S Quotes
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“She looked up at the sun as if it were spying on her.”
Source: The Archer Files, The Complete Short Stories of Lew Archer, Private Investigator Including Newly Discovered Case Notes
“She looked up from closing it to find Jace watching her through hooded eyes. “And one last thing,” he said. He reached over and pulled the sparking pins out of her hair, so that it fell in warm heavy curls down her neck. The sensation of hair tickling her bare skin was unfamiliar and oddly pleasant. “Much better,” he said, and she thought this time that maybe his voice was uneven too.”
“She looked up. “Never underestimate a droid, Lieutenant.”
Source: Star Wars: The Force Awakens
“She looked up to see a knob of canary-yellow butter being carried towards her in a glass-lidded container.
'All this butter just for me, when there's a national shortage...'
Hearing Rika mumbling these words, the maitre d' smiled and lifted the lid of the dish.
'This butter had been flown in especially from overseas. Pleas help yourself to as much as you'd like.'
Confronted with an overwhelming selection of different kinds of bread on the trolley, Rika chose the simplest option she could see--- a piece of baguette. Once again, she thought that she should have come with Reiko. Reiko would have told her which to choose. Rika spread a thick layer of butter on the bread. The butter, of a firmness that would break apart slowly on the tongue, went sinking into the crumb of the baguette. That alone was enough to make Rika glad she'd come.
The next course to be served was a chilled dish of avocado and snow crab stacked delicately like layer cake, topped with a generous helping of caviar. The acidity of the pomegranate seeds that exploded juicily in her mouth accentuated the creamy richness of the avocado and the sweetness of the crab flesh. Their unabashed scarlet hue brought the color palette of the whole plate to life. Chased by the champagne, the taste of the crab and the caviar expanded like light suffusing her mouth.”
Source: Butter
“She looked up to the sun. Ninety-three million miles away, it took just over eight minutes for its rays to reach the eyes. It was like seeing the past.”
Source: We Have Shadows Too
“She looked up, her face pink as a Christmas ham. “You ever try chasing down a car?” she gasped. “I’ll one-up you. I gave Scott my hot dog and asked if he’d go to Summer Solstice with me.” “What does the hot dog have to do with anything?” “I said he’d be a wiener if he didn’t go with me.” Vee wheezed laughter. “I’d have run harder had I known I’d get to see you call him a wiener.”
Source: The Complete Hush, Hush Saga: includes Hush, Hush; Crescendo; Silence and Finale
“She looked up. "What I can't figure out is why the good things always end." "Everything ends." "Not some things. Not the bad things. They never go away." "Yes, they do. If you let them, they go away. Not as fast as we'd like sometimes, but they end too. What doesn't end is the way we feel about each other. Even when you're all grown up and somewhere else, you can remember what a good time we had together. Even when you're in the middle of bad things and they never seem to be changing, you can remember me. And I'll remember you.”
“She looked utterly betrayed, as betrayed as the most betrayed person in Shakespeare.”
Source: The First Bad Man
“She looked . . . whole. With him.”
Source: Perfect Lies
“She looked with pleasure at the blue cushioned seat and the hood to protect the rider from sun or rain. How very strange it felt merely to sit above those turning wheels, and bowl gently down the street! And to watch the trotting legs of the rickshaw man before her in the shafts! Since she had grown too big to be lifted astride her father’s shoulder or her mother’s hip, Momo had never been carried by anything but her own strong legs, She laughed aloud with pleasure at this strange sensation, and the coolie turning, grinned at her and called to her cheerfully, “Tsk bai, baccha!”’ (All right, little girl!)”
Source: Daughter of the Mountains
“She looked, and a scarlet butterfly flew away from her, away down the length of the tower, and then another, another, an unraveling scarf of butterflies like winged blood.”
Source: Red as Blood, or Tales from the Sisters Grimmer: Expanded Edition
“She looks around and decides no one saw her stab Blackwell. She concocts the defense, invents the biker dude, calls 9-1-1, and waits there for the police. It’s a nice little end-around to confuse us into thinking she’s innocent, no?”
Source: Betrayal of Justice
“She looks at herself in the mirror. The idea is to look sexy again. And for whom exactly? Yourself, of course. Yes, well, that's all wonderfully self-affirming and very strong-minded as any decent woman should be these days, but let's just face facts here and say that when a woman - no, when a person is thinking about feeling sexy, it is always with the idea of someone else in mind.”
“She looks at me
and blames me
for all of the ways
that you don't love her.”
Source: Bramble
“She looks at me and smiles in that brisk efficient way. A modern professional smile. the kind of smile that never existed before, say, the telephone.”
Source: How to Stop Time
“She looks at me as though she’s trying to see the colors of my soul.”
Source: Hooked
“She looks at me in astonishment. ‘Manchuria is gone. Japan
is paralysed! Now China and Japan do not have a diplomatic
relationship. So, no one accepts the Japanese yen!”
Source: Farewell China
“She looks at me like I've just hung the moon, if it doesn't make me want to do everything in my power to protect her, task force be damned”
Source: Close Protection
“She looks at me, ‘No other test is required. Maybe you can take a pill.’
‘What kind of pills?’
She looks at me tenderly, ‘Chill Pill…’ And follows it with a wink.”
Source: Outlet from Loneliness
“She looks at me out of the side of her uncovered eye. "Chess, Zombie: defending yourself from the move that hasn't happened yet. Does it matter that he doesn't light up through our eyepieces? That he missed us when he could have taken us own? If two possibilities are equally probable but mutually exclusive, which one matters the most? Which one do you bet your life on?”
Source: The 5th Wave
“She looks at me. She does. She.”
“She looks at the Dictaphone in my hand.
“Are you recording this?”
“No, Alex, I was summarizing a deposition.”
“How can you work?”
“How can you see a movie? How can you have a friend over?”
She looks away. Half of the room is bright from my lamp. The other side is dark, the sharp silhouette of the mountain framed by the window running across the room. The image always reminds me of a panoramic picture.”
Source: The Descendants
“She looks at the swings, and I can see she’s imagining what they’d look like if the kids weren’t there. The guilt of this holds her down momentarily. It appears to be there constantly. Never far away, despite her love for them. I realize that nothing belongs to her anymore and she belongs to everything.”
Source: I Am the Messenger
“She looks at Vardaman; her eyes, the life in them, rushing suddenly upon them; the two flames glare up for a steady instant. Then they go out as though someone had leaned down and blown upon them.”
Source: As I Lay Dying
“She looks embarrassed, sitting on that stool, to be who she is now. She seems pained by all the compliments Muriel's colleagues are giving her. Success rests more easily on men.”
Source: Writers & Lovers
“She looks great in that skirt. Her butt is so cute.”
Source: Not Your Sidekick
“She looks honestly upset, but then, I’ve learned that I can’t read her. The problem with a really excellent liar is that you have to just assume they’re always lying.”
Source: Black Heart
“She looks incandescent with joy, his attention the light in which her beauty shines especially bright.”
Source: The Wicked King
“She looks into my eyes very intensely for a moment before taking another truffle. “I’m always open to attempts at bribery of this kind,” she says mischievously and puts the treat in her mouth with relish.
I have to swallow and take out a chocolate as well. Suddenly I have a ravenous appetite.”
Source: Flowing like Water
“She looks just as music sounds, I think,' answered Anne.”
Source: The Anne of Green Gables Chronicles (Annotated Edition)
“She looks like a china doll, observed Grandfather as we departed. I will break just as easily, I muttered.”
Source: Fever 1793
“She looks like a fairy tale, but yet feels so natural (natural, natural, natural)
This one's a beast, but way to wonderful to be compared to an animal”
“She looks like a jumper to me. Jumpers do that a lot, stand on the edge and stare out. Never kill yourself in a Tube station. Tip number one. You might end up down here forever, staring at the wall." Stephen coughed a little. "Just giving advice," Callum said.”
Source: The Name of the Star
“She looks like a symbol of something. A certain time, a certain place. A certain state of mind. She's like a spirit that's sprung up from a happy chance encounter. An eternal, naive innocence, never to be marred, floats around her like spores in spring.”
“She looks like a very young old person, or a very old young person; but then, she's looked that way ever since she was two.”
Source: The Robber Bride
“She looks like a woman who has found it ridiculous to commit herself to a single emotional stance in anything, but must always ride high heavy irony.”
Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath, 1950-1962
“She looks like an empty shell of a woman with her soul hovering above her. We believe in spiritual guías in Santo Domingo. Hers is her own self. I can see Mami’s soul desperately trying to find its way back into her small body.”
Source: Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina
“She looks like someone I want to know, or maybe even be.”
“She looks like the real thing
She tastes like the real thing
My fake plastic love
But I can't help the feeling
I could blow through the ceiling
If I just turn and run.”
“She looks like the type that might freak out. It's something in the eyes, Frannie. It says if you shoot my sacred cows, I'll shoot yours.”
Source: The Stand
“She looks me dead in the face and says, “The safe word is going to be ‘immigration,’ because you know I’ll stop it.”
Source: Topped
“She looks over at the Tate on the opposite side of the river, where she occasionally wanders the galleries to clear her head during lunchtime (when she takes one), to marvel at the ability of artists to make such mind-blowing creations out of their imagination
Imagination
What was that?
Does she even have one?”
Source: Girl, Woman, Other
“She looks over, still smiling, to Sirine behind the counter, and says, "Roasted lamb, rice and pine nuts, tabbouleh salad, apricot juice." Then she blows a kiss.
Hanif glances at Sirine. She looks down, quick, a bunch of parsley pinched in her fingertips, rocks the big cleaver through a profusion of green leaves, onions, cracked wheat. Suddenly she remembers the leben and hurries to the big potful of yogurt sauce, which is just on the verge of curdling.”
Source: Crescent
“She looks peaceful. She looks beautiful.
My love. My beautiful love- Aaron”
Source: Defy Me
“She looks sad. She looks angry. She looks different from everyone else I know—she cannot put on that happy face others wear when they know they are being watched. She doesn’t put on a face for me, which makes me trust her somehow.”
Source: The Silver Linings Playbook: A Novel
“She looks so innocent but I know that she can ruin me with one look, one touch. She already has.”
Source: Mine
“She looks so much like a person hurt beyond belief, with her rubbed-to-fuzz hair and her screaming and her blistered eyes. Nothing else matters but her pain, the biggest, loudest thing in the world, unimaginable, a way that people only ever expect to feel maybe once in their life, if ever at all, and maybe never even really recover from. She gets this way all the time. Ripped to shreds when a relationship ends. Is this real? Could this possibly be real? Can real grief even happen this many times to a single human body?”
Source: Motherthing
“She looks soft, pretty, like a girl in a painting. Like a girl who fits inside her own skin.”
Source: The Cruel Prince
“She looks sort of like a nurse, Ruby thought. Or a nun, but a movie star nun, not a real one, and an old-fashioned rescuing-the-orphans sort of movie star nun, not the comedy sort. It was her face. It was open and fresh and happy and she had shiny dark hair pulled back in a ponytail.”
Source: The Wedding Bees
“She looks tired and thin, Leaphorn was thinking. What the hell is she doing here with this hard bunch? She's too young. Why don't white people take care of their children? Then he thought of George Bowlegs. And why don't Navajos take care of their children?”
Source: Dance Hall of the Dead