S Quotes
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“She laughed.
Because she knew
she was not perfect.
And that made
her more beautiful!”
“She laughed easily, that was one of the things he remembered most. Her laughter. The sound of it. The way she turned everything bad into something good.”
Source: Vengeance Road
“She laughed enough to migrate an entire flock of birds. That was how she said yes”
Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel
“She laughed even louder and that answer told Yvonnel the truth. Lolth wasn’t angry with her. Anger would imply that Lolth cared
. “What am I to do with you?” the avatar said.
“You will never have me, foul beast.”
“I already have you.”
“You will never have my heart.”
“But I will have fun nonetheless.”
Source: Lolth's Warrior
“She laughed for her wasted, difficult life that never had to be wasted or difficult in the first place.”
Source: The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender
“She laughed. ‘I hope he will enjoy good sport– though my small experience informs me that catching fish is not necessary for your true angler’s enjoyment.’ ‘Oh, no! But to lose a fish is quite another matter!’ ‘Certainly! One cannot wonder that it should cast even the most cheerful person into gloom, for it is always such an enormous one that escapes!’ ‘I begin to think you are yourself an angler, ma’am: you are so exactly right!”
Source: The Nonesuch
“She laughed. 'It won't last. Nothing lasts. But I'm happy now.'
'Happy,' I muttered, trying to pin the word down. But it is one of those words, like Love, that I have never quite understood. Most people who deal in words don't have much faith in them and I am no exception--especially the big ones like Happy and Love and Honest and Strong. They are too elusive and far too relative when you compare them to sharp, mean little words like Punk and Cheap and Phony. I feel at home with these, because they're scrawny and easy to pin, but the big ones are tough and it takes either a priest or a fool to use them with any confidence.”
Source: The Rum Diary
“She laughed like she'd just invented laughter.”
“She laughed. ‘My dear Carlo, compliments even now aren’t quite so rare that I don’t recognise them, believe me. Thank you, Miss Martin, that was sweet of you.’ Her eyes as she smiled at me were friendly, almost warm, and for the first time since I had met her I saw charm in her – not the easy charm of the vivid personality, but the real and irresistible charm that reaches out halfway to meet you, assuring you that you are wanted and liked. And heaven knew I needed that assurance … I was very ready to meet any gesture, however slight, with the response of affection. Perhaps at last …
But even as I smiled back at her it happened again. The warmth drained away as if wine had seeped from a crack and left the glass empty, a cool and misted shell, reflecting nothing.
She turned away to pick up her embroidery.”
“She laughed out loud, a warm, knowing laughter that made me once again wonder about the secret ingredient in these women’s lives. Whatever it was, I was clearly missing it. It was so much more than just self-confidence; it seemed to be the ability to love oneself, enthusiastically and unsparingly, body and soul, naturally followed by the assumption that every man on the planet is dying to get in on the act.”
Source: Juliet (Random House Reader's Circle Deluxe Reading Group Edition): A Novel
“She laughed so easily when she was happy. But also when she was sad.”
Source: White Oleander
“She laughed softly, wrapping up him up in her love. We asked for wolves, remember? I think the old adage "be careful what you wish for" might apply here.”
Source: Dark Blood
“She laughed softly. "Therapy isn't so much about what I think as you do." "Then why do it at all?" "Because we don't always know what it is we're thinking or feeling. When you have a guide, it's easier to figure things out. You'll often discover that you already know what to do. I can help you ask questions and go places you mihgt not have on your own." "Well, you're good at the qujestion part." I noted dryly.”
Source: Shadow Kiss: A Vampire Academy Novel
“She laughed when there was no joke. She danced when there was no music. She had no friends, yet she was the friendliest person in school.”
Source: The Stargirl Collection
“She laughed, wiping her forehead with the cuff of her sleeve. Blast this sun. She really did not enjoy being so sweaty in front of such a handsome instructor.”
Source: Hearts of Gold Collection
“She laughed with thrilling scorn. "Sophisticated-God, I'm sophisticated!”
Source: The Great Gatsby
“She laughed, and the desert sang.”
Source: The Stargirl Collection
“She laughed, and the sound was so melodic that I knew I wanted to hear it again.”
Source: Dear John
“She laughed. My favorite music.”
“She laughs a husky laugh, the sexy kind that only smokers or people with colds get to have.”
Source: P.S. I Still Love You
“She laughs an honest laugh... one that puts the fakes on edge and makes them dream of being better.”
“She laughs and looks out the window and I think for a minute that she's going to start to cry. I'm standing by the door and I look over at the Elvis Costello poster, at his eyes, watching her, watching us, and I try to get her away from it, so I tell her to come over here, sit down, and she thinks I want to hug her or something and she comes over to me and puts her arms around my back and says something like 'I think we've all lost some sort of feeling.”
Source: Less Than Zero
“She laughs, and that's really all he wanted.”
Source: The Shining Girls
“She laughs at everything you say. Why? Because she has fine teeth.”
Source: Poor Richard's Almanack
“She lay awake for many hours into the night, among her trunks and trinkets. She glanced over at the neat stacks of materials and toys and opera plumes and said, aloud, "Does it really belong to me?"
Or was it the elaborate trick of an old lady convincing herself that she had a past? After all, once a time was over, it was done. You were always in the present. She may have been a girl once, but was not now. Her childhood was gone and nothing could fetch it back.”
Source: Dandelion Wine
“She lay back against the soft carpet and bedding, contentment filling every curve of her body and every limb, overflowing in her heart.”
Source: Love on a Midsummer Night
“She lay bare to Roxie, but as the woman dragged her palms along her thighs to open them wide, Mel couldn’t help but surrender.”
Source: Strength Check
“She lay down and never stirred. To move hand or foot, or even so much as one finger, would have been an exertion beyond the powers of either volition or motion. She was so tired, so stunned, that she thought she never slept at all; her feverish thoughts passed and repassed the boundary between sleeping and waking, and kept their own miserable identity.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (Illustrated)
“She lay her head on his shoulder. “You were a great warrior?”
“I certainly thought so. But everyone has a fall sometimes.”
Source: Seducing Sarka
“She lay in darkness so thick she could feel its pressure all around her.”
Source: The Abode
“She lay in the dark and knew everything.”
“She lay on her back and walked her fingers down her ribs, skipped them over her abdomen, and landed on her pelvic bones. She tapped them with her Knuckles. [. . .] I can hear my bones, she thought. Her fingers moved up from her pelvic bones to her waist. The elastic of her underpants barely touched the center of her abdomen. The bridge is almost finished, she thought. The elastic hung loosely around each thigh. More progress. She put her knees together and raised them in the air. No matter how tightly she pressed them together, her thighs did not touch.”
“She lay on her back, knees up, thighs apart, rubbing herself with both hands, then beckoning him. But as he approached, he saw jagged shards of glass embedded in her skin. They protruded from her breasts, belly, thighs - glistening, clear blades waiting to rip him up. With a grin, she opened her mouth. Her tongue slid out, weighted with a jagged triangle of glass. Reaching between her legs, she spread her flesh. Powdered glass spilled like salt from her vagina.
"Fuck me," she said.
"Not till you take the glass out," he told her.”
Source: Beware!/ Dark Mountain 2 in 1
“She lay outside in the courtyard, staring up at the raindrops… feeling them hit her body… trying to guess where one would land next. The nuns called again, threatening that pneumonia might make an insufferably headstrong child a lot less curious about nature.”
Source: Angels & Demons
“She lay over him, her lips brushing his as she whispered, “I can’t get close enough… love.”
Source: Pirate's Passion
“She lay still awhile, and let her thoughts dance like the motes in the shimmer of sunlight that stole in between the branches.”
Source: Uther and Igraine
“She lay there, pale and pasty with a layer of grey smothered over her skin. Her head was slumped against the drawer like a dead flower as her arms hung limp on her sides. Her cheeks had been stained with tears and I wondered whether she really wanted to die.”
Source: Seven Sins
“She lays her hand along my jaw and kisses me like she means it, and I am breathless and weightless and dizzy at the very fact of her. Lips and tongue and teeth, her hair and her skin and her perfume, and more than anything, her very essence, her fire and her flaws and that steely determination to be better, to always be better.”
Source: She Drives Me Crazy
“She leads me to a parlor room, where tailors are pinning up a white, lacy gown, with long sleeves and a layered skirt, made in the style of the year 1917. The same year the Romanov Empire fell. At their request, I slip it on and step on a stool in the middle of the room. My throat clenches when I gaze into the golden mirror. I’m a living impression of Empress Alexandra, wife of Nicholas II. I look like I’ve stepped out of the black-and-white pictures and transported myself to another time.”
Source: Court of Vampires
“She leaned a shoulder against the tunnel wall and thought of Kellan. A Dragon King. A dragon and a King.
A gorgeous man who kissed as if there were no tomorrow and made love skillfully, adeptly. He could have let her die. Instead, he took her on a journey that opened her eyes to an entirely new world both beautiful and frightening.”
Source: Darkest Flame: Part 4
“She leaned against him, listening to his strong heartbeat as they cuddled together.
Maybe he didn’t say all the right things, and maybe he didn’t do it all in the right way, but he was hers, and she was his, and they’d figure it all out together. Because she knew now that both of them were in this for the long haul, and that he’d be there for her no matter what.
And that’s what counted the most.”
Source: Playing to Win
“She leaned against the bridge’s warm marble balustrade, and looked as far down the darkening canal as the setting sun would allow. She wondered if others appreciated Venice’s beauty and fragility as deeply as she had come to or if, like a raging fever, the city infected some while avoiding others. She sighed at the grandeur and at the resilience that surrounded her, and she promised herself she’d try to be more like Venice.”
Source: Beneath the Lion's Wings
“She leaned against the stone wall of the narrow landing, a hand on her thundering heart. It was the smart thing to do, the right thing to do. She had survived this long, and would only survive the road ahead if she continued to be unnoticed, reliable, quiet.
But she did't want to be unnoticed—not with him, not forever.
He made her want to laugh and sing and shake the world with her voice.”
Source: Heir of Fire
“She leaned against the wall and looked down at him, shaking her head. “Out in all hours and all weather, and he comes home to nothing!”
Joshua shrugged. He had a good idea where this was going.
“So where’s Mrs. Doctor? You need to get married!”
Source: What Heals the Heart
“She leaned back in her chair, and a sunbeam got entangled in her hair.”
Source: Love Letters from Montmartre
“She leaned back in her chair and raised her face to the sun, mildly intoxicated, not so much by the wine as by the scope of this important argument. Seduced, also, by the possibility that she might please herself, simply by wishing it so. As a devil's advocate, he was flawless. And yet, she knew, there was a flaw in his reasoning, just as there was a flaw in his ability to feel.”
Source: Hotel du Lac
“She leaned close to him, her voice low as she shared, "It looks like I'm free tomorrow night."
Conner met her gaze, a wicked smile curling the corners of his mouth. "Did you have something in mind that you'd like to do?"
She nodded, biting the inside of her lip. "You," she breathed.”
Source: Christmas with a Bite
“She leaned down and looked at his lifeless face and Leisel kissed her best friend, Rudy Steiner, soft and true on his lips. He tasted dusty and sweet. He tasted like regret in the shadows of trees and in the glow of the anarchist's suit collection. She kissed him long and soft, and when she pulled herself away, she touched his mouth with her fingers...She did not say goodbye. She was incapable, and after a few more minutes at his side, she was able to tear herself from the ground. It amazes me what humans can do, even when streams are flowing down their faces and they stagger on.”
“She leaned forward and caught at his hand, pressing it between her own. The touch was like white fire through his veins. He could not feel her skin only the cloth of her gloves, and yet it did not matter. You kindled me, heap of ashes that I am, into fire. He had wondered once why love was always phrased in terms of burning. The conflagration in his own veins, now, gave the answer.”
Source: Clockwork Princess
“She leaned forward and kissed me on the lips. Her mouth was cold, her lips rough from the winter wind, and if the mystics are right and we are doomed to repeat our squalid lives ad infinitum, at least I will always return to that kiss.”