S Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with S. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“She was a blank, a wordless being. She was a hole in the universe.”
Source: Vitro
“She was a blonde nearly young American woman of such dynamism that the tideless waves struggled to get farther up the beach.”
“She was a Bond girl; she couldn't have been in nerdy.”
“She was a bubbling effervescent half-full glass in a world of cold black coffee in stained cups.”
Source: The Lazarus Spear
“She was a candle in the night, a bright seed of heaven.”
Source: The Heavens
“She was a card I thought long discarded, facedown and out of play. And yet here I was, flipping her back into my hand.”
Source: Once More
“She was a Carstairs, a Jahanshah. The blood of Rostam ran in her veins. She would dress in fire if she liked.”
“She was a chameleon that changed to suit her audience, providing them with whatever they desired. With her, you felt cleverer, braver, stronger than with anyone else.”
Source: Delicious Death
“She was a collector of reflections looking for souls that could see deeply inside her soul.”
“She was a committed romantic and an anarcha-feminist. This was hard for her because it meant she couldn't blow up beautiful buildings. She knew the Eiffel Tower was a hideous symbol of phallic oppression but when ordered by her commander to detonate the lift so that no-one should unthinkingly scale an erection, her mind filled with young romantics gazing over Paris and opening aerograms that said Je t'aime.”
Source: Written On The Body
“She was a complete human being, with enlightened brilliance, cruelty, instincts, and subconscious trauma all sharing the one-room apartment of the mind.”
Source: Dark Cascade
“She was a complicated woman living a complex life. Art theft and forgery, an estranged uncle, and a murdered, homosexual husband. Alec was used to war, politics, natural disasters – tangible stories without too much mystery. He wondered if he was capable of writing a story with so much passion going on.”
Source: The Wasp Trap
“She was a coquette; he was sure she had a spirit of her own; but in her bright, sweet, superficial little visage there was no mockery, no irony. Before long it became obvious that she was much disposed towards conversation.”
“she was a creature devoid of magic and yet, of all the strange a wondrous creatures in the world, the wand had chosen her”
“She was a curious woman, whose dresses always looked as if they had been designed in a rage and put on in a tempest. She was usually in love with somebody, and, as her passion was never returned, she had kept all her illusions. She tried to look picturesque, but only succeeded in being untidy.”
Source: Picture of Dorian Gray
“She was a cute as a washtub.”
Source: Farewell, my lovely
“She was a cyborg, and she would never go to a ball.”
“She was a damn good kisser, maybe the best I'd ever had the immense pleasure of kissing. It helped that her lips were like pillows and she tasted sweet. Not like strawberries or peaches. Sunshine and sweet—her own brand of it. Plus there was desperation in the kiss, an understated but raw passion I couldn't recall ever experiencing before.
Or maybe that had been me. Maybe I'd been the passionate, desperate one. No matter. Either way, she'd stolen my breath, robbed me of thought and sense. She was a master thief, and I loved her for it.”
Source: Grin and Beard It
“She was a dangerous, dangerous girl. A plague. A Mountain of Adamant who tore the iron from ships, sinking them to their watery graves without a second thought. With a mere smile and a wrinkle of her nose.”
Source: The Wrath and the Dawn
“She was a dark, rather intense-looking woman of about forty years of age. She had gipsy colouring that went with her dark hair and eyes. There was something a little odd about her eyes. They had a watchful look.”
Source: The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side
“She was a dark, unenduring little flower - yet he thought he detected in her some quality of spiritual reticence, of strength drawn from her passive acceptance of all things. In this he was mistaken.”
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 was a dead girl having the worst panic attack shed ever had. Not because she was afraid of dying, but because she knew that she would never live again.”
Source: Ghostgirl
“She was a desperate woman with frailties just like her, temptations just like her, a woman who had needs, a woman who loved almost to the point of there being no more her anymore, a woman who probably cried too much, just like her, a woman afraid, wanting to believe rather than believing [...]”
Source: Girl in Hyacinth Blue
“She was a diamond in a quarry full of quartz.”
Source: The Crown's Game
“she was a different person when she sang. Her singing was a deep, yearning subconscious desire to go back to a time when the Nepali identity wasn't sullied by external forces.”
Source: Mad Country
“She was a do-gooder, which means that all the ill she did, she did without realizing it.”
Source: The Thirteenth Tale: A Novel
“She was a dreamer and a schemer & one didnt dream and scheme without hope.”
Source: Silk Is for Seduction
“She was a dull person, but a sensational invitation to make babies.”
Source: SLAUGHTERHOUSE FIVE
“She was a faded but still lovely woman of twenty-seven.”
“She was a fairy, he thought. A whimsical creature that no man dared touch for fear of inviting the wrath of some unknown dark force charged with her protection. That dark force being Merinus Lyons, the wicked ogre of his life, as far as he was concerned.”
Source: Lion's Heat
“She was a fool and he knew it and because he loved her it had made no difference.”
“She was a fool. She wept like a helpless child that night at Chester’s while the entire club watched. Not because you broke her finger or threatened her but because you were alive and she was that happy to see you. She was always happy to see you. She lit up inside. You lost her. You let her be lost.”
Source: Burned
“She was a fool, and so am I, and so is anyone who thinks he sees what God is Doing, [writes Bokonon].”
Source: Cat's Cradle: A Novel
“She was a freak. My sister was a freak of nature. I wasn’t quite sure how to feel. Here I’d been so looking forward to meeting her, and she was making me uncomfortable. I forced as much of it as I could back. I wanted to love her, wanted to be as excited about this moment as I’d hoped I would be.”
Source: Hero of the Hinterland
“She was a free bird one minute: queen of the world and laughing. The next minute she would be in tears like a porcelain angel, about to teeter, fall and break. She never cried because she was afraid that something 'would' happen; she would cry because she feared something that could render the world more beautiful, 'would not' happen.”
Source: The Wanderess
“She was a free bird one minute: queen of the world and laughing. The next minute she would be in tears like a porcelain angel, about to teeter, fall and break. She was brave, and I never once saw her cry out of fear. She never cried because she was afraid that something would happen; she would cry because she feared something that could render the world more beautiful, would not happen… She believed if I gave in to make her fortune become realized, the world would be ultimately profound and beautiful. I guess I held out because I feared the realization of her fortune would mean the destruction of us together. And each time she cried, I fell a little more deeply in love with her.”
Source: The Wanderess
“She was a genius of sadness, immersing herself in it, separating its numerous strands, appreciating its subtle nuances. She was a prism through which sadness could be divided into its infinite spectrum.”
Source: Everything Is Illuminated
“She was a genius, my mother.”
“She was a ghost in a strange house that overnight had become immense and solitary and through which she wandered without purpose, asking herself in anguish which one of them was deader: the man who had died or the woman he had left behind.”
“She was a gift—a gift he nearly hadn’t found the guts to claim. Now, as he watched her standing fearless against the elements, her power stole his breath.”
Source: Breathing Room
“She was a girl. A living girl, smart and sweet and awkward and unusual and she was worth far more than they could ever realize.”
Source: Cress
“She was a girl and she was a queen and back in the mists she was a woman who had seized the moon from the sky and drunk its light so that she would never die. And she never had.”
Source: Lips Touch: Three Times
“She was a girl who for a ringing phone dropped exactly nothing. She looked as if her phone had been ringing continually ever since she had reached puberty.”
Source: FOR ESME- WITH LOVE AND SQUALOR
“She was a girl who knew how to be happy even when she was sad. And that’s important—you know”
“She was a girl with a mountain to climb.”
Source: Markus Zusak: The Book Thief & I Am the Messenger
“She was a girl with strange abilities and a different way of looking at the world. What she decided to do with these things was up to her.”
Source: Flashback
“She was a goddess of torment and understood the eloquence of violence.”
Source: Circe
“She was a goddess personified, her breasts so soft and round he could've buried his head between them, suffocated, and died a happy man.”
Source: So I Married a Werewolf
“She was a good Christian woman with a large respect for religion, though she did not, of course, believe any of it was true.”
Source: The Complete Stories
“She was a good deal shock’d; not shock’d at tears,
For women shed and use them at their liking;
But there is something when man’s eye appears
Wet, still more disagreeable and striking;
A woman’s tear-drop melts, a man’s half sears,
Like molten lead, as if you thrust a pike in
His heart to force it out, for (to be shorter)
To them ’tis a relief, to us a torture.”
Source: DON JUAN