I Quotes
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“I felt like there wasn't a political discourse. I felt like there was just one set of values, and any one set of values was wrong; that there should at least be room for conversation.”
“I felt like time was a great sea, and I was floating on the back of a turtle, and no sails broke the horizon.”
Source: White Oleander
“I felt like tooth-paste emerging from a tube.”
Source: Making Hearts
“I felt like Twitter was more of a place for people to just socialize instead of promoting. After I got off, I realized I could have used that energy and that lane to really promote some positivity. I had 35,000 followers before I left. I was like, "Damn those were 30,000 consumers." It kind of twisted my whole thought process so I got back on. I realized that I have a voice that people wanted to hear.”
“I felt like we'd been outsiders or outliers until then, but now it felt, not like we were in the mainstream necessarily, but we were being welcomed more.”
Source: Beyond The Story: 10-Year Record of BTS
“I felt like we would have definitely won an NBA championship if everyone was healthy.”
“I felt like when we came back from the All-Star break we needed everybody to feel like they were part of the team, ... I'm just trying to do whatever the team needs at any given time.”
“I felt like you can write forever, but you have a short time to raise a family. And I think a family is a lot more important than writing.”
“I felt like, in the recent past, people have been apologizing for Superman, a little bit, for his costume, for his origins, and for the way he fits into society.”
“I felt like, what better way for people to understand me by taking the initiative in giving my real name, my name that moms taught me so y'all actually know what's going on in my life and my music.”
“I felt lit up, as if someone had reached into my heart and flipped an inner switch, turning me on, brighter.”
Source: Your Blue Is Not My Blue: A Missing Person Memoir
“I felt little awkward about taking one boyfriend to see a film starring another boyfriend.”
“I felt lonely and content at the same time. I believe that is a rare kind of happiness.”
Source: Bag of Bones
“I felt lonely, and in full possession of my loneliness. It was the first time I had owned anything of value.”
Source: What He's Poised to Do: Stories
“I felt Michael Jackson was inspired a little bit more from the elegance of a Fred Astaire. Michael loved Sammy Davis, Jr. and James Brown and Judy Garland and Fred Astaire. But he wasn't any of those people. To be inspired is one thing, but he made it all his own.”
“I felt miserable. When Keats felt miserable he always put on a clean shirt.
But he was a poet.”
Source: Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
“I felt mocked. "That's what I get for trusting you." He took a step back. "Excuse me! Trust doesn't mean you get the response you want from someone, but that you'll get an honest response, and that the other person will stick by you even when you can't agree." Stick by you for how long, through how much? I wondered. What is the expiration date on trust?”
“I felt more doubtful than usual with 'Goon Squad,' because I knew that the book's genre wasn't easily named - Novel? Stories? Novel-in-stories? - and I worried that its lack of a clear category would count against it. My hopes for it were pretty modest.”
“I felt more like a scientist exploring nature, and Windows was my environment. You dont pass judgment on nature; you just explain how it works.”
“I felt more than ever the necessity of my mission. But I went home out of spirits, I hardly know why. I must work by myself all life long.”
Source: Pioneer Work in Opening the Medical Profession to Women: Autobiographical Sketches
“I felt most beautiful on the red carpet in Givenchys sheer lace dress at a dinner hosted by Givenchy in honor of Marina Abramovich at the closing of her Museum of Modern Art retrospective, The Artist is Present, in 2010. It was the first time I had been dressed for an event, and everybody just fell in love with the dress.”
“I felt Mr. Smith's pop bottle in my hand, and for a second I couldn't remember why I would be carrying such a thing. I know. I'm almost ashamed of it now—the fact that ten seconds with a boy had driven my mission from my mind. But I did look at it, and I did remember who I was—why I was there—and I knew it was time to forget about boys and trash cans and cats named Suzie; I remembered what was real and what was legend.”
Source: I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You
“I felt much better when I started to become myself a bit more and to spend time with people who I genuinely liked as opposed to the people I felt I should be spending time with.”
“I felt much more productive when I was alone, and if I wasn’t productive, at least I wasn’t being chastised.”
Source: The Prince
“i felt my being flutter. each tousled head that came through the door i wanted to be his, but no and on, a dozen boys entered, yet not the one.”
“I felt my cell phone buzz, and I looked at the screen. Ranger. “Your GPS just went blank,” Ranger said when I answered. “The car exploded.” There was a beat of silence. “Rafael won the pool,” Ranger said. “Are you okay?” “Yes.” “I’ll send someone.”
Source: Smokin' Seventeen
“I felt my country should do more for its children. Its children are not born gangsters. In fact, they have in them the potential to be heroes because most of the kids who are in these gangs are leaders, very charismatic and good organizers.”
“I felt my energy return and that I said to myself, in any event I'll recover from it, I'll pick up my pencil that I put down in my great discouragement and I'll get back to drawing, and from then on, it seems to me, everything has changed for me.”
Source: Saint-Rémy-de-Provence - Auvers-sur-Oise, 1889-1890, [772-902]
“I felt my eyes widen slightly, feeling like the kid of the group who didn’t understand anything and was a pain to have around.”
Source: Tess Embers
“I felt my face stretch in a victorious smile. The potion had worked. I was inside. I had to suppress an urge to break into a soft shoe routine. Sometimes being able to use magic was so cool.”
Source: Fool Moon: Book two of The Dresden Files
“I felt my faith was on again off again until I met Paula White, who saw that the Lord had other plans; there was a weightiness to my spirit. She gave me the news that God loved me and wanted his son back. She spoke to the king in me and gave me new hope I could get right with God. The God I had hungered for; the Father I had been missing.”
“I felt my father's presence with me, helping me to commit to paper the feelings I had. I really heard my father speaking to me from the other dimension”
“I felt my grandmother all around me and knew beyond the shadow of a doubt that she was with me.”
“I felt my hand curl into a fist. Felt my elbow draw back. Felt my arm dart forward, my knuckles crack into Cole's jaw. I couldn't stop myself. His head whipped to the side, and blood leaked from a cut in his lip. Behind me, gasps of shock abounded.
"I'm recovered," I said. "Believe me now?"
Those violet eyes slitted when they found me. "Assault and battery is illegal."
"So have me arrested."
He closed what little distance there was between us. Suddenly I could feel his warmth of his breath caressing my skin. "How about I put you over my lap and spank you instead?"
"How about I knee your balls into your throat?"
"If you're going to play with that particular area, I'd rather you use your hands."
"My hands aren't going near that area ever again."
A pause. Then, "I bet I could change your mind," he whispered huskily.
"I bet I could bash yours." I drew back another fist, but he was ready and caught me midswing. His pupils dilated, a sign of arousal. Another sign: he began to pant. He was acting like I'd tried to unbuckle his jeans rather than smack fire out of him.
"Hit me again," he said, still using the same whispered tone, "and I'll take it as an invitation."
I was just as bad. I trembled with longing I couldn't control and struggled to catch my breath. "An invitation to do what?"
His grip loosened, his fingers rubbing my skin. A caress, not a warning. "I guess we'll find out together.”
Source: Through the Zombie Glass
“I felt my heart breaking all over again. Why? Why had this happened to us? Why was the universe so cruel?”
Source: Spirit Bound: A Vampire Academy Novel
“I felt my heart healing. I felt like I was wide awake because no matter how I expressed my thoughts and feelings I came to the realization that you didn’t care and you would never care.”
Source: Dying on The Inside and Suffocating on The Outside
“I felt my heart strangely warmed. I felt I did trust in Christ, Christ alone for salvation.”
“I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery—air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, "This is what it is to be happy.”
“I felt my mother about the place. I don't think she haunts me, but I wouldn't put it past her.”
“I felt my mouth go dry, my throat constrict. What possible interpretation could Peter place on those words, other than that they were about him? - that the entire song was about him?”
Source: Mary Bennet
“I felt my own self-sufficiency, my own Walden Pond, seeping out of me as if I'd sprung a leak. Self soaked into everything around me—the floor, the walls, the one window, the grass. The words on the page.”
Source: Sympathy
“I felt my personal life was not what it should be. It had nothing to do with Mr. Show - I'm monstrously appreciative and understand what it did for me and to me - but after four years, I just felt like I needed to do something else. I guess I wanted to be in a different place, physically.”
“I felt my soul overwhelmed with sorrow because, though I'm not in the least fond of dancing, I should have liked to dance with someone whom I adored with all my heart: I should have liked to have that someone there so that I could relieve my tension by telling him everything that I confided only to Fanchette or to my pillow (and not even to my diary) because I so wildly needed that someone, and this humiliated me, and I would never surrender myself except to the someone whom I should completely love and completely know - dreams, in short, that would never be realized!”
Source: Sido ;Le Pur Et L'impur ; L'étoile Vesper ; Le Fanal Bleu
“I felt my stomach rumble. We had been eating little bits of things, cake and mince pies, all day, but although they were delicious I was longing for butter and toast, or potatoes with a thick stew. I wanted the certainty of a proper meal, proof that ordinary life was carrying on outside our strange little bubble.”
Source: Mistletoe and Murder
“I felt my tent move with each forceful gust, it being pulled in every direction while I sat still, somehow at peace with the chaos and working toward peace with my loneliness.”
Source: crabbing season: a collection of poetry and prose
“I felt my throat ache and knew it was her sadness I swallowed down”
Source: Enemy: A True Story of Courage, Childhood Trauma and the Cost of War
“I felt my throat start to close up, and I didn't think I was getting enough oxygen. I was scared, and I thought about quitting. But you don't want to quit when you've trained so hard and long for one race.”
“I felt my throat tighten and constrict. My hearts ached with a pain I could not describe. I wondered if I were dying. I felt not sadness. I felt pity. For myself. For us all. We were children no longer. And we never would be again.”
“I felt my whole life was a facsimile of a life.”
“I felt myself a stranger to the world”
Source: Circe