S Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with S. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“She did not know if her gift came from the lord of light or of darkness, and now, finally finding that she didn't care which, she wad overcome with almost indescribable relief, as if a huge weight, long carried, had slipped from her shoulders.”
“She did not know it, but she was actually in despair at the poverty of human emotions. Was it not irrational that there was nothing to do except weep when ten people died, just as one wept for but a single person?”
Source: Death in Midsummer and Other Stories
“She did not know that the wolf was a wicked sort of animal, and she was not afraid of him.”
“She did not know that this was the best thing she could have done, and she did not know that, when she began to walk quickly or even run along the paths and down the avenue, she was stirring her slow blood and making herself stronger by fighting with the wind which swept down from the moor.”
“She did not know the nature of her loneliness. The only words that named it were: This is not the world I expected.”
Source: Atlas Shrugged
“She did not know what it was about him that had always made her want to see him broken.”
Source: Ayn Rand Reader
“She did not know what she actually needed, so she went along for the ride. P. 217”
“She did not know when the excitement had faded, when the magic had slipped through her fingers like grains of sand.”
Source: Nowhere Strangers: A Sapphic Coming-of-Age Story of Digital Romance, Heartbreak, and Self-Discovery
“She did not know where her home was anymore, and this idea didn’t frighten her like it should. - Bohemian Grove”
Source: Bohemian Grove
“She did not know whether she was longing for the torment or wildly trying to shut it out.”
Source: Beauty's Punishment
“She did not know why she could not move. It was as in a dream when the heart strains and the body cannot stir.”
“She did not know why she had lied, but she was sure it was a wise decision.”
“She did not know yet how sometimes people keep parts of themselves hidden and secret, sometimes wicked and unkind parts, but often brave or wild or colorful parts, cunning or powerful or even marvelous, beautiful parts, just locked up away at the bottom of their hearts. They do this because they are afraid of the world and of being stared at, or relied upon to do feats of bravery or boldness. And all of those brave and wild and cunning and marvelous and beautiful parts they hid away and left in the dark to grow strange mushrooms—and yes, sometimes those wicked and unkind parts, too—end up in their shadow.”
Source: The Girl Who Fell Beneath Fairyland and Led the Revels There
“She did not like being reminded that Jesus had died for her; it made her feel guilty.”
Source: The Warrior
“She did not look at the daffodils. They didn't mean anything. She looked at the daffodils. She said, 'Thank you for the daffodils.”
Source: Bid me to live: a madrigal
“She did not move. Nor did she scream or faint; her only actions were to draw back the hem of her dress from where it brushed the shiny dome of his skull and to breathe deeply, several times, with her eyes shut. Her father had taught her this as a remedy for panic. He had taught her well; it worked.”
Source: The Ruby in the Smoke
“She did not need a library; she was a library.”
Source: The Signature of All Things
“She did not need anyone else's love when she had roses.”
Source: DAMASCENA - The Tale of Roses and Rumi
“She did not need to fold into herself and self-destruct. Those awful things are survivable, because we are as indestructible as we believe ourselves to be. When adults say, "Teenagers think the hate invincible," with that sly, stupid smile on their faces, they don't know how right they are. We need never be hopeless, because we can never be irreparably broken.”
“She did not plan; she merely let herself go, and the overwhelming life in her did the rest.”
Source: Tender is the Night
“She did not produce it easily, but when it came, she had a starving smile.”
Source: The Book Thief
“She did not raise her eyes from the ground, she did not open her mouth to speak. She was no Medusa, wearing her agony in screaming serpents that uncoiled furiously from her head. Instead, she withdrew to an unreachable corner of her soul.”
Source: Ariadne
“She did not respond, only clung harder to my embrace, and I held her with all the afflictions of a man torn by love. What a miracle she was, what a truly exquisite paragon of beauty and virtue so incredibly combined. And all perhaps wrenched from my grasp because of a war I had no real interest in nor knowledge of. In that moment I did not care who won, if only it would end and I could be with her. I would accept the whole responsibility of defeat if I had to, if only it meant a life with her by my side.
I just wanted her. Needed her. As simply and clearly as one needs food and oxygen and light, I needed her in my life.
And above us, flittering tranquilly in the trees above, the finches and skylarks continued to sing peacefully into the fading sun.”
“She did not seem beautiful to me, especially in the beginning, but even for a long time after that, and then not until later did I come to realise that she was a jewel dropped into the murky waters of a pond, completely out of place in the Gorgani slum, where she seemed to have fallen from the skies, just like the flying Hasan Çelebi, whose name was given to a bridge. “ (Doina Ruști - Homeric)”
“She did not shut it properly because she knew that it is very silly to shut oneself into a wardrobe, even if it is not a magic one.”
Source: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
“She did not so much cook as assassinate food.”
“She did not speak for speech was unknown to her.”
“She did not suddenly start being disagreeable this afternoon, she was so good at it, she had evidently practised whatever are the scales and arpeggios of rudeness every day of her life.”
Source: The Fountain Overflows
“She did not talk to people as if they were strange hard shells she had to crack open to get inside. She talked as if she were already in the shell. In their very shell.”
Source: Frye Street & environs: the collected works of Marita Bonner
“She did not tell herself she wasn’t afraid. Long ago, after a bad fall, her father had explained that only fools were fearless. We meet fear, he'd said. We greet the unexpected visitor and listen to what he has to tell us. When fear arrives, something is about to happen.”
Source: Crooked Kingdom
“She did not tell him this, because it would hurt him to know she had felt that way for a while, that her relationship with him was like being content in a house but always sitting by the window and looking out.”
Source: Americanah
“She did not tell them to clean up their lives or go and sin no more. She did not tell them they were the blessed of the earth, its inheriting meek or its glorybound pure.
She told them that the only grace they could have was the grace they could imagine. That if they could not see it, they would not have it.
'Here,' she said, 'in this here place, we flesh; flesh that weeps, laughs; flesh that dances on bare feet in grass. Love it. Love it hard...”
Source: Beloved
“She did not think herself a genius by any means; but when the writing fit came on, she gave herself up to it with entire abandon, and led a blissful life, unconscious of want, care, or bad weather, while she sat safe and happy in an imaginary world, full of friends almost as real and dear to her as any in the flesh. Sleep forsook her eyes, meals stood untasted, day and night were all too short to enjoy the happiness which blessed her only at such times, and made these hours worth living, even if they bore no other fruit.”
Source: Little Women
“She did not think it unusual, her choice of the feminine pronoun. Already she had identified herself with that tiny fragment parceled like an unripe variety of fruit. Now, in this moment, she was being carried up the hill within compression darkness, a stone in a peach, silent and terrified, the touch of the father against the coffin material outside; gentle and noiseless and firm inside.”
“She did not think it was true that women fell in love all at once, but rather, that they fell in love through repitition, just the way someone became brave.”
“She did not think of future or past, but only present. How can I stay, how can I hold on, how can I balance? Better. Longer. With more ease.”
Source: Malibu Rising
“She did not think of the loss of the past or of the loss to come. She simply lay with her head on her lover's chest, sweet touches the only talk between them.”
Source: Love on a Midsummer Night
“She did not think that those who were late, or the ancestors themselves, would wish punishment upon us, no matter what our transgressions. It was far more likely that there would be love, falling like rain from above, changing the hearts of the wicked; transforming them”
Source: The Miracle at Speedy Motors
“She did not try to make others happy; she selfishly delighted in the pleasure of giving pleasure.”
Source: How to Be Parisian Wherever You Are: Love, Style, and Bad Habits
“She did not understand for some time why he had plucked her - middle-aged, a pear turning soft in the bowl - from the bookshop. At first, she thought it was because of what she'd been reading behind the counter - Mr. Ayles never objected to his staff reading once the chores were done. And then she thought it was because he had identified her as a specimen of a particular kind, a woman who, for one last moment, was still able to be wounded in that one way; who might, with a single touch, be brought back to life exactly once more. She was convinced it was this gratitude in particular - ignited by his pity - that he could never have enough of, one source of the great flow of gratitude his presence seemed to arouse in everyone.”
Source: Held
“She did not understand music and it upset her, it had only sad, tragic things to say. These leaping forms, these pursuits and insistences, these elusive desperate repetitions, always seemed to her like one long cry of agony. She could not, in this company, allow herself the luxury of self-pitying tears, which was her highest tribute to the art. She looked about her and let the music gather to her the people with whom she was so deeply concerned.”
Source: The Unicorn
“She did not understand the beauty he found in her, through touch upon her living secret body, almost the ecstasy of beauty. For passion alone is awake to it. And when passion is dead, or absent, then the magnificent throb of beauty is incomprehensible and even a little despicable; warm, live beauty of contact, so much deeper than the beauty of vision.”
Source: Lady Chatterley’s Lover
“She did not use it at all well mostly.”
“She did not use those gray eyes on me. If she had, I would have refused her. She waited only. It was true that [waiting] looked well on her. She seemed to fit into the air like a jewel in its crown.”
Source: Circe
“She did not want her father's hair to grow thin or her mother's hair to grow gray. She wanted her parents to stay exactly as they were forever and ever.”
Source: Ramona Quimby, age 8
“She did not want to be a cliché or hackneyed example of an inner-city girl. She wanted to battle against the forces of poverty, low social status and the expectations of those who had passed the law that achievement for her kind was not attainable.”
Source: Inner City Girl
“She did not want to be a consolation prize. Be pitied or a distraction.”
“She did not want to be as before. She wanted great changes in her life.”
Source: The Nice and the Good
“She did not want to be that woman - the one of whom they spoke. She had never planned to be that woman. Somehow, it had happened, however...somehow, she had lost her way and, without realizing it, she had chosen this staid, boring life instead of a different, more adventurous one.”
Source: Nine Rules to Break When Romancing a Rake
“She did not want to deck herself with knowledge—to wear it loose from the nerves and blood that fed her action”
Source: Middlemarch