I Quotes
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“I felt a little lost as a student. At Iowa, I felt as if I had gotten into this program that was going to save me, and so I moved myself across the country for grad school and yet still didn't have a home. It was upsetting. And I know that's a common feeling.”
“I felt a longing to compose a radical or root poem that would speak to what has its back turned to me.”
“I felt a looming sense of despair, as I had the last time, I’d gotten a DUI. It was a repeat of what had happened before, except this time I didn’t flip them off, cuss them out, and pee on the floor. I was too deflated to quarrel. As I sat there, I realized that this time I wasn’t disappointed or angry with them, but with myself. To my surprise, I found myself telling them that I was sorry and that I wished none of this had ever happened.”
Source: Pursued: God’s relentless pursuit and a drug addict’s journey to finding purpose
“I felt a lot better; not being alone in being alone.”
Source: A Subtle Stranger
“I felt a lot of ambivalence about going back to graduate school for a second MFA. The impulse was really the opposite from what it had been more than a decade before: I wanted to interrupt a career.”
“I felt a lump in my throat as the ball went in.”
“I felt a lunatic’s laugh welling up inside me.”
Source: Tell Me When I'm Dead
“I felt a mixture of hallowness at seeing the end of a world, and satisfaction at getting to witness that world's completion.”
Source: Omniscient Reader's Viewpoint, Vol. 1
“I felt a momentary urge to leap into the sea and swim free of the present.”
“I felt a new wave of irritation, squelched it as I kicked into scientist mode. First rule: block mind-set. Don’t suspect, don’t fear, don’t hope for any outcome. Observe, weigh, measure, and record.
Second rule: block emotion. Leave sorrow, pity, and outrage for later. Anger or grief can lead to error and misjudgment. Mistakes do your victim no good.”
Source: Bones of the Lost
“I felt a numb shock as I drove home anxious to get my chocolate flowers and wondering how my mother arranged to get them delivered to me at the exact time of her passing as promised. I arrived home to a note on my door to go to the neighbor on the right. I knocked at the door and the grouchy older man answered. Without saying a word, he went to his refrigerator, opened it and said, "I think these are for you."
He handed me the large bouquet of fruits all cut out like flowers and dipped in chocolate."It looks like chocolate flowers." he said with a grin, adding "I had a few, and they were great!"
I held my delivery. I opened the small envelope and read the card:
Dear Jori,
We appreciate you showing us homes and although it has been months, we thought of you and wanted to do something nice for you today. I hope you remember us.
The Johnsons
This was a previous client who was a pastor. He never knew I had a mother who had cancer nor did I ever mention the conversation about the chocolate flowers. It had been several months since I had heard from this couple who were considering purchasing a home. I called the client, whom I haven't spoken to in such a long time. I was confused and wanted to know what made them decide to send me chocolate flowers, and why that day, of all days? He said it was his wife's idea to do something nice for someone and they agreed it on it being me. Mrs. Johnson thought of the chocolate flowers.”
Source: Chocolate Flowers
“I felt a pang -- a strange and inexplicable pang that I had never felt before.
It was homesickness.
Now, even more than I had earlier when I'd first glimpsed it, I longed to be transported into that quiet little landscape, to walk up the path, to take a key from my pocket and open the cottage door, to sit down by the fireplace, to wrap my arms around myself, and to stay there forever and ever.”
Source: The Weed That Strings the Hangman's Bag
“I felt a pang of uncertainty, a small voice in the back of my mind whispering that this could be a mistake. But sometimes, you had to follow your gut, even when it led you into the unknown.”
Source: Meera
“I felt a particular attachment, naturally, to the Superman character and really dug deep, but at the same time, I am a passionate fan, be it Star Wars, be it the entire Marvel catalog, be it the DC catalog, or the original thinking at Pixar. I'm a fan first, so I'm always curious to see the way people express themselves and how it's being done.”
“I felt a powerful compulsion to reach out and touch her, as though her body was a familiar place—as though she’s someone I’d known all my life, someone I was relieved to see again.”
Source: Love and Other Sins
“I felt a pulse of fear at the same moment that his eyes narrowed. Then one of his hands landed on the pillar beside me as he leaned in.
"Nyx Triskelion," he said lowly.
My breath stopped.
He was a monster. Not even close to human. But I wasn't looking at his cat-slit eyes or mocking smile. I was staring at the lines of his shoulder, lazy but strong even under his clothes; the pale skin of his throat, exposed where several of his coat's gold clasps had come undone; the curve of his jaw that would be warm against my lips. For one moment, I felt like a river running down to his ocean.”
Source: Cruel Beauty
“I felt a responsibility to present a viable alternative to the popular electric sound.”
“I felt a rush of trust--felt that life might be not just tolerable but beautiful, if I could only remember to find the bare Present.”
“I felt a sensation that later in my life was often repeated: the joy of the new.”
Source: My Brilliant Friend
“I felt a shifting in my brain, pieces of the past rearranging. All this time I’d been thinking in absolutes, like it was an either/or proposition: friends versus not friends, and if it ended badly, the whole thing must have been a lie. But maybe it was more complicated. There could be different types of friendship, and different stages within each one. Deep bonds of loyalty and affection, or ties that have more to do with convenience. Relationships that hold you back, and ones that grow with you.”
Source: By the Book
“I felt a smile on my face. "Thanks." "For what?" "Using my name instead of calling me a thing.”
Source: Dark Light of Mine
“I felt a spark for the first time in my long dreary existence. You were the best thing that ever happened to me" as his kneading hands rove my spine, so gently that his hands seemed to be almost worshipping.”
Source: God Bless You Devil Kiss You
“I felt a splinter of guilt wedge into my heart. Charlotte had hurt me; in return, I'd hurt Rob. Maybe that's what we do to the people we love: take shots in the dark and realize too late we've wounded the people we're trying to protect.”
Source: Handle with Care: A Novel
“I felt a strange fluttering sensation in my chest. Butterflies, cardiac arrest . . . it was hard to say what exactly.”
Source: Vampire Academy: The Complete Collection
“I felt a strange tightness coming over me, and I reacted instinctively – for the first time in a long, long while – by slipping my notebook into my belt and reaching down to take off my watch. The first thing to go in a street fight is your watch, and once you’ve lost a few, you develop a certain instinct that lets you know when it’s time to get the thing off your wrist and into a safe pocket.”
Source: Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72
“I felt a thrill—a new civil affinity budding in my dreams and in the brick-and-mortar city, simultaneously: that we, the people, were awakening to the truth that a bundle of twigs is inconceivably strong.”
Source: Your Blue Is Not My Blue: A Missing Person Memoir
“I felt a tickle on my skin; it took me a moment to realize that Cole was driving his die-cast Mustang up my arm. He was laughing to himself, hushed and infectious, as if there was still any reason to be quite.”
Source: Forever
“I felt a tightening in my chest, a sharp spike of intense sadness-almost like nostalgia, except it was for a life I never had.”
Source: Marie Antoinette, Serial Killer
“I felt a trembling along my skin, a treaveling current that moved up my spine, down my arms, pulsing out from my fingertips. I was practically radiating. The body knows things a long time before the mind catches up to them. I was wondering what my body knew that I didn't.”
Source: The Secret Life of Bees
“I felt a tremendous distance between myself and everything real.”
“I felt a tremendous sadness for men who can't deal with a woman of their own age.”
“I felt a variation of the fear that a lot of gay people have, that their families will reject them. I thought if I were to come out to the world then I would risk losing them.”
“I felt a warm hand touch my forehead. And then my cheek. I held my act steady though Akinli’s touch made me feel more than awake.
“Where in the world did you come from, you beautiful, silent girl?” he whispered.”
Source: The Siren
“I felt a warmth inside, a cosy, glowy feeling like hot tea on a cold morning.”
Source: Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine
“I felt a wave of longing roll out of me, but not the way it usually did, diffuse and sad. This was hopeful, as though it had been coaxed out by a whispered promise.”
Source: Ghost Flower
“I felt a weight on my chest; a sense of hot indignation which settled down into inconceivable melancholy.”
“I felt a weird, cold detachment as I watched the scene, the gross taste of licorice flooding my memories. Somewhere deep down, this was alarming. All this death was already starting to surprise me less.”
Source: Operation Bounce House
“I felt a wish never to leave that room - a wish that dawn might never come, that my present frame of mind might never change.”
Source: Family Happiness: Stories
“I felt about as wanted as a big fat jellyfish stuck between the swimming cones.”
Source: Stork
“I felt about life and the way I felt about my children was so deep and profound. It was the first time I'd felt anything like that. I knew as an artist that it was going to make a huge difference in everything that I did.”
“I felt absolutely nothing, and that frightened me even more than the darkness of oblivion”
Source: Awakening
“I felt acutely grateful to everyone, everywhere, who does their best by giving what they have to give, no matter what issues they are facing in their own lives.”
Source: Circles of Separation
“I felt after I finished Slaughterhouse-Five that I didn’t have to write at all anymore if I didn’t want to. It was the end of some sort of career. I don’t know why, exactly. I suppose that flowers, when they’re through blooming, have some sort of awareness of some purpose having been served. Flowers didn’t ask to be flowers and I didn’t ask to be me. At the end of Slaughterhouse-Five…I had a shutting-off feeling…that I had done what I was supposed to do and everything was OK .”
Source: Conversations with Kurt Vonnegut
“I felt alien my whole life but I didn't feel alien because of my gender. Other people made me aware of my gender.”
“I felt alienated at school, and I never did well with girls.”
“I felt alienated by the experience and decided to stay away from corporate employment.”
“I felt alive when I read a script and acted out a scene, or sang a song. It was my dream. I'm just very lucky that I'm still doing it and able to earn a living from it.”
“I felt all of existence swelling in my veins. Letting my umbrella drop, I flung back my head to open myself to the wind and the suns. It was as though in the course of one night I had cast away the emptiness I had so long held in my arms.”
Source: Sea of Poppies
“I felt all the things that other teenagers felt. I was insecure in lots of ways, over-confident in others. I was very emotional. Excitable.”
“I felt all the ways in which this world seemed so, so enormous--the height of the trees, the hush and tick of the forest, the shift of the sunlight and shadows--but also so, so removed.”