I Quotes
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“I felt awful and I did an awful thing.”
Source: Deriving Life
“I felt bad about myself because certain people were relentlessly attacking me and my reputation. My mom kept saying 'Let it go, Lauren, It doesn't matter' ... [I] realized I had to stop worrying about what other people think. The next day I got a tattoo on my lower back that says 'sticks and stones', because they may break my bones, but words will never hurt me.”
“I felt bad for that world that we have given a generation of kids.”
“I felt bad for trying to live a happy, full life, while my heart was buried in a dead man’s chest.”
Source: Crashing Back Down
“I felt bashful, like I had when I'd first told him of An Imperial Affliction. "Um, okay. Okay. 'Let us go, trough certain half-deserted streets,/ The muttering retreats/ Of restless nights in one-night cheap hotels/ and sawdust restaurants with oyster shells:/ Streets that follow like a tedious argument/ Of insidious intent/ To lead you to an overwhelming question../Oh, do not ask, "What is it?"/ Let us go and make our visit" "I'm in love with you," he said quietly. "Augustus," I said. "I am, " he said. He was staring at me, and I could see the corners of his eyes crinkling. "I'm in love with you, and I'm not in the business of denying myself the simple pleasure of saying true things. I'm in love with you, and I know that love is just a shout into the void, and that oblivion is inevitable, and that we're all doomed and that there will come a day when all our labor has been returned to dust, and I know the sun will swallow the only earth we'll ever have, and I am in love with you." "Augustus," I said again, not knowing what else to say. It felt like everything was rising up in me, like I was drowning in this wierdly painful joy, but I couldn't say it back. I couldn't say it back. I just looked at him and let him look at me until he nodded, lips pursed, and turned away, placing the side of his head against the window.”
Source: The Fault in Our Stars
“I felt beautiful but also interrupted. I wasn't used to being so complicated.”
Source: White Oleander
“I felt beautiful when I was in Cambodia for Tomb Raider. I was sweaty, and my hair was matted and all over the place. And I was happy and hot and accomplishing a lot and running around, and I could feel my heart beating, and I felt beautiful.”
“I felt beauty was a magnet for abuse, and I had suffered greatly for it.”
“I felt before I thought, as all humans do.”
“I felt betrayed and absolutely livid, but my body wasn’t smart enough to know it. It had liked the feel of his hands, wanted more of it, wanted it now. It was almost like there were two of me, one who heartily approved of the mage and one who would have dearly loved to see him dead.”
Source: Cassie Palmer Novels 1-5
“I felt betrayed by a global movement that claimed to create a global sisterhood of women, but it seemed that the Arab woman was the poor downtrodden stepsister in the family. Where was my feminism?”
“I felt betrayed by him, extremely betrayed. He made me believe that if I followed a certain protocol of supplements and different drugs that I could become number 1 in the world.”
“I felt better about myself that I did it [calling Max Askeli Commander Askeli], rather than have - rather than thinking it and not writing it for being afraid of what might happen to me.”
“I felt better being in the background. That's the way I like it.”
“I felt blank dismay, instant fear for myself. I did not want to be involved in any mess of Priscilla's. I did not even want to have to be sorry for Priscilla.”
Source: The Black Prince
“I felt both parents at my side no matter what I did.”
“I felt, briefly, on the edge of tears. I had looked forward to an evening full of giggling children, delicious food, and laughter. Instead I was going to be a shadow again, a silent prop in an icy room.”
Source: Still Me
“I felt, by turns, numb, hot with a monstrous embarrassment, and sick as though I'd eaten splinters of glass and was slowly shredding inside.”
Source: Portrait of an Unknown Woman
“I felt caged by my childhood.”
“I felt calm well, maybe not calm but safe. For the first time during a Montana thunderstorm, I did feel safe.”
Source: A Stone's Throw: A heartwarming story of a city girl and her rancher grandfather turning adversity into love and community
“I felt certain that once again I was on the edge of it. On one side: Victor, Justine, Henry. The life I had built with such vicious determination. On the other: the unknown. But the unknown beckoned, promising rest from pain. Rest from sickness. Rest from the endless striving and manipulating and working, working, working, working just to keep my place in the world”
Source: The Dark Descent of Elizabeth Frankenstein
“I felt certain uneasiness, a strange sensation, which had comic to a head. Every evening I went to Yahya to report that Mujib [Rahiman] and I weren't making any progress, and Yahya [Khan] showed no interest. He looked away or complained about the television or grumbled because he couldn't listen to his favorite songs - his records hadn't arrived from Rawalpindi.”
“I felt civilized.”
Source: Day One: A Novella
“I felt clean, all the bone-beaked loneliness birds banished, their rocky nests turned to river stones. Cool, clear water bubbled over them, streams in the desert.”
Source: The Power of One
“I felt Clinton represented the worst of the 1960s.”
“I felt clueless and nervous--pretty much the same way I'd been feeling ever since I came back from Italy.”
Source: Gemini Moon
“I felt cold and dry, like a Martini.”
Source: Ex-wife
“I felt comfortable in a community that existed just for the moment, with simple, temporary relationships uncomplicated by past or future.”
Source: Rental Person Who Does Nothing
“I felt comfortable in the water. I was in my own world, focused. I love sports and I'm a very goal-oriented person. Once I started falling in love with sports, it was easy. I was able to put my mind on something and go for it. That's how I am with everything, it doesn't matter what it is that I do. If I want to do something, nothing will stand in my way.”
“I felt compelled to blow the whistle on the penal system, under the delusion that doing so might result in some change, or at least save a few women from the same fate. Eternally naïve, that's me.”
“I felt compelled to venture forth and explore the true face of the world. Leading a satisfying life of plenty had blinded many of us to the immense hardships beyond our borders.”
“I felt completely at home in Mexico - speaking Spanish to my cousins, running around Acapulco and stuffing my face with mole and homemade tortillas. Mexico opened my heart.”
“I felt confident at 24, but I am a better driver now.”
“I felt confused about my own life, as if I were living in the mind of a stranger. I wanted to understand her heart. I just wanted to be certain it was the right decision. Love was something I felt deeply but couldn't express, and now that I've said goodbye, I suddenly realize all the things I should have said.”
“I felt confused, and also inadequate; whatever he was asking or demanding, it was beyond me. this was the first time a man would expect more from me than i was capable of giving, but it wouldn't be the last.”
Source: The Blind Assassin
“I felt connected with Madonna from a very young age. I think I share a lot of qualities from her personality. I really respect her.”
“I felt convinced that however it might have been in former times, in the present stage of the world, no man's faculties could be developed, no man's moral principle be enlarged and liberal, without an extensive acquaintance with books. to me they stood in the place of an active career, of ambition, and those palpable excitements necessary to the multitude. The collation of philosophical opinions, the study of historical facts, the acquirement of languages, were at once my recreation, and the serious aim of my life.”
Source: The Last Man
“I felt deep within me that the highest point a man can attain is not Knowledge, or Virtue, or Goodness, or Victory, but something even greater, more heroic and more despairing: Sacred Awe!” - The Narrator.”
Source: Zorba the Greek
“I felt deeply tricked. Stunned. And furious. I also felt my default emotion: numbness.”
Source: Running with Scissors: A Memoir
“I felt defenseless when my hair got short all of a sudden. As if somebody had thrown me into a crowd all naked.”
Source: Norwegian Wood
“I felt defiled by my own health and the money in my pockets. If you feel it at all, it's a lacerating guilt, that first confrontation with the wretched of the earth.”
Source: Shantaram
“I felt depressed. My life is like rain, I thought, very grey, very boring. Nothing interesting ever happens. I sighed.”
“I felt desire too; desire to be as they had been; wild and exotic and commanding and willing to worship and be worshipped.”
Source: The Erotic Notebooks
“I felt despair. The word’s overused and banalified now, despair, but it’s a serious word, and I’m using it seriously. For me it denotes a simple admixture — a weird yearning for death combined with a crushing sense of my own smallness and futility that presents as a fear of death. It’s maybe close to what people call dread or angst. But it’s not these things, quite. It’s more like wanting to die in order to escape the unbearable feeling of becoming aware that I’m small and weak and selfish and going without any doubt at all to die. It’s wanting to jump overboard.”
“I felt devalued and disrespected. The energy behind it felt disingenuous and motivated by corporate profit.”
“I felt devalued, rejected, and unworthy. I wasn't enough for him. That pornography box toppled over, rolled out of its place in his world, and crushed mine.”
Source: Keep Walking: 40 Days to Hope and Freedom After Betrayal
“I felt different although my mum kept reminding me it was OK to be different.”
“I felt different born into a family with two sisters who are blonde and blue-eyed, with me being the only brunette.”
“I felt differently about her [Gypsy Rose Lee] during every phase of the research and writing process. Often, I felt incredibly sorry for her; she had an extremely difficult childhood and a complicated 'to say the least' relationship with her family, her mother especially.”
“I felt drunk on Chase and high on summertime. Why did that sound just like a country song?”
Source: Saving Angel