S Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with S. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“She had stayed home and worked hard and a posthumous recognition had eventually followed. Not that Buck hadn't worked hard, sure he did, but in the end the body won't hold up as a work of art.”
Source: The Altar of the Body: A Novel
“She had storms all her life, but she died peacefully.”
“She had streaked blonde hair, long and straight, parted in the middle framing high cheek bones, an aquiline nose and beautiful deep blue eyes. She was young, around 30, tall and lithe with a good body, athletic, not skinny. She wore a sleeveless black dress that exposed her toned arms and shoulders, indicating regular workouts or yoga. There was a hint of vein running the length of her lean muscle. This girl stood out like an arabian in a corral full of draft horses.”
“She had studied the universe all her life, but had overlooked its clearest message: For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.”
Source: Contact
“She had such unusual eyes. They made me think of the seaside, and so I called her Ocean, and could not have told you why.”
“She had suspected that war might be inevitable, but she had harboured a glimmer of hope that wisdom and compromise would prevail.”
Source: A Heart Full of Malice
“She had taken him for granted, she thought with surprise and shame, watching the flickering candlelight. She had assumed his kindness was so natural and so innate, she had never asked herself whether it cost him any effort. Any effort to stand between Will and the world, protecting each of them from the other. Any effort to accept the loss of his family with equanimity. Any effort to remain cheerful and calm in the face of his own dying.”
Source: The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess
“She had taken him over when he wasn’t looking . When he’d been so busy binding her to him. Wanting his own woman for all the wrong reasons and realizing when he had her, what the right reasons were.”
Source: Leopard's Rage
“She had taken the life of the one that had taken her mother's. She had avenged her brother's death. She was a hunter now. But Mother would never know and Wolfsbane would hunt alone. Their kind, the last humans of the Wylder Mountains, would fade into the snow like the majik of the Lost City.”
Source: Wolfsbane's Daughter
“She had taken to wondering lately, during these swift-counted years, what had been done with all those wasted summer days; how could she have spent them so wantonly? I am foolish, she told herself early every summer, I am very foolish; I am grown up now and know the values of things. Nothing is ever really wasted, she believed sensibly, even one's childhood, and then each year, one summer morning, the warm wind would come down the city street where she walked and she would be touched with the little cold thought: I have let more time go by.”
Source: The Haunting of Hill House
“She had tasted adventure. She had danced with the threat of death. And she had lived.”
Source: Fate Abandoned
“She had taught herself how to knit, and for the mare's scarf - it was green - she had given herself the best grade possible. And ...'
'That's silly!' Micha giggled.
'Well, who is the cliff queen, you or me?' Abel asked. 'It isn't my fault if you're giving yourself grades!”
Source: The Storyteller
“She had that rare quality: the courage to show love”
Source: The Games of Night
“She had that thing most people don't have - curiosity. She might not have always got the right answers, but she wanted to ask the questions. It's very hard if you are interested in ideas and all that, ideas and the philosophies of the past, it's very hard to find someone around here to really talk to. That's the tragedy of the thing really I mean, when you think about it. Certainly I can't find anyone around here to talk to anymore. And for a woman it's even harder you see. They can feel very trapped - because of the patriarchy. I do feel everyone needs to have these little chats now and then.”
“She had that trusting view of humanity that came from living in a small-town community where people relied on each other.”
Source: Miracle on 5th Avenue
“She had the best kind of courage, or maybe the worst kind, the kind that gets you into trouble.”
Source: Fear is the Key
“She had the bizarre feeling of time bending all around her, as though she was from the past reading about the future, or from the future reading about the past.”
Source: Exit West
“She had the changing quality of dream. She obeyed her own oscillations. What came into being between them was not a marriage but an interplay where nothing was ever fixed. No planetary tensions, chartered and mapped and measured.
Her movements were of absolute abandon, yieldingness and then at the smallest sign of lethargy or neglect, complete withdrawal and he had to begin his courtship anew. every day she could be won again lost again. and the reason for her flights and departures, her breaks from him, were obscure and mysterious to him.”
Source: Ladders to Fire
“She had the comfort of appearing very polite, while feeling very cross.”
“She had the consciousness of being nine-and-twenty to give her some regrets and some apprehensions; she was fully satisfied of being still quite as handsome as ever, but she felt her approach to the years of danger, and would have rejoiced to be certain of being properly solicited by baronet-blood within the next twelvemonth or two.”
“She had the constellations marked all over her back, and he moved his fingers gently over them, joining those dots, one after another.”
Source: Between the Abyss and Paradise
“She had the courage of a diamond,
that shines in the dark.
In lights, even a glass is shinier.”
Source: One Vulnerable Dot
“She had the courage to retain compassion, the intelligence and strength to grow wisdom. This is the meaning of resilience.”
Source: Woman, Captain, Rebel: The Extraordinary True Story of a Daring Icelandic Sea Captain
“She had the experience to suffer with discretion.”
Source: Call for the Dead
“She had the extra pulse of beauty people have when they know they're being fondly admired.”
Source: Girlfriend in a Coma
“She had the face of an angel I saw mirrors in her eyes We were the same, she and I Both bound by potent lies. In him I saw my future In him I saw my friend In him I saw my destiny Both my beginning and my end.”
“She had the faint taste of sass and sweet. Lethal and home. The combination was deadly to a man like him.”
Source: Toxic Game
“She had the feeling that if she went home, she might never get away. She thought of birds caught in nets. There was something inside her, beating against her ribs, urging her to do things she might not otherwise attempt. She had the strongest desire to get lost.”
Source: The Red Garden
“She had the feeling that she would be different from now on, that she could never go back and be the same person she had been.
So who am I now?
Somebody fierce, I think.
Somebody who’d enjoy running through the darkness, underneath stars bright as miniature suns, and maybe even hunt deer.
Somebody who can laugh and death”
Source: Daughters of Darkness
“She had the feeling that the door was looking at her, which she knew was silly, and knew on a deeper level was somehow true.”
Source: Coraline
“She had the feeling, the tingling, lingering sense that something or someone life altering was just over the horizon. She had no idea what it was, but she wanted to rush headlong to bring it to her.”
Source: Autumnal Dancer
“She had the grit to pray for Judus if she took the
notion—there warn’t no back-down to her, I judge.”
Source: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
“She had the hard, half-apathetic expression of one who deems anything possible at the hands of time and chance, except perhaps fair play”
Source: The Mayor of Casterbridge
“She had the impression she’d tipped her hand and he’d seen every card.”
Source: To Capture His Heart
“She had the kind of brilliant, decadent, Rococo beauty that made his fingers itch to grab a pencil or a paintbrush.”
Source: Get a Life, Chloe Brown
“She had the kind of eyes that predisposed you to supporting her every endeavor.”
Source: Looking For Alaska Special 10th Anniversary Edition
“She had the kind of fingers you want to interlace with your own.”
Source: Paper Towns
“She had the kind of looks that had probably been quite pretty in high school, but were now worn down by years of smoking cigarettes, raising children, and the disappointment of being married to an asshole.”
Source: Deeper Than the Dead
“She had the kind of smile you see in toothpaste commercials, where you can see practically all of somebody's teeth. She should smile like that all the time, Park thought; it made her face cross over from weird to beautiful. He wanted to make her smile like that constantly.”
Source: Eleanor & Park
“She had the knowledge that she was small but she lacked the courage to act otherwise.”
Source: A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
“She had the longest tail I'd ever seen on any creature. It curled right round the classroom and moved gently up and down like a huge, long finger waving”
Source: The Monster Crisp-Guzzler
“She had the most beautiful awkwardness”
“She had the perpetual sense, as she watched the taxi cabs, of being out, out, far out to sea and alone; she always had the feeling that it was very, very, dangerous to live even one day.”
Source: Selected Works of Virginia Woolf
“She had the power to destroy. I had only seen the power to love. When you discovered both, who could figure out what to do with that?”
Source: Beautiful Creatures
“She had the prettiest eyes
& prettiest smile with
Wounds on her heart and
bruises on her soul~”
“She had the resigned indifference of extreme old age. Buildings and empires rose and fell. It snowed. It stopped snowing. People came and went. One day death would come for her, and she would not find that surprising either, and she would not care -”
Source: Archangel
“She had the revelation one Sunday that while the other instruments played for everyone the violen played for her alone .”
“She had the right idea, old man, don't you think - to disappear before it gets too late?”
Source: Rue des boutiques obscures
“She had the same responsibility as everybody else did: to live as softly as she could in the world.”
Source: The View from the Seventh Layer: Stories
“She had the soft presence of a fish hook in the eye.”
Source: Flash Fire