S Quotes
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“She rubbed her nose with the heel of her hand. She wasn't surprised. Maybe a little hurt or embarrassed to see -- like, actually see -- what a fraud she was, but mostly she was just relieved. She felt herself relax. The weight of having to make the rest of the world happy or proud or even momentarily charmed vanished. She let her eyes close. She had a sense of herself as a little kid again, lying on her back in a pool, floating aimlessly, perfectly content.”
“She rubs her arm where I grabbed her. “What do you do to the people you don’t like?”
I flash my teeth like knives in the dark. “Do you really want to know?”
She kicks my shin in a halfhearted pout. “You think different around him, you know.”
“Oh?” A cab pulls to the side and I open the door. “Clearer. Happier. But scarier.”
Source: Perfect Lies
“She rubs my back and sighs.
"Jesus Abby, I'm so sorry. If I didn't know any better, I'd say you're still hung up on him. Big time.”
“She rubs my nose lightly with her thumb and sighs. "It was devotion, Tristan. Devotion brought the world down. Misguided, unrelenting devotion. Devotion disguised as religion, duty, vocation, advancement. People forgot about other people. Don't become obsessed with anything; it reduces you.”
Source: Orphans of Canland
“She runs away from love because it scares her, he just gave her a pair of arms to run into.”
“She runs her tongue over her teeth as she walks out the door, and feels an edge, something needing to be filed down before she bites her tongue. Dentist. Manicure. Makeup. Hair salon. She tastes blood, swallows it, pops a mint into her mouth. Small repairs. There's no woman alive who hasn't found the occasional hole in heaven, and carefully, meticulously, covered it back up.”
Source: The Mere Wife
“She runs the gamut of emotions from A to B.”
Source: Dorothy Parker in Her Own Words
“She runs up into the light surprised
Her arms are opened
Her mind's eye is
Seeing things from a better side than most can dream”
“She's 68 now, and although she knows the idea of being put out to pasture is a phrase others associate with obsolescence and redundancy, for her it conjures lushes green fields filled with buttercups where she's free to roam.”
Source: The Names
“She’s a badass motherf**keress. She’d kick your ass soon as look at you. You’ve clapped your eyes on The Law. Count yourself lucky, sucker. Now, what’ll it f**kin’be?”
Source: Rock Chick Renegade
“She's a batshit feral hitwoman for a Clan of immortals, and sometimes just a girl in love with a boy destined to be her Handler. The only thing standing between them is cannibalism and intimacy induced amnesia.”
Source: Wild Thing
“she’s a beautiful wildness on fire”
“She's a bright girl. She learned in her thirteenth year that you can get old films of Mae West or Marlene Dietrich (who is a Vulcan; look at the eyebrows) after midnight on UHF if you know where to look, at fourteen that pot helps, at fifteen that reading's even better. She learned, wearing her rimless glasses, that the world is full of intelligent, attractive, talented women who manage to combine careers with their primary responsibilities as wives and mothers and whose husbands beat them. She's put a gold circle pin on her shirt as a concession to club day. She loves her father and once is enough. Everyone knows that much as women want to be scientists and engineers, they want foremost to be womanly companions to men (what?) and caretakers of childhood; everyone knows that a large part of a woman's identity inheres in the style of her attractiveness. Laur is daydreaming. She looks straight before her, blushes, smiles, and doesn't see a thing... Laur is daydreaming that she's Genghis Khan.”
Source: The Female Man
“She’s a cop’s wife. She understands what her husband does for a living,” the priest said.”
Source: The Cases Nobody Wanted
“She's a dark-eyed, red flame, bohemian hurricane.”
Source: Moon Gypsy
“She's a doorbell ringer, not a knocker. Things are awkward and I haven't even greeted her yet.”
Source: Second Chance
“She's a dream and I'm a dreamer, refusing to wake up.”
Source: Prodigy of Revenge
“she’s a flower
out in the wilderness…
touched by moonlight
and free in the open air
and wild sun”
“She's a fucking rat trying to humiliate a queen...She's nothing”
Source: Bound by Honor
“She's a gift, you see,
rare and precious
as wild grass
or heron in flight;
unpredictable,
beyond imitation,
gemstone perfect.”
Source: Something Will Change Me: Poems of Soul and Spirit
“She's a girl after my own heart. Food first, conversation later.”
Source: Never Forgotten
“She’s a good girl’, pleaded Ruth. ‘Please bring her home.”
Source: Murder in the Pacific: Ifira Point
“She's a good woman, he thought. The kind of woman whose goodness is oppressive.”
Source: The Vegetarian
“She's a kind of flower that takes a long time to bloom and she's waiting for someone who has enough patience to love her until she opens up.”
“She’s a lean vixen: I can see
the ribs, the sly
trickster’s eyes, filled with longing
and desperation, the skinny
feet, adept at lies.
Why encourage the notion
of virtuous poverty?
It’s only an excuse
for zero charity.
Hunger corrupts, and absolute hunger
corrupts absolutely,”
Source: Morning in the Burned House: Poems
“She’s a little lost girl in her own little world,
She looks so happy but she seems so sad, oh yeah,
Oh, oh, yeah.
She’s a little lost girl in her own little world,
I’d like to help her, I’d like to try, oh yeah,
Oh, oh yeah.
She talks to birds, she talks to angels,
She talks to trees, she talks to bees,
She don’t talk to me.
Talks to the rainbows and to the seas,
She talks to trees,
She don’t talk to me.”
“She’s a little mystery I’d like to solve. Innocence I’d like to corrupt.”
Source: Grease Monkey
“She's a living, breathing piece of art.”
Source: Pieces of a Broken Mind
“She's a love letter girl in an email world.”
Source: Letters to Mira!
“She’s a lunatic,” says Conrad.
“Absolutely insane,” says Guntram.
“Either completely fearless or utterly stupid,” says Conrad.
“She’s going to fit right in,” says Guntram.”
Source: Illusive
“She’s a manner of speaking.
Even the flowers don’t come back, or the green leaves.
There are new flowers, new green leaves.
There are other beautiful days.
Nothing comes back, nothing repeats itself, because everything is real.”
Source: The Collected Poems of Alberto Caeiro
“She's a match for my vibe, like a fairytale dream,
The girl that my family adores, it seems.
And as for me, it's not just a lie,
I've fallen for her, my heart can't deny.”
“She’s a natural submissive and she doesn’t have a clue.”
Source: Sir
“She's a nice girl and she doesn't deserve to be used as a pawn in my father's fucked-up game."
"I'm sorry she's involved and I'm sorry I got you involved. We'll find the money some other way."
Zane wanted to believe what John said, but how they were going to do that, he had no clue.
Alright, we'll figure it out when I get there."
"You on your way back tonight? John asked.
"Yeah, I just need to call Missy, and, hell, I don't know.... apologize, I guess."
"Apologize for sleeping with her because your father told you to? Are you sure you want to do that?" John asked.
"No, I didn't sleep with her." Zane could imagine how bad he'd feel if he had.
"You didn't have sex with girl?" There was shock in Rick's voice.
"What's the matter? Was she ugly?”
Source: Saved by a SEAL
“She's a Phenomenal Black Woman, Wife, and Mother... She is YOU.”
“She's a poetry written by the hands of God .”
“She’s a poker player’s wet dream. Sorry, sweetheart, you can’t bluff for anything.”
Source: Poisoned Apple
“She's a queen with the heart of a Lioness , she's ferocious fierce and brave -prides herself in her features .”
“She's a queen with young eyes, a vintage heart, and a beautiful mind ...”
“She’s a regular in her local gym today and is constantly pushing herself to get stronger.”
Source: Shredders: Girls Who Skate
“She’s a rock I want to break myself against.”
Source: The Becoming of Noah Shaw
“She's a self-conscious vampire ... and she goes about using sex as a sort of shrimping net.”
“She's a she-wolf. Her nature demands she's dominated, even if she tries to fight it. She'll listen to an amount of force – positive force, not negative force. But leave the run wide open with no boundaries and she won't listen to you at all. All she'll listen to is the call of freedom, even if it leads her straight into a trap. Stop thinking like a human. She's a wolf.”
Source: Blood Shadow
“She’s a sickness in my head.”
Then get well.
What you feel is self-made and attended to over time. You want to let go but are unwilling to let go because you are getting something from it; An escape? An excuse? Bondage?
You are idealizing another person, building up the idea of them, and making them a legend in your own mind.
Is it really a sickness or something you can control?
The question is: do you even want to?
Each time a thought creeps into your mind, you choose whether to give it freedom to remain or to wander. You can rebuke it or replace it. After all, it’s your mind.”
“She's a sort of a strange, angry person."
"So am I.”
Source: Show Them a Good Time
“She’s a strong woman, and that’s more important than wearing a pretty smile for the world’s sake.”
Source: Hear the Wolves
“She's a strong woman. She has wings under her armour struggling to be free.”
“She's a sucker for freedom and wildness but doesn't mind being a slave to her curiosity”
“She's a summer girl and I am going to let her gaze melt my winter heart.”
“She's a tangled mess of wild- a forest nymph, a goddess child. She's like the seductive sea - feral and fierce, calm and serene. She's the starfish swimming in my soul, the woman child who keeps me sane, who keeps me whole.”