A Quotes
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“And I feel faster than the speeding light.”
“And I feel I have something very serious and urgent to say to
you, my non-existent reader, and I feel I should say it as urgently
as if I were standing in the room with you. That life—whatever
else it is—is short. That fate is cruel but maybe not random. That
Nature (meaning Death) always wins but that doesn’t mean we
have to bow and grovel to it. That maybe even if we’re not always
so glad to be here, it’s our task to immerse ourselves anyway:
wade straight through it, right through the cesspool, while keeping
eyes and hearts open. And in the midst of our dying, as we rise
from the organic and sink back ignominiously into the organic, it is
a glory and a privilege to love what Death doesn’t touch.”
Source: The Goldfinch
“And I feel just like Jesus' son”
“And I feel like a real Dad when I read to her at night. She won't sleep without one story, at least.”
Source: A Place Like this
“And I feel that filmmakers ought to be careful with the use of 3D. Because if you look back over the decades, you see that 3D has come and gone for I don't know how many years now.”
“And I feel that I am a man. And I feel that a man is a very important thing - maybe more important than a star. This is not theology. I have no bent toward gods. But I have a new love for that glittering instrument, the human soul. It is a lovely and unique thing in the universe. It is always attacked and never destroyed - because 'thou mayest'.”
Source: East of Eden
“And I feel that love is dead, I'm loving angels instead”
“And I feel that we in our society should not be held by any such myth; that we should do everything we can to gain a delight and joy in our society with all the available parts of the palette.”
“And I feel the question expired on my lips.”
Source: The Hunting Party
“And I feel the sigh of love
I heard the sound of love
I taste the fruit of love
And beckon, once more, for glorious
Laughter to dance from my memory
And sing skyward, toward you”
Source: We Have Time
“And I fell in love. What's more human than this?”
“And I fell violently on my face.”
Source: Complete Stories and Poems of Edgar Allen Poe
“And I felt a sudden whirl in my head, knowing this leap was inevitable, that I wasn't just standing on the cliff, toes poking over, but already in mid-air.”
“And I felt closer to you. Because you knew me so much better than I'd realized - and still loved me.”
Source: Sister
“And I felt comfort. Finally. All I'd wanted for so long was for someone to explain everything that had happened to me in this same way. To label it neatly on a page: this leads to this leads to this. I knew, deep down, it was more complicated than that, but watching Jason, I was hopeful. He took the mess that was Macbeth and fixed it, and I had to wonder if he might, in some small way, be able to do the same for me. So I moved myself closer to him, and I'd been there ever since.”
“AND I FELT DRENCHED IN LOVE
Rising from the abyss,
No longer tangled in wire,
There was an opening above
All of the blackness
Where I could see swirling clouds,
Black, gray, and gold,
Covering the gray sky
With just a hint of the sun’s light.
Beautiful doves flew above—
White doves, black doves.
It was neither dark nor light.
The darkness and light had become one.
Gentle arms wrapped around me,
Encircling me with an impenetrable shield.
The arms held me protectively as I cried,
And I felt drenched in love,
Feeling more tenderness than I could ever have imagined.”
“And I felt, in the silence that followed, everything that had happened on the trip to bring me to this place.”
Source: Amy & Roger's Epic Detour
“And I felt like my heart had been so thoroughly and irreparably broken that there could be no real joy again, that at best there might eventually be a little contentment. Everyone wanted me to get help and rejoin life, pick up the pieces and move on, and I tried to, I wanted to, but I just had to lie in the mud with my arms wrapped around myself, eyes closed, grieving, until I didn’t have to anymore.”
“And I felt like such a failure. I thought: I can't even do mental illness properly.”
Source: A Line Made By Walking
“And I felt more like me than I ever had, as if the years I'd lived so far had formed layers of skin and muscle over myself that others saw as me when the real one had been underneath all along, and I knew writing- even writing badly- had peeled away those layers, and I knew then that if I wanted to stay awake and alive, if I wanted to stay me, I would have to keep writing.”
“And I felt sorry, and I have felt bad about what happened.”
“And I figured out that the reason I couldn't get through the day as well as I can now is because I had too many things on my mind, on my plate, you know, for one person to have. So I started to eliminate some of the things that were too heavy to carry and unnecessary.”
“And I figured that he can be my ears and I can be his eyes. A good trade-off, don't you think?”
“And I figured you'd drive a four-hour round-trip before giving up your car to someone else”
Source: The Golden Lily: A Bloodlines Novel
“And i finally let go,
It was the beginning for me
And the end for you.”
“And I finally understood something--why had it taken me so long? Sometimes people lie because they love you.”
Source: The Mod Code
“And I find - I'm 63, and my capacity to be by myself and just spend time by myself hasn't diminished any. That's the necessary part of being a writer, you better like being alone.”
“And I find a happiness in the fact of accepting —
In the sublimely scientific and difficult fact of accepting the inevitable natural.”
Source: The Collected Poems of Alberto Caeiro
“And I find chopsticks frankly distressing. Am I alone in thinking it odd that a people ingenious enough to invent paper, gunpowder, kites and any number of other useful objects, and who have a noble history extending back 3,000 years haven't yet worked out that a pair of knitting needles is no way to capture food?”
Source: Notes From A Small Island: Journey Through Britain
“And I find it very easy to memorize the scripts, which are so close to conversations my husband and I have.”
“And I find myself saying, “It wasn’t really about her.” And finding it’s true. What do you mean?” Norah asks. It was about the feeling, you know? She caused it in me, but it wasn’t about her. It was about my reaction, what I wanted to feel and then convinced myself that I felt, because I wanted it that bad. That illusion. It was love because I created it as love.”
Source: Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist
“And I find myself wondering whether, since the kids, I feel different to Charlie, or whether he fancies me as much now my boobs are not the same boobs they were before breastfeeding, now I have all this strange slack skin on my belly. I know I shouldn't ask, because my body has performed a miracle; two in fact. And yet it is important for a couple to still desire each other, isn't it?”
Source: The Guest List
“And I find perfect beauty excessively boring, don't you?”
“And I flirted with the devil and he dealt me a card. He told me that you will never win. So I sold my soul to the devil. I never thought it could be this bad. And I got the devil takin' me away”
“And I flunked anger management the moment I put the counselor through a stone wall. You might want to keep that in mind. [Thorn]”
Source: Bad Moon Rising: A Dark-Hunter Novel
“And I fly planes all the time. And helicopters.”
“And I found both literature and the church very dramatic presences in the world of the 1950s.”
“And I found I didn't like myself at the end of the day because I didn't care for the guy I was playing. I learned a little bit about acting in that.”
“And I found Jesus very disturbing, very straightforward. He wasn't diplomatic, and yet I felt like if I met Him, He would really like me. Don, I can't explain how freeing that was, to realize that if I met Jesus, He would like me. I never felt like that about some of the Christians on the radio. I always thought if I met those people they would yell at me. But it wasn't like that with Jesus.”
Source: Blue Like Jazz: Movie Edition: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality
“AND.....
I FOUND MUCH HATRED IN LOVE,
& FOUND MUCH LOVE IN HATRED.”
“AND....
I FOUND MUCH HATRED IN LOVE
& MUCH LOVE IN HATRED.”
“And I found out about the wonderful world of sign language. I suddenly realized: If we as a society recognize Jewish culture, gay culture and Latino culture, we must recognize that this is a coherent culture, too. I think deafness is a disability for social constructionist reasons.”
“And I found out, the other part of it is that I found out and in my desire to life successfully, that baseball fit very well into my life. It's been a great teacher, trainer, mentor and you'll see what I mean in the next few minutes that I have to speak.”
“And I get angry. Because we've tried so hard. Ninety-six percent of Black women tried so hard in voting against him. And not only did this country not elect Clinton, it elected a person who publicly supported sexual assault, a man one accused of rape by his daughter Ivanka's mother. I am angry with the Democratic Party for not knowing that there could have been and should have been a better candidate and angry that a better campaign -- a campaign that honored the journey, that included community in real and transformative ways -- was not launched. I am angry I didn't realize -- or accept on a cellular level -- how wedded to racism and misogyny average Americans are. I am angry at my own naiveté. Our own naiveté. There was a real and substantive difference between these two candidates and we didn't take that seriously enough.”
Source: When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir
“And I get it now, I that’s all he could ever be, that’s all anyone else could ever be: a Band-Aid, a butterfly strip, a temporary measure, because this is the after, and all of the good stuff got left behind in the before.”
Source: Hot Dog Girl
“and I get refill number three or four and the wine is making my bones loose and it's giving my hair a red sheen and my breasts are blooming and my eyes feel sultry and wise and the dress is water.”
Source: Willful Creatures
“And I get to decide when you come." Ellis ground his cock against her core, knowing precisely what he was doing to her, knowing how the edges of an orgasm were already building. She was a bundle of nerves, ready to break. Ellis thrust hard against her once.
"Fuck!" Rosemary cried out, her orgasm so, so close. But then he pulled away. She contemplated begging.
"Does that all sound good to you, love?" Ellis asked, a boyish, mischievous, and all-too-smug expression on his face.
She nodded, even as she was slick with need.
"Good," Ellis smiled, before slanting his lips against hers once more.”
Source: Love at First Fright
“And I go home having lost her love.
And write this book.”
“And I go looking looking for you in the streets
And I never find you
I never find you at all”
Source: Rome: Poems
“And I go out of Father's house and I walk down the street, and it is very quiet even thought it is the middle of the day and I can't hear any noise except birds singing and wind and sometimes buildings falling down in the distance, and if I stand very close to traffic lights I can hear a little click as the colors change.”