S Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with S. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“She was gone then in a flurry of bonnet ribbons and clicking slippers. I turned, paying no attention to where I went, wishing the city would swallow me, conscious now of the hunger rising to overtake reason. I was almost loath to put an end to it. I needed to let the lust, the excitement blot out all consciousness, and I thought of the kill over and over and over, walking slowly up this street and down the next, moving inexorably towards it, saying, It's a string which is pulling me through the labyrinth.”
“She was gone. We all knew it. But nobody moved. Nobody spoke. Still my father held her tight in his arms, as if he might preserve that last moment of life, as long as he stayed completely still. His lips were against her hair, and his eyes were closed.”
Source: Son of the Shadows
“She was gone, and all that was left was the space where you'd grown around her, like a tree that grows around a fence.”
Source: The History of Love: A Novel
“She was gone, and all that was left was the space you'd grown around her, like a tree that grows around a fence. For a long time, it remained hollow. Years, maybe. And when at last it was filled again, you knew that the new love you felt for a woman would have been impossible without Alma. If it weren't for her, there would never have been an empty space, or the need to fill it.”
“She was good at playing abstract confusion in the same way that a midget is good at being short.”
“She was good at talking with young people. She seemed to view them as interesting foreigners.”
“She was gorgeous and fearless and I was in awe.”
“She was gracious and yet fading, like an old statue in a garden, that symbolizes the weather through which it has endured, and is not so much the work of man as the work of wind and rain and the herd of the seasons, and though formed in men's image is a figure of doom.”
“She was gracious if oddly shy with his friends when they came to visit; she listened eagerly as women spoke to her of their pregnancy and childbirth experiences, of which they were happy to speak, and at length; the Playwright heard his wife tell one of these women that her own mother had once told her she'd loved being pregnant, it's the only time a woman truly feels at home in her body, and in the world - "Is that true?" The Playwright hadn't lingered to hear the answer; he wondered what such a revelation meant, for a man. Are we never at home in our bodies? In the world? Except in the act of sexual intercourse, transmitting our seed to the female?”
Source: Blonde
“She was Grandma Will. That term felt foreign and unfitting to the relationship they had. She wondered if her father had ever called her Mother, Ma, Mom, Mama? Maybe in private he might have, but to the world, all the world, it was Aunt Will.”
Source: The Lovesick Cure
“She was grateful her life regained a new purpose, a new rhythm and focus.”
Source: Broken Pieces of Tomorrow: Strong women don't give up...They find a way through tears and thrills to love again...
“She was great at concealing her feelings, at keeping a stone-face, and hiding all emotions.”
Source: Just For A While
“She was half a wild creature that loved a graveyard, the first taste of misty night air, and the heft of a shovel. She knew how things died. And in her darkest moments, she feared she did not know how to live.”
Source: The Bone Houses
“She was half running away from the hall, and she knew that she had done something cataclysmic, and she wanted nothing more than to be swallowed up by the darkness and to disappear forever.”
Source: The Casual Vacancy
“She was half watching, half musing. It was her constant state. Her eyes were keen and observant, but her inner mind took no notice of what she saw.”
“She was halfway through the second yard when she heard Cyprien fall and curse.
No man in the world will turn down a blow job, Alex thought as she dodged through yards and around the houses, putting as much distance between them as she could.
And no man, not even Cyprien, could chase a girl with his pans down.”
“She was happiest at home baking or sewing or doing household stuff.”
“She was happy, yes, in her own way, as best as she knew.
But there’s a difference between a single candle in darkness and a sunrise.”
Source: Queen Song
“She was happy, and perfectly in line with the tradition of those women they used to call "ruined," "fallen," feckless, bitches in heat, ravished dolls, sweet sluts, instant princesses, hot numbers, great lays, succulent morsels, everybody's darlings . . .”
Source: Querelle
“She was happy, she knew she was happy, and knew she ought to be happy.”
Source: Emma
“She was hard-pressed, but she’d never been one to surrender when the odds were against her.”
Source: The Mask of Fear
“She was having an attack of knuckleheaded anxiety. Those attacks last a long time.”
Source: Journey to the End of the Night
“She was having some difficulty piecing together exactly why she deserved to be in this place, but she wasn't stupid enough to deny that in the end life was cruel and didn't pay attention to what was fair.”
“She was, he thought, born to rest in the shelter of his arms. And he was born to hold her.”
Source: An Offer From a Gentleman
“She was heading off on an adventure all on her own—well, accompanied by Mom and Dad—and anything could happen. She smiled at the possibilities and hit the open road.”
Source: Fairly Familiar: A Collection of Short Stories
“She was heading to the Palais-Royal, armed with the piecemeal knowledge she had collected from travelers through Aveyon who told her Philippe, the duc d'Orléans, had opened the gardens to the public some years before. Belle had heard tell of the exchange of ideas that occurred there, and of the bookshops and cafés tucked into the covered arcades that surrounded the gardens. She had spent long nights imagining herself there, attending salons and taking part in lively debates with a more open-minded crowd than she could find in Aveyon. Each step she took was like walking through both a memory and a dream.”
Source: Rebel Rose
“She was heartily ashamed of her ignorance - a misplaced shame. Where people wish to attach, they should always be ignorant. To come with a well−informed mind is to come with an inability of administering to the vanity of others, which a sensible person would always wish to avoid. A woman especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.”
“She was heavier than he expected - women always are.”
“She was her death now, that death which she had so much striven to emulate in life, which she had studied and practised and loved. She had succeeded, and death and she had converged into a single point. Who knew if that was victory or defeat? His last vision was of the white veil that hid her now. After all, and at last, she had become utterly private.”
Source: The Unicorn
“She was her own Enigma Code and me and my dad were not Bletchley Park.”
Source: Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
“She was her own woman; has been and always will be. Never mind that her heart was torn into shreds and wouldn’t stop bleeding, yearning for him after everything he’s done.”
Source: The Billionaire's Widow
“She was here and the world, for so long ugly and deformed, was all at once itself again. She was taking a glass of sweet wine from one of the waiters. She was smiling. She was breathing. She was here. She was an island of such colossal importance within a sea of inconsequence that it seemed impossible the Ball was able to continue its empty existence.”
Source: The Fairy's Tale
“She was here, fighting to be empress. Facing the ghosts of her past. Yes, she still had moments of doubt and indecision. Yes, she still wrestled with her instincts versus the choices advised. But she was making choices, learning from those choices, and growing. She was taking pieces from each mistake and each horror and all of the people in her inner circle, and she was evolving.
She wasn't the old Briar Rose anymore. She hadn't been for a long, long while. Yet neither was she this new Queen Aurora.
Perhaps all these labels only hindered her. Perhaps it was far easier than they had all made it out to be.
Perhaps she was simply Briar, and what that means could change daily.”
Source: A Sword In Slumber
“She was here. For the first time he was unsure of what to say. General Carter had led men in battle, planned strategies effecting tens of thousands of men, yet one woman left him speechless.
Grace Willows General's Dawn
Coming soon to Amazo”
“She was here on earth to make sense of its wild enchantments.”
“She was here, with him, and she felt like heaven. The soft scent of her hair, the slight taste of salt on her skin— she was, he thought, born to rest in the shelter of his arms. And he was born to hold her.
-Benedict's thoughts”
“She was here, with him, and she felt like heaven. The soft scent of her hair, the slight taste of salt on her skin— she was, he thought, born to rest in the shelter of his arms. And he was born to hold her.
-Benedict's thoughts about Sophie”
Source: An Offer From a Gentleman
“She was herself and not herself--she didn't know what she was, except that she was free.”
Source: Girl, Serpent, Thorn
“She was herself in their company but a very specific version of herself.”
Source: London Calling
“She was herself unconscious of that faint hint of offishness which hung about her and repelled advances, an arrogance that stirred in people a peculiar irritation. They noticed her, admired her clothes, but that was all, for the self-sufficient uninterested manner adopted instinctively as a protective measure for her acute sensitiveness, in her child days, still clung to her.”
Source: The Complete Fiction of Nella Larsen: Passing, Quicksand, and The Stories
“She was high-spirited, a sensation at the castle for her hot passions and her inability to conceal even the most transient emotions.”
Source: Beauty's Punishment
“She was his and he was hers. They had under-the-skin privileges.”
Source: Nalini Singh: The Psy-Changeling Series
“She was his angel, he couldn’t let her know his sins.”
Source: A Change of Heart
“She was his Eve. He was her fall. He'd make the leaves of her trees blush, then he'd undress them all.”
“She was his familiar past and his obvious future... of course he would.”
Source: The Siren
“She was his favorite sin. She was not a habit for him anymore, she was an obsession.”
Source: The Abandoned Paradise: Unraveling the beauty of untouched thoughts and dreams
“She was his first music student. He tried teaching her to play the guitar, but she was so terrible at it that he stopped within a few weeks. By then, her violent strums had damaged all the strings on Joe’s guitar. To make things worse, she had also clawed into his fretboard with her long, sharp nails, leaving several gashes. ‘Your sister is the worst enemy of my music,’ a miffed Joe had told his friend.”
Source: Bombay Balchão
“She was his gravity, his fucking planet, and he was lost without
her”
Source: The Reaper
“She was his life, his everything.”
Source: Saved by Darkness
“She was his mother's best friend's daughter--practically born with the words LUKE DO NOT TOUCH stamped on her body. And, boy, did that make him want her even more.”
Source: Luke