Top 160 Sierra Simone Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “The pain of one-sided love, of knowing that I had loved her more than she had loved me.”

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2. “Si vis amari, ama,” you tell me. If you wish to be loved, love.”

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3. “Confess your sin to God openly and sincerely. Ask for forgiveness and the strength to overcome the temptation should it arise again. And lastly, remove yourself from the temptation altogether.”

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4. “Whatever happens after this, I just want you to know that this was worth it. You were worth it. You were worth everything.”

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5. “Could a vow be not all the way broken? Could a sin be not all the way committed?”

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6. “I missed it the way you miss the sun after a long stretch of cloudy days, where you begin to forget the cloudiness, forget to miss the sun, and then one day it comes back to you so hot and clear and bright that you wonder how you ever lived without it.”

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7. “I’d seen enough grief as a priest to know that people never really moved on, at least not in the linear, segmented way our culture expected people to.”

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8. “Sometimes the forbidden fruit is just too sweet not to bite.”

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9. “One and a half inches of damnation, and all I could think about was sinking deeper into hell.”

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10. “I don’t know if everything will be okay. It may not be. You may think you are the lowest point now and then look up one day and see that its gotten so much worse.”

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11. “It was your love that had brought us back together, your unflagging love that lasted through my deception and my seclusion. I’d thought I was making the right sacrifices for you to be with God, but I’d been wrong the whole time. Now we are both with God and we are together, giving up our individual lives today to fuse into one eternal soul.”

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12. “It’s called theodicy. When people try to explain how God can still be good when bad things happen.”

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13. “Will you hate me for loving you?” he asks brokenly. “I don’t know.” He pauses. “Will you hate yourself?” That. That I do have the answer to. “Yes.”

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14. “I will love her until the stars burn themselves out and hang like cold rocks in the lightless sky.”

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15. “The difference between envy and jealousy is subtle but distinct, once you know the flavors and contours of both.”

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16. “I mean the kind of roots that happen privately between you and a certain place. Like you come to a place, and instead of planting a flag and saying mine, the place plants something in you. The place claims you, it knows your name and the crooked corners of your heart, and you’ve pledged yourself to it before you’ve even realized what’s happening.”

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17. “Anything you want and I’ll give it to you. Let me do it to you.” She looked up at me, eyes full and deep. “Punish me,” she whispered.”

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18. “And what about a crazy hot priest? Is that a sound reason for exploring the Church?”

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19. “Come here,” I growled, pulling her flush against me as I pressed my mouth against hers.”

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20. “His eyes search mine. “So why did I want to meet you today? Because I haven’t been able to stop wanting to meet you for ten years. Because I want you. I want to kiss you again. I want to learn everything about you, everything about what you love and hate, what you study, what you want for your future.” He reaches up, his thumb brushing against my lower lip. “I want you to be mine.”

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21. “Franciscan friar Richard Rohr says that there are two kinds of time, at least according to the ancient Greeks. There is chronos – or chronological, ordered time – and then there is kairos. Kairos is subjective, qualitative. Deep Time is what Rohr calls it. A fullness, he says. The moments when the dots of our lives connect.”

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22. “A bolt of real, true fear flies through me; it leaves wet need in its wake. My knees feel weak and unsteady. I want to drop to the ground and press my forehead between his expensive brown Oxfords and wait for him to dispense justice. I want to earn his approval; I want every depraved, sick, and delicious thing a submissive wants – and more.”

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23. “And at that moment – at the peak of my high, at the peak of her greedy triumph – our eyes locked and we surged past every barrier – stranger and stranger, priest and penitent, Tyler and Poppy. We were simply male and female, as God had made us, Adam and Eve, in the most elemental and fundamental form. We were biology, we were creation incarnate, and I saw the moment she felt it too – that we were fused somehow. Irrevocably and undeniably fused together into something singular and whole.”

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24. “Sometimes the best decisions were the ones with the most short-term unhappiness.”

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25. “I want the memories to be worth the sins.”

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26. “Worry is a sin, even I know that, yet I am more than just a lily of the field. I’m a lily that’s been plucked from the ground and laid at your feet. When it comes to you, I’m rootless and helpless and at your mercy for sunshine and water. And I’m not even supposed to be yours. How can I not worry?”

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27. “One day, you might find that you have a life again. A life that makes you happy.”

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28. “Because I’ve known you for ten years, and it feels so desperately like no time at all, and I need more.” I.”

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29. “I tell him how Becket ended up finishing and making a mess on the bookshelf. “The wooden part,” I clarify, my breathing coming in short bursts. “I never would have let him – on the books – biological debris – ” “Good. Biological debris on the books was my chief concern,” he says in a grave tone.”

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30. “I want to go the brink of not knowing myself, I want someone to take me there and hold me by the neck and make me stare at an entire reckless realm of possibility.”

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31. “My little lamb,” I whispered. “You are so very, very wet right now.”

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32. “So many networks of love and heartbreak, so many deep folds and layers to a person’s heart.”

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33. “I am the leaf skating across the pond again, simply blowing where her words take me, and I can just watch with exhilarating clarity how much she enjoys.”

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34. “Her voice was sexy. Her laugh was even sexier. But neither held a candle to her.”

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35. “I bloom like a rose when I’m handled like a weed.”

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36. “Once, I’d made the mistake of not trusting. When I found Poppy kissing her ex-boyfriend, I’d assumed the worst and left the scene without even trying to talk to her. She’d done it as a purposeful attempt to drive us apart, unable to bear the guilt of being the catalyst for my schism from the clergy. If I had trusted her, if I had stayed, we could have had another year together. Instead, I’d run away, believing that she was unfaithful, and we’d spent a year miserably apart.”

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37. “I believe,” Ash said coldly, “that the words you are looking for are, ‘Yes, sir.”

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38. “You are strong,” I whispered. “I don’t know what happened to you, I don’t know what you did, but I know that if you can stand in front of me tonight and still be kind, that makes you strong.”

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39. “I still feel like I want to melt into him, dissolve into nothing and everything at once.”

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40. “I wanted to eat her, like a wolf in a fairy tale. I wanted to crush her to my chest until she was part of me, her atoms commingling with my atoms. I wanted to bend her, break her and then watch her beg for more.”

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41. “I knew I was destined to love him. I knew I was destined to be his. There’s no place he can go that I won’t follow, no sacrifice he can demand of me that I won’t give, no part of myself that I won’t offer willingly and completely to him.”

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42. “Some people think it’s a bad idea, trying to justify God’s goodness, because it distracts us from what’s important. It tangles us up in intellectual knots, when intellection isn’t the point. We have philosophy for that. Religion is for ritual, for practice. For moral action.”

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43. “Biblical metaphors for God include a laboring woman, a breastfeeding mother, even a mother hen. And man and woman were both created in God’s image, were they not? Why use Him and not Her? In fact, why even say God instead of Goddess? Both Him and Her are not enough to contain the fullness of God, who is outside the construct of gender, who is so much more than the human mind can conceive.”

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44. “I know how to make sin feel like heaven.”

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45. “I want you to know that the idea of deserving something you want is only ever going to be an incomplete qualification. You’re far more likely to remember the reasons you shouldn’t have something you want than the reasons you should, and you’re far more likely to let shame steer you than joy.”

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46. “I can’t lose my heart to save my soul. But, I must. I have to. Even though, for once, I take no pride in the pain it will cause me. – Ash.”

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47. “I love you, little prince,” is all he says.”

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48. “It wasn’t hers to do with as she wanted, it was mine, and I would show her that with every hot inch of myself stroking the inside of her ass.”

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49. “That some people were born wrong, born all warped and empty inside, that I was born without the parts that made people brave or pure or good. I knew that I was born without a conscience, or maybe a.”

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50. “I love you, wildcat,” I told her, wishing somehow that she could know how much and how truly I meant that. How I meant it on a cellular level. On a spiritual level.”

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