Top 180 Sierra Simone Quotes (2026 Update)
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51. “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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52. “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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53. “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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54. “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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55. “I believe,” Ash said coldly, “that the words you are looking for are, ‘Yes, sir.”

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

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58. “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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59. “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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60. “God is bigger than our sins. God wants you as you are – stumbling, sinning, confused.”

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61. “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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62. “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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63. “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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64. “Father Bell was here instead. And church was in session.”

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

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67. “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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68. “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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69. “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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70. “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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71. “You are more dangerous wielding love than you are wielding pain.”

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72. “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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73. “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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74. “Paul the Apostle says that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope.”

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75. “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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76. “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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77. “But in the meantime, please understand this: I. Trust. You. Inherently, explicitly, completely. I trust you with my house, with my old books, with my money, and now with my St. Sebastian. I trust you with everything, and I inflexibly and pertinaciously believe that our respective work is made better by us being kinky and playful and in love.”

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78. “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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79. “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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80. “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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81. “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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82. “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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83. “And please watch over the babies trapped in limbo. In the name of the Father, Son and the Holy Spirit, amen.”

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

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86. “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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87. “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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88. “As always, she had both of us under control when she surrendered her control to me.”

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89. “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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90. “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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91. “Do we focus on pruning out all evil, or do we focus on growing love?”

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92. “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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93. “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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94. “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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95. “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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96. “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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97. “All that joy she had felt there – she could feel it anywhere, if only she’d open herself to it.”

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

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100. “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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