S Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with S. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“She had known happiness, exquisite happiness, intense happiness, and it silvered the rough waves a little more brightly, as daylight faded, and the blue went out of the sea and it rolled in waves of pure lemon which curved and swelled and broke upon the beach and the ecstasy burst in her eyes and waves of pure delight raced over the floor of her mind and she felt, It is enough! It is enough!”
Source: To the Lighthouse
“She had known it was bad, call it a mother’s instinct, but she’d known this was the knock that was going to scoop her insides out and leave her barely able to stand; merely a shell with nothing good inside anymore.”
“she had known the consequences when she took off, but for whatever reason, she left anyway.”
“She had known the kind of love that was worth risking everything for, the kind of love that was as rare as a glimpse of heaven.”
Source: The Best Of Me
“She had large, questioning eyes that seemed to draw me in and a sense of quiet outrage that simmered just beneath the surface. More than anything, within her features, there was a streak of wild quirkiness that made her dazzlingly attractive.”
Source: Shades of Grey
“She had learned, in her life, that time lived inside you. You are time, you breathe time, though she hadn't understood why... Now she held inside her a cacophony of times and lately it drowned out the world.”
Source: The Story of Edgar Sawtelle
“She had learned long ago that the truth made people angry, and to speak of it was considered evil.”
Source: Ghost Summer: Stories
“She had learned over time that to know anything was bearable. It was secrecy that could not be borne.”
Source: Saints for All Occasions
“She had learned the lesson of renunciation and was as familiar with the wreck of each day's wishes as with the diurnal setting of the sun.”
Source: The Mayor of Casterbridge
“She had learned the practice of deception from Kaz Brekker himself, and there was no greater teacher.”
Source: Rule of Wolves
“She had learned to pay attention to the variations in Rokan's smiles. There was the sideways half-smile when he found something amusing; the slow, contented smile that appeared only rarely these days; and the wide, dazzling, unrestrained smile she had so far seen only twice, when he first came for her in the Mistwood and when they watched the hawk soar against the sky. And then there was this one, the reason for her watchfulness: the impish grin that meant he wanted to do something he knew was stupid and was going to do it anyhow.”
Source: Mistwood
“She had learned, too, that quiet was a thing you built, not a thing you inherited.”
Source: Stolen
“She had learned, in her life, that time lived inside you. You are time, you breathe time. When she'd been young, she'd had an insatiable hunger for more of it, though she hadn't understood why. Now she held inside her a cacophony of times and lately it drowned out the world. The apple tree was still nice to lie near. They peony, for its scent, also fine. When she walked through the woods (infrequently now) she picked her way along the path, making way for the boy inside to run along before her. It could be hard to choose the time outside over the time within.”
“She had learned, in the slums of her childhood, that honest people were never touchy about the matter of being trusted.”
“She had learnt many things since the days of her first rebellion, and she knew now that this matter of the man friend and nothing else in the world is the central issue in the emancipation of women. The difficulty of him is latent in every other restriction of which women complain. The complete emancipation of women will come with complete emancipation of humanity from jealousy — and no sooner. All other emancipations are shams until a woman may go about as freely with this man as with that, and nothing remains for emancipation when she can.”
Source: The Wife of Sir Isaac Harman
“She had learnt something, too, of the curious inconsistencies of human nature, of how difficult it was to assess people as "good" or "bad" as she had been inclined to do in her days of youthful dogmatism.... People, in fact, were not all of a piece.”
“She had learnt to put pride aside early in life to secure a roof over her head.”
Source: Second Chinese Daughter
“She had left me. And although I was waiting, I knew she couldn't come back.”
Source: Meet Me at the Surface
“She had left me thirsty and all my life would be thirst and longing for what I had lost before I found it.”
Source: Wide Sargasso Sea
“She had life. I had accumulated anecdotes.”
Source: Bluebeard
“She had liked, in Oregon, the feeling that the two of them and a dog could fill a house with enough intent to scare off bad luck. Preference, she had reminded herself, is not the same as wisdom.”
Source: Stolen
“She had listened to him, partly sympathetic, partly horrified. For it was one thing for her to reject her background, to be critical of her family's heritage, another to hear it from him.”
Source: The Namesake: A Novel
“She had lived her early years as though she were waiting for something she might, but never did, become.”
Source: The Ravishing of Lol Stein
“She had lived in eight different countries growing up and had visited dozens of others. To most people, this sounded cool, and in some ways, Ayers knows, it was cool, or parts of it were. But since humans are inclined to want what they don't have, she longed to live in America, preferably the solid, unchanging, undramatic Midwest, and attend a real high school, the kind shown in movies, complete with a football team, cheerleaders, pep rallies, chemistry labs, summer reading lists, hall passes, proms, detentions, assemblies, fund-raisers, lockers, Spanish clubs, marching bands, and the dismissal bell.”
Source: Winter in Paradise
“She had lived in that house fourteen years, and every year she had demanded of John that she be given a pet of some strange exotic breed. Not that she did not have enough animals. She had collected several wild and broken animals that, in a way, had become exotic by their breaking. Their roof would have collapsed from the number of birds who might have lived there if the desert hadn't killed three- quarters of those that tried to cross it. Still every animal that came within a certain radius of that house was given a welcome-the tame, the half born, the wild, the wounded.”
Source: The Collected Works of Billy the Kid
“She had lived the idea of spreading truth like a fire, like touching a lit candle to another candle and watching its flame come to life, until the whole world was bright and you saw everything clear.”
Source: Unmade
“She had lived through years of teasing as a child because of her slow speech, first in Babylon, and later in Susa, being told she was a dolt, or worse, a bore, too dull to befriend. By the time she thought of the answer to one thing, the conversation had often moved in a different direction. People her own age had found her tedious, not having the patience to wait until she said her piece. To them, she was hardly present. Not worth the effort of friendship. She had learned to protect herself by not risking new friendships, a habit that had stuck into adulthood.
Jadon had been different from the start. He had waited on every word, his easy smile reassuring her anxious heart. Never once had he made her feel unwanted. At times she wondered if he had been born to understand her.”
Source: The Royal Artisan
“She had lolled about for three years at Girton with the kind of books she could equally have read at home--Jane Austen, Dickens, Conrad, all in the library downstairs, in complete sets. How had that pursuit, reading the novels that others took as their leisure, let her think she was superior to anyone else?”
“She had long ago given up the hope of, for once in her life, making the truly correct choice, one that time and life would not eventually disprove and make subject to mockery in some way or another. And of course she had already given up the foolish and pretentious wish that she would herself be chosen for something.”
“She had long been a cold and calculating person, and yet she had never given in to the darkness entirely. She would remember her mother's touch or the voice of a lost friend, and the tiniest bit of hope would return.”
Source: The Dark Planet
“She had long since learned that the world would be no good to her unless she made herself as threatening as possible. Those perceived to be weak were always punished.”
Source: A Vision in Smoke
“She had long since stopped finding it ironic or eerie that the city at large paid no attention to a murder, whether the victim was a prominent citizen or a guttersnipe.”
Source: New Amsterdam
“She had looked her duty courageously in the face and found it a friend - as duty ever is when we meet it frankly.”
Source: Anne of Green Gables
“She had lost all our memories for ever, and it was as though by dying she had robbed me of part of myself. I was losing my individuality. It was the first stage of my own death, the memories dropping off like gangrened limbs.”
“She had lost herself in this old work, her personality dissolving into it, so that she had been set free. The immortality of the soul lies in its dissolution; this was the cryptic comment that so frustrated Olivier and which Julien had only ever grasped as evidence for the history of a particular school of thought. He had known all about its history, but Julia knew what it meant. He found the realization strangely reassuring.”
Source: The Dream of Scipio
“She had lost herself somewhere along the frontier between her inventions, her stories, her fantasies and her true self. The boundaries had become effaced, the tracks lost, she had walked into pure chaos, and not a chaos which carried her like the galloping of romantic riders in operas and legends, but which suddenly revealed the stage props: a papier-mâché horse.”
“She had lost him. Lost him because she'd let him go. And she could not allow herself to regret that decision.”
Source: Happily Ever After
“She had lost the life she had believed she’d been granted. She was in mourning.”
Source: Malibu Rising
“She had loved Bert Cousins, and then grown used to him, then was disappointed in him, and then later, after he left her with four small children, she had hated him with the full force of her life. But in the airport when she was twenty-two, her love for him had precluded all thoughts of ever not loving him.”
Source: Commonwealth
“She had loved Hansu, and then she had loved Isak. However, what she felt for her boys, Noa and Mozasu, was more than the love she felt for the men; this love for her children felt like life and death. After Noa had gone, she felt half-dead. She could not imagine any mother feeling differently.”
Source: Pachinko
“She had loved him for such a long time, she thought. How was it that she did now know him at all?”
“She had loved him, she thought now, because, just at that time, she had had to have something else, someone else, to love, a private place for wounded love to go. But that had been, as she had then suspected and now knew, a device, a dream.”
Source: The Message To The Planet
“She had loved him. He knew this; he had never doubted it. But she had also asked him to kill her. If you love someone that much, you did not lay that sort of burden on him for the rest of his life.”
“She had loved without restraint, and he'd left a stain upon her soul.”
Source: Velvet Was the Night
“She had lunch with Betty yesterday," said Mark, "and Betty told her you said she had herpes."
"I never said herpes," I said.
"You must have said something," said Mark.
"I said she had an infection," I said.
"Well, she's furious at you," said Mark.
"She's furious at me," I said. "That's rich." All my life I had wanted to say, "That's rich." Now I finally had gotten my chance. "That's really rich," I said. "Listen, you bastard. You tell Thelma that if she keeps calling here, I'll tell Betty she has the clap."
"Clap hands," said Sam, and clapped his hands together.
"I'll get it into the Ear, too," I said. "What hopelessly tall and ungainly Washington hostess has a social disease, and we don't mean her usual climbing?”
Source: Heartburn
“She had made a cheddar-and-parsley roulade. Lina had made a lentil goulash, plus almond-and-white-chocolate blondies. Emmeline had made two different types of risotto. Erin had made lamb-and-asparagus mini pies and a strawberry-and-spinach salad. Renni had made bread-and-butter pudding using chocolate croissants. Andrea had made a hearty beef goulash plus zucchini with feta and mint. Sash had made a giant pumpkin cheesecake. The kitchen was a kaleidoscope of smells.”
Source: Supper Club
“She had made friends already, and like all horses she knew that important tasks should best be tackled communally.”
Source: The First Tale of the Tinners' Rabbits
“She had made him possible. In that sense she was his god. Like God, she was neglected.”
Source: The Passion
“She had made reason and common sense her gods.
She had allowed people who did not know what she knew or understand what she unstood to be her mentors.”
Source: Bespelling Jane Austen
“She had made the choice for him - in a moment of flight and panic, but she had made it - not realizing that her Jace would rather die than be like this, and that she'd been not so much saving his life as damning him to an existence he would despise.”
Source: City of Lost Souls