S Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with S. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“She was alone like a cat, like an owl, as if she walked unobserved, out of her human life.”
Source: The Heavens
“She was alone.
She missed him immediately.”
Source: The Woman who Went to Bed for a Year
“She was already learning that if you ignore the rules people will, half the time, quietly rewrite them so that they don't apply to you.”
Source: Equal Rites: (Discworld Novel 3)
“She was also a memory, the worst kind of memory--the kind that pulled you to your knees at just the sound of her name.”
Source: My Butterfly
“She was also an adult, and when adults fight children, adults always win.”
“She was also incredibly confident, with a way of moving and talking that communicated that she didn't need anyone to tell her she was beautiful or worthwhile.”
Source: The Paris Wife (Random House Reader's Circle Deluxe Reading Group Edition): A Novel
“She was also taking a big risk by hoping this sacrifice would mean something. If Rob turned out like any other rough boy in the neighborhood––if her son wasn't special like she believed he was––she feared the disappointment that would follow too much striving on her part.”
Source: The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace: A Brilliant Young Man Who Left Newark for the Ivy League
“She was also, by the standards of other people, lost. She would not see it like that. She knew where she was, it was just that everywhere else didn't.”
Source: The Wit And Wisdom Of Discworld
“She was altogether colorless and severe, and still she managed to be beautiful. Not the way that girls are generally beautiful, but more like the way a knife catches the light, makes you want to take it in your hands.”
Source: A Study in Charlotte
“She was always acting cold and distant with boys to cover up the fact that she was shy inside and didn't know quite how to act.”
Source: The Wishing Year
“She was always daydreaming. She never wanted to live in the real world; she always seemed to be separated from other children her age. They couldn’t understand her or her imagination. She was always thinking outside of the box, breaking rules, and only following what her heart told her was right.”
Source: November Snow
“She was always demanding of herself, Do I dare? Do I dare disturb the universe?”
“She was always fighting a battle but her smile would never tell you so.”
“She was always human, difficult as it was for me to admit that; I made so much trouble for myself by refusing to see it.”
Source: Biography of X
“She was always impressed by how he'd managed to parlay his special brand of weirdness into instant popularity even among the hockey players and the nursing students and the millionaires-by-thirty crowd.”
Source: 36 Questions That Changed My Mind About You
“She was always like that: grateful for life itself. Her glass was not only half full, it was gold plated with a permanent refill.”
Source: When God Was a Rabbit: A Novel
“She was always like this, only moves when her mind and heart tells her to move, not doing what everyone demanded her to do.”
Source: The Art Of Black
“She was always puzzled that people say that darkness falls. To her it seemed instead to rise, massing under trees an shrubs, pouring out from under furniture, only reaching the sky when the spaces near the ground were full.”
Source: The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane
“She was always reading, and she read very good books. She read a lot of poetry and all.”
Source: THE CATCHER IN THE RYE
“She was always saying things like that but I let her be my best friend anyway.”
Source: Victory Over Japan: A Book of Stories
“She was always storming alone, being angry alone, going through vast emotional upheavals in which he did not take part.”
“She was always telling people to shut the fuck up. It was a term of endearment.”
Source: I Hold a Wolf by the Ears: Stories
“She was always threatening to move to be nearer to Rosie and the boys, but Wisconsin was- obviously, nonnegotiably, self-evidently-too cold. So she stayed in Pheonix and held the weather to her heart as a talisman, clutched to her breast against all counteroffers.
But she came up for the summers. Pheonix's weather need not be clutched to the breast for June through September.”
Source: This Is How It Always Is
“She was always trying to get me to break out of my shell, but I think I like my shell too much.”
“She was always waiting, it seemed to be her forte.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)
“She was always young at heart, kind of dumb, kind of smart, and I loved her so.”
“She was amazed Silveny had even let them get close enough to attach the reins. Clearly she needed to teach the glittering horse how to recognize pure evil.”
Source: Exile
“She was an abandoned paradise. Wrecked and scary. The silence she held around her pierced even the darkest nights and the toughest hearts. But the moment you entered inside, she was utterly beautiful. She had the stars hanging from the roof with her dreams spilt all over the floor. The realms she ruled had no boundaries and walking through her was always bliss.”
Source: The Abandoned Paradise: Unraveling the beauty of untouched thoughts and dreams
“She was an absolute genius as a comedic actress, with an extraordinary sense for comedic dialogue. It was a God-given gift. Believe me, in the last fifteen years there were ten projects that came to me, and I'd start working on them and I'd think, 'It's not going to work, it needs Marilyn Monroe.' Nobody else is in that orbit; everyone else is earthbound by comparison.”
“She was an addiction, a drug I desperately needed to stay away from, but there was no rehab for Chloe Grant.”
Source: Misinformation
“She was an afterthought, little Martha. She was treated the way many families treated pet dogs - she had to be fed and cleaned every now and then, but she was left to her own devices for the most part.”
Source: Hardtack: A Civil War Story
“She was an alien, really - a sort of eating, pooping, tantrum machine - and he didn't understand anything about her species.”
Source: A Dirty Job: A Novel
“She was an anomaly of her own universe and of his, and represented the collision of everything he'd ever known and everything he'd ever wanted to.”
Source: Small Orange Fruit
“She was an artist. She held opposites in her mind.”
Source: Canada
“She was an autocrat, didn't really believe in democracy. The benefit of her approach was that, if you work with twenty people and ask everybody's opinion, you would never achieve what she did.”
“She was an auxiliary nurse but training to be a true nurse because that was her calling, to serve mankind. She was a Martha. There were Marys and Marthas, but Marys got all the limelight because of being Christ's handmaiden, but Marthas were far more sincere.”
Source: The Light of Evening
“She was an elf
She turned the lake to swamp
A dark and warm marsh
Her body sunk down
There unshaken lay”
Source: Blazing Night
“She was an enigma and a contradiction. Partly truth, partly fiction. Partly God, partly human. A moment you loathed her, the subsequent you wanted to be her. She was so friendly yet so cold and distant, so arrogant yet so humble.”
Source: the poppy fields near the French countryside
“She was an exotic flower amongst the snowdrifts, out of place, a Technicolor misfit in a monochrome Christmas movie.”
Source: We Shadows
“She was an experimental child but compassionate with it.”
“She was an expert at the art of sudden appearance.”
“She was an extension of his dreams. A sprinkling of magic dust, of unfeasible wishes, on his stable existence. The one thing-the one bright, marvelous thing-he wanted more than the world, but didn't deserve. However much he was tortured for her sake, however much blood he had spilled to protect her, the bruises to his body and the thrashings to his sanity, it would never be enough to make a wretch like him worthy of such a miracle.”
Source: Sand for Dreams
“She was an extraordinary woman, and I went to bed that night feeling like I was perhaps more than ordinary myself. This was the effect she had on me.”
Source: And the Mountains Echoed
“She was an idiot. An adorable, gorgeous, feisty, funny, sweet, sexy idiot.”
Source: Her Best Friend
“She was an impossible desire. - Alex”
Source: Forbidden Acts: A Love Story
“She was an intoxication, yet addictive, a living heroin that defined my existence!”
“She was an ocean, confined in a coffee mug. And she had the galaxies, confined in her pretty eyes.”
“She was an ocean full of storms and sailing in her would have made him lose his path forever. But he was not ready to give up without taking that risk. He set his sail and kept moving into the heart of the ocean until she calmed down. And once the storm was over all he saw was a place that no one could imagine and nobody had ever reached. And in the end the journey was worth it.”
Source: The Abandoned Paradise: Unraveling the beauty of untouched thoughts and dreams
“She was an open book. She had nothing to hide. She had an air about her. An air of conviction. She had lived and had no regrets. She was compulsively unapologetic about the choices that she had made.”
Source: The Inspiring Mind of a Quixotic Girl
“She was another broken doll dreaming of a boy with glue.”
Source: Love Her Wild