S Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with S. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“She was doing it because she had nothing to lose, because her life was one of constant, day to day frustration.”
“She was doing just what it looked like she was doing, lying about, half-awake and half-asleep, passing the time and waiting for something to change. Because it seemed very clear to her, in those first few days, that what she felt was so intolerable that it couldn't possibly last, and if she did nothing to distract herself from it, she'd use it up, and then she'd be able to get up, and move about, and care once again about her duties to her people, about her constitutional obligations to dancing and singing and feasting and praising the movements of the stars. She didn't consider at all--she didn't dare to consider--that the sources of grief inside her might be inexhaustible.”
Source: The Great Night
“She was doing that thing some people do when they act nice and chipper and interested, while just below the surface they’re thinking really mean thoughts, and you can never call them on it because they’d just accuse you of being paranoid.”
“She was done running! The stars were above her head and shining too brightly; all she had to do now was tip her head back and look.”
Source: The Light that Binds Us
“She was drawn to damaged souls like a moth to a flame.”
“She was drawn to the wild warriors, they had to have a little gypsy in their veins.”
“She was dressed in a glimmering silver sheath, a perfect compliment to her blonde hair, which was up. A simple pendant hung around her neck. She looked very young, young enough to be attending rather than chaperoning.”
Source: Carrie
“She was dressed in white, and her tunic had amazing flared sleeves which trailed on the ground behind her as she glided down the stairs. Her hair was a mass of dark curls tumbling around her face, and she had dark, dark eyes. Jack realized that this was what the chansons meant when they referred to a beautiful princess in a castle. No wonder the knights all wept when the princess died.”
Source: THE PILLARS OF THE EARTH
“She was dressed to go to bed only it was ridiculously early to go to bed. She desired to be unconscious.”
Source: The Green Knight
“She was drowning, and he'd be damned if she expected him to stand by and watch.”
“She was drowning in sandalwood and sunlight. Time ceased to be more than a notion. Her lips were hers one moment. And then they were his. The taste of him on her tongue was like sun-warmed honey. Like cool water sliding down her parched throat. Like the promise of all her tomorrows in a single sigh. When she wound her fingers in his hair to draw her body against his, he stilled for breath, and she knew, as he knew, that they were lost. Lost forever. In this kiss. This kiss that would change everything.”
“She was drowning-in friendliness, in community-and she was starting to think she didn't want to get pulled out.”
“She was drunk on him, every nerve in her body singing.”
Source: The Rose Code
“She was dry, dry inside like a ten-thousand-year-old tomb, with the last of her life barely dampening the dirt underneath.”
Source: Amelia Anne Is Dead and Gone
“She was dry. She was lying on something soft. She was wrapped in quilts. There was a star of light drifting above her, and a smell like a herb garden. Taggle was a long warmth stretched out at one side, his chin in her hand, his tail curled over her neck. She thought they might be in heaven.
Taggle farted.
Plain Kate coughed and sneezed. And then she really was awake.”
“She was dull, unattractive, couldn't tell the time, count money or tie her own shoe laces... But I loved her”
“She was edgy, her mood still unruffled and didn’t know if it was a result of the reticule strangeness, irritation over the mean ladies, and their obnoxious Mr. Smyth, or a mad desire to shove Detective Nathaniel Winston into a pantry and kiss him senseless herself rather than wait in anticipation for him to do it”
Source: To Capture His Heart
“She was either very far north or very far south. She was very far somewhere.”
Source: The Midnight Library
“She was elusive. She was today. She was tomorrow.”
Source: The Stargirl Collection
“She was elusive. She was today. She was tomorrow. She was the faintest scent of a cactus flower, the flitting shadow of an elf owl. We did not know what to make of her. In our minds we tried to pin her to a cork board like a butterfly, but the pin merely went through and away she flew.”
Source: The Stargirl Collection
“She was embarrassed that Drew was the type of walking one-night stand guy their mom had warned her about. ", Loving Summer by Kailin Gow”
Source: Loving Summer
“She was emotionally retarded having no sense of humour, cold and no people skills. She was like her mother was obsessed by appearances and wealth and longed to get married to escape from home.”
“She was enfolded in the great wings of Mrs. Whatsit and she felt comfort and strength pouring through her. Mrs. Whatsit was not speaking aloud, and yet through the wings Meg understood words.
"My child, do not despair. Do you think we would have brought you here if there was no hope? We are asking you to do a difficult thing, but we are confident that you can do it. Your father needs help, he needs courage, and for his children he may be able to do what he cannot do for himself.”
Source: A Wrinkle in Time
“She was Eve in the Garden of Eden, and she'd just taken a bite from the apple.”
Source: Hook, Line, and Sinker
“She was even at fault for having brought a wringer-mop from England, complaining loudly that such a simple thing was unprocurable in "this God-forsaken country".”
Source: Anne Perry and the Murder of the Century
“She was even nice to Poseidon's demigod children, unlike some other goddesses I could name. (Cough, Hera, cough.)”
Source: Percy Jackson's Greek Gods
“She was every inch the skeletal goddess that had been promised by the bones of her feet.”
Source: Strange Places
“She was everything he'd ever wanted in a woman, and nothing he'd ever thought to find in a lady.”
Source: My American Duchess
“She was everything he loved about a woman wrapped up in a cute little package. Golden blonde hair was secured to the top of her head in a ponytail, he bet it would reach her waist when it was loose. Her body was curvy in all the right places, her breasts more than filled out the T-shirt she was wearing and those hips, dang he could just imagine holding onto them while she rode him, instead of Big Red.”
Source: A Special Kind of Love
“She was everything he wanted from his life, the very measure of his dreams.”
Source: The Tea Rose
“She was everything he'd ever wanted, beauty and fire arching against his despoiling hands.”
“She was everything I had ever wanted to be and so much more. What with her sparkly eyes and animated, gesticulated hands, her beautiful blonde hair cascading down gracefully like silk and her eyes so electric and cheeks the colour of rose. Vivacious and vibrant though she was in her innate talent at being able to hold a conversation with anyone, she loved and prized being alone paramount to being besieged.”
Source: the poppy fields near the French countryside
“She was everything I wanted. She was beautiful and charming, with a quick sense of humor, and she supported me in everything I did.”
“She was everything I wasn't - she was drama, emotion, intrigue, power. I was nothing. Nothing happened to me.”
Source: Radio Silence
“She was everything real in a world of make-believe.”
Source: Love Her Wild
“She was everything that shouldn’t survive in my world—and yet, here she was. Fragile but unbroken. Grieving but unashamed.
Lamb to my wolf.
Sunshine to my shadows.
Color to my gray.”
Source: Eyes on You a Mafia Romance
“She was everything to me, Geigel. she was the only one who saw me for who I really was. And when she died... I thought I would fall apart with her”
Source: Kadashus
“She was evil. Couldn't he, who killed demons with his own hands, realize that? And now I had to run for Mardi Gras Queen because of him. Or her. I didn't know whose fault it was but there was no way I could back down now.”
Source: Aftermath
“She was exactly who she wanted to be.”
Source: The Hand on the Wall
“She was exhausted from her own self-deprecation and inner turmoil.”
Source: The Body Finder
“She was experiencing the same odd happiness and odd sadness as then. The sadness meant: We are at the last station. The happiness meant: We are together. The sadness was form, the happiness content. Happiness filled the space of sadness.”
“She was exquisite. She tasted, smelled, and felt right in every way to him, but as they collapsed into bed, sated and finally ready to sleep, it was the shy girl who had entered his arms. It was she who caressed his cheek while kissing him deeply and softly, her delicate fingers exploring his arms and back, sending shivers through him that always hit his heart. The china doll. It was she who fell asleep upon his chest with her arms wrapped around him. There was a want inside her, and he had felt it in every way. The last thought of his night was simply that he wanted to be the one to know her. To free her.”
Source: Razel Dazzle
“She was fabulously wrong when she said it the first time, and stunningly arrogant in her refusal to express any regret for lying to our fellow citizens.”
“She was fain to get up and go convince herself that he was really there by listening through the door to his even, regular breathing - I don't like to call it snoring, but I heard it myself through two closed doors.”
Source: Cranford
“She was faint by passing the terrible things art has done countless times over, why believe in put down theories and books her eyes constantly told me without lower lengths of ultraviolet new beams pouring from an endless waterfall toward the center of every center. I've emerged my skin in years of Roman romance only to find cosmic rays from a different perspective and on that note perception expanded all the truthful parts of myself.
I was merely deadly alone in a sunlit gaze trying to hold my organs inside long enough to finish the next book, to wrap the defensive cloak of life before the moon rose from the red sea eons ago, casting the net of creation where no man has ever been.”
Source: Prima Materia
“She was falling for him again. Head over heels.
That was probably the worst thing that could happen. What she didn't know was what the hell she was going to do about it.”
Source: Midnight Wrangler
“She was falling in love with a fairytale.”
Source: The Rescue
“She was familiar with a certain type of American crazy. Gun crazy was normal to her, shooting-kids-at-school or putting-on-a-Joker-mask-and-mowing-people-down-in-a-mall or just plain murdering-your-mom-at-breakfast crazy, Second Amendment crazy, that was just the everyday crazy that kept going down and there was nothing you could do about it if you loved freedom; and she understood knife crazy from her younger days in the Bronx, and the knockout-game type of crazy that persuaded young black kids it was cool to punch Jews in the face. She could comprehend drug crazy and politician crazy and Westboro Baptist Church crazy and Trump crazy because those things, they were the American way, but this new crazy was different. It felt 9/11 crazy: foreign, evil.”
Source: Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights
“She was famous, and she was insane.
Her voice soared out over the audience, holding them spellbound and enraptured, delivering their hopes and fears tangled in chords and rhythm. They called her an angel, her voice a gift.
She was famous, and she was a liar.”
Source: Queen of Shadows
“She was far too busy living out a passionate romance with Jesus Christ to be pining after an earthly prince.”
Source: The Lost Art of True Beauty: The Set-Apart Girl's Guide to Feminine Grace