S Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with S. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“She said she wanted my best line tomorrow after the show, and now I knew what it was going to be.”
Source: Losing It
“She said she wanted to help little girls, mothers, prostitutes. he said this was a good idea because at present almost all who worked with these people had different sexual organs from their patients.”
Source: Poor Things
“She said she wanted to see beautiful things. I took her to where i planted my seeds.”
“She said she was a fan of Edward Snowden, and I replied, "You know, I'm something of a whistleblower myself. In fact, I'm so advanced it's called a flute. I play elevator music as smooth as a duck swims, and if you enjoy the duration of your ride, you might consider tipping.”
Source: One Out of Ten Dentists Agree: This Book Helps Fight Gingivitis. Maybe Tomorrow I’ll Ask Nine More Dentists.: A BearPaw Duck And Meme Farm Production
“She said she was approaching forty, and I couldn't help wondering from what direction.”
“She said she was halfway home
but she never made it to me.”
“She said she was neither happy nor unhappy, and that was why she couldn't go on. Each person knows the extent of their own suffering, or the total absence of meaning in their lives.”
“She said she was working for the ABC news, it was as much of the alphabet as she knew how to use.”
“She said she wasn't afraid of Satan, in fact, she thought he was a joke. She said she'd tear his tail off and run her fist down his throat.”
“She said she wouldn't be here tonight. She wanted to stay in. Her mouth is hot, her hands all knowing. I'm too far gone to resist. My Secret Princess. Did she lie and disguise herself to hide to plain sight? To find herself a stranger, to spend tonight with no one? She could only see one of my eyes and nothing else of my face. A shoddy thrown together costume became my new identity, and with it, this pirate stole the princess.”
Source: Chains of Nurture
“She said: Sheriff how come you to let crime get so out of hand in your county? Sounded like a fair question I reckon. Maybe it was a fair question. Anyway I told her, I said: It starts when you begin to overlook bad manners.”
Source: No Country for Old Men
“She said: Sheriff how come you to let crime get so out of hand in your county? Sounded like a fair question I reckon. Maybe it was a fair question. Anyway I told her, I said: It starts when you begin to overlook bad manners. Any time you quit hearin Sir and Mam the end is pretty much in sight.”
Source: No Country for Old Men
“She said she’d often wondered why she wanted to do some things and not do other things at all. Well, it was obvious with some things, but for others, there was no reason there. She’d spent a long time puzzling it out, then she thought that what you’d done in a past life you didn’t need to do again, and what you had to do in the future, you wouldn’t be ready to do now.”
Source: Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
“She said sorcery is a sword without a hilt. There is no safe way to grasp it.
A wise woman...A sword without a hilt is still a sword, though, and a sword is a fine thing to have when foes are all about.”
Source: A Dance with Dragons
“She said, “Thank God. The spell didn’t recognize you as an enemy.”
He gave in to his impulse at last and cupped her chin, stepping close so that he could feel the heat from her body. It was a subtle warmth that touched him in places he didn’t understand and had long denied existed. “That’s because I’m not your enemy, Sophie.”
Source: Moonshadow
“She said, "Thanks for the walk. I think I'll turn in and get some rest."
Looks like you've gotten more than your fill of beauty sleep, I almost said.”
Source: Hell Hole
“She said that by introducing me to all these great things, Mary Elizabeth gained a “superior position” that she wouldn’t need if she was confident about herself. She also said that people who try to control situations all the time are afraid that if they don’t, nothing will work out the way they want.”
Source: The Perks of Being a Wallflower YA edition
“She said that certain facts are accessible only from one point of view--the point of view of the creature who experiences them. You think she meant that the only shoes we can ever wear are our own. Meg can’t imagine what it’s like for you to be you, she can only imagine herself being you.”
“She said that everything had colour in her thought; the months of the year ran through all the tints of the spectrum, the days of the week were arrayed as Solomon in his glory, morning was golden, noon orange, evening crystal blue, and night violet. Every idea came to her mind robed in its own especial hue. Perhaps that was why her voice and words had such a charm, conveying to the listeners' perception such fine shadings of meaning and tint and music.”
Source: The Golden Road
“She said that everything that disappeared from our side went over to theirs, where they kept living normal lives, waiting for the things still lingering with us to join them, and make the world whole once more.”
Source: Intimations: Stories
“She said that her father's death had been the hardest thing in her life. "We are all children until our fathers die.”
Source: The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing
“She said that her grandmother was skeptical of many things in this world and of none more than men. She said that in every trade save war men of talent and vigor prosper. In war they die. Her grandmother spoke to her often of men and she spoke with great earnestness and she said that rash men were a great temptation to women and this was simply a misfortune like others and there was little that could be done to remedy it. She said that to be a woman was to live a life of difficulty and heartbreak and those who said otherwise simply had no wish to face the facts. And she said that since this was so nor could it be altered one was better to follow one’s heart in joy and in misery than simply to seek comfort for there was none. To seek it was only to welcome in the misery and to know little else. She said that these were things all women knew yet seldom spoke of. Lastly she said that if women were drawn to rash men it was only that in their secret hearts they knew that a man who would not kill for them was of no use at all.”
Source: The Crossing
“She said that if you can’t see yourself being happy with someone for the rest of your life, if you know he won’t treat you well, if you have to change him to meet your standards, then he isn’t the one.”
Source: Replay: Ghost
“She said that in writing anything, you must be perfectly honest.”
Source: The Book of Michael
“She said that it had always been thus with Clifford when the humming-birds came, -always, from his babyhood,-and that his delight in them had been one of the earliest tokens by which he showed his love for beautiful things.”
Source: The house of the seven gables
“She said, “That man out there. That wonderful man followed you for years. He put himself between you and harm’s way time and time again. And when he thought his father was going to take you away from him, when you were screaming as Livingstone’s magic was pouring into you, he made his choice. He found it within himself to crawl from the depths of whatever feral hell he was in. For you, Carter. How are you so blind to that? I know he’s not what you expected. I know you never thought about one such as him—”
[...]
But don’t ever doubt what Gavin Walsh feels for you. Everything he’s done has been for you. Carter, can’t you see? He loves you. So much so that he was willing to sacrifice himself in Caswell just to keep you safe. He chose you over his father. It’s why he left with him. Not because he wanted to. But because he thought it would mean Livingstone could never touch you again.”
Source: Brothersong
“She said that one day they would be very old, that the world would be a different place, but it would always be their world, and that the time apart now would be a nightmare from which they would recover - desperation buried under years of happiness.”
Source: The Illusion of Separateness
“She said that one of the advantages of being ninety was that she could read a detective story again, only two weeks after she first read it, without any notion of which character was the villain.”
Source: Essays After Eighty
“She said that room up there is a remembering room
and when she is up there remembering
all those things fill up the room
and when the room is too full
they fly out the window.”
“She said that she'd always be there, watching over my life like it was her favorite soap opera, and to make sure I didn't let it get too boring, or she'd be forced to cause chaos for her own entertainment.”
Source: Don't Call Me Daddy
“She said that she would dance with me if I brought her red roses but in all my garden there is no red rose.”
Source: The Nightingale and the Rose
“She said that the mummy and the daddy took their daughter up onto the moor. They had a picnic. They’d brought all of her favourite food – cheese sandwiches on white bread with the crusts cut off and strawberry-pink cupcakes – and when the little girl had finished eating, she looked around for her mummy and the daddy. But they’d gone. They’d left Evelyn on the moor by herself.”
Source: The Stolen Child
“She said that these were things all women knew yet seldom spoke of. Lastly she said that if women were drawn to rash men it was only that in their secret hearts they knew that a man who would not kill for them was of no use at all.”
Source: The Crossing
“She said that was the only way for us to live, to be like poets.”
Source: Sweet Bean Paste
“She said that you've break my heart”
“She said the man in the gabardine suit was a spy
I said 'Be careful his bowtie is really a camera'”
“She said the object and color in the materials around us actually have a physical effect on us, on how we feel.”
“She said the reason that love is so painful is that it always amounts to two people wanting more than two people can give.”
Source: Saints and Sinners
“She said The Waves was the closest literature had ever come to expressing the blueprint of dance which for her was mapping out and choreographing the secret springs of identity. Dance, she said, was making the inner life visible and giving it a sequential form.”
Source: The Tree House
“she said, these dead petals,
honey, brought me here”
“She said they don't erect statues to honor losing generals, and I nodded solemnly and replied, "Erect statues make better lovers." Then I told her I am having a SALE on duck eggs.”
Source: BearPaw Duck And Meme Farm presents: Two Ducks Brawling Is A Pre-Pillow Fight
“She said this in the same way you might say Fields of Punishment or Hades's gym shorts.”
“She said to me, “I don’t know what life is anymore, it seems mean to me. I always wanted to be a mermaid but I never saw the sea.”
“She said to me, "I'm just looking towards the day when I get out of this hell, and asking myself if I will ever get out of it." And I said to her, "Something I have learned in life is that we often don't get out of hell; we just learn how to live in it." And tears fell down her face.”
“She said to the Daisy girl with her big brown eyes: 'I will not have it plain. No. Fancy. It must be fancy!' She meant her future. A moon-daisy dropped to the floor, down from her hair, like a faintly derisive sign from heaven.”
“She said, "Today, today, today. Today feels green. There's still some blue, but that's life, I think. Sometimes it can be a forest. Other times it's an ocean. But we float, don't we? Along the surface. I always thought so, even when I was drowning. There's a song I like. An old one." And remarkably, she started singing. "Sometimes I float along the river, for to its surface I am bound. And there are times stones done fill my pockets, oh Lord, and it's into this river I drown.”
Source: Brothersong
“She said, wait until see what happens when I finally shine my light on the World!”
“She said waku waku is a way of describing the thrill you feel at moving toward something that you’re excited about, something that makes you feel the most alive out of anything.”
“She said.. We all have a story to tell and a song in our hearts. Go find you voice in the world!”
“She said, "We can pretend. Just once. And then we'll never say anything about it again."
What a strange, shifting person he was. The Gansey who turned to her now was a world away from the lofty boy she'd first met. Without any hesitation, she stretched her arms around his neck. Who was this Blue? She felt bigger than her body. High as the stars. He leaned toward her--her heart spun again--and pressed his cheek against hers. His lips didn't touch her skin, but she felt his breath, hot and uneven, on her face. His fingers splayed on either side of her spine. Her lips were so close to his jaw that she felt his hint of stubble at the end of them. It was mint and memories and the past and the future and she felt as if she'd done this before and already she longed to do it again.
Oh, help, she thought. Help, help, help.
He pulled away. He said, "And now we never speak of it again.”
Source: The Dream Thieves