S Quotes
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“She already told me that she doesn't have to be nice, so why do I? Because my mother raised me right? That's why wolves always win. Because the rest of us mind our manners and get devoured for our efforts.”
Source: Killer Cocktail
“She also considered very seriously what she would look like in a little cottage in the middle of the forest, dressed in a melancholy gray and holding communion only with the birds and trees; a life of retirement away from the vain world; a life into which no man came. It had its attractions, but she decided that gray did not suit her.”
Source: Once On A Time
“She also keeps talking about the Billie Holiday record she bought for me. And she says she wants to expose me to all these great things. And to tell you the truth, I don't really want to be exposed to all these great things if it means that I'll have to listen to Mary Elizabeth talk about all the great things she exposed me to all the time. It almost feels like of the three things involved: Mary Elizabeth, me, and the great things, only the first one matters to Mary Elizabeth. I don't understand that. I would give someone a record so they could love the record, not so they would always know that I gave it to them.”
Source: The Perks of Being a Wallflower
“She also knew that tears fixed nothing. as far as she was concerned, crying showed weakness and was simply as waste of time. Tears had not kept her father out of prison, nor had crying made a difference when he'd died of smallpox”
Source: Copper Sun
“she also liked to remember that there could be no such thing as an intentional imperfection. People are always mistaking something that looks good for something that feels good.”
Source: Here I Am
“She also managed to recite the phrase “Theories are not synonymous to facts,” on Mondays and Tuesdays, “Idiots accept blindly while geniuses confirm consciously” on Wednesdays and Thursdays, and, on Fridays and Saturdays, she recited her favorite phrase: “Stereotyping is a logical fallacy.” She meant every single phrase in all sincerity, which prevented her from searching for the extraterrestrials out of boredom and deprivation from social interaction.”
Source: Logicalard Fallacoid
“She also said she would give him a kiss if he liked, but Peter did not know what she meant, and he held out his hand expectantly.”
Source: Peter Pan: Top 100 Classic Novels
“She also said the wicked people needed love as much as good people and were much better at it.”
“She also understood there was a hole in her heart where her son should be, that she was a wicked, selfish woman for wishing him back.”
Source: Driving Off Bridges
“She always believed love was good and hate was much better. But, indifference would’ve made her a no one.”
Source: Unfinished: A Déjà Rêvé Novel
“She always carried a book, though, in case she needed to read a few pages to avoid unwanted conversation.”
“She always did like tales of adventure-stories full of brightness and darkness. She could tell you the names of all King Arthur's knights, and she knew everything about Beowulf and Grendel, the ancient gods and the not-quite-so-ancient heroes. She liked pirate stories, too, but most of all she loved books that had at least a knight or a dragon or a fairy in them. She was always on the dragon's side by the way.”
Source: Inkheart
“She always encouraged us to be grateful for the things we had—for life itself. She always expressed joy.”
Source: Eat & Run: My Unlikely Journey to Ultramarathon Greatness
“She always felt at home in a room which had books.”
Source: The Redemption of Philip Thane
“She always had a big pot of oatmeal going on the stove and was happy to whip up a short stack of pancakes at the drop of a hat, but she pretty much made the rest of the plates to order. After the first week she had a good handle not only on what each man liked for his morning meal, but what he needed. Mr. Cupertino still loved the occasional inspired omelet and once she had made him Eggs Meurette, poached eggs in a red wine sauce, served with a chunk of crusty French bread, which was a big hit. She balanced him out other mornings with hot cereal, and fresh fruit with yogurt or cottage cheese. Johnny mostly went for bowls of cereal washed down with an ocean of cold milk, so Angelina kept a nice variety on hand, though nothing too sugary. The Don would happily eat a soft-boiled egg with buttered toast every day for the rest of his life, but she inevitably got him to eat a little bowl of oatmeal just before or after with his coffee. Big Phil was on the receiving end of her supersize, stick-to-your-ribs special- sometimes scrambled eggs, toast, potatoes, and bacon, other times maybe a pile of French toast and a slice of ham. Angelina decided to start loading up his plate on her own when she realized he was bashful about asking for seconds.
On Sundays, she put on a big spread at ten o'clock, after they had all been to church, which variously included such items as smoked salmon and bagels, sausages, broiled tomatoes with a Parmesan crust, scrapple (the only day she'd serve it), bacon, fresh, hot biscuits and fruit muffins, or a homemade fruit strudel. She made omelets to order for Jerry and Mr. Cupertino. Then they'd all reconvene at five for the Sunday roast with all the trimmings.”
Source: Angelina's Bachelors
“She always had a headache, or it was too hot, always, or she pretended to be asleep, or she had her period again, her period, always her period. So much so that Dr. Urbino had dared to say in class, only for the relief of unburdening himself without confession, that after ten years of marriage women had their periods as often as threes times a week.”
“She always had her eyes set on the light. But Sade couldn’t take his off of the darkness, because the second he did, it would devour him, and then her.”
Source: Beg for Mercy
“She always had that about her, that look of otherness, of eyes that see things much too far, and of thoughts that wander off the edge of the world.”
Source: The Girl with No Shadow: A Novel
“She always had to have someone to love...She couldn't seem to believe that anyone could really love her. She always thought it was because she was a star, not just because of her herself, and she always had to be reassured.”
Source: The Joys of Love
“She always has close calls when she solves a mystery!”
Source: Nancy Drew 13: The Mystery of the Ivory Charm
“She always held onto him.
And with one woman he loved beside him, searching for the other he had lost, Tristan felt loved, accepted.
Whole.
And he would go through it all, over again, just for her.”
Source: The Reaper
“She always imagined that evil played out on a large canvas- wars, concentration camps, gas chambers, the partitioning of nations. Now she realized that evil had a domestic side, and its very banality protected it from exposure.”
“She always knew, but knowing doesn’t soften the blow. Why couldn’t she be wrong? But the only thing worse than believing a lie is living long enough to see it shatter into nothing.”
Source: Purgatory
“She always said she'd prefer to die on her way to the moon than under a runaway bus.”
Source: Thrice the Brinded Cat Hath Mew'd
“She always said she wanted to be like the heroes in the stories...”
Source: RWBY Official Manga Anthology Vol. 1: Red Like Roses
“She always said, 'When I'm home, I've got to get things done, even if there are visitors. Elizabeth knows how to relax in her own house.' And then she would shake her head, as if Elizabeth had remarkable powers.”
Source: A Thousand Acres
“She always said you can tell a lot about a person by the books they keep...”
Source: With Love from London
“She always says I'm the best friend that she's ever had... how do you hang up on someone who needs you that bad? ~From 'Laura' on The Nylon Curtain”
“She always says people's names like I should already know who they are.”
Source: P.S. I Still Love You
“She always says she dislikes the abnormal, it is so obvious. She says the normal is so much more simply complicated and interesting.”
Source: THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF ALICE B. TOKLAS (Modern Classics Series): Glance at the Parisian early 20th century avant-garde (One of the greatest nonfiction books of the 20th century)
“She always says, my lord, that facts are like cows. If you look them in the face hard enough they generally run away.”
Source: The Lord Peter Wimsey Mysteries: Whose Body?, Clouds of Witness, and Unnatural Death
“She always set three alarms for fear that the first employees to arrive would discover her sleeping - a Goldilocks without her bears”
“She always thought I was joking about putting her in a home. I thought so too.”
“She always thought of Aaron as special not less. He was God’s gift to her, and she wouldn’t trade him for the world.”
Source: A Special Kind of Love
“She always thought she needed someone to love when all she really needed to do was love the world and let love find her in its time and in its way.”
“She always told me that lemons clarify things; they symbolize happiness and hope. But when she died, I stopped believing lemons were anything more than a chore, something sour to squeeze every morning for pie. How ironic that it's a lemon drop that's changing everything for me.”
Source: The Magic of Lemon Drop Pie
“She always used to say that the past is a relentless parasite in its quest, feeding off of the senses, looking for anything that will trigger a memory–forever there to complicate the present, forever there to remind us that it will always be a piece of us. I never had a clue as to what she meant, until now.”
Source: Butterfly Weeds
“She always used to suspect that the price for happiness, the price for enjoying the company of a person you loved, was the steadily increasing risk of losing them, and at times, when she considered the possibility that she might lose Isabel or Clancy or, in the early days, Todd, Bernice didn't think she could stand it, didn't think she could go on living in a universe whose laws forced her to submit to such a terrible fear. Now she sees what a small price it is to pay, what staggering joy she received in return. You should be willing to pay that price for as little as a few days or hours with a person you love, she thinks, rubbing her fingers across a patch of linoleum the years have worn down to a cloudy smear.”
Source: Irreplaceable
“She always walked under the arches of nights
And everywhere she went
She left
The mark of broken things.”
Source: Capital of Pain
“She always wanted to be the kind of person who could play the "Moonlight" Sonata.
She buries her failure in this, as she buries all her failures, in reading.”
Source: Florida
“She always wanted to believe in things.”
Source: Never Let Me Go: With GCSE and A Level study guide
“She and Addie Mae made quick work of the dishes and had the kitchen looking spotless in no time. Of course, it would be a mess again the next night, but that was how things worked in the restaurant business; she wouldn't have had it any other way.”
Source: Almost There
“She and Bub went to live with Pop in that crowded, musty flat on Seventh Avenue. She hunted for a job with a grim persistence that was finally rewarded, for two weeks later she went to work as a hand presser in a steam laundry. It was hot. The steam was unbearable. But she forced herself to go to night school—studying shorthand and typing and filing. Every time it seemed as though she couldn't possibly summon the energy to go on with the course, she would remind herself of all the people who had got somewhere in spite of the odds against them. She would think of the Chandlers and their young friends—'It's the richest damn country in the world.'
Mrs. Chandler wrote her a long letter and Jim forwarded it to her from Jamaica. 'Lutie dear: We haven't had a decent thing to eat since you left. And Little Henry misses you so much he's almost sick—' She didn't answer it. She had more problems than Mrs. Chandler and Little Henry had and they could always find somebody to solve theirs if they paid enough.”
Source: The Street
“She and her brother, harvesting those long, tall flowers, some almost as tall as they were. She bit into a husk. Her nostrils filled with a hay-like scent that seemed to linger on her fingers. Even now, she knew the familiar fragrance…”
Source: The Nightingale and The Sunflower
“She and her feeling!
She seeks a chance,
A moment to feel and romance,
To fulfill with life her last dance,
Before she feels serenaded by a new form of trance,
Her love, her passions for someone,
With whom she feels there are just two them and no one,
With whom time appears to have acquired a new semblance, where being two feels like one,
Her dance has ended and now she is waiting for this someone,
She seeks him in every corner,
She thinks of him to be engulfed by feelings warmer,
His thoughts make her feel better,
But she can't help, but wander, and wander,
Until she has met this feeling,
That she has already felt and with it her heart is already dealing,
It feels like a very high ceiling,
That you can see, but you can't touch, and ah this helpless feeling!
So she waits at the corner, looking at the ceiling and gazing at hopes,
That dangle from the ceiling like ropes,
That you can see but you can't touch, just like beautiful hopes,
With whom your heart often in dreams elopes,
The high ceiling, the visible and reachable ropes, all there,
Tempting and challenging the feeling of love, within her growing everywhere,
But where is he, although she has searched for him everywhere,
Then one day her heart beats differently and she realises he was always there,
Just like the ceiling that was waiting not to be touched but to be felt,
And when she let this realisation melt in her, his true sensation she felt,
He appeared everywhere, and now with him just like her heart her eyes too dealt,
Because finally she had felt the way he always felt!”
“She and her sister were dressed in purple, with gold buckles at their throats by way of brooches, and another gold buckle each at the end of hatpins which they wore through their grey hair in order apparently to match their brooches. Their faces, identical to the point of indecency, were quite expressionless, as though they were the preliminary lay-outs for faces and were waiting for sentience to be injected.”
Source: Titus Groan
“She and I are as far apart as the stars in the sky and the soles of my feet." Detective Sean Ryan ~Deception on Sable Hill by Shelley Gray”
“She and I had needed each other more than either of us knew.”
Source: Norwegian Wood
“She and I just don't see eye to eye together. She's a square. She keeps telling me that I'm too interested in chess, that I should get friends outside of chess, you can't make a living from chess, that I should finish high school and all that nonsense. She keeps in my hair and I don't like people in my hair, you know, so I had to get rid of her.”
“She and I may share blood, but that just means we're related – it doesn't make us a family. Love is what makes us a family. And love means you'll always do what needs to be done, even if it's hard. Even if it means giving up what you thought was important to you.”
Source: Guarded King