Top 160 Sierra Simone Quotes (2026 Update)
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51. “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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52. “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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53. “So many networks of love and heartbreak, so many deep folds and layers to a person’s heart.”

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54. “Father Bell was here instead. And church was in session.”

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

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56. “I want to build a tower around you, and then build a castle around that tower, and then dig a moat around that castle, and then I want to guard you like a dragon. Burn anyone who tries to hurt you into ash and then scorch those ashes a second time.”

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

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58. “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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59. “I was going to see Ivy today and that was all that mattered.”

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

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

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

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64. “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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65. “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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66. “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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67. “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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68. “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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69. “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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70. “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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71. “Witching light, my aunt Nimue used to call it. The kind of light necessary for performing deeds that couldn’t be done in the light of day.”

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72. “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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73. “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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74. “I’ve waited five years for this man, and he kisses me like he’s waited one hundred and five years to kiss me.”

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75. “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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76. “Tell me you’re eighteen,” he whispered. “I’m not.” “Damn you.” And then he tilted my face back up to his, and his mouth came down over mine anyway.”

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77. “I wanted to tell Ash that loving him was like a scar, like a disease, it would always be there, I’d never be cured of it, and I didn’t want to be.”

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78. “It would be easy to say that I’m only a visitor in his life, but truly, this patient, petulant, vulnerable man is only a visitor in mine.”

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79. “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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80. “Her eyelashes made me hard. That was a new benchmark for me, I had to admit.”

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81. “But in another, much stronger way, I still wanted to be outside, away from their sidelong looks and veiled references that I only barely understood.”

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82. “People aren’t just confident and then that’s it, there’s nothing that can dent that confidence. People aren’t just brave and then free from fear their entire lives. We exist in tangles of virtue and weakness simultaneously – we are the best and worst of ourselves all at the same time.”

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83. “I wanted there to be one place in my life where I didn’t have to be strong, one place where I was able to rest. I.”

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

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85. “If we deserved the blessings we got, they wouldn’t be blessings, they’d be results.”

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86. “As always, she had both of us under control when she surrendered her control to me.”

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87. “The verses are meant to exhort me to righteousness, which as a monk inevitably includes chastity. But now all I can think about are the sins I want to commit with my tongue. They are many.”

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88. “No, most people don’t guess, do they? That sometimes the people who laugh the loudest and reach for life the hardest are the ones closest to darkness.”

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89. “But is it possible that you love this life because it is the closest one you’ve found to the one you truly need?”

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90. “Once upon a time there were as many ways to be holy as there were people, and the space between secular and monastic, between laity and clergy, was filled with all sorts of strange books and crannies. You could have visions, dream dreams, you could be monastic from the four walls of your own house or you could wander the country barefoot and begging. But we’ve lost much of that over the centuries.”

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

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93. “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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94. “And if I ever thought Ash held all the power in their relationship, I see it clearly now. Embry holds my husband’s heart in his hands and he doesn’t even know it. He’s too busy looking at the details of Ash’s faces to see the expression, too busy being in love to see how loved he is.”

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

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

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

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

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