Top 160 Sierra Simone Quotes (2024 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. “Could a vow be not all the way broken? Could a sin be not all the way committed?”

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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. “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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6. “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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7. “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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8. “One and a half inches of damnation, and all I could think about was sinking deeper into hell.”

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9. “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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10. “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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11. “I will love her until the stars burn themselves out and hang like cold rocks in the lightless sky.”

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

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

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

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

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16. “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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17. “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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18. “I bloom like a rose when I’m handled like a weed.”

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19. “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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20. “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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21. “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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22. “I believe,” Ash said coldly, “that the words you are looking for are, ‘Yes, sir.”

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23. “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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24. “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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25. “The difference between envy and jealousy is subtle but distinct, once you know the flavors and contours of both.”

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26. “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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27. “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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28. “I’m here for your rage and your fear and your shame. Vent it on me, Greer. Strike me with it, burn me with it, scratch it into my skin. Cry it, whisper it, scream it. I want it all. I’ll take it all, because I promised to care for your pain and your pleasure, did I not? And isn’t this pain?” I give him the smallest of nods, and he continues, “So then doesn’t it belong to me?”

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29. “He thanked God for rogue wooden tusks the entire way.”

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30. “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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31. “God is bigger than our sins. God wants you as you are – stumbling, sinning, confused.”

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32. “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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33. “It’s when I’m almost to the front that I see that the small white square in Ash’s tuxedo pocket isn’t a silk handkerchief, it’s undeniably the familiar lace of my panties.”

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34. “How fully do you want to live your life? With all parts of yourself awake and feeling? Or with only the parts that some people think are decent? Jules woke you up – all of you – and now you’re trying to go back to sleep. Do you really think that’s the wisest?”

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35. “I kissed her until it felt like we’d exchanged something – a promise maybe or a covenant or a piece of our souls. And when I finally pulled away, it was as if I pulled away reborn, a new man. A baptism by kiss rather than a baptism by water.”

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36. “Abilene’s death like a millstone around my neck.”

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37. “I spanked a virgin. Oh God.”

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38. “Did you really think he had changed? Did you really think he meant all those things he said, those sincere-sounding things, and meant them so much that he would forget about any woman other than you? But.”

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39. “God, if you only knew what it does to me to hear that you felt that way.” His voice is hoarse. “Tell me what I have to do to earn it back. Tell me what I have to do to make you as twisted up over me as I am over you. I’ll do anything. Anything.”

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40. “But up close that handsomeness is compromised. By the hardness of his eyes, which are the flat color of acorns pressed into winter mud.”

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

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

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43. “So which Jesus is right? What rubric should we use when we’re confronted by challenge and change? Do we focus on pruning out all evil, or do we focus on growing love?”

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44. “Jealousy is a word with too many meanings. It’s a TARDIS of a word, bigger on the inside, a small, mean thing on the surface, but a complicated dance of emotions and negotiations within. I’m suffering with every single meaning of the word jealous.”

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

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47. “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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48. “All that joy she had felt there – she could feel it anywhere, if only she’d open herself to it.”

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49. “Productivity is never the point, the outcome is never the point. The doing is the point.”

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50. “I thought, this is what it’s like to be torn apart for love. This is what it means to be reborn.”

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