S Quotes
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“She smiled. I think it's just the snow. I think it makes people stop and think. Bell nodded. I hope it comes a blizzard then.”
Source: No Country for Old Men
“She smiled. She knew she was dying. But it did not matter any longer. She had known something which no human words could ever tell and she knew it now. She had been awaiting it and she felt it, as if it had been, as if she had lived it. Life had been, if only because she had known it could be, and she felt it now as a hymn without sound, deep under the little whole that dripped red drops into the snow, deeper than that from which the red drops came. A moment or an eternity- did it matter? Life, undefeated, existed and could exist. She smiled, her last smile, to so much that had been possible.”
Source: We the Living
“She smiled. “Life is full of stories. Or maybe life is only stories. Good night, my dear Nao.”
“She smiles, and her eyes look as if they can see back into her memory, into all the things that have gone into making a person what they are.”
Source: A Summer to Die
“She smiles, and its soft and loving, and the look I always imagines on the woman I would spend the rest of my life with.”
Source: You've Got a Place Here, Too: An Anthology of Black Love Stories Set at HBCUs
“She smiles and snuggles into me as we wait for our table. I inhale her scent. Vanilla and something else. Something different. Smokey almost. Sexy. It drives me crazy with need and I have to move away while I can.”
Source: Libera Me
“She smiles at her reflection in a spoon.”
“She smiles at him, too young to know him for a stranger, and too innocent yet to care.”
“She smiles at his innocence then ponders the what if and the maybe”
Source: 29 Dimes: A Love Story
“She smiles at our husband as she moves, and he blushes, overcome by her beauty. But I know what her smile really means...Her smile is her revenge.”
“She smiles at them as they go by and continues to play, making it clear that this furnace of a place, full of planes that cannot fly, is more than it seems. It is a womb of redemption for every Unwind, and fora ll those who fought the Heartland War and lost - which was everybody.”
Source: Unwind Unboxed: Unwind; Unstrung: an Unwind Story; Unwholly
“She smiles even as she bleeds.”
Source: Of Captivity & Kings
“She smiles. I haven't known her long but I have seen her smile before. Only those smiles weren't this smile... It's a smile that I'm responsible for. I want to give her more smiles like that.”
Source: Finding Us Again
“She smiles like a demon, her lips painted red with my blood. Jane doesn’t want to be fed love on a silver spoon―she wants to lick it off my flesh as I bleed for her.”
“She smiles through a thousand tears, and harbors adolescent fears. She dreams of all that she can never be, she wades in insecurity.”
“She smiles to herself. I can imagine her memories of the novel, or, more likely, of who she was and how she felt when reading it. She blushes.”
Source: An Unnecessary Woman
“She smiles.Her teeth are crooked. If I knocked them out,I might be doing her a favor.”
“She smirked and felt the familiar pain of her fangs elongating and piercing through her gums. She inhaled the night air deeply and smiled at the intoxicating aroma. Multiple scents hit her nose at once. They were thick and rich, mixed with booze and teenage pheromones. Her leather jacket fluttered slightly as a night breeze swept under it.”
Source: Poet Tongue
“She smirked. 'I vaguely recall you boasting weeks ago that I would be the one to crawl into your bed. It seems like you did the crawling.'
His lips twitched upward. 'It would seem so.”
Source: A Court of Silver Flames
“She smirks."Are you attempting to stop me, little one?"
"Excuse me? Did you just call me 'little one'? What are you? Like, four feet tall?" I ask.”
Source: Captivate
“She smoked because she craved something to do with her hands, that delicate interplay of light and cup and first inhale. Craved the repetition of it. It was so difficult sometimes to be still in a room, alone with oneself. To bare oneself to the lonely.”
“She snapped," they said.
"Couldn't take it anymore."
"Reached her breaking point."
We should teach our girls that snapping is okay instead of waiting for someone else to break them.”
Source: Shout
“She snaps her fingers, and a large white snake drops from overhead and slinks its way around her shoulders. She often wears them like scarves.”
Source: Poison's Kiss
“She snaps off the world around him—cutting him off from his parents, siblings, and friends, until he stands alone in her cage.”
Source: Mr. - Untold story of husbands
“She snatched at the dream that had comforted her for so long. It was faded and thin, like a letter too often read.”
Source: The Witch of Blackbird Pond
“She sneered at the pillar of foxglove I'd painted along the edge of the table- the colours too dark and too blue, with none of the white freckling inside the trumpets, but I'd made do, even if it had killed me not to have white paint, to make something so flawed and lasting.
I drowned the urge to cover up the painting with my hand. Maybe tomorrow I'd just scrape it off the table altogether.”
Source: A Court of Thorns and Roses
“She sniffled. "Does he know?"
"Not a clue," Law said. "There are concrete bricks less dense than my beloved.”
Source: Force of Law
“She snuggled against Tom, grateful to have him back and ready to face any obstacles to their happiness. “You won’t leave again, ” she demanded, “No matter how difficult things might get for us.”
“Never again,” he promised.”
Source: Bone Deep
“She snuggled back under the blanket with me, turned toward me so that she could rest her head on my chest. “I hear your heart,” she said. “Do you check every once in a while, just to make sure I’m not undead?”
Source: The Fiery Heart: A Bloodlines Novel
“She snuggled into bed with them, looking up from time to time, saying she was sorry, she knew she should be doing something more productive, but like Dad, she had her addictions, and one of hers was reading.”
Source: The Glass Castle
“She: So where do we go from here?
He: Nowhere!
She: What do you mean?
He: You go your way and I go mine!
She: Can we have a future together?
He: I don't settle down! I am the wanderer and wandering is my destiny!”
“She: So where do we go from here?
He: Nowhere!
She: What do you mean?
He: You go your way and I go mine!
She: Can we have a future together?
He: I don't settle down! I am the wanderer and wandering is my destiny!
― Avijeet Das”
“She soaked her feet in salt and stared up at the stars and wondered whether drowning would hurt.”
Source: The Starlit Wood
“She soaked up his taste. Sunshine would taste like this. A fresh summer stream with a hint of melting sugar. Crisp and sweet.
She wanted to bottle it up, blend it into a tea, drink from him until the day she died.”
Source: Recipe for Persuasion
“She soaked, washed, and trimmed three artichokes, baby purple Romagnas, which would sadly lose their beautiful hue once they hit hot water, then washed and peeled a bunch of pencil-thin asparagus. She pulled out several small zucchini and sliced them into translucent moons. She washed three leeks, slicing them down their centers and peeling back each layer, carefully rinsing away any sand, then chopped the white, light green, and some of the darker parts into a fine dice. She shelled a couple handfuls of spring peas, collecting them in a ceramic bowl. She chopped a bulb of fennel and julienned one more, then washed and spun the fronds. She washed the basil and mint and spun them dry. Last, she chopped the shallots. With the vegetables prepped, she started on the risotto, the base layer for the torta a strati alla primavera, or spring layer cake, she'd been finessing since her arrival, and which she hoped would become Dia's dish. She'd make a total of six 'torte': three artichoke and three asparagus.
The trick was getting the risotto to the perfect consistency, which was considerably less creamy than usual. It had to be firm enough to keep its shape and support the layers that would be placed on top of it, but not gummy, the kiss of death for any risotto. She started with a 'soffritto' of shallot, fennel, and leek, adding Carnaroli rice, which she preferred to arborio, pinot grigio, and, when the wine had plumped the rice, spring-vegetable stock, one ladle at a time. Once the risotto had absorbed all the liquid and cooked sufficiently, she divided it into six single-serving crescent molds, placed the molds in a glass baking dish, and popped them all in the oven, which made the risotto the consistency of a soft Rice Krispies treat. Keeping the molds in place, she added the next layer, steamed asparagus in one version, artichoke in the other. A layer of basil and crushed pignoli pesto followed, then the zucchini rounds, flash-sauteed, and the fennel matchsticks, cooked until soft, and finally, the spring-pea puree. She carefully removed the first mold and was rewarded with a near-perfect crescent tower, which she drizzled with red-pepper coulis. Finally, she placed a dollop of chilled basil-mint 'sformato' alongside the crescent and radiated mint leaves around the 'sformato' so that it looked like a sun. The sun and the moon, 'sole e luna,' all anyone could hope for.”
Source: Georgia's Kitchen
“She soared above the ground, and he kept her tethered to the earth. Without him she would be lost among the clouds.”
Source: Lady Midnight
“She soars on her own wings.”
“She sobbed the way she did everything else- with passion and excess.”
Source: The Pact
“She sold her hair; she sold her teeth, but it was never enough. The baby became lethargic and ceased to thrive. She called it “wasting fever”.
When the baby died no money could be spared for burial, so she sealed him in an orange box weighed down with stones, and slipped him into the river.
That furtive journey in the middle of the night with her dead baby was the moment when she finally accepted defeat, and knew that the inevitable had come. She and the children would have to go to the workhouse.”.”
Source: The Midwife: A Memoir of Birth, Joy, and Hard Times
“She sometimes felt a sort of passion of tenderness for memories which had led no other merit than that they belonged to her unmarried life.”
Source: The Portrait of a Lady
“She sometimes thought she was going crazy. Her first thought when she woke up was always how to get him out of her thoughts. And she would keep watch, hoping to see him next door, while plotting ways to never have to see him again.”
Source: Garden Spells
“She sometimes wondered where her youth had vanished to. Inside she didn't feel like the aged lady that looked back at her from the cracked mirror.”
“She soon called a halt to the work. Judy's great success was that she stopped her helpers before they got tired.”
Source: The Lilac Bus
“She soon decided that she disliked the south, everything except for the humongous manor house. She did adore that. And perhaps, maybe Warren, since he came with the house.”
Source: Chase the Moon: A Historical Romance
“She soon learned, though, that giving weight to other people's opinions was creative nihilism; it was like being banished from the Land of No Words and exiled to the Land of All Bullshit.”
Source: Broken for You
“She sought his eyes once again. Eyes so perfect a blue they rivaled the most gorgeous lapis lazuli stone.”
Source: Satisfaction Guaranteed
“She sought to be eloquent in her garments, and to make up for her diffidence of speech by a fine frankness of costume”
Source: Washington Square
“She sounded as though love were an unfortunate but unavoidable condition.”
Source: The Outlander Series 8-Book Bundle: Outlander, Dragonfly in Amber, Voyager, Drums of Autumn, The Fiery Cross, A Breath of Snow and Ashes, An Echo in the Bone, Written in My Own Heart's Blood
“She sounded like she really meant it, and I wondered if I actually was standing here on the sidewalk with her, and not still asleep in my room.”
Source: Rising Tide: Dark Innocence
“She sounded tinny and false. Poor lady, she found it as difficult as I did to know how to act or what to say. Later, with practice, we might do better. The star had her part down cold, but the male lead didn't like his lines, and the walk-ons had never seen the script until forty minutes ago.”
Source: Crossing to Safety