S Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with S. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“She didn't know, could not yet comprehend, that love was a gift that have been given to them in a torchlit garden the moment they met.”
Source: Almost Heaven
“She didn’t know exactly when she had first felt the sensation of regret. It was a physical sensation, a shudder that began deep in the stomach and traveled up through the throat; it was distinct from remorse, which one felt first in the throat and only later in the gut. Yet it was regret that she couldn’t handle. She did anything she could to avoid it—including the initial bargain, the one that began everything. And now this one.”
Source: Eternal Life
“She didn’t know how close to the heresy of the Go-Backs she trod.”
Source: Dust
“She didn't know how long she'd have him. There weren't any guarantees. But she didn't want to hold herself back from loving him and miss out on the joy and beauty because she was too focused on the dangers.”
Source: A Bride of Convenience
“She didn’t know how to be semi-interested in something. She was either indifferent . . . or obsessed.”
Source: The Kiss Quotient
“She didn't know how to describe this feeling, this breathless languor. No one had ever looked at her the way he did, as if the sight of her might be fatal. Her lips had parted under the weight of his silent want, her mouth growing heavy with the sound of his name and a desperate, foolish impulse to whisper the word against his skin.”
Source: All This Twisted Glory
“She didn’t know how to play any games with men. She was who she was, often to a fault.”
Source: Convincing the Cowgirl
“She didn't know how to react to his non-sexualisation of her, and as she stared at his silent face, she recognized a familiar pain, a sense of not being there.”
Source: Within Paravent Walls
“She didn't know if she wanted to fight him or fuck him.”
Source: The Good, the Bad, and the Vampire
“She didn't know if she was crying because Illukar was going to die, or because Ieskar already had.”
Source: Voice of the Lost
“She didn't know if the priests' poison was starting to infect her, or if this was just what growing up was - a series of compromises that twisted a child's idealism into something shameful.”
Source: The Girl and the Stars
“She didn’t know it yet, but every laugh , every smile, and every fucking blush she wasted on Thor’s stick figure, she’d have to pay back in spades. Or maybe in spanks.”
Source: Lick of Fire
“She didn't know much about real princesses except for in fairy tales, and books like #27: Legends from the Time of Knights. Gawain and Roland and his tower and the like. Princesses were often the points on which plots turned, the fulcrum that sped the hero along on his journey of becoming legendary, dead, or both. Sometimes the princesses were good-hearted and the knights fought valiantly for their honor. Sometimes they were evil and used witchy machinations to control the people around them, lacking any real power over their own lives.
But honestly Rapunzel didn't remember a whole lot about either kind. They were boring. She loved the swordsmanship of the knights and did her best to reenact it with broom handles and frying pans, dancing back and forth on her feet to evade imaginary blows.”
Source: What Once Was Mine
“She didn't know people could stop loving you. She'd thought friendship was permanent, like matter.”
Source: When the World Tips Over
“She didn’t know that loss was alive in the world, a thief always about to slam you and steal everything you had.”
Source: Waterfall
“She didn’t know that my heart was a sandstorm waiting to open her skin in a desert of cuts. She didn’t know the animal that waited in my stomach, silently shredding the walls. For her, my heart wore small white shoes and carried a purse, went to bed early. I wanted to shoot myself into her arms so she understood the need to crash cars with me, to tear up pavement because we were beautiful.”
Source: Valencia
“She didn't know that the brioches in her breakfast basket had been formed by my hand. She didn't know the macarons----two each night, sent in a small box----were mine. But I did.
In moments of weakness, I'd close my eyes and try to imagine her soft lips parting over jewel-bright confections, pink tongue tasting the flavors of me----achieved by the strange alchemy of whipping egg whites, infusing creams, and straining ripe fruits, all melded together into an intense burst of flavor.
Had she preferred the inky-black chicory chocolate, the butter-rich caramel and burnt pear? Or did she moan for the juicy brightness of the grapefruit honey or blood orange and rose?
It was enough to make a man hard.”
Source: Make It Sweet
“She didn't know the songs," I recall being told that a friend of a friend had said after an attempt to repeat the experience.”
Source: The Year of Magical Thinking
“She didn't know 'this meadow', exactly. But she was familiar with the concept. The types of plants. The 'raven,' which she knew was too big to be a 'crow'. The trees: the way the trees circled meant there was probably a bog or a stream in the middle, where the land dipped. She 'knew' that. She knew that beyond these leafy trees would be gnarled, thicker trees with dark green leaves. And beyond them, pines. And under their heavy boughs, there lay a friendly darkness so complete it put the vines over the castle bailey to shame.”
Source: Once Upon a Dream
“She didn’t know what its story was or what kind of storm lay hidden inside of it. She only knew it needed a friend as badly as she did.”
Source: Firestorm
“She didn‘t know what to say, didn‘t know what to feel. She was on a high cliff edge somewhere between laughing and crying and screaming.”
Source: A Good Girl's Guide to Murder
“She didn't know what would happen because of this. But she knew that today, she would hurt no one. She threw back her blankets and though only of today.”
“She didn't know where these visions came from or why they would come. Perhaps it was a side effect of whatever process Dr. Finkelstein had used to bring her to life. Or maybe the old brain he'd stuffed in her head had been psychic when it belonged to its person. Or maybe it was just a rag doll thing; she had no other doll friends to compare to, so she couldn't be sure.
But while she didn't know why the visions came and she couldn't predict when they would come, she was sure of one thing.
They were usually trying to tell her something. Something important.
And she needed to pay attention.”
Source: Sally's Lament
“She didn’t know where this path would take her or how she’d fare, but the unknowns didn’t scare her like they used to.
After all, amidst a thousand mysteries, she knew one thing for certain.
Time and time again, this was the path she’d choose.”
Source: Of the Sun and Sea
“She didn't know why being near him made the beast inside her go away, and she didn't care. She was Minka in his arms and a monster out of them. That was all that mattered to her.”
Source: Her Fierce Warrior
“She didn't know why she broke everything she played with. Why she hurt everyone she cared about. Pushed away everything she wanted.”
Source: Dangerous Creatures
“She didn’t know why she was so attracted to this stranger, like a moth to the flame, but it scared her.”
Source: The Shoreline
“She didn’t leave because she stopped loving him. She left because she finally remembered herself.”
“She didn't leave me enough to discover her, but she left me enough to rediscover the Great Perhaps.”
Source: Looking for Alaska
“She didn't like it," he said immediately.
"Of course she did."
"She didn't like it," he insisted. "She didn't have a good time."
He was silent and I guessed at his unutterable depression.
"I feel far away from her," he said. "It's hard to make her understand."
"You mean about the dance?"
"The dance?" He dismissed all the dances he had given with a snap of his fingers. "Old sport, the dance is unimportant.”
“She didn't like it when religious folks looked down on her for being an atheist; but to be honest, I didn't see how this was any different from the way she looked down on people for being Christians.”
Source: Sing You Home
“She didn't like seeing that look in his face, but she wanted to see it there, she did. He was a man, wasn't he? And sometimes men had to learn what it was to be afraid of a woman.”
Source: Rose Madder
“She didn't like weepy films. She liked to
quote D. H. Lawrence : "Sentimentalism is the working off on yourself
of feelings you haven't really got." Hers were grim European films
— Antonioni, Bertolucci, Bergman — films where everybody
died or wished they had.”
Source: White Oleander
“She didn't look up, her gaze focused entirely on the paper before her as she drew what looked like a wing. He picked up one of the papers from the floor, and on it was a butterfly, the colors a blending of vibrant yellows and oranges.
He held out the paper. "What's this one called?"
"Golden Shimmer," she said. "She loves the sunlight."
He picked up a picture of a light-purple butterfly with a string of pearls around her neck. "And this one?"
"Lavender Lace. She has the power to heal all sorts of wounds."
He scanned the room, all the pictures on the floor. "Do they each have a name?"
Finally she looked at him, her bright-blue eyes meeting his. "Of course."
And he realized with a pang of sadness that these were Libby's friends for life.
"They are beautiful."
A glint of a smile. "Thank you."
He picked up another butterfly, this one a dark violet shade, a silver streak bleeding across the edge of its wings.
"What is she called?"
"Silver Shadow."
"Does she have a story?"
Libby's smile faded. "She's lost and can't seem to find her way home.”
Source: Shadows of Ladenbrooke Manor
“She didn't love the movie as a movie, but she appreciated it as a familiar comfort.”
Source: Welcome to Night Vale
“She didn't make being alone seem lonely as Evangeline had always feared. She made it seem like an adventure, as if every moment were the start of a story with endless possibilities.”
Source: Once Upon a Broken Heart
“She didn’t mean anything by it,' the markhor explained like how racism is perpetuated and exonerated through faulty reasoning”
Source: A Dragon, A Pig, and a Rabbi Walk into a Bar...and other Rambunctious Bites
“She didn’t mean to dream that deep
To miss him even in her sleep.
Poem: Wasn’t Supposed to Be”
Source: Unspoken Words written by Maria for Harry: Poems on Love, Loss, and the Words We Never Said
“She didn't much care if it was or wasn't the musical portrait of the cellist, it's likely that he'd fabricated in his mind any alleged similarities, real or imagined, but what impressed death was that she seemed to hear in those fifty-eight seconds of music a rhythmical and melodic transposition of every and any human life, be it run-of-the-mill or extraordinary, because of its tragic brevity, its desperate intensity, and also because of that final chord, like an ellipsis left hanging in the air, something yet to be said. The cellist had fallen into one of the least forgivable of human sins, that of presumption, when he thought he could see his face, and his alone, in a portrait in which everyone could be found, a presumption which, however, if we think about it, if we choose not to remain on the surface of things, could equally be interpreted as a manifestation of its polar opposite, that is, of humility, since if it is a portrait of everyone, then I must be included in it too.”
Source: Death with Interruptions
“She didn't need a protector or a rescuer. But she did need him.”
Source: Passenger
“she didn't need anyone. At Wheeler, even when she stood out with her pink hair and quilter army-surplus jacket and combat bots, she did this without apology. It was a great irony that the very fact of a relationship with her would diminish her appeal, that the moment she came to love me back and depend on me as much as I depended on her, she would no longer be a truly independent spirit. No way in hell was I going to be the one to take that quality away from her.”
Source: My Sister's Keeper
“She didn’t need anyone to tell her he was all wrong for her and yet…”
Source: Outlaw's Honor
“She didn’t need hope anymore because she knew the things you wanted weren’t necessarily the things that you needed. She knew that the things that were meant to be just happened. You couldn’t control them like she once thought.”
“She didn’t need the tiny bell to be aware Captain Caulfield had entered. Her heart pounded so loud she was sure he could hear it across the room.
He stood at the door in his great coat and topper like any other man, but he appeared more striking. He spoke with Mr. Miller. Every so often he glanced in her direction, dipped his head ever so slightly and sent her heart racing.
- The Lady and Her Quill”
Source: The Lady and Her Quill
“She didn’t notice the partially fogged vanity mirror as she walked toward the bathroom, either—two thick fluffy towels in hand. Not until she was inside anyway and a pair of jeans and fringed leather chaps tossed carelessly over the edge of the vanity came into view.
She almost dropped the towels as she spun around.
“Hey.”
The Dixie Chicks crooning, there’s your trouble, straight into her ear was a particularly ironic twist.”
Source: Troy
“She didn't open the envelope until she'd gotten to the bus station and needed to pay for her ticket. He hadn't given her the thousand dollars she'd asked for-he'd given her ten thousand.”
Source: Sisterhood Everlasting
“She didn’t open up to me until I gave her my honest face.” “Your honest face doesn’t have to be that of a killer, Dalinar.” Dalinar and Navani”
Source: Oathbringer
“She didn't pick her way over the terrain like she was afraid of slipping on the ice...She glided over it with long confident strides. Her hands were in her vest pockets. Her eyes were Susannah.”
Source: Bloodline Gypsy: Jook and Gypsies vol. 1
“She didn't play the game, she changed the game!”
“She didn’t play the game, she changed the game! She stayed true to herself and never compromised her integrity. Her success was built on HER own terms.”