Top 160 Sierra Simone Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “Abilene’s death like a millstone around my neck.”

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52. “I spanked a virgin. Oh God.”

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

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

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

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58. “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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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. “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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61. “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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62. “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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63. “You are more dangerous wielding love than you are wielding pain.”

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

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

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66. “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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67. “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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68. “Productivity is never the point, the outcome is never the point. The doing is the point.”

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69. “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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70. “Wasn’t it true that sometimes the most beautiful things in life were the most destructive, the most grasping?”

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71. “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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72. “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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73. “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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74. “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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75. “A man and a woman wanting each other is by far one of the least sinful things I’ve seen.”

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

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79. “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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80. “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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81. “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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82. “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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83. “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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84. “I may apologize, but I won’t kneel.”

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

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

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

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90. “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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91. “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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92. “He thanked God for rogue wooden tusks the entire way.”

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93. “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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94. “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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95. “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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96. “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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97. “It was the purest heavens in the midst of the worst hell, and I loved every minute of it, even though it was all underpinned by a lie – my lie – and I knew one day it would burn down around me.”

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98. “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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99. “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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100. “I met his eyes, which were almost black in the dark. “Whatever you want.” “What I want will have you flat on the ground with tears in your eyes. You think you want to give that to me?” “No.” I swallowed. “I want you to take it from me.”

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