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“I don't know why nobody told you
How to unfold your love”
“I don't know why or when I started falling for you, Alex. But I did. Ever since I almost ran over your motorcycle that first day of school I haven't been able to stop thinking about what it would be like if you and I got together. And that kiss ... God, I swear I never experienced anything like that in my life. It did mean something. If the solar system didn't tilt then, it never will. I know it's crazy because we're so different. And if anything happens between us I don't want people at school to know. Not that you'll agree to have a secret relationship with me, but I at least have to find out if it's possible. I broke up with Colin, who I had a very public relationship with and I'm ready for something private. Private and real. I know I'm babbling like an idiot, but if you don't say something soon or give me a hint of what you're thinking then I'll--"
"Say it again," he says.
"That whole drawn-out speech?" I remember something about a solar system, but I'm too light-headed to recite the entire thing all over again.
He steps closer. "No. The part about you fallin' for me."
My eyes cling to his. "I think about you all the time, Alex. And I really, really want to kiss you again."
The sides of his mouth turn up.
Unable to face him, I look at the ground. "Don't make fun of me." I can take anything but that right about now.
"Don't turn away from me, mamacita. I'd never make fun of you.”
Source: Perfect Chemistry
“I don’t know why other people have to make things so hard.”
Source: Heartbreak Boys
“I don't know why people are afraid of lust. Then I can imagine that they are very afraid of me, for I have a great lust for everything. A lust for life, a lust for how the summer-heated street feels beneath my feet, a lust for the touch of another's skin on my skin...a lust for everything. I even lust after cake. Yes, I am very lusty and very scary.”
“I don't know why people need things to last forever before they can say that those things "work". Nothing needs to last forever so I know they "work". They work while they work and when it's time to move on, it's time to move on. The human body doesn't even last forever; does that mean it didn't "work"? It fulfilled its purpose and then it moved on. We should expect nothing more from anything else.”
“I don't know why people try to be friends with their exes. I mean, we were never friends, so why try after having decided that an intimate relationship isn't going to work? Friendships are intimate, too. You can't just, like, turn the connection down a notch and hope to make it better. It's still the same connection, and if it's faulty it's going to stay faulty.”
Source: A Room Called Earth
“I don't know why she irritates me," Karen mutters.
But I do. Delilah sees right past people's bullshit. Even if she doesn't call a person on it, they somehow know she sees them. It chafes if the person doesn't like who they are on the inside.
"She's an acquired taste”
Source: Dear Enemy
“I don’t know why she never believes me when I call her beautiful. Maybe for the same reason I never believe her when she calls me the same. We’re so used to being outside the normal that it’s difficult to see ourselves as anything other than bitterly-remembered insults. It may take a lifetime of calling each other beautiful before we acknowledge that we truly are.”
Source: Emberstorm
“I don't know why
time
is dancing now
before us
soft and sandy
like the poets' women.
it wants me in all songs.
maybe you'd take me in for a moment
to your Andalusia
where today
no one has died.”
Source: Orbul de la Cină
“I don’t know why tobacco producers are exempt when it comes to listing ingredients, but that’s just the way it is (it’s all covered within the one word – tar).”
Source: Quit Smoking and Be Free: 7 Steps to a Smoke Free Life
“I don’t know why we fight.
It takes much too effort to stay mad at you.
To dodge your skin in the hallway
and leave the kitchen without bringing you a treat.
It takes much too effort to stare at the sink
so my eyes don’t smile at you in the mirror.
It takes much too effort to look away as we undress
and lie apart in the now bigger bed.
It takes much too effort to stiffen my body
because sleepy limbs forget fights
and pride is always lost in dreams.
It takes much too effort to awaken every hour to make sure we are islands with a gulf of white sheets separating us.
I dread the light peeking through the parted curtains
and empathise with your groans —
I didn’t get any sleep either.
I really don’t know why we fight.
It takes much too effort to stay mad at one another
when it’s so easy for us to love.”
“I don't know why we take our worst moods so much more seriously than our best, crediting depression with more clarity than euphoria. We dismiss peak moments and passionate love affairs as an ephemeral chemical buzz, just endorphins or hormones, but accept those 3 a.m. bouts of despair as unsentimental insights into the truth about our lives.”
Source: We Learn Nothing
“I don't know why we women believe that sacrificing our desires makes us more attractive to men. What on earth are we thinking? That someone who goes without her wishes deserves to be loved more than she who follows her dreams?”
Source: The Little French Bistro
“I don't know why weighing 140 pounds means I'm middle-aged, but it does. It is a magic number. A matronly number. More important than wishing young people would get their hair out of their eyes and more important than thinking Green Day sounds banal and that MTV is too sexist. If I could lose ten pounds, then maybe I could put off middle age for a while. But the thought of dieting, of thinking of food all the time, seems like too much to contemplate.”
“I don't know why, when it comes to death, we say we lost someone. They're not missing or misplaced. They're whisked away from the tightest embrace.”
Source: The Book of Two Ways
“I don’t know why when talking to us Christians if you are not from the same church. We think you are evil and send by the devil to tempt us. It doesn’t matter how good you are or how pure your intentions are . We will judge you without knowing you and judge you in a bad way that you are the evil one or sent by the devil. We never see good in other people, or never see good people. That is why it is hard for people to become Christians or to be close and be friends with us Christian’s because they are being labeled and judged by us Christians. Thou the bible says do not judge. God has given us many chance to repent and change, but we are not giving anyone a chance to become good. May God help us not only to become better Christians but also to become better people or human beings too.
Luke 6:37 | Luke 6:41 | Romans 14:10 | Matthew 18:21-22”
“I don't know why you care.
He doesn't even know you're there”
“I don't know why you changed on me. I loved who I thought you were.”
Source: I Took a Plane to Die in Denver
“I don't know why you decided to wear that costume, but it makes you a symbol. Just as Robin was a symbol. Or Superman, or Nightwing, or the policeman who wears his uniform. And this isn't just a symbol of the law, it's a symbol of justice. When one policeman is killed, others take his place because justice can't be stopped.”
Source: Batman: A Lonely Place of Dying
“I don’t know why you’re embarrassed. Sexual attraction is a key component to—"
"Ugh! Please stop talking."
"
But that’s my most attractive quality. I’m happy to communicate. "
"But half the time, no one knows what you’re saying. Including me, and I’m your brother.”
Source: Interview with a Hex Boy
“I don't know why you think you don't look like a nice guy. You look tough, like you can handle yourself, but you don't look mean.”
Source: Lethal Game
“I don’t know why you want that when you have the real thing to look at…touch…lick. OW!” Ferd yelped when I cuffed him around the ear.”
Source: A Sinful Sacrifice
“I don't know why you weren't around for him and Jase but I know you love them. You knew Gran and Gramps would give them everything you felt you couldn't”
Source: Never Enough
“I don't know why your ma named you Mercy. There ain't a merciful bone in your body.”
Source: Hitched to the Gunslinger
“I don't know yet. I might be. Age sixteen totally sucks when it comes to absolutes.”
Source: Code Sara
“I don't know yet...if it'll feel like a book I shouldn't open, a sealed chapter that only we ever know was written.”
Source: One Night on the Island
“I don't know yet what we're called, or if we have
a name. I know so little and need to learn so much. I'm many things, detective, and all of them love you.”
Source: Masked by Moonlight
“I don't know you,
But I love you,
Just as God loves me and you.
The sun and the moon
are opposing forces,
But they still greet each other,
Peacefully,
As one awakens in the morning,
Just as the other goes to sleep.
Life has pounded me down
and thrashed me around,
Time and time again,
But I always get right back up,
Because I still love life -
Just as the earth still loves
The rain.
ENDURANCE by Suzy Kassem
THE SPRING FOR WISDOM
Copyright 1993”
Source: Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
“I don't know you can see it or not,
Or you believe it or not,
Our souls are already playing and dancing with each other's in this beautiful universe.
And believe me it's a beautiful scene,
Or you will believe when you can see it.”
“I don’t know. You just seem different now. Distant. Like you have PTSD.”
I knew from where I spoke. My TSD got P’d when I was tortured by a monster named Earl.”
Source: Fifth Grave Past the Light
“I don’t know you, not because I didn’t ask the right questions, but because you never trusted me enough to let me in. You’re right about me, I want more. I want all of you.”
Source: After Midnight
“I don't know you. The only thing I know about you is, you're reading this. I don't know if your happy or not; I don't know whether you're young or not. I sort of hope you're young and sad. If you're old and happy, I can imagine that you'll smile to yourself when you hear me going, he broke my heart. You'll remember someone who broke your heart, and you'll think to yourself, Oh yes, i remember how that feels. But you can't, you smug old git. Oh you'll remember feeling sort of plesantly sad. You might remember listening to music and eating chocolates in your room, or walking along the embankment on your own, wrapped up in a winter coat and feeling lonely and brave. But can you remember how with every mouthful of food it felt like you were biting into your own stomach? Can you remember the taste of red wine as it came back up and into the toilet bowl? Can you remember dreaming every night that you were still together, that he was talking to you gently and touching you, so that every morning when you woke up you had to go through it all over again?”
Source: A Long Way Down
“I don’t know your heart… I don’t know your likes, your struggles, or even your dreams.
I don’t even know your favorite food.
But I want to spend a lifetime — a hundred years — beside you, learning every little thing about you.
I want to understand you, stand with you, and be your strength in everything.
And if life has to end, I wish for my last breath to be taken before your eyes.
#devipriyankachinta #arkakiran #sumedha #chakrA”
“I don't know your struggle. You don't know mine. I do know, it is NOT a competition. Respect the fact everyone is going through something and handle people with care. Remember, someone's passive response to your aggression does not mean the next person you meet won't use you as target practice. Some people are doing fine. Other folks out here broke, tired, grieving, unsure, scared, annoyed, angry, sad, depressed, lonely, and holding on to their last good nerve for dear life. Just stay in your lane, be kind when you can, live and let live. Have a good Monday!”
“I don’t lament life. For the darkness that seems to consume all of life is the opportunity for the entrance the greatest of light. And because there’s plenty of darkness, there’s plenty of opportunity.”
“I don't laugh very much," he said, realizing the truth of the statement as he made it, this sudden bit of knowledge disturbing him.”
Source: Tenderness
“I don't let boys make me cry
I write rhymes and fucking fly
Been to Hell- check out my wrists
Came back King- check out my Mist
-from 'Came Back KIng”
Source: Confessions of a D3AD Petal
“I don’t let fear stop me from doing anything!”
Source: Modern Day Noah: Taking a Leap of Faith When it Makes no Earthly Sense
“I don’t let many people in. But you. You were different. Your energy meshed perfectly with mine. It was an instant recognition. A passionate connection. Something other-worldly. A spiritual familiarity. Home in another body.”
“I don't let my spaghetti dangle, or twirl it around my fork. I cut it. Of course, my preferred slicing utensil is a Rubik's Cube, because knives are edgy, but 3D squares are 12 times more dangerous.”
Source: Eggs, they’re not just for breakfast
“I don't life that Priscilla blaming herself when she did all that she could, all that anyone could, really. But I guess that's how it must be when someone's standards are so impossibly high and their capacity for empathy so limited. They are cruel to others, and cruelest to themselves.”
Source: The Heart Principle
“I don't lightly burn things, when I do burn things, i burn it properly.”
“I don't like a general
who towers over the troops,
lordly with elegant locks
and trim mustachios.
Give me a stumpy soldier
glaringly bowlegged,
yet rockfirm on his feet,
and in his heart a giant.”
“I don't like a long goodbye, for fear my heart may break and weep.”
Source: Je pars… mais je reviendrai
“I don't like and even resist, being broken wide-open. But, when the contents of my unconscious self spill out of me and i sift through all the disowned parts of who i am... it's an uncomfortably enlightening and eye-opening experience. It feels a bit like emotional bloodletting. I guess every now and then, i need that release valve to open all the way...”
“I don't like answerable questions. They produce questionable answers.”
Source: Sense of a Quiet
“I don’t like any of this,” he said, but then his curiosity got the better of him. “Tell me.” “Sankta Leoni of the Waters.” She paused. “And Sankt Adrik the Uneven.”Adrik rolled his eyes.”
Source: King of Scars
“I don't like anybody my own age.”
Source: Show Them a Good Time
“I don’t like anything here at all,” said Frodo, “Step or stone, breath or bone. Earth, air and water all seem accursed. But so our path is laid.”
“Yes, that’s so,” said Sam. “And we shouldn’t be here at all, if we’d known more about it before we started. But I suppose it’s often that way. The brave things in the old tales and songs, Mr. Frodo: adventure, as I used to call them.
I used to think that they were things the wonderful folk of the stories went out and looked for because they wanted them, because they were exciting and life was a bit dull, a kind of sport as you might say. But that’s not the way of it with the tales that really mattered, or the ones that stay in the mind.
Folk just seem to have landed in them, usually – their paths were laid that way, as you put it. But I expect they had lots of chances like us, of turning back, only they didn’t. And if they had, we shouldn’t know, because they’d have been forgotten.
We hear about those as just went on – and not all to a good end, mind you; at least not to what folk inside a story and not outside it call a good end. You know, coming home, and finding things all right, though not quite the same – like Mr. Bilbo. But those aren’t always the best tales to hear, though they may be the best tales to get landed in. I wonder what sort of tale we fallen into?"
“I wonder,” said Frodo, “But I don’t know. And that’s the way of a real tale. Take any one that you’re fond of. You may know, or guess, what kind of a tale it is, happy-ending or sad-ending, but the people in it don’t know. And you don’t want them to." 'No, sir, of course not. Beren now, he never thought he was going to get that Silmaril from the Iron Crown in Thangorodrim, and yet he did, and that was a worse place and a blacker danger than ours. But that's a long tale, of course, and goes on past the happiness and into grief and beyond it – and the Silmaril went on and came to Earendil. And why, sir, I never thought of that before! We've got – you've got some of the light of it in that star-glass that the Lady gave you! Why, to think of it, we're in the same tale still! It's going on. Don't the great tales never end?' 'No, they never end as tales,' said Frodo. 'But the people in them come, and go when their part's ended. Our part will end later – or sooner.”
Source: The Two Towers
“I don’t like anything pointing at me, dollface, that includes an umbrella, a finger, or a gun, got it?”
Source: The Cases Nobody Wanted