Tone Quotes

857 Tone quotes by 657 unique authors

Mom was bossy. Even in print I could hear her tone, smugly congratulating me on already earning the prince's affections and telling me firmly to… — Kiera Cass
He's stubborn," Tux warned in a singsong tone. "Stay out of this," Mark spat. "And touchy," Tux added. — Brandon Mull
You can know someone all your life, like your parents or family, but I’ll tell you this, Ned. There’s an expression on their face, or… — Melina Marchetta
You the Dark-Hunter?" Kyrian arched a brow. "You the flunky?" "I don't like your tone." "And I dont't like you. Now that we've dispensed with… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
You're a mad scientist,' said Maggie, in what may well have been intended as a reassuring tone. 'We don't expect you to be nice. We… — Mira Grant
How shall I ever tell Aunt Shaw?' she whispered, after some time of delicious silence. 'Let me speak to her.' 'Oh, no! I owe it… — Elizabeth Gaskell
He beat back the Greeks and reclaimed Rome for our people. Indeed, he was the one who destroyed the Macedonian threat and who single-handedly annihilated… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
Take one more step and I'll put an arrow through you." Will tried to model his voice on the quiet, threatening tone Halt had used.… — John Flanagan
Hark," he said, his tone very dry. "What stone through yonder window breaks? — Sarah Rees Brennan
The three of you are enough to drive a mara mad.'She can wear my shirt," she growled in an imitation of Nash."No,she can wear my… — Rachel Vincent
I’m not suggesting the world is good, that life is easy, or that any of us are entitled to better. But please, isn’t this the… — Richard Siken
He looks like a man.' 'How descriptive,' Susan said in a droll tone. 'Remind me never to advise you to seek work as a novelist. — Julia Quinn
And when Jace was ten years old, Valentine killed him. Michael, I mean." "That sounds like something he would do," said Luke. His tone was… — Cassandra Clare
I have a suggestion," said Valentine to Luke, in a surprisingly even tone. "Let me guess," said Luke. "It's 'Don't kill me,' isn't it? — Cassandra Clare
...Someone speaks in soft tones to me and says I am psychotic, but it's going to be all right. I put on my hat, unperturbed,… — Marya Hornbacher
It seems to me that the desire to make art produces an ongoing experience of longing, a restlessness sometimes, but not inevitably, played out romantically,… — Louise GluÌˆck
That's our plan? We're going to walk fifty kilometers, right past the Germans, to a poultry collective that maybe didn't get burned down, grab a… — David Benioff
He stopped and pointed an accusing finger at her. “I didn’t ask for this. But I felt something in that back room with you, and… — Scott Speer
The dowager rose and slipped from her pew. There was the sound of tearing silk as she threw up her arms to embrace her son.… — Eva Ibbotson
What is it? For what do you scheme? Ethine's death would weigh on you and the stain of her blood would seep into your skin"… — Holly Black
Every time I mention her, Magnus says, "Are you two getting along?" in raised, hopeful tones, like we're endangered pandas who need to make a… — Sophie Kinsella
Vienna, to me it was the tuning fork for the entire world. Saying the word Vienna was like striking a tuning fork and then listening… — SÃ¡ndor MÃ¡rai
I didn’t realize I was frozen in place until a classmate shouldered into me, knocking my heavy backpack from my shoulder. “’Scuse me,” he grumbled,… — Tammara Webber
Some women,” Dahariel said in that same hard tone devoid of any hint of humanity, “get under a man’s skin until digging them out makes… — Nalini Singh
Always the tone of surpise. — Joanne Kathleen Rowling

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