S Quotes
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“She had constant tension from her magic knotted into the rooms and surrounding city, and even if that had not been the case, she found herself perpetually mulling over the figurative knots of her life and choices, checking for weaknesses, for where she could have done better.”
Source: The Camelot Betrayal
“She had curiously thoughtful and attentive eyes; eyes that were very pretty and very good.”
Source: Great Expectations
“She had dead straight, greying hair the she yanked sideways and anchored with enough ironmongery to sink a small ship.”
Source: Not All Tarts Are Apple
“She had debated asking him what the words meant, but that would involve talking. And talking meant building some sort of . . . relationship. She'd had enough of friends. Enough of them dying, too.”
“She had destroyed whatever was between us by making a profound gaffe: She met me.”
“She had developed a number of habits in her younger years, none of which carried with them a bright future, and the things she would offer to do for a couple of dollars would make the Devil blush.”
Source: Husk
“She had devoted time to improving her reading and was now more than proficient. The shelf she'd first cleared with Bianca overflowed with tales of King Arthur and his knights, Ovid's poetry, plays by Sophocles, Aristotle and Aeschylus, Apuleius, names she loved repeating in her mind because the mere sound of them conjured the drama, pageantry, passion, transformations and suffering of their heroes and heroines. One of her favorite writers was Geoffrey Chaucer-- his poems of pilgrims exchanging stories as they traveled to a shrine in Canterbury were both heart aching and often sidesplittingly funny.
Admittedly, one of the reasons she loved Chaucer was because she could read him for herself. It was the same reason she picked up Shakespeare over and over, and the works of Margaret Cavendish, the Duchess of Newcastle upon Tyne. They all wrote in English. Regarded as quite the eccentric, the duchess was a woman of learning who, like Rosamund, was self-taught. Her autobiography, A True Relation of my Birth, Breeding and Life, a gift from Mr. Henderson, gave Rosamund a model to emulate. Here was a woman who dared to consider not only philosophy, science, astronomy and romance, but to write about her reflections and discoveries in insightful ways. Defying her critics, she determined that women were men's intellectual equal, possessed of as quick a wit and as many subtleties if only given the means to express themselves-- in other words, access to education.”
Source: The Chocolate Maker's Wife
“She had died and joined the Marine Corps. Or was God an aging general? Either way, she knew it couldn’t be heaven ’cause there was no chocolate.”
Source: Cold Warriors
“She had died at age twelve, and by now she was nothing but the memory of love-- nothing, now, but bones.”
Source: The Memory Keeper's Daughter
“She had died, I just never told her. So still, we walk, eat and sleep together, in fear one day she'll come to realize it.”
“She had died many times, and was stronger each time she was reborn.”
Source: The Valkyries
“She had died peacefully, in her sleep, after an evening of listening to all of her favorite Fred Astaire songs, one crackling record after another. Once the last chord of the last piece had died out, she had stood up and opened the French doors to the garden outside, perhaps waiting to breathe in the honeysuckle one more time.”
Source: Juliet: A Novel
“She had difficulty accepting adultery despite its prevalence among high-born men of the era.”
Source: Isabella of Castile: The First Renaissance Queen
“She had disappeared a long time ago. Stolen by someone else. Kip was wrong. She couldn't earn anything when she wasn't worth having.”
Source: What Love Washed Up
“She had discovered that the best remedy for heartache was trying to make herself useful to others.”
Source: Love in the Afternoon
“She had dispersed. She was the garden at Prem Nivas (soon to be entered into the annual Flower Show), she was Veena's love of music, Pran's asthma, Maan's generosity, the survival of some refugees four years ago, the neem leaves that would preserve quilts stored in the great zinc trunks of Prem Nivas, the moulting feather of some pond-heron, a small unrung brass bell, the memory of decency in an indecent time, the temperament of Bhaskar's great-grandchildren. Indeed, for all the Minsisster of Revenue's impatience with her, she was his regret.
And it was right that she should continue to be so, for he should have treated her better while she lived, the poor, ignorant, grieving fool.”
Source: A Suitable Boy
“She had doll-like, almost delicate limbs, small hands, and hardly any hips.
But she now had breasts.
All her life she had been flat-chested, as if she had never reached puberty. She thought it had looked ridiculous, and she was always uncomfortable showing herself naked.
Now, all of a sudden, she had breasts. They were
by no means gigantic - that was not what she had wanted, and they would have looked ridiculous on her otherwise skinny body - but they were two solid, round breasts of medium size. The enlargements had been well done, and the proportions were reasonable. But the difference was dramatic.”
Source: The Girl Who Played with Fire
“She had done everything she could. And he didn't even know.”
Source: The Winner's Kiss
“She had done her residency at LA County Hospital, where the CT machines were so old she had to mark off the body parts for scanning with paper clips. She thought Baghdad hospitals might be like that.”
Source: Baghdad Solitaire
“She had done this so many times: watched a twelve-month life recede below her as she flew away from it. A year felt so long unless it was all you had.”
“She had drawn intricate patterns around the edges of the paper. Heart-shaped petals formed into flowers, and paisley curlicues formed into leaves, all of which connected to look like lace. It was similar to the designs he'd seen decorating Charlotte's skin over the years. He opened the box and lifted out a glass ball. He held it up and saw tiny glass threads inside that reminded him of strings of batter falling from a spoon.”
Source: Other Birds
“She had dreamed some brilliant dreams during the past winter and now they lay in the dust around her. In her present mood of self-disgust, she could not immediately begin dreaming again. And she discovered that, while solitude with dreams is glorious, solitude without them has few charms.”
Source: L. M. MONTGOMERY – Premium Collection: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry & Autobiography (Including Anne Shirley Novels, Chronicles of Avonlea & The Story Girl Series): Anne of Green Gables, Anne of Avonlea, Anne of the Island, Anne's House of Dreams, Rainbow Valley, The Golden Road, Kilmeny of the Orchard, The Watchman, Songs of the Sea & many more
“She had earned every one of her bruises and blisters, had built a new Alice over the frame of one with whom she never felt entirely comfortable.”
Source: The Giver of Stars
“She had enough unreliable people in her life, and she didn’t want Ruby growing up with the same ghosts.”
Source: Delilah Green Doesn't Care
“She had expressed herself, as women will, in a smug broadside of pastel shades. Nothing clashed because nothing had the strength to clash; everything murmured of safety among the hues; all was refinement.”
Source: Gormenghast
“She had eyes like strange sins.”
Source: The High Window: A Novel
“She had eyes that Rembrandt would have painted.”
Source: Silent Prey
“She had failed in every aspect of her life. Utterly and spectacularly failed, and keeping others from realising it had been her main purpose. She had shut them out, had shut herself out, because the weight of all those failures threatened to shatter her into a thousand pieces.”
Source: A Court of Silver Flames
“She had fallen asleep with her head on his arm, the clockwork angel, still around her throat, resting against his shoulder just to the left of his collarbone. As she moved away, the clockwork angel slipped free and she saw to her surprise that where it had lain against his skin it had left a mark behind, no bigger than a shilling, in the shape of a pale white star.”
Source: The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess
“She had fallen in love so many times that she began to suspect she was not falling in love at all, but doing something much more ordinary.”
Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel
“She had fallen in love with him twice. She loved him now with both loves, so overpowering it was almost unbearable.”
Source: Daughter of Smoke and Bone: Daughter of Smoke and Bone Trilogy
“She had feared the worst, and even though at that very moment she would have liked to wring her neck, she was happy to learn that suicide was not one of the stupid things that Eve had in her repertoire. Suicide made no sense: situations change, people change, and the problems of today may find a solution tomorrow. So long as you’re in the game you can change the final score, but if you take yourself out of it, you’ll never know how it might have ended, and you let the world win.”
Source: Soccer Sweetheart
“She had felt from the beginning that horses were easier to understand than people. They made their wishes clear. They bestowed their affection without conditions. They didn't love you for a time, then stop loving you for no apparent reason.”
Source: The Age of Witches
“She had felt from the beginning that horses were easier to understand than people. They made their wishes clear. They bestowed their affection without conditions. They didn't love you for a time, then stop loving you for no apparent reason.
Annis knew Bits loved her. She sometimes thought the two of them must be connected by an invisible ribbon of emotion, one that drew her to the stables every day, to be in his presence, to savor the warmth of his big body, to breathe in the peppery scent of his hide, to bask in the trust shining in his eyes. Mounted on his back, she became one with his power and speed and beauty. No one scolded her while she was seated high in the saddle. No one nagged about her clothes or her hair or her manners. Riding Bits set her free.”
Source: The Age of Witches
“She had felt good for a few moments, racing across the face of the hill on her old bike, but the happy feeling had burned itself out and left behind a thin, cold rage. She was no longer entirely sure who she was angry with though. Her anger didn't have a fixed point. It was a soft whir of emotion to match the soft whir of the spokes.”
“She had for so many years been trying to be like other people, that she was now like nothing in heaven or earth.”
“She had forced herself to learn to read – picked up bits and pieces, here and there, from the very few teachers who had been patient with her; from looking at words while out and about; from television, and from friends. And to avoid the shouting and drug-induced moaning, and the row of male visitors her mum would entertain, she would barricade herself in her room – there'd been no lock – and lose herself in books.”
Source: Broken Lights
“She had forgotten about this, the narcotic of the crowd. This is why you came to hear music. To stop being yourself, to let that thing that you supposedly were go, and just be part of a mob, synchronized by the heavy beat, mesmerized by a singer with big smeary red lips, her spooky chant.”
Source: Paint It Black
“She had forgotten his faults as we forget
the sorrows of our departed childhood.”
Source: Adam Bede
“She had forgotten how many minutes of motherhood were devoted to this question, even before Edith's accident. Alive now? And now? The deeper Edith's sleep the shallower her life, it seemed. The extraordinary stillness of a sleeping baby! Look for a breath at the stomach, flush at the cheeks. Then Luetta would leave the room, come back. She lost hours to the question. Alive now, now, now?”
Source: Bowlaway
“She had forgotten how to transmute loneliness into mere aloneness, how not to fall into the hole of his absence.”
Source: Honeysuckle
“She had forgotten them all; forgotten Richard down in the mud, and the marquis and his foolish crossbow, and the world. She was delighted and transported, in a perfect place, the world she lived for. Her world contained two things: Hunter, and the Beast. The Beast knew that too. It was the perfect match, the hunter and the hunted. And who was who, and which was which, only time would reveal; time and the dance.”
“She had fouled off of the curves that life had thrown at her.”
Source: The Thrill Of The Grass
“She had found him and was bringing back his thanks. Nor did she forget to mention that he had assured her that she was indeed the most beautiful fairy he had ever set eyes on.”
“She had found someone who matched her, a warrior and a shield. A man she could respect; one she could argue with and enjoy. She hadn't wanted to lose that. Hadn't wanted to be alone again.”
Source: Megan's Mark
“She had gained a reputation for beauty, and (which is often another thing) was beautiful.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Charles Dickens (Illustrated)
“She had gills while other people were breathing with lungs. There was, however, no point in dwelling on it, as it was too later to grow up differently.”
Source: The Middle of Somewhere
“She had given all and still been found wanting.”
Source: The Loop
“She had given birth to me and nursed me and brought me up. She had known me before I knew myself and now she had no say in the matter. Life started out one thing and then suddenly turned a corner and became something else.”
Source: Middlesex: A Novel
“she had given me a piece of what made her life sane.”