S Quotes
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“She sat one of the fluffy cats in my lap and stuffed the other down my shirt. She turned and left. 'There,' said the large man. 'The kittens will make your sad go away.”
Source: John Dies at the End
“She sat sobbing. She shook her head.
Yet even though I could have told you how all of this would end I thought it not too much to ask that you have a final glimpse of hope in the world to lift your heart before the shroud drops, the darkness. Do you see?
Oh God, she said. Oh God.
I’m sorry.
She looked at him a final time. You dont have to, she said. You dont. You dont.
He shook his head. You’re asking that I make myself vulnerable and that I can never do. I have only one way to live. It doesnt allow for special cases. A coin toss perhaps. In this case to small purpose. Most people dont believe that there can be such a person. You can see what a problem that must be for them. How to prevail over that which you refuse to acknowledge the existence of. Do you understand? When I came into your life your life was over. It had a beginning, a middle, and an end. This is the end. You can say that things could have turned out differently. That they could have been some other way. But what does that mean? They are not some other way. They are this way. You’re asking that I second say the world. Do you see?
Yes, she said, sobbing. I do. I truly do.
Good, he said. That’s good. Then he shot her.”
“She sat still, I thought, and yet she traveled. And when one stitches, the mind travels, not the way men do, with ax and oxen through the wilderness, but surely our traveling counted too, as motion. And I thought of the patience of the stitches. Writing a book, I thought, which men often do, but women only rarely, has the posture of sewing. One hand leads, and the other hand helps. And books, like quilts, are made, one word at a time, one stitch at a time.”
Source: Ahab's Wife, or The Star-Gazer
“She sat still, trying to hush her secret heart.”
Source: Anna and the King of Siam
“She sat there, a wild heart on a chair with gin lips and nightlife eyes. The Gatsby Girl. Longing for more in the shallowness of it all.”
Source: Remember the wild girl
“She sat there reading; cool, calm and collected. "You could ruin his life with that information," her friend reported triumphantly. The woman sighed, clearly annoyed at being interrupted. "If I did he would never forget me," she replied. "Besides...I don't care enough about his life to concern myself with what he does with it as long as he doesn't concern himself with thoughts of me." Her friend furrowed her brows. "Why?" she asked. The woman set her book down, leaned forward provocatively and said, "Because then I'd have to think of him too.”
“She sat up again, horror filling her as the memory came flooding back. "Oh, no," she said out loud, quite distinctly.
And out of the darkness his voice, the low, cool drawl with the faint trace of a lilt, said, "Oh, yes."
Emma slid her legs around, pulling her feet on the thick French carpet. Her dress was tumbling down around her shoulders, and she knew whom to thank for that service. "You," she said, not bothering to disguise the horror in her voice.
"Me," he agreed. "Come to your rescue once more, my sweet.”
Source: To Love a Dark Lord
“She sat up, cheeks flushed and golden hair tousled. She was so beautiful that it made my soul ache. I always wished desperately that I could paint her in these moments and immortalize that look in her eyes. There was a softness in them that I rarely saw at other times, a total and complete vulnerability in someone who was normally so guarded and analytical in the rest of her life. But although I was a decent painter, capturing her on canvas was beyond my skill.
She collected her brown blouse and buttoned it up, hiding the brightness of turquoise lace with the conservative attire she liked to armor herself in. She’d done an overhaul of her bras in the last month, and though I was always sad to see them disappear, it made me happy to know they were there, those secret spots of color in her life.”
Source: The Fiery Heart
“She sat with him at any rate, in the grey clearance—as sad as a winter dawn—made by their meeting.”
Source: The Wings of the Dove
“She sauntered in the August rain
With an endless rhythm of pain,
With a desire to run
To reach his arms that warmed her,
Like sweet summer's sun!”
“She saved my life...and I’ve ruined hers. They sat in silence for a full minute, the air between them growing heavy, as if they both wanted to speak, and yet had nothing to say. They were strangers, after all, on a brief and bizarre journey that had just reached a fork in the road, each of them now needing to find seperate paths.”
Source: Inferno: Special Illustrated Edition (Enhanced): Featuring Robert Langdon
“She savored it all, savored the woman before her, who was as beautiful as she was strong, as commanding as she was vulnerable, as hard as she was gentle. The woman who had shown Bianca the kind of unconditional love she'd only ever dreamed of. The woman who had claimed not only her body, but her mind, her heart, her soul.”
Source: The Bodyguard Affair
“She savors each bite: the meringue is perfect crispy brown on top, melts in the mouth; the lemon tart, custardy; the crust breaks away.”
“She saw a jack-o-lantern, smiling and hollowed out, with no candle in it, when a well-dressed businesswoman came in for a latte and muffin.”
Source: Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For
“She saw an alien bearing down and clasping her to its chest, that long curved head raising, mouth sprouting the silvery, deadly teeth that would smash through her skull and free her at last from her nightmares.”
Source: Alien: Out of the Shadows
“She saw. But she went her own way just the same.”
Source: The Hunted
“She saw clearly a boy and a man fighting for control of the same face.”
Source: The Stand
“She saw Derek and without so much as a hello, leaned to look behind him. "Where's Simon?"
"He's—"
"Is he okay? Why isn't he here?" She glared up at Derek. "Where'd you leave him?"
"Passed out in an alley." Derek frowned in thought. "Not sure where, though ..."
"He's kidding," I said as Tori sputtered.
"We need to get moving." Derek hooked a thumb as Tori while looking at me. " She's your responsibility."
"Excuse me?" Tori said.
Derek didn't even glance her way. "Make sure she keeps up. And shuts up."”
Source: The Awakening
“She saw every personal religion as a pair of intersecting circles. . . . Probably perfection is reached when the area of the two outer crescents, added together, is exactly equal to that of the leaf-shaped piece in the middle. On paper there must be some neat mathematical formula for arriving at this; in life, none.”
“she saw; he fell back onto his powerful politeness when he was taken by surprise.”
Source: The Raven Boys
“She saw her sitting with her son in the window and the cloud moving and the tree bending, how life, from being made up of little separate incidents which one lived one by one, became curled and whole like a wave which bore one up and threw one down with it, there, with a dash on the beach.”
Source: To the Lighthouse
“She saw her soul shinning through the features on her face.”
Source: The Unbearable Lightness of Being
“She saw herself moving through another life, an exotic, difficult, satisfying life.”
Source: The Memory Keeper's Daughter: A Novel
“She saw herself riding in the passenger seat, Sam behind the wheel. Like two of those little peg people in a toy car. Husband peg, wife peg, side by side. Facing the road and not looking at each other; for why would they need to, really, having gone beyond the visible surface long ago. No hope of admiring gazes anymore, no chance of unremitting adoration. Nothing left to show but their plain, true, homely, interior selves, which were actually much richer anyhow.”
“She saw him after seventh hour in a place she'd never seen him before, carrying a microscope down the hall on the third floor. It was at least twice as nice as seeing him somewhere she expected him to be.”
Source: The Rainbow Rowell Collection: Eleanor & Park, Fangirl, Landline, and Carry On
“She saw him drenched with gasoline. She could actually feel the box of matches in her hand.”
“She saw him fracture into rainbow colors through the prism of her love.”
“She saw him like he was the only star in the whole damn sky. Like he was the only bridge between her sanity and madness.”
“She saw him, that man who kept himself isolated, so separate from the rest of the world. She saw him for who he was, and she liked him anyway.”
Source: Toxic Game
“She saw him the first day on board, and then her heart sank into her shoes as she realized at last how much she wanted him. No matter what his past was, no matter what he had done. Which was not to say that she would ever let him know, but only that he moved her chemically more than anyone she had ever met, that all other men seemed pale beside him.”
Source: The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works
“She saw his honor war with his desire. She fought on the side of his desire, for it matched her own.”
Source: Love on a Midsummer Night
“She saw how he was staring at it, the bright red hue beneath her bonnet. She could not bear to see the way he was looking at her—right through her—without seeing her. He did not see a woman. He did not see Jane, the woman he had been so passionate with two days before. He saw… Jane swallowed hard and looked
away, hating the weakness of her spirit. She was more than this, a wilting flower. She was stronger than this. But damn it, this hurt.
It hurt because he was the man responsible for making her burn. For making her feel like a woman. It hurt because it had been a trick. An illusion. And it hurt most of all because he did not see her, the woman she was behind the unfashionable spectacles and garish hair.”
Source: Sinful
“She saw how Kusha correctly guessed the High Auction’s ticket number one digit at a time. If you have a
lottery-guessing sister, it’s hard not to feel excited.”
Source: The High Auction
“She saw how the weight of his mistake, the affair, weighed down on him and he cried, brushing the tears on his cheeks away brusquely; his eyes rimmed with dark circles looked haunted.”
Source: Broken Pieces of Tomorrow: Strong women don't give up...They find a way through tears and thrills to love again...
“She saw it all, and her lack of sight crawled through her nerves and infected her tongue. She lived strictly how I would have liked to; to see everything and to say nothing. The Mother of God, any rational man would surmise after just one look, must be God herself.”
Source: Blossom Fell
“She saw it in a flash of utter clarity. She knew what she had to do. The only path, the only way forward. And what a familiar path it was. It was so obvious now. The world was a dream of the gods, and the gods dreamed in sequences, in symmetry, in patterns. History repeated itself, and she was only the latest iteration of the same scene in a tapestry that had been spun long before her birth.”
Source: The Burning God
“She saw Luke, standing atop a pile of bones. Jace with white feathered wings sprouting out of his back, Isabelle sitting naked with her whip curled around her like a net of gold rings, Simon with crosses burned into the palms of his hands. Angels, falling and burning. Falling out of the sky.”
Source: City of Bones
“She saw night lights in the rooms of the babies who dreamed soft seersucker dreams, drugged happy with the heat, their pink baby bodies curled against worn out cotton, not fearing Hitler yet, their strong, tiny hearts beating in unison with the trees and the creeks and the bayou”
Source: Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
“She saw now that he was like an illusionist who captivated women with a little sleight of hand and once she had seen the mechanism it had lost all power for her.”
Source: Envy
“She saw she had fallen into the hands of one of those doctors who have strayed too far from apparent in the direction of the soul.”
“She saw something awful in the very simplicity she failed to understand.”
Source: The Great Gatsby
“She saw that everything that had happened, no matter how terrible, had happened for a reason. It happened to make her stronger. that through the terrible pressure of pain and sorrow, she endured, she'd become unbreakable. Like a diamond.”
Source: Severance
“She saw that he knew what loneliness was, that he understood why it might be raining inside a person even when the sun shone, that sadness needed no immediate cause.”
Source: The Art of Hearing Heartbeats
“She saw that supreme dignity - and love - lay in tolerance.”
Source: King Charles II
“She saw the birth unfolding, saw the small creature with those strangely wise eyes that seemed to belong to every newborn. And then the years rushing on, the child growing, faces taking the shape they would carry into old age.
But not all. As mother after mother stepped through her, futures flashed bright, and some died quickly indeed. Fraught, flickering sparks, ebbing, winking out, darkness rushing in. And at these she cried out, filled with anguish even as she understood that souls travelled countless journeys, of which only one could be known by a mortal, so many, in countless perturbations, and that the loss belonged only to others, never to the child itself, for in its inarticulate, ineffable wisdom, understanding was absolute; the passage of life that seemed tragically short could well be the perfect duration, the experience complete.
Others, however, died in violence, and this was a crime, an outrage against life itself. Here, among these souls, there was fury, shock, denial. There was railing, struggling, bitter defiance.”
Source: Toll the Hounds
“She saw the confusion and misery of the young Princes, their faces caught between struggle and surrender.”
Source: The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty
“She saw the extraordinary in the ordinary, the magic in the mundane.”
Source: Sawkill Girls
“She saw the myriad gods, and beyond God his own ineffable eternity; she saw that there were ranges of life beyond our present life, ranges of mind beyond our present mind and above these she saw the splendors of the spirit.”
“She saw. The regrets she had been living with most of her life were wasted ones.”
Source: The Midnight Library
“She saw the skin pull under the driver's ears and knew that he was laughing.”
Source: The Complete Stories