S Quotes
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“She became whoever she needed to be to survive,but she never let anyone else define her.”
“She beckoned for him to come closer and he did. He crawled onto the bed from the bottom and worked his way up to her legs. His hands caressed the smoothness of her recently shaven legs. She moaned at his touch. He hovered over her and she pulled him closer. Their lips met, once more, and, somehow, it was even better than before.”
Source: The Manhattanville Incident: An Undead Novel
“She been looking like a queen in a sailor's dream.”
“She began framing the words of her telegram into a senseless singsong; so that several park keepers looked at her with suspicion and were only brought to a favourable opinion of her sanity by noticing the pearl necklace which she wore.”
“She began now to comprehend that he was exactly the man who, in disposition and talents, would most suit her. His understanding and temper, though unlike her own, would have answered all her wishes. It was an union that must have been to the advantage of both: by her ease and liveliness, his mind might have been softened, his manners improved; and from his judgement, information, and knowledge of the world, she must have received benefit of greater importance.”
Source: Jane Austen: 8 Books in 1
“She began peeling off her pants. Whatever Arthur's concerns, she was safe and in one piece. One very sexy, beautiful piece. Heat flared through the bond and she sucked in a breath.
"Planning on taking a shower?" I approached slowly, my face revealing every intimate thought on my mind.
"I---yes." Her exhaustion was lifting, replaced with a knowing smile. "Is that a problem?"
"Not at all." I closed the distance between us, removing my shirt. "In fact, I might just need a shower myself."
"Do you want to go first?" she teased. "I'm in no hurry."
"No, no, I won't delay your shower." I wrapped my arms around her, unfastening her bra. "Why don't we take one together?"
A playful smile crossed her lips. "I don't know, that seems terribly inefficient."
"Nonsense." I helped her remove her bra and then slipped the panties down her legs. "I will show you just how efficient I can be."
She moved a hand to my chest, catching her lower lip with her teeth. "Well, you can't shower in your suit."
She leaned up to kiss me, her fingers working on my buttons as I laughed against her mouth. "Eager?"
"Shut up."
I scooped her off her feet as her laughter carried through to the bathroom, where I planned to assist her in a very slow and inefficient shower.”
Source: Dirty Lying Faeries
“She began saying her prayers, but that was not going to save her or anyone in the building from the virus that spread quickly from floor to floor.”
Source: The Manhattanville Incident: An Undead Novel
“She began spending days on end in bed. She ate too little and then too much. Her stomach hurt, her head ached, her heart fluttered inside her. She was cross and absentminded and began crying like a crocodile over the most sentimental stories--because of course she went on reading. What else was there for her to do? She read and read and read, but she was stuffing herself with the letters on the page like an unhappy child stuffing itself with chocolate. They didn't taste bad, but she was still unhappy.”
Source: Inkdeath
“She began to be reassured by these pains, tangible symbols of her success in becoming thinner than anyone else. Her only identity was being "the skinniest." She had to feel it.”
“She began to believe that this was her own world, and her imagination filled the place with life.”
Source: ريم
“She began to burn herself again. She found release in the pain; it was comforting, familiar. It was a trade-off she was well used to. Success required sacrifice. Sacrifice meant pain. Pain meant success.”
Source: The Poppy War
“She began to feel faint. As if she was only half there. She remembered Mrs Elm talking about how disappointment in a life would bring her back to the library. It would feel, she realised, altogether too strange to climb into the same bed with a man she hadn't seen for two years.”
Source: The Midnight Library
“She began to feel like the plastic doll she had been named after, without even a hole where her mouth was supposed to be.”
“She began to feel the sense of wonderful elation that always came to her when beauty took hold of her and made her forget her fears.”
Source: And Both Were Young
“She began to get stressed worried agitated furious apprehensive provoked scared irate troubled, and very uneasy. Her mind was a jumble of fears.”
Source: Harp and the Lyre: Exchange
“She began to realize some decisions cannot be undone no matter how hard you try.”
Source: The Nightlife: Las Vegas
“She began to see that character is a better possession than money, rank, intellect, or beauty, and to feel that if greatness is what a wise man has defined it to be, 'truth, reverence, and good will,' then her friend Friedrich Bhaer was not only good, but great.”
Source: Good Wives: Easyread Large Bold Edition
“She began to sob. Ravi received her sorrow like a desert does the rain.
‘What are you running away from Ravi?’ asked the despairing voice.
I wish to escape nothing, Ravi answered from within his silence, I want to be the sand of the desert, each grain of sand; I want to be the lake, each minute droplet. I want to be the laya, the dissolution.”
“She began to touch it gently, like something really beautiful. “You know, you could make a woman feel real good with this thing. Maybe better than she ever felt in her life.” She stopped stroking the dildo. “Or you could really hurt her, and remind her of all the ways she’s ever been hurt in her life. You got to think about that every time you strap this on. Then you’ll be a good lover.”
Source: Stone Butch Blues
“She begged him to believe in her; he replied, "It's called self-esteem.”
Source: Who Can Find Her?
“She begins to feel that the reality show is the university she never attended. Vicarious reality. Emotion without a value-added tax. Movement without danger. Alma finds her reality. She no longer has a reason to put herself at risk and go out into the hostile, degrading world.”
Source: Todas las familias felices
“She begins to wonder at the importance of a name at all. The very idea will begin to lose its meaning, the way a word does when said too many times, breaking down into useless sounds and syllables.”
Source: The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
“She behaves as if she was beautiful. Most American women do. It is the secret of their charm.”
Source: Collected Works of Oscar Wilde: The Plays, the Poems, the Stories and the Essays Including De Profundis
“She believed cemeteries held the stories that history books could not always document; they were the overlooked, underused classrooms beneath our feet . . .”
Source: The Death Class: A True Story About Life
“She believed in dreams, all right, but she also believed in doing something about them. When Prince Charming didn't come along, she went over to the palace and got him.”
“She believed in her dream like a fabled virgin mother expecting a messiah.”
Source: Enter Ruinland
“She believed in letting children have a certain amount of rope, and only intervened at the last moment, in order to prevent their hanging themselves by it.”
Source: Innocence and experience: stories
“She believed in magic—the magic of places, the magic of people, the magic of coincidences, serendipity, and fortune. She enjoyed wandering through the world with the open mind and curiosity of a four-year-old child. In her world the mystical, mythical, and magical inhabited the same space and time as the ordinary and the practical. At Bethesda Terrace, she always felt close to a source of magic and creativity. It was as if she was tapping into the place where dragons, angels, gods, sorceresses, and demons came to life.”
Source: Beginnings
“She believed in nothing; only her skepticism kept her from being an atheist.”
“she believed in the healthy influence of natural surroundings, never having been in Sicily, where things are different.”
Source: Reginald
“She believed in the miraculous. Or she had, until she reached an age when, all of a sudden, she realized that the life she was living was, in fact, her life. The clay of her being, so long infinitely malleable, had been formed, hardened into what now seemed a palpable, unchanging object, a shell she inhabited.”
Source: A Reliable Wife
“she believed in the stars to guide her home
but to the moon's glow she lost her way.”
“She believed it was hers because she loved it. She believed that [truly] loving something should make it a part of you, in the way your feet are a part of you.”
“She believed just then that to let him take her in his arms would be the next thing to her dying. This belief, for a moment, was a kind of rapture, in which she felt herself sink and sink.”
Source: The Portrait of a Lady
“She believed not in divine salvation but in the proposition that we poor mortals are fully capable of saving ourselves, if conditions and inclinations are right, and the evidence of this potential is found in the smallest of gestures, like the uncertain resting of a large hand on a bony shoulder.”
“She believed she could. She did it, and never looked back.”
“She believed she could, so she did.”
“She believed that owning a lots of things made you a better person. She didn't know - possibly didn't want to know - that happiness comes from the inside.”
Source: Marshmallows for breakfast
“She believed that people born to low caste families were meant to suffer. That was their karma. She had learnt that those who indulge in sinful activities in their previous birth, especially those who humiliated others, would be reborn to low caste families. She firmly believed also that one has to suffer until the sin was paid for through suffering and good deeds.”
Source: The Master's Daughter
“She believed, and was entitled to believe, I must say, that all human beings were evil by nature, whether tormentors or victims, or idle standers-by. They could only create meaningless tragedies, she said, since they weren't nearly intelligent enough to accomplish all the good they were meant to do.”
“She believed, of course ... because without something to believe in, life would be intolerable.”
Source: The Shell Seekers
“She believes in love and romance. She believes her life is one day going to be transformed into something wonderful and exciting. She has hopes and fears and worries, just like anyone else. Sometimes she feels frightened." He pauses, and adds in a softer voice, "Sometimes she feels unloved. Sometimes she feels she will never gain approval from those people who are most important to her."s”
Source: Can You Keep a Secret?
“She believes in love and romance. She believes her life is one day going to be transformed into something wonderful and exciting. She has hopes and fears and worries, just like anyone. Sometimes she feels frightened. Sometimes she feels unloved. Sometimes she feels she will never gain approval from those people who are most important to her. But she’s brave and good-hearted and faces her life head-on.”
“She believes in something. It is an old-fashioned idea”
“She believes that Tobias belongs to her now. She doesn't know the truth, that he belongs to himself.”
Source: Allegiant (Divergent Trilogy, Book 3)
“She belonged to a different age, but being so entire, so complete, would always stand up on the horizon, stone-white, eminent, like a lighthouse marking some past stage on this adventurous, long, long voyage, this interminable --- this interminable life.”
Source: Mrs Dalloway
“She belonged to that rare and objectionable species, the intellectual snob devoid of intellect.”
Source: Christmas Pudding
“She belongs nowhere, and it was a very lonely place to be.”
Source: A Steeping of Blood
“She belongs to a race of delightful women, who never do any harm, whom everybody calls good, and who are very severe on those who do not pretend to be good.”
Source: The Complete Works of Gilbert Parker
“She belongs to me, yes, like a body belongs to its blood. I will spill from her and she will be better without me, lighter, so light she will return to the sky where she was born, an airplane, a skyfish, a rain of spades, digging to uproot me.”
Source: Bone House