She Lay Quotes
22 quotes by 20 authors
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I shall never get out of this! There are two of me now: This new absolutely white person and the old yellow one, And the…
— Sylvia Plath
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Mahlia... understood Doctor Mahfouz and his blind rush into the village. He wasn't trying to change them. He wasn't trying to save anyone. He was…
— Paolo Bacigalupi
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She had been so wicked that in all her life she had done only one good deed-given an onion to a beggar. So she went…
— E. M. Forster
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My mother, who was radiant, young, and beautiful even as she lay dying, heard voices and saw visions, but she always managed to make friends…
— Mark Vonnegut
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In the dark morning silence, I placed a gun to her head. She wore red dresses, but now she lay dead.
— Dwight Yoakam
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She lay in the dark and knew everything.
— Ian Mcewan
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Then she lay on her back and gazed at the cloudless sky. Mr. Beebe, whose opinion of her rose daily, whispered to his niece that…
— E. M. Forster
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For once, he slept first. She lay in the dark, listening to him breathe, stealing a little of his warmth as her own body cooled.…
— Nora Roberts
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Twice Flush had done his utmost to kill his enemy; twice he had failed. And why had he failed, he asked himself? Because he loved…
— Virginia Woolf
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Emma was no asleep, she was pretending to be asleep; and, while he was dozing off at her side, she lay awake, dreaming other dreams.
— Gustave Flaubert
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She lay down and never stirred. To move hand or foot, or even so much as one finger, would have been an exertion beyond the…
— Elizabeth Gaskell
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In the classics section, she had picked up a copy of The Magic Mountain and recalled the summer between her junior and senior years of…
— Elizabeth Berg
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I found her lying on her stomach, her hind legs stretched out straight, and her front feet folded back under her chest. She had laid…
— Wilson Rawls
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She had never felt more alive than when she lay dying in Han Alister's arms.
— Cinda Williams Chima
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And so, from the first, we separated our pleasure. She lay on the rug and I lay at right angles to her so that only…
— Jeanette Winterson
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She decided that her wisest course would be to put him out of her mind. After reaching this conclusion she lay thinking about him until…
— Georgette Heyer
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At that point Ms Fox came in and said, "Hello, carry on as if I am not here." Then she lay down on the floor.
— Louise Rennison
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She lay on her back and walked her fingers down her ribs, skipped them over her abdomen, and landed on her pelvic bones. She tapped…
— Steven Levenkron
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For seven days she lay in bed looking sullenly at the ceiling as though resenting the death she had cultivated for so many years. Like…
— William S. Burroughs
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In his mind she lay at his lap with his fingers gliding thru her straight beautiful hair. He smiles and says" your beauty lights up…
— Rumi
Who Wrote These She Lay Quotes
20 authors contributed a total of 22 She Lay Quotes as follows: