S Quotes
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“She did not want to read this book from start to finish, or rather, she thought perhaps it did not want her to. Instead she practiced the art of bibliomancy, trusting the book to show her what it wanted her to know.”
“She did not want to say it, because it made no practical sense, but in the end she went to Japan for the delicate sake cups, resting in her hand like a blossom; she went to Japan for loveliness.”
Source: Drinking Coffee Elsewhere
“She did not want to talk of her sorrow, but with that sorrow in her heart she could not talk of outside matters.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Leo Tolstoy (Illustrated)
“She did nothing.
She was nothing.
She’d been trying…
She stopped trying…”
“She did nothing to try to control the shakes that rattled her body,and didn't attempt to stop herself from crying. Tears left both of her eyes at the far corners,slipping out and flowing over her temples.Some landed in her ears. Some eased down her neck and were absorbed by the pillow.Others clouded her vision,as if they didn't want to leave home.”
“She did something to his insides, twisted and melted them until he sometimes felt he couldn't think straight.”
Source: Vengeance Road
“She did sometimes fear she might never again completely trust the touch or the smile of a man.”
Source: The Golden Yarn
“She did thirty more lengths, and her mind calmed and she started to feel free, just her and the water.”
Source: The Midnight Library
“She did this because Hitler and him men had given her no other choice.”
Source: Hidden Among the Stars
“She did turn then, her hair whipping across his face as she regarded him with narrowed eyes. "Strange that a God of Death would want to bring life into the world."
Hades smiled, though it did not reach his eyes. "I was not always a God of Death, Persephone. My time here has taught me how closely death and life are intertwined. From death comes rebirth; from endings- new beginnings. If I could, I would trade all the riches in my kingdom for something more priceless- a family that loves me.”
Source: Hades And Persephone: Curse Of The Golden Arrow
“She did understand, or at least she understood that she was supposed to understand. She understood, and said nothing about it, and prayed for the power to forgive, and did forgive. But he can't have found living with her forgiveness all that easy. Breakfast in a haze of forgiveness: coffee with forgiveness, porridge with forgiveness, forgiveness on the buttered toast. He would have been helpless against it, for how can you repudiate something that is never spoken? She resented, too, the nurse, or the many nurses, who had attended my father in the various hospitals. She wished him to owe his recovery to her alone—to her care, to her tireless devotion. That is the other side of selflessness: its tyranny.”
Source: The Blind Assassin
“She did what girls generally do when they don't feel the part: she dressed it instead.”
“She did what she should never have done. Something only love could have made her do. Love for Julian.”
Source: What He Revealed
“She didn't actually say I couldn't look.
'Don't look!' she cautions, as if she read my mind.”
“She didn't always like Jones. Sometimes she ached to punch him in the jaw really hard, so hard she could split her own knuckles with the force of it. But she loved him no less totally than she did her own son. It was that complete, that much a part of her. He was half of her, for better or worse.”
Source: FRAGILE
“She didn't answer, and in that moment I realized that she felt the same as I. The men we loved would determine our destinies along with their own, no matter how we might wish otherwise.
We walked the rest of the way arm in arm, our heads bowed, in sisterly agreement. We said nothing more, nor did we need to.
I, Eliza Hamilton”
Source: I, Eliza Hamilton
“She didn’t answer him. He didn’t expect her to. It was just a seed he wanted to plan.”
Source: Scythe
“She didn't ask herself what could have been, because Kovit was right. Asking what-ifs about people stole their agency for the choices they made in this life. But what could be. That was another question."
•pg.89 - Nita's thoughts”
Source: When Villains Rise
“She didn't believe he could still be thinking about the kiss --like she was.
After praising him for a job well done, she couldn't think of another thing to say. She should tell him she didn't kiss men like that, ever, but she thought it might be better if they didn't discuss it. He probably kissed all the lasses like that and didn't give it another thought.”
Source: Hero of a Highland Wolf
“She didn't belong anywhere and she never really belonged to anyone. And everyone else belonged somewhere and to someone. People thought she was too wonderful. But she only wanted to belong to someone. People always thought she was too wonderful to belong to them or that something too wonderful would hurt too much to lose. And that's why she liked him-- because he just thought she was crazy.”
“She didn't belong here. She didn't belong anywhere.”
Source: Delphine and the Silver Needle
“She didn’t belong on this planet, yet she somehow touched everyone who came into contact with her”
Source: Wrong Planet - Searching for your Tribe
“She didn’t bother to say, But you’ll be waiting in darkness. Nor did she say, If I vanish immediately into the lake, you’ll have to find your way out of here sightless. Because he’d already known both these things when he had given it to her.”
Source: Blue Lily, Lily Blue
“She didn’t brighten the whole room for me when she walked in the door. She didn’t make my whole day better just by smiling at me, or make me ask myself what she would think of me when I said or did something shitty to somebody. She wasn’t the one who made me want to get off my ass and do more, be a better person. Only you’ve ever done that, sunshine.”
Source: Rock Me
“She didn't care about anything, or maybe she cared too much.”
Source: Willow
“She didn't care how the others looked at her any more. All she had on her mind was what she could see in the mirror.”
Source: The Decagon House Murders
“She didn’t care if the world thought she was pretty. All she wanted was that special someone to reach beyond the surface and discover her heart.”
“She didn't care what common sense said, she wanted him to kiss her again.”
Source: Wild Cowboy Ways
“She didn't correct his knowledge of diamonds. She didn't tell him that while coal and diamonds are both carbon, coal is too impure to be able, under whatever pressure, to become a diamond. According to science, you start off as coal and you end up as coal. Maybe that was the real-life lesson.”
Source: The Midnight Library
“She didn’t dare expose her heart the way she’d exposed her body.”
Source: Divine Temptation
“She didn’t dislike it yet. After everything that had happened, that felt like progress.”
Source: KILLER
“She didn’t do well out of her routine.”
Source: Darling Girls
“She didn't eat meat and hadn't for some time. Rescuing, mending and befriending a wee bird with a broken wing had made it impossible for her to eat the meat of flying creatures, and helping Edmund, the stable master at MacFarlane, mend a bull with a broken leg and then having it follow her everywhere like a dog had added beef to the list of things she wouldn't eat either. By the time Claray was fifteen years old, there wasn't any meat she could bring herself to consume. She'd explained this quietly to Conall and, much to her relief, while he'd looked surprised, he hadn't raised a fuss, and she'd then gone into the woods to find wild berries, mushrooms, wood sorrel and elderflower to munch on to ease her hunger.”
Source: Highland Wolf
“She didn't even hope for freedom anymore. The only escape she dared to dream of was the final one: death.”
Source: The Crimson Corset
“She didn’t even know what she’d do when she got back to New Orleans, but inside she felt a yearning to shove her hands in the dirt, to cling to the ground there, forever.”
“She didn't even want to think of how hellish it would be if all the MacGregors made her feel like this one did, all hot and shaky. She'd have to move to the Arctic Circle before the month was out just to cool off.”
Source: Love Potions
“She didn’t fear bedtime stories. In fact, she pitied any creature that made an attempt on her soul. She couldn’t image there was much left to devour, aside from a few feeble sparks.”
“She didn't fear the night, though she found little comfort in its dark hours. It was the time when she slept, the time when she stalked and killed, the time when the stars emerged with glittering beauty and made her feel wonderfully small and insignificant.”
Source: Throne of Glass
“She didn't feel like a girl when he kissed her, but like fire in a girl's form, burning and hungry.”
Source: Briar Queen
“She didn't forgive; nor did she hate.”
Source: Warrior: Audrey Hepburn
“She didn't get any further because he didn't just stand there letting her aim missiles at him. He easily dodged the first one, and the second went over his head as he dived at her, pushing her back down onto the couch with himself landing on top of her. After she got her breath back from the impact, she shrieked, "Get off of me, you clumsy clod!" "My dear girl, there was nothing clumsy involved in the position you now find yourself. It was quite intentional, I do assure you." "Get off of me anyway!" "So you can resume your spat of violence? No, no. Violence is not going to be part of our relationship. I could've sworn I already mentioned that." "And what do you call squashing me like this?" "Prudence, actually." And then he paused, his eyes getting greener by the second as he stared down at her. "On the other hand, I'd also call it quite nice." Her eyes narrowed. "If you're thinking about kissing me, I wouldn't advise it," she warned. "No?" "No." He sighed. "Ah, well." But then a half grin formed as he added, "I don't always take good advice."
-Kelsey & Derek”
“She didn't give a damn about some of them, but she had grown to learn that inattention can be a stratagem to avoid pain, and that it is often misread as shallowness and indifference.”
Source: The Silence of the Lambs
“She didn’t have a very clear vision of her future as a married woman. She assumed she would get married one day—she did want kids, after all. She thought. Th ey did look so adorable from far away, if a bit messy. And to a practicing Muslim woman, marriage was sort of a prerequisite to acquiring those. But what that would be like, look like, feel like, she couldn’t really say.”
Source: A Second Look
“She didn’t have time to feel anything as life was moving at such a fast pace.”
Source: Harp and the Lyre: Exposed
“She didn't have to go and tell that, thought Ramona, feeling that her mother had betrayed her by telling, as if it were funny, something she had done a long time ago.”
Source: Ramona and Her Mother
“She didn’t have to love him back. He probably wouldn’t know what to do with it if she did. No one ever had.”
Source: Leopard's Rage
“She didn't have to return to Philly until Sunday, yet from the moment she sat down in the car, Madison was already projecting five days into the future and anticipating the sadness that returning to campus would bring.”
Source: What Made Maddy Run: The Secret Struggles and Tragic Death of an All-American Teen
“She didn't have what one would call a "profession," but I didn't know why she particularly wanted one; it seemed like she'd been infected by a very American idea of identity, to think that who you were mostly consisted of what you did to get paid—that seemed silly to me.”
Source: Atmospheric Disturbances
“She didn't know any better. Nobody had ever told her that she couldn't. Because of this, she moved through the city like some faerie creature. She walked roads no one else could see, and it made her music wild and strange and free.”
Source: The Wise Man's Fear
“She didn't know any Nadias in her original life. She had no idea if seeing the name would have inspired this version of her with happy anticipation or sinking dread.
There was only one way to find out.”
Source: The Midnight Library