Sherry Thomas

“Sometimes people change, said a voice inside him. And sometimes they don’t.”

— Sherry Thomas

“I always think I cannot love you more if I tried, but I always do.”

— Sherry Thomas

“For the thousandth time he wished he’d just met her. That they were but two strangers traveling together, that such lovely, filthy…

— Sherry Thomas

“This is the story of a girl who fooled a thousand boys, a boy who fooled an entire country, a partnership that…

— Sherry Thomas

“Outwardly, other than her hair, she had not changed much. She was still more or less the same cool, aloof woman who…

— Sherry Thomas

“The buttons on her back gave way as if before a Mongol horde.”

— Sherry Thomas

“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

“...So far I have restrained myself. For how much longer, I do not know. I have never known such happiness, shot through…

— Sherry Thomas

“You are asking me to give up everything for a cause that isn't mine. I don't want to be part of any…

— Sherry Thomas

“Friendship is untenable for people in our position.”

— Sherry Thomas

“Just before the start of Summer Half, in April 1883, a very minor event took place at Eton College, that venerable and…

— Sherry Thomas

“A reflection of their story: imperfect, but to him the most beautiful of stories.”

— Sherry Thomas

“For the next three seconds, he still dared to let himself hope. Perhaps she was making a grand entrance. Perhaps she would…

— Sherry Thomas

“He smiled at her. And it hit her like a mallet to the temple, the realization that she was in love with…

— Sherry Thomas

“We will never accomplish anything worthwhile in life if we require the guarantee of success at the onset.”

— Sherry Thomas

“...the hero is a secret agent? Well, who gives a crap about the rest of his case once he has met the…

— Sherry Thomas

Love without friendship is like a kite, aloft only when the winds are favorable. Friendship is what gives love its wings.

— Sherry Thomas

“Despite all her strengths, there was a certain brittleness to her. Sometimes she retreated into her keep. Sometimes she ran away. But…

— Sherry Thomas

“It was a few minutes before Helena could stop panting. She dared not read any further, or she’d crash through the connecting…

— Sherry Thomas

“The next minute he realized what had happened to him, but not before she’d caught him staring. For a decade, I was…

— Sherry Thomas

“He climbed into bed himself and kissed his way up her legs. Instincts she didn’t even know she possessed made her clench…

— Sherry Thomas

“The aroma of chicken broth and beef pie wafted into the parlor. She set down the tray of food on the low…

— Sherry Thomas

“I try not to expect people to be who I wish them to be, rather than who they are.”

— Sherry Thomas

“Then he made love to her not only as if he had never experienced lovemaking before, but no one had.”

— Sherry Thomas

Why allow all the old memories to have supremacy? Make new ones, memories of such luster and beauty that, should the old…

— Sherry Thomas