S Quotes
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“Still playing hard to get, huh?"
"Not hard to get at all," Luke replied with a cocky grin. "Just hard to keep."
A smirk played at her mouth. "That sounds like a challenge.”
Source: Luke
“Still, pouring jizz into a baggie tube hanging from my dick while inside someone is strange as hell. But a good strange. I mean, the alternative is not having sex. And I’m now fucking addicted to fucking.”
Source: Unhinged
“Still preserving in my heart the hope for not only tomorrow, but for today.”
Source: Exhaling Hope
“Still putting out the O'Reilly fires of me being a traitor and using Casey's name dishonorably, my in-laws sent out a press statement disagreeing with me in strong terms; which is totally okay with me, because they barely knew Casey. We have always been on separate sides of the fence politically and I have not spoken to them since the election when they supported the man who is responsible for Casey's death. The thing that matters to me is that our family - Casey's dad and my other 3 kids are on the same side of the fence that I am.”
“Still, rage and revenge sometimes needed to be indulged in the path to whatever “enlightenment” the Gods had designed. When someone wrongs you, hurts you, breaks you or the ones you love, you can either drown in fear and despair or fight back hard, relentlessly and without flinching. The path to power was the path to safety, the road to the confidence stolen by men…always men.”
Source: Unanimity
“Still reading but learning a lot about true education and the process of guiding our children in their educational pursuits.”
“Still reeling from the touch of her husband's lips on her, Trudy didn't know whether to feel relief or dread that she'd married Seth Flanagan for better or worse. But from the fireworks of excitement swirling in her middle, she figured on both.”
Source: Trudy
“Still riled, Agnes picked up the calf's head and plunged it into a pot with white wine, lemon pickle, walnut-and-mushroom catsup, an anchovy, a blade of mace, and a bundle of sweet herbs, then set the pot on the stove.”
Source: The Thief Taker
“Still round the corner there may wait A new road or a secret gate And though I oft have passed them by A day will come at last when I Shall take the hidden paths that run West of the Moon, East of the Sun.”
Source: The Lord of the Rings: One Volume
“Still round the corner there may wait, A new road or a secret gate.”
Source: The Lord of the Rings: One Volume
“Still shaking, in the pew, I understood that it isn't the dead we cry for. We cry for ourselves, and I didn't deserve my own pity.”
Source: Little Bee: A Novel
“Still, she’d met this kind of man before. Nothing she said would change his mind that he was some golden knight, doing the world a service by offing her. To say she detested his type was an understatement on the same level of ‘hell was merely a sauna for the damned to relax in’. - Julian”
Source: Deadlocked Desires
“Still she haunts me, phantomwise, Alice moving under skies Never seen by waking eyes.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Lewis Carroll (Illustrated)
“Still, she kept listening, the voice of the actor and the voice of the book weaving together, becoming one. Sometimes the experience felt so dreamlike she almost fell asleep, but the words floated along with her until she came back and found them again.”
Source: No Two Persons
“Still, she really did seem to be absurdly into this. It was almost existentially unsettling, that two people in such close physical proximity could be experiencing the same moment so differently.”
Source: You Know You Want This: Cat Person and Other Stories
“Still, she stood looking fabulous like a princess should, licking her blood red lips the moment she laid her eyes on the beautiful prince. It was appetite on first sight.”
“Still, she was crazy about these two flickering men and wanted to be just like them with someone, except alive and not mute, though perhaps they spoke ghost-language to each other, and she couldn't hear it. She also loved their best friend, an older female ghost who wore men's clothes and ran barefoot through the vineyards, her red hair spun with flowers and bil- lowing behind her like a red river of fresh blooms.
"Hey guys," she called out to the floating men. "Do you know anything about angels?" But of course she got no answer. They were mid-kiss, midair, entwined and enraptured as always.
Their eternity was only each other.”
Source: When the World Tips Over
“Still she wondered: did the present deliver up the future, or must you chase your destiny like a harpoonist?”
Source: Binocular Vision: New and Selected Stories
“Still shuddering, he collapsed atop her on a long, strangled groan. It sounded as if someone had just wrung out his soul.
Ella knew precisely how he felt.”
Source: Heart of Stone
“Still sitting, he reached out and pulled me toward him. We stayed there, looking at each other, his hand still wrapped in my shirt hem, my heart hammering so hard I was sure he could hear it. when I inched closer, not wanting to intrude, he tugged me in front of him and I stumbled, half falling onto his lap. I tried to scramble up, cheeks burning, but he pulled me down onto his knee, one army going around my waist, tentative, as if to say Is this okay? It was, even if my blood pounded in my ears so hard I couldn't think.”
“Still, some nights I grieved. I grieved as much at what I knew must be the fleeting nature of my present happiness as any loss, any past. We lived on some edge, if we ever lived on a rolling plain. Who knew what attack, what illness. That doubleness again. Like flying: the stillness and speed, serenity and danger.”
Source: The Dog Stars
“Still, somehow, inexplicably, "man-hater" is a word tossed around with insouciance as if this was a real thing that did harm. Meanwhile we have no word for men who kill women. Is the word just "men"?”
Source: Sex Object: A Memoir
“Still, sometimes you have to take a gamble. Can't just sit around twiddling out thumbs, can we!”
Source: The Lantern of Lost Memories
“Still, somewhere in the depths of ourselves we all harbor an ashamed, unsatisfied melancholy that quietly awaits a funeral.”
Source: The Reprieve
“Still standing. I think this is a pretty good description of where I was at this point.”
Source: Future Widow: Losing My Husband, Saving My Family, and Finding My Voice
“Still stands thine ancient sacrifice - An humble and a contrite heart.”
“Still staring blankly at The Book of Regrets, she wondered if her parents had ever been in love or if they had got married because marriage was something you did at the appropriate time with the nearest available person. A game where you grabbed the first person you could find when the music stopped.”
Source: The Midnight Library
“Still staying fervently prayerful, for I know God is forever faithful to fulfill his promises.”
“Still sweet with blossoms is the year's fresh prime.”
“Still, take away such physically charged images of identity, take away the wisdom of elders, take away the community of men, and one has the modern world.”
Source: Under Saturn's Shadow: The Wounding and Healing of Men
“Still, take till tomorrow before you act upon your decision.”
Source: Wives and Daughters
“Still, taking the good with the bad, chivalry, like Christianity, had a healthy effect upon Western man.”
Source: Compleat Gentleman: The Modern Man's Guide to Chivalry
“Still tethered to an IV and woozy from anesthesia, Maria held Jonah and anointed him with her tears. She pressed her face to his, trying to freeze this final moment in her memory. She inhaled the smell of her newborn, ran her nose over his soft cheeks, and said goodbye.”
Source: Seen: Experiencing God's Tenderness After Brokenness
“Still, that didn’t stop the flare of heat from returning to Melody's chest. “You called my boss a b word.”
Declan zeroed his gaze on hers. “No, I said she was being one, and she was. To you. And I didn’t like it.”
Source: Just One Reason
“Still that must be expected,' said Gandalf to himself. 'He is not half through yet, and to what he will come in the end not even Elrond can foretell. Not to evil, I think. He may become like a glass filled with a clear light for eyes to see that can.”
Source: THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING
“Still, the age of [working the system, climbing the ladder, choosing lesser evils] was long past. Systems were broken, and ladders had turned to slides long before either of us. Lesser evils had leveled out into equal ones, burgeoning ones, inevitable ones. A place like the valley wasn't birthed from one legislative oversight, but from a spectacular compounding of societal failures, and, in the face of that, one spot of incidental kindness was only a bandage waiting to be bled through.”
Source: Local Heavens
“Still, the boyish beast has overtaken me. He has caught my heart, not between fangs or claws but with this look.”
Source: The Invisible Monsters
“Still the bubbling mind; herein lies freedom and bliss eternal.”
“Still the dream persists, suppressed but always there, that somehow by some miraculous effort of the heart what was done could be undone. What form would such atonement take that would turn back time and bring the dead to life? None. None possible, not in the real world. And yet in my imaginings I can clearly see this cleansed new creature steaming up out of myself like a proselyte rising drenched from the baptismal river amid glad cries.”
“Still the future of civilization lies, he thought, in the hands of young men like that; of young men such as he was, thirty years ago; with their love of abstract
principles; getting books sent out to them all the way from London to a peak in the
Himalayas; reading science; reading philosophy. The future lies in the hands of young men like that, he thought.”
Source: Mrs. Dalloway
“Still the greatest success is salvation.”
“Still the hottest angel I know," he murmured. "It's beyond me how you're still on staff.”
Source: Heaven
“Still, the limitations of what we can know, no matter how obsessed we are, have, inevitably, become clear to me. She walks ahead of me and I don't get to see her face. Was her hair brown or pale? Was she slim? Did she get heavier as she bore her children? Or was she petite, like a bird? What did her voice sound like? Did she argue with her husband? Did she like to cook? Was she as ambitious as I think she was? Would she have approved of my writing about her? But the closer I have drawn, the more she has receded, her figure diminishing, no matter how I strain to catch up. Those shores of early America are irretrievable, as is Anne. I have tried to retrieve her here, but some of the most important things are bound to be left unknown.”
Source: Mistress Bradstreet: The Untold Life of America's First Poet
“Still, the melancholy of this dying culture was all around us. Great as the desire to westernize and modernize may have been, the more desperate wish was probably to be rid of all the bitter memories of the fallen empire, rather as a spurned lover throws away his lost beloved's clothes, possessions, and photographs. But as nothing, western or local, came to fill the void, the great drive to westernize amounted mostly to the erasure of the past; the effect on culture was reductive and stunting, leading families like mine, otherwise glad of republican progress, to furnish their houses like museums.”
Source: Istanbul: Memories and the City
“Still the men stand up for the dignity of man, by oppressing the women.”
Source: Letters Written During A Short Residence In Sweden, Norway And Denmark
“Still the mind by practising daily silence periods. The mind has to stop its constant chattering. And must fall silent. This does not mean you will not have thoughts arising in your mind. This means you must learn not to pick up worrisome, fearful, angry, anxious thoughts. And instead train your mind to think abundant, thankful, thoughts celebrating the now. When you are in the present moment, the mind is powerless. The mind, interestingly, can control you only when it is trapped in memories (often of pain, grief, guilt, anger) of the dead past or has raced into the unborn future (and is worrying and anxious). The mind really thrives only in the past or in the future. In the present, it holds no power. The secret to Happiness lies in training the mind to constantly be in the present moment.”
“Still the mind in meditation and you will witness the heart’s signals and its inspired thoughts. For 20 to 30 minutes every day, capture inspired moments of heartfulness.”
“Still the mind smiles at its own rebellions.”
Source: The Selected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers
“Still the mind. Inhale peace. Let go of worries. Exhale stress. Notice the breath. Connect to all. Embrace calm.”
“Still the most intense pleasure's but a splinter of ice on the gallons of lava that gush from my cracked heart.”