S Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with S. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“she was just that shiver that makes you walk faster at night. You don't know why you do it, but some part of you remembers that the dark is never really empty. ~Anita”
“She was just too curious to stay in a self-imposed mental straight-jacket for very long.”
“she was just…beaming at me, and I thought she’d won the lottery or something, her smile was that big. I asked what happened, and she said…” Park swallowed again. “She said, ‘You’re here.”’ He blinked at Tess. “‘You’re here.’ That’s all it was. That big goofy smile just because I was there. Nobody ever smiled like that at me before.”
Source: Jennifer Crusie Bundle: Getting Rid of Bradley\Strange Bedpersons\What The Lady Wants\Charlie All Night
“She was kahuna, creating more life around her than was actually there, heightening the momentousness of each living thing by simply gazing upon it.”
Source: Shark Dialogues
“She was keeping it together. Coping. Coping with the disapproval of her parents towards the choices she'd made.”
Source: The Diary on the Fifth Floor
“She was kind of girl who'd eat all your cashews and leave you with nothing but peanuts and filberts.”
“She was kind of in love with him.”
“She was kneeling on the bed, her hands clasped together in her lap. She looked like a summer’s eve and like an offering all at once. She looked…
…very, very grumpy.”
Source: The Hurricane Wars
“She was knitting a sweater and enjoying the calm atmosphere of her living room when her chubby, beer-drinking, sports-watching husband woke from a nap on the couch screaming, “Touchdown!” At the moment her serenity had been broken, she unconsciously reacted by swinging around and plunging a knitting needle into her husband’s throat. While blood squirted from his throat and his shocked face produced gurgling sounds, she lifted from her chair and drove the other knitting needle into his beer-ballooned stomach over and over again. Blood and beer gushed out of his belly like a punctured fish tank. As her husband gurgled and deflated, she stared down at him with a beaming smile. She had found her new hobby—annihilating assholes. She had cut up her husband into nice little pieces and used him as fertilizer for her backyard garden. Never again did her cozy house get raped by blaring sounds of sports emanating from a television set. The TV went into the garbage and the living room was converted into a tea room.”
Source: The Beasts of Success
“She was knowingly punishing herself. That was the only reasonable explanation. There was no use in acting naive. What happened earlier in the day was proof that she was going to give in to his flirtation. It appeared she'd thrown caution to the wind and opened her arms to embrace everything that could go wrong in her life. What's one more problem to add to the pile?”
Source: The Place That Gave
“She was known as the girl with the Sumerian blue eyes.”
Source: Tajrish
“She was known for her volcanic passion for Romantic music that erupted regularly during her lessons, then cooled and settled in between.”
Source: Either Side of Midnight
“She was leaning over him, with a slight smile that was victorious over everything: victorious over her sickness, over the incandescent air, over her exhaustion, the dust, the stench, the merciless heat. Lying flat under the bush, his eyes blood- shot and his nose bleeding. Fields told himself that he would particularly have liked to inspire such love and devotion in a German he, the son of parents who had been gassed by the Germans at Auschwitz: it would have proved that to be a man was after all not hopeless. To fall in love with a German girl, he a Jew, that would show the Germans how he felt about it. But perhaps it was merely lust.”
Source: The Roots of Heaven
“She was learning as quickly that what was right and what must happen weren't always the same thing.”
Source: Queen of Hearts
“She was learning that being with Slade was like riding a roller coaster. Good news one minute and bad news the next. She could only imagine what this restaurant must be like.”
“She was learning that if she pretended to be weak and frightened, and dabbed at her eyes with a lacy handkerchief, she could turn aside all manner of pressing questions.”
Source: The Ruby in the Smoke
“She was learning to love moments. To love moments for themselves.”
Source: The world of Gwendolyn Brooks
“She was learning, quite late, what many people around her appeared to have known since childhood that life can be perfectly satisfying without major achievements.”
“She was less than an hour old and Tom was God knows where. I woke up out of the ether with an utterly abandoned feeling. ... [The nurse] She told me it was a girl, an so I turned my head away and wept. ... And I hope she'll be a fool - that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.”
Source: The Great Gatsby: F. Scott Fitzgerald
“She was licking something off the end of a wooden spoon. Red froze. His body reacted as if he'd walked in on her twirling half-naked on a pole....
Frankie was intriguing. Unsettling. Challenging He wanted to figure her out. He wanted to play strip poker with her. He wanted to throw her on the couch and ---
"A touch more oregano, I think." Frankie pointed the spoon at him.”
Source: Saving the Sheriff
“She was lifted on the great thick cushion, like a treasure.”
Source: Beauty's Punishment
“She was like a butterfly not yet free from its cocoon, its beautiful wings still curled up. She was full of something he felt he'd lost. Hope. The thrill of living.”
Source: While Paris Slept
“She was like a butterfly, full of color and vibrancy when she chose to open her wings, yet hardly visible when she closed them.”
Source: Caleb's Crossing: A Novel
“She was like a camera that had been chronically out of focus until someone came by and twisted the lenses into alignment.”
Source: All Souls Trilogy
“She was like a crinkled poppy; with the desire to drink dry dust.”
Source: Selected Works of Virginia Woolf
“She was like a drowning person, flailing, reaching for anything that might save her. Her life was an urgent, desperate struggle to justify her life.”
Source: Everything Is Illuminated
“She was like a drug and he was letting her get back in his system just by standing there with her.”
Source: Afraid to Fall
“She was like a fire-cracker standing too close to a match: all potential energy, still wrapped up so neatly. He wanted to watch her explode. Hell, he was the match. He wanted to make her explode.”
Source: The House
“She was like a forest, like the dark interlacing of the oakwood, humming inaudibly with myriad unfolding buds. Meanwhile the birds of desire were asleep in the vast interlaced intricacy of her body.”
Source: Lady Chatterley’s Lover
“She was like a green meadow after spring rains, as fragrant as the flowers in bloom waving against the horizon and waves of fresh grass rustling.”
Source: The Sorrow of War
“She was like a heroine in a novel that she herself was writing the character kept protesting that she was too strong for love and yet the narrator went on describing her desire.”
“She was like a lone angel floating above the surface of the earth, laughing with delight because she could fly but crying out of loneliness.”
“She was like a mother to me, Jae. After everything I put her through, I wanted her to see she was right and that her struggles with me weren’t wasted.” His breath shuddered. “She revived my heart, gave me unconditional love, and promised that one day I would learn to accept it. I was excited to show her I found someone who could love me, one who showed me how to love in return.”
Source: A Sinful Sacrifice
“She was like a mother to me...and I betrayed as a daughter will betray her mother and yet, never stop loving her.”
“She was like a nagging itch, repellent and at the same time tempting.”
“She was like a queen who beholds the virgin soil of her kingdom invaded and wasted by a traitor.
Any other thing she would have pardoned: infidelity, indifference, cruelty, any sins of manhood's caprice or passion, but who should pardon this?
The sin was not alone against herself; it was against every law of decency and truth that ever she had been taught to hold sacred; it was against all those great dead, who lay with the cross on their breasts and their swords by their side, from whom she had received and treasured the traditions of honor and purity of race.
It was those dead knights whom he had smote upon the mouth and mocked, crying to them: 'Lo! your place is mine; my sons will reign in your stead. I have tainted your race forever; for every my blood flows with yours!'
The greatness of a race is a thing far higher than mere pride. Its instincts are noble and supreme. Its obligations are no less than its privileges; it is a great light which streams backward through the darkness of the ages, and if by that light you guide not your footsteps, then are you thrice accursed, holding as you do that lamp of honor in your hands.
So she had always thought, and now he had dashed the lamp in the dust.
--"Wanda”
“She was like a Rubik's Cube in a blind man's hand - impossible to figure out. And yet I was the blind man determined to try.”
Source: The Wrong Game
“She was like a sheet anchor sometimes, a steadying influence on him, on everyone around her. Made people laugh, that sensible streak in her, but it also made her someone of substance.”
Source: The Riders
“She was like a sinking ship firing on the rescuers.”
Source: The Indispensable Woollcott
“She was like a woman of Leonardo Da Vinci's, whom we love not so much for herself as for the things that she will not tell us.”
“She was like a wound beneath an old bandage, and he had grown more used to the bandage.”
“She was like an avenging angel, her vengeance swift and deadly.”
Source: The Lost Herondale
“She was like him, trying to embrace the moon while making her way in the world through instinct and drive that came only from within, because she had only herself.”
Source: Performance Anomalies
“She was like John Rambo meets Polly Pocket; Dakota Fanning crossed with Death Wish 4.”
“She was like Marat only with nobody to kill her.”
“She was like me in lineaments-- her eyes Her hair, her features, all, to the very tone Even of her voice, they said were like to mine; But soften'd all, and temper'd into beauty; She had the same lone thoughts and wanderings, The quest of hidden knowledge, and a mind To comprehend the universe: nor these Alone, but with them gentler powers than mine, Pity, and smiles, and tears-- which I had not; And tenderness-- but that I had for her; Humility-- and that I never had. Her faults were mine-- her virtues were her own-- I loved her, and destroy'd her!”
Source: Manfred
“She was like that, excited and delighted by little things, crossing her fingers before any remotely unpredictable event, like tasting a new flavor of ice cream, or dropping a letter in a mailbox. It was a quality he did not understand. It made him feel stupid, as if the world contained hidden wonders he could not anticipate, or see. He looked at her face, which, it occurred to him, had not grown out of its girlhood, the eyes untroubled, the pleasing features unfirm, as if they still had to settle into some sort of permanent expression. Nicknamed after a nursery rhyme, she had yet to shed a childhood endearment.”
Source: Interpreter of Maladies
“She was like the moon illuminating the darkness of the night, her radiance dousing the eclipse in his mind, filling it with her light.”
Source: The Billionaire's Widow
“She was like the Sun. At just the right distance, she gave me life, but if I got too close, she would burn me.”
Source: The Exiles
“She was like the Sun. She gave me life at just the right distance, but if I got too close to her, she would burn me.”
Source: Murdering Our Memory