B Quotes
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“But I knew the way the people in the town thought about things. They always had some time left over from their life to bother about other people and what they did. They thought they had to get together to help other people out, like the time they got together about the woman who let a colored man borrow her car and told her the best place for her was up north with all the other nigger lovers, and the time they got the veterans with overseas wives out. If you were different from anybody in town, you had to get out. That's why everybody was so much alike. The way they talked, what they did, what they liked, what they hated. If somebody got to hate something and he was the right person, everybody had to hate it too, or people began to hate the ones who didn't hate it. They used to tell us in school to think for yourself, but you couldn't do that in the town. You had to think what your father thought all his life, and that was what everybody thought.”
Source: The Neon Bible
“But I knew very well how the persona you chose to present to the world could be very different from what was inside.
I knew how grief could make you behave in ways you couldn’t even begin to understand.”
Source: Me Before You
“But I knew what it said. That I could be imperfect, but only so much. Human, but only within limits. And honest, to her or to myself, never.”
Source: The Truth About Forever
“But I know a lie when I hear one.”
Source: As I Wake
“But i know a lot about the kind of men you mean. They're the same everywhere.”
Source: Inkheart
“But I know all the things you're too sweet to know.”
Source: Perfect Ruin
“But I know also that still more interesting discoveries will be made that I have not the imagination to describe - and I am awaiting them, full of curiosity and enthusiasm.”
“but i know blue only blue lonely blue without you”
“But I know dreams are dangerous; they give me too much false hope.”
Source: Ace of Spades
“But I know every rock and tree and creature has a life, has a spirit, has a name.”
“But I know God has big stuff planned that ultimately doesn't have anything to do with me.”
“But I know he loves me. I know he needs our games, that they answer some deep-seated hunger in him.”
Source: The Girl Before
“But I know how this romantic stuff works: one girl's perfect guy is another girl's reject. And right now I'm glad of it.”
“But I know human nature, my friend, and I tell you that, suddenly confronted with the possibility of being tried for murder, the most innocent person will lose his head and do the most absurd things.”
Source: Murder in the Calais Coach
“But I know I didn't love school for school's sake. I had never really been what people call an 'academic' person, nor did I see myself becoming one. Instead, I took pleasure in the fact that my work existed in a social setting, one that was based on the promise of a brighter future. I knew that what I adored about school was that each of my assignments - readings, essays, or in-class presentations - was inseparable from my relationships [...] If I loved school at all, I loved it for what it provided me access to: bonds with people I grew to cherish. And nothing was better than working toward my dreams alongside people I loved who were doing the same.”
Source: Breaking Night: A Memoir of Forgiveness, Survival, and My Journey from Homeless to Harvard
“But I know I have a son who doesn't listen to anything I say and if he hears the same thing from someone else, sometimes it has a little more impact.”
“But I know I will do neither; nothing. I have all the time in the world, and yet, I can't be bothered.”
Source: A Line Made By Walking
“But I know I would not go out. I had taken this time to fall in love instead — in love with the sort of helplessness I had not felt in death — the helplessness of being alive, the dark bright pity of being human — feeling as you went, groping in corners and opening your arms to light - all of it part of navigating the unknown.”
“But I know in my heart what I'm doing is right.”
“But I know Jesus arose. I feel his presence now, here, with me. I see the evidence of his Word everyday. From creation forth, the whole world is witness to God's plan revealed through his Son. From the beginning, he prepared us. In the passing of the seasons; in the way flowers spring forth, die, and drop seeds for life to begin again; in the sunset and sunrise. Jesus' sacrifice is reenacted every day of our lives if we but have the eyes to see.”
Source: A Voice in the Wind
“But I know loving someone means losing a part of myself.”
Source: Perfect Chemistry
“But I know newspapers. They have the first amendment and they can tell any lie knowing it's a lie and they're protected if the person's famous or it's a company.”
“But I know now that a smile does not mean that a person is happy, and I guess not everybody looks sad when they are depressed.”
Source: Seven Sins
“But I know now that you can't expect anything from anybody. If somebody loves you, it's because he wants to. And it's never because it's what he's supposed to do." —Pete Cassidy”
“But I know somebody who has a bedside urinal. How do I compete with that?”
“But I know something else, too: bad people are rare. Good people are everywhere.”
“But I know that all the things I do know are very small compared with the things that I don't know.”
“But I know that for every good thing that comes along, there is always a cost.”
Source: Four: A Divergent Story Collection
“But I know that I’ve always had a connection to plants, an ability to care for them in a way that makes them thrive quickly, vibrantly, fragrantly. And among the flowers that I grow… I’m able to sense when there is a fragrance that will return a person to a forgotten moment in time, a long-buried memory. Scents have always been heightened for me… the scents of the flowers that I grow most of all.”
Source: The Memory Gardener
“But I know that I'm not who I was supposed to be. Who I could have been. And I know it's because I was too afraid for too long.”
“But I know that if I don't at least try, I'll stay the way I am till it kills me. Till I kill me, I mean. I never really accept that that's what I'm doing - I say it, but I don't believe it.”
Source: Second Star to the Right
“But I know that in my heart of hearts that drinking is about as good an escape as an innocent game of suicide skiing, so I know also that David's complete obsession with video games of this type, or any type, are far from healthy.”
“But I know that in Toronto and Vancouver there are all the comforts of America, and yet there's a difference in the people, and I had health care.”
“But I know that the vote of 9 out of 10 black Americans for the Democratic Party or for leftist kinds of policies just is not reflective of their opinions.”
“But I know the difference. Everyone else is a ghost. I exist here alone, stranded by choice. Deserted.”
Source: Naomi and Ely's No Kiss List
“But I know this isn't true. It is just passing the buck, as children do, to mothers. I've mourned for her already. But I will do it again, and again.”
Source: The Handmaid’s Tale
“But I know this much." Silas continued. "That with compassion, Ranya will heal. If we have the courage to forgive, we will discover that love can heal even the very worst among us.”
“But I know this. We're ready to move forward again in our way. Together or apart, no matter how far apart, we live in one another. We go on together.”
“But I know, too, that I have spent most of my life trying to push winter away, having rarely had to truly feel its bite...I'm certain that the cold has healing powers that I don't yet come close to understanding. After all, you apply ice to a joint after an awkward fall. Why not do the same to a life?”
Source: Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times
“But I know too that if we ever make a world without shadow, if the chemists and scientists and psychologists succeed in abolishing fear, pain, loneliness, death, some of us will find life so intolerable we will probably blow out our brains out of sheer boredom.”
“But I know what darkness is, it accumulates, thickens, then suddenly bursts and drowns everything.”
Source: Three Novels: Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable
“But I know what I like.' She smiled, and et the cat drop to the floor. 'It's like Tiffany's,'she said. 'Not that I give a hoot about jewellery. Diamonds, yes. But it's tacky to wear diamonds before you're forty; and even that's risky.”
Source: Breakfast at Tiffany's
“But I know what it means to crave what you're not. To want to sew up that rift because it's exhausting to hold it open. Sometimes you just need to be someone else, someone who doesn't care about anything at all. I know I do. I want emptiness but I can't have it.”
Source: Zazen
“But I know what it’s like when everyone seems to look at you as if you’re a strange creature impossible to understand, so much so you begin to wonder if they’re right.”
Source: Enchanted Forest
“But I know what to do. I take a deep breath and find love again.”
“But I know what's important to me, and what isn't. And I think I know what people can get used to, and what they can even learn to like. (It just takes some people longer than others. :-)”
“but I know you're the brightest shooting star in the sky - Astrid”
“But I know, somehow, that only when it is dark enough, can you see the stars.”
“But I learned first-hand how the news media operates by watching how they interpreted, changed, and misrepresented my intentions.”
“But I learned from these new books that Southerners think we are really rather sad. They have an idea of a people dwelling on a mountain, inbred, lonely, mysterious; that we ritually climb and descend, and make sacrifices, and burn eternal flames, and send bridal parties from village to village in the spring so men like Daila can impregnate women like me, all in order to placate something implacable. They see our culture as rich, in the same way perhaps that a seam of ancient ore is rich — because of compression and repression. They imagine that we drink a lot, even more than we do (and it is a thing I learned from the bar, that they drink as much as we, that every culture that’s discovered alcohol drinks too much) and that we are poorer than we are because only a few of us sell anything to them.
A melancholy drunken land, a land of storytellers, a land of sly jokes, an Asam-hating land, and nothing like the land I remembered. It was as if someone had constructed a scaffolding around us, and then removed us and written only about the scaffolding. The more I read, the more the materials of the scaffolding — splintered wood, narrow pipes of metal — slid into the hollows of my bones. I knew that the next time I went to the mountain, I would have a stranger’s mind in mine. Though I walked in streets I had known since girlhood, I would never again be able to step upon them without an erudite word in my head and a bracing of metal in my marrow.”
Source: The Breath of the Sun