S Quotes
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“So they watch over us like gods of old. Our patron sinners.”
Source: Scruffians! Stories of Better Sodomites
“So they were at an impasse. "Gansey boy! DICK."
Ronan whirled and walked backward to face the shouter. He spread his arms wide. "Not now, Cheng. The king's a little busy."
"I wasn't talking to you, Lynch. I need someone with a soul."
The light that glinted off Ronan's snarl caught Gansey's eye, bringing him back to the present.”
Source: Blue Lily, Lily Blue
“So they were desperately in love and being desperately in love involves a desperate existence.”
“So they were pen pals now, Emma composing long, intense letters crammed with jokes and underlining, forced banter and barely concealed longing; two-thousand-word acts of love on air-mail paper. Letters, like compilation tapes, were really vehicles for unexpressed emotions and she was clearly putting far too much time and energy into them. In return, Dexter sent her postcards with insufficient postage: ‘Amsterdam is MAD’, ‘Barcelona INSANE’, ‘Dublin ROCKS. Sick as DOG this morning.’ As a travel writer, he was no Bruce Chatwin, but still she would slip the postcards in the pocket of a heavy coat on long soulful walks on Ilkley Moor, searching for some hidden meaning in ‘VENICE COMPLETELY FLOODED!!!!”
“So they were turning, after all - those cameras. Life, which can be strangely merciful, had taken pity on Norma Desmond. The dream she had clung to so desperately had enfolded her. Norma: You see, this is my life. It always will be! (In a whisper) There's nothing else - just us - and the cameras - and those wonderful people out there in the dark. All right, Mr. De Mille, I'm ready for my close-up.”
“So they've got us surrounded, good! Now we can fire in any direction, those b*****ds won't get away this time!”
“So they, who climb to wealth, forget
The friends in darker fortunes tried.
I copied them--but I regret
That I should ape the ways of pride.”
“So think as if your every thought were to be etched in fire upon the sky for all and everything to see. For so, in truth, it is.”
Source: The Book of Mirdad: The strange story of a monastery which was once called The Ark
“So think how this might alter the memory of The Matrix: In some protracted reality, film historians will reinvestigate an extremely commercial action movie made by people who (unbeknownst to the audience) would eventually transition from male to female. Suddenly, the symbolic meaning of a universe with two worlds—one false and constructed, the other genuine and hidden—takes on an entirely new meaning.”
Source: But What If We're Wrong? Thinking About the Present As If It Were the Past
“So think long and hard about who you're spending the most time with, for wherever they are headed, so are you.”
“So thirsty," Jack groaned. "So worried,"said the frog. I hope we don't starve to death." "Yes,"said Jill, "not starving to death would be nice." "So would not thirsting to death," said Jack "Thirsting isn't even a word," said Jill "It isn't?" "No." "Then what's the word?" "I dont know. You just can't." "Oh." This is, of course, the kind of inane conversation that occurs when people are slowly losing their minds.”
Source: In a Glass Grimmly
“So this ["Grant MacLaren"] was a chance to sort of go back and do a more leading man. But instead of just solving crimes like a CSI show, this leading man is, like the other travelers, not who he appears.”
“So this anchoring in some way, in some important way in the past without repeating the past, but on the basis of the past building something new: that is what is important.”
“So this bloke says to me, "Can I come in your house and talk about your carpets?" I thought "That's all I need, a Je-hoover's witness".”
“So this chocolate princess. Her knight in shining armor is the Easter Bunny.”
Source: You Know Where to Find Me
“So, this Doctor Who guy travels to different galaxies in the TARDIS thing?" There was only silence on the line, so as always, I felt the need to fill it. "Because it's not very aerodynamic, and it doesn't seem like it's built to withstand the pressure of zero gravity”
Source: Taxes and Tardis
“So this estate is given each of us to determine whether or not we will merit glory and honor "for ever and ever," or whether we will rebel and refuse or be indifferent and not comply with the conditions and the laws and the ordinances provided by a merciful Father for our guidance through life and our protection and our salvation and thereby, by so doing, deny ourselves the fabulous gift and blessing of eternal life. This life, then, is a time of "sifting," a time when the "wheat" is separated from the "chaff," a time of deciding who is who and where we will live after we die.”
“So this funny incident happened a week ago. I was in a Departmental Store and I couldn't find what I was looking for and so went to the shop assistants who were two girls.
Me: Is Moustache and Beard Wax available at this store?
The two girls looked at me with surprise and asked: To remove your moustache and beard?”
“So this funny incident happened a week ago. I was in a Departmental Store and I couldn't find what I was looking for and so went to the shop assistants who were two girls.
Me: Is Moustache and Beard Wax available at this store?
The two girls looking at me with surprise and asked: To remove your moustache and beard?”
“So this funny incident happened a week ago. I was in a Departmental Store, and I couldn't find what I was looking for. So I went to the shop assistants who were two girls.
Me: Is Moustache and Beard Wax available in this store?
The two girls looked at me with surprise and asked: to remove your moustache and beard?”
“So this general with the background in intelligence who is supposed to conquer Afghanistan can't even figure out what Rolling Stone is? We're not talking Guns & Ammo here; we're talking the antiwar hippie magazine.”
“So this girl promoting different ways to don modest religious outerwear ended up looking more beautiful by virtue of her scarf styles, and garnering more attention, male and female, than she ever would have received if she didn’t wear one.”
Source: A Second Look
“So this had been all I wanted, a boy who understood how I felt. Now, though, I sometimes wished for more.”
Source: The Truth About Forever
“So this idea of moving seemed like a good way to sort of represent that metaphorically. It also is something for me personally. When I was in fifth grade - so about 11 - my folks moved us to Denmark.”
“So this is a test, then? Any other auditions I should prep for before you deem me worthy enough to be your girlfriend?” Adrian’s mouth curved into a grin. “Just the one. Although, there was never any doubt it was going to be you. It was always you.”
Source: For the Gods' Sake
“So this is all part of a free society. People are entitled to hold whatever view they want, and the media can report things how they wish.”
“So this is always the key: you have to write the book you love, the book that's alive in your heart. That's the one you have to write.”
“So this is America. They must be out of their minds.”
“So this is creepy,' I say, motioning to the school with my non-key-shiv hand.”
Source: Dumplin'
“So this is feminist corner then.”
“So this is happiness, that journeyman.”
“So this is healing, then, the opposite of ambiguous dread: fullness. I am full of anger, pain, peace, love, of horrible shards and exquisite beauty, and the lifelong challenge will be to balance all of those things, while keeping them in the circle. Healing is never final. It is never perfection. But along with the losses are the triumphs.”
Source: What My Bones Know
“So this is hell. I'd never have believed it. You remember all we were told about the torture-chambers, the fire and brimstone, the "burning marl." Old wives' tales! There's no need for red-hot pokers. HELL IS-OTHER PEOPLE!”
Source: No Exit
“So this is how a person can come to despise himself-knowing he's doing the wrong thing and not being able to stop.”
Source: Flowers for Algernon
“So this is how a thoughtful person should await death: not with indifference, not with patience, not with disdain, but simply viewing it as one of the things that happen to us. Now you anticipate the child's emergence from its mother's womb; that's how you should await the hour when your soul will emerge from its compartment.”
Source: Meditations
“So this is how cunts that never shag fuckin well live. A life oy impotence, resentment, anger and frustration; nae fuckin exuberance in life, forced tae become an Internet troll or a miserable drunk in a boozer.”
Source: A Decent Ride
“So, this is how Helen of Troy felt.”
Source: Scions
“So, this is how it will play out. Today, in the sunshine, on the noisy sidewalk at Logan Airport in Boston, with people and their suitcases bumping into me, and taxi horns blaring and strangers going about their routine day, I’m about to learn that I have lost my husband. I will finally know his secrets.”
Source: The Fugitive's Doctor
“So this is how liberty dies. With thunderous applause.”
“So this is how life was, she thought with a faint smile: It wore you down until you emerged at its wildest, most unexpected ends.”
“So this is how they lived. For some time Theo, like a tree living in the shadow of taller trees, found a way to live off reflected light.”
“So this is how you swim inward. So this is how you flow outwards. So this is how you pray.”
Source: The Truro Bear and Other Adventures: Poems and Essays
“So this is how you've been living,' the little imp grumbles. 'A worm in a butterfly's cocoon.”
Source: The Wicked King
“So this is it, after all the fight is gone.
After all the inner and outer battles are fought.
After all the tears have dropped and dried.
After all the lust and privilege to each others pleasure has been spent.
After our companies over stayed their welcome together.
After our conversations and laughter lost its potency.
After our hands lost the sensations of each others touch.
After our last three kisses.
After, after no explanation.
ANONYMOUS”
“So this is it," said Arthur, "We are going to die." "Yes," said Ford, "except... no! Wait a minute!" He suddenly lunged across the chamber at something behind Arthur's line of vision. "What's this switch?" he cried. "What? Where?" cried Arthur, twisting round. "No, I was only fooling," said Ford, "we are going to die after all.”
Source: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Trilogy of Five
“So this is it. Match point for eternity.”
“So this is it. You are scored on my heart, Clark. You were from the first day you walked in, with your ridiculous clothes and your bad jokes and your complete inability to ever hide a single thing you felt.”
“So this is my attempt to give a preliminary - probably far too crude - account of how philosophy by showing can really teach us. The attempts we make to work through problems by reasoning always presuppose starting points, and even the most self-critical philosophers adopt some of those starting points simply by picking them up from the social environments in which they grow up.”
“so this is my collection of human body parts, Dr. Silkston," he said proudly, walking into the storeroom. "each organ is here fro a reason, a purpose. you see this one," he said, pointing to a cylinder containing what appeared to Thomas to be a section of a small intestine with a hole in it. "'Tis a duelist's jejunum. that is the bullet hole, right through the middle. and this, this is the Marquis of Rockingham's heart," he announced proudly. " he gave me a permission to have it a fore he died”
Source: The Dead Shall Not Rest
“So this is my cue of where to leave you. Now it's your story to retell and pass on. Because an idea is only relevant if it's being thought upon. So remember, never surrender.'Cause the unrelenting constancy of love and hope will rescue and restore from any scope.”