S Quotes
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“She needs to wake up," said Boots. "Hazard is crying. When does she wake up?" Gregor could not find it within him to give his standard reply. To pretend that in a short time Thalia would be back with them, laughing and happy. And somehow it seemed wrong to try. Boots was getting older. Very soon, she would begin to realize the truth on her own, anyway. "She's not going wake up," he told her. "She's dead."
"She doesn't wake up?" said Boots.
"No, not this time," said Gregor. "This time, she had to go away."
Boots looked around at all their faces, at Hazard crying. "Where did she go?" No one had an answer. "Where is Thalia when she doesn't wake up?"
The question hung in the air for an eternity. Finally, it was Howard who spoke up. "Why, she's in your heart, Boots."
"My heart?" said Boots, putting both hands on her chest.
"Yes. That's where she lives now," said Howard.
"She can fly away?" asked Boots, pressing her palms tightly against her heart as if to keep Thalia from escaping.
"Oh, no, she will stay there forever," said Howard.”
Source: Gregor and the Marks of Secret
“She needs you, Daniel. She needs her father.”
Source: Just For A While
“She neglects her heart who too closely studies her glass.”
“She nestled against him, already limp and relaxed. With a tremulous little sigh, she curled her fist against his chest.
Aidan had to force himself to relax. He held himself very still, tempering the desire that churned and clamored in his chest, twisting and turning restlessly. He was still shocked by it, by its strength, its persistence, for it grew more rousing with every moment spent with her.”
Source: The Seduction Of An Unknown Lady
“She never acted as if she liked him all that much, but then she never acted as if she liked anyone all that much.”
Source: Paper Towns
“She never allowed the external world to change her soul, that was her magic.”
“She never asked for too much. She just wanted to be ordinary.”
Source: Half Moon Bay
“She never called her son by any name but John; 'love' and 'dear', and such like terms, were reserved for Fanny.”
Source: The Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (20+ Books)
“She never even told me how she felt," Valerie thought aloud, feeling the betrayal in her gut. How had she been so blind? Her sister had loved Henry silently. Did she know about the engagement? Did she overhear our parents planning? Valerie supposed it was possible, but it seemed unlikely since they were always together. Would it have broken her heart?
"Don't worry, you poor child," Madame Lazar said, seeming almost disinterested in the subject of Lucie's death. "I know you're worried about your sister, but Henry always had his eye on you. You are—were always the pretty one.”
Source: Red Riding Hood
“She never ever lost her head even when she was giving head.”
“She never feels more alive than at these moments. When onstage she fears nothing.”
Source: Station Eleven
“She never felt sorry for herself, and that was something I decided I admired most in people.”
Source: Half Broke Horses: A True-Life Novel
“She never forgets a slight, real or imagined. She takes caution for cowardice and dissent for defiance. And she is greedy. Greedy for power, for honour, for love.”
“She never forgot the day she'd met him, or how his friends had told her to be more than pretty. She never forgot Elizabeth, Yennenga, Abhaya Rani. She wore his gold coin on a chain around her neck until the day she died. But the thing she treasured most was the memory of his smile, a smaile that was a wink and a dare. A wild road on a windy night. A kiss int he dark.
A smile that had given her all she'd ever wanted-a chance.
A chance to be herself.”
Source: Stepsister
“She never got a chance to fall out of love, to do it properly, slowly and thoroughly, and the result was he was like a phantom limb. Gone but still there. And like a true phantom limb, the preponderance of feelings associated with him were painful.”
“She never got over the thrill of watching a woman don the dress she'd said yes to. A wedding dress lit up a woman like no other garment she'd ever own. Threads of Kindness”
Source: Threads of Kindness: The Eleventh Novel in the Rosemont Series
“She never had much in this life, but with the simplest things, she made her corner of the world as beautiful as any king's palace. We may lack riches, but the greatest fortune is what lies in our hearts.”
Source: Odd Thomas
“She never had the opportunity to fall in love the traditional way. Her marriage, her life, her duties were all arranged for her. Yet, despite it all, she smiled, she served, and she loved us endlessly”
Source: Through Tragedy and Triumph: A Life Well Traveled
“She never imagined a scenario in which her love was not returned with the same depth of feeling, for to her it was impossible to believe that a love of such magnitude could have stunned only her. The most elementary logic and justice indicated that somewhere in the city he was suffering the same delicious torment.”
“She never inquired, but she never recoiled, either. This is a quality that I look for in a person, not recoiling.”
Source: No One Belongs Here More Than You: Stories
“She never knew how
Hard it could truly get until
She was drowning, just
Beneath the surface,
Unable to catch even a
Breath of air as she
Strangled herself, encumbering
Herself with
Meaningless tasks and studies, burdening
Herself with
Meaningless thoughts and duties,
No matter how much her heart
Willed her to rest,
Her brain told her to
Keep going, and, inevitably,
She broke”
“She never knew when she trespassed and when she fell in love with Huzaf. Perhaps this is the beauty of love, it doesn't knock. It just creeps in slowly and steadily.”
Source: Mayhem In Paradise
“She never knows when it might strike. The rage. And when it does, she loses her grip on herself—literally. At times, she could swear she sees another self—shiny black phantom, faceless, as though clad in a bodysuit—leaping out of her, pulling the rest of her in its wake. Over the edge.”
Source: Adult Onset
“She never lets ideas interrupt the easy flow of her conversation.”
Source: Daddy Long Legs
“She never liked me much, but she sure loved me”
Source: An Abundance of Katherines
“She never liked to admit that she enjoyed compliments.”
Source: Mythangelus
“She never listened to anyone but herself. And yet, I enjoyed her company more than anybody else’s.”
Source: The Spanish Daughter
“She never looks at the ring.”
“She never lost that rare faculty which she possessed of being surprised at things, so that she looked at everything with youthful eyes.”
Source: George Sand, some aspects of her life and writings
“She never managed to find herself in these books no matter how hard she tried, exhuming traits from between the pages and donning them for an hour, a day, a week. We think in some ways, we have all done this our whole lives, searching for the book that will give us the keys to ourselves, let us into a wholly formed personality as though it were a furnished room to let. As though we could walk in and look around and say to the gray-haired landlady behind us, "We'll take it."”
“She never minded admitting she didn't know something. So what, she thought; I could always learn.”
Source: Harriet the Spy
“She never minded the scars because they served as a reminder of her own survival.”
Source: The Price of Broken Magic
“She never murdered anyone. She didn't want to destroy the world. But I think there's another sort of evil that is often overlooked ... and it is this. Granny never did anything to help anyone else. She was rich and healthy (she lived into her nineties) but she was utterly selfish and complained all the time. ... As far as I know, she never tried to make anyone happy ... and if you ask me, evil is a perfectly reasonable description of someone like that.”
Source: Granny
“She never opened her mail in the middle of the day. Sometimes she forgot about it for a week or more until people rang to complain. Nor did she check her answering machine messages. In fact, it had only been in the last year that she had finally bought an answering machine, and she steadfastly refused to have a mobile, to the incredulity of all those around her, who didn’t believe that people could actually function without one. But Frieda wanted to be able to escape from incessant communications and demands. She didn’t want to be at anyone’s beck and call, and she liked cutting herself off from the urgent inanities of the world. When she was on her own, she liked to be truly alone. Out of contact and adrift.”
Source: Blue Monday
“she never quite completes her
sentence but is always almost”
Source: Falling Awake
“She never quite leaves her children at home, even when she doesn't take them along.”
“She never said, "No, don't buy that trash," or "Pick a real book." She knew they were all real books. This is how great a librarian she was. And how great a mom.”
“She never sat down in a car but stood, braced tense, facing the wind. Now and again she would turn her face toward me with an apologetic expression as though to say: "I have not forgotten that you are here but there are certain pleasures I cannot share with you." Her nose never ceased its sensitive quivering.”
“She never saw it again. Day and night the river flows down into England, day after day the sun retreats into the Welsh mountains, and the tower chimes: 'See the Conquering Hero.' But the Wilcoxes have no part in the place, nor in any place. It is not their names that recur in the parish register. It is not their ghosts that sigh among the alders at evening. They have swept into the valley and swept out of it, leaving a little dust and a little money behind.”
Source: Howards End
“She never sent the castle to sleep”, said Granny, “that’s just an old wife’s tale. She just stirred up time a little. It’s not as hard as people think, everyone does it all the time. It’s like rubber, is time, you can stretch it to suit yourself.”
Magrat was about to say: That’s not right, time is time, every second lasts a second, that’s its job. Then she recalled weeks that had flown past and afternoons that had lasted forever. Some minutes had lasted hours, some hours had gone past so quickly she hadn’t been aware they’d gone past at all.
“But that’s just people’s perception, isn’t it?”
“Oh yes”, said Granny, “of course it is, it all is, what difference does that make?”
Source: Wyrd Sisters
“She never sets foot out of her apartment or her past.”
“she never showed girly weaknesses like cellulite or crushes. she never lingered on injustices committed against her.”
Source: The Last Summer (of You and Me)
“She never stumbles, she's got no place to fall. She's nobody's child, the law can't touch her at all.”
“She never thought she was good at making friends. But maybe she was just trying to be friends with the wrong people.”
Source: The Peach Keeper: A Novel
“She never told her love, but let concealment, like a worm 'i th' bud, feed on her damask cheek. She pinned in thought; and, with a green and yellow melancholy, she sat like Patience on a monument, smiling at grief. Was not this love indeed? We men may say more, swear more; but indeed our shows are more than will; for we still prove much in our vows but little in our love.”
“She never utters a sound even when she's crying, and that makes me a little sad. Doesn't seem right. When you cry, people should hear you. The world should stop.”
Source: Going Bovine
“She never wanted the truth . . . She wanted you. She would have taken from you what you could give her, and been glad of it even if she had known it false. You might have lied to her from pity, and she have seen you and felt you lie, and yet—since it was all for tenderness—she would have thanked you and blessed you and clung to you but the more. For that was your strength, my dear man—that she loves you with passion.”
Source: The Wings of the Dove
“She never wanted to be at odds with Roland, but in this instance, she'd side with Rose.”
Source: Vermin
“She never wants to get to the point where she looks forward to hearing from someone. Once you look forward to something, you’re inevitably let down and nothing can stay the same so she'd rather expect nothing at all and just be surprised that she was thought of at all.”
“She never was really charming till she died.”