S Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with S. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“She [Susanna] realized she was still hugging the wall. Pride propelled her two steps forward. As she advanced, something bleated at her, as though chastising her for trespassing. She stopped midstep and peered at it. "Did you know there's a lamb in here?" "Never mind it. That's dinner." She gave it a smile and a friendly pat. "Hullo, Dinner. Aren't you a sweet thing." "It's not his name, it's his...function.”
“She [the Virgin Mary] was normal. She had already had other children. The Bible tells us that Jesus had two brothers. Virginity, as it relates to Jesus, is based on a different thing: Mary initiated a new generation of grace. A new era began. She is the cosmic bride, Earth, which opens to the heavens and allows itself to be fertilized.”
“She [then nine-year-old daughter Emily] grew up with 'The Rhythm is Gonna Get You,' Well . . . It got her!”
“She [Theresa May] has done more to bring immigration down and abolish things like bogus colleges.”
“She [Theresa May] is the right choice to lead Britain in a challenging period and will make a truly outstanding prime minister.”
“She [Venison] had never travelled and so could invent all kinds of strange places without being limited, as travelled people are, by knowledge of certain places only.”
“She [Virginia Madsen] and I had a really long relationship after that movie ['Class'] I love her, and I can imagine it was not much fun to do that big sequence with a bunch of laughing, ogling frat-boy actors. I mean, can you imagine putting up with me, [John] Cusack, Alan Ruck, and Andrew McCarthy at 18?”
“She, a beacon of grace and forgiveness, and I, a flawed soul seeking redemption.”
Source: Pieces of a Broken Mind
“She abandoned herself to his whim, thinking it was to be an orgy of eyes and hands only.”
Source: Delta of Venus
“She abandoned the garden, and the mums and asters that had trusted her to see them through to the first frost hung their waterlogged heads.”
Source: The History of Love
“She abandoned them under a delusion; picturing in me a hero of romance, and expecting unlimited indulgences from my chivalrous devotion. I can hardly regard her in the light of a rational creature, so obstinately has she persisted in forming a fabulous notion of my character, and acting on the false impressions she cherished.”
Source: Wuthering Heights
“She [Abby] put a finger to his chin and turned his face back toward her.
"Neil, I work for the Foxes. None of you are okay. Chances are I've seen a lot worse than whatever it is you're trying to hide from me."
Neil's smile was humorless.
"I hope not.”
Source: The Foxhole Court
“She abounds with lucious faults.”
“She absorbed the terror and beauty of him and his world. Of every moment over the past days. All of it, filling her up like the first breath she'd ever taken. And never had she loved life more.”
Source: Under the Never Sky
“she accepted a love
that never matched
her own”
Source: Algedonic
“She accepted it from then on. Books liked her. Books wanted to look after her.”
Source: The Sugar Queen
“She accepted it uncertainly. “This will help?” Without waiting for an answer, with that unsettling trust of hers, she popped open the lid and dug in her finger, smearing the slick substance on and around her mouth. Going outside of the lines, as he deduced she did with most everything in her life. When she was done, she looked absolutely ridiculous.
Caine barely resisted smiling at her. “It will help immensely.”
“She accepts the world as it is and the world accepts her thus. She is not mastered. What is done to her cannot confine what she will do.”
Source: The Monster Baru Cormorant
“She accused me of wearing pants from the salvation army." "Rose, your pants ARE from the salvation army." "That's SO not the point!”
“She ached for him to touch her. As much as her words said "we can't" and as much as she was saying "no" in her head, her heart was saying "please kiss me."
"Please just grab me and kiss me before I can say no.”
Source: Forever and One Day
“She ached in expected and unexpected places.”
Source: What is Remembered
“She ached: oh, how she ached. Her soul was like one big bruise.”
Source: The Naming
“She ached so badly to be held it felt like a sickness had invaded her muscles and bones. As usual, her own arms provided little comfort.”
Source: The Kiss Quotient
“She acquired a lifetime aversion to the phrases bless your heart and poor dears.”
Source: My Life on the Road
“she acquired the certainty of the expansion of time by depth of emotion, range and infinite multiplicity of experience.”
“She actually smiled a real smile for the first time, and holy fucking shit, Jesse Carter needed to smile for a goddamn living. She could very possibly bring about world peace, and I wasn't even entirely exaggerating.”
Source: Bane
“She actually starts to smile, the look on her face one of youth and sweetness. It’s like a sunrise or some poetic bullshit like that. I call it bullshit, but when I look her, I know why men wrote sonnets and odes to women they adored.”
Source: Plump
“She added in a tight, defensive voice that she panicked when she did jobs, it gave her existential panic. She could do them for a while, but it felt like darning socks in a burning building. Time was running out and . . . Did he ever get that?”
Source: The Heavens
“She added something about 'healing the wounded' being a good occupation for young women during wartime. Secretly, I wondered if it might not be a better occupation for young men; it might make them think before waging war.”
Source: While Paris Slept
“She adjusted her body weight and caught his eyes, her gaze shiny and with a tinge of sadness. “My grandmother told me once that the world is filled with ghosts. The longer we live the more ghosts will haunt us.” She paused glancing at her palms. “But they’re here to remind us we are alive. That our hearts beat, blood runs through our veins, we breath air into our lungs.”
Source: The Russian Ink
“She admired him; she was used to clutching her hands together in his wake and heaving audible sighs.”
“She admonished him, saying ‘I think I hate you,’ which meant she didn’t because ‘I think I hate you’ is the same as ‘probably I hate you’, which is the same as ‘I don’t know if I hate you’, which is the same as ‘I don’t hate you, oh my God, my love, I love you, still love you, always, always have I loved you and never have I stopped loving you’.”
Source: Milkman
“She adored all beautiful things in their every curve and fragrance, so that they became part of her. Day by day, she gathered beauty; had she had no heart (she who was the bosom of womanhood) her thoughts would still have been as lilies, because the good is the beautiful.”
Source: The Little White Bird (Annotated Edition)
“She advanced into the chaos of light and darkness.”
Source: Flight
“She affected a faux Continental accent for good measure—it was the fashion voice. Women of a certain age in the industry all had it. Somehow, going to Paris four times a year meant they’d “studied” abroad.”
Source: #FashionVictim
“She affected me, even when she was absent.”
Source: Seconds Before Sunrise
“She agreed that this was completely within her ability, and her confidence began to be restored. Within a few minutes she was smiling, laughing, and excited about the challenge ahead.”
Source: Chasing Excellence: A Story About Building the World’s Fittest Athletes
“She aint worth it. None of em are.
He didnt answer for a while. Then he said: Yes they are.”
Source: All the Pretty Horses
“She [Akhmatova] was not afraid of calling evil by its name and had learnt that do this was of the utmost importance”
Source: Anna Akhmatova: A Poetic Pilgrimage
“She (Alexandra Horowitz, scientific expert on dog olfaction) notes ...that many dog owners deny their animals the joys of sniffling. To a dog, a simple walk is an odyssey of olfactory exploration. But if the owner doesn't undertand that and instead sees a walk as simply a means of exercise or a route to a destination, then very sniffy act becomes an annoyance...For Horowitz, the implications are clear: Let dogs be dogs. Appreciate their their Umwelt (world) is different, and lean into that difference. She does this by taking
Finn (her dog) on dedicated smell walks...If he stops, she stops. His nose sets the pace. The walks are slower.”
Source: An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
“She allowed herself an apprehensive smile.”
Source: The Midnight Library
“She allowed herself to relax and enjoy the wave of applause breaking over them. Marta glanced at her mother, who had tears running down her face, but her smile was the happy one Marta hadn't seen in a long time. She no longer looked drawn and sad, but the pretty Mutti her Vati had adored.
A hand brushed her head. But when she turned to look, no one stood close to that side of her. But she caught a whiff of a familiar scent, cigars- and-Vati smell, and knew in her heart her father had come to listen to her sing.”
Source: Montana Sky Christmas
“She almost wished she smoked, so she could lie on the car’s hood, flick a lighter, and make up names for the constellations while nicotine burned her lungs.”
Source: Storm
“She almost wishes for another love affair, sometimes, just to be able to end it. Just to feel that door close once more. Would that be true love ? The relief of loneliness, replayed forever and ever ?”
Source: And I Do Not Forgive You: Stories & Other Revenges
“She alone had been blind to his merit. Why? Because he loved her and she did not love him. What was it in the human heart that made you despise a man because he loved you?”
“She alone would do a mad and wonderful thing like that, ringing me up. No one else ever did things like that for me. I always had had to do the ringing up and the asking, and going to people’s rooms, always I was the one to ask for love.”
Source: Winter Love
“She already felt dead in everything but name. What remained to be taken from her? She longed to be enfolded, welcomed, into the earth - to breathe no more, love no more, hurt no more”
Source: Moloka'i
“She already got the blue dress on I ironed this morning, the one with sixty-five pleats on the waist, so tiny I got to squint through my glasses to iron. I don’t hate much in life, but me and that dress is not on good terms.”
Source: The Help
“She already had a headache-she didn't want to add 'get tortured' to today's to-do list.”
Source: Born at Midnight
“She already has a car.” “A Ford. That’s like Toyota’s worst enemy.”
Source: Crescendo