S Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with S. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“She knew then that it was more important to be honest than to try to preserve the appearance of respectability. It was time to stop hiding, as Mrs. Denby had advised. And it was time to apologize to Mr. Hammond. To confess all and let the consequences come . . . even if that meant losing any hope of a future with him.”
Source: The Seaside Homecoming
“She knew then that whatever he was -- whoever he was -- he had not lost his humanity.”
Source: The Warlock
“She knew then that white was more than a color: It was a cold, pale shade of understanding that seems to take all of your hope away.”
Source: A Perfect Square
“She knew there was greatness in not being one of the crowd.”
Source: Always Anjali
“She knew there was something amazing about something - someone - who celebrated you, always, and how rare that was: how endless that is, and how beautiful it could be.”
Source: If The Train Arrives
“She knew there was something dark in her then, when she left the alley and the shadows followed.”
“She knew there were only small joys in life--the big ones were too complicated to be joys when you got all through--and once you realized that, it took a lot of the pressure off.”
Source: Like Life
“She knew they belonged together by the quote that still follows in her head every now and then loving her beyond myself was never in the plans and it is now a reality if they can love one another. Does happily ever after exist for anyone? Would it for her and Harley? This is the battle she isn't sure she is ready for her.
Addy Keith”
Source: Happily Ever After
“She knew this day was different and worse, much worse than before. This was the day that Bethany began to believe their lies. And not only did she believe them, she silently repeated them, causing more damage to her soul and spirit than anyone else on earth could have ever done to her.”
Source: Darkness Couldn't Hold Her
“She knew this man's smile, his gentle ways of love, but not his godlike fury in the storm. She might snare him in a fragile net of music, love and flowers, but, at each departure, he would break forth without, it seemed to her, the least regret.”
“She knew this music--knew it down to the very core of her being--but she had never heard it before. Unfamiliar, it had still always been there inside her, waiting to be woken. It grew from the core of mystery that gives a secret its special delight, religion its awe. It demanded to be accepted by simple faith, not dissected or questioned, and at the same time, it begged to be doubted and probed.”
“She knew this pain would fade again; like a sunburn, it would heal itself and leave her slightly more protected from the glare.”
Source: Firefly Lane
“She knew this rose petal was from that same rose and that John had saved it all this time. A link through eternity, despite all the odds, all the obstacles – their hearts connected, entwined forever.”
Source: Prohibition A
“She knew this was reckless; it was dangerous, but like all dangerous things, it had a deep, thrilling undercurrent that was richer and better and more alive than anything safe.”
Source: The Towering Sky
“She knew this wouldn't lead anywhere good, but she couldn't resist all the good she'd pass through before she got to the bad.”
Source: The Best Man on the Planet
“She knew those horrid words were addressed to her. They felt like the icy tip of an arrow meant to conjure up destruction, coming from the most venomous abyss imaginable, rammed right into her chest with the utmost authority, entitlement, and pleasure.”
Source: Within Paravent Walls
“She knew through what fires the soul must crawl, and with what weeping one passed over. Men spoke of how the heart broke up, but never spoke of how the soul hung speechless in the pause, the void, the terror between the living and the dead; how, all garments rent and cast aside, the naked soul passed over the very mouth of Hell. Once there, there was no turning back; once there, the soul remembered, though the heart sometimes forgot. For the world called to the heart, which stammered to reply; life, and love, and revelry, and most falsely, hope, called the forgetful, the human heart. Only the soul, obsessed with the journey it had made, and had still to make, pursued its mysterious and dreadful end; and carried heavy with weeping and bitterness the heart along.”
Source: Go Tell It on the Mountain
“She knew too many poets. She knew more poets, more poetry, she knew more grief, she knew more than anybody needed to know. So she had sought to be ignorant. To come to a place where she didn't know anything. She had succeeded beyond all expectation.”
Source: The Telling
“She knew too much. -A”
“She knew too well the heartbreak of wanting love from someone who was not capable of giving it.”
Source: When A Laird Loves A Lady
“She knew violence- and my, what a lovely thing to profess knowledge of.”
“She knew well the history of which they spoke because her father had been a part of it. When the military overseers of Pakistan had refused to allow the winning party in Bangladesh—then East Pakistan—to form a government, her father had put down his textbooks, left the university, and joined the fight. Hundreds of thousands, millions of deaths later, Bangladesh had its independence. His stories had made a deep impact on on Asma as a child. She had resolved to be as brave, only to learn that as a woman she wasn't expected to be.”
Source: The Submission
“She knew what all smart women knew: Laughter made you live better and longer.”
“She knew what he had in mind. He'll propose in Scotland on my birthday. There was no doubt as to what her answer would be.”
Source: Foretold: A Demon Trappers Novel
“She knew what it felt like to stand in front of someone and ask them to love you, to try to pull them to you by the sheer force of your desire, a force so strong it felt as though you were going to die from it.”
Source: The Peach Keeper: A Novel
“She knew what it felt like to tremble like that before touching someone -- desire so acute that it became despair.”
Source: Ironside
“She knew what it was to cling on, to grasp those small fragments of memory and try to live in them. Even if it meant not living at all.”
Source: The Bone Houses
“She knew what it was to wait for someone who would never come home. She knew that grief, like a scar, faded but never really went away.”
“She knew what she lookd like, and she looked like trouble.”
Source: The Weight of the Stars
“she knew what she wanted and it wasn't / me. / I know more women like that than any / other kind.”
“She knew what she was, but she wasn’t fully Unseelie. She was half human and that was the part that mattered the most.”
Source: Return to Fae
“She knew what the Barbour aftershave would make her think of, and of course it did with its forest violets and cinnamon bark.”
Source: The Scent of You
“She knew what they had been up to, of course; it would have been hard to miss it, between the giggling and the scent of sex-and nobody had ever warned her how disturbing it would be to hear a necromancer giggle-but that was all right, wasn’t it?”
Source: Dust
“She knew when to cheer and when to boo, and that was all one needed”
Source: 1984
“She knew whose love she doubted. It wasn't her parents' and it wasn't her friends: It was her own.”
Source: The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants Complete Collection
“She knew why she had Gerry on her mind, why she was spotting his likeness in the faces of strange little boys. They'd been close once, the pair of them, but things had changed when he was seventeen. He'd come to stay with Laurel in London on his way up to Cambridge (a full scholarship, as Laurel told everyone she knew, sometimes those she didn't), and they'd had fun- they always did. A daytime session of Monty Python and the Holy Grail, and then dinner from the curry house down the road. Later, riding a delectable tikka masala high, the two of them had climbed out through the bathroom window, dragging pillows and a blanket after them, and shared a joint on Laurel's roof.
The night was especially clear- stars, more stars than usual, surely?- and down on the street, the distant easy warmth of other people's revelry. Smoking made Gerry unusually garrulous, which was fine with Laurel because it made her wondrous. He'd been trying to explain the origins of everything, pointing to star clusters and galaxies and making explosion gestures with his delicate, febrile hands, and Laurel had been squinting and making the stars blur and bend, letting his words run together like water. She'd been lost in a current of nebulas and penumbras and supernovas and hadn't realized his monologue was ended until she heard him say, "Lol," in that pointed way people have when they've already said the word more than once.”
Source: The Secret Keeper
“She knew with painful certainty that the opposite of love was not hate, but indifference.”
Source: Summer by the Sea
“She knew with suddeness and ease that this moment would be with her always, within hand's reach of memory. She doubted if they all sensed it - they had seen the world - but even George was silent for a minute as they looked, and the scene, the smell, even the sound of the band playing a faintly recognisable movie theme, was locked forever in her, and she was at peace.”
“She knew without a doubt what he had said was true. They were created for each other. Destined for this time of reconciliation. For Keirah, it was a moment, no, it was the moment of a lifetime, and it would forever be engraved on her heart and etched in her soul to be remembered long after forever.”
Source: Magnificence
“She knew words no one had ever heard of, and she used words every day that had been mainly dead or sleeping for hundreds of years.”
Source: Winter's Tale
“She knew, of course that she was being supremely unfair, that Franz was the best man she ever had- he was intelligent, he understood her paintings, he was handsome and good-but the more she thought about it, the more she longed to ravish his intelligence, defile his kindheartedness, and violate his powerless strength”
“She knocked and waited, because when the door was opened from within, it had the potential to lead someplace quite different.”
“She knocked at the door, expecting a friendly greeting because of the atmosphere of this house, but, instead, the door opened just a crack and dark eyes stared at her for a moment. Then the door gradually opened and an elderly woman grabbed
Amelia's hand and yanked her inside.
"Hurry! Get inside!”
Source: The Bali Mystery
“She knows Daddy better than I do. I think it's because she's felt since we were children that our Daddy maybe loved me more than he loves her. This isn't true, and she knows that now--people love different people in different ways--but it must have seemed that way to her when we were little. I look as though I just can't make it, she looks like can't nothing stop her. If you look helpless, people react to you in one way and if you look strong, or just come on strong, people react to you in another way, and, since you don't see what they see, this can be very painful. I think that's why Sis was always in front of that damn mirror all the time, when we were kids. She was saying, 'I don't care. I got me.' Of course, this only made her come on stronger than ever, which was the last effect she desired: but that's the way we are and that's how we can sometimes get so fucked up. Anyway, she's past all that. She knows who she is, or, at least, she knows who she damn well isn't.”
Source: If Beale Street Could Talk
“She knows exactly what I like and what it does to me. She worships my body in its entirety and I allow it—I crave it.”
Source: Lady's Destiny
“She knows her place, she sure does know her place. There's something ghostlike about this girl . . .”
Source: Mr. Fox
“She knows her timing, always knows. The time to strike or the time to starve. Her eyes as a clock, she watches she waits she learns, and in the second she blinks, she changes her mind just like that.”
“She knows herself to be at the mercy of events, and she knows by now that events have no mercy.”
Source: The Blind Assassin: A Novel
“She knows how to hang on to my money. I wish her mom were the same way.”
“She knows how to suffer and at the same time how to laugh.”