S Quotes
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“She was right - I have had over three hundred women to practice on. I should have known better.”
Source: A Curse So Dark and Lonely
“She was right, of course, but he was afraid to examine the fact too closely. If the Almighty had not forgotten him, then He knew right where Dain was. And that meant Dain was right where the Almighty wanted him.”
Source: Cleftlocke
“She was right: school was lonely. The eighteen and nineteen year olds didn't socialize with the younger kids, and though there were plenty of students my age and younger [...] their lives were so cloistered and their concerns so foolish and foreign-seeming that it was as if they spoke some lost middle-school tongue I'd forgotten. They lived at home with their parents; they worried about things like grade curves and Italian Abroad and summer internships at the UN; they freaked out if you lit a cigarette in front of them; they were earnest, well-meaning, undamaged, clueless. For all I had in common with any of them, I might as well have tried to go down and hang out with the eight year olds at PS 41.”
Source: The Goldfinch
“She was right that reality can be harsh and that you shut your eyes to it only at your peril because if you do not face up to the enemy in all his dark power, then the enemy will come up from behind some dark day and destoy you while you are facing the other way.”
Source: A Crazy, Holy Grace: The Healing Power of Pain and Memory
“She was right to be angry. He did violate every condition she placed on the resolution of the case. He never thought she was serious. But she was, and his blunder was going to cost him the case of a lifetime. I can do this her way! If she wants the case to be public, then public it shall be! If she wants to turn down $1.1 million, I'll get her $2 million—whatever she wants! I have to convince her!”
Source: Betrayal of Faith
“She was running for all those ordinary, fragile souls whose bodies had been shamed like hers. In them, she had found herself. And so she ran for them, for those who, like her, had found comfort only in cut-out posters of clownfish. Now they had a different poster they could dream about: an athlete, an international star, her body neither fully boy nor fully girl, but simply the body of Johanna Venter, Girl Wonder.”
Source: The Sand People: a collection of magical realism and other stories
“She was running from a fat man selling salvation in his hand.”
“She was running him ragged.
Gone was the soft, sweet wife he'd thought he was getting, snow dusting her bonnet as she confessed past courtships, one errant flake landing and melting almost instantly on the tip of her nose as she smiled up at him.
And in that woman's place was an Amazon, standing at the center of his club, in the heart of the London underworld, placing bets on roulette while the city watched, demanding the safety of her friends and the reputation of her sisters, and scheduling billiards lessons with one of the most powerful and feared men in the city.
And now, she stood in front of him, and bold as brass, suggested he leave her alone.”
Source: A Rogue by Any Other Name
“She was sad about what happened to Kostos. And someplace under that, she was sad that people like Bee and Kostos, who had lost everything, were still open to love, and she, who'd lost nothing, was not.”
Source: The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants Complete Collection
“She was sad, and she was angry with herself for being sad. She didn’t like wanting what she hadn’t intended to want as much as she didn’t like being denied what she hadn’t really wanted in the first place. She thought there was enough to be sad about without adding on the unfulfilled wishes at the edge of your life.”
Source: The Ensemble
“She was sad with an obscure sadness of which she had not the secret herself. There was in her whole person the stupor of a life ended but never commenced.”
Source: Marius
“She was satisfied with the answer God had given Moses from the burning bush when Moses had seen fit to question. Who are you? Mose asks, and God comes back from that bush just as pert as you like: I Am, Who I AM. In other words, Mose, stop beatin around this here bush and get your old ass in gear.”
Source: The Stand
“She was saved from prettiness by the intensity of her gaze.”
Source: The Sheltering Sky
“She was saving up feelings for some man she had never seen.”
Source: Their Eyes Were Watching God
“She was saying goodbye and she didn't even know it.”
Source: Markus Zusak: The Book Thief & I Am the Messenger
“She was scarcely a year older than I was, dark-haired, slender, with a face that would break your heart. It certainly broke mine. Lowborn, half-starved, unwashed... Yet lovely. They'd torn the rags she was wearing half off her back, so I wrapped her in my cloak while Jaime chase the men into the woods. By the time he came trotting back, I'd gotten a name out of her, and a story. She was a crofter's child, orphaned when her father died of fever, on her way to... Well, nowhere, really.
The girl was too frightened to send her off by herself, though, so I offered to take her to the closest inn and feed her while my brother rode back to the Rock for help.
She was hungrier than I would have believed. We finished two whole chickens and part of a third, and drank a flagon of wine, talking. I was only thirteen, and the wine went to my head, I fear. The next thing I knew, I was sharing her bed. If she was shy, I was shyer. I'll never know where I found the courage. When I broke her maidenhead, she wept, but afterward she kissed me and sang her little song, and by morning I was in love.”
Source: A Game of Thrones
“She was scared. I pictured the police knocking, and here I was with a girl I'd been fucking the morning my wife went missing. I'd sought her out that day--I had never gone to her apartment since that first night, but I went right there that morning, because I'd spent hours with my heart pounding behind my ears, trying to get myself to say the words to Amy:
I want a divorce. I am in love with someone else. We have to end. I can't pretend to love you, I can't do the anniversary thing--it would actually be more wring than cheating on you in the first place (I know: debatable.)
But while I was gathering the guts, Amy had preempted me with her speech about still loving me (lying bitch!), and I lost my nerve. I felt like the ultimate cheat and coward, and--the catch-22---I craved Andie to make me feel better,
But Andie was no longer the antidote to my nerves. Quite the opposite.
The girl was wrapping herself around me even now, oblivious as a weed.”
Source: Gone Girl
“She was scared Unprepared Lost in the dark Falling apart I can't survive Without you by my side We're gonna be alright This is what happens when Two worlds collide.”
“She was scared. Scared of dying.”
Source: Gone Series Complete Collection: Gone, Hunger, Lies, Plague, Fear, Light
“She was screwed by the fates. Cursed with a mate she wanted but couldn't have.”
Source: Dragon Her Back
“She was sea and sky and stone and blood and wings and earth and stars and darkness and light and bone and flame.”
Source: House of Earth and Blood
“She was secure in the knowledge that tomorrow, he’d be back. That thought alone was enough to follow her into dreams”
Source: Rekindled Flame
“She was selfless because she chose to be. She was a blood bank in a house full of hemophiliacs”
Source: Just South of Faithful
“She was sensible and clever, but eager in everything; her sorrows, her joys, could have no moderation.”
Source: The Complete Novels of Jane Austen
“She was sent to survive the labors of the gods.
What she found was the courage to survive herself.”
Source: Under the Aegis
“She was seriously staring. Which was what you did when you got a gander at a man who is hung like a Louisville Slugger.”
Source: Lover Unbound: A Novel of the Black Dagger Brotherhood
“She was seventeen, her entire life shining on her lips.”
Source: The Shadow Of The Wind
“She was shaking so badly that she tucked her hands into her pockets and clamped her lips together to lock up the words.
But they danced in her skull anyway, around and around.
You should have gotten Dorian and Sorscha out the day the king butchered those slaves. Did you learn nothing from Nehemia's death? Did you somehow think you could win with your honor intact, without sacrificing something? You shouldn't have left him; how could you let him face the king alone? How could you, how could you, how could you?”
Source: Queen of Shadows
“She was shamed. Women like herself, sheltered, indulged, secure, beloved; and yet they dared to find life hard, they dared to pity themselves because the path they trod was strewn with pink rose-petals when their own choice would have been crimson. She hated herself. Her hatred choked her, and she could not speak.”
Source: Pilgrim's Inn
“She was shocked by how dirty Florence was.”
Source: A Party in San Niccolo
“She was shocked, huddled into his arms tight, and looked up to see the face of the savior. If it wasn’t for this person, she would have been pecked and eaten by the four-eyed bird as a snack. It was a sixteen or seventeen-year-old boy with a handsome face. He was wearing a white robe with a jade pendant on his waist. The clothes were simple, with a high crown and wide sleeves, unexpectedly dressed in an ancient style. The whole person looked indifferent and quaint, as if he had just walked out of an ancient tomb.
Startled, she couldn’t help but blurt out: “Are you… are you a living person or a dead person?”
Source: Zhuyan (With Prequel of Mirror) 朱颜
“She was shocked when she followed her aunt and cousin down into the city proper. The streets were crawling with people, all hurrying to and fro, mindless of one another. They brushed by with barely even a glance, stepping down into the busy roads between horse drawn buses and draymen’s carts with such confidence, seemingly oblivious that they could be run down at any moment. Children dodged in and out amongst them, ragamuffins all, some barefoot.”
Source: The Mill Owner's Son
“She was short on intellect, but long on shape.”
Source: Fables in Slang
“She was silent like
deep water
but with a heart like an ocean.”
“She was silent; the great wings almost stopped moving; only a delicate stirring seemed to keep them aloft. "Listen, then," Mrs. Whatsit said. The resonant voice rose and the words seemed to be all around them so that Meg felt that she could almost reach out and touch them:
"Sing unto the Lord a new song, and His praise from the end of the earth, ye that go down to the sea, and all that there is therein; the isles, and the inhabitants thereof. Let the wilderness and the cities thereof lift their voice; let the inhabitants of the rock sing, let them shout from the top of the mountains. Let them give glory unto the Lord!”
Source: A Wrinkle in Time
“She was silk and cigar smoke and a short temper and a million contradictions; a full life of a thousand other thoughts and dreams and desires for the future—and someone whom I loved, deeply.”
Source: The Serpent and the Wings of Night
“She was simple in her intentions; she embraced the challenge of seeing the thing through.”
Source: When You Find My Body: The Disappearance of Geraldine Largay on the Appalachian Trail
“She was simple, not being able to adorn herself, but she was unhappy, as one out of her class; for women belong to no caste, no race, their grace, their beauty and their charm serving them in place of birth and family. Their inborn finesse, their instinctive elegance, their suppleness of wit, are their only aristocracy, making some daughters of the people the equal of great ladies.”
Source: A Piece of String / The Necklace
“She was simply Asha, a woman on her own. Had the situation been otherwise, she might not have come to know her own brain.”
“She was simultaneously everywhere and nowhere.”
Source: The Ambitious Card
“She was singed, bleeding, bruised, and furiously alive.”
Source: J.D. Robb The IN DEATH Collection
“She was sitting cross-legged on her bed in her white kimono, writing in a notebook with an ink pen she dipped in a bottle. 'Never let a man stay the night,' she told me. 'Dawn has a way of casting a pall on any night magic.' The night magic sounded lovely. Someday I would have lovers and write a poem after.”
Source: White Oleander
“She was sitting in a garden more beautiful than even her rampaging imagination could ever have conjured up, and she was being serenaded by trees.”
Source: Spellweaver
“She was six when the shouting began.
When love turned into arguments.
And arguments into silence.
Her home didn’t crumble all at once—it splintered.
Word by word.
Door slam by door slam.
Until it wasn’t a home anymore.
Just a place with walls and noise.”
Source: Ink On My Skin!
“She was skinny, early twenties, curly black hair in goth/emo style. Drapey black clothes under the corporate apron, a stud through her nose. The effect was not unattractive, though had I been the place's manager I might have wanted the staff to look like they'd be dishing out fresh dairy products full of organic, carbon-neutral goodness, rather than bat wings sprinkled with toad's bloo.”
Source: Killer Move
“She was sleeping in a quiet bedroom beside her brother, separated only by glass and sand from the young man she loved, a young man who loved her back”
“She was sleeping on the bed like a novel that is yet to be read and he sat on the floor, reading her, moving his fingers through her hair and staring at her face like she was magic that none ever understood.”
“She was slipping down into a strange place where the damned, demented and deranged clawed and cried, where birds don’t sing, and the sun never rises above the horizon.”
Source: Rosie: An Old Castle Novel
“She was small. Her shadow moved in the dance of chaos before her as the inferno blazed behind her and licked the sky with its many tongues. She clutched an indistinguishable toy with both arms tightly. Her face was serene. Her eyes shone with courage more immense than the surrounding flames. She was small, but at that moment, I've never seen a bigger person.”
“She was smart and funny and vulnerable and just so goddamned beautiful, the kind of beautiful that was worth being shot down over.”
Source: How To Talk To A Widower