S Quotes
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“She was beautiful, but she was beautiful in the way a forest fire was beautiful.”
“She was beautiful, but she was beautiful in the way a forest fire was beautiful: something to be admired from a distance, not up close.”
“She was beautiful, in the quiet way that lonely, unnoticed people are beautiful to those who notice them.”
Source: The Manual of Detection: A Novel
“She was beautifully broken, and he could tell it was her faith that made her whole. It was her faith that made the brokenness beautiful.”
Source: The Paris Soulmate
“She was beauty and intelligence stitched together with no seams
She lived in a world with no difference between reality and dreams
Excellence as habit, she was much more than simple flesh and bone
She walked in the way that forced her presence to be known
If I viewed the world in melody, she is the only one I would see
She could conquer that world in a day and still have time for tea
Soft lips curved in confidence spilling sweetness with every breath
Ideas remaining and growing even after the revolving dance of death
Fingers curled with the power of creation and the ease with which it came
She sat upon a throne as a queen playing the world like a simple game
She was fire, and laughter, and the warmth both of them brought
She made the idea of perfection appear as a simple afterthought
Her body danced with the tidal currents of marvelous desire
She could reach the sky in a day and then push on even higher
She was the best getting better, the absolute antonym of threshold
The words she wrote were gilded, laid heavy with amber glow gold
She was one of very many, and yet, she was the only one of them all
Her taste made my mouth water, her effect hit me harder than alcohol
She was quality, and substance, an actual angel in every way real
Her word was solid, it was a better guarantee than a devil with a deal
She was better than just human, more like power that has taken shape and form
And I the lucky one who holds her close, feels her heartbeat quicken like a storm”
“She was becoming herself and daily casting aside that fictitious self which we assume like a garment with which to appear before the world.”
Source: The Awakening
“She was becoming herself, casting aside that fictitious self which we assume like a garment.”
“She was becoming sad. There is no joy involved in following others' expectations of yourself”
Source: Swing Low: A Life
“She was bedridden falling a fall which broke her hip. X-rays showed that she had cancer of the colon which had already spreed. To my surprise I found her cheerful and free of pain, perhaps because of the small doses of morphine she was being given. She was surrounded by neighbours and friends who congregated at her bedside day and night. In this cosy, noisy, gregarious world of the "all-chinese" sickbed, so different from the stark, sterile solitude of the American hospital room, her life had assumed the astounding quality of a continuous farewell party.”
“She was beginning to realize people could survive most things. Not because thy were brave or strong, but because there wasn't any choice.”
Source: Night in Eden
“She was beginning to realize that no amount of genius ever compensates for, nor excuses, a paucity of kindness, integrity, and unconflicted devotion.”
Source: Figuring
“She was beginning to stir questions in me that I'd spent all my life refusing to ask, since the day I had looked down from the window at the broken body of the schoolboy on the flagstones a long way below, while a master hurried from the cloisters with his black gown flapping in the winter wind, to see what had happened: the day when I was suddenly old enough to understand that I had a choice. I could either do what that other boy had done, or I could spend the rest of my life outside society, where it was safe”
Source: Quiller
“She was beginning to think that perhaps he isn’t the strong man she thought he was. He was just a boy. His father had placed the whole world at his feet and he had daddy issues? If only she would start telling him about her own father. The beatings, the neglect, the lack of support, the lack of love. What is his excuse? Daddy didn’t hug you enough? She was growing impatient and just wanted to get out and cry on her own.”
Source: Tajrish
“She was being folkloric. Hubbard was supposed to be charmed. But since the demise of his Previous Marriage, about five and a half days ago, he'd been sullen. He once read about a Sioux warrior named Cranky Man, and now he thought: That's me.”
Source: Six Kinds of Sky: A Collection of Short Fiction
“She was being released from the sorrows of the soil that had bred her.”
Source: Half a Cup of Sand and Sky
“She was bendable light: she shone around every corner of my day.”
Source: The Stargirl Collection
“She was better off not knowing him. But he was enough of a bastard to hate that she'd forgotten.
Even if it was his fault she'd lost her memoires.
Jacks had thought Time would take something from him. He hadn't thought it would take it from her.”
Source: A Curse for True Love
“She was beyond elated by her performance, but the weight of that happening without Cade started to sink in. The fact that she hadn't spoken to him yet, that she didn't even have the answers for what the press might be asking her. Crash. For what her friends would be asking her. Crash. The answers that she wanted to know. Crash. Did she want to know? Crash.”
Source: Lithium & Let's Plays
“She was black as the ace of spades and as beautiful as the sin you never had nerve enough to commit.”
Source: The Green Mile
“She was blissfully unaware of her peril.”
“She was blonde; hair cut casually just above her shoulders in way that seemed to say 'who really gives a fuck?' Perfect. And that ass. It filled those jeans in a way that would allow you to read the date on a nickle wedged inside her back pocket.”
Source: KING OF THE NEW YORK STREETS
“She was bold, and yet she was reserved. She was sensual and girlish, but she was never coy. So I think that what she projected was a vitality and freshness that for many people came to stand for American womanhood. It's what made American women attractive: that outdoor complexion, that wonderful figure, and yet that carriage, that demureness, that suggested that she was in charge of herself and not to be had.”
“She was bored. She loved, had capacity to love, for love, to give and accept love. Only she tried twice and failed twice to find somebody not just strong enough to deserve it, earn it, match it, but even brave enough to accept it.”
Source: Novels, 1957-1962
“She was born Anidori-Kiladra Talianna Isilee, Crown Princess of Kildenree, and she did not open her eyes for three days.”
Source: The Goose Girl
“She was born in Baton Rouge, her favorite song was In My Life.”
“She was born of space.
And starlight.
But she bled wrath.
And vengeance.."
[From Current Work In Progress]”
“She was born to a woman as telling as a dream and to a man who was a Cherokee, a moonshiner, and a mythmaker.”
Source: Betty
“She was born to be free, let her run wild in her own way and you will never lose her.”
“She was born under the sign of Gemini. And that stands for the good and evil twin. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde both hiding and residing inside her heart. Her good twin was not bad at all. But her evil twin was even better, and showed up to be way too fatal!”
Source: Mysterious Murder of Marilyn Monroe
“She was born with a melancholic disposition. Despite her best efforts to bury it beneath countless layers of smiles, and a heavy coat of mascara, the sadness in her eyes remained as unmistakable as the sun piercing through dense clouds on a stormy day.”
“She was both strikingly gorgeous and completely natural, and her perceptive eyes said she was not afraid to wield said power over a man.”
Source: Bewitched
“She was brave enough to fight with the potential enemies from other companies. Most often, it ended in defeats, tears and bruises from punches. Nonetheless, she was a survivor and a warrior from the very start.”
Source: Horns of Revenge
“She was brave from excess of grief”
“She was breaking apart. Her heart was unfurling like a flower awakening to sunlight, her ribs expanding, her head splitting open like that of Zeus when Athena sprang full-formed. She couldn't scream this time, because she had no breath, no lungs, no tongue. The kernel of magic inside her had opened, and it was flooding her body like salt water or light.”
Source: The Magician’s Daughter
“She was breathing hard, and deep circles of red burned high on her bright cheeks; in all my life I had never seen anyone so maddeningly beautiful as she was at that moment.”
Source: The Secret History
“She was breathtaking in her beauty and her human spirit, he thought, unable to speak as he gazed upon her. Hers was the sort that would not fade or grow jaded with time and years, but flourish, grow more radiant with life and its experience. Hers was a beauty that no other possessed. A beauty he longed to keep, to hide away, to bask in, himself alone. She had become his. He didn’t know when, whether it had been the moment her fingertips had touched him when he was hurt, or if it had grown, like a seed, slowing spreading until Jane had become the root anchoring the shattered pieces of his heart, pulling them tight together until it resembled the organ it should.”
Source: Sinful
“She was brilliant and joyous and she believed- probably correctly- that libraries contain the answers to all things, to everything, and that if you can't find the information you seek in the library, then such information probably doesn't exist in this or any parallel universe now or ever to be known. She was thoughtful and kind and she always believed the best of everybody. She was, above all else, a master librarian and she knew where to find any book on any subject in the shortest possible time. And she was wonderfully unhinged.”
“She was broken.
And i know,her heart can be repaired again.
not by the "roses" and "chocolates"
But by the "truths" and "loyalty”
“She was broken from moment to moment, watching her world collide she felt lost inside herself. She fell apart for a passion that flamed beneath her. She waited and died a hundred times, it dripped from her pores. The moment she let go, she soared over the stillness like the star she was born to be.”
“She was broken, I think it’s because she loved too much and she was always blind to the fact that love too is sometimes broken.”
“She was bruised from crashing so many times, but she hadn’t lost her hunger for flight.”
Source: Firestorm
“She was but a girl from nowhere. Let the heroes save the world, save kings who must regain their crowns. Live, live, she wanted to live, and there was a way.”
Source: Gods of Jade and Shadow
“She was but a transient impression, half forgotten.”
Source: Tess of the d'Urbervilles: Works of Hardy
“She was by nature a sunny soul”
Source: Daddy-Long-Legs
“She was by nature a sunny soul, and had always snatched the tiniest excuse to be amused.”
Source: Daddy-Long-Legs
“She was called Helen - a name, I fear, that may have gone to her head, for she frequently acted as though she had confused herself with Helen of Troy.”
Source: The Other Typist
“She was calm and quiet now with knowing what she had always known, what neither her parents nor Aunt Claire nor Frank nor anyone else had ever had to teach her: that if you wanted something to do something absolutely honest, something true, it always turned out to be a thing that had to be done alone.”
“She was carrying an armful of Bibles for her class, and such was her view of life that events which produced heartache in others wrought beatific smiles upon her - an enviable result, although, in the opinion of Angel, it was obtained by a curiously unnatural sacrifice of humanity to mysticism.”
Source: Tess of the D’Urbervilles
“She was carrying two coffees and a donut bag, and right then and there, he fell in love." -Animal Magnetism”
“She was certainly hungry to sleep with someone; it was practically forever since she'd done it. But she liked Jason a little too much to think it was a good idea to sleep with him. What if she started liking him even more? Relationship pain and relationship horror seemed probable.”
Source: Purity