Sierra Simone > Quotes

“Whatever happens after this, I just want you to know that this was worth it. You were worth it. You were worth everything.”
― Sierra Simone, Priest

“God is bigger than our sins. God wants you as you are—stumbling, sinning, confused.”
― Sierra Simone, Priest

“Find whatever love is left in your life and hold on to it tightly. And one day, things will have gotten less gray, less dull.”
― Sierra Simone, Priest

“The pain of one-sided love, of knowing that I had loved her more than she had loved me”
― Sierra Simone, Priest

“Si vis amari, ama," you tell me. If you wish to be loved, love.”
― Sierra Simone, Priest

“if this was what love was, then I didn’t know how anyone could bear the weight of it.”
― Sierra Simone, Priest

“A man and a woman wanting each other is by far one of the least sinful things I've seen”
― Sierra Simone, Priest

“You are not my possession. You’re going to be my wife. My wife who kneels at my feet, who presents her cunt to me without question when I demand it, who trusts me with her heart and soul and future. You think it is either/or that you belong to yourself or you belong to me, but I’m telling you right now that it’s both/and. You belong to yourself and you belong to me, and I don’t fucking care that it seems to be a contradiction because we both know it isn’t. Now if you can’t accept that, then say my name right now and we will step back and renegotiate our relationship. But if you are willing to submit to the fact that I will move fucking heaven and earth to keep you from harm, then say yes, Sir.”
― Sierra Simone, American Queen

“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.”
― Sierra Simone, American Queen

“And if I ever thought Ash held all the power in their relationship, I see it clearly now. Embry holds my husband’s heart in his hands and he doesn’t even know it. He’s too busy looking at the details of Ash’s faces to see the expression, too busy being in love to see how loved he is.”
― Sierra Simone, American Prince

“a cold, self-righteous prig, who goes regularly to church, may be far nearer to hell than a prostitute.”
― Sierra Simone, Priest

“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.”
― Sierra Simone, Misadventures of a Curvy Girl

“One day, you might find that you have a life again. A life that makes you happy.”
― Sierra Simone, Priest

“Could a vow be not all the way broken? Could a sin be not all the way committed?”
― Sierra Simone, Priest

“I want to build a tower around you, and then build a castle around that tower, and then dig a moat around that castle, and then I want to guard you like a dragon. Burn anyone who tries to hurt you into ash and then scorch those ashes a second time.”
― Sierra Simone, Sinner

“Belief is this. Praying when you don't feel like it, when you don't know who or what is listening; it's doing the actions with the trust that something about it matters. That something about it makes you more human, a better human, a human able to love and trust and hope in a world where those things are hard.
That is belief. That is the point of prayer. Not logging a wish list inside a cosmic ledger, not bartering for transactional services. You do it for the change around you; to the point of it is...itself. Nothing more and nothing less.”
― Sierra Simone, Sinner

“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?”
― Sierra Simone, American King

“I want you to know that the idea of deserving something you want is only ever going to be an incomplete qualification. You’re far more likely to remember the reasons you shouldn’t have something you want than the reasons you should, and you’re far more likely to let shame steer you than joy.”
― Sierra Simone, Saint

“I cared about her as a person, as a soul, and I wanted to fuck her, and that was the recipe for something much worse than carnal sin. It was a recipe for falling in love.”
― Sierra Simone, Priest

“God dwelled in sex and marriage just as much as He dwelled in celibacy and service,”
― Sierra Simone, Priest

“Perhaps Embry’s always had the part of me that wielded the sword, but she… she’s always owned the part that wears the crown.”
― Sierra Simone, American King

“There was life after fucking up, after all, even for those who lived without fucking.”
― Sierra Simone, Priest

“God is bigger than our sins. God wants you as you are—stumbling, sinning, confused. All He asks of us is love—love for Him, love for others, and love for ourselves. He asks us to lay down our lives—not to live like ascetics, devoid of any pleasure or joy, but to give Him our lives so that he may increase our joy and increase our love.”
― Sierra Simone, Priest

“She was indeed the perfect package on the surface…but below it, I sensed she was so much more. Messy and passionate and raw and creative—a cyclone forced into an eggshell.”
― Sierra Simone, Priest

“Worry is a sin, even I know that, yet I am more than just a lily of the field. I’m a lily that’s been plucked from the ground and laid at your feet. When it comes to you, I’m rootless and helpless and at your mercy for sunshine and water. And I’m not even supposed to be yours. How can I not worry?”
― Sierra Simone, Priest

“I want the memories to be worth the sins.”
― Sierra Simone, Saint

“Is it weird to pray during sex? Maybe it is, but sometimes it happens. I’ve tried to accept that it’s who I am—a man who loves God, and who loves fucking, that I can be dirty and holy all in the same moment.”
― Sierra Simone, Midnight Mass

“Is there no way to be both completely woman and completely good?”
― Sierra Simone, Priest

“And to be seen—really seen—was the most terrifying thing I’d ever felt.”
― Sierra Simone, American Queen

“But I’m so susceptible to this kind of touch; I bloom like a rose when I’m handled like a weed,”
― Sierra Simone, A Lesson in Thorns