S Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with S. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“She wasn't entirely sure if she was being rescued or kidnapped.”
Source: Flash Fire
“She wasn't ever going to be that woman regulated to the background.”
Source: Leopard's Wrath
“She wasn’t everything to him. Money was.”
Source: Last Seen in Lapaz
“She wasn’t exactly sure what Lord Waverly saw in her work, but that was the beauty of art. Everyone saw something a little different.”
Source: A Pocket of Stars
“She wasn't exactly sure when she'd fallen out of love with Luc. In fact, she wasn't entirely certain that she had. It felt more like she'd left behind her love for Luc with the version of herself that she'd been before. Back when she believed that first love and true love and forever love were all the same.”
Source: The Ballad of Never After
“She wasn’t falling apart. She was falling into herself.”
This line captures the heart of my trilogy: the moment a woman realizes that what looks like unraveling is actually a return to her truest self. It reframes “falling apart” as a kind of reclamation—messy, necessary, and deeply human. It’s the pivot point where shame turns into clarity, silence turns into voice, and breaking down becomes a kind of breaking open.”
Source: It Started With a Scream: Nobody Was Meant to Hear
“She wasn’t fine, but that was the whole point. There was no running away from this; she’d asked for it. She needed it. This was how she would make herself fine again. And the scarier it got, the more perfect the fit. Out of the grey area, into something she could comprehend, something she could live with. Black and white. Good and bad. Thank you.”
Source: As Good As Dead
“She wasn’t frightened anymore. Not even angry. Just clear.”
Source: Reckoning
“She wasn’t going to back down. She knew that. She communicated that. She was here until the death.”
Source: Weregirl
“She wasn't going to cry. She was going to fight.”
Source: Everblaze
“She wasn’t going to sit and wait. She was done waiting, because you could spend your whole life waiting for something to happen. Something big. You could wait and wait, and even if something big happened, even if it finally happened—it didn’t change anything.”
Source: Nobody
“She wasn’t hard-boiled. It was just that she put love on a special plane, where a man without money or looks couldn’t move.”
Source: The Day of the Locust
“She wasn’t his escape from fame — she was the place where God rebuilt him.”
Source: Unexpected Connection
“She wasn't his girlfriend. She was his bubblegum girl--only fun until she lost her flavor.”
Source: Cheater, Faker, Troublemaker
“She wasn’t impressed with either his determination or the muscles rippling under his T-shirt. At all.
She was also a liar. (Elaina)”
Source: Treasured Claim
“She wasn’t interested in making other people comfortable, which I really liked about her.”
Source: Listen for the Lie
“She wasn’t just a faithful friend, she was the closest thing to heaven I allowed myself to know. Through her I received joy in my heart and began to love others.”
Source: The Divinity of Dogs: True Stories of Miracles Inspired by Man's Best Friend
“She wasn’t just a girl though. Not to me. She was the one girl I shouldn’t want, the one I couldn’t have, the one I didn’t need. And yet I did. And everything in my life could be damaged so badly by that need that I’d fought it tooth and claw up until this point. But apparently I was about to let the moon call me out on my bullshit. Because deep down I knew that every time I pushed her, every time I hurt her, each time she snapped at me and got back up, she’d been chipping away at my resolve a little more, breaking down my walls a little more. And even though I knew that all the things I’d done to her had only pushed her away from me, they’d each drawn me in a little closer every time.”
Source: The Reckoning
“She wasn't kind of lady that depended on a man and I think that's what made her so irrestible to them, any man she had loved she wanted ~ and the men that loved her back couldn't handle not being needed, so she showed them the door and grew her own wings as they walked out. Love to her isn't a maybe thing, nor is it attachment and any man whom thinks he will ever own her would be best not to try at all.”
“She wasn’t looking for a fairytale just to feel a little less lonely.”
Source: The Truth About Magic
“She wasn't looking for a knight. She was looking for a sword.”
“She wasn’t looking for a knight. She was looking for a sword.”
(For Mira’s self-reliance and the fire beneath her grace.)”
“She wasn’t meant for these scenes, wasn’t meant to be sitting up there in the Southwest Community Infirmary with her ass out, in the middle of the day, and strangers cluttering up the treatment room, ogling her in her misery. She wasn’t meant for any of it. But then M’Dear Sophie always said, “Find meaning where you’re put, Vee.” So she exhaled deeply and tried to relax and stick it out and pay attention.”
Source: The Salt Eaters
“She wasn't mine to take, but I was taking her anyway. Her laughs, her fears, her joy and her pain. Every inch of her body and beat of her heart. All mine.”
Source: Twisted Games
“She wasn't normal and so I wasn't either. I resented that part the most.”
Source: Real Americans
“She wasn’t one of those girls who seemed to be everywhere, hands on hips, those girls who were described in certain books and movies as being “spitfires,” or, later on, “kickass.” Even now, at college, there were girls like this, fuck-you confident and assured of their place in the world. Whenever they came upon resistance in the form of outright sexism or even more generic grossness, they either vanquished it or essentially rolled their eyes and acted as if it was just too stupid for them to acknowledge.”
Source: The Female Persuasion
“She wasn't ordinary, I liked her that way. Mystery oozed from her pours as she walked so lightly I could have mistaken her for an angel.”
“She wasn't particularly artistic, but without thought she knew the combination that would get her the color she wanted. Last night she'd arrived at a rich royal made up of layered cobalt blue and indigo, and she knew exactly what it would taste like. Dry, but not bitter, with a bold apple finish. Not shy of what it was, but proud and majestic.
Tonight the greens she sketched spoke to her of gentle whispers and a soft sweetness, with just a lilt of apple, but very refreshing.”
Source: The Simplicity of Cider
“She wasn't really aware of the song as she sang it. Rather, she slipped through song's tunnel, down its corridor of reality, until she landed in the seat of the music. It was strangely healing; addictively powerful. She hadn't expected to become so engulfed by the notes.”
Source: Blood Shadow
“She wasn't satisfied by the play she saw the following Saturday either. All right. The long lost lover came home just in time t pay the mortgage. What if he had been held up and couldn't make it? The landlord would have to give them thirty days to get out - at least that's how it was in Brooklyn. In that month something might turn up. If it didn't and they had to get out, well, they'd have to make the best of it. The pretty heroine would have to go out peddling papers. The mother would have to do cleaning by the day. But they'd live. You betcha they'd live, thought Francie grimly. It takes a lot of doing to die.”
“She wasn't scared of going deep, deep down in a world of no air and little light”
“She wasn’t so much beautiful in that moment as she was haunting. Something so sacred, so perfect, it shouldn’t exist.”
Source: The Curse of Napoleon Hawthorne
“She wasn’t soft or pretty; she was hard-edged and cold, like one of those cold bronze statues surrounded by high fences and crowned in razor wire. Don’t touch me, such defenses said, but it wasn’t enough to halt a breach, no. She had thought people only picked the soft-petaled, sweet-smelling flowers, but some people took thorns as a challenge.”
Source: Escape
“She wasn’t sure how the hell to convince him to let her walk away.
Deep down, she wasn’t sure she was strong enough to do it again.”
Source: Resurrection
“She wasn’t sure if it was strength or numbness… But either way… She was going to get up and get through this.”
“She wasn’t sure if she even needed him anymore and the thought made her sad. In consolation, she offered him a kind smile and reached for his dependable hand.”
Source: A Banquet Of Crumbs
“She wasn’t sure she could ever forget him.”
Source: What I Love About Dublin
“She wasn't surprised when Lovey gave up his spot under a tree where he'd been napping to rush to accompany her. Neither was she surprised to see Squeak sitting up on the base of his neck, his little paws clutching at the wolf's fur to keep his seat as he looked around like a little emperor. The stoat didn't like the jostling he suffered when Claray constantly bent over and straightened while weeding the gardens, and had taken to climbing out of her dress and scrambling over to climb onto Lovey to sleep while she worked. Much to her surprise, the wolf was tolerating it.”
Source: Highland Wolf
“She wasn’t the Black Swan’s puppet anymore.
She was broken.
All she had left was trust.”
Source: Exile
“She wasn't the kind of lady that depended on a man and I think that's what made her so irrestible to them, any man she had loved; she wanted ~ and the men that loved her back couldn't handle not being needed, so she showed them the door and grew her own wings as they walked out. Love to her isn't a maybe thing, nor is it attachment and any man whom thinks he will ever own her would be best not to try at all.”
“She wasn’t the little girl she had been when her father had said those beautiful, untrue words. Now she had sunlight and starlight running through her veins.”
Source: Apprentice Alliance
“She wasn’t the only one who had a tendency to imagine, it was simply that while her father would say she thought too much of the beautiful, he worried too much over the wicked.”
Source: American Princess
“She wasn’t the only one who was overjoyed.
Deacon had launched himself at Aiden—Aiden saintly St. Delphi—nearly knocking him backward, over a fallen pure. The brothers hugged, oblivious to those fighting around them. Other than their eyes, they absolutely had nothing in common.
Which was why I liked Deacon.”
Source: The Power
“She wasn't the perfect mom. However, she was the perfect Mother for me.”
“She wasn't the same girl she'd been the year before, who though failing out of Foxfire would be the end of the world. Now she'd been kidnapped, presumed dead, banished from the Lost Cities, and helped stop a plague from killing off the entire gnomish species. She'd even snuck into the ogres' capital and helped destroy half the city--which happened to be why the Council was struggling to negotiated a new elvin-ogre treaty.”
Source: Lodestar
“She wasn't the type. Her idea of exercise was lifting a fork.”
Source: How to Date a Vampire
“She wasn’t the type to sit around ticking off the negatives of her life to see if she could make them outweigh the positives. If something was wrong, something was missing, she acted. Fix the problem and move ahead. Or if the problem couldn’t be fixed, she found the best way to live with it.”
Source: Red Lily
“She wasn't to know there was no room for Soren - or any other boy - in my heart. There was only one boy taking up that place.
Luca.”
Source: Dark Heart Rising
“She wasn't used to having backup; of all the many resources her prodigious mind was capable of accessing, help wasn't one of them. She was used to doing things on her own.”
Source: As Old as Time
“She wasn't where she had been. She wasn't where she was going, but she was on her way.”