S Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with S. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“She loved people's accents here---she always had. The way everybody managed to say the word y'all in the middle of pronouncing Charleston. Slow as the pace of the river but refined as British tea.”
Source: Paint and Nectar
“She loved riding her cycle in the evenings, when the breeze was cool and the humidity was less.
The color of the cycle reminded her of the sky. While riding, she felt as if she were flying. She loved this feeling of flying: as if she were a bird flying in the sky.
Life is so beautiful, she realized. But she could not understand why people fought wars. Why people hated one another?
The birds did not hate each other; they just loved flying under the wide blue sky and above the vast green grass.
She often wondered about life and the answers to life's questions. But her mind could never find answers to her questions.”
“She loved riding her cycle in the evenings, when the breeze was cool and the humidity was less.
The color of the cycle reminded her of the sky. While riding, she felt as if she were flying. She loved this feeling of flying: as if she were a bird flying in the sky.
Life is so beautiful, she realized. But she could not understand why people fought wars. Why people hated one another?
The birds did not hate each other; they just loved flying under the wide blue sky and the vast green grass.
She often wondered about life and the answers to life's questions. But her mind could never find answers to her questions.”
“she loved shiny things, always had. But he wasn't a diamond. Just fool's gold.”
Source: Spoiler Alert
“She loved so much misteries tha she became one”
Source: Paper Towns
“She loved the calm regularity of librarianship; each book a treasure trove of information or experience that would be categorised, labelled and stored in its rightful place. And she could think of nothing more magical than spending her days surrounded by stories.”
Source: The Royal Librarian
“She loved the cemetery because it was quiet and beautiful. Grown-ups argued so much when they were alive. No one argued when they were dead. And the dead didn’t hurt you.”
Source: Blood Surge: A Vampiric Urban Fantasy Novel
“She loved the fact he was older than her and more experienced, he had so much to teach her and she couldn’t wait to learn.”
Source: Carrie's First Time
“She loved the feeling of doing something on her own, and doing it in a routine. It felt thrillingly adult and affirmed her most cherished hope, the hope that she might have an actual inner life of substance and note.”
Source: Ordinary Human Failings
“She loved the guy. She did it for him. She would’ve done anything for him. Some people are like that. Some loves are like that. Most loves are like that, from what I can see. Your heart starts to feel like an overcrowded lifeboat. You throw your pride out to keep it afloat, and your self-respect and your independence. After a while you start throwing people out—your friends, everyone you used to know. And it’s still not enough. The lifeboat is still sinking, and you know it’s going to take you down with it. I’ve seen that happen to a lot of people here. I think that’s why I’m sick of love.”
Source: Shantaram
“She loved the heat of his stomach against hers, of his arms around her, of her hands on his neck and face. In that moment, she understood how easy it could be to open up and love someone.”
“She loved the intimacy of making music together in private.”
Source: Katherine of Aragon: The True Queen
“She loved the islands. They'd always been home. But they weren't all. There was so much more world out there, just begging to be seen. Explored. Discovered.”
Source: To Treasure an Heiress
“She loved the sea for its storms alone, cared for vegetation only when it grew here and there among ruins. She had to extract a kind of personal advantage from things and she rejected as useless everything that promised no immediate gratification — for her temperament was more sentimental than artistic, and what she was looking for was emotions, not scenery.”
Source: Madame Bovary: Patterns of Provincial Life
“She loved the smell of books. She loved everything about books. It was her escape. She traveled all over the world with them. She traveled through time. She had been to Tiananmen Square; she had met Anne Frank; she had met Trayvon Martin. Shoot, she had even been to space.”
Source: Tajrish
“She loved the smell of books, the feel of books, the look of them on the shelf.”
Source: Houses of Stone
“She loved the smell of old truck; thick cotton and vinyl seat covers, old gasoline and oil, the smell of country, decades of farmers, workers and families taking trips back and forth to town, up backroads to swimming holes, over fields, through all the weather. She imagined what this truck would have seen if it had eyes and a memory. She was about to become one more episode in its existence.”
“She loved the teachings of the Five Visions. Humility. Sacrifice. Seeing another's problems before your own. Yet she was beginning to think that she-- along with others-- had taken this belief too far, letting her desire to seem humble become a form of pride itself. She now saw that when her faith had become about clothing instead of people, it had taken a wrong turn.”
“She loved the way he touched her without even touching her.”
Source: Dear George, Dear Mary: A Novel of George Washington's First Love
“She loved the way the wind whipped their kilts about. She caught a gorgeous shot of Grant's very toned, hot ass. That would teach him to go without any briefs on a windy day! Maybe he thought she would be so shocked to see him naked beneath the kilt that she'd run off.
Not her.”
Source: Hero of a Highland Wolf
“She loved this man. This wonderful, respectiful, willful man. And she couldn’t even tell him.”
Source: All-American Girl
“She loved three things — a joke, a glass of wine, and a handsome man.”
Source: The Moon and Sixpence
“She loved to do the "little things" that others did not see, or were too busy to stop for: and while doing them, without a thought of thanks, she made sunshine for herself as well as others. That is how I was brought up and how I brought up my children. <3”
Source: An Old-fashioned Girl
“she loved to walk down the street with a book under her arm. It had the same significance for her as an elegant cane for the dandy a century ago. It differentiated her from others.”
“She loved too much. She staked everything on people she loved. When they were gone, it destroyed her.”
Source: The Golden Hour
“She loved unconditionally, wasted herself unconditionally, failed unconditionally.”
Source: Vom Ende der Einsamkeit
“She loved weirdos. She found them so brave. She'd have been one if she could.”
Source: Tell Me When You Feel Something
“She loved when he just rambled, effortlessly profound, without an ounce of self-consciousness. She loved seeing how he processed the world; hearing his messiest, unformed thoughts.”
Source: Katabasis
“She loved with so much passion as she loved with ignorance. She did not know whether it were good or evil, beneficent or dangerous, necessary or accidental, eternal or transitory, permitted or prohibited: she loved.”
Source: Les Miserables Volume Two
“She loved you in the morning because the day was new.”
Source: The Autograph Man
“She loves. And she doesn't know how to pull it back when you have to, because sometimes you sure as feck have to. Got to grab it up with both hands and pull it back before somebody turns into knives and uses it to cut you to pieces.”
Source: Iced
“She loves being wild , she relish delicious feeling of freedom,she just wearing the dress of moonlight . and she's being born again ...”
“She loves dogs. And in time, who knows, maybe she would even have ended up loving the type of dogs who eat other small dogs for lunch.
-- Leslie McNeill”
Source: Black Mariah - "A Calling"
“She loves filming and taking photographs. I can imagine her making beautiful films in France or India or somewhere with a gorgeously colourful culture. She somehow reminds me of my favourite place in the world, she and Paris I can romanticize and immortalize in ceaseless poetry for the rest of my life.”
“She loves her lonely moments, the silence away from the crowds. When it's just her daydreaming.”
Source: Remember the wild girl
“She loves him so
but he didn't stay.
The wind can't blow
this storm away.”
Source: Romeo Blue
“She loves him so much. He is her native place.”
Source: Be My Wolff
“She loves him with an enraged affection, it is past the infinite of thought.”
Source: Much Ado About Nothing
“She loves him with such ferocity, it turns venomous. It’s the kind of love that aches so deep, it forgets how to be gentle—caught between wanting to protect him and punishing him for the hold he has on her.”
“she loves like an awakening”
“She loves order; I'm inclined towards mess. She loves rules; I hate rules...She is very present and focused on tasks at hand; I am always half in life, half in a fantastical version of it in my head. But, somehow, we work.”
Source: Everything I Know About Love
“She loves relentlessly.
It’s the way of her being.
She is love and it’s her mightiest strength.”
Source: 99 Sketches: A collection of philosophical and inspirational notes
“She loves swimming,” said Ellen, who I knew had been a competitive swimmer in college.
Ellen looked in the rearview mirror at Kara.
“Don’t you Kara?” asked Ellen.
There was no response.
“I didn’t start until I was three,” said Ellen. “She’s got a two year start on me.”
Source: Minor Snobs
“She loves the serene brutality of the ocean, loves the electric power she felt with each breath of wet, briny air.”
“she loves to feel the sun on her skin the winter in her eyelashes and to hear his laughter all day long.”
“She loves you, too,” Wendy said softly, and put a light squeeze on the back of Luke’s sunburned neck.
“Not the same way,” Luke said glumly, but then he smiled. “What the hell, life goes on.”
Source: The Institute
“She loves you, loathes you, treats you well, then ill. Like a leech or a surgeon's knife, she's double-edged: sometimes she'll cure, but sometimes she will kill.”
“She loves you," the Prince cried. "She loves you still and you love her, so think of that--think of this too: in all this world, you might have been happy, genuinely happy. Not one couple in a century has that chance, not really, no matter what the storybooks say, but you could have had it, and so, I would think, no one will ever suffer a loss as great as you.”
Source: The Princess Bride: An Illustrated Edition of S. Morgenstern's Classic Tale of True Love and High Adventure
“She loves you. Do you even know what to do with that?” I kissed the top of her head. “Cherish it like it’s the most precious thing on the face of the earth.”
Source: Sea Breeze Volume 2: Just for Now; Sometimes It Lasts; Misbehaving
“She loves you. She's just forgotten how to show it.”
Source: Dragon Bones: A Novel