S Quotes
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“Somehow she knew he would take a love affair very seriously indeed. Once that pinpoint focus was engaged, he would throw himself body and soul into the liaison. In the the woman he decided to take as a lover. A shiver ran through her at the thought. To be the object of such ferocious regard was an alluring prospect, but it also gave her pause.”
“Somehow, she knew that she and Levan were at the center of something enormous and devestating, something that would end in mutual ruin. Something that would not just unmake them both--it would unmake everything. Of course, it was very possible she was just in love.”
Source: Silvercloak
“Somehow she managed to enter the corridor, third in line, but dripping all the dignity she could master, and perversely glad she’d smoothed her hair.”
Source: Dust
“Somehow she willed enough strength back into her knees to satisfy him, and she moaned as he began to thrust more powerfully and deeply than ever before. Each inward drive was a sensuous jolt, lifting her heels from the floor. She breathed and sweated and pushed back at him, the feelings rising thickly to a crescendo. The repeated wet impacts of their flesh embarrassed and excited her, and there was nothing she could do about any of it; she had lost all hope of control. One of his hands slid to the triangle between her thighs, caressing her pulsing flesh, while the other went to her breast and clamped the nipple gently between his thumb and finger.
That was all she needed. She pressed her clenched fists against the door and cried out repeatedly, in ecstasy that sounded like anguish. Satisfaction rushed and ebbed, back and forth, in heavy waves that soon broke into shudders. She really couldn't stand then, her limbs quaking, and he picked her up and carried her into the bedroom.
Before her body had even settled completely on the bed, he was in her again, thrusting almost savagely, reaching beneath her hips to pull her up into each plunge.”
Source: Devil's Daughter
“Somehow, some way, every person in the arts has to find an accommodation with disappointment and embarrassment. They are the pollen in the air we breathe.”
Source: Enter Talking
“Somehow something has gone wrong with poetry in our culture. We have lost touch with its purpose and value, and in doing so, we have lost contact with essential aspects of our own emotional and spiritual lives.”
Source: Poetry as Survival
“Somehow, someway, I had to figure out how to talk my husband (and the king and queen) into accepting me as a replacement for good and communicate with Sjofn that her hopes for Lunwyn had come true. I was going to stay with the man I loved in this fabulous world that had elves and dragons (and people who wanted to kill me, but I decided not to think of that). And I was going to do it forever.”
Source: Wildest Dreams
“Somehow, someway, I'm going to create a community of people who believed that disability itself is not a barrier; the biggest barriers are social, physical, and digital.”
Source: Haben: The Deafblind Woman Who Conquered Harvard Law
“Somehow that doesn't feel like a natural human thing to do, to go to those dark places, you have to kind of force yourself to do that. And comedy, it's like you're excited to get there in the morning every day.”
“Somehow the anticipation of pain can be even more troubling, more a misery than the pain itself.”
Source: Five Quarters of the Orange
“Somehow the body keeps life going despite the ravaging negations of the mind.”
“Somehow the bright beauty had gone from April afternoon and from her heart as well and the sad sweetness of remembering was as bitter as gall.”
Source: Gone with the wind
“Somehow, the city of promise had become a scrap yard of dreams.”
Source: Detroit: An American Autopsy
“Somehow, the days of summer with their glimmering enchantment of dancing ladybugs and sailing clouds had faded into grey. Maddie’s heart had somehow faded with it.”
Source: The Address Of Happiness
“Somehow the disorder hooks into all kinds of fears and insecurities in many clinicians. The flamboyance of the multiple, her intelligence and ability to conceptualize the disorder, coupled with suicidal impulses of various orders of seriousness, all seem to mask for many therapists the underlying pain, dependency, and need that are very much part of the process. In many ways, a professional dealing with a multiple in crisis is in the same position as a parent dealing with a two-year-old or with an adolescent's acting-out behavior. (236)”
Source: The Flock: The Autobiography of a Multiple Personality
“Somehow the fact of enormous privilege and freedom carries with it a sense of impotence, which is a strange, but striking, phenomenon. The fact is, we can do just about anything. There is no difficulty, wherever you are, in finding groups that are working hard on things that concern you.”
“Somehow the idea has gotten around that it is unchristian to take a stand against heresy. Some of us need to read the New Testament again.”
“Somehow the idea of Montgomery as a fairy doesn't have the same effect on me as it appears to have on you. -Raphael”
“Somehow the idyllic existence I envisioned never quite came to pass, but aside from the occasional culinary disaster, my marriage wasn't bad.”
Source: Truth Be Told: Adam Becomes Audrey
“Somehow the image begins to have a sort of memory in it, even if you can't see it. It can build up a dense feeling toward the end, and then it makes me happier.”
“Somehow the killing of the giant spider, all alone by himself in the dark without the help of the wizard or the dwarves or of anyone else, made a great difference to Mr. Baggins. He felt a different person, and much fiercer and bolder in spite of an empty stomach, as he wiped his sword on the grass and put it back into its sheath.”
Source: The Hobbit
“Somehow the notion has been loosed that nature is hostile to man or that her ways are offensive or slovenly, so that every step of progress is measured by how far we have altered these. Nothing short of a recovery of the ancient virtue of pietas can absolve man from this sin.”
Source: Ideas Have Consequences
“Somehow, the notion that Professor Moriarty had parents - might have been a child - never sat right. A viper is a snake straight from the egg. I couldn't help but picture little Jamie as a balding midget in a sailor suit, spying Cook and the baker's boy rolling in the flour on the kitchen table through his toy telescope, and blackmailing them for extra buns.”
Source: Professor Moriarty: The Hound of the D'Urbervilles
“Somehow the only way to mask my insecurity was to overpower it with sex.”
Source: Getting Off: One Woman's Journey Through Sex and Porn Addiction
“Somehow, the pain and rage and confusion of the past eighteen years dissolves until all that is left is this one perfect moment; unscripted, unedited, it's ours and ours alone.”
Source: Something Real
“Somehow the pain, the losses, the hurt, the bad, God is able to transform these into something they could have never been, icons and monuments of grace and love. It is the deep mystery how wounds and scars can become precious, or a ravaging and terrifying cross the essential symbol of relentless affection.” “Is it worth it?” whispered Tony. “Wrong question, son. There is no ‘it.’ The question is and has always been, ‘Are you worth it?’ and the answer is and always, ‘Yes!’”
“Somehow the painted door now stood open. Blaise was following Livia through it, past Throgmorton's outstretched arm. Sunni shed her slippers and hurried after them, still not quite believing they were walking through what she had thought was only paint on a wall.”
Source: The Crimson Shard
“Somehow the pantsless gay man is not bringing the romance, Scott.”
“Somehow the past is a safe place to explore our collective cultural neuroses.”
“Somehow the people who made tennis shoes knew what boys needed and wanted. They put marshmallows and coiled springs in the soles and they wove the rest out of grasses bleached and fired in the wilderness. Somewhere deep in the soft loam of the shoes the thin hard sinews of the buck deer were hidden. The people that made the shoes must have watched a lot of winds blow the trees and a lot of rivers going down to the lakes. Whatever it was, it was in the shoes, and it was summer.”
Source: Dandelion Wine
“Somehow the rap game remind me of the crack game”
“Somehow the revolutionaries must approach the workers because the workers won't approach them. But it's difficult to know where to start; we've all got a finger in the dam. The problem for me is that as I have become more real, I've grown away from most working-class people.”
“Somehow the river is louder when you cover your ears.”
Source: History of the Rain: Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2014
“Somehow, the road rises up to meet you Patch, when you are ready.”
Source: CHARGE! The Patchwork Rhino
“Somehow the sea-flowers finished Meg’s despondency. She tucked the glow blooms into her shell corset, and wove the fin fronds into her hair. Then she swam out and enjoyed herself, for she danced to her heart’s content.”
Source: Little Women: Mermaid Edition
“Somehow the silence seemed to connect us in a way like words never could. - Julianna Baker”
“Somehow, the softness in her deep gray eyes was worse than censure or a Queen’s cold wrath.”
Source: Hell and Earth
“Somehow the wondrous promise of the earth is that there
are things beautiful in it, things wondrous and alluring, and by
virtue of your trade you want to understand them." He put the
cigarette down. Smoke rose from the ashtray, first in a thin column
and then (with a nod to universality) in broken tendrils that swirled
upward to the ceiling.”
Source: Chaos: Making a New Science
“Somehow the wondrous promise of the earth is that there are things beautiful in it, things wondrous and alluring, and by virtue of your trade you want to understand them.”
“Somehow the world survived the Nazis, the atomic bomb, and modern music”
“Somehow there is a certain honesty underground, a certain truth.”
“Somehow, there is a tendency among people that God is deaf to all that proceeds out of mouth. This in turn, leads to unrestrained verbal diarrhoea. How foolish are we! He who planted the ear, does He not hear?”
“Somehow, they’d started a forest fire between them, and if they weren’t careful, it was going to burn them both up.”
Source: Falling for the Cowgirl
“Somehow they fail to see that for someone aggravated by depression, self-help will be useless, indeed, it is precisely the self that needs to be forgotten.”
“Somehow this disorder hooks into all kinds of fears and insecurities in many clinicians.”
Source: The Flock: The Autobiography of a Multiple Personality
“Somehow this felt weirder than usual.”
Source: The Midnight Library
“Somehow this literary genre, which most people condemned, acted as a sort of counterbalance to Charles's soul; it was the ballast that prevented him from lurching into the serious or melancholy, unlike Andrew, who had been unable to adopt his cousin's casual attitude to life, and to whom everything seemed so achingly profound, imbed with that absurd solemnity that the transience of of existence conferred upon even the smallest act.”
“Somehow this madness must cease. We must stop now. I speak as a child of God and brother to the suffering poor of Vietnam. I speak for those whose land is being laid waste, whose homes are being destroyed, whose culture is being subverted. I speak for the poor in America who are paying the double price of smashed hopes at home and death and corruption in Vietnam. I speak as a citizen of the world, for the world as it stands aghast at the path we have taken. I speak as an American to the leaders of my own nation. The great initiative in this war is ours. The initiative to stop it must be ours.”
“Somehow, this pirate had managed to steal something she never planned to lose - her heart.”
Source: Second Star to the Left
“Somehow, this was one oddity too many. He could accept "Mind the Gap" and the Earl's Court, and even the strange library. But damn it, like all Londoners, he knew his Tube map, and this was going too far. "There isn't a British Museum Station," said Richard, firmly.”
Source: Neverwhere