S Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with S. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“SHE Can. SHE Does. SHE Wins.”
“She can sit up and beg, and she can give her paw — I don't say she will, but she can.”
Source: Dorothy Parker in Her Own Words
“She can't be unhappy,' you said,
'The smiles are like stars in her eyes,
And her laugh is thistledown
Around her low replies.'
'Is she unhappy?' you said–
But who has ever known
Another's heartbreak–
All he can know is how own;
And she seems hushed to me,
As hushed as though
Her heart were a hunter's fire
Smothered in snow.”
Source: The Collected Poems
“she can’t believe Jane had the nerve, the audacity, to become the one thing August can’t resist: a mystery.”
Source: One Last Stop
“She can't die, and not just because there's a chance I won't survive. She can't die because I know I can't live without her even if I do.”
Source: Fourth Wing
“She can’t explain or quite understand what it is that is special about dancing with Harry. When he opens his arms to her, he is so sure, the way he holds her, not too hard, not too soft. Like coming home. Where she belongs. The way he moves her. They are a part of the music. Their bodies fit together, move like one person. Perfect. The way a man and a woman must feel, she thinks, when they are in love. He makes her feel beautiful, too, like when he assures her that someday she will be good enough to be a professional dancer. Harry must know, because he is the best dancer, the best teacher, a girl could have, patient and gentle. She is lucky that he believes in her. That is how she feels outside his door.”
Source: Ballroom
“She can’t go in there,” he says firmly. “It isn’t appropriate.” “See this, sweetness?” Bina has fished out her badge. “I’m like a cash gift. I’m always appropriate.”
Source: The Yiddish Policemen's Union
“She can't have understood you: you are so utterly different from ordinary men. That's what I liked about you when I first saw you; I felt at once that you weren't like everybody else.”
Source: Swann’s Way
“She can't hurt him, Izzy," (Alec)
"I know you're worried, but he's got the Mark of Cain; he's untouchable. Even a Greater Demon can't harm him. No one can." (Alec)
Isabelle scowled at her brother. "So what do you think she wants him for, then? So she'll have someone to pick up her dry cleaning during the day? Really, Alec--”
Source: City of Fallen Angels
“She can’t just enjoy this: it has to burden her and she has to identify an enemy. Just for once I want her to have something easy and pure. For it to not to get gnarled up almost immediately and to become work for her.”
Source: Because I Don't Know What You Mean and What You Don't
“She can’t remember the last time she spoke to a man who was listening.”
Source: Come Let Us Sing Anyway
“She can't truly outrun her future, but you can't tell her body that.”
Source: A Heart in a Body in the World
“She can’t worry. She can’t ‘fix.’ She can’t love.”
Source: See What Flowers
“She can take a year to read something, whereas I like a book that becomes more important in my life that life itself. When I was in the middle of 'Red Storm Rising' by Tom Clancy - which was not selected for the Man Booker shortlist - you could have taken my liver out and fed it to the dog. And I wouldn't have noticed.”
“she can tell by their uniforms. It takes a million people to make life run the way it should run. Everyone has their own part to play in it.”
Source: Rich and Pretty
“She can tell you the height of the attacker from the trigonometry of the blood spatter, while I'm fuzzy on what trigonometry is.”
Source: Magic Slays
“She can't afford to commit more troops,' Holly whispered. 'The gate is her priority, and she needs to have as many Berserkers watching her back as possible. We are secondary at this point.' 'That will be her undoing,' Artemis gasped, already suffering under the weight of the flak jacket. 'Artemis Fowl will never be secondary.' 'I thought you were Artemis Fowl the Second?' said Holly.”
“She can't even chew gum and walk in a straight line, let alone write a book.”
“She can't force us to go to the ball. We're grown men, for Lord's sake!" Will cocked an eyebrow at his younger brother. "You don't think she can force us? We are speaking of the same mother, correct? Small frame, enormous will?”
Source: The Season
“She can't help it,' he said. 'She's got the soul of a poet and the emotional makeup of a junkyard dog.”
Source: Under the Dome: Part 2: A Novel
“She can't just be a face, a body; there has to be more than that, some kind of connection. And I can't connect, don't want to connect, with anyone.”
Source: Forbidden
“She can't keep writing about what a tragic little hero I am, it'll get boring.”
“She can't let him go not telling him what she was about to do. Kingsley...I can't do this. I'm coming with you.”
“She can't possibly be me, though she moves when I move”
Source: Divergent Series (Books 1-3) Plus Free Four, The Transfer and World of Divergent
“She can't say no if she's unconscious.”
“She can't see me staring at her cause I'm always wearing shades.”
“She can't see the way your eyes will light up when you smile.”
“She cannot chain my soul. Yes, she could hurt me. She'd already done so...I would bleed, or not. Scar, or not. Live, or not. But she could not hurt my soul, not unless I gave it to her.”
“She cannot escape marriage; it is her sacred Hindu duty, just as giving her away in marriage was her father’s sacred Hindu duty. Like Indian Independence, marriage is her ultimate ‘Tryst with Destiny,’ and it is not in her hand to escape her preordained and compulsory fate. A marriageable daughter is the lowest common denominator in the giant scheme of things.”
Source: A Good Girl
“She cannot know him. Not truly... And though she knows that's the case for everyone, for no one can exist within another's mind or skin, it's how far apart they are in their history, their beliefs, that ultimately matters. After all, it's the distance of separation that creates the impact.”
Source: Take What You Can Carry
“She cannot love, nor take no shape nor project or affection, she is so self-endeared”
Source: The plays and poems of William Shakspeare
“She cannot possibly be dead, people do not just die”
Source: Looking for Alaska
“She cannot see an institution without hitting it with her handbag.”
Source: Westminster Blues: Minor Chords
“She can’t help it. She loves the con. I tell myself I’m not like her, but I have to admit I love it too.”
Source: White Cat
“She cared about him too much, and he was a dangerous person to love. He wouldn't love her back.”
Source: My Name Is Memory
“She carried a knife inside of herself now, one that was always cutting her. She could feel it every time she swallowed, every time her thoughts strayed from the splendor of the wild.”
Source: Specials
“She carried a thousand lights inside her heart, and a thousand lights carried her.”
Source: 20
“She carried herself in such a way that let you know she was a bad ass and the guys knew it.”
Source: The Manhattanville Incident: An Undead Novel
“She carried herself like she was exactly the size everyone else wanted to be.”
Source: The Rainbow Rowell Collection: Eleanor & Park, Fangirl, Landline, and Carry On
“She carried something terrible with her. She kept her grief subdued and quiet – so much so, it had begun to rot.”
Source: The Lamb
“She carried the burn of the sun on her body. It was for all of those wasted, dull years.”
“She carried the weight of a world
that refused to see her.
Yet, she stood tall,
a quiet strength no book could contain.
My mother, a dreamer in chains.”
Source: Dreamer In Chains: Poems of Exile and Resilience
“She carried with her a tender caress for the stems and petals she meant to harvest, thanking them for their beauty and letting them give themselves over to her rather than taking them en masse with reckless haste. She knelt beside the patch of Christmas roses that grew beneath the parlor window. Harriet wondered, as she had a thousand times, how this flower could withstand the colder months with petals so delicate. Small white faces with pale yellow middles turned to look up at Harriet, almost adoringly, and she let their gaze infuse her with warmth. This is how they do it, she thought. They are filled with the magic of love. It was impossible for her to be out in her garden and not feel the love all around, almost consuming her, even on this cold, dreary day.”
Source: The Peculiar Garden of Harriet Hunt
“She carries chaos like an overcoat.”
Source: Aftermath
“She cast about for her next adversary. She didn't seem to have one. The fight was over, and the few surviving hobgoblins were running away.
"Form up!" she shouted. "I want a column with the traders in the middle. Fast!"
Once the procession was under way, Aunrae, striding along at Greyanna's side, asked, "May I know where we're going? An ally's castle?"
"No," Greyanna replied. "I suspect we couldn't get in. We're going to hide our charges in Bauthwaf."
The column crept past corpses and burning stone, and as they made their way to the cavern wall, other commoners came running out of their homes to join the procession. Greyanna's first impulse was to turn away those without ties to House Mizzrym, but she thought better of it. Many of the newcomers carried swords, and she could press the dolts into martial service if needed.
Occasionally someone collapsed, coughing feebly, poisoned by the stinging smoke. The rest stepped over her and pressed on.
Someone gave a thin, high cry, as if at an unexpected pain. Greyanna spun around. The goblins weren't attacking. Her client the canoe maker had simply seized his opportunity to knife another male in the back.
"A competitor," the craftsman explained.”
Source: Dissolution
“She cast her fragrance and her radiance over me. I ought never to have run away from her... I ought to have guessed all the affection that lay behind her poor little stratagems. Flowers are so inconsistent! But I was too young to know how to love her.”
“She cast her gaze over him, pausing on the pink, sparkly backpack slung over his shoulder. The sexy, adorable man. “I don’t think you bat for my team, sheriff.”
Source: Under Pressure
“She catches sight of herself in her video-feed, her face contorted with fury. Wiping spittle from the sides of her mouth, she reaches behind her to grab her lip gloss and reapplies it. “And don’t even start thinking about what a bitch I am,” she says. Her eyes are steady, the heat receding from her skin. “This is not my fault. I’m just doing what we have been trained to do. This is who we are, freida. This is who we were designed to be.”
Source: Only Ever Yours
“She caught his eye, her gaze instantly sweeping over him. That made him stand a little taller, like a wolf who wanted to impress her with his build. What was there about her that made him want to both please and tease her in a fun-loving way?”
Source: A Highland Wolf Christmas
“She caught his wrist, stilling the hand on her thigh. Her eyes were a
little desperate. "What do you mean to do?"
"I'd like to show you my way of making love," he said gently.”
Source: The Ice Princess