S Quotes
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“She decided that day to study Russian, the language of violence, terror, and absurdity. She knew she would never be bored.”
Source: The Boy on the Bridge
“She decided that her wisest course would be to put him out of her mind. After reaching this conclusion she lay thinking about him until at last she fell asleep.”
“She decided to free herself, dance into the wind, create a new language. And birds fluttered around her, writing “yes” in the sky.”
“She decided to make his life as terrible, tragic and complicated as possible, so that some day Percy Jackson would have a really hard time writing about it.”
Source: Percy Jackson's Greek Heroes
“She decided to make salmon baked in a touch of olive oil, topped with pine nuts, and served over spinach flash-fried in the salmon-and-olive-oil drippings. She added brown rice that she had slow-boiled with the herb hawthorn. Just as she finished, Cordelia arrived with a woman she had found standing in the sidewalk out front.
"My husband has high blood pressure," she explained, negotiating the stairs down into Portia's apartment with care. "He's never happy with anything I make for supper, so I should tell you that you probably don't have anything that will work for me."
Cordelia took a look at the meal, raised an eyebrow at Portia, and then turned to the woman. "This is the perfect meal for your husband's high blood pressure. Fish oil, nuts, hawthorn, whole grains."
Next, a pumpkin pie went to a woman who couldn't sleep.
"Pie?" she asked in a doubtful tone.
"Pumpkin," Portia clarified, "is good for insomnia."
An apricot crumble spiced with cloves and topped with oats and brown sugar went to a woman drawn with stress. Then a man walked through the door, shoulders slumped. Cordelia and Olivia eyed him for a second.
"I know the feeling," Olivia said, and fetched him a half gallon of the celery and cabbage soup Portia had found herself preparing earlier.
The man peered into the container, grew a tad queasier, and said, "No thanks."
"Do you or don't you have a hangover?" Olivia demanded, then drew a breath. "Really," she added more kindly. "Eat this and you'll feel better."
He came back the next day for more.
"Cabbage is no cure for drinking too much," Cordelia told him.
He just shrugged and slapped down his money for two quarts of soup instead of one.”
Source: The Glass Kitchen
“She decided to pass the time with a book. Books were good therapy. You could lose yourself in a book, forget your troubles, your fear.”
Source: False Memory
“She decided to start them off with a Sweet Corn Bisque with Crab "Souffle." The pureed texture of this deeply penetrating soup gave it a rich, suede-smooth mouth-feel, and the stack of jumbo lump crabmeat mounded in the center, warm and bound together with a whisper of mayonnaise and coriander, told someone immediately that you were excited they came.
The main course would be center-cut Filet Mignon in a Grand Marnier Reduction, with Chestnut Mashed Potatoes and Green Beans Amandine. Romantic encounters had been preceded by bold yet classically inspired meals like this since Casanova's day. She advised Pettibone in no uncertain terms that the steaks needed to be done just to the brink of medium-rare, then finished with butter and allowed to carry-over cook their last five minutes for the best results.
Dessert would be a delicate Flan with Sauternes Caramel, a velvety, infused custard that finished with a rapturous, dulcet swirl of caramel on the tongue.”
Source: Angelina's Bachelors
“She decides to make a list of the things that make her happy. She writes 'plum-blossom' at the top of a piece of paper. Then she stares at the paper, unable to think of anything else. Eventually it begins to get dark.”
“She decimated humanity for her own chance at living it.”
Source: THE GIRL IN THE ZOO
“She deftly snatches her mace and holds it in her purse for cover. She’s totally not about to be taken in by some pale silver eyed maniac.”
Source: My Beloved Tourniquet
“She deigned to asked me how ice queens reproduce. I grinned, and her mother looked horrified.
“We procreate by way of ice cubes, of course. We put them in our nests and let them incubate for the period of about four months, and when the temperature is right, we put them out to roost and let them flake off into billions of snowflakes, rather like tadpoles breaking in droves from their eggs. And that, child,” I said, with a simulacrum of glee, “is how winter is born.”
“Does it hurt?”
“No more than the approach of Monday does to most of the world. It is a natural process, you understand, but it is dreadful hard work.”
“she delighted in being of the same substance as them, and in knowing that when she died her flesh would nourish other lives as they had nourished her.”
“She denatured the mystery, squeezed a palpable space between the lines, trapped his mind in flattery. Beautiful it was to watch, you all fell through the crack, went down right with him.”
Source: The Cosmos of Amie Martine
“She denied none of it aloud, and agreed to none of it in private.”
Source: Jane Austen Complete Collection Deluxe Unabridged (annotated): [All 18 Works - Novels -Short Stories–Letters –Unfinished Works - Scraps]]
“She deserved at least one person who saw her and knew how good she was.”
“She deserved someone who could see what she had to give and would lover her for it. Who wouldn't turn away from her every time she made a mistake. She wanted to be important to someone. Perhaps, it was unrealistic, but the alternative was far worse. She could live with a broken heart, but not at the expense of her soul.”
Source: The Chief
“She deserves poetry. Not cheesy lines.”
“She designed the cakes and I worked out the recipes. The first year we each created a signature cake. Genie's was called the Goddess: really tall, all white on the outside, wrapped in mountains of coconut and whipped cream, with a passion-fruit heart."
"And yours was called the Shrinking Violet. Unassuming on the outside but pretty special once you worked your way in." She reached over and squeezed my wrist.
"Wish I'd thought of that. You'd understand if you knew my sister." By now I was a little drunk. "One year Genie came up with Melting Cakes. You know, like flourless chocolate, the kind that are melted in the middle? They were gorgeous neon colors, and I made the flavors intense- blood orange, blueberry, lime, hibiscus, and caramel.”
Source: Delicious!
“She detested all this marriage talk. She would never understand why so many lasses wished to tie themselves down before they had a chance to live.”
Source: Fate Be Changed
“She devoured stories with rapacious greed, ranks of black marks on white, sorting themselves into mountains and trees, stars, moons and suns, dragons, dwarfs, and forests containing wolves, foxes and the dark.”
Source: Ragnarok: the End of the Gods
“She did a lot of things out of spite, the source of which she couldn't identify. as if she'd been born resenting the world.”
Source: What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky
“She did as she felt, and she felt a great deal.”
Source: The Forgotten Garden: A Novel
“She did feel everything she’d said. The despair. Who wouldn’t, if they were paying attention? But you didn’t feel it all the time. You walled it up with purpose. With friendship. With vows and work. And you reminded yourself that it was not just you who felt this way, that there were others out there with their own pits and walls and vows and love and work, and you tried to let that make you kind.”
Source: Last Exit
“She did get put through the system with a lot of the hit songwriters, who were great songwriters, but it was more like 'This is how it's done here. It turned her off - not specific people, but the whole system turned her off. And she wanted to do something, I think, that she could play for her friends in Texas and they would say, Okay, well you're still Miranda.”
“She did her best but like Uncle E says, sometimes your best just ain't good enough.”
Source: Cupidity
“She did her work with the thoroughness of a mind which reveres details and never quite understands them.”
“She did in her own heart infinitely prefer boobies to clever men who wrote dissertations.”
Source: To the Lighthouse
“She did it because women can do anything that they want to do in life.”
“She did it the hard way.”
Source: The lonely life: an autobiography
“She did it, though she hated opera. She hated everything about it. The overblown sense of drama. The violence and lewdness. No one had ever died of heartbreak in Reverie. Betrayal never led to murder. Those things didn’t happen anymore. They had the Realms now. They could experience anything without taking risks. Now, life was Better than Real.”
Source: Under the Never Sky
“She did know that the journey to happiness was laborious and strewn with seeds of suffering. She guessed that it was probably a place each person had to seek for herself, that each heart had to find on its own.”
Source: When Happily Ever After Ends
“she did lie
In her pavillion--cloth-of-gold of tissue--
O'er-picturing that Venus where we see
The fancy out-work nature”
Source: Antony and Cleopatra
“She did like books and reading, but sometimes she just wanted to talk to her mom. She listened, though, because her mother never failed to find the exact-right perfect book, and she read it in a way that made you want to listen forever.
As always, her mother was right. There was a book for everything. Somewhere in the vast Library of the Universe, as Natalie thought of it, her mom could find a book that embodied exactly the things Natalie was worrying about.
And sure enough, Maya Running, about a girl from India whose family didn't fit in, did make her feel better. Like she wasn't the only kid in the world with a different kind of family. You're never alone when you're reading a book, Mom liked to say.”
Source: The Lost and Found Bookshop
“She did look beautiful, holding the baby. She had managed to look beautiful holding a sick bucket. She was beautiful, in a way that had nothing to do with a perfect smile, or large breasts, or gorgeous hair, and had everything to do with her.
Although the boobs and hair were a nice perk.
She looked over at him, smiled that perfect smile, and for a moment he couldn’t fucking breathe.”
“She did look tired but she supposed that was just a result of living on tour. It was a glamorous kind of tired. Like Billie Eilish's cool aunt.”
Source: The Midnight Library
“She did not ask me to lead. She asked me to stay.”
Source: The Sword and the Hearth
“She did not believe he could have really gone, because for her, to leave the person you loved was impossible.”
Source: Tiger Lily
“She did not believe in burying her head in the sand, but there were times when she longed for a paper that portrayed the world in something other than a state of crisis. She wanted the world to be peaceful, and it was not.”
Source: The Geometry of Holding Hands
“She did not believe that things could remain the same in different places, and since the portion of her life that lay behind her had been bad, no doubt that which remained to be lived would be better.”
“She did not belong to the healthy group of widows and widowers who, after mourning, would nurture the seed of their grief into growing from loss—perhaps continuing the dreams of the lost, or learning to cherish alone the things they’d cherished together.
She belonged instead to the sad lot who clung to grief, who nurtured it by never moving beyond it. They’d shelter it deep inside where the years padded it in saudade layers like some malignant pearl.”
Source: A Star-Reckoner's Lot
“She did not belong to Will-she was too much herself to belong to anyone, even Jem-but she belonged with them, and silently he cursed the Consul for not seeing it.”
Source: The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess
“She did not care about anything very much. Hope was gone. She existed that was all.”
Source: Pope Joan
“She did not care very much for other little girls, but if she had plenty of books she could console herself.”
Source: A Little Princess (Diversion Illustrated Classics)
“She did not care where he was or how she was going to find him, all she knew is the reward would be worth it...however, alive, kicking and raring to go would be preferable”
“She did not choose to become a wanderer.
She did not take a conscious decision that she wants to become a wanderer.
Destiny chose her to wander. And then she became a wanderer.
The wanderings keep on happening on their own. And the wanderer keeps on wandering!
The wanderer does not have a final home. She does not have a certain destination.
She keeps on drifting from place to place. And wanderings become her destiny!
And she becomes the wanderer!”
“She did not cry long, however, for she was as brave as could be expected of a princess her age.”
“She did not date. She did not have time for men. Men were never, ever worth a great amount of energy. She was the kind of woman that looked down on what she called ‘settlers’, women who chose love and fleeting passion that turned to dull, lifeless marriages over a career and independence.”
Source: Autumnal Dancer
“She did not feel like Blue Sargent, superhero, or Blue Sargent, desperado, or Blue Sargent, badass.”
Source: The Dream Thieves
“She did not know how long he stood caressing her before he lifted her hand to his lips and pressed his mouth to the bare skin of her wrist. Her eyes closed against the flood of sensation that came with the touch- the softness of his lips, parted just enough to breathe a hot, moist kiss upon her before he scraped his teeth against the sensitive spot. She heard her own gasp and opened her eyes just in time to feel his tongue soothing the skin. He boldly met her gaze as he wreaked havoc on her senses, and she couldn't help but watch him, knowing that he knew exactly what he was doing to her.”
Source: Nine Rules to Break When Romancing a Rake
“She did not know how to grieve in the context of her life.”
Source: The Third Hotel