S Quotes
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“She asked me why I always had something flip to say. I said that I didn't know, but having been blessed with the gift, I felt obliged to use it.”
Source: Stalking the Angel
“She asked, "Okay, wait, so why is Ronan at the library?"
"Cramming," Noah said. "For an exam on Monday."
It was the nicest thing Blue had ever heard of Ronan doing.”
Source: The Raven Boys
“She asked where he lived. Second to the right,' said Peter, 'and then straight on till morning.”
Source: Peter Pan: Top 100 Classic Novels
“She asks him to touch her, to feel her with his hands, because bodies always understand each other, even when souls do not.”
Source: Eleven Minutes
“She asks if I left a girlfriend behind when we moved. I say no, and she smiles, which just about ruins me.”
“She asks me, "How do you grieve someone you never met?"
With each patient, I hear similar questions. It keeps emerging, this pulse. It presses in every room, leans on every shoulder, demands an answer: How do you grieve future loss? Underneath that, more questions: How do you deal with the viciousness of a broken dream? How do you move on from the picture of life in your head? How do you keep moving through a parallel-universe life?
My patients suffer from good dreams. What I mean is, it's not the nightmares that keep them up. It's the hope. Daydreams of another life. Instead of homesick, they're timesick.
Before becoming a chaplain, I thought grief was about missing the past. About reflecting on all the things before, the stuff we had until mortality crawled through the window. It's true. We grieve the past.
But mostly no one gets a chance to grieve the future. It doesn't seem to read as a real loss.
I need to tell you about this because nobody told me:
The dream that didn't happen is as much of a loss as losing the one that did.”
Source: As Long as You Need: Permission to Grieve
“She asks me if I'm new. I feel how badly the question "Are you new?" stings when you're not new.”
Source: Handsome Vanilla
“She asks me to kill the spider.
Instead, I get the most
peaceful weapons I can find.
I take a cup and a napkin.
I catch the spider, put it outside
and allow it to walk away.
If I am ever caught in the wrong place
at the wrong time, just being alive
and not bothering anyone,
I hope I am greeted
with the same kind
of mercy.”
Source: Helium
“She asks the yard a question it can never answer. 'What is it about me that I can’t find my proper place on this earth?”
“She asks,
What is your address?
He says,
My address is, inbox
After that
She and he were together
Forever”
“She asks why I like her. Might as well ask Why I breathe. Maybe tomorrow I won't Breathe or like her Anymore. Maybe tomorrow the tides Will stop. Maybe tomorrow will bring No more rainbows. Maybe tomorrow She will stop Asking useless questions.”
“She assumes that skill will guide her fingertips, that shapely lines will uncoil out of the pencil the moment she starts. Surely talent is a thing curled deep inside, just waiting to be exercised, and at the slightest invitation it will stretch, shake itself, make itself known? Talent, it seems, is not so insistent.”
“She ate noisily, greedily, a little like a wild beast in a menagerie, and after she had finished each course rubbed the plate with pieces of bread till it was white and shining, as if she did not wish to lose a single drop of gravy. They had Camembert cheese, and it disgusted Philip to see that she ate rind and all of the portion that was given her. She could not have eaten more ravenously if she were starving.”
“She ate ramen noodles from the vending machine, their texture just a few molecular recombinations from the Styrofoam cup containing them.”
Source: The Submission
“She ate so many clams that her stomach rose and fell with the tide.”
Source: The Cutting Edge
“She ate the apple and gave it also to Adam who had not the moral courage to resist her.”
“She ate the stars and swallowed the earth,
She is the girl with all the power.”
Source: Labyrinth Lost
“She attempted to turn again; I held on. I wasn't holding tight enough to keep her, but she wasn't pulling hard enough to get away.”
Source: Forever
“She attracted him more than he liked.”
Source: Pride and Prejudice
“She attributed her own fine sewing to the prolonged periods of silence at Meeting; these had made her thoughts level and her hand steady, which was reflected in her even stitching.”
Source: The Last Runaway
“She averted her eyes from his naked chest and reached up to close her window. He lifted his arms, curling his hands around the sash of his own window. Between his upraised arms, he stared at her, and his smile widened. "What's wrong, Lily? Are you shutting your window because you're afraid I'll breathe the same air you do?"
She met his gaze across the short distance that separated them. "I didn't know leeches could breathe." He didn't get angry at the insult. Instead, he laughed. "You're a worthy opponent. I don't think I've ever met a woman with a quicker wit than you. If you'd been a man, there's no telling what you might have accomplished."
"If I'd been a man, I'd have called you out in the fine old Southern tradition five years ago and shot you. That would have been a fine accomplishment." She slammed the window shut and closed the curtains. Daniel was right, of course. Within minutes, the room became suffocatingly hot.
She desperately wanted to open the window again, but she didn't want to give him any victory, no matter how small. So, she waited in the dark as her bedroom became an oven, listening to the clock on her dressing table tick away the minutes. When the clock chimed the quarter hour twice, she got out of bed and walked to the window. He was sure to be asleep by now. She slipped the curtains open, and as quietly as possible, she raised the sash.
"Told you so," a sleepy male voice murmured.
Lord, she hated him.”
Source: Breathless
“She averted his eyes, but not before he recognized the pain in them, a tormented and languished gaze, a stare preserved for people who were able to love deeply enough that they could be destroyed by it.”
Source: Noah's Story
“She averted his eyes, but not before he recognized the pain in them, a tormented and languished gaze, a stare preserved for people who were able to love deeply enough that they could be destroyed by it. For a moment, he knew that gaze intimately, remembering it from a time long gone. The ache of a shattered belief once known. He knew that feeling.”
Source: Noah's Story
“She avoids deep thought like an empty restaurant, not out of stupidity, but a canny resolve to be happy.”
Source: Luminarium
“She avoids mirrors, and lifts a powerful telescope to find herself.”
Source: Everything Is Illuminated
“She awaits the rain like a writer embraces metaphors,
A drizzle isn't for the child who dances in the storm.
Of rain that washes away the petrichor it brings,
A downpour of a hail of bullets, and she calls it spring.”
Source: The Farewell and other poems
“She awoke in my heart some long-sleeping dragon.”
Source: Eileen
“she awoke often to lie and wish for that presence beside her—inanimate yet breathing—still Jeff.”
Source: Tales of the Jazz Age
“She awoke on the ship, alone, certain of only those two things. That she was aboard a vessel moving through space and that there was absolutely no one else on it.”
Source: Notes from Star to Star
“She [Ayn Rand] had to declare that....altruism was despicable, that only self-interest is good and noble. (About Ayn Rand)”
“She backed away from him, staring at his black-and-white elegance with a kind of numb contempt. "Forgive me," she said in a husky voice. "I didn't mean..."
His smile was wintry sweet. "You're very pretty, child," he said, reaching out with one of his slender, strong hands, and brushing it against her cheek. She jerked, but he merely smiled at her reaction, and ran his fingertips over her soft lips. "If you just sit in the taproom with your magnificent eyes filled with tears, I'm certain you'll find someone to take care of you." He glanced down at her. "You might, however, endeavor to wash some of the blood off your hands. It might put a man's appetite off a bit."
She tried to pull back from him, but he was surprisingly fast and surprisingly strong for such an indolent-looking creature, and she found her wrist caught tightly in one of his deceptively pale hands. "Then again," he murmured, leaning closer, "it does seem to whet mine." He was dangerously, hypnotically close, and she wondered dazedly what would happen if he moved closer still.
"Killoran!" A young man stood in the doorway, his body radiating outrage and horror.
The dark man's smile was sudden, rueful, and oddly charming as he released her, released her hand, released her from his dark, entrapping gaze. "My conscience calls, sweeting," he murmured. And he walked away from her, clearly dismissing her from his mind.
Emma watched him go. She found she was trembling. She could still feel the heat and strength of his hand on her wrist, still feel the caress against her face.”
Source: To Love a Dark Lord
“She backed away from the boat. She started to flail in the mud, but before she could tumble backward, a set of strong arms braced around her.
"I have you," Naveen said. He was so close she could feel his warm breath against her ear. Tiana did her best to ignore the goose bumps pebbling up and down her skin, but she would have had a better chance of ignoring a fireworks display taking place on her front porch.”
Source: Almost There
“She bared her teeth at me. “Screw you, shifter!”
“Ah, is our honeymoon period over so quickly? You wanted to jump my bones just a second ago.”
Source: Half Breed
“She barely saw him through the darkness, but her throbbing arm was enough to announce his presence.
Hot breath blew against her ear, raising goosebumps on her neck. "If I can't have you, nobody can.”
Source: Delusions
“She barely understands her dreams of belly button rings and other kind of things. Symbolic of change, but the thing that is strange, it that the changes occur, and now she's just a part of the herd.”
“She barely understood the words or the story she told. But she felt the power and glory in the music and she knew, she believed, if she let the music carry her like the wings of a bird on the wind, it would take her away to another place. A good and happy place. A place she wanted to be.”
“She bathed with roses red,
And violets blew.
And all the sweetest flowres
That in the forrest grew.”
Source: The Faerie Queene
“She became a cartographer of the heart.”
Source: A Gorgeous Sense of Hope: A Love Fable
“She became a story, one I have mostly forgotten. One I can't end because she died a long time ago.”
Source: Living Dead Girl
“She became a very famous, very popular young girl. Before that, she was my daughter, but now I'm her father.”
“She became certain that there was something in the dark behind her: something very old and very slow. Her heart beat so hard and so loudly she was scared it would burst out of her chest.”
Source: Coraline
“She became completely consumed by her longing for something to hate.”
“She became confused when she stepped onto an escalator that wasn't working.”
“She became extremely aggressive and almost animalistic. It was as if she reverted to a savage state with only one instinct... to attack the uninfected.”
Source: The Manhattanville Incident: An Undead Novel
“She became fascinated by the statue of Edith Cavell and would stand at the base of it in the freezing cold of a December morning, looking up: -
Patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness for anyone-. Sometimes those words made her cry. The tears would come uncontrollably and they would not stop. And in those moments Anna found forgiveness and it made her free. But they were only moments. Forgiveness is a hard thing to hang on to.”
Source: Miss Treadway and the Field of Stars
“She became for me an island of light, fun, wisdom where I could run with my discoveries and torments and hopes at any time of day and find welcome.”
Source: A World of Light: Portraits and Celebrations
“She became his Ariadne, leading him through the labyrinth of books, stopping now and then to pass another one to him.”
Source: By Its Cover
“She became politically conscious thanks to Studs Terkel and the radio. She started reading all the books we brought home from college and was a great fan of Noam Chomsky. She was a real lefty and yet was not able to meet her dream of becoming an artist. She got drafted into motherhood big time - seven kids - and that wasn't the life that she had planned. So she opened the path so that I could be the artist that she wanted to be.”
“She became the bad company that she kept.”
Source: The Address Of Happiness
“She became uncontrollable and violent, succumbing to a greater depth of evilness than any Night Empian had ever seen. She turned on us, one by one, taking men away for her own torture and pleasure...an art she mastered well. She claimed she only wanted to keep the Night Empians in line and strengthen them. But she opened a more dangerous depth to the Night Empians psyche that not even the Dark Guardian was able to reach.”
Source: Mourning Grey: Part Three The Guardians Of The Temple Saga