I Quotes
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“I felt the most intense pleasure in piercing the stone in order to make an abstract form and space; quite a different sensation from that of doing it for the purpose of realism.”
Source: Carvings and Drawings
“I felt the naivete of a child in my dancing. I cherished that feeling. I had what I call a knowledgeable naivete, and it worked for me.”
“I felt the nauseous shiver in my stomach—everything from rage to empathy to morning sickness—that I had grown used to and now thought of as being love.”
Source: Sympathy
“I felt the need to clarify we were there for the self defense class, in case he also taught about dog breeding or riding the high seas.”
“I felt the need to distance myself from my problems, instead of dealing with them. My mother said It’s not uncommon for people to run away from their fears to start somewhere new with a better attitude.”
“I felt the need to get back to painting and I thought the best way was to start drawing, so I enrolled in a life drawing class. I soon discovered that people made very interesting subjects and I am still surprised that I had never discovered it before.”
“I felt the need to tell stories to understand myself.”
“I felt the pressure of imagination against the doors of my mind was so great that they were going to burst.”
“I felt the pull toward you the first time we met.”
Source: A Mating Dance
“I felt the question of the afterlife was the black hole of the personal universe: something for which substantial proof of existence had been offered but which had not yet been explored in the proper way by scientists and philosophers.”
“I felt the revenant tense and knew before she spoke that it was Mother Dolours. “I fear that an age of saints and miracles isn’t something to celebrate, Sister Marie. The Lady sends us such gifts only in times of darkness. Do you recall the writings of Saint Liliane?"
The sister was silent a moment. Then she murmured, “And so the silent bell wakens to herald the Dead; and the last candle is lit against the coming night...”
I stained to hear more, but their voices had dwindled as the passed outside the hall, leaving a cold lump in my stomach and the lingering image of a single, steady candle flame slowly burning itself down, the only remaining light to hold off the dark.”
Source: Vespertine
“I felt the ripple in the darkness without having to look up, and didn't flinch at the soft footsteps that approached me. I didn't bother hoping that it would be Tamlin. 'Still weeping?'
Rhysand.
I didn't lower my hands from my face. The floor rose toward the lowering ceiling- I would soon be flattened. There was no colour, no light here.
'You're just beaten her second task. Tears are unnecessary.'
I wept harder, and he laughed. The stones reverberated as he knelt before me, and though I tried to fight him, his grip was firm as he grasped my wrists and pried my hands from my face.
The walls weren't moving, and the room was open- gaping. No colours, but shades of darkness, of night. Only those star-flecked violet eyes were bright, full of colour and light. He gave me a lazy smile before he leaned forward.
I pulled away, but his hands were like shackles. I could do nothing as his mouth met with my cheek, and he licked away a tear. His tongue was hot against my skin, so startling that I couldn't move as he licked away another path of salt water, and then another. My body went taut and loose all at once and I burned, even as chills shuddered along my limbs. It was only when his tongue danced along the damp edges of my lashes that I jerked back.
He chuckled as I scrambled for the corner of the cell. I wiped my face as I glared at him.
He smirked, sitting down against a wall. 'I figured that would get you to stop crying.'
'It was disgusting.' I wiped my face again.
'Was it?' He quirked an eyebrow and pointed to his palm- to the place where my tattoo would be. 'Beneath all your pride and stubbornness, I could have sworn I detected something that felt differently. Interesting.'
'Get out.'
'As usual, your gratitude is overwhelming.'
'Do you want me to kiss your feet for what you did at the trial? Do you want me to offer another week of my life?'
'Not unless you feel compelled to do so,' he said, his eyes like stars.”
Source: A Court of Thorns and Roses
“I felt the rough fingers of Papa’s hands brushing away my tears. “Enough
tears, Mija. Enough tears.”
Source: INNOCENT AGAIN: A LEGAL THRILLER
“I felt the ruthfulness and senselessness of war so acutlely that I wrote the first three stanzas of which, are in effect a prayer.”
“I felt the same fear in my first fight as I did in my last fight. It never goes away.”
“I felt the same way, after the Dark War," Clary said. "I'd spent so much time running and fighting and desperate. And then things were ordinary. I didn't trust it. We get used to living one way, even if it's a bad way or a hard one. When that's gone, there's a hole to fill. It's in our nature to try to fill it with anxieties and fears. It can take time to fill it with good things instead.”
Source: Lord of Shadows
“I felt the same way the world felt about Kurtis; It revolved around him.”
Source: There Once Was A Boy
“I felt the satisfaction because it proved that the world is not going backward, if you can just stay young enough to remember what it was really like when you were really young.”
Source: The Sweet Science
“I felt the sensation of each of the directions I mentally and emotionally turned into amazed at all the possible directions you can take with different motives that come in like it can make you a different person — I’ve often thought of this since childhood of suppose instead of going up Columbus as I usually did I’d turn into Filbert would something happen that at the time is insignificant enough but would be like enough to influence my whole life in the end? — What’s in store for me in the direction I don’t take?”
“I felt the sort of soaring, ceilingless tedium that transcends tedium and becomes worry.”
“I felt the spiritual connection to Mauna Kea and visited with the sacred mountain protectors in Hawaii.”
“I felt the sputtering flame of true devotion and true mysticism kindled from the weak fire of lives of utter denial.”
Source: The Vampire Armand
“I felt the strange brooding lonely presence of Nature fostering a new race, a new age, and as part of it, a new expression in Art. It was an unfolding of the heart itself through the effect of environment, of people, of place, and time.”
“I felt the stupidity rising in my throat and bit down harder, staring at his collarbone and the small piece of blue sea glass he wore on a leather cord around his neck, rising and falling.
Rising.
Falling.
Seconds? Hours? I didn’t know. He’d made the necklace the year before from a triangular piece of glass he’d found during their family vacation to Zanzibar Bay, right behind the California beach house they rented for three weeks every summer. According to Matt, red glass was the rarest, followed by purple, then dark blue. To date he’d found only one red piece, which he’d made into a bracelet for Frankie a few months earlier. She never took it off.
I loved all the colors – dark greens, baby blues, aquas, and whites. Frankie and Matt brought them back for me in mason jars every summer. They lived silently on my bookshelf, like frozen pieces of the ocean I had never seen.
“Come here,” he whispered, his hand still stuck in my wild curls, blond hair winding around his fingers.
“I still can’t believe you made that,” I said, not for the first time. “It’s so – cool.”
Matt looked down at the glass, his hair falling in front of his eyes.
“Maybe I’ll give it to you,” he said. “If you’re lucky.”
Source: Twenty Boy Summer
“I felt the taste of mortality in my mouth, and at that moment I understood that I was not going to live forever. It takes a long time to learn that, but when you finally do, everything changes inside you, you can never be the same again. I was seventeen years old, and all of a sudden, without the slightest flicker of a doubt, I understood that my life was my own, that it belonged to me and no one else.
I’m talking about freedom, Fogg. A sense of despair that becomes so great, so crushing, so catastrophic, that you have no choice but to be liberated by it. That’s the only choice, or else you crawl into a corner and die.”
Source: Moon Palace
“I felt the tears coming.
And I didn't stop them.
They ran down my cheeks and onto my pillow. The more I blinked, the faster they came. Something about that told me that it was natural, but something else about it told me that it wasn't. I turned on my side and closed my eyes, tight. Not to stop the tears, but to stop the people I'd lost from haunting me.”
Source: Itchikan: 'til death do us part'
“I felt the tears streak down my cheeks but I wasn't crying.”
Source: Unravel Me
“I felt the threads of connection between us—fragile filaments, so easily snapped. Like the poem at shift into his side, we were craving to fit inside the other, and is melting and reshaping could be deeper, more resilient.”
Source: Easy
“I felt the tributaries of his veins, wished to enter into his bloodstream, travel there, dissolved and bodiless, to take refuge in the thick walled chambers of his heart.”
Source: The Outlander Series 7-Book Bundle: Outlander, Dragonfly in Amber, Voyager, Drums of Autumn, The Fiery Cross, A Breath of Snow and Ashes, An Echo in the Bone
“I felt the truth like a shadow inside my bones, this tiredness had been with me since I was eleven. It never left. And the worst part was… No matter how many doctors I had visited, how many blood tests they ran, how many psychologists I cried to, they always shook their heads gently and said, Maybe you’re just tired from school… or work… or your singing classes.”
Source: Where the Dark Knelt
“I felt the unfairness of it, the inarguable injustice of loving someone who might have loved you back but can't due to deadness.”
Source: Looking for Alaska
“I felt the unordinary romance of / women who love women for the first time.”
Source: No language is neutral
“I felt the urge to reassure him that I was like everybody else, just like everybody else. But really there wasn't much point, and I gave up the idea out of laziness.”
“I felt the urge to reassure him that I was like everybody else, just like everybody else.”
“I felt the vulnerability, the fragility of the children of the world, and how it was, nonetheless, on their frail shoulders that we loaded the weight of our weary hopes and eternal new beginnings.”
“I felt the warm tug of the past and the melancholy of absence - all of it a little jarring, accustomed as I was to the hermetic and youthful world of college. It was something deeper than what I normally felt at school, the slow shift of generational gears.”
Source: Becoming
“I felt the weakness of these books, their immateriality, how they had failed to change the world, and I didn't want to sully myself with their weakness anymore.”
Source: Super Sad True Love Story
“I felt the weight of the past at the beginning of my career of singer.”
“I felt the worry start to snatch at my breath when I finished talking.”
Source: Paper Towns
“I felt there needed to be a show for teenagers that didn't make them feel judged. 'Skins' never tried to preach. It allowed young people to make their own decisions about what to do and whether it was right or wrong. Young people really respond to that, and that's what sets 'Skins' apart.”
“I felt there was a certain amount of violence in the graphic and that it could still be cheated on screen so you could still have a hard PG-13 and open up your audience. Anybody can read the graphic novel. If you're 14, you can go out and buy it, and I felt that if you're 14 you should be able to see this movie [The Loosers].”
“I felt there was something sacred in sex; in fact, it was the only sacred thing. In woman and her beauty I saw something divine, because the most important function of existence--the continuation of the species--is her vocation. To me woman represented a personification of nature, _Isis_, and man was her priest, her slave. In contrast to him she was cruel like nature herself who tosses aside whatever has served her purposes as soon as she no longer has need for it. To him her
cruelties, even death itself, still were sensual raptures.”
Source: Venus in Furs
“I felt there's a wealth in Jewish tradition, a great inheritance. I'd be a jerk not to take advantage of it.”
“I felt this awful obligation to be charming or at least have something to say, and the pressure of having to be charming (or merely verbal) incapacitates me.”
Source: Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You: A Novel
“I felt this boy whose name I couldn't be bothered to remember grunting and heaving inside me; I was that empty and that far away. And suddenly I knew what became of all those lost balloons: they were the loves that slipped out of our fists; the blank eyes that rose in every night sky.”
Source: My Sister's Keeper
“I felt this was my duty, my sole duty: to reconcile the irreconcilables, to draw the thick ancestral darkness out of my loins and transform it, to the best of my ability, into light.”
“I felt tight from the beginning of the match to the end. I couldn't relax.”
“I felt tired for the first time, and I thought of us lying down on some grassy patch of SeaWorld together, me on my back and she on her side with her arm draped against me, her head on my shoulder, facing me. Not doing anything--just lying there together beneath the sky, the night here so well lit that it drowns out the stars. And maybe I could feel her breathe against my neck, and maybe we could just stay there until morning and then the people would walk past us as they came into the park, and they would see us and think that we were tourists, too, and we could just disappear into them.”
Source: Paper Towns
“I felt tired of the failures of men. They were always failing in the most basic ways, like looking down or away at the moment when they should be gutsy enough to meet your eye.”
Source: James
“I felt totally myself, nothing like the emptiness and horrible feeling I had then [pulling out the Olympics] - no dizziness.”