S Quotes
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“She just said nothing. Nothing. She let the silence between them fill the air. Unlike other people, Omakayas had noticed, silence did not make Old Tallow uncomfortable.
Now the warrior lady simply stood and smoked her pipe. The smoke drifted serenely in wavering fangs from each corner of her mouth. She was thinking.”
Source: The Game of Silence
“She just smiled, said that she loved books more than anything, and started telling him excitedly what each of the ones in her lap was about. And Ove realised that he wanted to hear her talking about the things she loved for the rest of his life.”
Source: A Man Called Ove
“She just stood there and looked at the empty highway, and you could almost tell how bored she was by the way she stood.”
“She just threatened to throw the next man who shoots at you out the window. Megan is awake. She offered to help. God, Trent, what is it with you and women?”
“She just wanted John back again, in any condition. But it was too late, always too late, a million too lates.”
Source: Prohibition A
“She just wanted one last glimpse, one last minute, one last hug.”
Source: A Curse for True Love
“She just wanted to be comfortable in her own skin...But she would not stop to seek others' approval. The notion that she should never seemed to enter her head. Her right to live as she pleased was not up for negotiation, even if it ran against the grain of the milieu at Huntingdon.”
“She just wanted to be herself, and doing, saying, reading and writing the things that would have made her feel like herself were all verboten.”
Source: Burning Down the Haus: Punk Rock, Revolution, and the Fall of the Berlin Wall
“She just wanted to take one step that belonged to her, make one move that she had independently decided to make, but at every turn it felt as if her strings were being pulled by unseen hands.”
Source: Ink Blood Sister Scribe
“She just wished loving him didn’t always have to be so hard.”
Source: The Fallen Series: 4-Book Collection
“She juts out her lower jaw, a purposeful imitation of Daddy Eric when she asks him a question with an answer that isn't yes right away, but will be yes eventually if she waits long enough.”
Source: The Cabin at the End of the World
“She keeps asking me where we're going." "Yeah," another voice said. It was Shane, pulling up a chair beside Claire. "Girls do that. They've always got to be taking the relationship somewhere." "That's not true!" "It is," he said. "I get it; somebody's got to be looking ahead. But it makes guys think they're-" "Closed in," Michael said. "Trapped," Shane added. "Idiots," Claire finished.”
Source: Kiss of Death: The Morganville Vampires
“She keeps her pace unhurried, nodding to the seniors she sees whether she recognizes them or not - she does want Feldspar's job, after all - and taking the wide stairways gradually, pausing now and again to appreciate the artfully arranged patterns of light and shadow cast by the narrow windows. She's not sure what makes the patterns so special, actually, but everyone says they're stunning works of art, so she needs to be seen appreciating.”
Source: The Fifth Season
“She keeps on hoping from a word from Penelope, but not in any strenuous way. She hopes as people who know better hope for undeserved blessings, spontaneous remissions, things of that sort.”
“She keeps telling
herself and others
that she doesn't want
a relationship to silence
the longing in her soul.
That alternative fact
feeds her insecurities
and starves her soul.”
“She keeps the books. She holds the key. She is the dealer.”
Source: Order in The Courtroom: The Tale of The Texas Poker Player
“She kept asking herself whether, if he had looked cleaner, she might have been more concerned; whether, on some subliminal level, she had confused his obvious signs of neglect with street-smartness, toughness and resilience.”
“She kept forcing herself to remember the entire conversation, playing it back and playing it back, all the way through, forcing a finger down her memory's throat.”
Source: Fangirl
“She kept giving him signals and at last when he understood them, she had more important things to do.”
“She kept her ears permanently tuned to the chicken voices outside, so knew immediately when a coyote had crept into the yard, and barreled screaming for the front door before the rest of us had a clue. (I don't know about the coyote, but I nearly needed CPR.) These hens owed their lives and eggs to Lily, there was no question.”
Source: Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life
“She kept her eyes on her book and tried to fix her mind. It had lately occurred to her that her mind was a good deal of a vagabond, and she had spent much ingenuity in training it to a military step and teaching it to advance, to halt, to retreat, to perform even more complicated maneuvers, at the word of command. Just now she had given it marching orders and it had been trudging over the sandy plains of a history of "German Thought”
Source: The Portrait of a Lady
“She kept her head high, even as her eyes stung, even as panic filled her vision with warnings and precautions.
It was not her fault he had liked her.
It was not her fault she was cyborg.
She would not apologize.”
Source: Cinder
“She kept him close to herself. She wanted me to be near her as well, only on a longer leash. What madness it was, to see her from so close and not to have her!”
Source: The Thugs & a Courtesan
“She kept hoping something would change, but she knew she'd lost him to a world she could never be part of. So instead she pretended.
Pretended to be strong.
Pretended everything was alright.
Pretended for Michael, for herself, but most of all for Willow. Because Willow loved Michael, and he, her – that much was obvious.”
Source: That Devil's Madness
“She kept looking at the dark stretch of water below them, the bridges spanning the space, dotted with lights. Party guests moved back and forth across in a dance of scattered shadows. She wondered how many of them were with the person they loved tonight—and how many of them were alone, like her.”
Source: The Dazzling Heights
“She kept on looking at me, and I knew that I didn’t imagine any of it. What she had proposed was real. The crime would happen, and if I crossed the street, I would be part of it. Maybe the good part at the end—the marriage part. But for sure, the bad part—the murder part.
Why is it that the bad part of life is the only sure thing?
–From 'Locked Room Mystery', Dark Thoughts & Other Stories”
Source: Dark Thoughts & Other Stories
“She kept on looking at me sitting on a chair in her terrace. And I was fascinated by the look in her eyes!”
“She kept reminding me she was at a wedding, which didn’t really help my emotional state, if you know what I mean.”
Source: Dangled Carat
“she kept sliding down, in small half-willing surrenders, till she was a heap, with the book held tiringly above her face.”
Source: The Stranger's Child
“She kept sneaking looks at him. He had strong, chiseled features, his jaw softened by a day or two's growth of beard. And those shoulders. She'd always been a sucker for a guy's strong shoulders. Big square hands that looked as if they did harder work than writing biographies.
No wedding band. At thirty, Isabel couldn't help noticing a detail like that.”
Source: The Beekeeper's Ball
“She kept swimming out into life because she hadn't yet found a rock to stand on.”
“She kept the wish to herself, as she should have, and simply blew out the candle.I clapped and whistled and then dove into my own cupcake, dying to know how my creations tasted. And seeing as I’d done the hard work—frosting and decorating—I felt like I could take credit and call them my creations. All Cassie had done was get the ingredients, come up with the recipe, and do all the measuring and mixing.”
Source: The Fiery Heart
“She kept thinking that a time like this required words—one million lines of type, laid out perfectly, with no ink stains, no backward letters—to say what should be said. But that couldn’t happen, and she didn’t know what else to put in its place.”
Source: The Q
“She kept up her compliments, and I kept up my determination to deserve them or die.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)
“She kept walking. The very small, brave part of her brain knew that this would be her one chance. If she turned around, she would lose it.”
Source: The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
“She kept watching the words.”
“She kicked, but there was little to be gained from that, burdened as she was with the heavy lump of sharp, hard love she held so tightly to her chest. Was it the answers that it held that gave it so much weight?”
Source: The Slow Regard of Silent Things
“She kicked me off the bed!”
Source: Murder of Crows
“She killed, for she was angry, and she did not eat what she killed, for she was heartsick.”
Source: When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain
“She killed Lorena in a fight?" Eric's grin grew even broader. He was as proud as if he'd heard his firstborn reciting Shakespeare.”
Source: Club Dead: A Sookie Stackhouse Novel
“She kind of reminds one of Helen. There's something very similar about Elizabeth Perkins.”
“She kindly laments that I am not of the party, and to be sure I honour great ladies, and I admire great wits, but I am of the same opinion in regard to assemblies that is held concerning oysters, that they are never good in a month that has not the letter R in it.”
“she kissed as if she, alone, could forge the signature of the sun”
Source: , said the shotgun to the head.
“She kissed back, once again content to let me take her for a ride wherever I was going. "What a beautiful mess we're in," I murmured.”
Source: Smash Into You
“She kissed her way down his scarred face and then their lips caught somehow, and her mirth tapered off into a sigh.
Alaric had never kissed her like this before, so gentle and searching.”
Source: A Monsoon Rising
“She kissed her way into society. I don't like her. But don't misunderstand me: my dislike is purely platonic.”
“She kissed him and went back to her food prepping. 'Could kissing in the kitchen compromise food safety?' asked Carwen with a big grin. Carys grinned back: 'Nah, but maybe there should be a rule about kissing in the kitchen. I think it should be mandatory.”
“She kissed him, her lips lingering on his. It was Pembroke who pulled away, raising his glass to her.
"To Lady Pembroke, the only woman I will ever love.”
Source: Love on a Midsummer Night
“She kissed him hungrily, and Michael was stirred in ways he hadn’t felt since Samantha’s death. It was almost worth being bitten by a werewolf, he thought rapturously, just to experience this kiss and this woman. I don’t care if she’s a vampire…”
Source: Underworld
“She kissed him like he was a warrior; she kissed him like she was a warrior.”
Source: Reservation Blues