S Quotes
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“So this was different. I was amazing now - to them and to myself. It was like I had been born to be a vampire. The idea made me want to laugh, but it also made me want to sing. I had found my true place in the world, the place I fit, the place I shined.”
Source: Breaking Dawn: Twilight
“So this was fame at last! Nothing but a vast debt to be paid to the world in energy, blood, and time.”
Source: Mrs. Stevens Hears the Mermaids Singing: A Novel
“So this was how you died, in whispers that you did not hear.”
Source: Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories
“So this was it, she thought. So many times she'd wondered. True sacrifice was the surrender of one sacred thing in favor of keeping another. No matter how prudent or cautious one was, in the end something precious was lost. Whether the claim was in the name of family or duty or honor or truth, it exacted a terrible price. To her dismay, she did not feel the pride or pleasure that Bledig had claimed when he spoke of the sacrifices he had made for her and their children. For Alwen, sacrifice brought grief and guilt, and an unbearable sense of uncertainty.”
Source: The Well of Tears
“So this was it. You take a wrong step and you end up wearing yesterday's underwear, sitting on the carpet trying to teach yourself how to knit. And even that doesn't work. She never expected it to be so hard. Life.”
Source: The Friday Night Knitting Club
“So this was kissing. He had to admit Rachel seemed into it. She kept kind of rolling around and sighing. Would he be enjoying himself more if he were kissing Anna? Frankly, it was hard to ever imagine being turned on by this activity. Two boneless slabs of flesh, flopping around, like a pair of slugs mating in the cavern of your mouth. Gross, Ted. What was wrong with him?”
Source: You Know You Want This: Cat Person and Other Stories
“So this was Rosemary Shaw. The woman who had tried to get him pulled from the movie. She was nothing like Ellis had expected, when he'd imagined their meeting. No, instead, he was faced with a haughty little North American woman who looked like she'd just stepped out of a Pre-Raphaelite painting. Her long wavy copper hair was plaited back, exposing the smooth, pale column of her neck, and her face was framed with cat's-eye glasses that only served to accentuate her piercing gaze. She was young, younger than many of the screenwriters he knew. There was a sunniness about her that spoke of someone who wasn't yet as disillusioned with the industry as he was. Peachy, that's how he'd describe her.”
Source: Love at First Fright
“So this was the Ashram's final joke on me? Once I had learned to accept my loud, chatty, social nature and fully embrace my inner Key Hostess - only then could I become The Quiet Girl in the Back of the Temple, after all?”
Source: Eat, Pray, Love
“So this was the rest of his life. It felt like a party to which he'd been invited, but at an address he couldn't actually locate. Someone must be having fun at it, this life of his; only, right at the moment, it wasn't him.”
Source: Oryx And Crake
“So this was what it felt like to lose yourself. Again. To let go of your future and let it rise up and up until finally you couldn't see it anymore, and you knew that you had to start over.”
“So this was where lust was satisfied. If I'd been an old-time miner I'd have asked for my gold nugget back.”
“So this whole thing started because my cousin Raj decided one day at dinner that he wanted to be a pilot. My mom thought he was joking. I thought he was going through a phase. But he was dead serious. Fast forward a year, and I've basically become an expert on commercial pilot training in India just by helping him through the entire process and listening to him complain constantly about every aspect of his commercial pilot training in India. Let me tell you what actually happens when someone decides to pursue commercial pilot training in India.
Understanding What Commercial Pilot Training”
“So this world, I think, and an indefinite number of other worlds of our creation, are also - we're here for fun; we're here for learning; we're here for remembering who we are, and who we are, are expressions of life so absolutely linked with the life that is, always was, always will be.”
“So this Zealot comes to my door, all glazed eyes and clean reproductive organs, asking me if I ever think about God. So I tell him I killed God. I tracked God down like a rabid dog, hacked off his legs with a hedge trimmer, raped him with a corncob, and boiled off his corpse in an acid bath. So he pulls an alternating-current taser on me and tells me that only the Official Serbian Church of Tesla can save my polyphase intrinsic electric field, known to non-engineers as "the soul." So I hit him. What would you do?”
“So Thomas Pynchon wants a private life and no photographs and nobody to know his home address. I can dig it, I can relate to that (but, like, he should try it when it's compulsory instead of a free-choice option).”
“So thoroughly and sincerely are we compelled to live, reverencing our life, and denying the possibility of change. This is the only way, we say; but there are as many ways as there can be drawn radii from one centre.”
Source: Walden or, Life in the Woods
“So those abdominal exercises are useful beyond wanting to show off your muscles?'
He threw her a wry grin. 'You really think this is just for show?'
'I think I've caught you looking at yourself in that mirror at least a dozen times each lesson.' Nesta nodded to the slender mirror across the ring.
He chuckled. 'Liar. You use that mirror to watch me when you think I'm not paying attention.”
Source: A ​Court of Silver Flames
“So those are the basics.
I know some of you are going to be complaining, like, Ah, you forgot to talk about Cheez Whiz, the god of mice! You forgot to mention Bumbritches, the god of bad fashion statements! Or whatever.
Please. There are about a hundred thousand Greek gods out there. I'm a little too ADHD to include every single one of them in a single book.
Sure, I could tell you how Gaea raised an army of giants to attack Olympus. I could tell you how Cupid got his girlfriend, or how Hecate got her farting weasel. But that would take a whole other book. (And please don't give the publisher any ideas. This writing gig is HARD!)
We've covered most of the major players. You probably know enough now to avoid getting zapped into a pile of ash if you ever come across any of the twelve Olympians.
Probably.
“Me, I’m late to meet my girlfriend. Annabeth is going to kill me.
Hope you enjoyed the stories. Stay safe out there, demigods.
Peace from Manhattan,
Percy Jackson”
Source: Percy Jackson's Greek Gods
“So those are the direct answers human wisdom gives when it answers the question of life. "The life of the body is evil and a lie. And therefore the destruction of this life of the body is something good, and we must desire it," says Socrates. "Life is that which ought not be - an evil - and the going into nothingness is the sole good of life," says Schopenhauer. "Everything in the world - folly and wisdom and riches and poverty and happiness and grief - all is vanity and nonsense. Man will die and nothing will remain. And that is foolish," says Solomon. "One must not live with awareness of the inevitability of suffering, weakness, old age, and death - one must free oneself from life, from all possibility of life," says Buddha. And what these powerful intellects said was said and thought and felt by millions and millions of people like them. And I too thought and felt that.”
“So those are your gifts from me, my sweet Sansa... Harry, the Eyrie,
and Winterfell. That’s worth another kiss now, don’t you think?”
Source: A Feast for Crows
“So those three milking under the trees seemed actually present to me for an hour. As Giles 'tugged' (how his polite diction slips from him when he gets down to the job) he would see what I saw, gazing up into that elm; gleams of near-crimson lighting the budding tips of the boughs, boughs that go gesturing up mightily form the trunk, then curve over and hang down delicately. For the eye dwells on a thing as one milks, a bit of bruised concrete, a big spider in a cobweb up in the cowhouse roof; I can see them yet. To look up into such a maze of boughs day by day, and see the bare wood bursting open with new life: wine-dark buds, then the first green, till later he sat under a roof of the small elm leaves scattering coin-like shadows all around him, such would have been Giles's lot.”
Source: A Countryman's Spring Notebook
“So those who wished for some central cosmic purpose for us, or at least our world, or at least our solar system, or at least our galaxy, have been disappointed, progressively disappointed. The universe is not responsive to our ambitious expectations.”
Source: The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God
“So though, no, you should not mend her, you should not repair her, you have to let her do that herself, but you should, however, inspire her; inspire her to live on and find a life worth living.”
Source: Counting Stars
“So though there are many things I would have done differently, I submit to God's sovereignty and His purpose in my life and I thank Him that He brought me the way He brought me and gave me what He gave me when He thought I could handle it.”
“So thoughtless awareness is the first beautiful state you have to achieve. That will give you peace and a witness state to enjoy the drama of life, to enjoy the different varieties of people, while you will be growing within yourself.”
“So thoughtlessly we sling on our destinies.”
Source: Peace Like a River
“So through endless twilights I dreamed and waited, though I knew not what I waited for. Then in the shadowy solitude my longing for light grew so frantic that I could rest no more, and I lifted entreating hands to the single black ruined tower that reached above the forest into the unknown outer sky. And at last I resolved to scale that tower, fall through I might; since it were better to glimpse the sky and perish, than to live without even beholding day.”
Source: The Outsider
“So through identification you have pleasure and pain.”
Source: Choiceless Awareness
“So throw off all desires, remove all the dust from your eyes, be at ease within, not longing for something, not even for God. Every longing is the same, whether for a big car, or God, or a big house, makes no difference. Longing is the same. Don’t long – just be. Don’t even look – just be! Don’t think! Let this moment be there, and you in it, and suddenly you have everything – because life is there. Suddenly everything starts showering on you, and then this moment becomes eternal and then there is no time. It is always the now. It never ends, never begins. But then you are in it, not an outsider. You have entered the whole, you have recognized who you are.”
“So time can hurry or dawdle all it wants,
I’ll keep doing the work of loving you.
We’ll laugh louder than the clock,
plan messily, fail spectacularly and still show up.
No elegies here, only stubborn, joyful practice: one good morning at a time, definitely one saturday at a time,
Few extra minutes before sleeping at a time,
We always find a way
That's what we are!
What's what we do...”
Source: The Ineffable Taste Of You
“So time continued on slowly and painfully. Perhaps the old analogy of being a record stuck on repeat had become too dated; I felt like I’d just gotten an IPod and only could afford one song so that one song played over and over again until I felt as if it was just part of the constant monotony.”
“So time doesn't count, and place does?' I said this to tease her. When I was a man, I liked teasing her and she went along with it, consenting, for it reminded us both of a sadness that had passed.”
Source: Here Is Where We Meet: A Story of Crossing Paths
“So time over time what will change the world, no one knows? The only promise is a day to live, to give and share with one another. See the wisdom from mistakes in our past; the promise of a new day.”
“So time passes, and a much more political rather than literary reasoning intervenes, and from the day that [Albert] Camus wrote The Rebel, in 1955, there comes the rupture, and all, nearly all of the left wing intellectuals become hostile to him. Since he was already unfavourably viewed by the right-wing, he found himself entirely alone.”
“So tired of being the tides. Don’t you get tired of wandering in the lonely skies? Of being the moon?
Doesn’t the universe get exhausted of conspiring against us, keeping us bound but apart?
You keep pulling me to you. I reach out with all I have and then fall back and resign.”
“So tired of people coming and going from her life and making a gypsy of her heart. It does not feel at home with anyone anymore.”
“So tired of this straight line, and everywhere you turn
There's vultures and thieves at your back
The storm keeps on twisting, you keep on building the lies
That you make up for all that you lack.
It don't make no difference, escaping one last time
It's easier to believe
In this sweet madness, oh this glorious sadness
That brings me to my knees.”
“So Titus was here too. Titus, and the sea monster, and the stars, and holding Hartley's hand in the cinema over forty years ago.”
“So to all who are situated as I am, I would say--Grow up as fast as you can.”
Source: The Radical Will: Selected Writings 1911-1918
“So to answer your question, Im not entirely sure how I ended up where I am today, in the sense that nobody in my family is an actor. It just happened by mistake.”
“So to any of us, whatever those things are: whatever it is we look up to, whatever it is we look forward to, and whoever it is we're chasin'. To that I say: Amen. To that I say: Alright, alright, alright. To that I say: Just keep livin'. Thank you.”
“So, to avoid conflict is to avoid our own growth. But conflict is not resistance. Resistance is a negative response or reaction to conflict. Conflict is normal. Resistance is not.”
Source: Unstuck: A Life Manual On How To Be More Creative, Overcome Your Obstacles, and Get Shit Done
“So to be sick unto death is, not to be able to die-yet not as though there were hope of life; no, the hopelessness in this case is that even the last hope, death, is not available. When death is the greatest danger, one hopes for life; but when one becomes acquainted with an even more dreadful danger, one hopes for death. So when the danger is so great that death has become one's hope, despair is the disconsolateness of not being able to die.”
Source: Sickness Unto Death
“So to be standing here, this was really, truly, honestly never part of anything we even imagined in our wildest dreams.”
“So to compare the Beatles, obviously the Beatles are the Beatles, but in hip-hop terms, Tribe is the Beatles. Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five are the Beatles. Big Daddy Kane is Jimi Hendrix. It means that much to people that grew up with it.”
“So to compare your real life, or your partner or lover or whoever to a character in a movie, you're setting yourself up for disappointment. They don't map.”
“So, to dream, you must let your mind wander as it will, across all the network of your root system, across the oceans and into the skies. Do not cease, do not try, do not empty yourself, simply let your mind be what it is. Through this, perhaps, a tree might dream. If you can dream, then in each dream you can experience an entire life, and in all those lives surely you shall eventually find the one that you wish to live; and in the finding of it, you will have already become it.”
Source: Xenocultivars: Stories of Queer Growth
“So to feel brave, act as if we were brave, use all our will to that end...and a courage-fit will very likely replace the fit of fear.”
Source: Talks to Teachers on Psychology and to Students on Some of Life's Ideals
“So to get to play for the Yankees was really exciting. Really exciting.”
“So to have peace, the best way to put your mind right is to think of good things. Think of the flowers, not of the thorns. What good things others have done to you, what good things there are, what are the beautiful moments you have had, and count your blessings . Count your blessings, otherwise you cannot create peace.”