Top 160 Sierra Simone Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “This feeling of being too small, too awful, for anything less than hell.”

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

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

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105. “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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106. “I’m still furious with God over what happened to Lizzy. But I realized being furious with Him is not the same thing as wanting Him out of my life.”

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107. “Every inch of me, every corner and curve of my skin, is alive with disgust, is alive with no, as if no were an emotion, as if no were a physiological response.”

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108. “Later that night, when I was moving over her and into her, those words tumbled around in my mind, words that were so indelibly Poppy, so indelibly attached to the brightness.”

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

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110. “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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111. “He smelled like leather and woodsmoke. He smelled like a fire burning.”

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

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113. “If you’re already in hell, why not be there together? You could trade longing for guilt and loneliness for shame. But then at least you wouldn’t be apart.”

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

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115. “This probably sounds ridiculous. Like a modern Edith Wharton novel or something.”

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116. “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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117. “Do we focus on pruning out all evil, or do we focus on growing love?”

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118. “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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119. “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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120. “I made my careful, quiet way across the park, wearing a dark t-shirt and jeans.”

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121. “I’m the king of your body, and your body knows it. It won’t rest until it’s mine again.”

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122. “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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123. “Paul the Apostle says that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope.”

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124. “There was a beat of perfect completeness, a moment where I felt as if I could pluck each and every atom out of the air, where magic and God and something sweetly beyond complete understanding was real, completely real.”

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125. “There is Greer, with my shadow written across her skin like a stamp of ownership.”

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126. “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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127. “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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128. “That was what Christians were called to do, after all, choose love above all else.”

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129. “Sometimes our deepest happinesses start with regret.”

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

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131. “You are terrified that your soul will be damned to hell. And I no longer have one left at all.”

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132. “Memories aren’t meant to be torments, Brother Patrick,” Brother Connor says in a too-casual voice, the one that means he’s guessed what I’m thinking about. “They are gifts.”

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133. “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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134. “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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135. “It bothered me that he was perfect. It bothered me that I hated him. It bothered me that I hated him and he still made me feel itchy and out of control. It.”

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136. “Perhaps these doubts were galvanizing. They were all pointing to something – that either my heart or my life were in danger, and that perhaps I should leave.”

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

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138. “About the answers. It’s because every time I leave, I have more questions.”

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139. “I wanted to show her all of my burdens and have her lift them from me with her clever mind and her elegant compassion.”

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

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141. “How can I annotate his metadata on my mental card catalog if I don’t know what to annotate?”

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142. “And I can’t take it any more – the hope or the failure. I can only handle the certainty, no matter how grim it is.” Silas.”

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143. “The secret he keeps, the lies he tells.”

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

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148. “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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149. “I like it so much when you call me these names, especially since outside of the bedroom you are so unfailingly respectful and adoring.”

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

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