A Quotes
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“And I wonder,
at what point did I stop
waiting for the light
and have made peace
with the darkness?”
Source: All The Lights Within Us
“And I wonder how Gage knew this is what my soul has craved. He turns me to face him, his eyes searching. It occurs to me that no one in my life has ever concerned himself so thoroughly with my happiness.”
Source: Sugar Daddy: A Novel
“And I wonder how many little pieces of you will die before you learn that most people you've loved are not worth dying for.”
“and i wonder how
you saw through stone,
the stone of my heart.
how you carefully searched
for the soft part
hidden inside.
and i wonder why
you looked at me at all
and why you wouldn’t stop.
not after recognizing my scars
and wounds
and brokenness.
you could have turned away then
and i would have understood
and i wouldn’t had cared.
but you didn’t
and now I care.
i care and won’t stop
because you saw me
and still do.
i care,
i care and won’t stop
because you looked
and still do.
and i still wonder how,
you saw through stone.”
“And I wonder if anyone is really happy. I hope they are. I really hope they are.”
Source: The Perks of Being a Wallflower YA edition
“and I wonder if Beethoven held his breath the first time his fingers touched the keys the same way a soldier holds his breath the first time his finger clicks the trigger. We all have different reasons for forgetting to breathe.”
Source: Take Me With You
“And I wonder if that's what my scars really are: proof that I've put myself back together again.”
Source: The Dark and Hollow Places
“And I wonder if the moment I die will know it’s the moment I die.”
“And I wonder if there is really any point to what I'm doing, or what I'm supposed to make of a world where a man can get rich playing "let's pretend”
Source: Different Seasons
“And I wonder if this is why the travelers' tales are so spectacular. If, behind every story about a felled tiger or supposed dragon, there is a real person, someone the storyteller wishes to forget in the only way she knows, which is to retell the story again and again until even she believes it was a dragon, and not a boy, who left her with so many scars.”
“And I wonder: in how many infinite sets of worlds will I take one more step? And how many countless versions of me will turn around instead, and walk out of this room? Who exactly am I saving from shame, when I'll live and die in every possible way?
Myself.”
Source: Axiomatic
“And I wonder, therefore, how James Atlas can have been so indulgent in his recent essay ‘The Changing World of New York Intellectuals.’ This rather shallow piece appeared in the New York Times magazine, and took us over the usual jumps. Gone are the days of Partisan Review, Delmore Schwartz, Dwight MacDonald etc etc. No longer the tempest of debate over Trotsky, The Waste Land, Orwell, blah, blah. Today the assimilation of the Jewish American, the rise of rents in midtown Manhattan, the erosion of Village life, yawn, yawn. The drift to the right, the rediscovery of patriotism, the gruesome maturity of the once iconoclastic Norman Podhoretz, okay, okay! I have one question which Atlas in his much-ballyhooed article did not even discuss. The old gang may have had regrettable flirtations. Their political compromises, endlessly reviewed, may have exhibited naivety or self-regard. But much of that record is still educative, and the argument did take place under real pressure from anti-semitic and authoritarian enemies. Today, the alleged ‘neo-conservative’ movement around Jeane Kirkpatrick, Commentary and the New Criterion can be found in unforced alliance with openly obscurantist, fundamentalist and above all anti-intellectual forces. In the old days, there would at least have been a debate on the proprieties of such a united front, with many fine distinctions made and brave attitudes struck. As I write, nearness to power seems the only excuse, and the subject is changed as soon it is raised. I wait for the agonised, self-justifying neo-conservative essay about necessary and contingent alliances. Do I linger in vain?”
Source: Prepared for the Worst: Selected Essays and Minority Reports
“And I wonder what the sound of a heart breaking might be. And I think it might be quiet, unperceptively so, and not dramatic at all. Like the sound of an exhausted swallow falling gently to earth.”
Source: Tin Man
“And I wonder, among all the tangles of this mortal coil, which one contains tighter knots to undo, & consequently suggests more tugging, & pain, & diversified elements of misery, than the marriage tie.”
“And I wonder: Have I squandered my dogness? Have I forsaken my nature for my desires? Have I made a mistake by anticipating my future and shunning my present?”
Source: The Art of Racing in the Rain
“And I wondered if hurdlers ever thought, you know, 'This would go faster if we just got rid of the hurdles.”
Source: The Fault in Our Stars
“And I wondered if love was too weak a word for what he felt, what he’d done for me. For what I felt for him.”
Source: A Court of Mist and Fury
“and I wondered if, in the end, this is how all disputes are settled, with a shared silence as things become equal. You take something from me, I take something from you. We all want balance, one way or another.”
Source: The Truth About Forever
“And I wont rest until I make every star in the heavens fall for trying to cleave us apart”
“And I would argue the second greatest force in the universe is ownership.”
“And I would be the first to admit that probably, in a lot of press conferences over the time that I have been in coaching, indulging my own sense of humor at press conferences has not been greatly to my benefit.”
“And I would begin with the EPA, because there is no other agency like the EPA. It should really be renamed the 'job-killing organization of America.'”
“And I would do it again. I love you, Jace Wayland-Herondale-Lightwood-whatever you want to call yourself. I don't care. I love you and I will always love you, and pretending it could be any other ways is just a waste of time.”
“And I would find myself again. Not the same version of me that I was looking for, but a stronger version. A wiser version. A woman who knew that she was enough, just as she was. A woman who had been tried in the fire but instead of being burned by it, came out gold.
A woman who finally, after doubting and questioning and striving and hustling for her worth for years…finally, finally came to the realization that she was and is and has always been…
ENOUGH.”
Source: You Are Enough: Heartbreak, Healing, and Becoming Whole
“And I would give my
self to this light just to have my
brother and mother
by each
other’s side. I would
swim back to the
ocean
and birth a creature
of acceptance; I would if it let me.
I would give it all away.”
Source: dead, but dreaming
“And I would have answered:
"The knottier the branch, the more twisted and misshapen, the more bent people called it, the harder it is to find it a place among the smooth planks, the more people agree that it should be thrown on the fire, the more useless it is, the more unsuitable for anything except letting one's imagination run riot, the more I covet it, the more I yearn to weigh it in my hand, the more I long to let my whittling knife be guided by its knots and veins...Yes, bring that piece to me...”
Source: From the Mouth of the Whale
“And I would have, now love is over, An end to all, an end: I cannot, having been your lover Stoop to become your friend!”
Source: Poems
“And I would hear yet once before I perish The voice which was my music... Speak to me!”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)
“And I would let him go and let him return. Over and over again, until there were no spaces between him going and returning and the rhythm of our coming together and separating made a music all its own that would fill through my days of waiting.”
Source: More Things in Heaven and Earth
“And I would like current or future politicians to make sure every avenue of diplomacy, and what you have, are exhausted before sending young men and women off to death and serious injury.”
“And I would like to marry and have more children. I would like to try and do it right.”
“And I would never accept a film because of the money. I have enough money.”
“And I would often wake up at night and stare widely into the room: Am I in Hell?”
“And I would really like to be a grandmother, but only when Felix or Emily meet the right person and are ready.”
“And I would really, over the long run, hope America would find some way to provide all of our citizens with extended families -- a large group of people they could call on for help.”
“And I would stop and take you in, all of you, and when our eyes lock we'd just stare into each other's souls and all of the lost time would come out in the shape of a big smile, a few tears and a tight hug that feels like...I don't know, it would feel like home.”
“And I would tell him, as we rise into the air, The curse is not that we cannot choose our Fates.
The curse, the curse we all live under, is that we can.”
Source: The Queen of the Night
“And I would try and walk far enough away that people would not assume I was with him.”
“And I would urge all women to have that regular mammogram.”
“And I wouldn't feel any loss because I wouldn't ever have met her. I wondered suddenly if Terence did, if he knew on some level that he hadn't met his true love. And if he did, what did he feel? Mawkish sorrow, like one of his Victorian poems? Or a gnawing of some need unsatisfied? Or just a grayness to everything?”
Source: To Say Nothing of the Dog
“And I wouldn't know, but if the privateer you've hired is entirely trustworthy, he's probably not much of a privateer.”
Source: Rule of Wolves
“and i wouldn't say no to something sweet.”
Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel
“And I wound up in New Orleans for all those years and it was a great place, really a catalyst creatively.”
“and I wrote: Friends,
if you wish to survive
I would not recommend
Love”
Source: Hotel Nirvana: Selected Poems, 1953-1973
“And I wrote my way out of the labyrinth.”
Source: Looking For Alaska Special 10th Anniversary Edition
“And I wrote you."
"You did?"
"Oh, volumes," he said. "Your friend Rumi would have envied my production." Then he laughed again, uproariously this time, as though he was both startled at his own boldness and embarrassed by what he let on.”
Source: A Thousand Splendid Suns
“And I'd be lying if I told you that as a black man in baseball I hadn't gone through worse times than my teammates.”
“And I'd like to give my love to everybody, and let them know that the grass may look greener on the other side, but believe me, it's just as hard to cut.”
“And I'd like to leave quite a few friends behind and I hope I will. Other than that, I don't want nobody putting me on a pedestal when I leave here. I'm just one of the people ... just me.”
“And I'd like to say to the Senate, I hope you will say yes to a stronger American democracy in the year 2000.”
Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1999