S Quotes
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“She knew she should run. She'd beaten him and if she stayed any longer, he would surely put a curse on her. But she didn't move.”
Source: The Poison Eaters and Other Stories
“She knew she should say something profound, something beautiful in response. Instead, she spoke the truth. "If we make it out of here alive, I'm going to kiss you unconscious.”
Source: Six of Crows
“She knew she shouldn't feel that way about a monster, but right then, she wanted nothing more than a monster of her very own.”
Source: The Coldest Girl in Coldtown
“She knew she shouldn't want him with every fiber of her being, but she couldn't help herself. Gazing at him feeling his touch - the rest of the world faded into the background”
Source: The Fallen Series: 4-Book Collection
“She knew she was delaying the inevitable- trying to locate Agnete's address- but decided to make a list of things to buy first, looking for shops close to the hotel and purposefully ignoring her uncertain finances. She dunked a sopaipilla in her coffee and brushed powdered sugar from her lips, the plate of chile-flecked fried polenta, chorizo, and eggs already finished. It might not have been a vacation, but it felt like one. She was on her own, eating strange foods, planning to spend money she wasn't sure she had, and no one was paying the slightest bit of attention to her. She had fallen down the rabbit hole.
It was easiest to come up with ideas for Saisee, whose pride in her cooking shone in everything she concocted, tossing in a pinch of this and a smidgen of that. Alice had even watched her hold crushed spices in the palm of her hand and blow them gently over the pot. 'My momma taught me that. Best way to get flavor to every part of the pot.' For here there would be white posole and blue cornmeal, a collection of chile powders, and piloncillo, the little cones of unrefined Mexican sugars Alice imagined she might use to make caramelized custard.”
Source: The Gravity of Birds
“She knew she was going into that Cauldron. Knew she would lose this fight.
Knew no one was going to save her: not sobbing Feyre, not Feyre's gagged former lover, nor her devastated new mate. Not Cassian, broken and bleeding on the floor. The warrior was still trying to rise on trembling arms. To reach her.
The King of Hybern- he had done this. To Elain. To Cassian.
And to her.
The icy water bit into the soles of her feet.
It was a kiss of venom, a death so permanent that every inch of her roared in defiance.
She was going in- but she would not go gently.
The water gripped her ankles with phantom talons, tugging her down. She twisted, wrenching her arm free from the guard who held it.
And Nesta Archeron pointed. One finger- at the King of Hybern.
A death-promise. A target marked.
Hands shoved her into the water's waiting claws.
Nesta laughed at the fear that crept into the king's eyes just before the water devoured her whole.
In the beginning.
And in the end.
There was darkness.
And nothing more.
She did not feel the cold as she sank into a sea that had no bottom, no horizon, no surface. But she felt the burning.
Immortality was not a serene youth
It was fire.
It was molten ore poured into her veins, boiling her human blood until it was nothing but steam, forging her brittle bones until they were fresh steel.
And when she opened her mouth to scream, when the pain ripped her very self in two, there was no sound. There was nothing in this place but darkness and agony and power-
They would pay. All of them.
Staring with the Cauldron.
Starting now.
She tore into the darkness with talons and teeth. Rent and cleaved and shredded.
And the dark eternity around her shuddered. Bucked. Thrashed.
She laughed as it recoiled. Laughed around the mouthful of raw power she ripped out and swallowed whole; laughed at the fistfuls of eternity she shoved into her heart, her veins.
The Cauldron struggled like a bird under a cat's paw. She refused to relent.
Everything it had stolen from her, from Elain, she would take from it.
Wrapped in black eternity, Nesta and the Cauldron twined, burning through the darkness like a newborn star.”
Source: A Court of Silver Flames
“She knew she was living improperly but hadn’t the strength to correct herself. She had twenty thousand euros left; she’d taken to flushing hundreds down the toilet each morning.”
Source: French Exit
“She knew she was lovely, and she shared it like a gift. Every smile from Agatha was like waking up to a perfect sunny day. Agatha knew it. And she smiled at everyone who crossed her path, as if it were the most generous thing she could offer.”
Source: The Rainbow Rowell YA Collection
“She knew she was overextended, but she couldn't help herself. Student, tree lover, citizen of the Earth, she was busier than ever as she raced through Berkeley on her bicycle, and stood on street corners with petitions. She was a blithe spirit, and increasingly a hungry one. Vegan, but not always strict. She never ate meat or tuna fish or honey harvested from indentured bees, but sometimes she craved eggs, and cheese, and even butter, and she bought herself a croissant or ate a slice of whole-wheat pizza, or a box of saltine crackers which she ate in bed, one by one, so that they dissolved on her tongue like the heavenly host.”
Source: The Cookbook Collector
“She knew she was really sad when she stopped loving the things she loved.”
“She knew she was staring far too long — she should now be averting her gaze, lest someone start to suspect her. Yet she couldn't bring herself to do so.
Looking into those beautiful blues, that were so like the water they sailed on, Penelope was mesmerised.”
Source: The Breath Between Waves
“She knew some people would think this made her foolish, but it was tremendously hard to fall out of love with someone when you had no one else to love instead.”
Source: Once Upon a Broken Heart
“She knew that each emotion came and went, knew that she could cope with whatever life threw at her.”
Source: The Legacy
“She knew that even pain can be confessed, but to confess happiness is to stand naked, delivered to the witness.”
Source: The Fountainhead
“She knew that everything humans see is a simplification. A human sees the world in three dimensions. That is a simplification. Humans are fundamentally limited, generalising creatures, living on auto-pilot, who straighten out curved streets in their minds, which explains why they get lost all the time.
'It's like how humans never see the second hand of a clock mid-tick,' said Nora.”
Source: The Midnight Library
“She knew that everything humans see is a simplification. A human sees the world in three dimensions. That is simplification. Humans are fundamentally limited, generalising creatures, living on auto-pilot, who straighten curved streets in their minds, which explains why they get lost all the time.”
Source: The Midnight Library
“She knew that Fort Lamy was a long way away, on the other side of the Sahara, in the middle of Africa — another world. Another world — and that was exactly what she needed. There at last she would be able to satisfy her need for warmth — even at Tunis there were moments when the cold was more than she could take.”
Source: The Roots of Heaven
“She knew that he loved her above all else, more than anything in the world, but only for his own sake.”
“She knew that he loved her, but she also knew that he meant to tempt her to abandon her future, and to join her life to his.
But she had been married once already. A wife belonged body and soul to her husband. She did not exist under the law but could be put away or ignored at his will. She could be cut off without a penny, no matter what dowry she brought to the match. A wife was nothing, a nonentity, a ghost. As much as she loved Pembroke, as much as she always would, she was alive. She had fought hard for her life, and she would keep it.”
Source: Love on a Midsummer Night
“She knew that, in her family, Lydia was always the first to gallop off to do something, and rarely, if ever, did any of her sisters run along with her. Even Kitty would follow in a more ladylike fashion. It was just how Lydia was. Exuberance poured from her in streams or, more precisely, like loud, babbling brooks that hopped here and there.”
Source: Sketches and Secrets of Summer: A Pride and Prejudice Novel
“She knew that it was not smart to address her concerns about money directly, for men despised women who confronted them in this way. She knew that the smart wife, especially one no longer willing to parlay sexual favors, would find a way to bring up matters sweetly, pouring honey all over the problem before showing it to the husband. But she was out of patience.”
Source: Stealing Athena
“She knew that it would not be easy to submit to his miserliness, or the foolishness of his premature appearance of age, or his maniacal sense of order, or his eagerness to as for everything and give nothing at all in return, but despite all this, no man was better company because no other man in the world was so in need of love.”
“She knew that Izzy wasn't dead in all her lives. Or even most of them. But in this one it was real, and the grief Nora felt felt real too. The grief was familiar and terrifying and laced with guilt.”
Source: The Midnight Library
“She knew that neither she nor Eriko were young, per se— but when women were together, weren’t they always girls, whatever their age?”
Source: Hooked
“She knew that nothing was ever as overwhelming or final as he seemed to think - that if he would wait, instead of shouting, there'd be less to shout over in the end.”
Source: Now in November
“She knew that oftentimes hurtful people were hurting people, so she determined to pray for them all the more.”
Source: An Unforgivable Secret
“She knew that people generally behaved only as well as they had to.”
Source: The American Heiress
“She knew that pleasure, to be pleasure, must come to an end.”
Source: The Sister of the Angels
“She knew that she belonged to this man, body and soul. Every trace of shame departed; it was burnt out by the fire that consumed her. She gave him a thousand opportunities; she fought to turn his words to serious things. He baffled her with his shallow smile and ready tongue, that twisted all topics to triviality. By six o'clock she was morally on her knees before him; she was imploring him to stay to dinner with her. He refused.”
“She knew that she could not have reached this white serenity except as the sum of all the colors, of all the violence she had known.”
Source: The Fountainhead
“She knew that she had wandered into the land of truth, where the body goes while the soul is elsewhere.”
Source: The Mists of Avalon
“She knew that she must sit quietly and patiently and, like her beloved butterflies, eventually he would come to rest.”
Source: Hope of Israel
“She knew that she was making a decision she might regret, but it felt inevitable. “Nothing matters except us.”
Source: The Great Alone
“She knew that the horse, born to serve nobly, had waited in vain for someone noble to serve. His spirit knew that nobility had gone out of men.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)
“She knew that the universe of women who had been raped looked identical to the universe of women. They could be mothers, teens, sex workers. They could live in mansions or in flophouses. They could be homeless or suffer from schizophrenia. They could be black or white or Asian. They could be passed out drunk or completely sober. And they could react to the crime in all kinds of ways. They could be hysterical. Or withdrawn. They could tell a friend, or they could tell no one. They might call the cops right away, or they might wait a week, a month, even years.”
Source: A False Report: A True Story of Rape in America
“She knew that there were all kinds of ways to make a conquest and that one of the surest roads to a woman's genitals was through her sadness.”
“She knew that this day, this feeling, couldn't last forever. Everything passed; that was partly why it was so beautiful. Things would get difficult again. But that was okay too.
The bravery was in moving forward, no matter what.”
Source: Panic
“She knew that this was happiness, this was living as she had always wished to live.”
Source: Frenchman's creek
“She knew that was not an honest prayer, and she did not linger over it. The right prayer would have been, Lord . . . I am miserable and bitter at heart, and old fears are rising up in me so that everything I do makes everything worse.”
Source: Home: A Novel
“She knew that what Marianne and her mother conjectured one moment, they believed the next: that with them, to wish was to hope, and to hope was to expect.”
Source: Jane Austen Collection: illustrated - 6 eBooks and 140+ illustrations
“She knew that what she was going through was nothing special, just garden-variety heartbreak, the sort of thing that poets and novelists had been writing about for hundreds of years, but she also knew, from those same books, that there were people who never recover form it, ones who go on through life beset by a dim and painful longing.”
“She knew that when she got old it would be more fun to look back on a life of romance and adventure than a life of quiet habits. But looking back was easy. It was the doing that was painful. There were plenty of things she would like to look back on but wasn't willing to risk.”
Source: Sisterhood Everlasting (Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants): A Novel
“She knew that when she played she was giving pleasure only to herself; but this was no new sensation”
Source: Persuasion In Modern English
“She knew the best and worst parts of me, and her loss had left an irreparable hole, an ache that never really went away.”
Source: The Body in the Bookstore
“She knew the intensity of adolescence, and knew no cure for it except growing up. And then one has age and experience, and mourns the loss of intensity. Maybe it's why musicians and mathmaticians are said to peak young-poetry needs the fire of an unbounded universe.”
Source: Bleeding Kansas
“She knew the land in the way a child knows the land, with an intimacy and fantasy few adults have ever managed.
She knew where the sycamores had been hollowed out by lightning and become secret hideouts. She knew where the mushrooms were likeliest to raise their pale heads in fairy rings, and where fool's gold shimmered below the surface of the creek.”
Source: The Ten Thousand Doors of January
“She knew the monster was with her.”
Source: Cracks in the Tower: A Realm Where Faerie Tales Dwell Series
“She knew the power of bureaucracy well enough to be aware she had to sit and be admonished until this stranger felt she had expressed sufficient disappointment in a girl she would never have to see again.”
Source: Danse Macabre
“She knew the shapes of all the trees; still some seemed to dart here and there, moving with the moon. For a while she was so stiff she couldn't swallow, but on cue, the familiar songs of tree frogs and katydids filled the night. More comforting than three blind mice with a carving knife. The darkness held an odor of sweetness, the earthy breath of frogs and salamanders who'd made it through one more stinky-hot day. The marsh snuggled in closer with a low fog, and she slept.”
Source: Where the Crawdads Sing
“She knew the soothing power of a human touch on aching flesh. Knew the strange bond that formed when two creatures united in mutual need, one hurting, the other healing.”
Source: At the King's Command