S Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with S. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“She was the kind of gal that if she set her sights on a man, he'd be running in the opposite direction real quick.”
Source: A Man to Call My Own: A Novel
“She was the kind of girl who wore dark lipstick and didn't need to speak a word to seduce you.”
“She was the kind of girlfriend God gives you young, so you'll know loss the rest of your life.”
“She was the kind of person who took care of things by herself. She’d never ask anybody for advice or help. It wasn’t a matter of pride, I think. She just did what seemed natural to her.”
Source: Norwegian Wood
“She was the kind of person who would rather light a candle than curse the darkness.”
“She was the kind of shopkeeper who finishes the paragraph she is reading before waiting on the customer.”
Source: Marihuana
“She was the kind of star who sold happy dreams. She didn't want to sell darkness. Pain was best left in the real world where it belonged, where it burrowed so deep you needed a multimillion-dollar industry to escape from it.”
Source: The Bollywood Bride
“She was the kind of woman a person could die over or kill over.”
Source: What He Didn't See
“She was the last lightning-struck without a mate, and therefore, human.”
Source: Prowled Darkness
“She was the light of our lives, our anchor, compass and vision.”
“She was the lover of two mighty kings.
She was their Chalice.
The certainty of the knowledge settled over her shoulders like a weighty mantle. She might not know where she came from, but she knew where she was going. She knew who she wanted to be, who she was.
She was the queen of Amendal, leader and protector of the dal.
Time to start acting the part. She stood and pulled them up with her. Amendal was still in danger, and she would not stand for it any longer.
By Aiea, and all the gods of Odren, no more would die today.”
Source: Abounding Dawn
“She was the mermaid enrapturing me the sailor with all her charms!”
“She was the most beautiful girl he’d ever seen, he who came from a family of beauties.
Ellen carried herself like a model, tall and slender and prideful. Small nose, enormous black eyes slightly tilted, skin like golden sand. Smooth dark hair not worn in one of the silly modern French fashions but with a bang across her forehead, and brushed down to a slight curve just above her shoulders.”
Source: The Expendable Man
“She was the most beautiful thing he had ever seen in his young life… In the few seconds, that he stood there––dumb-struck, taking in her beauty. Will Wilson, fell, totally, hopelessly, in love with Mary.”
Source: Trails to and Tales of Sanderson, Texas
“She was the most beautiful thing I had ever seen, a tiny, bloody angel in the snow, and they were going to destroy her.”
Source: Shiver
“She was the most beautiful thing you ever saw. She was radiant. And she was wearing this necklace... When you see the necklace in the painting, it all makes sense. He loved her. Even if she lived to one hundred and five without ever getting an answer.”
“She was the most beautiful treasure I have ever seen; hidden in the depth of the ocean, waiting for someone to pull her out.”
“She was the most beautiful woman in the Universe. He had just grown a moustache.”
Source: The Storybook Coroner
“She was the most beautiful woman in the world. If she was alive I'd probably be a better person.”
Source: Looking for Alibrandi
“She was the most breathtaking woman he’d ever seen.”
Source: Back To You
“She was the most dangerous person to him when it came to avoiding attachments, trust and love.”
Source: Afraid to Fall
“She was the most god damn beautiful thing I'd ever seen. A tragic beauty I couldn't stop staring at.”
Source: Tragic Beauty
“She was the most painful, most glorious dance of his life”
Source: Heir to the Shadows: The Black Jewels Trilogy 2
“She was the most powerful woman in the world, and not by magic. She was a scientist.”
Source: Tanglewreck
“She was the most provoking, beguiling woman he had ever met. Thunderstorms and rainbows wrapped together in a convenient pocket-sized parcel.”
Source: Scandal in Spring
“She was the most wonderful woman for prowling about the house. How she got from one story to another was a mystery beyond solution. A lady so decorous in herself, and so highly connected, was not to be suspected of dropping over the banisters or sliding down them, yet her extraordinary facility of locomotion suggested the wild idea.”
Source: The Complete Works of Charles Dickens: Barnaby Rudge
“She was the murderous mother who cut us to the bone but left us alive, left us naked and bewildered as wrinkled newborn babies, as blind puppies, as sun-starved newly hatched baby snakes. She left us a dark Gulf and salt-burned land. She left us to learn to crawl. She left us to salvage. Katrina is the mother we will remember until the next mother with large, merciless hands, committed to blood, comes.”
Source: Salvage the Bones
“She was the music heard faintly on the edge of sound.”
Source: Raymond Chandler Speaking
“She was the ocean—consuming, devastating, no hope of predicting or controlling her—and I was a helpless little piece of sea glass, thrown around in the pull of her tide, hoping to have my sharp edges smoothed by her touch.”
Source: Harper's Landing
“She was the one to kiss me, nervously, because it was something she had never done before- with me or with anyone else. At first she just brushed her lips on mine, and she was on the precipice of doing something more, but she didn't quite know what to do. I took over then, leaning into her and kissing her. She tasted of tears and toothpaste, salt and sweet.”
Source: The Gilded Life of Matilda Duplaine
“She was the one who’s life my presence can do magic, For that I left my dream it was the only logic”
“She was the one who wanted to be with him, the one who watched and waited for him, who felt his absence badly.”
Source: Stripes of the Sidestep Wolf
“She was the only adult in my life who showed me any affection. Who never tried to shape me into anything other than exactly myself. She saw me, she loved me, It felt like the two of us against the world and when I lost her it was just me, standing alone.”
“She was the only creature in the world who would really care if something happened to me, even if it was only because I was the bringer of kibble.”
Source: The Splendour Falls
“She was the only doctor's wife in Branford, Maine, who hung her wash on an outdoor clothesline instead of putting it through a dryer, because she liked to look out the window and see the clothes blowing in the wind. She had been especially delighted, one day, when one sleeve of the top of her husband's pajamas, prodded by the stiff breeze off the bay, reached over and grabbed her nightgown around the waist.”
Source: Find a Stranger, Say Goodbye
“She was the only girl he had ever loved. It ended abruptly when she ditched him for a football player. He carried the wounds for six years until he caught her and killed her. Only then had his pain suddenly vanished, his broken heart was healed. The score was even.”
Source: The Judge's List
“She was the only poison I chose to drink”
“She was the only woman he was afraid he would beg for.”
Source: Genuine Lies
“She was the only woman in the homicide unit, and already there had been problems between her and another detective, charges of sexual harassment, countercharges of unrelenting bitchiness.”
Source: The Rizzoli & Isles Series 11-Book Bundle: The Surgeon, The Apprentice, The Sinner, Body Double, Vanish, The Mephisto Club, The Keepsake, Ice Cold, The Silent Girl, Last to Die, Die Again
“She was the people's princess and that is how she will stay, how she will remain in our hearts and our memories for ever.”
Source: Tony Blair in His Own Words
“She was the perfect fit for me. My light in all this darkness.
Bending my head, I breathed her in and made the only vow I would ever keep without question.
From the moment I first saw you, I needed to know more. Not wanted—needed. You became my compulsion, my answer to questions I didn’t know I was asking. I’ve drawn you into the shadows of my world—not to cage you, but to make you mine in every way. I will guard you against every enemy, silence every threat, and claim every part of you while building you into everything you dream of being. No man will touch you without losing his hands. No enemy will breathe after speaking your name. I will tear this city apart if it means keeping you safe. And I will spend the rest of my life making certain you never want for anything except more of me.”
Source: Eyes on You a Mafia Romance
“She was the prettiest, silliest, most affected, husband-hunting butterfly ever.”
“She was the queen who finished out the suit of dark Jacks, dark King, and Joker.”
Source: The Secret History
“She was the reason I started to write but her beauty is kept me writing.”
Source: I Can't Stop Drinking About You
“She was the reason I was a reader, and being a reader was what had made me most myself; it had given me the gifts of curiosity and sympathy, an awareness of the world as an odd and vibrant contradictory place, and it had me unafraid of its oddness and vibrancy and contradictions.”
“She was the river, and the river had nothing to be ashamed of.”
Source: Tess of the Road
“She was the rock against which the surf broke. These males would break against her, too.”
Source: A Court of Silver Flames
“She was the rock in a world that was crumbling”
Source: Fallen Too Far: A Rosemary Beach Novel
“She was the royal princess. She had to start acting like one. She had to stop talking about being trapped, about being handed over from one man to another. She had to start acting.
She had to start being the hero.”
Source: A Whole New World
“She was the same person I had known. Had always known. Just a version that was more completely her.”
Source: The Lady's Guide to Petticoats and Piracy