S Quotes
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“She realised she was whimpering. Sir held her closer, his hard grip reassuring. This wasn't a dream; he really was here.”
Source: Breaking Free
“She realised that he would never be sorry because he had refused to see her for who she was - and who she definitely wasn’t.”
Source: True Colours
“She realised that she hadn’t tried to end her life because she was miserable, but because she had managed to convince herself that there was no way out of her misery.
That, she supposed, was the basis of depression as well as the difference between fear and despair. Fear was when you wandered into a cellar and worried that the door would close shut. Despair was when the door closed and locked behind you.”
Source: The Midnight Library
“She realised that you could be as honest as possible in life, but people only see the truth if it is close enough to their reality. As Thoreau wrote, 'It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.' And Ash only saw the Nora he had fallen in love with and married, and so, in a way, that was the Nora she was becoming.”
Source: The Midnight Library
“She realised with every inch of her being that she wanted Freya; she was in love with Freya. Her mind, with its perfectly rational arguments, had list the battle with her heart. She felt it. It was real. The conflict was torture.”
Source: But She Is My Student
“She realises that if she is to save the show she is going to have to improvise a rousing speech, one of the many Henry V moments that make up her working life.”
“She realises that she is overthinking things. She follows her three-breath routine to settle her nerves, calm her body and clear her mind.”
Source: Perform Under Pressure: Change the Way You Feel, Think and Act Under Pressure
“She realized all at once that Doon, thin, dark eyed Doon, with his troublesome temper and his terrible brown jacket, and his good heart---- was the person she knew better than anyone now. He was her best friend. --City of Ember--”
Source: The Books of Ember Omnibus
“She realized all at once the deeper thing that bothered her, the thing that made him not just irritating but intolerable: how he kept loving her blindly when she deserved it so little.”
Source: The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants Complete Collection
“She realized for the first time that two people can never reach each others deepest feelings and instincts, that they spend their lives side by side, linked it may be, but not mingled, and that each one's inmost being must go through life eternally alone.”
“She realized he looked more at home sitting at her desk than she did. How did he manage it? Somehow, he found a way to mark whatever space he occupied. He might as well lift his leg when he walked into a room.”
Source: Match Me If You Can
“She realized he wasn’t listening to music and gave him a curious look of amusement as she picked up the cover to an audio book. ‘What To Expect When You’re Expecting.’
God forgive me, I love this man.
“Thought I should be informed, you know?” Alessandro explained sheepishly.
Bree tried to tear her gaze away from his gleaming chest.
“Plus all the lactating and dilating and placenta talk does wonders to crush any man’s libido.”
Source: The Vendetta
“She realized how many of her beliefs were either unrealistic or belonged to her deceased parents and her ex-husband. She also realized that her expectations for herself and others were sometimes too rigid. She was trying to live up to what everyone else said was best for her, which made her depressed and hard to be around at times. Once she changed her beliefs about herself and others, she began to smile more and enjoy life.”
“She realized in this dire moment it was another gift of growth life was presenting to her. To step further into her power. To love unconditionally even when it felt the hardest.”
“She realized it wasn't about the wedding; it was about the marriage. Her. Him. Together. She got married barefoot because all she cared about was him. That guy. And the throw-up shoes weren't going to stop that from happening.”
Source: Last Call
“She realized she was afraid of Xaviero, but was no longer completely and utterly terrified of him. Somehow, in confronting her worst nightmare, she gained confidence in herself.”
Source: Dark Blood
“She realized that all her life the teachings of those early days have influenced me and the example set by father and mother has been something I have tried to follow, which failures here and there, with rebellion at times, but always coming back to it as the compass needle to the star,
-Laura Ingalls Wilder, 'As A Farm Woman Thinks.' Missouri Ruralist, August 1, 1923; Farm Journalist, p. 290.”
Source: Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder
“She realized that being starved for words was the same as being starved for food, because both left a hollow place inside you, a place you needed filled to make it through another day. Rachel remembered how growing up she’d thought living on a farm with just a father was as lonely as you could be. (130)”
“She realized that her undiluted love had also given him the power to hurt her but she decided that spirit of the soul can always transcend the pain of the ego.”
Source: Seeking Redemption
“She realized that Rowan saw each of those thoughts and more as he reached into his tunic and pulled out a dagger. Her dagger. He extended it to her, it's long blade gleaming as if he'd been secretly polishing and caring for it these months.
And when she grasped the dagger, it's weight lighter than she remembered, Rowan looked into her eyes, into her very core of her, and said, 'Fireheart'.”
Source: Heir of Fire
“She realized that she’d never truly known the power of a kiss–not when just the merest touch of lips stopped reality, ended daylight, drawing her into an existence that should not be real and yet was the only palpable thing. The only thing she could feel. The only thing she wanted to feel.”
Source: Magdalene Nox
“She realized that she had naïvely believed that the workings of the world revolved around her and her family. Never before had she acknowledged that somebody else’s life might alter hers.”
Source: Acacia: The War with the Mein
“She realized that she hadn't tried to end her life because she was miserable, but because she had managed to convinced herself that there was no way out of her misery”
“She realized that she no longer believed her husband: it was as if the certainty that he’d betrayed her had settled into her bones like the chill of a damp day.”
Source: My Mother's Secret
“She realized that this scarred, sarcastic boy, was gentle with the things he loved.”
Source: City of Lost Souls
“She realized that you could be as honest as possible in life, but people only see the truth if it is close enough to their reality. As Thoreau wrote, ‘It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see”
Source: The Midnight Library
“She realized then that time passes, but the imagination remains, even if it does not seem to exist. (Elle comprit alors que le temps passe, mais l'imagination reste, même si cela semble ne pas exister)”
Source: Les Contes de la nuit
“She realized too late that she hadn’t beaten him. She had only joined the game he wanted her to play.”
Source: Vice and Virtue
“She realized what a gate was: it was an indication that you had left one pace and were entering another.”
Source: Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
“She realized with deep respect that this woman had always done what she had to do and faced what she had to face. If many of her fears and burdens would have seemed unreal to another woman, there was nothing unreal about her courage.”
Source: The Scent of Water
“She realizes she doesn't know as much as God but feels she knows as much as God knew when he was her age.”
“She realizes that women were the first victims of the Civil War: one out of 2 women were raped, their sons were recruited as child soldiers, they walked long miles to feed their families. Yet nobody listened to them or involved them”
Source: Brazen: Rebel Ladies Who Rocked the World
“She realizes with sadness that it was on that day, not the day of her first period, that she left her childhood behind. That was the day she stopped being afraid of skeletons and old stories about phantom hands, and started being afraid of men.”
Source: The Librarian of Auschwitz
“She really did like me, the idiot.”
Source: Darkly Dreaming Dexter
“She really did treat him more like a rabbit than a god.
- Kissen”
Source: Godkiller
“She really didn't need much of this world
Just an average livelihood
A small house
A few pets
And him ❤️
And perhaps a few little hims from their first crawls to their many steps”
“She really does like him, she likes lying next to him, she wants to be around him; when you get down to it, can you say that about many people?”
“She really had been blind, if she had refused to acknowledge how beautiful Sylvia was before now. The Absolute was much closer than she'd ever believed. It was not in God, not in nature. It was right here before her. Close enough to touch.
Close enough to profane.”
Source: A Dark and Drowning Tide
“She really hated confrontations (unless she was killing someone; then she overcame her shyness).”
Source: Undead and Undermined
“She really is a completely different First Lady. Eleanor Roosevelt was not going to suffer and withdraw in the White House. And I think he's a very different President. He does not want his wife to suffer and withdraw in the White House. And they really are partners. They're partners in a big house where there are two separate courts, and they both know they have two separate courts. But these are courts that are allied in purpose, united in vision.”
“She really is beautiful. Not oil-painting beautiful or billboard beautiful [...] The sort of beautiful that keeps you up at night, scared that you're going to fuck it up because you're not ready.”
Source: Afterlove
“She really is the essence of being a woman”
“She really just thought people were better off staying away from her.”
Source: Carve the Mark
“She really liked you, Noah,'
'Yeah, well, maybe I'm just an asshole.'
I realize my hand is still in his hair and I retract it quickly. He grabs it, holds it against him. You're not an asshole I'm thinking, but for some reason I can't say it. It would be like admitting something else; like the fact that he's an asshole to every girl who likes him, but never to me. And then I'd have to really think about why that is and that's not something I'll ever be comfortable with at all, even though his eyes are like maps and his words are like anchors and his songs are like personal messages and I love all that.
- Chloe”
Source: Before He Was Famous
“She really needed to know the girl's name. Names had power. If you didn't know your own daughter's name, you had no control whatsoever.”
Source: The Midnight Library
“She really never lies?"
"Never."
"How is that possible?" Mitch leaned back in his chair. "I lie before breakfast. And, if no one else is around, I lie to myself.”
Source: Hyde
“She really started to cry, and the next thing I knew, I was kissing her all over - anywhere - her eyes, her nose, her forehead, her eyebrows, and all, her ears - her whole face except her mouth and all.”
Source: THE CATCHER IN THE RYE
“She really was pretty, for a grown-up, but when you are seven, beauty is an abstraction, not an imperative.”
Source: The Ocean at the End of the Lane
“She really was pretty, for a grown-up person, but when you are seven, beauty is an abstraction, not an imperative. I wonder what I would have done if she had smiled at me like that now: whether I would have handed my mind or my heart or my identify to her for the asking, as my father did.”
“She recalled all the seesaws she had ridden: friendship and love, jealousy and trust, confusion and sense, happiness and sadness, disappointment and contentment, hope and despair, pain and comfort, temptation and self-control.”
Source: Harp and the Lyre: Extraction