S Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with S. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“She knows I am a beast. She knows that I will be the one to rip her heart from her chest!”
Source: Blood Sipper
“She knows in this moment that he will never falter, never not be there when she needs him, never devolve into a mere fallible human being, And she loves him more than life for his strength.”
Source: The Stone Sky
“She knows no difference 'twixt head and privities who devours immense oysters at midnight.”
“She knows not loves that kissed her She knows not where. Art thou the ghost, my sister, White sister there, Am I the ghost, who knows? My hand, a fallen rose, Lies snow-white on white snows, and takes no care.”
Source: Selected Verse
“She knows now. She knows that the smiles, the romance, the sparkly boy band dream - it's all just fantasy. fantasy and lies.”
Source: I Was Born for This
“She knows that feeling too. Of believing that each time someone says her name, it’s to tell her that something bad has happened.”
“She knows that it's not my fault if I don't know how many Zs there are in LOSER.”
Source: Clarice Bean Spells Trouble
“She knows that stories have the power to change things: the past and the future, even the present.”
Source: The Immortalists
“She knows that whispers can be useful. Sometimes they contain real information. But usually they're fairy tales and lies. This is the worst kind of whisper, the kind that draws you in, gives you hope.”
Source: Pure
“She knows the rituals, she knows how we're supposed to be behaving...But I think these things are impenetrable and fraudulent, and I can't do them without feeling I'm acting.”
“She knows there's no success like failure, and that failure's no success at all.”
“She Knows three things: (a) that men are less treacherous than women; (b) that they never notice what a woman is wearing because they're always mentally undressing her, (c) that as long as you've got breasts,thighs,buttocks and belly in good trim, you can conquer the world.”
Source: The Winner Stands Alone
“She knows too well what it's like to tamp down your natural inclinations, to force a smile when you feel numb....The expression of emotion does not come naturally, so yo learn to fake it. To pretend. To display an empathy you don't really feel. And so it is that you learn to pass, if you're lucky, to look like everyone else, even though you're broken inside.”
“She knows what is the best purpose of education: not to be frightened by the best but to treat it as part of daily life.”
“She knows what it is to be sad and miserable, but those emotions are almost enjoyable. They throw moments of happiness and laughter into sharper relief.”
Source: The Glass Room
“She knows what it's like
to leave
to run
to be away from home
and full of worry
and I bet
she's as surprised as I am
that a terrible happening
can make strangers
feel like kin”
Source: Missing Mike
“She knows what it's like to love someone who cannot love you back. Someone who needs you, holds you, yes, but someone who will never know that love is the knife in your heart.”
Source: Love Warps the Mind a Little
“She knows when she dies, she will be gone. Nothing. That is why it’s important to live a good life. To get the most out of it.”
Source: In Limbo
“She knows where she's going, and what she has to do. She could, after all, find her way to Route 95 South blindfolded. She could do it in the dark, in fair weather or foul; she can do it even when it seems she will run out of gas. It doesn't matter what people tell you. It doesn't matter what they might say. Sometimes you have to leave home. Sometimes, running away means you're headed in the exact right direction.”
Source: Practical magic
“She knows where to find everything in me and I know where all her stuff is too. She is, in short, my best friend.”
Source: Everything I Know About Love
“She knows who she is, because she knows who she isn't.”
“She knows who she is. She just forgot for a little while.”
Source: A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life
“She knows, now, absolutely, hearing the white noise that is London, that Damien's theory of jet lag is correct: that her mortal soul is leagues behind her, being reeled in on some ghostly umbilical down the vanished wake of the plane that brought her here, hundreds of thousands of feet above the Atlantic. Souls can't move that quickly, and are left behind, and must be awaited, upon arrival, like lost luggage.”
Source: Pattern Recognition
“She lacked the sheen of money, muscular good health, good skin, good clothes.”
Source: Admission
“She lacks confidence, she craves admiration insatiably. She lives on the reflections of herself in the eyes of others. She does not dare to be herself.”
“She lacks the core of sureness, she craves admiration insatiably. She lives on reflections of herself in others' eyes. She does not dare to be herself.”
Source: Henry and June: From the Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin
“She lacks the indefinable charm of weakness. It is the feet of clay that make the gold of the image precious.”
Source: The Picture Of Dorian Gray
“She laid a hand on his face. “Son,” she said. “We love you. We all love you. No matter how different you are, no matter if you leave us one day.” She kissed his cheek. “And if and when you die your bones will lie undisturbed, we’ll see to that, you’ll lie at ease forever, and I’ll come see you every All Hallows’ Eve and tuck you in more secure.”
Source: From the Dust Returned
“She laid a row of cushions down the center of the bed, carefully dividing it into two sides....
"I dinna know how this strategy escaped Napoleon's notice. If only he'd erect a barricade of feathers and fabric, we Highlanders wouldna have known how to get over it.”
Source: When a Scot Ties the Knot
“She laid he palm over his thundering heart. 'Did you just call me a fucking coward?'
Hunt tipped his head to the stars and laughed. 'So what if I did?'
She angled her face closer to his. 'Too bad all that healing firstlight didn't turn you into a decent person.'
'Where would the fun be in that, Quinlan?”
Source: House of Earth and Blood
“She laid her head against his collarbone, and he kissed her temple. To her shock, she felt a shudder roll through his body about the same time she registered wetness against her skin. Tears. His tears. She started to turn around, but he tightened his grip. “Stay,” he said in a choked voice. “Just let me hold you, baby. Just let me hold you.”
Source: The Darkest Hour
“She laid her head on my chest, holding me close.
I loved it when she did that. All the time I spent thinking she didn’t need me, and now I knew she did.
She didn’t hold me. She held on to me.”
Source: Fire Night
“She laid him down and wrapped her arms around him. Human to human, feeling his warmth and heart, she loved both his strengths and weaknesses, adored him just the way he was, then kissed him goodbye.”
Source: A Life Came Calling
“She laid in the rubble of the vengeant storm that passed by.
They found nothing on her breathing body, except the stains of her predator”
“She lashed herself with every failing she could think of, then every regret, and fell to the ground, sobbing.”
Source: The Book of Bera
“She lasted three months, then passed on a September day when everything seemed split open with sunlight.”
Source: Let The Great World Spin
“She later said, “Sex to Jack [Kennedy] meant no more than a cup of coffee.” How did she know? Did she ever have coffee with him? I have no reason to think so, but in that picture, the president looks like he’s about to start the percolator.”
Source: On Her Trail: My Mother, Nancy Dickerson, TV News' First Woman Star
“She later said: "If the Irish people vote in favour of gay marriage then I'll vote for gay marriage in the Oireachtas in order to recognise that position, but at the moment that is not recognised by the Constitution."”
“She laughed - a bit louder than I could have wished in my frail state of health, but then she is always a woman who tends to bring plaster falling from the ceiling when amused.”
Source: The Code of the Woosters
“She laughed, a cat’s soundless amusement, and nodded thanks.”
Source: All the Windwracked Stars
“She laughed a lot, and easily. It wasn't until we actually became friends that I realized she was often very sad. America is like that, I must say, free and easy until you know better.”
Source: Land of Big Numbers
“She laughed again, but this laughter sounded like a recording of the last, too repetitive to be real.”
Source: Bestiary
“She laughed aloud. "Mr. P, I don't think the book was about remarrying, you know? And I think this book was written years ago." "It seemed to be all about remarrying to me." He looked down at his shoes. "Hmm," Aleisha said, checking The Kite Runner out with Mr. P's library card. "I guess books say different things to different people.”
Source: The Reading List
“She laughed, and I noted how different she was from the first night I'd met her. It was almost as though her uniform had the ability to transform her personality. But then I realized that the same was true about me. In a lab coat or scrubs, I was one person; dressed like a yachtsman, I was someone different.
(p. 97, Trevor Benson)”
Source: The Return
“She laughed and jumped and shimmied, as radiant as Jo had ever seen her, as if starlight shined straight from her Hetrayen soul.”
Source: Where the Forest Meets the Stars
“She laughed and laughed and laughed until the vowels were rolling across the walls and floors, as if they meant to do away with the laws of time and space. It made Ove feel as if his chest was slowly rising out of the ruins of a collapsed house after an earthquake. It gave his heart space to beat again.”
Source: A Man Called Ove
“She laughed, and marigolds came loose from her hair. She stepped inside, and jasmines filled the room. That’s when our love story began.”
“She laughed, and the duke might actually have smiled, though one could never be certain.”
Source: In the Duke's Arms
“She laughed at him then, because he sounded like a small boy, not like a very large grown-up Beast with a voice so deep it made the hair on the back of your neck stir when you heard it. 'But vegetables are good for you,' she said, and added caressingly, 'They make you grow up big and strong.' He smiled, showing a great many teeth. 'You see why I wish to eat no more vegetables.”
Source: Rose Daughter
“She laughed at that, Jim's wife and Jack's mom, God, how she laughed. God, how they miss her. She's still the one who makes them more understanding toward each other, even though she's no longer here.”
Source: Anxious People