S Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with S. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“She scoured the Earth, wandering and ravenous, looking for doors. And she found them. She found them in abandoned churches and the salt-rimed walls of caves, in graveyards and behind fluttering curtains in foreign markets. She found so many her imagining of the world grew lacy and tattered with holes, like a mouse-chewed map.”
Source: The Ten Thousand Doors of January
“She screamed. Her screaming was beautiful. But, truth be told he missed the crying.”
Source: Game
“She screamed, long and feral, that savage beast rising up in her chest like it would break her in half -tear her meat apart and emerge, blood-soaked and grief-starved, ready to die, ready to burn, ready to do whatever it took as long as she died with her enemies howling beneath her claws.”
Source: House of Ash
“She screamed, the high scream that was neither human nor animal but something terrible in between, the sort of sound that you never forget no matter how many beautiful things you hear afterward.”
Source: Shiver Trilogy (Shiver, Linger, Forever)
“She screwed me for life," he lamented to the pretty young woman he desperately wanted to love but couldn't quite fall in love with. "I've had relationships before but she was the most peculiar, infuriating and damnable thing I ever dared care for!" "You want to forget her," his girlfriend said painfully. She rubbed his back wishing she didn't have to compete with a menacing memory. "That relationship, the strangest I've ever known, changed me," he confided regretfully. "Like an unwanted and destructive addiction." "She wronged you," the red-head beside him blurted out truthfully. "And she continues to wrong you because you let her. Ever since her you can't help but compare." He looked at her tenderly, his heart trying to break through ice. "You want to let go but you can't let go," she continued coolly. He looked into the distance feeling the one he drew close but seeing the one out of reach. How could he let go of something, or someone, that made him feel so alive? A sweet, supportive voice knowingly broke through his thoughts, "The challenge," she whispered, "lies within you...”
“She scrolled back to the photo. The woman’s body language set her teeth on edge.
Why did women persist in trying to take up less space than they needed? She should take what was hers, not shrink from her own shadow.”
“She sealed his lips with a wanton kiss; 'Though I forgive your breaking your vows to heaven, I expect you to keep your vows to me.”
Source: The Monk
“She searched for a way out, but there was no sign of an exit. She attempted to retrace her steps towards the entrance, but it was impossible.
Eventually she had to conclude she wasn't going to find the exit.
'This is abnormal,' she said to herself, to find comfort in the sound of her own voice. 'Definitely abnormal.”
Source: The Midnight Library
“She searched her mind for a hope that would justify tomorrow. Any tiny, ordinary hope would suffice. Without that who can live till morning?”
Source: Thirst for love
“She searched her mind for a single day when it had felt good to be alive. There must have been one, surely?”
Source: Only the Innocent
“She searched his eyes, hope warring in her depths. “Kiss me.”
He didn’t need to be told twice.”
Source: Ironclad Devotion
“She searched the truth with an anguish almost as great as her terrible fear of finding it .”
“She searched through the dark for Brinn’s face, expecting a warm welcome. A hug, a hello. Anything.
Footsteps stomped toward her, followed by the sting of a palm against her face.
All right, that worked too.”
Source: Ignite the Stars
“She seemed a compound of the autumn leaves and the winter sunshine ...”
Source: Night and Day
“She seemed a thing that could not feel the touch of earthly years.”
“She seemed almost to have a perverse impulse to make anyone who cared about her regret it, to find the thing that would most appall those people and then do that until they had to run away as a matter of self-preservation.”
Source: NOS4A2
“She seemed always to have seen him through a blur - first of sleepiness, then of distance and indifference - and now the fog had thickened till he was almost indistinguishable.”
Source: The House of Mirth
“She seemed exotic and strange, a mysterious siren with devilish companions and spell-caught whorls that gleamed alluringly all over her pearl skin.”
Source: Auralict
“She seemed fixed into a trance when he laid her down, his hand bracing her head as he smothered her in kisses.”
Source: Endangered Hearts
“She seemed fragile like a moonflower – destined to bloom for a single lovely night, and then to fade and fall.”
“She seemed glad to see me when I appeared in the kitchen, and by watching her I began to think there was some skill involved in being a girl.”
Source: To Kill a Mockingbird
“She seemed imprisoned in her sadness.”
Source: Four Spirits: A Novel
“She seemed like a creature made to attract everyone and express nothing real, though it would take a master observer, like Magnus, to know it.”
Source: The Midnight Heir
“She seemed like a dream, something sacred, eternal, and an illusion. I desired her to be my company in the silence of night, to be part of my dreams in the darkness of sleep.”
Source: Hang My Heart on the Shadows of Light: A Novel
“She seemed like someone who thrived in conditions others thought she should wilt under.”
Source: For the Throne
“She seemed like the kind of woman who would fall in love with the sky.”
Source: Cease and Desist
“She seemed more pitiable than murderable.”
Source: Crossroads
“She seemed out of place at the Fairweather. Too posh, as Susan said. Too well dressed. She never strolled along the shore or went bathing or brought a picture postcard. She just sat on the veranda all day with a book she never read, gazing out to sea. Probably wondering why on earth she came here. Susan had said. She looks as if she'd be more at home in Monte Carlo. I know- she's lost all her money gambling and she's waiting for the sea to warm up before she throws herself in. I hope she remembers to pay her bill first.”
Source: The Mysterious Mr. Ross
“She seemed shy, yet all her attention was focused on Magnus, as if he were the most fascinating thing she had ever seen. There was no man who did not want to see himself reflected like that in a beautiful girl's eyes.”
Source: The Bane Chronicles
“She seemed to be able to turn the accent on and off. She tended to turn it on for comforting people, and for threatening to kill them.”
Source: Parable of the Sower
“She seemed to belong to that pagan, primitive kingdom of birds and forests where everything was infinitely abundant, wild, blooming, and royal in its perpetual decay, death, and rebirth; illicit and clashing with the human world.”
Source: The Painted Bird
“She seemed to feed on their laughter, and they on her humor, like the lily of the pond—sustained by the very water it purified.”
Source: The Paragon
“She seemed to fit into the air like a jewel in its crown.”
Source: Circe
“She seemed to him a long spill of dark water, a black surface shattered with ephermal reflections of light.”
Source: Hell and Earth
“She seemed to know, to accept, to welcome her position, the citadel of the family, the strong place that could not be taken. And since old Tom and the children could not know hurt or fear unless she acknowledged hurt or fear, she had practiced denying them in herself. And since, when a joyful thing happened, they looked to see whether joy was on her, it was her habit to build laughter out of inadequate materials....She seemed to know that if she swayed the family shook, and if she ever deeply wavered or despaired the family would fall.”
“She seemed to mean what she said. She said pretty much this: I retained some lawyers, I have to move on with my life, I am divorcing you, and then she added, I need money.”
“She seemed to melt against him in her terror, and he caught her in his arms, held her fast there, felt her lashes beat his cheek like netted butterflies.”
Source: Wharton's New England: Seven Stories and Ethan Frome
“She seemed to see a flash of bright sunlight on dark green water, fragmented into brilliant shards by the splashing rise and fall of oars.”
“She seemed to soften at that, but then she asked, "Has anything really changed?"
"I've learned I need to consult you in matters, lest you decapitate me.”
Source: Lothaire
“She seemed to speak to herself more than him. But this is the strength of any good mystic.”
Source: In Limbo
“She seemed to think reading was some sort of hobby, as opposed to being as necessary as breathing, sleeping, and eating.”
Source: The FitzOsbornes at War
“She seemed to think that one of the perks of marriage was that it gave you rights of comment and intrusion over single people's love lives.”
Source: The Casual Vacancy
“She seemed to walk in an atmosphere of things about to happen.”
Source: Anne of Green Gables Collection: Anne of Green Gables, Anne of the Island, and More Anne Shirley Books
“She seems hopeful and normally hungry for life — even rather romantic.”
Source: Tender is the Night
“She seems so cool, so focused, so quiet, yet her eyes remain fixed upon the horizon. You think you know all there is to know about her immediately upon meeting her, but everything you think you know is wrong. Passion flows through her like a river of blood. She only looked away for a moment, and the mask slipped, and you fell. All your tomorrows start here.”
“She seems sort of lost.' I thought, Lost how? How am I lost? Suddenly I felt lost.”
Source: The Wonder Spot
“She seems to always get it
To have become adept at empathy
Always giving excuses for people who’ve aggrieved her
To the point it’s hard for her to hit back when necessary
All because she assumes she ‘understands’
Then, one day . . .
She finally stands up for herself
At that moment, she revels in the natural instinct of self-preservation
She realises all this while the power she’s been withholding
In a transcendent moment of epiphany
It’s all beautiful ‘cause
Now, she can get back to empathy with understanding, rather, than without.”
“She seems to have had the ability to stand firmly on the rock of her past while living completely and unregretfully in the present.”
Source: The Crosswicks Journals: A Circle of Quiet, The Summer of the Great-Grandmother, The Irrational Season, and Two-Part Invention
“She sees ghosts,” said Samuel, impatient with my whining. I see dead people,” I deadpanned back. Oddly, it was Uncle Mike who laughed. I hadn’t thought he’d be a moviegoer.”
Source: Iron Kissed
“She sees Lake Michigan lapping at the shores of
herself. It is a dizzy hole of water and the rich
live in tall glass houses at the edge of it.”
Source: She Had Some Horses