strength of feelings. It is as it is,” he… — Sherry Thomas Fall in love Copy Share Image
“Then she spied the cauldeon, sitting upright at the very bottom of the crater, filled with the most beautiful exiler she'd ever… — Sherry Thomas Copy Share Image
“Some things in life were truly difficult. Finding the source of the Nile, for example. Or exploring the South Pole. But falling… — Sherry Thomas Challenge Copy Share Image
“Some things are not meant to be, Leighton Atwood had said the night before. But if they were not meant to be,… — Sherry Thomas Destiny Copy Share Image
“Titus's jaw dropped. 'Those caravanists, they were mages?' 'They most certainly were.' 'But one fainted and two reached for their rifles when… — Sherry Thomas Copy Share Image
“How can you help? If you will only . . ." He stopped. He had been trying, with no apparent success, to… — Sherry Thomas Fall in love Copy Share Image
“I’ve always loved you,” he said, his eyes a blue that was almost violet. “You know this.” She swallowed a lump in… — Sherry Thomas Fall in love Copy Share Image
“Some hopes were weeds, easy to eradicate with a yank and a pull. Some, however, were vines, fast growing, tenacious, and impossible… — Sherry Thomas Hope Copy Share Image
“Tenderness, that most alien and disconcerting of emotions, swelled and billowed in her. She picked up a cherry and stared down at… — Sherry Thomas Camden Copy Share Image
“And why, exactly, was she in no danger from him? Why didn’t he want her with the fervor of a thousand over-heating… — Sherry Thomas Danger Copy Share Image
“Just before the start of Summer Half, in April 1883, a very minor event took place at Eton College, that venerable and… — Sherry Thomas Education Copy Share Image
“He liked seeing the world through her eyes. The night, to him, was rather ordinary, overlaid with London's crowded odors and a… — Sherry Thomas Seeing the world Copy Share Image
“Now what I want to know is what happened when you found Bryony, Leo,” said Will. “Did you just say your sister… — Sherry Thomas Copy Share Image
“She fluttered her fan. “And do you know what they say of women of a certain age, what they want above all?”… — Sherry Thomas Copy Share Image
“It’s a long story,” he said, taking a sip of Mr. Braeburn’s whiskey, “so I will tell only a very condensed version… — Sherry Thomas First sight Copy Share Image
“And when the governess had left, he would slip out of his own room and peer at her door until her light… — Sherry Thomas Copy Share Image
“… In 1885, when he turned twenty-five, he let out the word that he was ready to settle down with the right… — Sherry Thomas God and country Copy Share Image
“She touched him, placing her hand over his curled fingers, straightening them so that they were palm to palm, then she interlaced… — Sherry Thomas Adventure Copy Share Image
“Did this mean he was about to tell her something he wouldn’t normally? Her ears perked—figuratively, since her ears were now feather-covered… — Sherry Thomas Canary Copy Share Image
“The worst thing about falling in love with her so early in life was that he’d been an absolute snot at fourteen,… — Sherry Thomas Copy Share Image
“And that is why You do not trifle with the Master of the Domain.” — Sherry Thomas Domain Copy Share Image
“Perhaps you forgave him too much, but who among us would not wish to be so generously loved and generously forgiven?” — Sherry Thomas Copy Share Image
“It was the beginning of the end. Or perhaps, it was only the end of something that was never meant to begin.” — Sherry Thomas Beginning Copy Share Image
Sometimes limbs must be re-broken to set properly, her heart too needed to shatter anew before it could truly heal. — Sherry Thomas Copy Share Image
