S Quotes
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“She was a walking deposition to every encounter that fed a dark hunger for confrontation.”
“She was a waterfall of apologies. She was drowning in herself.”
Source: The Midnight Library
“She was a wicked thing sometimes. All full of want. As if the shape of the world depended on her mood. As if she were important.”
Source: The Slow Regard of Silent Things
“She was a wild ocean. And he had always seen people giving up while trying to swim in her and swim back to the shore before they could drown. He always hesitated about that adventure. He was scared of failing to swim, and drowning to death. But he was never able to stop thinking about how the adventure could end up. He finally made his mind up and started swimming. And eventually, he gave up against the waves and the storms she created and he began to drown. But the moment he stopped fighting to survive, she slowly embraced him inside her arms. And he began to realise that everything was very different than what he had always imagined. He could feel every breath he took there, better than any place he had ever lived. She was splendid and he never felt like swimming away from her arms ever.”
Source: The Abandoned Paradise: Unraveling the beauty of untouched thoughts and dreams
“She was a wolf. She was death, devourer of the worlds.”
Source: Queen of Shadows
“She was a woman attempting to make some sense of, and get some satisfaction from, a life that seemed to have no more logic than a roulette wheel.”
“She was a woman of extended silences, I noticed, and she said very little as we walked the streets of La Boca, looking at its brightly colored houses. It was as if she understood that quiet observation was the key to knowing a place, perhaps even the key to life.”
Source: The Crime of Julian Wells
“She was a woman who'd foolishly married a handsome, smooth-talking man. Now she was living a bad country song.”
Source: Ambush Before Sunrise
“She was a woman with a broom or a dust-
pan or a washrag or a mixing spoon in her hand. You saw
her cutting piecrust in the morning, humming to it, or you
saw her setting out the baked pies at noon or taking them in,
cool, at dusk. She rang porcelain cups like a Swiss bell ringer
to their place. She glided through the halls as steadily as a
vacuum machine, seeking, finding, and setting to rights. She
made mirrors of every window, to catch the sun. She strolled
but twice through any garden, trowel in hand, and the flowers
raised their quivering fires upon the warm air in her wake.
She slept quietly and turned no more than three times in a
night, as relaxed as a White glove to which, at dawn, a brisk
hand will return. Waking, she touched people like pictures,
to set their frames straight.”
Source: Dandelion Wine
“She was a woman without a family. A woman without a pack. A woman alone.”
Source: Full Force
“She was a wonderful teenage girl who had the miraculous power to cure herself from any wound, either physical or mental. With her own salty tears, she would cleanse her raw wounds. And her breaths were given, as though not to breathe but, rather, to fan her sores.”
Source: Unexpressed Feelings
“She was a workhorse, nothing more. An asset to utilize then euthanize.”
Source: Girl of Dust and Smoke
“She was abducted by clowns once." The words flowed as coolly out of Penn's mouth as if he just said what he was going to have for lunch.”
Source: The Five Year Trip
“She was able to feel active creation going on around her in the rocks and hills, where the mystery of lust took place; and in herself, where all was yet only the night of senses and wild dreams, the work of passion going on.”
Source: For Love Alone
“She was about forty: In her youth She had been a Beauty; But her charms had been upon that large scale which can but ill sustain the shock of years: However She still possessed some remains of them.”
Source: The Monk
“She was about to take a step back when his hand slid onto her leg. Slow and lazy.
“You don’t wear your scrubs home,” he murmured, his fingers idly stroking just behind her knee, the denim of her jeans no barrier to the sensations sweeping up her leg.
Joss willed herself to move but not one damn synapse obeyed. It was as if his fingers had injected them with a paralyzing agent.
“No.” Her voice was hushed yet high. Breathy. “It’s against hospital policy.”
“Pity.” He smiled at her. “You look hot in them.”
If it was possible to orgasm through compliments alone, she’d just moved into the red zone. He was dangerously good for her ego.
He was bleary-eyed, rubbing his right hand over his hair, his biceps and abs shifting nicely. A flush of heat surged from the tips of her toes to the top of her head.
Sweet baby cheeses.
Maybe she was perimenopausal? Thirty-four was young but it wasn’t unheard of…”
Source: Troy
“She was abused and tormented, and despite all the drug abuse seemed to float through a world where she did not belong. Whatever went on behind those beautiful eyes, you cannot help feeling that only the fairies and leprechauns will recognise Edie Sedgwick”
Source: Wrong Planet - Searching for your Tribe
“She was actively frightened of imparting confidences, because she feared that they might betray the world of oddness that lived inside her”
“She was adamant that any organisation that labelled one group of people as evil would eventually do the same to others. That to treat any one person as less than human was to cheapen the very substance of humanity.”
Source: The Song Rising
“She was Aelin Ashryver Galathynius- and she would not be afraid.”
Source: Heir of Fire
“She was afflicted with a restlessness of spirit he could not guess at, but he knew she was the one for him.”
Source: Go Set a Watchman
“She was afraid of all that and so much more, but what terrified her most was inside of her, an insect of unnatural intelligence who’d been living in her brain her entire life, playing with it, clicking across it, wrenching loose its cables on a whim.”
Source: Shutter Island
“She was afraid of giving in to that overwhelming, absolute, unconditional love, a love that had shown her the route to heaven, but which had also taught her how much one could suffer, to the point where even the sound of your own tears became deafening.”
Source: Soccer Sweetheart
“She was afraid of heights
but she was
much more afraid
of never flying.”
Source: Love Her Wild
“She was afraid of these things that made her suddenly wonder who she was, and what she was going to be in the world, and why she was standing at that minute, seeing a light, or listening, or staring up into the sky: alone.”
Source: The Member of the Wedding
“She was afraid. Robin knew that. Who wouldn’t be? But she had forgotten that God understood her fear and had compassion for her weakness. She would have to choose to place her trust in someone larger than her fear over Willis being killed.
“Help me, God,” she prayed.
Robin bowed her head to her knees and poured out her fear to someone who could beat it for her.”
Source: Under the Weeping Willow
“She was afraid that if she really held on to him, she'd never let go. She had to be cautious from now on, treat him as she would a skittish cat; be careful to never move too fast or need too much.”
Source: The Four Winds
“She was afraid that it was a moral issue, and that was one of his weaknesses. He was Salander’s friend. She knew her brother. She knew that he was loyal to the point of foolhardiness once he had made someone a friend, even if the friend was impossible and obviously flawed. She also the friend was impossible and obviously flawed. She also knew that he could accept any number of idiocies from his friends, but that there was a boundary and it could not be infringed. Where exactly this boundary was seemed to vary from one person to another, but she knew he had broken completely with people who had previously been close friends because they had done something that he regarded as beyond the pale. And he was inflexible. The break was for ever.”
Source: The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest
“She was afraid to suggest to him that to most people, nothing "happens." That most people merely live from day to day until they die. That, after he had been dead a year, doubtless fewer than five people would think of him oftener than once a year. That there might even come a year when no one on earth would think of him at all.”
“She was afraid to voice her desires, lest they be taken from her. But the fact that he had thought to ask the right question, when no one else on Earth . . . ever would, made her heart catch in her throat.”
Source: Love on a Midsummer Night
“She was afraid to want things for herself. She didn’t think she deserved them.”
“She was afraid you'd freak out? Start seeing demons in the White House?”
“She was afraid, and the afraid, she realized, sought opportunities for bravery in love.”
“She was afraid, but she couldn't just sit around waiting for someone to save her. She had to try to save herself, try to figure it out.”
“She was, after all, a woman scholar in a country whose word for madness derived from the word for a womb.”
Source: Babel
“She was alive and living, a fate more perfection than perfection itself.”
Source: Save Me, Italy
“She was alive, and they were dead. She had to try to make her life big. As big as she could. She promised Bailey she would keep playing.”
Source: The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants Complete Collection
“She was all dark-eyed intensity. Something was lost in her. Karou saw it and mourned. War does that, nothing for it. Reality lays siege. Your framed portrait of life is smashed, and a new one thrust upon you. Its ugly, and you don't even want to look at it , let alone hang it on the wall, but you have no choice.”
Source: Dreams of Gods & Monsters
“She was all fire and gunpowder, and her finger was always on a trigger”
Source: Hero at the Fall
“She was all he wanted. He would give everything for her. Without thought. Without regret.”
Source: Eleven Scandals to Start to Win a Duke's Heart: Number 3 in series
“She was all I had ever dreamt of being. She was beautiful, more beautiful than anyone I had ever seen. She was intelligent, smarter than anyone I had ever met. When poised and quiet, she had an impact on people anyways, a statue and incarnate of everything revered in a woman, yet when she spoke, you did not know how to thank what deity for having been graced to be in the presence of someone like her. She did not speak as I did, and she spoke so little.”
Source: the Poppy fields near the French countryside: Sappho edition
“She was all sarcasm with a tongue that could cut through you faster than a hot knife in butter.”
“She was all the things I wasn't. And i was all the things she wasn't. she could paint circles around anyone; I couldn't even draw a straight line. She was never into sports; I've always been. Her hand, it fit mine.”
“She was all too sunk in the inevitable, and the abysmal.”
Source: The Wings of the Dove
“She was allowed to want more for herself. And even if she wasn't, she would find a way to get it.”
Source: The Familiar
“She was almost at the top of the steps, and Shane was right behind her, when she heard Myrnin say, in a quiet voice that was like the old Myrnin, the one she actually liked, "I'm sorry, Claire. I never meant - I'm sorry. Sometimes I don't know... I don't know what I am thinking. I wish... I wish things could be like they were before.”
Source: Ghost Town
“She was almost too beautiful: as beautiful as a blush of summer sunset on a sky-wide stream of cloud.”
Source: Shantaram
“She was alone and grown. And had somehow done the worst thing a Chinese woman could do, whore herself out to a white man”
Source: River East, River West
“She was alone and she liked it. This was how he had learned all the important things in his life.”
Source: The Queen's Gambit Series 3 Books Collection Set
“She was alone but that didn't stop her, it empowered her.”