B Quotes
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“But I love the idea - whether it's in my work or where I live - exploring new frontier, and I like putting myself in strange places and trying to survive and figure things out and gather up an infrastructure. I like knowing that I could figure out a way to live anywhere.”
“But I love to be outdoors. I prefer being outdoors to, you know, being inside.”
“But I love to entertain. My vocation is to accrue all these experiences, to write about them, to get them out of my system, to not get sick, and then to share them publicly.”
“But I love to feel events overlapping each other, crawling over one another like wet crabs in a basket”
“But I love to write music. What I would love to do is give some of the songs I write to someone like Taylor Swift because I feel like she could sing them.”
“But I love you. And Ahlskibi loves Leng. We do not serve you as other dragons serve their riders. We chose you for friendship and with that comes love and loyalty.”
Source: The Dark Prince
“But I love you, and before you say it words do matter. They're not pointless. If they were pointless then they couldn't start revolutions and they wouldn't change history and they wouldn't be the things that you think about every night before you go to sleep. If they were just words we wouldn't listen to songs, we wouldn't beg to be read to when we're kids. If they were just words, then they'd have no meaning and stories wouldn't have been around since before humans could write. We wouldn't have learned to write. If they were just words then people wouldn't fall in love because of them, feel bad because of them, ache because of them, stop aching because of them, have sex, quite a lot of the time, because of them.”
Source: Words in Deep Blue
“But I love you and I want you and I need you. Can’t you see that? This world has nothing to offer me if it doesn’t include you.”
“But I love YOU, Edweird. Sure, I'll probably hook up with Yakob in Eclipse. After all, you're going to leave me for roughly three hundred pages. But that's neither here nor there. You and I were meant to be together. I mean you, me and sometimes Yakob...and sometimes just Yakob and me, but mostly you and me. That's just the way I always dreamed it should be, you want to marry me. We'll marry."
"Hmmm," said Edweird thoughtfully after a long pause. "You know, I'm actually getting kind of tired of Yakob, if you want to know the truth. I mean, seriously, going steady with the same guy for half a century can make a stale relationship. Maybe it's time we see other people. You really set me straight on this, Stella. I want to thank you for makin me see this whole vampire-werewolf relationship thing more clearly."
Edweird then turned to Yakob, who had remained silent throughout. "It's over between us, toots.”
Source: Twilite: A Parody
“But I love you I'm totally and completely in love with you and I don't care if you think it's too late. I'm telling you anyway.”
“But I love you, sir:
And when a woman says she loves a man,
The man must hear her, though he love her not.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (Illustrated)
“But I love you, “ he whispered. “Doesn't that matter?” “Of course it matters. So much. Can't you see? That only makes it more… necessary.” His eyes flashed open. “Is it so unbearable to have me love you? Is that it? I can keep my mouth shut, Wanda. I won't say it again. You can be with Jared, if that's what you want. Just stay.”
“But I love your feet only because they walked upon the earth and upon the wind and upon the waters, until they found me.”
Source: Love Poems
“But I loved doing the physical stuff for 'Dredd.' I have to give a shout-out to the stunt team that I worked with.”
“But I loved George in part because he believed me; because if I stood in a cold, plain room and yelled FIRE, he would walk over and ask me why.”
“But I loved Joe, perhaps for no better reason in those early days than be- cause the dear fellow let me love him, and, as to him, my inner self was not so easily composed. It was much upon my mind (particularly when I first saw him looking about for his file) that I ought to tell Joe the whole truth. Yet I did not, and for the reason that I mistrusted that if I did, he would think me worse than I was. The fear of losing Joe's confidence, and of thenceforth sitting in the chimney corner at night staring drearily at my forever lost companion and friend, tied up my tongue. I morbidly represented to myself that if Joe knew it, I never afterwards could see him at the fireside feeling his fair whisker, without thinking that he was meditating on it. That, if Joe knew it, I never af- terwards could see him glance, however casually, at yesterday's meat or pudding when it came on to-day's table, without thinking that he was debating whether I had been in the pantry. That, if Joe knew it, and at any subsequent period of our joint domestic life remarked that his beer was flat or thick, the conviction that he suspected tar in it, would bring a rush of blood to my face. In a word, I was too cowardly to do what I knew to be right, as I had been too cowardly to avoid doing what I knew to be wrong.”
Source: Great Expectations
“But I loved making Eat Pray Love, and I loved working with Julia Roberts.”
“But I loved the library simply because it was a library. I love libraries. I like reading, but I love libraries. Being surrounded by books makes me feel safe, the way some people need trees or mountains around them to feel secure. Not me – nature’s not what I cling to. I cling to books.”
Source: Back When You Were Easier to Love
“But I loved the script to 7th Heaven and couldn't say no. It made me laugh and cry, and I was hooked. I'd love to know who turned it down, because I'm sure at least one other actor did. But I'm glad he did, whoever it was.”
“But I loved the theatre and I was just doing theatre 24/7 and kept dropping courses because I didn't have the time and the chancellor thought that wasn't a good idea after awhile.”
“But I loved those books or at least that first one. And I felt somewhere down deep inside him the person who wrote it must be there. That you couldn't write such beautiful things and have such an ugly heart. But that is the truth. He was a beautiful writer and a terrible person.”
Source: The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry
“But I'm a selfish man. I've wanted you since you fell into my office. You are exquisite, honest, warm, strong, witty, beguilingly innocent; the list is endless. I'm in awe of you. I want you, and the thought of anyone else having you is like a knife twisting in my dark soul.”
Source: Fifty Shades Darker
“But I’m allowed to flirt if I want to. You don’t own me, Taushen. You’re not my father, either.”
“I do not want to be your father,” I snarl, beyond frustration. I am so full of need for her that I ache, and she speaks of her father? “I want to be your mate. The one who gets all your touches, all your caresses. The only one.”
Source: Barbarian's Tease
“But I’m completely innocent in this case. I’m the victim. Don’t you understand? If she’d just dressed in an appropriate manner, nothing would have happened. I’m a peaceful man, and now I’m going to prison.”
Conversation on Radio Fake 112.8 MHz
In The Shadow of Sadd.”
Source: In The Shadow of Sadd
“But I'm here. I will love him. I will be his mother.”
Source: Until We All Come Home: A Harrowing Journey, a Mother's Courage, a Race to Freedom
“But I'm here to let you know
That I'll love you like you deserve
I'll treat you right
And on a cold, cold night
I'll shower you in hugs & kisses
And soup”
Source: Being
“But, I’m-I’m your mother!” she cried. “And I’m a motherfucker,” Rock grumbled”
Source: Playground
“But I'm in the water, too, I wanted to say. And there are plenty eyes on you. No one's watching to see if I stay afloat.”
Source: Sharks in the Time of Saviors
“But I'm learning it's human nature to want the things you can't have. What changes is how you go about pursuing the things you want. When you're a little kid and you're told no, you scream and throw a temper tantrum. When you're a teenager and your parents tell you no, you're old enough to internalize your temper tantrum. But you're smarter and you're sneakier this time around. So you nod and act like you care when they say no, when they tell you who you can be friends with, when they say the know what's best.
But then you go behind their backs to do it anyway.
Because at some point, you need to start calling the shots. At some point, you need to start believing you know whats best. Or, I thought with a smile, you just stop asking for their permission in the first place.”
Source: Awaken
“But—I’m leaving.”
Not without me.”
Source: Trial by Fire
“But I'm not a jealous guy...maybe just
of the sun that shines on you
of the moon that sees you every night
of the rain that touches your face
and everything around you.”
“But I'm not a writer..."
How many times have you thought that? How many times have you said it out loud?
How many times have you read a beautifully worded book or a poem or an essay or a social media post and felt it take your breath away? Felt that yearning inside of you, that longing to do that or learn that or become that thing...the one that would let you find the words to share your story like that.
If only you were brave enough. If only you were wise enough. If only you had all the right words. If only you were talented. If only you could speak the truth without being judged. If only you could write like her or him or them.
If only you were a writer...
Guess what. You are. You are a writer - and I promise you this. If you were not a writer you wouldn't be here.
You are a writer because words dance in your brain and itch the tips of your fingers - begging you to pick up the pen or click the keyboard. Because a phrase on a page or the lyric of a song can steal your breath and remind you of all lines that live in your soul that long for release. Because you are pulled, again and again, and again to story. To the real and raw and the fantastically make-believe.
You are a writer because of your willingness to stare into the void and face the demons and weave the beauty of the world around you into words. And even if those words don't ever make it to a page, they live inside of you.
Because you couldn't stop, even if you wanted to. And you don't want to. Because the words are like your breath and the story - your story - that is the air. And the magic that happens when we come together to make stories - well, that's the universe.
So the next time you're tempted to let that phrase or any other like it - slip into your brain or from your lips - shut that shit down.
Immediately.
You are a writer. Do you hear me? You said yes. You are here. You are showing up at the page and sitting in front of the screen. You are welcoming the muse. You are facing the fear. And you are writing.
You are a writer.
And that's the beginning and end of everything.
Now, stop arguing with me, and go write already.”
“But I'm not dead," Blue pointed out.
"BUT YOU ARE PRETTY SHORT.”
Source: Blue Lily, Lily Blue
“But I'm not even human, waking on this soil like a dead life.”
Source: The Tragedy of our Lives: Collection of Poems
“But I’m not going to as long as I can help it, as long I’m breathing I will not stop the breath of another, Kins or humans or whoever. Words don't make us do what we’re supposed to do. My actions are my own, I don’t care who wrote them. So I’m going along with this journey to find my own path.”
Source: Mourning Grey: Part Two
“But I’m not guilty,” said K. “there’s been a mistake. How is it even possible for someone to be guilty? We’re all human beings here, one like the other.” “That is true” said the priest “but that is how the guilty speak”
Source: The Trial
“But I'm not her anymore. I don't even want to be her anymore. That girl was so naive and stupid--the kind of girl who could let something like this happen to her.”
Source: The Way I Used to Be
“But I’m not ok. For days afterward, I walk around dazed, unable to shake the feeling of having been violated. During a meeting with my advisor, she asks how I’m doing, expecting my usual aloof response. Instead, I launch into a version of what happened. I try to be vague because I don’t want to implicate Strane, so the story comes out patchy and incoherent, makes me sound crazy.
“This is Henry we’re talking about?” my advisor asks, her voice barely above a whisper; the office walls are thin. “Henry Plough?” He hasn’t even been there a year and already he has a reputation for being a man of integrity.
Clasping her hands, my advisor labors over her words as she says, “Vanessa, over the years I’ve gathered from your writing that something happened to you in high school. Do you think that might be what you’re really upset about here?”
She waits, her eyebrows jumping as though prompting me to agree. This, I think, is the cost of telling, even in the guise of fiction—once you do, it’s the only thing about you anyone will ever care about. It defines you whether you want it to or not.
My advisor smiles, reaches forward and pats my knee. “Hang in there.”
Source: My Dark Vanessa
“But I'm not special", Bailey says, "not the way they are. I'm not anyone important."
"I know", Celia said, "you are not destined or chosen. I wish I could tell you that you were if that would make it easier, but it is not true. You are in the right place, at the right time, and you care enough to do what needs to be done. Sometimes that is enough.”
Source: The Night Circus
“But I’m not such a good judge of monsters; I don’t know if the idea of a good death repels me now because it’s in itself repellent, or because I no longer have the courage to seek such a thing.”
Source: The Shepherd's Hut
“But I’m not sure it actually matters what we read. Our lives continue along the straight lines that have been set out for us. Fiction merely allows us a glimpse of the alternative. Maybe that’s one of the reasons we enjoy it.”
Source: Magpie Murders
“But I’m not wearing the appropriate clothes for the occasion.
“You’re always more than appropriate.”
Source: Cielo Por Tu Luz
“But I’m not your fiancée. I am nothing more than your redemption!”
Source: Lovers Ransom
“But I’m oddly grateful.”
Source: My Heart and Other Black Holes
“But I'm older than him and, by default, supposedly wiser. I know that love isn't always enough.”
Source: The Only Way Is Up
“But I'm shocked by the tenderness in his voice. The sincerity with which he wants to know. He's like a feral dog, crazed and wild, thirsty for chaos, simultaneously aching for recognition and acceptance.
Love.”
Source: Shatter Me
“But I'm simply not going to deceive anybody about the life as I've seen it. It's all here: the good, the bad and the ugly.”
Source: Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly
“But I'm still alive, stay rocking 'til the end”
“But I’m sure you, dear Reader, are cleverer
than that. For if it really took only so long as Lydia suspected to save the Zs, then there would be much less of this book left than there is, wouldn’t there?”
Source: Lydia Green Of Mulberry Glen
“But I'm the inconvenient thing. I am my own biggest obstacle. I always have been.”
Source: Sunburn