S Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with S. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“She wanted something else, something different, something more. Passion and romance, perhaps, or maybe quiet conversations in candlelit rooms, or perhaps something as simple as not being second.”
“She wanted something she didn't have words for- peace, numbness, something.”
Source: Ink Exchange
“She wanted something to happen - something, anything: she did not know what.”
Source: The Awakening
“She wanted summer; fields of daisies; seas misty with moonrise or purple with sunset; companionship; Teddy. In such moments she always knew she wanted Teddy.”
Source: Emily's Quest
“She wanted the pain to end. She wanted to forget his dimpled smile, his brilliant blue eyes, the way he called her Little Fox. And suddenly, her chest was tight at the thought she might never heard that nickname again. And she didn't want to forget. She didn't want to forget at all.
She didn't want the memories erased or rewritten; she wanted more of them.”
Source: The Ballad of Never After
“She wanted them to live in union with God and with one another. Silence was at the root of that union, for God was 'the friend of silence':”
Source: Mother Teresa: A Complete Authorized Biography
“She wanted this man with an intensity that defied logic. Which was part of the reason she’d been ignoring him. A girl only had so much self-control when faced with all this deliciousness.”
Source: Tease Me, Baby
“She wanted to ask about his late wife and the mistress he kept in London, to inquire about his reason for going to war. She longed to know the events that had shaped his life and made him the man he was today.”
Source: Mr. West and the Widow
“She wanted to ask about the McCaffreys' children, but the question seemed too personal. Westerners were private sorts, in Evangeline's judgment, with more than their share of secrets. "It scares me a little," she confessed. "The idea of being so alone, I mean."
June-bug favored her with another smile. "Bein' alone ain't necessarily bad, you know. A person can come to understand herself real well that way. Some folks pass their whole lives without learnin' a thing about their own minds and spirits, but out here, all you've got to do is pay attention.”
Source: Springwater
“She wanted to ask him why they were all strangers who shared the same last name.”
Source: Half of a Yellow Sun
“She wanted to be alone - to think things out - to adjust herself, if it were possible, to the new world in which she seemed to have been transplanted with a suddenness and completeness that left her half bewildered to her own identity.”
Source: L. M. MONTGOMERY – Ultimate Collection: 20 Novels & 170+ Short Stories, Poetry, Letters and Autobiography (Including The Complete Anne of Green Gables Series & Emily Starr Trilogy): Anne of Avonlea, Anne of the Island, The Blue Castle, Rilla of Ingleside, Emily of New Moon, Emily Climbs, The Golden Road, Mistress Pat, Chronicles of Avonlea, Kilmeny of the Orchard and many more
“She wanted to be buried in a coffin filled with used paperbacks.”
Source: Ten Little Indians
“She wanted to be free, and if she could never be free, at least she wanted to be brave - brave enough not to sell herself, no matter what the payment, or the cost of refusing.”
Source: My True Love Gave to Me: Twelve Holiday Stories
“She wanted to be her, or be with her, or destroy her.”
Source: Paulina & Fran
“She wanted to be herself again, to recover all that she had been obliged to give up in half a century of servitude that had doubtless made her happy but which, once her husband was dead, did not leave her even the vestiges of her identity.”
“She wanted to be herself at all costs.”
Source: Happily Ever After
“She wanted to be irresponsible, she wanted to be looked after, to be told that she didn't have to worry about a thing and that someone else would take care of everything. How easy life would be without having grown-up problems to worry about. And then she could grow up all over again.”
“She wanted to be physically punished now, and his hands were the safest place to become an object to be used.”
Source: Saving Poughkeepsie
“She wanted to be royalty and she deserved to be.”
Source: Royals
“She wanted to be seen, and she wanted to be heard. Hence, she spoke to everyone she came across. But none of her appearances and none of her words had a piece of soul that really belonged to her.”
Source: The wrecked windows: The whispers of the beautiful hearts
“She wanted to be the rain, to cover him with moisture, to bring life to his seed.”
Source: Ascension
“She wanted to be woken by daylight, to hear the gulls above the rooftops; she wanted to know as soon as her eyelids lifted that she was not back in the past. She hated waking only to experience the jolt of remembering why her heart felt so heavy in her chest. The light might allow the ache of recollection to enfold her gently.”
Source: A Dangerous Place
“She wanted to be worthy of a literary romance in order to encounter a man more loving than her father, and all her favorite heroines were described as being impossibly, otherworldly attractive.”
Source: Acts of Love
“She wanted to breathe in the atmosphere of a revelation, and she was soon intoxicated by it.”
Source: George Sand, some aspects of her life and writings
“She wanted to burn the whole place to ashes but, at the same time, it would be kind of nice to see it again.
Home.”
Source: Spring 2015 Debut Fiction Sampler
“She wanted to cause him pain for taking a place in her heart she wouldn't have given him if she'd known the truth.”
Source: Graceling
“She wanted to claw the memory of their night together out of her brain, but she couldn't disremember.Or stop thinking about his tongue, the way he kissed and caressed her, almost like he wasn't a monster.”
Source: Chained
“She wanted to confess and be forgiven. She wanted her soul to be clean, but it was impossible. To be forgiven, she would have to repent. Repent, as in resolve not to sin again. Fred prayed every day that God would give her strength to want to repent, but she never felt like she’d received that strength.”
Source: Cut
“She wanted to crawl into his pocket and be safe forever.”
Source: The Crack-up
“She wanted to cry because she had hit Tobias when he was trying to be kind. She wanted to cry for herself. Most of all she wanted to cry for her father. But the pain was too fierce for tears. It burnt them to ash.”
Source: Castle of Shadows
“She wanted to cry, but she did not want Peter to see her cry, and she especially did not want Teacher, with her flowing hair, to see her cry.”
“she wanted to dance with someone who would embrace her in the way she dreamed of since adolescence.”
Source: The diary of a magus
“She wanted to die, but she also wanted to live in Paris.”
“She wanted to do something bad. She wanted to do something terrible that would shock her whole family, something that would make them sit up and take notice.”
Source: Ramona the Brave
“She wanted to do things without having to worry what others thought.
She simply lived for her freedom.”
Source: Before the Coffee Gets Cold
“She wanted to do what she would be doing in this life, and what she would be doing was swimming. And maybe the water would help her think of what she could say.”
Source: The Midnight Library
“She wanted to eat my heart and be lost in the desert with what she'd done, she wanted to fall on her knees and give birth from it, she wanted to hurt me as only a child can be hurt by its mother.”
Source: Jesus' Son: Stories
“She wanted to exist only as a conscious flower, prolonging and preserving herself”
Source: 4 Books by F. Scott Fitzgerald
“She wanted to explain everything to him—how certain notes of the Moonlight Sonata shredded her heart like wind inside a paper bag; how her soul felt as endless and deep as the sea churning on their left; how the sight of the young Muslim couple filled her with an emotion that was equal parts joy and sadness; and above all, how she wanted a marriage that was different from the dead sea of marriages she saw all around her, how she wanted something finer, deeper, a marriage made out of silk and velvet instead of coarse cloth, a marriage made of clouds and stardust and red earth and ocean foam and moonlight and sonatas and books and art galleries and passion and kindness and sorrow and ecstasy and of fingers touching from under a burqua.”
Source: The Space Between Us
“She wanted to feel him pound away her fears, a hammer to smash through all her guilt and pain and emptiness.”
“She wanted to feel safe. Untouchable in her home. The ultimate female fantasy.”
Source: Deja Dead: A Novel
“She wanted to find beauty despite the grief that came cold on her, and that brought stars to her soul.”
“She wanted to find the place where lightning bolts were stored, to discover where the wind began, and to watch as love poured down in generous waterfalls into hearts that moved in its current. What a joy to be among the chorus when one more of those hearts turned to the Son. How loud the sound must be.”
Source: The Extraordinary Deaths of Mrs. Kip
“She wanted to freeze the hands of time. Wanted to revisit, revise and rewrite the past…edit out the monsters hell-bent on taking the lives of everyone she loved.”
Source: Dark Night of the Soul: A sacrifice to end a life; A rescue to save a soul.
“She wanted to get at the hate of them all, to pry at it and work at it until she found a little chink, and then pull out a pebble or a stone or a brick and then a part of the wall, and, once started, the whole edifice might roar down and be done away with.”
Source: The Illustrated Man
“She wanted to get some personal profit out of things, and she rejected as useless all that did not contribute to the immediate desires of her heart, being of a temperament more sentimental than artistic, looking for emotions, not landscapes.”
Source: madame bovary
“She wanted to give up but she knew that is not who she was born as. She was born a phoenix and she will rise again and become what she was supposed to be. Herself.”
Source: Anguished Existence
“She wanted to go over and hug his tears away, but she was too frightened.”
Source: Close encounters of the third kind: a novel
“She wanted to go to him; she wanted to hold him whether he loved her or not.”
Source: How to Tame a Willful Wife
“She wanted to have a night of pure, perfect, tipsy sex with a gorgeous biker like Ice. But more than anything, she wanted to keep him.”
Source: Vendetta Road