S Quotes
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“She was widely read enough to appreciate my literary wit but not so widely read that she knew my sources. I like that in a woman.”
Source: Cloud Atlas: A Novel
“She was wildfire; I was wind”
Source: Beneath The Veil Of Time: A poetry collection
“She was willing to put in as much effort as necessary to discipline Ravan and bring him back to the straight and narrow. But Ravan's mute forbearance wore her down. All her life she had assumed that persistent endeavour was always followed by success. She now realized she was wrong.”
Source: Ravan & Eddie
“She was willow-branch thin, had a cap of yellow hair, and a sad sort of vulnerability was wafting from her, making the night smell like maple syrup.”
Source: The Girl Who Chased the Moon
“She was witchy, yes, and in charge of a cauldron roiling with ideas and stories, but she always gave the impression that the stories, the ones she wrote and wrote so very well and so wisely, had simply happened, and that all she had done was to hold the pen. (On Diana Wynne Jones)”
“She was with me. She did all of those things and so many more, things I would never tell anyone, and she never even loved me. Now that’s love.”
Source: Everything Is Illuminated
“She was within me like the blood was within me in each and every fibre. I talked to her, but she never spoke back. It was just like talking to God, I never knew what either one of them thought about the words I spoke. It did not make her unreal. It did not make God unreal. It just made me want to connect with them even more.”
Source: My Unbeating Heart
“She was without any power, because she was without any desire of command over herself.”
Source: The Complete Novels of Jane Austen
“She was working as a waitress in a cocktail bar when she decided to summon the devil and sell her soul for fame. As you do. Hell, we’ve all been there… Of course, things didn’t go according to plan. Never have, never will…”
Source: How to Trick the Devil
“She was working for the Empire, a thing she had sworn she would never do, helping design a vessel that would, in all probability, be the most fearsome weapon the galaxy had ever seen. While it was true that improving the biometrics and seating pattern in an assembly hall was not the same as devising a superlaser that could melt moons, still…
Still, one was either a factor in something’s success, or a factor in its failure.
Working for the enemy, said the little voice she sometimes heard in her head. She often visualized it as a miniature version of herself, shaking a chastising finger. How sad is that?
Not as if I had a choice, is it? she replied mentally. Nobody asked me if I wanted the job, now, did they?
You could have turned it down, the avatar of her conscience shot back.
And been sent back to that serpent’s nest of a planet to rot and die? To what end?
Her inner self fell silent.”
Source: Star Wars: Death Star
“She was working to remind herself of who she was. She was working to remember that somewhere in another place entirely she was known and loved.”
Source: The Essential Kate DiCamillo Collection
“She was worried about it too. She was upset because I wasn't talking to her about it. She was upset because I'd promised her one life, and given her another.”
Source: When Breath Becomes Air
“She was worth so much more as a person than becoming a wife and a mother.”
Source: Camelot Rising Trilogy
“She was wrong, as far as we were concerned, but right as far as she was concerned, and really, that's what mattered.”
Source: Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
“She was young and very beautiful, but pale, like the grey pallor of death.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Bram Stoker (Illustrated)
“She was yours, if you'd truly wanted her," Harry continued, a pitiless smile touching his lips. "But I wanted her more.”
Source: Tempt Me at Twilight
“She was, in fact, quite a pleasant looking girl, even if her bosom had clearly been intended for a girl two feet taller; but she was not Her. The Egregious Professor of Grammar and Usage would have corrected this to "she was not she," which would have caused the Professor of Logic to spit out his drink.”
Source: Unseen Academicals: (Discworld Novel 37)
“She was, in other words, the kind of girl who made the rest of us look bad, and whenever she glanced my way, I couldn't help but feel guilty, even though I hadn't done anything wrong.”
Source: A Walk to Remember
“She was--I keep using the past tense; I ought to say she is--one of those people who, at first sight, look plain, are quiet, unassertive, unmemorable even. But who, when they start to talk and you get to know them, become more and more attractive and impressive, and you see that in fact they are beautiful. Not conventionally beautiful, not celebrity beautiful, but beautiful all through.”
Source: Dying to Know You
“She washed her hands three times. Velia gripped the sink, dropping her head and watching the tinged water drain. Trying to get a grip, she held back tears and vomit, and would have been fine if not for seeing more blood splatters on her sleeves. She held on to her last bit of strength, still refusing to cry. God, let this be a nightmare!”
Source: Hey, Cowboy
“She wasn’t a bird in a cage. A bird in a cage, when the cage is opened, can still fly away. She was a bird embroidered onto a screen — a white bird in clouds of gold stitched onto a screen of melancholy satin. The years passed; the bird’s feathers darkened, mildewed, and were eaten by moths, but the bird stayed on the screen even in death.”
Source: Love in a Fallen City
“She wasn’t a collector of facts about people, this birthday, that anniversary. She cared more about the content of a person.”
Source: I'll Never Tell
“She wasn’t a girl who fussed. She retrieved an embroidered purse from somewhere and they left unnoticed among other departing guests.”
Source: The Expendable Man
“She wasn't a hero for some abstract cause, but Elia was willing to risk sacrificing herself for her family.”
Source: Unlock the Dark
“She wasn’t a one in a million woman, she was a once in a lifetime lady.”
Source: Illuminations of My Soul
“She wasn't a particularly funny person. It suited her professionally - I mean, you don't want your cancer surgeon to walk into the examination room and be like, "Guy walks into a bar. Bartender says, 'What'll ya have?' And the guy says, 'Whaddaya got?' And the bartender says, 'I don't know what I got, but I know what you got: Stage IV melanoma.”
Source: Let It Snow: Three Holiday Romances
“She wasn’t a person. She was the lullaby I hallucinated when the world became too real.”
Source: Sex, Drugs, and Schizophrenia
“She wasn’t a protagonist. She wasn’t even a side character. She was a filler. A backdrop with blood and breath and no arc.”
Source: The NPC Versus The Universe: A Metafictional Dystopian Thriller About Rigged Lives, Luck Privilege, and the NPC Who Starts Killing the Protagonists
“She wasn't a prude. Not really. She liked sex a lot. More now than she had ten minutes ago, to be perfectly honest.”
Source: Good Time Cowboy
“She wasn't a woman of tremendous valor or daring heroism, but she'd always tried to lead her life in a way that would honor Jesus through small acts of goodness every day. Hour by hour, brick by brick, these small choices had slowly built a life of integrity.”
Source: The Spice King
“She wasn’t a woman—she was a Goddess. And I’d bring down Heaven and Earth to make her mine.”
Source: Forbidden Love
“She wasn't actually chewing gum, but her demeanor was very much that of a gum chewer.”
“She wasn't actually speaking to me, she was singing a kind of lullaby of talk. But, eventually, the music stopped.”
“She wasn’t afraid of difficulties; what frightened her was being forced to choose one particular path.
Choosing a path meant having to miss out on others. She had a whole life to live and she was always thinking that, in future, she might regret the choices she made now.
‘I’m afraid of committing myself,’ she thought to herself. She wanted to follow all possible paths and so ended up following none.
Even in that most important area of her life, love, she had failed to commit herself. After her first romantic dissappointment, she had never again given herself entirely. She feared pain, loss and separation. These things were inevitable on the path to love, and the only way of avoiding them was by deciding not to take that path at all. In order not to suffer, you had to renounce love. It was like putting out your own eyes in order not to see the bad things in life.”
Source: Brida
“She wasn't afraid of dying, what she feared was being erased.”
Source: It ended by beginning
“She wasn't afraid of people in need because she wasn't afraid of needing others," my mom explained. "She didn't mind extending kindness to others, because she herself relied on the kindness of others."
My mom and I didn't need to unpack the emotion behind that story. We both understood what MeeMaw had that we didn't: The capacity to receive.”
Source: Rising Strong: The Reckoning. The Rumble. The Revolution
“She wasn’t all that into guys anyhow, she kept telling herself. It’s just there were so goddamn many of them.”
Source: Martyrs and Monsters
“She wasn't always a pillar of ice. Her warmth and good deeds were repaid with deceit and betrayal until little by little a chill took over.”
“She wasn't an angel, and she wasn't an apparition. She was a wraith, and every chamber of her heart was haunted.”
Source: By Any Other Name
“She wasn't asking his permission either. He wasn't in charge. She'd made that clear more than once. Shylah was an independent thinker, was used to working alone.”
Source: Toxic Game
“She wasn't being methodological. She was being autobiographical.”
“She wasn't blood, she didn't grow up with me, but yet she could see it all...”
Source: How Hard Can Love Be?
“She wasn't broken. She was just bent, over the chance of being ignored by the one she loved.”
“She wasn’t broken.
She was made up of a thousand tiny little cracks.
She was always trying to keep herself glued together.
But it was hard, she felt too much.
No matter what she did, her emotions seeped through,
sometimes in drips, other times in floods,
She felt everything,
the heaviness of the clouds right before rain,
the rush of the subway cars as they left the station,
the feeling of goodbye as she watched someone walk away,
wondering if it was the last time she would see them,
the feeling of a kiss lingering on her cheek for hours.
She felt the loneliness of the sun as it hung in the sky,
shedding light on the day,
without companion.
And she longed to give as much as the sun.
If she could brighten someone’s day,
bestow warmth were there was cold,
make someone smile, give someone hope,
then for a minute, an hour, maybe even a day,
the cracks would fill with love
and the pain would become only a voice,
reminding her that her pain was important.
She knew how fragile life was, how hard,
and how precious.
She wanted to feel it all.”
“She wasn't buying into him needing saving. He looked... invincible. She doubted anyone could take him down.”
“She wasn't certain of exactly what they had together; she doubted Owen knew, either; but whatever it was, she desperately wanted to hold on to it. They were only at the beginning of what they could become together; if she could help it, she would do anything that she could to keep it from ending.”
Source: Keep a Little Secret
“She wasn't dressed like a student. She wore an elaborate burgundy dress with long skirts, a tight waist, and matching burgundy gloves that rose all the way to her elbows.
Moving deliberately, she managed to get down off the stool without tangling her feet and made her way over to stand nest to my table. Her blond hair was artfully curled, and her lips were a deeply painted red. I couldn't help wondering what she was doing in a place like Anker's.”
Source: The Wise Man's Fear
“She wasn’t easy, is a thing we say
about someone we love.”
“She wasn’t enough for me either. Enough to make me change, to pull me back from what I’ve willingly become. I wonder if Thomas would have been enough.”
Source: War Storm
“She wasn't entirely sure how she felt,
All she knew was that he entered her world
And she felt more alive than she had before, secretly wishing he was feeling the same.”