S Quotes
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“She saw the years to come stretch before her like an autumn afternoon, filled with resigned memory. Life to her could never more have any eagerness; it was a solemn service of gratitude and patient effort. She walked in the presence of unseen witnesses—of the Divine love that had rescued her, of the human love that waited for its eternal repose until it had seen her endure to the end.”
Source: Scenes of Clerical Life
“she saw they all had identical glazed smiles, like people who have recently got into drugs or religion, or a new pyramid sales scheme”
Source: Truly Madly Guilty
“She saw through the shell of me into the center of me”
Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel
“She saw too that man has the power of exceeding himself, of becoming himself more entirely and profoundly than he is, - truths which have only recently begun to be seen in Europe and seem even now too great for its common intelligence.”
“She saw Valentine's eyes as the sword hurtled toward her; it seemed like eons, though it could only have been a split second. She saw that he could stop the blow if he wanted. Saw that he knew it might well strike her if he didn't. Saw that he was going to do it anyway.”
Source: Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (3 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass
“She say guilt is a useless emotion." "Oh, please," says Nancy. "Guilt is what separates humans from animals.”
Source: Every Last One: A Novel
“She say, Celie, tell the truth, have you ever found God in church? I never did. I just found a bunch of folks hoping for him to show.”
“She says affection is all very well being imagined, like a romantic fancy, but marriage should be based on practical purposes in order to last longer.”
Source: The Ugly Stepsister
“She says--because darkness needs to be faced, needs to be denied--"You would have given me so much, in exchange for me giving up everything.”
Source: Fireheart Tiger
“She says, "Do you have any rubbers?" I say, I thought she was barren. "Sure, I'm sterile," she says, "but I've had unprotected sex with a million guys. I could have some terrible fatal disease." I say that would only be a problem if I wanted to live a lot longer. Fertility says, " That's how I feel about my giant credit card debt." So we have sex. If you could call it that.”
Source: Survivor
“She says, Don't eat the mystery meat
if you value your life.
Then she points to a brown wet pile
on my plate and makes a face that says.
bad taste.”
Source: Home of the Brave
“She says, enough, enough, just enough. It's too much already, I've never-- thank God-- had a problem with any of my children, but now all of a sudden it's like you are three different people and I don't ever know which one I'm going to get. It's exhausting, you hear me, you are exhausting me. Can we not just have some real, genuine peace in this house? Between you and your father everyone here is always walking around like someone has died or is about to die. Or people are shouting or sulking or whatever it is you men do. You see my hair. You people are making me old! For once can someone not fucking shout at me for something, I say, I can't wait until I'm out of this stupid fucking place and no one can yell at me.
My mother's mouth falls open and her eyes lock on my face. She has heard me swear before. on the phone when joking with some friends but never have I said any such thing to either one of my parents. Never. I have always assumed that such an event would result in my being beaten within an inch of my unborn grandchild's life, but she just stands there like a malfunctioning robot. Is anyone keeping you here, she says finally. If you are unhappy, please go. Go and find the place where you feel happy. I'm sorry, I say, but it's too late. I've fucked up. The less I've said the better things have been, the less likely my father has seemed ready to pounce on me for the smallest mistake. If she tells him what has happened, this might be the end. I'm really sorry. My hands smell of cucumber as I wipe my nose. She tosses the vegetable peeler in her hand to the counter between us. Its protected blades glint in the sunlight streaming through the large bay windows. Do what you like, she says. Mommy, wait please, I say. Get out of here, I don't want to talk to you. Not like this, in my house, my mother says. Her voice is flat and hard, her eyes fixed directly to mine. Ypu should go and find whatever it is you want to find. Me, sef, I'm tired, I'm going upstairs, she says. I listen to her reach the top stair, enter her bedroom, and shut the door. It's just me now.”
Source: Speak No Evil
“She says his eyes address her like the silence of the snow.”
“She says I am not fair, that I lack manners;
She calls me proud, and that she could not love me,
Were man as rare as Phoenix.”
Source: The Complete Works of William Shakespeare In Plain and Simple English
“She says I don't know what to say, as if
she'd been raised in the woods by
wolves.”
Source: The Widows' Handbook: Poetic Reflections on Grief and Survival
“She says I shall now have one mouth the more to fill and two feet the more to shoe, more disturbed nights, more laborious days, and less leisure or visiting, reading, music, and drawing.
Well! This is one side of the story, to be sure, but I look at the other. Here is a sweet, fragrant mouth to kiss; here are two more feet to make music with their pattering about my nursery. Here is a soul to train for God; and the body in which it dwells is worth all it will cost, since it is the abode of a kingly tenant. I may see less of friends, but I have gained one dearer than them all, to whom, while I minister in Christ's name, I make a willing sacrifice of what little leisure for my own recreation my other darlings had left me. Yes, my precious baby, you are welcome to your mother's heart, welcome to her time, her strength, her health, her tenderest cares, to her lifelong prayers! Oh, how rich I am, how truly, how wondrously blest!”
Source: Stepping Heavenward
“She says it has nothing to do with what you look like, or what you have. It has only to do with what you think of and what you do.”
Source: A Little Princess
“She says it's about the love you give, not the love you get.
But the way I see it, it's not really love if you’re not loved back.
It's just something you make up.”
Source: Other Birds
“She says it's too easy to call people evil instead of their choices and that lets people justify making evil choices. Because they convince themselves that it's okay because they're still good people overall inside their own heads. And yes, fine. But I think that after a certain number of evil choices, it's reasonable shorthand to decide that someone's an evil person who oughtn't have the chance to make any more choices. And the more power someone has, the less slack they ought to be given.”
Source: A Deadly Education
“She says it's really not very flattering to her that the women who fall in love with her husband are so uncommonly second-rate.”
“She says: ...love is really all that matters. He hears: ...really love to do it on the mattress.”
“She says nothing at all, but simply stares upward into the dark sky and watches, with sad eyes, the slow dance of the infinite stars.”
Source: Neil Gaiman and Charles Vess's Stardust: Being a Romance Within the Realms of Faerie
“She says, “Of course,” in the softest voice and something about it further breaks me and I don’t know if it’s the relief that kindness can exist in this world or the guilt of kindness existing in a world that doesn’t deserve it.”
“She says one time, she says.”
Source: Of Mice and Men
“She says people ought to learn to live like them, with the body abandoned in a wilderness, and in the mind the memory of a single kiss, a single word, a single look to stand for a whole love.”
“She says screens are the cigarettes of our age. They're toxic, and we're only going to realize the damage they're doing when it's too late.”
Source: Finding Audrey
“She says she can finally breathe now. She feels freed by the privilege of relative racelessness. In 2009, Kingston's murder rate reached the highest ever on record, and my mom returned there so she could finally feel safe.”
Source: If I Survive You
“She says she glories in being abandoned”
“She says she loves me infinity power infinity power infinity into infinity!
And I look at the sky, smile, and 'sigh!”
“She says suicide is for cowards. This is an uglynasty Momside. She bought a book about it. Tough love. Sour sugar. Barbed velvet. Silent talk. She leaves the book on the back of the toilet to educate me. She has figured out that I don’t say too much. It bugs her.”
Source: Speak
“She says that beginnings are scary, endings are usually sad, but it's the middle that counts the most.”
“She says that each of us has his or her role in life, and if we know ourselves well enough to understand what that role is, we will be happy doing nothing but what we can do best.”
Source: Odd Interlude
“She says that everyone can think of three things and that being honest with yourself is more important than being honest with others.”
Source: Sometimes I Lie
“She says that her love for me would never die, but that would change if she found out about you and I.”
“She says that I wore some pretty sexy leather pants to that first meeting, but I don't remember.”
“She says that what you did was a cry for help." "It was," I say. "That's why I was yelling 'Heeeelp!' I don't really go in for subtlety.”
Source: White Cat
“She says there are stories everywhere and that people who wait for the right one to come along before setting pen to paper end up with very empty pages.”
Source: The Distant Hours: A Novel
“She says there's been a few drops of snow in Yorkshire so the BBC are calling it a White Christmas. I say that's like calling me a vegetarian because I eat peas twice a week.”
Source: The Marmalade Diaries: The True Story of an Odd Couple
“She says they didn't marry for love and neither of them really tried to make it grow, they sort of just expected to love each other after a certain number of years but it didn't work out that way. All that happened was that she'd be having a nice day until she suddenly realized he'd be back from work in ten minutes, or he'd look at her during a gospel service and the sight of her seemed to get him all upset even though she was wearing a nice dress, and spotless gloves, and a smile.”
Source: Boy, Snow, Bird
“She says what holds their marriage together is that she feels too damn sorry for him to ask for a divorce.”
Source: The Odd Thomas Series 7-Book Bundle: Odd Thomas, Forever Odd, Brother Odd, Odd Hours, Odd Apocalypse, Odd Interlude, Deeply Odd
“She says whatever comes into her head and then she forgets it right after she said it. She's serious when she says it, but after that she might as well have never said a thing.”
Source: Dance Dance Dance
“She says you should never wake dreaming people suddenly,' Rahel said. 'She says they could easily have a Heart Attack.'
Between them they decided it would be best to disturb her discreetly rather than wake her suddenly. So they opened drawers, they cleared their throats, they whispered loudly, they hummed a little tune. They moved shoes. And found a cupboard door that creaked.
Ammu, resting under the skin of her dream, observed them and ached with her love for them....
...'If you're happy in a dream, Ammu, does that count' Estha asked,
'Does what count?'
'The happiness--does it count?'
She knew exactly what he meant...
...Because the truth is, that only what counts counts. The simple, unswerving wisdom of children.”
Source: The God of Small Things
“She says you're not truly human until you've had your heart broken and you've broken someone's heart.”
Source: Front and Center
“She says, "But in contentment I still feel The need for imperishable bliss." Death is the mother of beauty; hence from her, Alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams And our desires. Is there no change of death in paradise? Does ripe fruit never fall? or do the boughs Hang always heavy in that perfect sky, Unchanging, yet so like our perishing earth, With rivers like our own that seek for seas They never find, the same receding shores That never touch with inarticulate pang?”
“She scanned the masks, and her eyes were immediately drawn to one in a deep shade of purple with shimmering royal-blue sequins and feathers in the same colors. Faux sapphires and amethysts dangled from its sides.
"May I have this mask, please?"
The man handed it to Rosalia. "You chose the perfect color to complement your beautiful dark hair, signorina."
"Grazie." She blushed slightly at his compliment.”
Source: Rosalia's Bittersweet Pastry Shop
“She scanned the night sky until she located the Stag, the Lord of the North. The unmoving star atop the stag's head—the eternal crown—pointed the way the way to Terrasen. She'd been told that the great rulers of Terrasen turned into those bright stars so their people would never be alone—and would always know the way home. She hadn't set foot there in ten years. While he'd been her master, Arobynn hadn't let her, and afterward she hadn't dared.
She had whispered the truth that day at Nehemia's grave. She'd been running for so long that she didn't know what it was to stand and fight.”
Source: Heir of Fire
“She scanned the Starveil posts, her mood darkening. Spartan had been a part of her life since elementary school. Losing him felt like having a piece of herself torn away. No amount of fix-it fics or alternate universes could change the fact her one true character had died.”
Source: All the Feels
“She scarcely spoke at all and might have been one of those huge dolls which, when inclined backwards, say "Ma-ma" or "Pa-pa": though impossible to imagine in any position so undignified as that required for the mechanism to produce these syllables.”
“She scissored the curls away, and - toms, grow easily sentimental over their haircuts, but I remember this sensation very vividly - it was not like she was cutting hair, it was as if I had a pair of wings beneath my shoulder-blades, that the flesh had all grown over, and she was slicing free.”
“She scoffed. 'I guess what I'm trying to say is that not having a man around isn't the end of the world.”
Source: Hell Spring