S Quotes
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“She didn’t want to leave him in the dark on the matter, but she also didn’t want to entrust him with a secret that he either did not want or, at the very least, did not ask for…one that would put him in danger.”
Source: Once I Knew
“She didn’t want to let go of him… once had been enough.”
Source: Resurrection
“She didn't want to. She loved you. She loves you now. Yes, she hurt you and she made a terrible mistake in leaving you. But your father made mistakes, too, and you will, as well. We all make bad choices - decisions that would better be left to rot in the bottom of the barrel. But we can't undo them. We can only move forward.”
Source: A Moment in Time
“She didn't want to talk about his nonsensical fairy stuff. "That's because you can't take me there. You're not capable of it. Because it doesn't exist.”
Source: Dragon Fae
“She didn’t want to talk your ear off about some guy and how cute he was, and how he sometimes paid her attention and sometimes didn’t and all that crap.”
Source: Let It Snow
“She didn’t want to wallow in misery anymore, she also didn’t want to be scared.
She felt irritated by the unreasonable treatment. She wasn’t as calm as a person as they expected. She wanted those who had done terrible things to her to also suffer a terrible punishment.”
Source: 長い夜の国と最後の舞踏会 1 ～ひとりぼっちの公爵令嬢と真夜中の精霊～
“She didn’t warn you about me?”
“Should she have?”
Erica finished her drink, relishing the burn in her belly and the flush of heat in her cheeks as she nodded “Definitely.”
His gaze smoldered. “It’s a good thing danger is my calling, then.”
Source: Breath of Passion
“She didn't break his heart, but I feel like a man is supposed to be a man, he ain't supposed to be all involved in that. That's why she got sisters and friend for. Just show up with the ring and act right.”
“She didn't care anymore... and she got no pleasure from the work she did, but she did it. Everything bored her. She found that when she didn't have a notebook it was hard for her to think. The thoughts came slowly, as though they had to squeeze through a tiny door to get to her, whereas when she wrote, they flowed out faster than she could put them down. She sat very stupidly with a blank mind until finall 'I feel different' came slowly to her mind. Yes, she thought, after a long pause. And then, after more time, 'Mean, I feel mean.”
“She didn't dare to look up, but she could feel their frightened eyes hanging onto her as she hauled the words in and breathed them out. A voice played the notes inside her. This, it said, is your accordion.”
“She didn't even finish her last sentence; it just trailed off. I think the subject had changed in her head while her mouth had continued on the old topic, not realizing it was out of supplies.”
Source: The pleasure of my company
“She didn't even have to smile, and she rarely did outside her house--it was the eyes, her dancer's carriage, the way she seemed to deliberate over the smallest movement of her body.”
Source: The Lovely Bones: Picador Classic
“She didn't even know how dangerous the truth could be, all the tiny, shattering seeds it carried.”
Source: The Mermaid Chair
“She didn't even notice right away that a small animal had come out from behind a nearby car and was slowly making its way toward the trash can she was standing near. She flipped through some old files in her mind, trying to come up with what this thing might be, and after a few seconds decided that--impossible as it seemed--it was a fox.”
“She didn't feel thirty. But then again again, what was being thirty supposed to feel like? When she was younger, thirty seemed so far away, she thought that a woman of that age would be so wise and knowledgeable, so settled in her life with a husband and children and a career. She had none of those things. She still felt as clueless as she had felt when she was twenty, only with a few more gray hairs and crow's feet around her eyes.”
Source: PS, I Love You: A Novel
“She didn't flirt with him, but they hung out together a lot, and every time I saw their heads bent over a computer screen or map, it made my stomach clench. And my teeth. And my fists.”
Source: Maximum Ride: The Final Warning
“She didn't give George any too easy a time when she was alive. She was one of those semi-invalids – I believe she had really something wrong with her, but whatever it was she played it for all it was worth. She was capricious, exacting, unreasonable. She complained from morning to night. George was expected to wait on her, hand and foot and everything he did was always wrong and he got cursed for it. Most men, I'm fully convinced, would have hit her with a hatchet long ago.”
“She didn't go all fangirl on anyone, but I suspect that's only because none of them bore the slightest resemblance to Nathan Fillion.”
Source: Trapped: The Iron Druid Chronicles, Book Five
“She didn't have a daddy?" I asked. "No." "Did you have a daddy?" "You're all questions, aren't you? No, love. We never went in for that sort of thing. You only need men if you want to breed more men.”
“She didn't have to be offered anything; it was already hers. She was more herself than anyone else ever was and as soon as I clapped eyes on her I knew I wanted to be myself just as much as she was herself.”
Source: Junk: Adapted for the Stage
“She didn't have words for what Levi was. He was a cave painting. He was The Red Ballon. She lifted her heels and pulled him forward until his face was so close, she could look at only one of his eyes at a time. "You're magic," she said.”
Source: The Rainbow Rowell Collection: Eleanor & Park, Fangirl, Landline, and Carry On
“She didn't know a lot about politics – yet – but she'd learned enough in her history classes to know politics could always be counted on to make a bad situation worse.”
Source: A Beautiful Friendship
“She didn't know how much she'd been hoping that he still loved her, until she felt how much it hurt to realize he didn't.”
Source: Ironside
“She didn't know how to love, to give herself to someone, to out herself in someone else's keeping and take him into hers. She didn't trust anyone with her heart - or the darker places of her soul.”
Source: Turbulent Sea
“She didn't know that there was more of me, she'd have to learn to love all four of me.”
“She didn't know then that life has a way of backing you into a corner. You make your choices when you're far too young to understand their implications, and with each choice you make the field of possibility narrows. You choose a career and other careers are lost to you. You choose a mate and commit to loving no other.”
“She didn't know there were things worse than selfish.”
Source: The Rainbow Rowell Collection: Eleanor & Park, Fangirl, Landline, and Carry On
“She didn't know what Liam made his coffee with, but it had to be magical sparkles and crack beans, because it was the most delicious stuff she'd ever tasted.”
Source: Two Weeks' Notice
“She didn't know whether she was running away from something or running to something, but she admitted that deep in her heart she wanted to go home.”
“She didn't like being twelve. It felt like someplace between who she'd been and who she was about to be. It felt like no place at all.”
Source: The Story Sisters: A Novel
“She didn't like the fact that she had reduced a man – no matter how evil he might be—to a drooling idiot.”
“She didn't like to be alone. Even more, she didn't like being with people. (148)”
“She didn't like to be talked about. Equally, she didn't like not to be talked about, when the high-minded chatter rushed on as though she was not there. There was no pleasing her, in fact. She had the grace, even at eleven, to know there was no pleasing her. She thought a lot, analytically, about other people's feelings, and had only just begun to realize that this was not usual, and not reciprocated.”
“She didn't look at me and I didn't look at her. Some questions are so direct the only way to ask them is sideways.”
Source: A Spear of Summer Grass
“She didn't love him and he didn't love her; she was like an addiction, and what they were doing had a darkness to it, a weight.”
Source: The Memory Keeper's Daughter: A Novel
“She didn't love me that much, but she moved in with me. That's a plus. And then one night, I caught her making out with another dude on the driveway. That's a minus.”
“She didn't mean to be sexy that moment, but even a winter nightgown couldn't hide that lovely outline. When will I outgrow my simple-minded fascination with the form she had happened to choose for her body? Never, I thought”
“She didn't mean to be unkind, why she even woke me up to say good-bye.”
“She didn't mind a little rain. At least no one would see her cry.”
“She didn't need to go to acting school to learn that the essence of acting is to act like you're not acting.”
Source: Gracie/Caeser Spec Ed
“She didn't need to understand the meaning of life; it was enough to find someone who did, and then fall asleep in his arms and sleep as a child sleeps, knowing that someone stronger than you is protecting you from all evil and all danger”
“She didn't protest as Hale slid his arm around her and pulled her to rest against his chest. It was somehow softer there than she remembered.”
“She didn't quite know what the relationship was between lunatics and the moon, but it must be a strong one, if they used a word like that to describe the insane.”
“She didn't read books so she didn't know that she was the world and the heavens boiled down to a drop.”
Source: Their Eyes Were Watching God
“She didn't say a work, and I gave up trying, because you couldn't hear either one of us over the shattering noise of hearts breaking and the looming shadow of the last word, the one we refused to say.”
“She didn't see him at first. She was watching the dancers. Her color was high, and there were deep dimples at the corners of her mouth. She looked nine miles out of place, but he had never loved her more. This was Willa on the edge of a smile.”
Source: Just After Sunset: Stories
“She didn't smile back. Not even a little. I totally needed to read that book on how to win friends and influence people. But that would involve an innate desire to win friends and influence people.”
Source: First Grave on the Right
“She didn't strike me as a "crossword in ink" kind of girl”
“She didn't want soft and gentle. She needed his rough possession, claiming her, branding her, taking her in a firestorm of heat and flame that would end the world around them, leaving them nothing but ashes, clean and fierce and forever welded together.”
Source: Wild Fire
“She didn't want to be reminded of her past or how different her present was from the future she'd taken for granted.”