Top 180 Sierra Simone Quotes (2026 Update)
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151. “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.”

— Sierra Simone

152. “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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153. “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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154. “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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155. “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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156. “He smelled like leather and woodsmoke. He smelled like a fire burning.”

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157. “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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158. “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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159. “About the answers. It’s because every time I leave, I have more questions.”

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160. “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.”

— Sierra Simone

161. “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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162. “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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163. “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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164. “Sometimes our deepest happinesses start with regret.”

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

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166. “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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167. “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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168. “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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169. “This probably sounds ridiculous. Like a modern Edith Wharton novel or something.”

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

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

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172. “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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173. “The secret he keeps, the lies he tells.”

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174. “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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175. “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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176. “I made my careful, quiet way across the park, wearing a dark t-shirt and jeans.”

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

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178. “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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179. “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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180. “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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