S Quotes
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“She had nine hundred thirty-one viewers at the moment. Another sixty-nine, and sponsorships would kick in.”
Source: Love Minus Eighty
“She had no desire to see Conall dead. She loved him.
That was a thought that caught her by surprise. Claray had liked Conall from the start, admired his sense of honor and determination to look after his people. She also appreciated all he had done for her, rescuing her from Kerr, carrying her before him on his mount while she slept, no matter that he was exhausted. He'd also been most patient with her rescuing animals at every turn on the way home to MacFarlane when she'd known he hadn't wanted her to. He was a good man----he worked day and night here to build a home for them all, and he'd tended to her when she was injured and ill with such gentleness and kindness. And then there was his loving.
Aye, at first Claray had worried that her soul might be in peril because of the pleasure he gave her, but she'd come to terms with that. It was just too beautiful and intimate to be something God would begrudge them. Surely, if He hadn't wanted them to enjoy each other like that, He wouldn't have made it possible for people to enjoy it as they did. At least that was her reasoning. Perhaps it was just a justification to allow her to continue to enjoy her marital bed without guilt, but since she found it impossible not to, she was happy to accept that justification.
Whatever the case, with all that she admired, respected and enjoyed about her husband, Claray supposed it would be surprising if she did not love him. Conall was a man worth loving, and she simply could not bear the thought of this man ending his life.”
Source: Highland Wolf
“She had no doubt in her mind what he was going to do. And while her ever-elusive shred of common sense squealed, “no,” every thing else in her shouted, “Bring it on.”
Source: Neighbors with Benefits
“She had no faith in humanity. The look in someone's eyes, the beliefs they espoused, the eloquence with which they did so, were, she knew, no guarantee of anything She knew that the only life left to her was one hemmed in by niggling doubts and cold questions.”
Source: Human Acts
“She had no idea a man could even get that upset without having to go to four different flower shops in one day.”
Source: Weddings Coordinated
“She had no idea how George delighted in her funny ways, or watched her through the window as she stood outside, finishing an apple or nibbling sunflower seeds. She did not register his glances, his quick inventory of her clothes, his pleasure in her face and wrists. She did not know his heart.”
Source: The Cookbook Collector
“She had no idea how lonely it felt to be single.”
Source: Apples Never Fall
“She had no idea how long they kissed—and kissed—but she didn’t think about stopping until she ran out of air. Breathing hard, she slowly opened her eyes and stared directly into his.
They’d heated. Darkened. And something else. He wasn’t looking so relaxed now. In fact, he was looking the opposite of relaxed. He looked…feral.
And she was his prey.”
Source: Once in a Lifetime
“She had no idea how much control it took for me not to cross this line. Especially when every one of my instincts was screaming: touch her, taste her, take her.”
Source: We Shouldn't Be Doing This: A Taboo Romance Novella
“She had no idea how she was supposed to act, no idea how to feel. Julian had just made incredible love to her, but he wasn't *in love* with her. He'd stamped himself forever on her--body, heart, and soul--but a year from now he probably wouldn't remember who she was. He'd rocked her world, and yet he was only temporarily a part of it.
What was a woman supposed to say? "Thanks, stud"?”
Source: Hard Evidence
“She had no idea that every second, every breath, I plotted her death. I was willing to make it my last stand: to kill her at any cost, even if it meant shredding my wings to break free.
...
'And I was ready- I was so damned ready to make an end of it, and wait for Cassian and Azriel and Mor on the other side. There was nothing but my rage, and my relief that my friends weren't there.”
Source: A Court of Mist and Fury
“She had no idea what he was talking about, but feared the twinkle in his eye.”
Source: The Midnight Library
“She had no idea what she was asking. If he tried to help her, he knew what would happen.
He'd have a mission again. A reason to reconnect with the world.
And connections meant pain.”
Source: K-9 Defense
“She had no idea what the future would hold for any of them, beyond possibilities as infinite as the stars.
And really, that was enough.”
Source: Starflight
“She had no idea where she lived or what she did or where she was meant to be heading after the swimming pool, but there was something quite freeing about that. To be existing without any expectation, even her own.”
Source: The Midnight Library
“She had no images of this love. She could offer no anecdotes. It was a belief rather than a memory.”
Source: Oryx And Crake
“She had no mental shields, no barriers. The gates to her mind... Solid iron, covered in vines of flowers- or it would have been. The blossoms were all sealed, sleeping buds tucked into tangles of leaves and thorns.”
Source: A Court of Wings and Ruin
“She had no mercy. He looked at her neck and thought how he would like to jab it with the knife he had for his muffin. He knew enough anatomy to make pretty certain of getting the carotid artery. And at the same time he wanted to cover her pale, thin face with kisses.”
Source: Of Human Bondage (Diversion Classics)
“She had no need to ask why he had come. She knew as certainly as if he had told her that he was here to be where she was.”
Source: ANNA KARENINA
“She had no particular breed in mind, no unusual requirements. Except the special sense of mutual recognition that tells dog and human they have both come to the right place.”
Source: Fifty years in the doghouse
“She had no recollection, later, of having decided what to do next, or of having hunted for something to wear, but somehow she was hurrying down the stairs, dressed in shadowhunter gear, the letter in one hand and the chain with the ring clasped hastily around her throat.”
Source: Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls
“She had no scars to show for her happiness except her laughter lines”
“she had no stay, no root in herself yet. Well do I know not one human being ought, even were it possible, to be enough for himself; each of us needs God and every human soul he has made, before he has enough; but we ought each to be able, in the hope of what is one day to come, to endure for a time, not having enough. Letty was unblamable that she desired the comfort of humanity around her soul, but I am not sure that she was quite unblamable in not being fit to walk a few steps alone, or even to sit still and expect. […] and now her heart was like a child left alone in a great room. She had not yet learned that we must each bear his own burden, and so become able to bear each the burden of the other. Poor friends we are, if we are capable only of leaning, and able never to support.”
Source: Mary Marston
“She had no sword or shield, no bow or spear. Just a frightened heartbeat and her bare hands.”
Source: Light Keeper Chronicle: The Unspoken Prophecy
“She had no time for sleep, with the weight of the world upon her shoulders. And she feared to dream. Sleep is a little death, dreams the whisperings of the Other, who would drag us all into his eternal night.”
Source: A Dance with Dragons
“She had no tolerance for scenes which were not of her own making.”
Source: The House of Mirth
“She had no will of her own now, no consecutive thought, no power of concentration; she was being dashed and hurtled into a chaos that blinded her, some bottomless pit, some sweet, appalling nothingness.
[...]
Papa who played her on a thousand strings, she dancing to his tune like a doll on wires - Papa who harped at her and would not let her be. He was cruel, he was relentless, he was like some oppressive, suffocating power that stifled her and could not be warded off; he gave her all these bewildering sounds and sensations without causing so that she was like a child stuffed with sweets cloying and rich; they were rammed down her throat and into her belly, filling her, exhausting her, making her a drum of excitement and anguish and emotion that was gripping in its savage intensity. It was too much for her, too strong.
She felt as though she were a dry stack in a deep wood, and he had put a match to her and was watching her burn.”
Source: Julius
“She had not always known the shape of him. She had loved the version of him she'd constructed for herself. She had admired him. She had idolized him. She adored an idea of him, an archetype, a version of him that was invulnerable.”
Source: The Poppy War
“She had not always known the shape of him. She had loved the version of him. She idolized him. She adored him an idea of him, an archetype, a version of him that invulnerable.
But now she knew the truth, she knew the realness of Altan and his vulnerabilities and most of all his pain... and still she loved him.”
“She had not been conferred with a practical sense of how one went about this strange and all inverted business of being a girl, where seemingly natural stuff like going on about all the great things you just learned about Siberian tigers on National Geographic was suddenly weird, but totally weird stuff in and of itself like drawing around your eyeball with a pencil became normal, and it impressed to no end that it was a product of meticulous effort that made the twins seem so perfectly and effortlessly feminine.”
Source: Hemlock Grove
“She had not been human in that final hour. Just a paper lantern, thin and wind-torn, clinging to the flickering remnants of a soul. Yet when there was no more to climb, and she had looked up and seen nothing but the terrible beauty of the sky, she had found the strength to rise.”
Source: The Priory of the Orange Tree
“She had not been much to look at in her youth, and she knew well that only courage is required for an adventure.”
Source: The Language of Thorns: Midnight Tales and Dangerous Magic
“She had not character enough to take to drinking, and moaned about, slip-shod and in curl-papers, all day.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of William Makepeace Thackeray (Illustrated)
“She had not expected him to remember her at all and her hard little heart grew quite warm.”
Source: The Secret Garden
“She had not expected, out in the world, to find herself quite so much the wrong sort of person.”
“She had not had the relief of amnesia. She had suffered longer, and she had suffered more. Each second was agony in the first weeks. She was like an amputee in the days before anesthesia, half crazed with pain, astounded that the human body could feel so much and not die of it. But slowly, cell by painful cell, she began to mend. There came a time when it was no longer her whole body that burned with pain but only her heart. And then there came a time when even her heart was able, for a time at least, to feel other emotions besides grief.”
Source: The Thirteenth Tale
“She had not heard him enter, and hardly realized his presence there. She was yawning, and he saw the red interior of her mouth as if it had been a snake's. She had stretched one arm so high above her coiled-up cable of hair that he could see its satin delicacy above the sunburn; her face was flushed with sleep, and her eyelids hung heavy over their pupils. The brim-fulness of her nature breathed from her. It was a moment when a woman's soul is more incarnate than at any other time; when the most spiritual beauty bespeaks itself flesh; and sex takes the outside place in the presentation.”
Source: Tess of the D’Urbervilles
“She had not known before that it takes two to make a smile.”
Source: These Happy Golden Years
“She had not known the weight until she felt the freedom.”
Source: The Scarlet Letter - Second Edition: A Romance
“She had not lived by the sea all those years, listened to the wharfman's songs all that time, to spend her life in the soundless cave of Elihue's mind.”
Source: The Bluest Eye
“She had not made a decision to give up sex, only the clamor of romance, because it was exhausting her, doing her no good and too much harm.”
“She had not meant him to translate her words about returning home so literally at the first; she had not intended him to learn her secret; but more than all she was not able to endure the perception of his learning it and continuing unmoved.”
Source: Desperate Remedies
“She had not really a sensitive soul, but to put it in exact terms, was possessed by an uncontrollable feeling of mind”
“She had not understood what it had been like for him to live his entire life underground, chained and beaten and crippled—until then. Until she heard that noise of undiluted, unyielding joy.
Until she echoed it, tipping her head back to the clouds around them.
They sailed over a sea of clouds, and Abraxos dipped his claws in them before tilting to race up a wind-carved column of cloud. Higher and higher, until they reached its peak and he flung out his wings in the freezing, thin sky, stopping the world entirely for a heartbeat.
And Manon, because no one was watching, because she did not care, flung out her arms as well and savored the freefall, the wind now a song in her ears, in her shriveled heart.”
Source: Heir of Fire
“She had not wanted him to but had let him have his way because ever since she was a child she had generally yielded before anyone with strong willpower, especially if it was a man, not because she was naturally submissive, but because strong male willpower gave her a feeling of safety and trust, together with acceptance and a desire to give in.”
Source: Scenes from Village Life
“She had noted, as a small smile graced her, that perhaps Kyun-ho’s life was laced with the same kind of tragedies that adorned her own.
And this is what prompted her to stay, despite all the warnings from the world around her that told her she shouldn’t.”
Source: Children of Dysphoria: Book One Fall of Haven
“She had nothing in this world but her two hands and her crazy love for Jesus, who seemed, for his part, never to have heard of her.”
Source: Tree of Smoke
“She had nothing to do all day ... but did it with the greatest possible speed.”
“She had nothing to do but to forgive herself and be happier than ever.”
Source: The Complete Novels of Jane Austen
“She had nothing to lose when she looked into those dark limpid pools of desire...Apart from her soul, and even that she would relinquish for one night undulating on his rigid fervour. But to what end? A moment of exquisite bliss? No, she demanded an encore; even her soul had a price...”