She Lived Quotes

#1. When Constance was born, Aunt Glo named her after the dormitory she lived in at college: Constance Hall.

Sheri Reynolds

#2. As a child she was unique, she was a dreamer, she lived in her own world. Where it was safe.

Tina J. Richardson

#3. She didn't just walk on the wild side,
she lived there, dancing in the streets
and setting fire to its sky.

J. Iron Word

#4. There are people all over the world who carry the mermaid inside them, that otherworldly beauty and longing and desire that made her reach for heaven when she lived in the darkness of the sea.

Carolyn Turgeon

#5. Emily was lucky in many ways. She was lucky in the house she lived in, a house with three balconies, a cupola, banisters just right for sliding down, and the second bathtub in Yamhill County.

Beverly Cleary

#6. She began to teeter as she walked, fell almost daily, bumped into things or, at the very least, dropped objects. She was in the grip of an insuperable longing to fall. She lived in a constant state of vertigo. 'Pick me up,' is the message of a person who keeps falling.

Milan Kundera

#7. That she lived a lie. That she wasn't the good girl everyone believed her to be, wanted her to be.

Lacey Alexander

#8. Speechless and very nearly panting, she fell back against the wall with a thump, knowing that if she lived to be ninety, she would still carry the searing mark of that kiss on her soul.
"At last," he murmured. "A way to shut you up." Christovao Santos (Chris), Sanctuary

Sharon K. Garner

#9. She lived here for a while until she couldn't stand having strangers stand outside and shout, "Rachel! Rachel, send down your chair" any longer.

Patricia C. Wrede

#10. She lived a life almost obsessively devoted to triviality. She'd turned into a pond skater, not because she didn't know what lay beneath the surface, but precisely because she did.

Pat Barker

#11. I live in Santa Barbara. My wife's American, and she lived in England for 11 years and then told me she'd had enough.

Martin Gore

#12. If I lived, she died, and I'd never find someone like her again. If she lived, I would have to die. No matter how many times I ran it through my head, there didn't seem to be another way out. One of us had to die and Rita didn't want to talk it through. She was going to let our skill decide.

Hiroshi Sakurazaka

#13. He understood that she'd always believed herself cursed, his angel. That she lived on stolen time. That she deserved nothing..

Joey W. Hill

#14. Maybe memory is where everyone really lived, Lydia thought, not the present, or not only the present. Never only the present, or at least it was where she lived. She didn't even know what she felt until after it was over.

Margaret Hawkins

#15. Amy [Winehouse] changed pop music forever, I remember knowing there was hope, and feeling not alone because of her. She lived jazz, she lived the blues.

Lady Gaga

#16. Having no intercourse with anyone, she lived in the torpid state of a sleep-walker.

Gustave Flaubert

#17. Mainly, she lived. She got on with the small acts of life. She continued to ensure that - in the phrase she always used inside her own head - she got away with it. No one found her out.

Maggie O'Farrell

#18. There are no more Elizabeth Taylors. You could be fascinated by her, she lived so many lives, she lived far, she loved the jewels; she had gaudy taste but she had extraordinary talent.

Andre Leon Talley

#19. The Eucharist had so powerful an attraction for the Blessed Virgin that she could not live away from It. She lived in It and by It. She passed her days and her nights at the feet of her Divine Son ... Her love for her hidden God shone in her countenance and communicated its ardor to all about her.

Peter Julian Eymard

#20. She lived her life, but I may have been the only one to dream it.

Marcel Proust

#21. Brooke Watson was the most beautiful girl in school, and she was my age, and she lived two houses down from me, and I could pick out her scent in a massive crowd.

Dan Wells

#22. That cat was a traitor. And if by some miracle she lived through the night, he was getting downgraded to Tender Vitals.

J.R. Ward

#23. Oblivion, she thought. That was the world she lived in. It was what they should name some countries, towns, and places.

Linda Hogan

#24. The last unicorn lived in a lilac wood, and she lived all alone.

Peter S. Beagle

#25. When you love a flower", he said, as if wishing to explain his altered experience, "and suddenly she is gone, everything vanishes with her. I lived because she lived. Now she is gone. Without her, I am nothing.

Vaddey Ratner

#26. This maiden she lived with no other thought
Than to love and be loved by me.

Edgar Allan Poe

#27. She lived in an environment that few people in the world have ever been able to survive. What knowledge did she have that made that possible? How did she survive for so long in a place that would kill most of us within days? Soon after my visit the old woman died, and now we may never know.

Jack Weatherford

#28. She remembered no one at all. She remembered one day thinking: I am alone. There is no I but I. She lived in the dark. She taught herself to walk in the light, though it was not easy.

Justin Cronin

#29. She lived for others, her heart tuned to their anguish and their needs.

Dean Koontz

#30. I didn't cry when she got on the plane. She lived with me for four years, and when she walked away, I didn't feel much of anything at all

Jodi Picoult

#31. Daisy loved all parades, especially this one, whose crush of observers, prone to impulsive kisses, made it one more piece of the mistletoe under which she lived her life

Thomas Mallon

#32. I think if she lived in A little shoe-house That little old woman was Surely a mouse!

Beatrix Potter

#33. She lived in fear of his shifting moods, his volatile temperament, his insistence on steering even mundane exchanges down a confrontational path that, on occasion, he would resolve with punches, slaps, kicks, and sometimes try to make amends for with polluted apologies, and sometimes not.

Khaled Hosseini

#34. Besides, things you loved deeply could be lost in a second, and then there was no filling the hole left inside you. So she lived in the moment, as if her life were one long party that never had to stop as long as she kept the good times going.

Libba Bray

#35. You can regret the end of her life forever. Or you can remember her and honor the life she lived.

Jessica Scott

#36. The way she lived and died waiting for every text message, the way she overthought every abbreviation and smiley face, and hunted for every nuance in a medium so brief there was nowhere for nuance to hide.

Lisa Henry

#37. She lived in her head and that's why it glowed.

Miriam Toews

#38. Gerda Lerner was fierce, brilliant and unique. She lived history by her bravery, restored history by her scholarship, and democratized its study by her activism.

Gloria Steinem

#39. Everything in this place was livid and lurid and living, and when he loved her and hurt her all at once she lived, too, higher and harder than she had thought she could.

Catherynne M Valente

#40. These yanks into someone's personal past, that's the kind of history I like. Not wars, but who was your grandmother and what did she dream of? Did she walk up stairs to where she lived and what did it smell like and what was she wearing and who were her neighbors?

Elizabeth Berg

#41. He envied her, sensing that she lived each day as if it was her last.

B. J. Daniels

#42. However many years she lived, Mary always felt that 'she should never forget that first morning when her garden began to grow'.

Frances Hodgson Burnett

#43. If she lived here, the first thing she'd do is get out her paint brush and color the world.

Dale Mayer

#44. Polly ended her lesson with the words she lived by: man is tender by nature, the rest is invented. Everyone applauded, even Bernice who was relieved that it was finally over.

K. Ford K.

#45. He looked at her and for a moment she lived in the bright blue worlds of his eyes, eagerly and confidently.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#46. She lived in the dream world of unreality, or else she would not admit reality; he did not know. In any case, he loved her as she was. It might never be used, but it would give her pleasure to have it.

Nevil Shute

#47. While she wanted to look neither to her past nor her future, she lived exclusively in both. They had took different paths, but they had journeyed, so she realized, together.

Monica Ali

#48. she lived her life with her fingers in her ears, as though the truth would not exist if she never heard the words spoken aloud.

Allen Eskens

#49. She was the most beautiful thing you ever saw. She was radiant. And she was wearing this necklace ... When you see the necklace in the painting, it all makes sense. He loved her. Even if she lived to one hundred and five without ever getting an answer.

Sophie Kinsella

#50. She lived in shades of black and gray - sometimes a dark purple will slip in in the form of shoelaces or a headband - but she painted the entire world with color. She painted my entire world with color.

Nicole Williams

#51. She lived just three blocks away, in a faded brick building whose limitations and malfunctions she'd come to understand as the texture of her life, to be distinguished from a normal day's complaints.

Don DeLillo

#52. I used to go up to her house. She lived upstate [in New York] and I lived in Manhattan; you're living in a lot of noise and my career was being built. For me to spend time with Nina [Simone] is to spend a lot of quiet time.

Nikki Giovanni

#53. He wondered if that was her version of a green light. He hoped it was. If he thought she would believe him, he'd tell her how he wanted to protect Miracle, how he wanted to make her happy forever and make sure nothing happened to her, to make sure she never shed another tear as long as she lived.

M. Leighton

#54. And then a wave of peace washed over her and told her it wasn't where she lived that mattered, but that she was walking with Him.

Chris Fabry

#55. Dostoyevsky was her brother, Victorian children's books her passion and though she lived, when in funds, mainly on avocado pears, she took her bath each night with a different cookery book.

Eva Ibbotson

#56. She often felt a nostalgia for the present, aware that her life was passing by faster than she could properly take it in. She lived it, she felt it; she had given nothing to age, she still wanted everything; but she could not make it whole or coherent.

Kim Stanley Robinson

#57. None had had a chance to experience love in this way, to walk hand in hand with a man who would lay down his life for her. A day, a week, a month, a year - no matter how long she lived as a whole person, she would do it with an open heart and an unfettered spirit.

Nalini Singh

#58. I hate that her headstone has a year on it for when she was born and another for when she died but only a dash for the life she lived in between.

Juliann Garey

#59. Most of Tina Modotti's work that is known to the photography world was done in Mexico in the years 1923 through 1926, when she lived and worked with Edward Weston.

John Szarkowski

#60. she lived in the deepest room in his heart

Lauren Groff

#61. The extraordinary mystique of hers made you think she lived on rose petals and listened to nothing but Mozart, but it wasn't true. She was quite funny and ribald. She could tell a dirty joke. She played charades with a great sense of fun and vulgarity, and she could be quite bitchy.

Andre Previn

#62. There have been 50 or 60 books written about Empress Orchid, but none of them bothered to really examine the period in China when she lived. I was taught that she was evil; it's in all the textbooks.

Anchee Min

#63. My maternal grandma was a tough, tough lady and a stern woman, who lost her husband young and raised six kids by herself. She lived in a mining community in Upstate New York and ran a boarding house for miners. She took care of an entire family and miners who lived in the house as well.

Steve Carell

#64. As a rule, people who act lead the most commonplace lives. They are good husbands, or faithful wives, or something tedious...How different Sibyl was! She lived her finest tragedy.

Oscar Wilde

#65. This was what she couldn't get enough of, not if she lived forever: Harry on her skin, Harry's grateful kisses on her neck, Harry and Olive, teeming and sated, brimming over with each other, as if this house and this world had been built by God's hands for their love alone.

Beatriz Williams

#66. He whispered, "Life." And so she lived. Is living still. Will go on living, to the end of that whisper.

Emily Ruskovich

#67. She lived frugally, but her meals were the only things on which she deliberately spent her money. She never compromised on the quality of her groceries, and drank only good-quality wines.

Haruki Murakami

#68. Unknown Assassin, says the headline. Blanche skips over the details she already knows. How bizarre to see what she lived through last night turned into an item tucked between stock prices and Crazy Horse whupping the army at Little Bighorn.

Emma Donoghue

#69. Now, she lived with her dogs in a small house by a creek in the country, and her life had become a simple thing.

John Hart

#70. Music took her somewhere, and I used to wonder where. I thought it was dumb, the way she lived for a collection of sounds, for someone else's words and notes.

Megan Lindholm

#71. long, pointed nose jutted forth from its cheeks, its face more leather than stone. Like a mask. Rye did not come from a home with many rules, but the ones she lived by were absolute and unbreakable. The first House Rule flashed through her mind. HOUSE

Paul Durham

#72. And in reality, I don't think it's a real documentary. It's more a story of her life. It's a story of survival. It's a story of the time in which she lived. The story of success and failure.

Maximilian Schell

#73. You've said before, Ms. Nicolson, that your mother was a strong woman. She lived through the war,

Kate Morton

#74. My mother was an extremely creative woman, despite the fact that she lived the life of a rural housewife.

Pedro Almodovar

#75. How had she lived until now without knowing what a touch and a kiss could do, how it could consume a person like a wildfire consumed a forest, leaving nothing behind but a charred surface?

Tina Folsom

#76. I had never seen a woman in such despair before. It was worse than death, it was a constant longing for death and a constant rejection of life. She lived like darkness in her own day.

Philippa Gregory

#77. For Ila the current was the real: it was as though she lived in a present which was like an airlock in a canal, shut away from the tidewaters of the past and the future by steel floodgates.

Amitav Ghosh

#78. She lived among us for a while
And brought joy where she went.
We thought she was a gift of God
But learned she was but lent.

Joan W. Blos

#79. This woman did not fly to extremes; she lived there.

Quentin Crisp

#80. My mom was there, in some form, in some sense, in some universe. My mom was still my mom, even if she only lived in books and door locks
and the smell of fried tomatoes and old paper.
She lived.

Kami Garcia

#81. He was the one for her. She somehow knew that no one could make her feel the way did. Not if she lived for another hundred years.

Anam Iqbal

#82. She was a great lady. We raised three boys, were together as long as she lived, and now she's passed on.

Earl Scruggs

#83. Whore,' he cried. Well, she was not his wife, yet she slept with him. She lived in sin. What else but a whore did that make her; and what did her whoredom make of Ben?

Fay Weldon

#84. For a girl who often felt like she lived more in the cozy world of books than in the unforgiving world of the playground, a book of books was the richest journal imaginable; it showed a version of myself I recognized and felt represented me. Over

Pamela Paul

#85. Why hope to live a long life if we're only going to fill it with self-absorption, body maintenance and image repair? When we die, do we want people to exclaim 'She looked ten years younger,' or do we want them to say 'She lived a great life'?

Letty Cottin Pogrebin

#86. She lived because she had been willing to die, and her conviction in herself never wavered.

V. Lakshman

#87. In memory, she lived and moved and laughed, but all that a photograph could offer was one frozen moment of a life.

Dean Koontz

#88. She lived, we'll say,
A harmless life, she called a
virtuous life,
A quiet life, which was not life at all
(But that she had not lived enough to know)

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

#89. Such meticulousness was touching, as though Maggie poured into the house all the tenderness that was rebuffed by those she lived with.

Victoria Clayton

#90. The witch was as old as the mulberry tree
She lived in the house of a hundred clocks
She sold storms and sorrows and calmed the sea
And she kept her life in a box.

Neil Gaiman

#91. How come she has more crap here now than when she lived with me? their father grumbled as he came down one morning.

Debra Anastasia

#92. Of how many women might the history be comprised in those few words - 'she lived, suffered, and was buried'!

Anna Brownell Jameson

#93. she lived with hurricane eyes and fell in love with the way the waves collapsed against her cheeks.

Christopher Poindexter

#94. I grew up spending time at my grandmother's farm in Germany and she lived a few kilometers away from the border between east and west Germany. It was so strange that roads which used to connect two towns now ended in the middle.

Matthea Harvey

#95. He wanted her the rest of his life, and failing that, he wanted permission to walk along beside her while she lived it.

William Gay

#96. Without him, [Nate] she was completely alone in the world. There was no one at all for her. No one in the world who cared whether she lived or died. Sometimes the horror of that thought threatened to overwhelm her and plunge her down into bottomless darkness ...

Cassandra Clare

#97. When my wife's Aunt Caroline was in her nineties, she lived with us, and she once remarked: 'Remembrance is sufficient of the beauty we have seen.' I cherish the remembrance of the beauty I have seen. I cherish the grave, compulsive word.

E.B. White

#98. It would be nice to report she lived happily ever after till the end of her days. But such cheap, cop-out one-liners belong to other uncomplicated fairy tales.

Jennifer Silverwood

#99. Christine did not live, or love, as most people do. She lived boundlessly, as generous as she could be cruel, prepared to give her life at any moment for a worthy cause, but rarely sparing a thought for the many casualties that fell in her wake.

Clare Mulley

#100. Growing ever smaller in the distance. Carrying that pain and sadness back with her to the lair where it, and she, lived.

James Sallis