S Quotes
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“She closed the magazine and stared at the girl on the cover, a girl who had never been pregnant, never had a social worker or a filling. Yvonne stroked the water-wavy cover. I could tell, she wanted to know what that girl knew, feel how she felt, to be so beautiful, wanted, confident. Like people touching the statue of a saint.”
Source: White Oleander
“She closes her blue eyes as if shutting them will erase her memories—the embarrassing ones, mostly.”
Source: The High Auction
“She closes her eyes, and I can see the moisture. She’s deep-breathing again, and I notice her hands are clutched around the opposing wrists, nails digging in deep, hard, scratching. Pain to replace pain.”
Source: Falling Into You
“She closes her eyes. He probably won’t come back, she thinks. Or he will, differently. What they have now they can never have back again. But for her the pain of loneliness will be nothing to the pain that she used to feel, of being unworthy. He brought her goodness like a gift and now it belongs to her. Meanwhile his life opens out before him in all directions at once. They’ve done a lot of good for each other. Really, she thinks, really. People can really change one another.
You should go, she says. I’ll always be here. You know that.”
Source: Normal People
“She closes the door completely, and I crouch there. I allow myself to fall forward and rest my head on the door frame. My breath bleeds. My heartbeat drowns my ears.”
Source: I Am the Messenger
“She closes the gap and renders the rest of the universe nonexistent, and as my lips part for hers, I remember that one of my earliest thoughts in this life was that kissing her might kill me, but if this takes me out, I will consider it a life well-lived.”
Source: The Same Backward as Forward
“She clucked her tongue at Sergei. "Father, you could have killed me."
"You know I would never do that. If I did, who would fetch my bread from the bakery every morning?”
Source: The Crown's Game
“She clung to him like linguini.””
Source: Catch .22
“She clung to that which had robbed her, as people do.”
“She clutched her anger as if it was a rope and she was hanging on for dear life. Better anger than sorrow. Better rage than pain. Better vengeance than anguish.”
Source: A Steeping of Blood
“She clutched her coat tight against the chill in the air. There was nothing else to do but keep moving forward. You chose your path. You walked it. You hoped to find a way home again.”
Source: Rule of Wolves
“She clutched onto Lance just a little tighter, and the idea of home seemed like just a distant, foreign concept. Suddenly, she didn't care if she ever made it back.”
Source: Blood Moon
“She clutched the train ticket tighter and waited for the sense of escape to come over her as it had a dozen times before, that heady sensation of having just scooted through the clanging gate, of eluding the thrown net. It didn't come. She was running again, but she wasn't escaping. She'd been chased to ground a long, long time ago.”
Source: The Bridal Season: A Loveswept Classic Romance
“She cocked an eyebrow at me and said, “No. After the week I’ve just spent with you, there are going to be plenty of people that are gonna want to shoot you. You better get used to that.” Which hurt my feelings a little.”
Source: The Deathbed Confessions
“She cocks a brow, smiling slightly. “If you think flattery is going to get you anywhere, you’re even more delusional than I thought.”
I chuckle, my gaze locked on hers. “If being delusional gets me to see that smile of yours, I’d say it’s worth every bit of it.”
“She cocks a brow, smiling slightly. “If you think flattery is going to get you anywhere,
you’re even more delusional than I thought.”
I chuckle, my gaze locked on hers. “If being delusional gets me to see that smile of yours, I’d say it’sworth every bit of it.”
Source: A Tale of Love and Curses
“She collapsed at the bottom of the trail, at the edge of the ghost town. Dekka sat on Edilio and pressed down on the wound. The force of the blood was weaker now. She could almost hold the blood back now, not a good thing, no, because it meant he was almost finished, his brave heart almost done beating. Dekka looked up straight into the glittering eyes of a coyote. She could sense the others around her, closing in. Wary but sensing that a fresh meal was close at hand.”
“She collapsed on the floor in a fit of tears
and sobbed until no more came.
This is the end, then, she calculated.
She would sell and go back home where she belonged. Life
in Wisconsin had beaten them, and she surrendered with nothing but scars to show for it.”
Source: In a Grove of Maples
“She collects these boys and men. Their souls. She knows they will think about her, love her again in their minds. Blood courses from the head back to the heart. Then it is done. They are hers forever.”
Source: In Limbo
“She comes back Through blood by blood She returns Cut deep now Like me Humanity saves her Will she save me?”
Source: Hunted: A House of Night Novel
“She comes by night, in fearsome flight, in garments black as pitch, the queen of doom upon her broom, the wild and wicked witch.”
“She comes closer to me. She is beautiful, in the way lightning striking across a storm-swept sky is beautiful: dangerous and distant.”
“She comes from the Midwest. She had me at a very young age and raised me on her own. She's a very hard worker.”
“She comes from the school of getting it out of your system, whereas he comes from the school of stewing over it.”
Source: Saving Francesca
“She comes majestic with her swelling sails, The gallant Ship: along her watery way, Homeward she drives before the favouring gales; Now flirting at their length the streamers play, And now they ripple with the ruffling breeze.”
Source: The Poetical Works of Robert Southey
“She comes out of the sun in a silk dress, running like a water color in the rain.”
“She comes to me when she wants to be fed. And after I feed her -- guess what -- she's off to wherever she wants to be in the house, until the next time she gets hungry. She's smart enough to know she can't feed herself. She's actually a very smart cat. She gets loved. She gets adoration. She gets petted. She gets fed. And she doesn't have to do anything for it, which is why I say this cat's taught me more about women, than anything my whole life.”
“She comes to naught, my dear one, she comes to naught, all that there business. What the hell, maybe twice in your life you have yourself a whore of a good time, and then you spend every night of the rest of your life trying to get that good time back. But she comes to naught.”
Source: Strange Heaven
“She comes when classes are to start,
She gathers up last midnight’s clutter –
burnt cigarettes, a rusted pen nib”
Source: Collected Poems
“She commands who is blest with indifference.”
“she committed suicide by putting her extremities down the garbage disposal-first one arm and then, kind of miraculously if you think about it, the other arm.”
“She complains that I'm lazy, but I just like to save my energy for dinner.”
“She comprehended the perversity of life, that in the struggle lies the joy.”
Source: The Collected Autobiographies of Maya Angelou
“She compromised by stuffing all the shining mass loosely into a pink chenille net. The net matched her foaming mousseline gown, also the color of a pink seashell. Like all fashionably dressed women with unlimited means, Miranda had a special gown for every imaginable function. A walking costume could hardly be worn for midday dinner, still less for tea. A morning négligée, no matter how elaborately be-flounced and beribboned, might never appear after noon even in the privacy of the bedroom. This shell-pink gown had been contrived by the knowing modiste for one purpose only- the gratification of a husband's eye at just such an intimate supper party as Miranda was planning. Its graceful skirt belled but slightly over a petticoat stiffened with horsehair, the tight bodice was cut very low into a heart shape to show the swell of the white breasts. The only trimming were tiny rose velvet bows sewn at random with a careless gaiety as though a swarm of rosy bees had settled on a pink cloud.”
Source: Dragonwyck
“She conceived of life as a road down which one traveled, an easy enough road through a broad country, and that one's destination was there from the very beginning, a measured distance away, standing in the ordinary light like some plain house where one went in and was greeted by respectable people and was shown to a room where everything one had ever lost or put aside was gathered together, waiting.”
“She concentrated hard on the visions trying to make sense of them and why they were coming through to her in this moment. A word repeated over and over in her head.
Sunty.
Sunty.
Sunty.”
Source: Our Sunty
“She confused him and hindered the flow of his ideas. Self-expression had never seemed at once so desirable and so impossible.”
Source: The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works
“She connected her phone with his car stereo. "Now. Is this your opinion of proper road-trip music?"
A few seconds later, the dulcet tones of Cardi B came rolling out of his speakers. He grinned.”
“She conquered her demons and wore her scars like wings.”
Source: Love Her Wild
“She considered herself unconventional.”
Source: Rumors
“She considered him further and decided he could definitely pass for a pirate. No, she thought, correcting herself. More like a sea captain, a younger version of the captain from that old movie where the pretty woman rents an old sea captain's house only to find the place haunted by the sea captain himself.
She let out a heavy breath. Man, she loved that movie.”
Source: Sorrah
“she considered the possibility of telling her about everything that was happening, but then she changed her mind; people never learn anything by being told; they have to find out for themselves.”
“She considered the possibility that, after a long wait, she was finally falling apart.”
Source: Show Them a Good Time
“She considered what had made Denmark home to her anyway. Was it the sense of familiarity? That wherever she went there were echoes of a hundred memories she could pluck from her thoughts?”
Source: Upon Destiny's Song
“She considers a tray of flaky 'jesuites,' their centers redolent of frangipani cream, decorated with violet buds preserved in clouds of black crystal sugar. Or 'dulce de leche' tarts- caramelized swirls on a 'pate sucree' crust, glowing with chocolate, tiny muted peaks, ruffles of white pastry like Edwardian collars. But nothing seems special enough and nothing seems right. Nothing seems like Stanley. Avis brings out the meticulous botanical illustrations she did in school, pins them all around the kitchen like a room from Audubon's house. She thinks of slim layers of chocolate interspersed with a vanilla caramel. On top she might paint a frosted forest with hints of white chocolate, dashes of rosemary subtle as deja vu. A glissando of light spilling in butter-drops from one sweet lime leaf to the next. On a drawing pad she uses for designing wedding cakes, she begins sketching ruby-throated hummingbirds in flecks of raspberry fondant, a sub-equatorial sun depicted in neoclassical butter cream. At the center of the cake top, she draws figures regal and languid as Gauguin's island dwellers, meant to be Stanley, Nieves, and child. Their skin would be cocoa and coffee and motes of cherry melded with a few drops of cream. Then an icing border of tiny mermaids, nixies, selkies, and seahorses below, Pegasus, Icarus, and phoenix above.”
Source: Birds of Paradise
“She considers that, then lays down a ten of stones. Her tone is contemplative and quiet. “I don’t think I can keep hating you.” “Such sweet words of affection, my lady.” I play a ten of hearts. “You honor me.”
Source: A Curse So Dark and Lonely
“She consoled herself with the thought that the pictures were graphic enough to shake people up, stop them being complacent about what was happening, and if that meant the war would end sooner, those two deaths weren't in vain. As she hoped, with less and less confidence each day, that Michael's had not been in vain. Too much waste to bear.”
Source: The Lotus Eaters
“She continue kissing me with that ferocity, so much so that her lips lightly scraped my teeth. It was only a few drops, but as the sweet metallic taste of her blood touched my tongue, a blinding ecstasy flooded my body.”
Source: The Fiery Heart
“She continued doing the scrambling necessary to staying alive; working two jobs in the city, her personality dissolving into small talk. The cost of travel, the cost of lunch, the cost of being young.”
Source: Show Them a Good Time
“She continued toward the light, content and satisfied in both body and mind. She broke the surface and gasped a full breath into her lungs, her head buzzing with endorphins.
Leaping into flight, she saw a pair of icy, watching dragon eyes a moment too late.”
Source: Dragon Her Back