S Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with S. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“She was not able to return to the beginning, of course, and remake her life more to her liking, but now she was free to go on with the life she did have.”
Source: The Jailing of Cecelia Capture
“She was not accustomed to taste the joys of solitude except in company.”
Source: The House of Mirth
“She was not alone in desiring the fullest amount of excitement and passion in her life, yet still holding to the suspicion that it might all just end in tears.”
Source: Harp and the Lyre: Exposed
“She was not alone in her respect for him. Because he is more than a boss to people. He’s a religion for non-believers.”
Source: The Social Worker
“She was not alone. She was safe. There was at least a single other soul in this universe who vibrated at her same frequency.”
Source: Katabasis
“She was not an adventure, she was not a fine and precious thing. She was a girl.”
Source: Paper Towns
“She was not an existence, an experience, a passion, a structure of sensations, to anybody but herself. To all humankind besides Tess was only a passing thought. Even to friends she was no more than a frequently passing thought.”
Source: Tess of the D'Urbervilles (Diversion Classics)
“She was not at the concert any more. She looked around the rustic room, blinking. What the hell?
The singer had her in his arms still. There was no balcony between them now.
His hands slid into her hair, keeping her head still. "Not yet," he begged, sliding his lips down her throat, nuzzling her jaw. "There's time yet, Toireasa," he murmured. "Time to say fare thee well properly,."
"We should have returned to Ireland, Breandan," she whispered, as he loosened the ties on her gown and dropped it from her shoulders. The words came to her naturally, even as a tiny voice was raging in her mind, "What on earth are you saying, Taylor?" But that voice was being drowned out by the pure sensuousness he was stirring in her.”
Source: Kiss Across Time
“She was not beautiful, but she had a pleasant face, the sort that would wear well through life, becoming more attractive as she grew older.”
Source: Suffer the Little Children
“She was not born, but rather became, Jane Austen.”
Source: The Making of Jane Austen
“She was not brokenhearted because the relationship had ended suddenly; she was brokenhearted because it had never truly ended.”
Source: The Romantics
“She was not crying Which surprised me very much But I understand now That she had found places For her melancholy That were behind more masks Than only her eyes”
Source: Everything Is Illuminated
“She was not even able to open her eyes; she just kept praying to her god. It was time for the Aqua Deus to make its move.
But it was not the Aqua Deus who made its move. Noakh was no longer in the trees.”
Source: The Sapphire Eruption
“She was not expecting him to smile. And so, when he did- a wicked, wolfish grin that shook her to her toes- she was completely unprepared. A burst of heat spread through her, and her heart began to pound. She couldn't stop staring at his white teeth, his wide, soft lips, the single dimple that appeared in one cheek.
'He was more handsome than he had ever been.”
Source: Nine Rules to Break When Romancing a Rake
“She was not filled up with the sight of him, the way she had seen her sisters fill up, like silk balloons, like wineskins. Instead, he seemed to land heavily within her, like a black stone falling.”
Source: Deathless
“She was not for everyone but she was for me.”
Source: Love Her Wild
“She was not good on the phone. She needed the face, the pattern of eyes, nose, trembling mouth... People talking were meant to look at a face, the disastrous cupcake of it, the hide-and-seek of the heart dashing across. With a phone, you said words, but you never watched them go in. You saw them off at the airport but never knew whether there was anyone there to greet them when they got off the plane.”
“She was not granted the luxury of forgetting her lower middle-class existence where life hangs by an unseen thread to every hope and where every slash of disappointment shrinks the life further.”
Source: Seeking Redemption
“She was not, herself, hugely in favor of motherhood in general. Obviously it was necessary, but it wasn't exactly difficult. Even cats managed it. But women acted as if they'd been given a medal that entitled them to boss people around. It was as if, just because they'd got the label which said "mother", everyone else got a tiny part of the label that said "child"...”
Source: Carpe Jugulum
“She was not, however, fooled; she remembered the instant at which her heart had stopped, and she knew that it beat now with a difference.”
Source: Go Tell it on the Mountain (Penguin Modern Classics) by James Baldwin (4-Oct-2001) Paperback
“She was not in the body of a young woman but just as I remembered her: a little toddler with a beautiful smile. She reached out with her small hand, and I gripped her tiny fingers as I let go of the pain and sank deeper into the lake.”
Source: Thorns in the Shadow
“She was not indifferent to him. He knew well how the sweet, little flame that she transported around as she labored and wore herself out, had a habit of growing to a conflagration in his months’ long absence; one that revealed itself at the end of the long first day of their return, when he could finally spread himself on his bed atop the terrace alone under the gaze of the stars in the heaven. Tiptoeing up, she too would join him by his side, throwing quickly her leg and her arm around him, taking him in her tight clasp. She would turn into a magician and he’d willingly let his queen play magic on his body. Turning, then, on his side he would tear open the front of her clothes, like a man removes the lid of his chest of valued treasures and a whole sweet universe would open to him. His heart was wedged between the two daggers of her eyes and in this life at least, he was stitched, body and soul, to her.”
Source: The Thugs & a Courtesan
“She was not just a wild creature, she was a wounded creature.”
Source: The Message To The Planet
“She was not often invited to join in the conversation of the others, nor did she desire it. Her own thoughts and reflections were habitually her best companions.”
Source: Mansfield Park
“She was not one for emptying her face of expression.”
“She was not only a female, but a damned beautiful one.A gentleman would have turned away the moment he realized what was happening."
~Alex Kerr”
“She was not quite as arresting in photographs as she was in the flesh, for her beauty was sprung directly from her soul, and proved that physical features count little unless they are illumined from within.”
Source: Winter's Tale
“She was not quite what you would call refined. She was not quite what you would call unrefined. She was the kind of person that keeps a parrot.”
Source: Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations
“She was not ready to face a familiar world in which something so precious was missing.”
Source: A Dangerous Place
“She was not sorry. And if it was the wine telling her that, then she would tell the wine the same thing tomorrow. She was not sorry.”
Source: Slightly Wicked
“She was not stunned, the way I was. In some strange way she was gleeful, as if this was what she had been expecting for some time and now she'd been proven right.”
Source: The Handmaid’s Tale
“She was not sure what future had in store for her. But, she had stopped worrying about the future long back. She decided to live each moment as it comes.”
Source: Casket of stories
“She was not the one to start a fire, nor was she the one to play in it. She was the glorious, unrelenting light that could set fires through glass, that could spark an entire forest into everlasting flames with a single jolt of lightning. She was kindling, indeed, in her own magnificent and incomparable way.”
Source: The Phoenix Keeper and the City of the Sun
“She was not the sort of girl/woman they had expected Fred to become serious about, and their congratulations had been manifested in the conventional form of faint and damning praise.”
Source: Foreign Affairs
“She was not the still quiet type. Aphrodites never are.”
“She was not the type of woman to keep a lover. A man would have to work hard day and night to even gain her notice. She was intelligent, strong, interesting, and even a little bit mysterious.”
Source: Palace Intrigue
“She was not to look beyond herself for the meaning of her life.”
Source: When Things of the Spirit Come First: Five Early Tales
“She was not too young to be wise, but she was too young to know that wisdom shouldn't be spoken aloud when you are happy.”
Source: The third man: Loser takes all
“She was not unhappy. But she was alone.
Her parents had once seen so much of the world, they had lived in it. But when they'd taught her about what they'd seen and done, it had not made their child want to seek it out for herself. She was content in this cottage on her own land by the water.”
Source: Plain Bad Heroines
“She was not used to being cruel, but he had taught her how.”
“She was not vain enough to work her will against the world. But she could use the things the world had given her.”
Source: The Slow Regard of Silent Things
“She was not what I'd refer to as a "Mommy-Mom," which was what I envied most of my friends for having. A Mommy-Mom is someone who takes an interest in everything her child has to say even when there is no actual way she gives a shit, who whisks you away to the doctor when you complain of the slightest ailment, who tells you "they're just jealous" if someone makes fun of you, or "you always look beautiful to me" even if you don't, or "I love this!" when you give them a piece of crap for Christmas.”
Source: Crying in H Mart
“She was not, herself, hugely in favour of motherhood in general. Obviously it was necessary, but it wasn't exactly difficult. Even cats managed it. But women acted as if they'd been given a medal that entitled them to boss people around. It was as if, just because they'd got the label which said "mother," everyone else got a tiny part of the label that said "child".”
“She was nothing but good and I was nothing but bad, but then she died, and I didn't.”
Source: An Abundance of Katherines
“She was nothing more than a mere good-tempered, civil and obliging Young Woman; as such we could scarcely dislike her -- she was only an Object of Contempt”
“She was nothing. She'd thought he was her world, and all the while, he'd been plotting to take down her family's club. She'd loved him. He'd used her and then thrown her away, shattering every dream, every hope she'd ever had.”
Source: Vengeance Road
“She was now a doll, a beautiful, lifeless object that could be manipulated and admired at will”
Source: The Youngest Doll
“She was now drowning in that pool of desires without having any idea about the depth of it.”
Source: Derivation of Life
“She was now more than ever confronted with the outward cries of help that leaped at her like an overflowing bathtub where the water had grown cold and rancid. The catastrophe had caught up with her. It had always been there, a re-emerging siren in scarlet tones, a temptation of the abysmal artillery of the brain, a carousel waltzing with crazed horses, the heel-clicking and tap-dancing back chambers where arthropods lay on their carapaces.”
Source: Within Paravent Walls
“She was now ready. Diarrhea pills, speed, sleep dope, lethal pill, and beauty aid. Bring on the Germans.”
Source: Code Name: Lise: The True Story of the Woman Who Became WWII's Most Highly Decorated Spy