S Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with S. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“She was like the sun,
She knew her place in the world -
She would shine again regardless
of all the storms and changeable weather
She wouldn't adjust her purpose
for things that pass.”
“She was Lilith, First Wife of Adam, Queen of the Night, Mother of Demons, Stealer of Children, and he was her Revenant - her undead warrior. And she would use him, and the power of his spear, to destroy her enemies and punish her wayward children.,”
Source: Longinus the Vampire
“She was limp and pathetic and woozy and I loved her, I realised, even more because I knew how completely it was doomed.”
Source: Sympathy
“She was listening to a voice, a much loved voice, a voice of authority, which said: simplify your life, travel light, do not become involved with family problems, possessions, or the troubles of others, do not marry, marriage ends truthfulness, live with solitude, solitude is essential if real thinking is to take place. She thought, he will never forgive, me, he will despise me and cast me out, he warned me against the ambiguous Eros, the deceiver, the magician, the sophist, the maker of drugs and poisons. Of course I am in love, yes, this is love, and I am sick with it - but what follows? Do I really believe that I shall give over my life, the whole of my life, which is only just now really beginning to another person? Shall I cease forever to be the cat that walks by herself in the wild lone? What has happened to my soldierly completeness with which I was so content, my satisfaction and my pride?”
Source: The Green Knight
“She was little better than a banshee with a sidearm.”
Source: The Scot Beds His Wife
“She was living in a time when historically it was permissible to smile like that above the face of someone who had died a violent death.”
Source: The Accidental
“She was Lo, plain Lo, in the morning, standing four feet ten in one sock. She was Lola in slacks. She was Dolly at school. She was Dolores on the dotted line. But in my arms she was always Lolita.”
Source: Lolita
“She was lonely and she never knew that this loneliness had made her sour and cross towards others.”
Source: I Capture the Castle / The Secret Garden
“She was lonely, but she’d never tell anyone that. If you admitted you were lonely, people assumed there was something wrong with you. The media talked about an epidemic of loneliness, and yet admitting that you felt that way was a statement of failure.”
Source: Family for Beginners
“She was lonely without Blunt, but she was lonelier at the idea that the world went on as though she had not loved him.”
Source: The Empty Family: Stories
“She was looking at Alec instead, watching him as he talked to Jace. There was a kinetic, almost feverish energy to him that hadn’t been there before. Something about Jace sharpened him, brought him into focus. If she were going to draw them together, she thought, she would make Jace a little blurry, while Alec stood out, all sharp, clear planes and angles. Jace was looking down as Alec spoke, smiling a little and tapping his water glass with a fingernail. She sensed he was thinking of other things. She felt a sudden flash of sympathy for Alec.
Jace couldn’t be an easy person to care about.
I was laughing at you because declarations of love amuse me, especially when unrequited. Jace looked up as the waitress passed. “Are we ever going to get any coffee?” he said aloud, interrupting Alec midsentence. Alec subsided, his energy fading.”
Source: City of Bones
“she was looking at him as if he'd just dropped fully formed from the sky.”
Source: An Offer From a Gentleman
“She was looking for something I could never give her." Again his dark eyes bored into Julia's mind. "You have something of the same about you, young woman. Take my advice: Don't think you will find it in another person. You won't. It's not there. You must find it in yourself.”
Source: Dream of Scipio
“She was looking into my eyes with that way she had of looking that made you wonder whether she really saw out of her own eyes. They would look on and on after everyone else's eyes in the world would have stopped looking.”
Source: The Sun Also Rises
“She was looking into my eyes with that way she had of looking that made you wonder whether she really saw out of her own eyes. They would look on and on after every one else's eyes in the world would have stopped looking. She looked as though there were nothing on earth she would not look at like that, and really she was afraid of so many things.”
Source: The Sun Also Rises
“She was losing it. Needing to harden, hating that she was out of control and sloppy, she punched the leather. He needed to apologize. He needed to stop the fucking car and kiss her. She had to slap him. Eve didn’t realize how badly she’d been craving this man.”
Source: Return to Poughkeepsie
“She was lost in her longing to understand.”
“She was lost in thoughts of evergreen.”
Source: Prince of Chandeliers
“She was lost now, she'd been silenced- another dead branch on Cordova's warped tree.”
Source: Night Film
“She was lost time. She smelled of dusty libraries and unwound clocks, salted sand and rain riding on the first rays of dawn.”
Source: Rain Falls on Malora
“She was lost to me in a hundred little griefs I found anew each year”
Source: Bitterthorn
“She was lost. Torn between what to do. I saw it clearly in her eyes as she stared at me. I wanted to tell her to let go and be with me even if it was just one night but I couldn’t. One night wasn’t enough.”
Source: Midnight Oil: An Anthology
“She was loved deeply, but not widely”
Source: The Fault in Our Stars
“She was lovely and fair to see
And elfin's heart beat fitfully
But lovelier far, and still more fair
The earthly form imprinted there
Naught he saw in heavens above
Was half so dear as his mortal love”
Source: Collected Works Of Joseph Rodman Drake
“She was lovely with eyes that captivated your heart, a smile that drew your mind, and a presence that captured your soul. She was everything you wanted in a girl, and so much more.”
“she was lucky if he stood behind her. Not so lucky if he came to crush her. And a woman might only learn the truth of it—when he walked out of her life.
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Source: Dark Warrior: To Tame a Wild Hawk
“She was lucky to be wanted not desired though, worse pain is the feeling of being unwanted in love.”
Source: Just the Way I Feel
“She was luxuriously tired and her muscles felt sore from the unaccustomed strain of riding astride. Nothing had ever tasted so good as the cool golden ale she swallowed from a pewter tankard. She slept deeply that night and longer than she had intended.”
Source: Forever Amber
“She was lying like a loaf of bread. I said, baby, baby, baby, are you dead?”
“She was made entirely of a sweetness bordering on tears.”
Source: The Complete Stories
“She was made for untidy rooms and rumpled beds.”
Source: The Sunday Philosophy Club
“She was made mostly of coffee and empty spaces.”
Source: Dead Bunnies Make All Eight Of Me Cry
“She was made of flesh and eyelashes.”
Source: The Favourite Game
“She was made up of more, too. She was the books she read in the library. She was the flower in the brown bowl. Part of her life was made from the tree growing rankly in the yard. She was the bitter quarrels she had with her brother whom she loved dearly. She was Katie's secret, despairing weeping. She was the shame of her father stumbling home drunk. She was all of these things and of something more...It was what God or whatever is His equivalent puts into each soul that is given life - the one different thing such as that which makes no two fingerprints on the face of the earth alike.”
Source: A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
“She was madness, but she was art.
Some precarious balance of shadow and light.
Because those who feel the weight of beauty always risk being destroyed by it.”
Source: As Muses Burn
“She was magic, a direct light—the kind that seeps through in places that didn’t exist inside him anymore. The light he thought he lost forever, but Nick realized we don’t lose the light, we absorb it, and with Olivia he wanted to absorb every small speck of it.”
Source: The Proverbial Mr. Universe
“She was making great money at personal appearances.”
“She was making it damn hard to back away. "You're a sister. There are rules against this kind of thing."
"My brother isn't here to object."
"Then I have to object on his behalf."
"Do you really think he'd rather I ended up with someone like that deputy."
"Or the doctor," he reminded her.
"Than one of his teammates?"
"In a heartbeat, sugar. I'm a bad bet. No one knew that better than your brother."
"Yet he chose you to watch over me.”
Source: Survive By The Team
“She was married, true; but if one's husband was always sailing round Cape Horn, was it marriage? If one liked him, was it marriage? If one liked other people, was it marriage? And finally, if one still wished, more than anything in the whole world, to write poetry, was it marriage? She had her doubts.”
Source: Orlando
“She was maybe fifty, mouse-brown hair, pretty once was my first thought, then I realized she was still pretty. I had just seen such ugly things that this cold loft with its naked brick and bare lightbulbs and a mattress on the floor with a pile of books for a nightstand was beautiful, and she was beautiful for making it that way and keeping it as nice as she could and for not having the heart to throw away the Gerber daisy wilting, already dropping petals from its place in the Coke bottle on the counter by the stove. And she was beautiful for wearing a raincoat with a sweater under it because that was all she had.”
Source: The Lesser Dead
“She was mine and not-mine all at once. She was the most beautiful thing I had ever seen and the most terrifying.”
Source: Fear of Fifty
“She was mine before she was yours.”
“She was Moana of Motunui, chosen by the ocean to save her people from the blight, to restore the heart of Te Fiti.”
Source: How Far I'll Go
“She was more beautiful than anything he’d ever seen,
Her hair the shade of coffee beans,
A hoodie sheltered her in a sheet of red,
That slowly seeped and gently bled
And when she laughed
She crept her way into his heart.
Broken pieces, tied together,
A sea of stars that were forever
A mystery meant to be solved
And in a flash, his world evolved
A fearless bird soaring through a bright blue sky
Yet still as sweet as strawberry pie
Secrets bottled, stolen glances
Cloud-filled skies and second chances
And as time swept past in a quick blur
The lost boy fell in love with her.”
Source: The Hoodie Girl
“She was more interested in observing the girls at the café. She wanted to know how is it that they look so happy, so content with life? Is it money that brings happiness? Why is it that she feels this never-ending emptiness within her soul?”
Source: Tajrish
“She was more magnificent than any goddess. Addictive passion on two gorgeous,endless legs, between which he'd found a heaven far better than any mortal had dreamed or god had promised.”
“She was more of a business partner to him than anything else. Some of her appreciated that. But rustling yet within her was another person who wanted to bathe and perfume herself...and be taken, carried away, and peeled back by a force she could sense, but never articulate, even dimly within her mind.”
Source: The Bridges Of Madison County
“She was more than human to me. She was a Fairy, a Sylph. I don't know what she was, anything that no one ever saw, and everything that everybody ever wanted. I was swallowed up in an abyss of love in an instant. There was no pausing on the brink, no looking down, or looking back. I was gone, headlong, before I had sense to say a word to her.”
Source: A Cyclopedia of the Best Thoughts of Charles Dickens
“She was more than willing to let him walk off his temper. And the man had one, even if he wasn't willing to admit it.”
Source: Caressed By Ice
“She was mother not only to me but to the whole nation. She served the Indian people to the last drop of her blood.”
Source: Selected speeches and writings