Top 180 Sierra Simone Quotes (2026 Update)
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101. “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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102. “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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103. “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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104. “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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105. “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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106. “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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107. “Her eyelashes made me hard. That was a new benchmark for me, I had to admit.”

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108. “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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109. “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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110. “As always, she had both of us under control when she surrendered her control to me.”

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111. “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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112. “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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113. “Do we focus on pruning out all evil, or do we focus on growing love?”

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114. “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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115. “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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116. “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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117. “Just because it’s not common doesn’t mean it’s wrong,” I.”

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

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

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122. “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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123. “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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124. “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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125. “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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126. “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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127. “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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128. “I hear not all priests are that chaste these days.”

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

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

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132. “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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133. “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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134. “I may apologize, but I won’t kneel.”

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

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

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

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140. “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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141. “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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142. “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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143. “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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144. “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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145. “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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146. “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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147. “He smelled like leather and woodsmoke. He smelled like a fire burning.”

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

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150. “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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