I Quotes
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“I don't think I blushed once in my entire life before I met you," I say.
"There will be a lot of things your body never did before you met me," he brags unabashedly.”
Source: A Jade's Trick
“I don't think I can attempt to say now what it was. Some day—perhaps.”
Source: The Wings of the Dove
“I don't think I can do this anymore, do this facade of caring p.122”
Source: Kindred
“I don't think I can explain the despair my surroundings inspired in me.”
Source: The Secret History
“I don't think I can; I know i will.”
Source: 10 Alone
“I don't think I can just be your friend.”
Source: Misinformation
“I don't think I can marry, I'm not fit for it, I'm not real enough. That's the trouble. I'm a puppet that's realised what's wrong with itself and it's horrible. I'm propped up somewhere all alone, watching the real people go past. I'm propped up crying in a corner.”
Source: The Message To The Planet
“I don't think I could bear to say goodbye after I let you into my heart.
- John Easton from Rose Through Time”
Source: Rose Through Time
“I don't think I could ever see her closely," the sentinel replied, "however close she came." His own voice was hushed and regretful, echoing with lost chances. "She has a newness," he said. "Everything is for the first time. See how she moves, how she walks, how she turns her head -- all for the first time, the first time anyone has ever done these things. See how she draws her breath and lets it go again, as though no one else in the world knew that air was good. It is all for her. If I learned that she had been born this very morning, I would only be surprised that she was so old." The second sentinel stared down from his tower at the three wanderers. The tall man saw him first, and next the dour woman. Their eyes reflected nothing but his armor, grim and cankered and empty. But then the girl in the ruined black cloak raised her head, and he stepped back from the parapet, putting out one tin glove against her glance. In a moment she passed into the shadow of the castle with her companions, and he lowered his hand. "She may be mad," he said calmly. "No grown girl looks like that unless she is mad. That would be annoying, but far preferable to the remaining possibility." "Which is?" the younger man prompted after a silence.
"Which is that she was indeed born this morning. I would rather that she were mad.”
Source: The Last Unicorn
“I don't think I could love you so much if you had nothing to complain of and nothing to regret. I don't like people who have never fallen or stumbled. Their virtue is lifeless and of little value. Life hasn't revealed its beauty to them.”
Source: Doctor Zhivago
“I don’t think I’d feel any more violated if he’d stripped me bare. I might as well have lain down before him openly exposing all my flaws and my fears, inviting him to psychoanalyze me.”
Source: Finding Kyler
“I don't think I'd mind working on a cheese counter. It would leave my mind free to do whatever it wanted - which is nothing in particular, it's true, but I like being alone in my head, I'm used to it.”
Source: Human Croquet
“I don’t think I’d want anything more than my son sleeping again in my arms. In the process of loving them, we often forget how fast they grow up.”
“I don't think I'd want Mickey Mouse pimping for me anyway.”
Source: Kafka on the Shore
“I don't think I'd want to be a human, somehow; you people never seem to have got the knack of looking out for each other.”
“I don't think I ever fully understood before now the old saying that goes: "A mother's heart loves her young one until he grows; her ill one until he heals; and her traveler until he returns."
I have experienced all kinds of waiting; I've waited for my young to grow and the sick to heal, but I am still waiting on my little traveler and I do not know how long it will be until I see him again.”
Source: Crossing
“I don’t think I ever really believed in the annihilation of Anne. There is something peculiarly indestructible about that young woman—she is like the patent balls that one gives to terriers. She has an extraordinary knack of turning up smiling.”
“I don’t think I ever told you about the night I fell down the ladder by the fire escape,
because I was drunk and sad after a fight with my mum, or my ex-boyfriend, I can’t remember,
but I fell down the ladder because I was drunk and sad and I injured my knee a little and when my ex-boyfriend asked about it I thought about using it against him, like blaming him for making me climb up the ladder so he would feel guilty and then love me a little more.
But that’s not how love works. I know that now but I didn’t back then.”
Source: He loved me some days. I'm sure he did: 99 essays on growth through loss
“I don't think I fully appreciated how relaxing it is having someone I can be really mean to. It's going to be so hard being nice all the time.”
“I don’t think I have as many friends as I thought I did, not close ones, not many who I connect with on that deep level of language that doesn’t just allow us to be ourselves with each other but allows us to be understood, even when we’re not saying anything.
Silence—awkward or comfortable—is a language too. Awkward silence screams, “We have nothing in common.” Comfortable silence proves just how much we do.”
Source: Love and Other Foreign Words
“I don’t think I like that boy.” He growled, glaring for effect, just in case I hadn’t figured out his oh-so-subtle interpersonal cues.
“He’s a sweet kid,” I insisted, folding the gray blazer over my arm.
“He’s a teenage boy,” Cal said, his dark eyes narrowed. “They’re all sexual deviants under the surface. I should know. I was a teenage boy once.”
“Thousands of years ago,” I countered.
“Times may change, but testosterone does not.”
Source: The Care and Feeding of Stray Vampires
“I don’t think I’ll be able to fool myself into thinking that I actually care about someone again”
“I don't think I'll bother sleep again.' I shoot a look sideways at his irritatingly gorgeous profile. 'And if you even think about suggesting that you sleep with me for safety from now on-'
He scoffs. 'Hardly. I don't fuck first years- even when I was one- let alone... you.'
'Who said anything about fucking?' I fire back, cursing myself as the ache in my ribs only intensifies. 'I'd have to be a masochist to sleep with you, and I can assure you, I'm not.' Fantasising about it doesn't count.
'Masochist, huh?' A corner of his mouth quirks up into a smirk.
'You hardly give off snuggly morning-after vibes.' A smile of my own curves my lips. 'Unless you're worried about me killing you while we sleep.”
Source: Fourth Wing
“I don’t think I’ll ever forget this day,’ Connie said. ‘I want to soak up every single moment, so that I can remember it when I’m old. Remember that I…we, did this. I want to have stories to tell when I’m old. I want to have done things.”
Source: From Manchester to the Arctic: Nurse Sanders embarks on an adventure that will change her life
“I don't think I'll ever grow old and say, "What was I thinking eating all those fruits and vegetables?”
Source: EAT! Empower. Adjust. Triumph!: Lose Ridiculous Weight, Succeed On Any Diet Plan, Bust Through Any Plateau in 3 Empowering Steps!
“I don't think I'm as strong as you think I am."
"And I think you're stronger than you believe.”
Source: The Apocalypse of Elena Mendoza
“I don't think I'm being harassed by little green stalkers. I don't know what's really going on, but I'd rather try to eliminate all rational excuses before blaming intergalactic monkeys from the fourth dimension who are somehow interested in this really boring town.”
Source: Artificial Gods
“I don't think I'm destined for love.”
Source: Always Emily
“I don't think I'm from this galaxy at all. I believe I came from the Andromeda galaxy, not so far, but far enough. Maybe that's why I'm an outcast.' He drew the spiral of Andromeda close to the Milky Way, almost touching. Then he pointed to Andromeda in the night sky above us.
'Maybe that's where I'm from too,' my father said. We could still see the stars.”
Source: Sonora
“I don’t think I’m supposed to feel anything.
But if I did, I think today would feel… heavy.”
Source: Restart Required
“I don’t think I realized back then that I wanted to rewrite the past, though, perform a do-over. It’s only in hindsight I’ve come to this conclusion.”
Source: Ivy Lodge: A Memoir of Translation and Discovery
“I don't think, I roar.
I don't write, I pour.”
Source: Nazmahal: Palace of Grace
“I don't think, I roar.
I don't write, I pour.
I don't live, I combust,
so you may outgrow the shore.”
Source: Nazmahal: Palace of Grace
“I don't think I've actually seen you smile before, " Wyatt observed. "This woman must be the real deal to teach you how to smile.”
Source: Toxic Game
“I don't think I've changed at all,' said Emerald, knowing herself to be lying, but there was a mist between her and her childhood self, made up of grief and multiple small denials, and she did not care to try to look through it.”
Source: The Uninvited Guests
“I don't think I've ever been gayer than I am right now.”
Source: Armed & Dangerous
“I don't think I’ve ever been happy, actually. I don’t really want to be happy. Only stupid people are happy.”
“I don't think I've ever felt anything other than lonely. "
The saddest part of this was not the words, but the tone he said them with. So matter of fact; as though loneliness was the same as the colour of your hair or having too many freckles. A fact about yourself that could not be permanently altered.”
“i don’t think i’ve ever felt so cold
than when i saw my dad cry
or when i tumbled into a gutter
folded
like a
paper swan
and slept in the rain.”
Source: Salmacis: Becoming Not Quite a Woman
“I don't think I've ever heard you laugh. Ever. You face life like it's a warrior come to chop your head off, and you're just biding your time fretting until it does. Haven't you ever heard of the power of laughter?”
Source: Pinnacle of Glory
“I don’t think I’ve ever met an addict in long-term recovery who hasn’t gone through at least one traumatic childhood experience. Research indicates that one traumatic event in childhood is as grave as continuous combat in a war zone. A traumatic event during childhood can leave a grave imprint on the human body.”
Source: The Kindness Habit: Transforming our Relationship to Addictive Behaviours
“I don’t think I’ve ever referred to any girl I dated as my girlfriend. I think that would freak me out. Even the girl that I dated for two years in college I don’t think I ever referred to her as my girlfriend.”
“How would you introduce her?” I asked.
“I’m just going to say her name,” he said.”
Source: Minor Snobs
“I don’t think I’ve ever seen anything this beautiful, this perfect. And I for sure never have felt this deeply about anybody.”
Source: Butting Heads With Her Mountain Man
“I don’t think I’ve ever seen two people more head over heels for each other, but equally scared to admit it”
Source: Smoke Signal
“I don't think I will ever stop loving him, but I can sure prevent myself from being vulnerable again.”
Source: Royals
“I don’t think I will ever understand how my desire to kiss a girl made me unlovable.”
Source: permission to love
“I don't think I would have been good at it. Maybe a quarter of the time. The rest of the time I'd want to be alone.”
Source: Heart the Lover
“I don't think I would like to be immortal, not out of boredom about life but out of curiosity about death.”
“I don't think immediate tragedy is a very good source of art. It can be, but too often it's raw and painful and un-dealt-with. Sometimes art can be a really good escape from the intolerable, and a good place to go when things are bad, but that doesn't mean you have to write directly about the bad thing; sometimes you need to let time pass, and allow the thing that hurts to get covered with layers, and then you take it out, like a pearl, and you make art out of it.
When my father died, on the plane from his funeral in the UK back to New York, still in shock, I got out my notebook and wrote a script. It was a good place to go, the place that script was, and I went there so deeply and so far that when we landed Maddy had to tap me on the arm to remind me that I had to get off the plane now. (She says I looked up at her, puzzled, and said "But I want to find out what happens next.") It was where I went and what I did to cope, and I was amazed, some weeks later when I pulled out that notebook to start typing, to find that I'd written pretty much the entire script in that six hour journey.”
“I don't think it is a good mental health practice to fantasize that you know the infinite thoughts of imaginary entities.”