S Quotes
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“She had a long thin well-bred face like a greyhound, and a most devastating sincerity of speech.”
Source: The Moving Finger
“She had a look of suffering and I was struck less by her beauty than by the extraordinary loneliness in her eyes.”
Source: The Master and Margarita
“She had a lot of hugs to give, but not enough people to give them to.”
Source: Sundays at Tiffany's
“She had a lot of practice standing things because she had to stand them, which was a hard habit to break.”
Source: The Portable Veblen
“She had a lovely singing voice. Most well-bred young ladies could play, but few could sing, and Miss Cross could.
Eliza, he reminded himself. Perhaps his future wife, the mother of his children, the woman would share his bed and his house. She loved her dog, she sang beautifully, and she liked the theater. Other than that, he knew nothing about her.Could he do this?
She wasn't a typical beauty. Her face was round and her hair was an ordinary shade of light brown. A string of pearls circled her neck, and Hugh was sure her pale green silk gown had cost as much as Edith's court gown, but it suited her. Some women had no sense of style and bought the latest fashion whether it made them ugly or exquisite. With two sisters and a mother in his house, Hugh knew enough of ladies' clothing to see that this lady chose well. When she reached to turn the page, he got up and went to stand beside her to turn the next one. Her voice wobbled a bit as he did so, but she played on.
Her skin was lovely. He spied a few freckles on her nose, but her shoulders and bosom were as pale as cream. Her bosom... Hugh reached for the next page and stole a quick glance downward. Plump and tempting, now that he looked at it. Her hands were graceful on the keys, and his mind wandered involuntarily into thoughts of what they would feel like on him. What it would be like to kiss her. What she would be like in bed. Would she be shy? Frightened? He found himself hoping not, even though he hadn't even decided to court her yet.”
Source: An Earl Like You
“She had a moment of clarity, sharp and hard, that pierced the fogginess of her thinking: this is what it’s going to be like from now on. I will live in fear of every man, of every stray sound, of every footstep in the dark, of every shadow in the night.”
Source: My Mother's Secret
“She had a new bracelet on, stacked with emeralds brighter than her eyes. I hate rich people.”
Source: The Icarus Girl
“She had a new secret, the strenght of the moon, looking at her”
“She had a nice laugh, even as she was using it as a weapon against him.”
Source: Authority
“She had a passion for secrecy, but she herself was merely a Sphinx without a secret.”
Source: The Complete Short Stories: The Model Millionaire + The Canterville Ghost + The Happy Prince + The Star-Child + The Fisherman And His Soul + The Selfish Giant + The Nightingale And The Rose + The Sphinx Without A Secret + many more...
“She had a passion that changed the world... or at least her perception of it!”
“She had a peculiar prettiness, a kind of captivation, that was evanescent, and took a second glance to be adequately detected. But once found the beholder knew they had discovered a rare treasure.”
Source: The Dig Up
“She had a penetrating sort of laugh. Rather like a train going into a tunnel.”
Source: Expecting Jeeves
“She had a plan. Even if it was a little insane.”
Source: City of Lost Souls
“She had a pretty face, but her head was up in space.”
“She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit.”
“She had a pretty good idea what Tony was seeking. He couldn't look at her without seeing her mother, and father, and brother. He needed to know for certain that she would never share their point of view, one which saw nothing beyond the color of his skin. Janet wanted to abolish his doubts but could not, for the simple reason that she did see Tony's color. The genesis of their love was physical attraction, and his complexion had lured her the same as hers undoubtedly pulled him. It was not his blackness that she fell in love with, but it was a part of him, and therefore, a part of what she loved.”
Source: Patches of Grey
“She had a problem, which meant they had a problem.”
Source: Cowboys in Charge
“She had a purple shawl wrapped around her shoulders and her hair was loosely tied at the nape. Hill stepped back and examined her from several angles before announcing that he was content. He implored her to remain as still as possible, looking pointedly at Raven.
Sarah exhibited no similar difficulty, remaining entirely immobile as though she had fallen into an open-eyed trance.
She was not the only one. Raven found himself gazing rapt at her face, the paleness of her skin, the golden highlights in her hair. A sense of tranquility settled upon him, as though the serenity of her stillness had somehow been transferred to him.
‘You seem transfixed,’ observed Hill quietly, walking past. ‘A pity you could not have held such a pose earlier.”
Source: The Way of All Flesh
“She had a sadness that was so deep, but it still could turn to light in a second, and when I saw her smile I wondered what it would be like to make her smile. I thought... I thought it would be like the discovery of smiling.”
“She had a sense of herself being brain dead: running on tubes and machines.”
Source: The Face on the Milk Carton
“She had a sense of longing and loss that she had never had before. It was as if her family history had been erased and they'd been left unmemorable.She imagined that Rachel's family must have similar feelings, but she did not try to share these thoughts with Rachel.”
Source: Rosie's Umbrella
“She had a short fuse this morning, because it was a day that ended with y, you see.”
Source: The Scorpio Races
“She had a slight look of anticipatory pride, as if she'd handed her a Christmas present.”
Source: The Midnight Library
“She had a smile that could put a froth on a cup of coffee, and she knew it.”
Source: Full Dark House
“She had a sort of wild, dangerous intelligence that was often at the root of the trouble she got into, and she saw in him a similar intelligence, a certain way of looking at the world, that had settled in him in a way that it had not quite settled in her, and in a way that she probably hoped it might one day, despite a confidence that was as wild as her intelligence. If there was anyone who might've inspired her to change course, it was him, despite her normal distaste and disregard for most forms of authority.”
Source: We Wish You Luck
“She had a strange feeling in the pit of her stomach, like when you're swimming and you want to put your feet down on something solid, but the water's deeper than you think and there's nothing there”
Source: East of the Sun
“She had a strong, if erroneous, conviction of her own futility, and wished she had never come out of her backwater, where nothing happened except art and literature, and where no one ever got married or succeeded in remaining engaged.”
Source: Howards End
“She had a terrible realization that he could show her what he truly was. Because he knew that she was hiding too. There was no use in hiding from a shadow pretending to be a fine cloak. To him, she was a black spot all the same; intangible, a swallower of secrets that had nowhere to spit them back up.”
Source: This Is How You Lose the Time War
“She had a theory that the fear of getting in trouble was what made her not as good a programmer and that, in fact, it was all linked to testosterone, and that was why there were more guy programmers than women. It was a very hazy theory, and she didn't like it, but she had pretty much convinced herself it was true, although she couldn't bear to think of sharing it with anybody, because it was a lot better to think that there were social reasons why girls didn't usually become code monkeys than to think there were biological reasons.”
“She had a thick aura of battle around her, and her face was almost doll-like, it was so pleasant to look at. Vacant blue eyes, blond hair tinged dark gray.”
Source: 幼女戦記 (1) Deus lo vult
“She had a type; her men were controlling. Ironically, all she was trying to do was get her life under control.”
“She had a very childlike face, and in our pedophiliac culture, looking like a child is every woman’s beauty goal. But she grew up in a tough environment, so to offset her cherubic face, she intentionally deepened her voice and cursed more than any adult I knew. She looked like an American Girl doll and talked like a crusty old war veteran who had seen too much. She had the worldly confidence of a much older girl and she got even more confident when her full pubic bush grew in.”
Source: Acne
“She had a very specific routine that she had to follow if she was to have the slightest hope of drifting off.”
Source: Darling Girls
“She had a vision of the two of them trapped on a tiny raft surrounded by miles of open water. It would be a kind of test, like surviving on a desert island--but that's what a marriage was, wasn't it? They would have to help each other or die.”
Source: Songs for the Missing
“She had a voice so husky it could have pulled a dogsled, and the gun she was holding gave me a bad case of barrel envy.”
“She had a voice that made Pearl Harbor seem like a lullaby.”
Source: A Confederate General from Big Sur / Dreaming of Babylon / The Hawkline Monster
“She had a way of embroidering life with stars.”
Source: Chronicles of Avonlea
“She had a way of giving him comfort when nothing else could. The wailing of the dead. The accusations of their eyes because he couldn't save them. She drove those dead children away from him and brought him peace.”
Source: Vengeance Road
“She had a way of moving that moved him as much as music, which was what moved him most of all. Surely the spirit animating that pearless body must be unusual too? Why would nature make a vessel like that, if not to contain something still more valuable?”
“She had a way of seeing the beauty in others, even, and perhaps most especially, when that person couldn't see it in themselves.”
“She had a weapon now. She wasn't defenseless against him. She'd never been defenseless. She had just never thought to look.”
Source: The Dragon Republic
“She had a weird, fleeting thought that she wanted to eat her sister, like a sorceress in a storybook – gobble her down into her belly, keep her safe.”
“She had a whim of iron - A Little Scandal.”
“She had a wicked and downright dirty sense of humour, and enjoyed nothing more than sharing funny stories and bawdy jokes. She was practical and unpretentious...”
Source: The Restless Republic: Britain Without a Crown
“She had a window seat from Oslo, and for the longest time, she just watched the magnificence of the changing colors of the winter sky as the sun was just rising on the flight to Frankfurt.”
Source: Julebord: The Holiday Party
“She had a woman’s swagger at twelve-and-a-half. Hair: strawberry-blonde, and I vaguely recall a daisy in the crook of her ear. She was an inch taller than me, two with the ponytail; smooth cheeks and darling brown eyes that marbled in luscious contrast with her magnolia skin; cream, melting to peach, melting to pink. She beamed like a cherub without the baby fat; a tender neck; pristine lips that would never part for a dirty word. Her body--of no interest to me at the time--was wrapped from neck to toes with home-made footie pajamas, the kind they make for toddlers, but I didn’t laugh; the girl filled that silly one-piece ensemble as if it were couture.”
Source: The Accidental Siren
“She had a womanly instinct that clothes possess an influence more powerful over many than the worth of character or the magic of manners.”
“She had abruptly flipped from the southern belle and was now putting on the extremely businesslike air of those perfectionist women who'd only worked in the professional world for two or three years before stopping to have children and were now terrified of not being taken seriously.”
Source: The Borrower
“She had accepted him as he was and had spared him a great deal of loneliness. He had been unfair: while his imagination and vanity had given her too much importance, his pride had given her too little. He discovered the cruel paradox by which we always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love - first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage.”
Source: A Happy Death