S Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with S. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“She has a target on her back because of what you and I have put into place, but you’d better fucking believe I’m not going to let anything else happen to her or my cousin, the rest of my family or my men. If anything happens to anyone I care about… Those motherfuckers were after my attention, and they’ve got it. Just make sure they don’t hurt anyone else.”
Source: Bratva Connection: Maxim
“she has a wild spirit,
but a soft heart,
and such a sweet soul”
“She has all the beauty of the mother with none of the grandfather's stink of manure; and she's intelligent, too.”
Source: The Leopard
“She has all the qualities of leadership, except followers.”
“She has always been a bystander in family destruction, never realizing she herself possessed the capacity to inflict it.”
Source: The Man of My Dreams
“She has always known that houses are bodies and that her body is a house in more ways than most.”
Source: Sisters
“She has always said that talking makes everyone feel better. He says talking is the equivalent of grooming. The tongue and fingers are governed by the same parts of the brain. He marvels at how close they can be some nights on the phone and how words really are the equal of touch. Bakelite pressed hard against his ear.
She says it's not just the freedom from him and from their daughter. I feel some sort of opening. I saw things so clearly today.
He thinks about the solitary figure in every religion, the monks, saints and shamans in every tradition who walk out into wilderness on their own and find revelation.
It's what solitude does to a social animal he says.
People talk of recognizing something greater than themselves when they're alone because we finally have to realize how helpless we are as individuals. There's a freedom, a sense of wonder in feeling for a moment that we don't have to please anyone or adjust to the needs of others. And there's a fear in realizing how small we are, how much those distant others normally insulate us from seeing the limits of our mostly incompetent bodies. When we're on our own we seek solutions and speculate and fictionalize because that's what we do when we're confronted with survival. That's revelation.
Maybe she says, I'm just saying I'd like to eat less meat. We could have fish.”
Source: A Beautiful Truth
“She has always wanted you as a mate, Owen.”
Source: She-Wolf
“She has an electric blender, electric toaster and electric bread maker. She said "There are too many gadgets and no place to sit down!" So I bought her an electric chair.”
“She has awakened his soul and taught him to suffer for love, and that is what we are in this world for: to reach love through suffering.”
Source: The Lemon Farm
“She has become a crack in the armor I’ve spent years perfecting. And once that crack appears, it’s only a matter of time before the whole thing shatters.”
“She has become the one to whom he confesses the fights with his father, the fights that make him want to leave, to forget that he ever came from this family, and she quiets his anger with a brief touch of her hand on his arm. She tries to tell him that what he feels is not all anger, that one day that anger will burn out and he will be left with what he can't see right now: a sadness, an ache.”
Source: A Place for Us
“She has been a god too long to remember how to kneel.”
Source: The Heir of Ash and Thunder
“She has been all I’ve craved for what seems like an eternity. A long-awaited burst of life in a heart that’s been dead for so long.
The fire to my wick.
A throbbing pulse inside my veins.
She’s beauty, in and out. Her name, Lucille, translates to light, and there has never been a name more suitable for anyone. She’s a beam of brightness in an otherwise dark and depressing world.
Darkness and light. Dubh and Lucille.
She pulls me with her into her light and I show her that there is beauty in darkness.”
Source: Bloody Fingers & Red Lipstick
“She has been alone for a very long time.”
Source: Hera
“She has been hanging on to the hope of him for so long that she doesn't realize there isn't anything left to hope for.”
Source: Every Day
“She has been kissed as often as a police-court Bible, and by much the same class of people.”
“She has been more famous, over a longer time span, than any other female singer.”
“She has been surprised by grief, its constancy, its immediacy, its unrelenting physical pain.”
Source: Widow: Stories
“She has been taught - by the spaces we all occupy - that the experts don't look or sound like me; that they are older whiter and male.”
Source: Feminists Don't Wear Pink (And Other Lies): Amazing Women on What the F-Word Means to Them
“She has been to the compound before. She remembered this hallway. She knows about the initiation process. My mother was Dauntless.”
“She has being a supportive best friend mastered and down pat. They're already affectionate. They have ten years of history behind them. They barely have any secrets. But something must change when the shift from friend to girlfriend occurs. There has to be some additional element she's never experienced before.”
Source: The Romantic Agenda
“She has BIG feet! Oh my god, have you seen Sandra Bullocks feet? They're like the size of rulers!”
“She has built her whole life on the foundation of beauty: each chiseled plane, each sloping dimple, each soft curve as crucial as keystones in the cathedral of her body.”
Source: Wishing Stars: Space Opera Fairytales
“She has committed great sins, but they've been forgiven, and that's why she loves so deeply.”
Source: The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ
“She has committed no crime, she has merely broken a rigid and time-honored code of our society, a code so severe that whoever breaks it is hounded from our midst as unfit to live with. She is the victim of cruel poverty and ignorance, but I cannot pity her: she is white. She knew full well the enormity of her offense, but because her desires were stronger than the code she was breaking, she persisted in breaking it. She persisted, and her subsequent reaction is something that all of us have known at one time or another. She did something every child has done-she tried to put the evidence of her offense away from her. But in this case she was no child hiding stolen contraband: she struck out at her victim-of necessity she must put him away from her-he must be removed from her presence, from this world. She must destroy the evidence of her offense.”
Source: To Kill a Mockingbird
“she has craters
but only a fool can deny her beauty.
She silently stare sun whole night
& reflects his light
his love with stars at times.”
“She has decided to keep going, as anyone could tell by her closed eyes and calm expression. She realizes that all big decisions are ones that must be decided and decided again. She imagines that when you fall in love, you must decide to be in love a million times or more, and when you go to college, you must decide again and again to stay in college, and the same thing is true when you decide to run across the United States of America after a horrible tragedy.
When you are a person who cares for any other person, you must decide again to care, she also understands.”
Source: A Heart in a Body in the World
“She has dirt on me before I’m dirty.”
Source: Begin, End, Begin: A #LoveOzYA Anthology
“She has enough black eyeliner on to outline a corpse, and her skin's so pale she looks like she's just broken dawn.”
Source: Will Grayson, Will Grayson
“She has fallen madly”
“She has folded
Them back into her body as petals
Of a rose close when the garden
Stiffens and odours bleed
From the sweet, deep throats of the night flower.
The moon has nothing to be sad about,
Staring from her hood of bone.”
Source: Ariel
“She has forgotten dying.”
Source: Under Milk Wood
“She has form," he said to himself, as he walked away through the grove - "that cannot be denied to her; but has she got feeling? I am afraid not. In fact, she is like most artists; she is all style, without any sincerity. She would not sacrifice herself for others. She thinks merely of music, and everybody knows that arts are selfish. Still, it must be admitted that she has some beautiful notes in her voice. What a pity it is that they do not mean anything, or do any practical good.”
Source: The Happy Prince and Other Stories (Illustrated Edition)
“She has fought many wars, most internal. The ones that you battle alone, for this, she is remarkable. She is a survivor.”
“She has found the secret: When you stop seeking the artificial entertainment created by thoughts and words, the universe resumes the original entertainment. Birds, stars, clouds etc. come and dance before her and make her feel like the queen of universe.”
“She has given birth to vagabonds. She is the keeper of all these names and numbers now, numbers she once knew by heart, numbers and addresses her children no longer remember.”
“She has given me a way out.”
“She has given you something of value: the truth in her heart.”
“She has gone back to Brooklyn,' her mother would say. And, as the train rolled past Macmire Bridge on its way towards Wexford, Eilis imagined the years already when these words would come to mean less and less to the man who heard them and would come to mean more and more to herself. She almost smiled at the thought of it, then closed her eyes and tried to imagine nothing more.”
Source: Brooklyn
“She has good instincts, but wrong judgments. She'll rue the day.”
“She has got to have command of her body. So when she goes out into the world, she's going out with a command that is hers. She is used to making those, decisions herself.”
“She has great breasts," the Colonel said without looking up from the whale. "DO NOT OBJECTIFY WOMEN'S BODIES!" Alaska shouted. Now he looked up. "Sorry. Perky breasts." "That's not any better!”
Source: Looking For Alaska Special 10th Anniversary Edition
“She has grown so numb that it no longer matters whether he might strike her or not. She does not care if he takes out his camera to push it in her face. She is not afraid of him anymore.”
Source: The Shadow King
“She has her eyes closed, looking lost to the song and completely oblivious to what’s happening around her, or at how she’s affecting everyone in the room. I wonder if she’s aware of how amazing she is?”
Source: Jailhouse Rock
“She has her gown nicely in place tonight, doesn't she? Black velvet and sparkles, not a thread left hanging. Clever girl, this city. Even the sky is her friend.”
Source: The Scions of Shannara
“She has her own glamour, Willy lad. All poets do, all the bards and artists, all the musicians who truly take the music into their own hearts. They all straddle the border of Faerie, and they see into both worlds. Not dependably into either, perhaps, but that uncertainty keeps them honest and at a distance.”
“She has just seen imminent death peer forth at her from a living face. She is one of the wise ones, one of the forewarned ones; she ran away in time.”
Source: Rendezvous in Black
“She has known the tide and undertow of my feelings, my hurts, both small and large, for most of my life.”
Source: The Wicked King
“She has learned that her body is precious and it mustn't be offered carelessly ever again, as it holds a direct connection to her heart.”
Source: Shopgirl