S Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with S. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“She works hard for the money so you better treat her right.”
“She workshipped me, but she also hated me.”
Source: My Year of Rest and Relaxation
“She worried about his father's fever, but couldn't say how high it was, the thermometer being one of several items that had managed somehow to get lost in the move from Chicago. And there were no more thermometers to be found at the drugstore.
And once they'd used up the aspirin they had on hand, that was it. Like surgical masks and thermometers, cold and flu medication had run out everywhere. Rubbing alcohol, mouthwash, bleach--anything containing germ killer was also sold out.”
Source: Salvation City
“She worries over the way her love for me comes and goes, appears and disappears. She doubts its reality simply because it isn't as steadily pleasurable as a kitten. God knows it is sad. The human voice conspires to desecrate everything on earth.”
“She would allow him to comfort her. And perhaps, someday, she would listen patiently if a dark, dreary night found him well in his cups and he drunkenly confessed to still feeling scores of wounds that weren’t his own, but those of men under his command.”
“She would also be lying to herself if she didn't admit that a Louie V hanging from her shoulder made her feel a certain type of way. Her desire to stand up for the working man had dimmed a little. Amir was the bleach to her blue-collar status. All colors eventually turn white. Or rather green.”
Source: Tajrish
“She would always be living her life backwards, she realized, trying to regain something perfect that she'd lost.”
“She would always be my biggest what if.”
“She would always feel this wild girl was the truest of any of the people she had already been: adored daughter, bourgeois priss, rebel, runaway, dope-fiend San Francisco hippie; or all the people she would later be: mother, nurse, religious fanatic, prematurely old woman. Vivienne was a human onion, and when I came home at twenty eight years old on the day the monster died, I was afraid that the Baptist freak she had peeled down to was her true, acrid, tear-inducing core.”
“She would always love him. But she would not cease to function because he was gone”
Source: The Hero of Ages
“She would barely be recovered from one of these conversations when another would happen.”
Source: Show Them a Good Time
“She would be a mentor and an inspiration to girls like herself, the quiet ones who'd sleepwalked their way through high school, knowing nothing except that they couldn't possibly be happy with any of the choices the world seemed to be offering them.”
Source: Little Children: A Novel
“She would be a new person, she vowed. They said no matter how far a mule travels it can never come back a horse, but she would show them all.”
Source: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
“She would be a sparkling accent on his arm. She speaks flawless French and Italian, and has a limitless supply of charm when she wishes to dispense it. And'd she'll use him. She'll take, take more. If it was necessary, or if she simply had the whim, she'd toss him to the wolves to see who'd win."
He finished the whiskey. "You, Lieutenant, are often crude, you are certainly rude, and have very little sense of how to be the wife--in public--of a man in Roarke's position. And you would do anything, no matter what the personal risk, to keep him from harm. She will never love him. You will never do anything but.”
Source: Innocent in Death
“She would be an inferno, and he would be the devil who controlled it.”
Source: The Annihilator
“She would be brave. She would be heroic. She would make her own destiny.”
Source: Winter
“She would be crowned empress this morning.
She smiled, watching her reflection in the mirror, seeing a glimmer of the peasant bard in the crook of her grin, but the composure of a princess, too, and the stature of a queen, for however short a time she had been each.
There was no looming shadow behind her, no waiting other self who might swoop out and consume her. Going forward, she knew she would be a balance of these pieces, somehow, some way.
She could be many things all at once.”
Source: A Sword In Slumber
“She would be half a planet away, floating in a turquoise sea, dancing by moonlight to flamenco guitar.”
Source: White Oleander
“She would be quiet at first. Then she would say a word about something small, something she had noticed, and then another word, and another, each one flung out like a little piece of sand, one from this direction, another form behind, more and more, until his looks, his character, his soul would have eroded away . . . I was afraid that some unseen speck of truth would fly into my eye, blur what I was seeing and transform him from the divine man I thought he was into someone quite mundane, mortally wounded with tiresome habits and irritating imperfections.”
“She would be quirky, and I would be stolid, and our relationship, if launched, would embark on an eccentric path, and our days would be lively. But I wasn't expected to take such nonsense seriously, was I?”
Source: The Reluctant Healer
“She would be quite bright, if she was ever put in a position to find out, but long ago found that being a scatterbrain, as she'd put it, give you an easier journey through life.”
Source: Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
“She would be ready, but she would always make him wait.”
“She would be Shawn’s superior officer—the woman he’d have to take orders from after she’d publicly humiliated him nine years ago.”
Source: Rekindled Flame
“She would be the victor, she would never be possessed. Nothing could hurt her now. In her life she would go out and do as she pleased and take the things that waited for her, She and Papa were two branches on a tree, and he had tried to see if he was stronger than she. He thought he had won. He thought he had beaten her down and she would let him go on thinking this as long as it suited her. She would keep him by her side and draw upon his strength; his life was her life, his flesh and blood were her flesh and blood, but it would never be he who was master. She held him between her hands and he did not know. When two forces came against each other and struggled and battled for supremacy one of the two must suffer and be hurt.”
Source: Julius
“She would begin to view them ... with greater objectivity; their need for her started to look like something less discriminating, more parasitical. She felt duped by them into believing herself to be generous, tireless, inspiring, when in fact she was just a self-sacrificing victim. It was this feeling that often brought her to a position of clarity about her own life. She would start to give them less and herself more: by draining her, they created in her a new capacity for selfishness.”
Source: Transit
“She would bewitch everyone to make her lie the truth”
Source: House of Hollow
“She would bring this country to its knees.”
Source: Wicked Saints
“She would bring you some great book because she was a book matchmaker, because she loved books the way other girls loved clothes.”
Source: The Story of Us
“She would buy magic every day of the week. Love me, that face said. I'm so lonely, so desperate. I'll give you whatever you want.”
Source: White Oleander
“She would consider each day a miracle - which indeed it is, when you consider the number of unexpected things that could happen in each second of our fragile existences.”
“She would defend herself, saying that love, no matter what else it might be, was a natural talent. She would say: You are either born knowing how, or you never know.”
“She would die, and maybe everyone would forget that she had ever lived.”
Source: Falling into Place
“she would die as she had lived, with an axe in her hand and a laugh upon her lips.”
Source: A Dance with Dragons: A Song of Ice and Fire: Book Five
“She would die for me, she know I'll protect her”
“She would die here, either drowning in the storm or bleeding until her breath stopped. Her body would be wrapped in a canvas and tossed overboard, among the mermaids and sea dragons. Finally, she would no longer be anyone's problem to solve.”
Source: By Any Other Name
“She would disappear folded like origami into her own dreams”
“She would do anything to obtain her own car. She would prostitute herself or rob or kill if it meant she could have her own car.”
Source: Trust Exercise
“She would do anything, anything to belong to his son after a lifetime of belonging to no one at all.”
“She would drink until the trembling stopped. Then she would wilt over the piano like one of Celia's spinaches when Tam Lin forgot to water the garden.”
Source: The House of the Scorpion
“She would even ride a scooter. and toot its horn. Everyone knew when Liberty was on the stage.”
Source: Liberty the Circus Cat
“She would fain have caught at the skirts of that departing time, and prayed it to return, and give her back what she had too little valued while it was yet in her possession. What a vain show Life seemed! How unsubstantial, and flickering, and flitting! It was as if from some aerial belfry, high up above the stir and jar of the earth, there was a bell continually tolling, ‘All are shadows!—all are passing!—all is past!”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (Illustrated)
“She would follow him there. And she would die there -- and die soon. Of misery and of strangeness and of all the vicious, petty, alien, and unbridled thoughts that would pour into her like the poison from the Goldner tins poured into Fitzjames -- unseen, vile, deadly.”
Source: The Terror
“She would follow, her dream of love, the dictates of her heart that told her he was her all in all, the only man in all the world for her for love was the master guide. Come what might she would be wild, untrammelled, free.”
Source: The Best of James Joyce
“She would give ease to his too long wandering heart, and then he could live more fully in the world of other people, more able, because more happy, to give them his full attention.”
Source: The Nice and the Good
“She would go off in the morning with the punt full of books, and spend long glorious days away in the forest lying on the green springy carpet of whortleberries, reading. She would most diligently work at furnishing her empty mind. She would sternly endeavour to train it not to jump.”
Source: The Pastor's Wife
“She would go to Memphis and this was after our divorce. And I would send her to Memphis to be with him.”
“She would grab whatever she could -a look , a whisper , a moan - to salvage from perishing , to perserve. But time is most unforgivving of fires , and she couldn't , in the end , save it all .”
“She would hate him even more if she knew all the depraved things he’d done. The fantasies, the stalking, the fucking obsession. That he had used her shampoo to jerk off and stolen her clothes, her lipstick. That when she wasn’t around, he had sometimes lain in her bed and imagined what it would be like to touch her the way she said she’d wanted to be touched in her journal.
And of course, he had watched her touch herself. Every catch of her breath, every discreet rustle of fabric, every teasing glimpse of brown skin—he had seen it all, and taken it as a sign that not even Jay was immune to pleasure. And, more importantly, that he could give it to her.
He could be the one to make her come.”
Source: Sine Qua Non
“She would have an adventure. For herself. This one time. She would see her homeland, and smell it and breathe it in. See it from high above, see it racing as fast as the wind. She owed herself that much.”
Source: Tower of Dawn
“She would have been happy living all her life in her country. There was an alegría inherent to Colombians, optimism even through tears, but never the kind of self-interrogation of “happiness” she observed in the north, the way people constantly asked themselves if they were content as if it were their main occupation in life. And what was happiness? Not selfish fulfillment, of this she was certain. That seemed like a recipe for the opposite.”