Buttons Quotes

“Push my buttons, and I'll push you off a bridge. ”
― Karen Quan, Write like no one is reading

“What happened to the holes?’
‘The holes?’
‘Yeah. You said you made the buttons but were stuck because there were no holes. How is it now?’
Minjun shook his head, trying to chase away the sleepiness. He stared up at his friend, a thoughtful look on his face.
‘Easy. I changed my shirt. This time I cut the holes first before I make the buttons that fit. Now, the shirt is buttoned up nicely.”
― Hwang Bo-reum, Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop

“My heart is small, like a love of buttons or black pepper.”
― S. Jane Sloat, In the Voice of a Minor Saint

“That's true," the male officer said. "Stew Mitchum is as cute as a button."

I tried to think of buttons I'd seen that liked to torture small animals, but I couldn't.”
― Lemony Snicket, Who Could That Be at This Hour?

“Why are you all buttoned up like that?" Cameron ran his gaze down the blackberry-shaped buttons of her bodice.[...] "You were happy to bare all last night," Cameron said. He let his mallet handler hover an inch from her chest. "Your bodice was down here."

Ainsley cleared her throat. "Low neckline for evening, high for morning."[...]

"This doesn’t suit you," Cameron said.

"I can’t help the fashion, Lord Cameron."

Cameron poked the top button with his gloved finder. "Undo this."

Ainsley jumped. "What?"

"Unbutton your damned frock."

She nearly choked. "Why?"

"Because I want you to." Cameron's smile spread across his face, slow and sinful, and his voice went low. Dangerous. "Tell me, Mrs. Douglas. How many buttons will you undo for me?”
― Jennifer Ashley, The Many Sins of Lord Cameron

“None of the questions was what I expected. Most of them were esoteric thought experiments, 'How would you turn Pride and Prejudice into a video game?' and 'If you added a button to Pac-Man, what would you want it to do?' Conundrums like 'How come when Mario jumps he can change direction in midair?”
― Austin Grossman, You

“Buttons may be tiny. Delicate, even. But they fasten together the fabric of an entire garment. The fabric wear day in and day out, the mundane cotton blouse and the lacy wedding dress. The fabric, the seams, that cover us, warm us, protect us. Binding dream to dream, story to story, but mostly, death to life.
With a particular kind of beauty that rises from the dust. The resurrection life of a second story, of the breath that mends us.”
― Ashley Clark, The Dress Shop on King Street

“Even the simplest things had a glorious pointlessness to them. When buttons came in, about 1650, people couldn't get enough of them and arrayed them in decorative profusion on the backs and collars and sleeves of coats, where they didn't actually do anything. One relic of this is the short row of pointless buttons that are still placed on the underside of jacket sleeves near the cuff. These have been purely decorative and have never had a purpose, yet 350 years later on we continue to attach them as if they are the most earnest necessity.”
― Bill Bryson

“The good thing about having our buttons pushed is that we can no longer ignore the sensitive areas where we need to heal.”
― Mary Buchan, Over iT: How to Live Above Your Circumstances and Beyond Yourself

“Most everything in Grandma's house had a story, but the basket was full of them! The basket contained buttons . . .all sizes, shapes, colors, and kinds.”
― Arleta Richardson, In Grandma's Attic

“Feeling the inevitable claim of the this desert, he experienced a desire to throw off his civilized costume, hurl himself upon Josephina, either succumb, or return to Guadalajara, where men could only complain of having too many buttons to button or unbutton...”
― Warren Eyster, The Goblins of Eros

“She felt his hands move to the fastening of his breeches, and then he swore under his breath as he was forced to roll off her in order to (in his words), "get the bloody things off." She couldn't help but chuckle at his profanity; he seemed to be having a much rougher time of it than she imagined was usual.
"You're laughing?" he asked, his brows rising into a daring arch.
"You should be glad I was already out of my gown," she told him. "Thirty-six cloth-covered buttons down the back."
He gave her a fearsome look. "It would not have survived.”
― Julia Quinn, Because of Miss Bridgerton

“We all have buttons that, when pressed, send us into survival mode.
”
― J.S. Wolfe, The Unfolding: A Journey of Involution

“Most people have their buttons,” Eustace continued.”
― James Purdy, Eustace Chisholm and the Works

“I tell you, mister, if there’s anything good about being a hot-tempered bitch, it’s knowing right well what buttons to push in others seeing as they’re the same ones what get your own back up.”
― J.D. Jordan, Calamity: Being an Account of Calamity Jane and Her Gunslinging Green Man

“Never allow anyone to take you out of character, some people know which buttons to press.
(Zip it instead)”
― Charmaine J Forde

“which was so easy a staples button could do it”
― J.S. Mason, A Dragon, A Pig, and a Rabbi Walk into a Bar...and other Rambunctious Bites

“... part of the fun of being a covert squad was a certain looseness when it came to the niceties of military protocol. Felix himself often kept the top button of his uniform jacket undone.”
― Tim Pratt, The Veiled Masters: A Twilight Imperium Novel

“Principals hired that teacher you had a crush on in high school because she had the sense to wear a tight shirt and "forget" a few buttons.”
― Valentine Glass, The Temptation of Eden

“Wie betrapt er zich niet herhaaldelijk op, dat hij een levenloos voorwerp, bij voorbeeld een weerbarsig boordknoopje, luide en doodelijk enstig toespreekt in zuiver menselijke qualificaties, waarmee hij het een weerspannigen wit toekennen, het verwijten doet, het wegens zijn laakbaar verzet beleedigt?”
― Huizinga Johan, Homo Ludens