Top 180 Sierra Simone Quotes (2026 Update)
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51. “Father Bell was here instead. And church was in session.”

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52. “Find whatever love is left in your life and hold on to it tightly. And one day, things will have gotten less gray, less dull.”

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

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54. “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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55. “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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56. “A man and a woman wanting each other is by far one of the least sinful things I’ve seen.”

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57. “And I am hopeful and reckless and curious, but I am not stupid.”

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58. “He’s watching me and Greer, and his face. His face. I’ve never wondered before what it would look like for someone to have their whole world in their eyes, never even thought to wonder. But Ash right now, kneeling and gazing at Greer and me – His whole world is in his eyes. And it’s incredible to see. Holy, almost. Sacred.”

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59. “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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60. “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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61. “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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62. “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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63. “I believe,” Ash said coldly, “that the words you are looking for are, ‘Yes, sir.”

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64. “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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65. “How can I annotate his metadata on my mental card catalog if I don’t know what to annotate?”

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

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67. “Juniper berries are a superfood, which basically makes gin a cold-pressed juice,” he says. “I’m looking out for my health.”

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68. “We know what happens when two people fall in love. It’s happened between each of us. We have to find out what happens when three people fall in love. All together, all at once.”

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69. “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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70. “You know that you own me, Ivy Leavold. Let me prove it. Let me prove it for the rest of our lives.”

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

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

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

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75. “I hug him. I close my eyes, press my face into his already strong and heavy shoulder, and I thank God for this unexpected grace. This undeserved mercy. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.”

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76. “That was what Christians were called to do, after all, choose love above all else.”

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77. “Sean, faith and belief are the practices of committing a life in the face of no answers. God is and always will be outside of human comprehension.”

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78. “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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79. “I may apologize, but I won’t kneel.”

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80. “Obedience is one of the vows, isn’t it? Obedience to the Church? Obedience to the men who run it?”

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81. “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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82. “The path to God has become binary: you find God as a monastic or clergy, or you find God as a layperson. There is precious little in between. Oblation comes close but is still only one thread when there used to be an entire tapestry.”

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83. “And I can’t take it any more – the hope or the failure. I can only handle the certainty, no matter how grim it is.” Silas.”

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84. “That moment of standing in the graveyard and hearing nothing except the wind and the rustle of moving grass and the sounds of distant birds and insects, and knowing, knowing deep in your heart, that no other noise would come. That the silence was eternal now that our loved ones had finally passed away, and that our pain was the price of their newfound peace. And.”

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85. “You are terrified that your soul will be damned to hell. And I no longer have one left at all.”

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86. “Even in the dim basement light, she looked unreal, too rare and too lovely to gaze at for longer than a few seconds without pain.”

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87. “I realized that you could walk out of here and believe – really and truly believe – that if you fail once, if you slip and act like the messy, flawed human that you are, that God doesn’t want you.”

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88. “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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89. “You are more dangerous wielding love than you are wielding pain.”

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90. “Who can ever really explain the parameters of lust? Or what sparks arousal? By its very nature, it doesn’t make sense logically or empirically. It’s something that speaks to the deepest parts of our minds and bodies, something that bypasses reason, societal mores, and even our sense of shame.”

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91. “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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92. “I’m the king of your body, and your body knows it. It won’t rest until it’s mine again.”

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93. “Paul the Apostle says that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope.”

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94. “I will break from loving him, I think. I will split with it, burn with it.”

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95. “Why do I need you so much?” he asked, his voice quieted by my chest. “Why do I want to cherish you and break you at the same time?”

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96. “What I didn’t realize,” I say quietly, ignoring him as I take another step forward, “was that you were saying yes to me all along.”

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97. “She saw me as safe, and why shouldn’t she? I was a man of the cloth, after all, bound by God to be a caregiver of his flock. Of course, she would assume that she could tease me, touch me, without bothering my priestly composure. How could she know what her words and voice did to me? How could she know that her hand was currently searing its outline onto my chest?”

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98. “Colchester, Ash, my captain, staking my body with his cock like a conqueror, like a king.”

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99. “Being alive means the harsh is mixed in with the good, and every time I get to choose the harsh for myself, it loses its sting. Every time I taste the bitter and survive, I’m all the stronger to enjoy the sweet.”

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100. “Embry. It sounded strange on his lips, two warm syllables punctuated by the cracks and roars of the village burning behind us.”

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