Top 160 Sierra Simone Quotes (2026 Update)
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101. “Obedience is one of the vows, isn’t it? Obedience to the Church? Obedience to the men who run it?”

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102. “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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103. “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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104. “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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105. “I realized that you could walk out of here and believe – really and truly believe – that if you fail once, if you slip and act like the messy, flawed human that you are, that God doesn’t want you.”

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106. “How fully do you want to live your life? With all parts of yourself awake and feeling? Or with only the parts that some people think are decent? Jules woke you up – all of you – and now you’re trying to go back to sleep. Do you really think that’s the wisest?”

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107. “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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108. “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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109. “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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110. “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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111. “But – “Don’t you have a birthday party to be at?”

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112. “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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113. “Paul the Apostle says that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope.”

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114. “But in the meantime, please understand this: I. Trust. You. Inherently, explicitly, completely. I trust you with my house, with my old books, with my money, and now with my St. Sebastian. I trust you with everything, and I inflexibly and pertinaciously believe that our respective work is made better by us being kinky and playful and in love.”

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

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116. “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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117. “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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118. “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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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. “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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122. “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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123. “About the answers. It’s because every time I leave, I have more questions.”

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124. “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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125. “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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126. “I will break from loving him, I think. I will split with it, burn with it.”

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

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128. “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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129. “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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130. “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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131. “Colchester, Ash, my captain, staking my body with his cock like a conqueror, like a king.”

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132. “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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133. “Being alive means the harsh is mixed in with the good, and every time I get to choose the harsh for myself, it loses its sting. Every time I taste the bitter and survive, I’m all the stronger to enjoy the sweet.”

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

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

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137. “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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138. “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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139. “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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140. “This feeling of being too small, too awful, for anything less than hell.”

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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. “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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143. “After I’d locked the door again, I stood over her and pulled at my collar, trying to take it off. “No,” she said, her pupils large and dark. “Leave it on.”

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144. “I can’t crack her faith the way her love cracks me. I can’t carve away her connection with God the same way she’s carved a gap into my heart that she refuses to fill.”

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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. “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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147. “Reasons why I should tell Zenny I love her right now: 1. I love her. 2. She needs to know. 3. She likes the honest guy thing. 4. An old nun told me to. Reasons why I should wait to tell her: 1. She’s bent over a sink.”

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

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

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150. “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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