Top 160 Sierra Simone Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “Sometimes the forbidden fruit is just too sweet not to bite.”

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52. “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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53. “I wanted to eat her, like a wolf in a fairy tale. I wanted to crush her to my chest until she was part of me, her atoms commingling with my atoms. I wanted to bend her, break her and then watch her beg for more.”

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54. “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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55. “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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56. “I still feel like I want to melt into him, dissolve into nothing and everything at once.”

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57. “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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58. “I tell him how Becket ended up finishing and making a mess on the bookshelf. “The wooden part,” I clarify, my breathing coming in short bursts. “I never would have let him – on the books – biological debris – ” “Good. Biological debris on the books was my chief concern,” he says in a grave tone.”

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

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

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62. “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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63. “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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64. “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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65. “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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66. “I know how to make sin feel like heaven.”

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67. “A bolt of real, true fear flies through me; it leaves wet need in its wake. My knees feel weak and unsteady. I want to drop to the ground and press my forehead between his expensive brown Oxfords and wait for him to dispense justice. I want to earn his approval; I want every depraved, sick, and delicious thing a submissive wants – and more.”

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

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69. “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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70. “I’ve always said that you were too young and too handsome to lock your life away. ‘Trouble will come of it,’ I said. ‘Mark my words.’ And nobody marked my words.”

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71. “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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72. “But – “Don’t you have a birthday party to be at?”

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

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74. “How do they not hear the trickle of my heart’s blood dripping out of my chest, how do they not see the scooped-out pain in my eyes, how can they not hear every desperate plea and every rasping sob I’ve let out in the last twenty-four hours?”

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

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76. “Reasons why I should tell Zenny I love her right now: 1. I love her. 2. She needs to know. 3. She likes the honest guy thing. 4. An old nun told me to. Reasons why I should wait to tell her: 1. She’s bent over a sink.”

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77. “And at that moment – at the peak of my high, at the peak of her greedy triumph – our eyes locked and we surged past every barrier – stranger and stranger, priest and penitent, Tyler and Poppy. We were simply male and female, as God had made us, Adam and Eve, in the most elemental and fundamental form. We were biology, we were creation incarnate, and I saw the moment she felt it too – that we were fused somehow. Irrevocably and undeniably fused together into something singular and whole.”

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78. “But the trade-off for my self-respect was a cold bed and an over-used vibrator, and it was starting to wear thin.”

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

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80. “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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81. “After I’d locked the door again, I stood over her and pulled at my collar, trying to take it off. “No,” she said, her pupils large and dark. “Leave it on.”

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82. “Teenagers felt differently than adults – they felt keenly and powerfully, without the frame of experience to remind them that they wouldn’t be broken by a bad grade or an unrequited love.”

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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. “I can’t crack her faith the way her love cracks me. I can’t carve away her connection with God the same way she’s carved a gap into my heart that she refuses to fill.”

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85. “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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86. “That some people were born wrong, born all warped and empty inside, that I was born without the parts that made people brave or pure or good. I knew that I was born without a conscience, or maybe a.”

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87. “You may not ever be able brought out of bed in the morning with that security. That moment of okay may never come. All you can do is try to find a new balance, a new starting point. 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. One day, you might find that you have a life again. A life that makes you happy.”

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88. “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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89. “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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90. “Father Bell was here instead. And church was in session.”

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91. “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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92. “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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93. “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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94. “This feeling of being too small, too awful, for anything less than hell.”

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

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96. “Come here,” I growled, pulling her flush against me as I pressed my mouth against hers.”

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97. “People don’t look at you with the whole world in their eyes because they fear you – they look at you like that because they love you.”

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98. “I know God and I feel God more keenly and more deeply because of you.”

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

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