Top 160 Sierra Simone Quotes (2024 Update)
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101. “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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102. “My little lamb,” I whispered. “You are so very, very wet right now.”

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103. “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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104. “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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105. “A belief tested by doubt is the strongest belief.”

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106. “I am the leaf skating across the pond again, simply blowing where her words take me, and I can just watch with exhilarating clarity how much she enjoys.”

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

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108. “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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109. “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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110. “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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111. “She laughs so she doesn’t kiss her.”

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

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113. “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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114. “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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115. “He smelled like leather and woodsmoke. He smelled like a fire burning.”

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

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

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119. “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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120. “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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121. “Paul the Apostle says that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope.”

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

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

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

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

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

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128. “I want to build a tower around you, and then build a castle around that tower, and then dig a moat around that castle, and then I want to guard you like a dragon. Burn anyone who tries to hurt you into ash and then scorch those ashes a second time.”

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

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131. “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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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. “You are more dangerous wielding love than you are wielding pain.”

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134. “And I am hopeful and reckless and curious, but I am not stupid.”

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135. “One day, you might find that you have a life again. A life that makes you happy.”

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136. “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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137. “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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138. “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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139. “Wasn’t it true that sometimes the most beautiful things in life were the most destructive, the most grasping?”

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140. “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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141. “I always refer to the Lutherans first.”

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

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143. “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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144. “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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145. “How can I annotate his metadata on my mental card catalog if I don’t know what to annotate?”

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146. “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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147. “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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148. “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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149. “Being unhappy or doubtful isn’t a sin.”

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150. “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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