I Quotes
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“I don't know what hurts more...those moments I ache for you to be here or those moments when you are here and I wonder if it is the last time I will feel you.”
Source: Steamfate
“I don't know what I ate, but I felt immensely better after the first mouthful. It occurred to me that my vision of the fig-tree and all the fat figs that withered and fell to the earth might well have arisen from the profound void of an empty stomach.”
Source: the bell jar
“I don't know what I believe anymore. If God does exist, then He's just an asshole, creating this world full of human suffering and letting all these terrible things happen to good people, and sitting there and doing nothing about it. At June's memorial service, a few people came up to me and said some really stupid things, like how everything happens for a reason, and God never gives us more than we can handle. All I could think was, does that mean if I was a weaker person, this never would've happened? Am I seriously supposed to buy that June's death was part of some stupid divine plan? I don't believe that. I can't. It just doesn't make sense.”
Source: Saving June
“I don't know what I believe. I guess that makes me a Christmas Tree Agnostic.”
Source: Isla and the Happily Ever After
“I don't know what I believe. I guess that makes me a Christmas tree agnostic." He smiles. "I like it and you're a Yom Kippur atheist.”
Source: Isla and the Happily Ever After
“I don’t know what I’d do without you, Leon.”
And there it was. That unlocking inside him. That thing only she could do to him. That was why he had come. Why he would always come.
Marry me, he thought.”
Source: Ruled
“I don’t know what I did to deserve someone as smart and beautiful as you.”
"You were you. And maybe that was enough.”
Source: Lost on the Edge of Forever
“I don’t know what I expected, but it wasn’t this. This broken wing. This storm between us. All the unmade memories I held dear before I put on my dress of white wound me. I grieve for a wish which hasn’t come to pass—a wish for happiness.”
Source: In a Grove of Maples
“I don't know what I expected – no
maybe I do, Al Pacino from Scarface-
but this drug dealer is more like Al Pacino
at the beginning of The Godfather
reasonably bemused, untouched by his
criminal world, sitting with Diane Keaton
whispering about Luca Brazzi, not yet asleep
with the fishes, or like Al Pacino
from Glengarry Glen Ross, although actually,
now that I think about it, he's not
like Al Pacino at all but more like
Kevin Spacey from that film, and who's
ever been afraid of Kevin Spacey?”
Source: The Financial Lives of the Poets
“I don't know what I know, but definitely know what I know'
what I know, i don't know...what I don't know, I know”
“I don't know what I'm trying to say. I don't know what any of this is really about.
Why we bother.
Why we're here.
Why we love.
...
There is a point, I don't know what it is, but everything I've had, and everything I've lost, and everything I've felt—it meant something.
Maybe there isn't a meaning to life. Maybe there's only a meaning to living.
That's what I've learned. That's what I'm going to be doing from now on.
Living.
And loving, sappy as it sounds.
I'm not falling anymore. That's what L says, and she's right.
I guess you could say I'm lying.
We both are.
And I'm pretty sure somewhere up there in the real blue sky and carpenter bee greatness, Amma is flying too.
We all are, depending on how you look at it. Flying or falling, it's up to us.
Because the sky isn't really made of blue paint, and there aren't just two kinds of people in this world, the stupid and the stuck. We only think there are. Don't waste your time with either—with anything. It's not worth it.
You can ask my mom, if it's the right kind of starry night. The kind with two Caster moons and a Northern and a Southern Star.
At least I know I can.”
“I don't know what I need, or even what I want, from her or from anybody. There's no way to tell her the truth, because the truth is that my heart is broken, and I don't think there''s any chance of it being sewn back together. This is permanent. It can't be fixed.”
Source: Saving June
“I don't know what I want or don't want. I've stopped wanting, stopped knowing how to want, stopped knowing the emotions or thoughts by which people generally recognize that they want something or want to want it. I don't know who I am or what I am. Like someone buried under a collapsed wall, I lie under the topped vacuity of the entire universe.”
Source: The Book of Disquiet
“I don't know what I want.' The words come out a whisper, too true by half.
'Destruction and ruin,' she says with a clack of her tongue. 'I can practically smell it on you.”
Source: The Stolen Heir
“I don't know what I was expecting a vampire's room to look like. Maybe lots of black, a bunch of books by Camus... oh, and a sensitive portrait of the only human the vamp ever loved, who had no doubt died of something beautiful and tragic, thus dooming the vamp to an eternity of moping and sighing dramatically.
What can I say? I read a lot of books.”
Source: Hex Hall
“I don't know what I was hoping for. Some kind of magic, obviously.”
Source: Topics of Conversation
“I don't know what I was hoping for. Some small praise, I guess. A bit of encouragement. I didn't get it. Miss Parrish took me aside one day after school let out. She said she'd read my stories and found them morbid and dispiriting. She said literature was meant to uplift the heart and that a young woman such as myself ought to turn her mind to topics more cheerful and inspiring than lonely hermits and dead children.
"Look around yourself, Mathilda," she said. "At the magnificence of nature. It should inspire joy and awe. Reverence. Respect. Beautiful thoughts and fine words."
I had looked around. I'd seen all the things she'd spoken of and more besides. I'd seen a bear cub lift it's face to the drenching spring rains. And the sliver moon of winter, so high and blinding. I'd seen the crimson glory of a stand of sugar maples in autumn and the unspeakable stillness of a mountain lake at dawn. I'd seen them and loved them. But I'd also seen the dark of things. The starved carcasses of winter deer. The driving fury of a blizzard wind. And the gloom that broods under the pines always. Even on the brightest days.”
Source: A Northern Light
“I don't know what I was looking for . . . I felt empty. I guess. Not hearing from you made it all seem surreal, like you were never there, a dream, a figment of my imagination.
I went to your site that day to . . . I guess, double-check.
I thought. . . maybe you wrote something, a new story . . . a message . . . anything.
I did find a new story . . .
It wasn't about us . . .
And I ended up feeling even emptier.”
Source: Sunstone, Vol. 5
“I don’t know what I would have done if they had hugged me. I probably would have frozen in place, become stiff. It took most of my life to overcome my distaste for physical contact and not to stiffen when I was touched, or flinch, twitch, fidget, and eventually figure out how to move away. I learned to accept being hugged by my children when they were infants. Their joy at seeing me enter a room was real and filled with true love and affection and it showed in their embraces. Like a convert, when I learned the joy and comfort of being hugged by and hugging those I loved, I became a regular practitioner.”
Source: No Time to Say Goodbye: A Memoir of a Life in Foster Care
“I don't know what is in this money that you are punishing other struggling citizens for, it's not like you're going to go to heaven with all the money.”
Source: Thorns in the desert
“I don't know what it is about fecundity that so appalls. I suppose it is the teeming evidence that birth and growth, which we value, are ubiquitous and blind, that life itself is so astonishingly cheap, that nature is as careless as it is bountiful, and that with extravagance goes a crushing waste that will one day include our own cheap lives, Henle's loops and all. Every glistening egg is a memento mori.”
Source: PILGRIM AT TINKER CREEK
“I don't know what it is about Rosamund today, but she's shining like King Midas on a dull day. Everything she touches is turning to gold-- gold dipped in diamonds and sprinkled with sunshine.”
Source: The Chocolate Maker's Wife
“I don't know what it is about the food your mother makes for you, especially when it's something that anyone can make - pancakes, meat loaf, tuna salad - but it carries a certain taste of memory.”
Source: For One More Day
“I don't know what it is about this man that makes me melt into a puddle.”
Source: Double Agent
“I don’t know what it is, but he makes me want to knock down all the walls I’ve put up and let him inside. And it scares the shit out of me.”
Source: Tag Chaser
“I don't know what it is, but I hope that it's not mine.”
“I don't know what it is that you expect of me, but we're here.
I have always had little room to explore and yet you are determined to dig into me. But I encourage you to find whatever it is that you must explore within me”
“I don't know what it is with you, but I somehow become more a woman when ever your around.”
“I don’t know what it’s all for, but I keep going anyway, in the misguided hope that if I can simply exhaust my obsession it might come to bore me, eventually. It’s a foolish approach that only makes things worse, because the more I read, the sharper my rage grows.”
Source: A Ghost in the Throat
“I don't know what kind of teenage boy would let a dead body distract him from a babe like Brooke.”
Source: Mr. Monster
“I don't know what laws of physics are involved, but if you fill a gym with teenagers
and tell them to stare at one object, heat is actually produced. I half expected to
spontaneously combust.
Katrina”
“I don't know what love can do for the terrible things of life.”
Source: The Green Knight
“I don't know what love is,
But i know what true love is,
It is when two people encourages each other to grow ,
Who will let you go out the world and trust that you will come back. This is what true love is about.”
“I don't know what love is.
But if you're sad and it makes me sadder, I know you and I are somewhere close to it.”
“I don’t know what magic unknown roads have that makes me want to put myself out of my comfort zone, the feeling of discovering something unknown drives me into walking miles with a constant smile while embracing the creations.”
“I don't know what makes us want to keep on living, what makes us desperately hold on to anything that will allow us to remain on this earth just a little longer despite the pain that comes with it, but I do know that, whatever it is, selfishness resides at its core; selfishness is its black, dangerous heart.”
Source: The Devil Takes You Home
“I don’t know what more I could have done for you. Maybe I cared too much, maybe I stayed too long, maybe I kept trying when there was nothing left to fix. I replay moments sometimes the things I said, the efforts I made, the silences I accepted. And still, it feels like it was never enough. But maybe that’s the truth about some people, no matter how much you give, they only remember what you couldn’t. So now I don’t question what more I could have done. I remind myself that I gave with honesty, and that should have been enough.”
Source: Life Simplified: Quote - Unquote
“I don’t know what more to say... I did not follow up in the days to come. I did not, I did, I should, I could... Just like that, I let that entire ordeal go.”
Source: Behind the Hospital
“I don't know what's more painful for me. Leaving you or to continue loving you.”
“I don't know what's more tragic, knowing how to read and choosing not to, or not knowing how to read and refusing to learn.”
“I don’t know what’s real and what isn’t half of the time.”
Source: Snow Maiden
“I don't know what's so scary about zombies. Reanimating the dead isn't that hard, but they make TERRIBLE minions. They can't move quickly and they fall to pieces in a matter of days.”
Source: Nimona
“I don’t know what’s worse; being afraid to live or being afraid to die. Yet, the thing about Christmas is that it eliminates both.”
“I don't know what's worse, being ignored or stared at.”
Source: New School & Other Stuff
“I don't know what's wrong with me, really. It's nothing, but it's also all-encompassing. I feel strangely empty, devoid of though and energy. I am not sure where my days go, but they go. Every single thing I must do--any hint of a demand--grinds against me. I don't know what I'd do in that time should I ever achieve that perfect aloneness. I like to think I would read, but in truth I would probably sleep. I don't have the attention for anything, really. My brain feels entirely separate from me. It is empty, but it also cannot take any more in. It seems that it's a useless organ, endlessly refusing to notice what I want it to notice. It will not engage. It just glances off everything, a pale beam.”
Source: Enchantment: Awakening Wonder in an Anxious Age
“I don't know what's wrong with this world, but I do know what's right with it: Love. I have studied enough history to see that no matter how cruel the behavior of tyrants and no matter how dark the moments have been, Love has always prevailed. Always.”
“I don't know what scares me more," she declared, "the madness that smashes people down, or their ability to endure it.”
Source: Shantaram
“I don't know what she's thinking, but I'm thinking how fluid the border is between crazy and interesting, and how hard it is to decide who belongs where.”
Source: The Art of Crash Landing
“I don't know what she's trying to say, but I can feel her struggle to get it out. "I love Skittles.”
Source: Sometimes Never
“I don't know what stressed me first
Or how the pressure was fed
But I know just what it feels like
To have a voice in the back of my head”