S Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with S. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“She (My Mom) taught me that health was my greatest wealth. We spent memorable times laughing — the best medicine. Her actions instilled in me how to be a loving and attentive parent. My mom’s genuine gifts have amplified throughout my life. What more could one ask from a mother?”
Source: Living Like The Future Matters: The Evolution of a Soil to Soul Entrepreneur
“She (my mother) could still recite them (the poems) in full when she was lying helpless and nearly blind, in her bed, an old lady. Reciting, her voice took on resonance and firmness, it rang with the old fervor, with ferocity even. She was teaching me one more, almost her last, lesson: emotions do not grow old. I knew that I would feel as she did, and I do.”
Source: On Writing
“She nailed it to the wall with her well-aimed dart, like a butterfly with no will whose sentence has always been written.”
“she named a child pearl as being a great price purchased.”
“She named me Altha, after all. Not Alice, meaning noble woman, nor Agnes, lamb of God. Altha. Healer.”
Source: Weyward
“She [Nana] listened to his [Steiner's] propositions, turning them down every time with a shake of the head and that provocative laughter which is peculiar to full-bodied blondes.”
Source: Nana
“She narrowed her eyes and concentrated on his mouth. Name. He wanted her name. She had to think about it for a second before she remembered. Great. She must have hit her head. Which, duh, explained the headache.”
“She narrowed her eyes at Ciera. “You know, for a smart lady, you’re kinda dumb about some real-life stuff, aren’t you?”
Source: Dangerously Divine
“She narrowed her eyes. “What is our heart’s desire?” “Vengeance.” His voice was soft, as if he were afraid that someone might be listening. “Justice.” Prince Doran pressed the onyx dragon into her palm with his swollen, gouty fingers, and whispered, “Fire and blood.”
Source: George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons
“She navigated away from the Parish Council message board and dropped into her favorite medical website, where she painstakingly entered the words "brain" and "death" in the search box. The suggestions were endless. Shirley scrolled through the possibilities, her mild eyes rolling up and down, wondering to which of these deadly conditions, some of them unpronounceable, she owed her present happiness.”
Source: The Casual Vacancy
“She needed a break from worrying about what to say and how to act every second of the day.”
Source: All the Broken Pieces
“She needed a distraction. “Was that your mother?”
The splashing stopped. “Are you going to converse while I bathe?”
“Why not?”
“Feels rather unseemly.”
She laughed, picturing him sitting there, shocked and indignant. “We’re supposed to be married, right?”
“You have a point, however I would rather not discuss her right now.”
“I think you’re evading me.”
“Mayhap. Is it working?”
Source: Must Love Chainmail
“She needed a dream lover—for one night.”
Source: 4 R's: Roped, Rescued, Risked, Romanced
“She needed a minute. He needed a minute. Those were the lies he told himself, but the truth was they both needed the past six years back. Only six years would do.”
Source: Not If I Save You First
“She needed Andrew Simpson Smith, it was that simple. And he had spent his life training to help people like her. Gods.
"Okay, Andrew. But let's leave today. I'm in a hurry."
"Of course. Today." He stroked the place where his slight beard was beginning to grow. "These ruins where your friends are waiting? Where are they?"
Tally glances up at the sun, still low enough to indicate the eastern horizon. After a moment's calculation, she pointed off to the northwest, back toward the city and beyond that, the Rusty Ruins. "About a week's walk that way."
"A week?"
"That means seven days."
"Yes, I know the gods' calendar," he said huffily. "But a whole week?"
"Yeah. That's not so far, is it?" The hunters had been tireless on their march the night before.
He shook his head, an awed expression on his face. "But that is beyond the edge of the world.”
Source: Pretties
“She needed Cholly's sins desperately. The lower he sank, the wilder and more irresponsible he became, the more splendid she and her task became. In the name of Jesus.”
“She needed food. Diets didn't count in a crisis.”
Source: You Against Me
“She needed help, but God was in a meeting whenever she rang.”
Source: Jitterbug Perfume
“SHE NEEDED HIM. AND HE WAS NOWHERE TO BE FOUND. (P:7)”
Source: Star Wars 2016 Del Rey Sampler: Excerpts from Upcoming and Current Titles
“She needed him inside her. Now. "It's past time to put your money where your mouth is."
"You got that all in reverse, sweetheart." He cut off the water and backed her slowly to the wall, his lips curving into a dangerous smile. "It's time to put my mouth where your honey is.”
Source: Sharp Shootin' Cowboy
“She needed him. More than just his blood or the pleasure he offered with his playground of a body, she needed him—and that was far more terrifying than becoming a blood sucking monster.”
Source: Love Me to Death
“She needed him to be him. Even if he could not be hers.”
Source: The lost duke of Wyndham
“She needed him to keep her sane, to make her laugh, to feel complete”
Source: Enchanted
“She needed money. She always needed money. Money to bribe someone, money to buy tools to get more money, money to get a safe place to store her damned money. Life was cheap, and cash, as ever, remained dauntingly expensive.”
Source: Foundryside
“She needed months, years, decades, centuries--or at the very least, however much of those God granted them. Together, though. Only, always together. Never apart again, they'd sworn that first night as they cried together over years and milestones lost, as they kissed away the thought of all those lonely days and nights, as they loved away the emptiness.”
Source: Yesterday's Tides
“She needed no drugs as she, like all the others, was high on him.”
Source: The Wanderess and her Suitcase
“She needed someone who could still her anguish”
Source: A Five Year Sentence
“She needed space, silence, and someone to wash their own damn cup. ☕”
Source: MENTALWOMEN: "When life gaslights you long enough, you either go quiet — or go mental. Sometimes both."
“She needed the chaos within her in order to discover the extraordinary no man could ever reach.”
“She needed the stimulus of an occupation which would take her out of herself.”
Source: There is Confusion
“She needed the type of love that stayed no matter.”
“She needed time to reflect, to figure out the possibilities resulting from her interaction with the Shesbow twins. This meant journaling. And fiction. With her father home from work early and the new dog and everything, it felt like a day out of time, a holiday- so why not spend the afternoon writing up her latest ideas for Never Land? She would indulge herself, the same way other girls did with naps, baths, and dresses. She had been playing with the idea of linking all her stories together somehow, maybe into a novel...”
Source: Straight On Till Morning
“She needed to come with an instructional manual. And one not written in Spanish.”
Source: In diesem Moment
“She needed to feel alive again”
“She needed to get out of there. Her brains, thankfully, were still safely in her skull, but her emotions were splattered on the pavement.”
Source: Sam (#2) and Escape (#26)
“She needed to have a good hard look at her priorities because, as of this moment, she’d been racing down the same road as Bessie.”
Source: Stage Fright
“She needed to recover. His father had died in January; it was only the end of May. They needed to stick to the routine they'd established during the intervening months. in that way, their life would return to its original shape, like a spring stretched in bad times but contracting eventually into happiness. That the world could come permanently unsprung had never occurred to him.”
Source: The Story of Edgar Sawtelle
“She needed to talk, she needed to cry, she needed to vent all her frustrations and disappointments.”
“She needed to think logically because logic said she should send this man packing and find someone else to help her out…although her heart said to get up and fall into his arms.”
Source: Cold Fury
“She needs a new journal. The one she has is problematic. To get to the present, she needs to page through the past, and when she does, she remembers things, and her new journal entries become, for the most part, reactions to the days she regrets, wants to correct, rewrite.”
Source: How the Water Feels to the Fishes
“she needs love like wildfire.
like forever-fire. until every last
southern sun sets. till the stars burn out.
and to know her heart is finally safe…
with you.”
“She needs someone she can trust and rely on and I want to be that for her.”
Source: Loved by You
“She needs someone who will be everything for her: her friend, her boyfriend, her confidant, her lover and sometimes even her enemy.”
“She needs the hand of friendship extended. Are we not all of us, at some time or another, dependent on the kindness of others? Would we not wish someone to act selflessly for our sake?”
Source: The Little Shop of Found Things
“She needs to be educated. She needs to know the contents of those books, there. She needs to understand the movements of the stars and the origins of the universe and the requirements of kindness...”
“she needs to become who she needs to be for herself before she can ever be anything for you.”
“She needs to have a few drinks and cry a little-then she'll be perfect.”
“She needs to know she wasn’t weak. She needs to know she was strong enough to survive and they didn’t because she was strong enough to hold on until help could arrive. It will help her heal.”
Source: Truth Kills
“She needs to make one phone call, and she wishes she could make it into her past. Into last year. Or two years ago.”
“She needs to seem tough, and whatever Hillary's weaknesses, tough is a pretty good word to describe her.”