Top 180 Sierra Simone Quotes (2026 Update)
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101. “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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102. “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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103. “And mostly, I’m furious that I live in a world that has the power to make me feel ugly and unlovable because of my body.”

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

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106. “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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107. “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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108. “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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109. “As always, she had both of us under control when she surrendered her control to me.”

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110. “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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111. “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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112. “Do we focus on pruning out all evil, or do we focus on growing love?”

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113. “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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114. “I can’t tell what’s the best way to love you, whether it’s trying to catch you or to let you go.”

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115. “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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116. “Just because it’s not common doesn’t mean it’s wrong,” I.”

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

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

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121. “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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122. “Maybe it wasn’t the celibacy gene,” I said, more to myself than to her. “Maybe it’s just that I was always waiting for you.”

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123. “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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124. “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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125. “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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126. “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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127. “Is there no way to be both completely woman and completely good?”

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128. “I realized that I’d destroyed my legitimacy with myself, and maybe that was worse than my public legitimacy being destroyed.”

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129. “I hear not all priests are that chaste these days.”

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130. “Oh, trust me, Lieutenant Colchester, I always keep both eyes on a man directly underneath me. Both hands too.”

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131. “I always refer to the Lutherans first.”

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132. “There was no point – you couldn’t argue with a storm cloud, you could only wait for it to blow past.”

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133. “Why do I want to cherish you and break you at the same time?”

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134. “A belief tested by doubt is the strongest belief.”

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135. “I was supposed to be a shepherd of the flock, not the wolf.”

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136. “In a way, it’s easier to dwell on sin and guilt than it is to dwell on love and forgiveness – especially.”

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137. “She laughs so she doesn’t kiss her.”

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138. “What they mean when they talk about meant to be. Why the fairy tales didn’t waste time explaining how the prince and the princess fell in love, because all along it was as natural and inevitable as breathing.”

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139. “But her thigh pressed against my slacks pocket and I remembered why I was there in the first place.”

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

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142. “And to be seen – really seen – was the most terrifying thing I’d ever felt.”

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143. “Being unhappy or doubtful isn’t a sin.”

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144. “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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145. “You’re as intoxicating quiet as you are laughing. And you’re as beautiful serious as you are silly. And you are altogether more potent like this, more powerful, more stirring, and maybe it’s because silliness and contemplation are so much the same thing. Maybe it’s because no matter what you’re doing, you’re reminding me that I’m here and alive and that there’s more to living than work. That sometimes we can sleep in or play or pray and have nothing to show for it.”

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146. “I slowly sunk in, using one hand to gentle and stroke Ivy as I did. I wanted her to know how much I worshipped her. I wanted her to feel every inch of my need for her. I wanted her to come while I was so deep inside of her that she couldn’t tell where she ended and I began.”

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

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149. “The first step to understanding anything – whether it’s the Bible or Fifty Shades of Grey – is acknowledging that we come to it with agendas of our own. We want it to mean something, we are biased whether we know it or not, and usually what we walk away with is what we want to walk away with.”

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150. “I miss her like a physical pain. Missing her is a cancer and it’s stealing my cells and breaking my bones. It’s eating me alive.”

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