Top 180 Sierra Simone Quotes (2026 Update)
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101. “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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102. “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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103. “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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104. “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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105. “Abilene’s death like a millstone around my neck.”

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106. “Productivity is never the point, the outcome is never the point. The doing is the point.”

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107. “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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108. “That was what Christians were called to do, after all, choose love above all else.”

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109. “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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110. “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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111. “I may apologize, but I won’t kneel.”

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

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113. “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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114. “The path to God has become binary: you find God as a monastic or clergy, or you find God as a layperson. There is precious little in between. Oblation comes close but is still only one thread when there used to be an entire tapestry.”

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115. “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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116. “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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117. “You are terrified that your soul will be damned to hell. And I no longer have one left at all.”

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118. “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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119. “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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120. “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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121. “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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122. “But – “Don’t you have a birthday party to be at?”

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123. “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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124. “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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125. “I will break from loving him, I think. I will split with it, burn with it.”

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126. “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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127. “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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128. “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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129. “Colchester, Ash, my captain, staking my body with his cock like a conqueror, like a king.”

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130. “Here’s what I think, little prince. Here’s what I know – and you know it too. You don’t need to call me Sir to submit to me, and I don’t need you to kneel to know that you’re my possession.”

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131. “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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132. “His eyes are no longer windows, but doors and mysteries and gates that I’ll never unlock. That privilege belongs to someone else.”

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

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134. “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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135. “I knew he was still in love with you, but I thought it was in the way we always romanticize our pasts, you know? That it wasn’t you he was still in love with, but that version of himself and that time in his life.”

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

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138. “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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139. “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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140. “Sacred and profane were blending and blurring together, fusing and welding themselves into something new and whole and singular, and if this was what love was, then I didn’t know how anyone could bear the weight of it.”

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141. “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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142. “Sometimes our deepest happinesses start with regret.”

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143. “You can own me because now I know I own you. Give me more and I’ll give you everything.”

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144. “Markham will make you his world, but only for a time. Are you strong enough to bear that kind of disappointment?”

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145. “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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146. “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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147. “This probably sounds ridiculous. Like a modern Edith Wharton novel or something.”

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148. “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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149. “This feeling of being too small, too awful, for anything less than hell.”

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150. “I love you like that. I love you like this. I love you like everything.”

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