S Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with S. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“She was his north star, the fixed point round which his world turned. For as long as his heart beat, or hers, he believed they would always share a destiny.”
Source: Troy: Fall Of Kings
“She was his princess. No. She was his goddess. With her golden skin and golden hair. She was his light. His life. His everything.
He loved her more than anything else in this world.”
Source: Frozen Tides
“She was his reason to live and laugh”
“She was his soulmate, as much a part of him as the very flesh and bone that made him. She was with him, in him, in everything he did. She was everything he wanted from his life, the very measure of his dreams.”
Source: The Tea Rose
“She was his. The love of his life. Forever.”
Source: Little Conversations
“She was his wife, mother, best friend, sister, lover, and priest.”
Source: Mystic River
“She was home (in Heaven). She was with the Person she was made for, in the place that was made for her.”
Source: Courageous
“She was horrified by the traces of monstrosity in everyday life. The things that we look at but don't see, whose true essences are unknown to us.”
Source: Nineteen Claws and a Black Bird
“She was hot. You could take a poll, write a book, break down all the reasons, the intellectual and physical gifts that shaped her personality, and whatever that intangible part was. Write poems about it, document it all in photos and movies, try to stay woke, but the reality was, what it all came back to, she was hot.”
Source: Loop
“She was human, sensible, shrewd. She was above all, and in every detail, practical. But more than that: she was one of that part of humankind which understands how things work; and works with them. A grim enough role.”
Source: On Cats
“She was humbled, she was grieved; she repented, though she hardly knew of what. She became jealous of his esteem, when she could no longer hope to be benefited by it. She wanted to hear of him, when there seemed the least chance of gaining intelligence. She was convinced that she could have been happy with him, when it was no longer likely they should meet.”
Source: Pride and Prejudice
“She was hungry. She was... doing something. Learning something.
...
I put a hand on my chest, leaning against the wood panels of the stair wall. Rhys's hand covered my own a heartbeat later.
'That's what I felt,' he said, 'when I saw you smile that night we dined along the Sidra.'
I leaned forward, resting my brow against his chest, right over his heart. 'She still has a long way to go.'
'We all do.'
He stroked a hand over my back. I leaned into the touch, savouring his warmth and strength.”
Source: A Court of Wings and Ruin
“She was in a terrible marriage and she couldn't talk to anyone. He used to hit her, and in the beginning she told him that if it ever happened again, she would leave him. He swore that it wouldn't and she believed him. But it only got worse after that, like when his dinner was cold, or when she mentioned that she'd visited with one of the neighbors who was walking by with his dog. She just chatted with him, but that night, her husband threw her into a mirror.”
“She was in awe of all his work. 'How do you do it?" she asked.
He smiled and said, 'By loving you.”
“She was in bed, quite naked. A man’s mouth was roaming all over her, free as could be. Lips caressing her mouth, her neck, then covering her breasts.
Her arms were wrapped around him, her hands tangled in his thick dark hair.
She gave a little moan and rolled over.
A little too far over.
She landed on the floor with a thud.”
“She was in deep trouble and knew it”
Source: Once a Princess
“She was in his arms. Laurent’s arms! He spun her around and set her back down again in the space of three seconds, then stepped back and slid his hands into his pockets. His face looked flushed under his tan, but she was still reeling from being touched, her mind pulling in a hundred different directions at once. Laurent smelled good. He felt good. He was so unbelievably beyond her level.
Oh my God... I’m totally falling for him.”
“She was in his head, in his damn bones-an addiction he never wanted to get over…”
Source: Wolf's Mate
“She was in love. Lady Sarah Pleinsworth was in love.
And it was grand.”
Source: The Sum of All Kisses
“She was in love with a vampire. Bela Lugosi. Nosferatu. Vlad the Impaler. Count Chocula . The urge to laugh seized her and she buried her face in her hands and cried instead.”
Source: Midnight Rose
“She was in love with the very man she had to kill.”
Source: Deception of a Highlander
“She was in love with you,” he says. “And I don’t think she got to tell you, did she?”
My heart lurches, seizes inside my chest, fluttering to life at the words I’ve always wanted to hear. I shake my head. Tears spill down my cheeks.
“She loved you. She wanted to be with you. That’s why she told me about herself. She said she’d made her choice. It was you. I think it was always you.”
Source: Far From You
“She was in pain and I loved her, sort of loved her, I guess, so I kind of had to love her pain, too.”
Source: The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
“She was in shock. But it was a slightly different kind of shock than the others on the dinghy assumed. It wasn't the shock of having been close to death. It was the shock of realising she actually wanted to live.”
Source: The Midnight Library
“She was, in short, melted by his distress, as so often happens with the female sex. Poets have frequently commented on this. You are probably familiar with the one who said, "Oh, woman in our hours of ease tum tumty tiddly something please, when something something something brow, a something something something thou.”
Source: How Right You Are, Jeeves
“She was in skintight black pants, a black V-neck T-shirt and a black leather jacket. She wore sunglasses--- even though it was the middle of the night--- and her hair was pulled into a tight ponytail.
She was like a sexy assassin coming to make her kill. At least he'd go out with a nice view. He needed to speak so he'd stop staring. "You know, you made fun of me the other day for trying to look incognito. I think you've taken it to a new level."
"I wore my best I-don't-want-to-be-here outfit.”
Source: For Butter or Worse
“She was in that flagging mood when to go on living seems only to load more unmeaning moments on to your memory.”
Source: The House In Paris
“She was in that highly-wrought state when the reasoning powers act with great rapidity: the state a man is in before a battle or a struggle, in danger, and at the decisive moments of life - those moments when a man shows once and for all what he is worth, that his past was not lived in vain but was a preparation for these moments.”
Source: ANNA KARENINA – Two Unabridged Translations in One Premium Edition (World Classics Series): The Greatest Romantic Tragedy of All Times from the Renowned Author of War and Peace & The Death of Ivan Ilyich (Including Biographies of the Author)
“She was in the only place she wanted to be right now.
She was home.”
Source: The Christmas Wish
“She was in ward 33 again, lying in bed, a bed with a dark green sheet and a view of the outside. We could both see a man and woman getting out of a taxi. They were young and stood for a while, as if hesitating, in front of the hospital. Then the man took the woman’s hand and they walked into the hospital and we lost them.
‘That’s why Indian women fall ill,’ Em said. ‘So that their husbands will hold their hands.”
Source: Em and the Big Hoom
“She was inbetween, with her childhood at the back of her and something illogical and confusing that loomed in front.”
Source: Little Gods
“She was incapable of love for any object not of her own choice and she resented anyone's demand for it.”
Source: Ayn Rand Novel Collection
“She was incomparable in her inspired loveliness. Her arms amazed one, as one can be astonished by a lofty way of thinking. Her shadow on the wallpaper of the hotel room seemed the silhouette of her uncorruption.”
Source: Doctor Zhivago
“She was incomprehensible, for, in her, soul and spirit were one - the beauty of her body was the essence of her soul. She was that unity sought for by philosophers through many centuries. In this outdoor waiting room of winds and stars she had been sitting for a hundred years, at peace in the contemplation of herself.”
Source: The Beautiful and Damned: American Literature
“She was incurably dishonest.”
Source: The Great Gatsby
“She was indeed a girl of exquisite beauty. She was one of those languid women made of dark honey smooth and sweet and terribly sticky.”
Source: Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
“She was infamous once upon a time. She's legendary now. The girl is a definite force to be reckoned with, though perhaps she doesn't know it yet.”
Source: The Dead of Winter
“She was infected and she would eventually die. It was a cold hard fact. They all knew it.”
Source: The Manhattanville Incident: An Undead Novel
“She was inside him, wrapped around his organs. His heart. Maybe his damn soul if he had one. He let himself smile. She was there.She wasn't going anyplace”
Source: Vendetta Road
“She was insightful, bringing up ideas for the gallery that I hadn't considered. Her knowledge of art was lacking, but her enthusiasm for the history behind it was bountiful as she showed me what she had worked on so far. And she was charming. The way she held her wrist when she ate, the way her eyes sparkled as she laughed. What kind of fae was she destined to become? Something warm and loving like her could fit in any of the courts. Something about that bothered me for reasons I couldn't pinpoint. Maybe I simply wanted to see her in my court for selfish reasons.”
Source: Dirty Lying Faeries
“She was intelligent, accomplished, beautiful. She was everything I could have asked for in a woman. But she was a king maker. She wanted power. She must have thought her only path to the throne was through Kastor.'
'My honourable barbarian. I wouldn't have picked that as your type.'
'Type?'
'A pretty face, a devious mind and a ruthless nature.”
Source: Captive Prince: Volume Two
“She was intense in her hatreds as in her loves.”
Source: Anne of Green Gables
“She was intimidating and all I could do was sit back on the couch as she paced back and forth, slowly smiling, and conjuring her next move on me. It was like I was a pawn in her game of chess.”
“She was inwardly delighted, but didn't express her consent. Perhaps this is woman's way of making love. They don't confess easily.”
Source: Mayhem In Paradise
“She was just a shell of her former self, functioning and talking but hardly alive.”
Source: Dreamland
“She was just another notch on my guitar.”
“She was just...hurt. And tired of feeling as if she wasn't good enough to officially mate with. It was no wonder her wolf was going insane.”
Source: Protective Instinct
“She was just ordinary. From her horse's-mane hair to her sturdy, practical feet, she'd never turned men's heads. Oh, she wasn't ill-favored- her features were regular enough- but she knew, too, that she wasn't the sort of woman whom men flirted with. Whom men stared at. She'd had a few admirers in the past, but they hadn't been a multitude.
She was unremarkable.
The Duke of Montgomery was anything but.
Perhaps, then, that was what drew him to her- her very normality. Val was just quixotic enough to become fascinated- for a short time- by the prosaic.
That was quite a depressing thought, but Bridget faced it practically. She knew that whatever else happened they were not meant to be together for any length of time.”
Source: Duke of Sin
“She was just so afraid of being hurt. Or hurting Ice. She had failed at everything she'd tried in her life. Ice was...extraordinary. Amazing. Worth something.”
Source: Vendetta Road
“She was just so annoying; the way she was going on at you, trying to get gossip under the guise of being concerned.”
Source: One Good Thing