S Quotes
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“She hadn't kept anything from him that she hadn't been keeping from herself. He doesn't get that truth and memory can be too complex, too tentacled, to boil down to a linear narrative. That sometimes, silence is a form of survival.”
Source: The Lighthouse Witches
“She hadn’t known that the ability to make pancakes from scratch made a man brutally hot. Now she did.”
Source: Charlotte's Chance
“She hadn't lied. She hadn't betrayed anyone's trust; still, she felt she had done something wrong. Or rather, she had not yet done the right thing. Was there a difference between these two sins?”
Source: The Oracle of Stamboul
“she hadn't listened.she never did.maybe she did deserve to die after all, if nothing else, then just for her sheer stupidity.and for the way she'd treated James too”
Source: More than Meets the Ink
“She hadn't meant to fall asleep, but she was a bit like a cat herself, forever wandering in the woods, chasing after squirrels and rabbits as fast as her skinny legs could take her when the fancy struck, climbing trees like a possum, able to doze in the sun at a moment's notice. And sometimes with no notice at all.”
Source: A Circle of Cats
“She hadn't meant to fall asleep, but she was a bit like a cat herself, forever wandering in the woods, chasing after squirrels and rabbits as fast as her skinny legs could take her when the fancy struck, climbing trees like a possum, able to doze in the sun at a moment's notice. And sometimes with no notice at all.
(This text is originally from A Circle of Cats, which was revised and re-adapted by the author for The Cats of Tanglewood Forest)”
Source: The Cats of Tanglewood Forest
“She hadn't planned on getting laid tonight but then she hadn't planned on missing her home and her friends and being thnis down and, frankly, this bored on her special day. She was so relieved to see a guy her own age it was worth a thank-you-for-walking-into-this-bar-fuck alone.”
Source: Some Guys Need a Lot of Lovin'
“She hadn't realised how many little pieces of herself existed, all constantly blaring their pains or status. How much noise it produced in her head.”
Source: A Court of Silver Flames
“She hadn't realized how badly she'd missed this: sinking into the solace of words, letting the authors steer her toward answers or, at least, better questions.”
Source: The Spellshop
“She hadn't realized she was lonely until she began to understand that other people were not.”
Source: Unbecoming
“She hadn’t realized the outbuilding— like a sunroom— was connected to the house, and it was a piece of heaven for Saoirse. This was the apothecary to end all apothecaries— a glass-walled sanctuary most definitely infused with magic. The dappled morning light poured through the deceptively tall glass walls and ceiling. Every branch and leaf seemed to stretch toward the light, searching for its warmth and light.
The space itself was an airy rectangle, bursting with greenery. On the two shorter, angled walls were multitiered potting tables, each layer crowded with voluminous herbs, delicate blossoms, and trailing vines that cascaded over the edges.
The longer glass wall had a counter-height table that ran its full length. Clay pots, glass beakers, and neatly labeled tins cluttered the top. Even the outside seemed to want in, with the leaves still clinging to the trees outside brushing against the glass.
On the opposite side was a brick wall lined with open shelves from floor to ceiling. Rowan tracked jars of every shape and size on the shelves. They were filled with dried herbs, amber and emerald oils, crushed petals, powdered roots, and mystery mixtures just waiting for Saoirse to use them.
Possibility. It was the only word that came to mind. This apothecary held a world of possibilities for Saoirse. With everything at her fingertips, her sister could spend a lifetime crafting healing potions, infusing them into soaps, lotions, and balms.
Saoirse stood in the center of the room, arms wide. She whirled around. “Isn’t it perfect?” she squealed, pushing her glasses up. She wrapped her arms around herself. “I was just wandering around and it’s like a magnet pulled me to this room. My room.”
Source: House of Spells and Secrets
“She hadn't seen him in years, but everything that had ever passed between them - love and sex and rage and grief and anger and finally, horribly, indifference - was suddenly present, too. Surrounding them, ghosts. None of it ever goes away.”
Source: Lightbreakers
“She hadn't seen me in awhile, and she said, "Where have you been? You disappeared off the face of the map." I agreed, and replied, "I am Frisland.”
Source: Powdered Saxophone Music
“She hadn't signed on for this. She craved action. She wanted hard deadlines.”
Source: How to Kill a Celebrity: a Novella
“She hadn’t thought it could be an option to live without the pain she carried on a daily basis. She shook her head and cut off her train of thought. It was too much to think about, and she would much rather leave those memories buried deep inside, walled within her emotional fortress. It hurt less that way.”
Source: Once I Knew
“She hadn’t understood loss until it had laid her to waste, and she feared what would become of her when she was again without purpose, left to the mercy of her own grief.”
Source: The Paragon
“She hadn’t understood the plan until she spoke it.”
Source: Dust
“She hadn't wanted to take his joy away from him. Any more than she already did.”
Source: A Court of Frost and Starlight
“She hadn’t withered when he did no longer want her, though he had wilted. She had found her path and glowed like a star. Was it her moral courage which had made her bloom?”
Source: THE CHISELED WORLD
“She hadn't been given the proper tools to make a real life with, she decided, that was it. She'd been given a can of gravy and a hairbrush and told, "There you go." -- Willing”
“She hadn't chosen him over all the others. The truth was that she hadn't even thought about anyone else.”
“She hadn't chosen the brave life. She'd chosen the small, fearful one.”
Source: Sisterhood Everlasting (Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants): A Novel
“She hadn't slain the dragon. Not at all. She hoped no one ever would.”
“She hadn't wanted to be loved carefully, only well.”
Source: The Distant Hours: A Novel
“She hadn’t meant to get trapped in a conversation. That was the trouble with offering help to old people.”
“She handed back the cigar and dug the silver watch out of her vest pocket. It was warm and smooth, and she didn't know why she liked it so much, but she did. Maybe because it was a choice. Taking it had been a choice. Keeping it had been one, too. And maybe the choice started as a random one, but there was something to it.”
Source: A Darker Shade of Magic
“She handed him a glass of water and two Aleve gelcaps. “They’re anti-inflammatories. They will dull the pain a little bit and keep down swelling and redness. Swallow the pills, don’t chew.” “Well, I thought I’d stick them into my nose and impersonate a walrus, but if you insist, I’ll swallow them.”
“She handed it to Nora, affectionately, as if it was a birthday gift.”
Source: The Midnight Library
“She handed me one of the finished mendiants. A fat black cherry made for the nose; a candied lemon slice for the mouth. She had made all her chocolates into little faces. Features added in gold leaf; almonds, raisins, poppy seeds. All of the chocolates different, all of them marked with her signature:
Love me. Feed me. Free me-
And all of the chocolates were smiling.”
Source: The Strawberry Thief
“She [Haniya Daoud] seemed tired, but also calm. 'It's good to be reminded now and then that such things exist.'
'What things?'
'Beauty. Peace.' She held his eyes. 'Goodness. But they're fragile and can so easily disappear, unless people are willing to do what's necessary to defend them.'
'I'm not sure that goodness is all that fragile,' said Gamache.
...'If not fragile, it's mercurial,' said Haniya. 'Good. Evil. Cruelty and kindness. Guilt and innocence. An act cam be all those things at once, depending on your perspective. It's so easy to delude ourselves, wouldn't you say, Chief Inspector?'
'Into believing killing one person to save millions is an act of moral courage?'
'I don't think that's a delusion.'
'And if you kill the wrong person?”
Source: The Madness of Crowds
“She harbored a disdain for the mainstream without disdaining the people who took part in it.”
Source: The God of the Woods
“She harbored the childhood presumption that the truly scary things could only find her in the night.”
Source: Artificial Gods
“She hardly ever thought of him. He had worn a place for himself in some corner of her heart, as a sea shell, always boring against the rock, might do. The making of the place had been her pain. But now the shell was safely in the rock. It was lodged, and ground no longer.”
Source: THE ONCE AND FUTURE KING
“She hardly knew how to suppose that she could be an object of admiration to so great a man.”
Source: Pride and Prejudice
“She has a charm that is incomparable. She has a beautiful heart that flows with love. And she has a sensitive soul that enthralls with magic. She was the spark I had been waiting for all my life.”
“She has a choice. She can either accept a life of misery or she can struggle against it. And she chooses to struggle...she fails in the end but there's something beautiful and even heroic in her rebellion.”
“She has a fiery soul that cannot be tamed.
She has free spirit that cannot be maimed.
She moves with the wind and flows with the river.
She howls at the moon and smiles at the sun.
Just when you think she is finished, she declares, “I’ve just begun.”
Like wild flowers, she grows where she decides to push through fallow ground.
Like wild fires, she spreads with speed that can’t be drowned.
She has mystery in her blood, magic in her touch and regardless of her frame
she can be too much-wild woman.
She is not predictable, controllable nor the people pleasing kind.
That’s why she is called wild woman and can never be defined.”
“She has a hard time communicating with people; she's too wounded emotionally. And since she doesn't have anyone to talk to, I think she forgets how to use her voice.”
Source: Soul Lanterns
“She has a laugh so hearty it knocks the whipped cream off an order of strawberry shortcake on a table fifty feet away.”
Source: The bloodhounds of Broadway and other stories
“She has a look," I said, "of not altogether belonging to today.”
Source: Portrait of Jennie
“She has a lot more friends than me, I guess. But that’s all right. I don’t mind. It’s understandable. I’m quite boring; I mean, she’d have a really boring life if she just hung around with me all the time.”
Source: Solitaire
“She has a lovely face;
God in his mercy lend her grace,
The Lady of Shalott.”
“She has a perfect body, and she's supposed to be sexy, but it doesn't turn me on. She has an ethereal sort of look to her, as though I'm looking at a piece of art. There is no carnal desire there -- just a bewitching beauty.”
Source: Reborn as a Vending Machine, I Now Wander the Dungeon, Vol. 1
“She has a point, Liege.”
Ethan clucked his tongue. “Captain of my Guards and he carries the standard of my Sentinel. Oh, how quickly they turn.”
“You’re first in my heart, Liege.”
Source: Twice Bitten
“She has a pretty face, which is the same thing as ugly when a woman is fat. In the complex calculus between men and women, Milly, understands that fat is always ugly and that ugly and skinny makes a woman eminently more desirable than fat and any combination such as beautiful, charming, intelligent, or kind. Milly is ally those things.”
“She has a quiet paroxysm.
Now remember that these are the days
before digital pornography.
There is no cliché of how women are supposed to orgasm,
no idea in their heads of how they are supposed to sound when they climax.
Mrs. Daldry’s first orgasms could be very quiet,
organic, awkward, primal. Or very clinical. Or embarrassingly natural.
But whatever it is, it should not be a cliché, a camp version
of how we expect all women sound when they orgasm.
It is simply clear that she has had some kind of release.”
Source: In the Next Room, or the Vibrator Play
“She has a serene, glowing disposition. She looks at you and the rest of the world through the eyes of a lynx and is always mysterious, possibly because she always harbours those hidden laughs just beneath her lips. She’s always ready to laugh.”
“She has a soft spot for houses that look sensible until you get inside.”
Source: Gingerbread
“She has a sort of old-fashioned character that's passing away — a vivid identity.”
Source: The Portrait of a Lady
“She has a strong instinct towards me.”
Source: Voor een betere wereld