S Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with S. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“She wonders if you can feel nostalgic for something before it's in the past, she wonders if perhaps her vocabulary is too small or if her chemical intake has corroded it and the music goes doowoah doowoah.”
Source: If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things
“She wonders what fool ever said that it's better to have loved and lost than to have never loved at all - she has never disagreed with something so much.”
Source: Heart of the Matter: A Novel
“She wonders where they see her - in rebellious wives, she hopes, in the iron souls of powerful queens, in resilient girls who find the strength to keep going.
Even when they no longer worship at her altars, she won’t disappear. The mortals that determine their own lives, and she will carry on. Immortal and ageless, reinvented a thousand times, remade for a thousand narratives, throneless and wandering, but forever the ruler of her own destiny.”
Source: Hera
“She worded it a bit strongly, but I do find myself more and more struck by the differences between the sexes. To put it another way: All marriages are mixed marriages.”
“She wore a belted yellow dress that screamed springtime even though it was chilly out. Anybody in a dress that bright had to be doing some good in the world, I decided.”
Source: Take My Hand
“She wore a dress of white satin, elegant and unusual in its simplicity, with no fussy ruffles and frills to distract from the lovely shape of her figure. Instead of wearing the traditional veil, she had drawn the sides of her hair up to the crown of her head and let the rest cascade down her back in long golden coils. Her only ornamentation was a tiara of graduated diamond stars, which Tom had sent upstairs that morning as a Christmas gift. The wealth of rose-cut gems glittered madly in the candlelight, but they couldn't eclipse her sparkling eyes and radiant face. She looked like a snow queen walking through a winter forest, too beautiful to be entirely human.
And there he stood, with his heart in his fist.”
Source: Chasing Cassandra
“She wore a dress Ronan thought looked like a lampshade. Whatever sort of lamp it belonged on, Gansey clearly wished he had one. Ronan wasn't a fan of lamps.”
Source: The Dream Thieves (The Raven Cycle, Book 2)
“She wore a fitted white scoop neck shirt under a thin jacket, slim brown pants and tennis shoes. He bet she looked hot in four-inch heels. He wondered how long she’d last in this town, and he decided he wanted to sleep with her before she left.”
Source: Candy Crush
“She wore a gown the color of storms, shadows, and rain and a necklace of broken promises and regrets.”
Source: Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell
“She wore a killer smile, absolutely devastating. It was a smile that could twist a man’s heart. A man could fall in love just being on the receiving end of that smile. A man would want to see the smile every day and be the one who could make it appear. He would want it all to himself.”
Source: Six Years
“She wore a loose bathrobe that covered up a body that would have won first prize in a beauty contest for cement blocks.....She had a voice that made pearl harbour sound like a lullaby.”
Source: در رؤیای بابل
“She wore a lot of black, because it suited her and it always seemed to go together. Sometimes she felt like she was missing a chip or a gene or something that made this all matter, but it never bothered her much.”
“She wore a pleated skirt, a white cotton blouse, and simple black shoes with knee high stockings. At the arc of each step, the skirt would rise to expose a few inches of her taut thighs. Neither Earl nor Duke could recall what Chad was wearing.”
Source: Gil's All Fright Diner
“She wore a short skirt and a tight sweater and her figure described a set of parabolas that could cause cardiac arrest in a yak.”
Source: The Insanity Defense: The Complete Prose
“She wore a silvery dress and looked like a mermaid just slipped out of the sea. She knew he thought her the loveliest thing in the world. This is one of the things a woman knows without being told.”
Source: The Blythes Are Quoted
“She wore a smile like a loaded gun”
Source: Love Her Wild
“She wore a smile over her sadness.”
“She wore a summer dress and it smelled of Hawaii- of the ocean, sun, teriburgers and plumeria. I squeezed her dress in my hand, wanting to be back there.”
Source: The Gilded Life of Matilda Duplaine
“She wore a tan robe and headscarf, the clothes of a local... but didn't feel like a market regular. She moved slowly and gazed at everything with a child's wonder. Her eyes were large and clear, her hair as black as midnight. She had a warm smile on her pretty lips and was obviously murmuring 'hellos' and 'excuse mes' to people who really didn't care or want to talk. She walked with the grace of a cloud in the wind, like her body weighed nothing at all, and held her head high with easy dignity. Easy.
Aladdin felt his heart contract. He had never seen her- or anyone like her- before.
When the girl adjusted her scarf, she revealed an intricate diadem in her hair that had a ridiculously sized emerald in it.
'Ah, a rich girl, out for a day of shopping in the market without her servants. Living dangerously, playing hooky.”
Source: A Whole New World
“She wore a wreath of roses,
The night that first we met.”
Source: Songs and Ballads, Grave and Gay
“She wore an A-line bridal gown with a V-shaped neckline while Apollo playing Bach's Air on the G string.”
Source: Cupid's Academy: Argus' Big Fat Greek Wedding Ring
“She wore an ivory-white dress and held the world in her eyes. I barely remember the priest's words or the faces of the guests, full of hope, who filled the church on that March morning. All that remains in my memory is the touch of her lips and, when I half opened my eyes, the secret oath I carried with me and would remember all the days of my life.”
Source: The Shadow Of The Wind
“She wore blue velvet
Bluer than velvet was the night
Softer than satin was the light
From the stars
She wore blue velvet
Bluer than velvet were her eyes
Warmer than May her tender sighs”
“She wore far too much rouge last night and not quite enough clothes. That is always a sign of despair in a woman.”
“She wore flowers in her hair and carried magic secrets in her eyes. She spoke to no one. She spent hours on the riverbank. She smoked cigarettes and had midnight swims.”
“She wore Hawaiian-print bell-bottoms and a pair of clogs painted fairy-tale red with blue flowers. She looked like a pixie, the way her hair was moussed with glitter on the ends.”
Source: Goddess of the Night
“She wore heavy sandals, with socks. No kid in the entire state of Mississippi wore black socks in the summer. Shoot, if I wasn't standing smack-dab in the middle of the library, I wouldn't be wearing shoes.”
Source: Glory Be
“She wore her battle scars like wings, looking at her you would never know that once upon a time she forgot how to fly”
“She wore her fear like armor, polished and invisible.”
Source: Vice and Virtue
“She wore her ferocity like armor, and it was purely asexual armor. Liraz was untouchable and untouched.”
Source: Days of Blood & Starlight
“She wore her pain like lingerie, only who loved her enough, got to see it.”
“She wore her rank with an ease that came from experience and hard-won respect.”
Source: Rekindled Flame
“She wore her scars, and looked as best as she could. He made her comfortable and removed them one by one. She stood bare in front of him. He kissed her naked soul and tattooed a promise on her skin”
“She wore her sexuality with an older woman's ease, and not like an awkward purse, never knowing how to hold it, where to hang it, or when to just put it down.”
Source: White Teeth
“She wore her vulnerability like red lipstick, with nothing else.”
“She wore Hermine's necklace under her shirt every night while she slept, and it soothed her to listen to the whispers of those souls not born, souls who Herself had said were preparing to travel on in their own time. She'd expected to feel wished down by the burden of keeping the necklace safe, but most of what she heard from the string of clinking bodies was laughter, and what she felt was a tickling energy and a sweet pure light rising from someplace without fear or desire, a place of healing kindness without this life's uncertainties. Some of the energy and light she sensed might have come from the relieved and renewed souls of the women who had been free from burdens they could not endure; this energy of having a second chance permeated Donkey's body when she wore the necklace.”
Source: The Waters
“She wore hers sacars as the best attire.
A stunning dress made of hellfire”
“She wore his flower
In her hair
Scent of amber
Sweetened the air
Her dress was white
Her feet bare
He found heaven
Waiting there
She is alive
In his painful sigh...”
“She wore his love like a loaded gun.”
Source: Love Her Wild
“She wore no clothes. Her long, dark hair hung limp over her high firm breasts- and her massive eyes were wholly black. Like a stagnant pond. And as she moved, the afternoon light shimmered on her iridescent skin.”
Source: A Court of Mist and Fury
“She wore people down like waves wore down stone.
Consistent. Patient. Relentless. Merciless.”
Source: The Dog Walker: The Prequel
“She wore red. The kind of red that makes you believe in love at first sight.”
Source: I Took a Plane to Die in Denver
“She wore so much thick white makeup in order to conceal her naturally rosy complexion that if she turned around suddenly her face would probably end up on the back of her head.”
“She wore the moonlight like lingerie.”
Source: Love Her Wild
“She wore tight corsets to give her a teeny waist - I helped her lace them up - but they had the effect of causing her to faint. Mom called it the vapors and said it was a sign of her high breeding and delicate nature. I thought it was a sign that the corset made it hard to breathe.”
Source: Half Broke Horses: A True-Life Novel
“She wore trousers, because skirts were stupid, and boots, 'cuz stuff needed to be kicked.”
Source: Shadows of Self
“She wore white heirloom lace about her throat And in her hair a bright golden feather A pearl like a plum hung ripe from her neck But her smile fetched ten gold together”
Source: Princess Academy: Palace of Stone
“She worked her toes into the sand, feeling the tiny delicious pain of the friction of tiny chips of silicon against the tender flesh between her toes. That's life. It hurts, it's dirty, and it feels very, very good.”
Source: Children of the Mind
“She worked in order to live, and presently fell in love, also in order to live, for the heart, too, has its hunger.”
Source: Les Misérables
“She worked there for several months as a slave in a Mexican family until they sold her to a wealthy Hispanic man from Santa Fe, N.M. He also purchased another young captive Apache woman from New Mexico to accompany them. Both women were loaded onto an oxcart bound for Santa Fe in a journey that could take at least three months.”
Source: Captives of the Southwest