Top 180 Sierra Simone Quotes (2026 Update)
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151. “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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152. “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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153. “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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154. “Sometimes our deepest happinesses start with regret.”

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

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156. “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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157. “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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158. “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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159. “This probably sounds ridiculous. Like a modern Edith Wharton novel or something.”

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

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161. “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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162. “The secret he keeps, the lies he tells.”

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163. “It was the purest heavens in the midst of the worst hell, and I loved every minute of it, even though it was all underpinned by a lie – my lie – and I knew one day it would burn down around me.”

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

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

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167. “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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168. “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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169. “Is there no way to be both completely woman and completely good?”

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

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

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

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

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176. “I was supposed to be a shepherd of the flock, not the wolf.”

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

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179. “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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180. “But her thigh pressed against my slacks pocket and I remembered why I was there in the first place.”

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