I Quotes
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“I finally learned that it was all right to say something wasn’t working for me when it wasn’t working. The world doesn’t come crashing down when you speak the truth.”
Source: The Secret Life of Prince Charming
“I finally learned to accept that I can't make radio play blues any more than I could get Reagan out of the White House.”
“I finally learned to live in the present and focus only on what I want rather than what I don't want.”
“I finally learned to love myself by dressing up as Geri Halliwell.”
“I finally made eye contact with the boy in the bed. He lay on his side, a tube in his nose and another in his vein. His cheeks were sunken, and his skin was ghostly pale. His hair might have been blond, but it was fading into a gray, making it hard to tell. The only part of this boy that held any life at all were his eyes, which brimmed with tears when he saw me.
“Kahlen?”
I sat still. These three people all called me by the same name, which sounded sort of like Katlyn and Ellen and made me believe that maybe they actually knew me.
“Where did you go? Where have you been? I thought you were dead.” His chest worked overtime, trying to keep up with his mouth, spilling over with words.
“Can you get her a pen? Please?” He lifted an arm weakly. It was all bone. “I just need to know.”
“A pen?” I asked.
Once again his eyes lit up.
“You can talk?”
I stared at this boy, at how he was overjoyed at one of the most basic things a person could do. “So it would seem.” I smiled.
He flopped onto his back, laughing from his gut, and based on Julie’s tears, I was guessing she’d been waiting a long time for that to come back.”
Source: The Siren
“I finally made friends with my father when I entered my twenties. We had so little in common when I was a boy, and I am certain I had been a disappointment to him. He did not ask for a child with a book of its own world. He wanted a son who did what he had done: swam and boxed and played rugby, and drove cars at speed with abandon and joy, but that was not what he had wound up with.”
Source: The Ocean at the End of the Lane
“I finally made friends with my father when I entered my twenties. We had so little in common when I was a boy, and I am certain I had been a disappointment to him. He did not ask for a child with a book, off in its own world. He wanted a son who did what he had done; swam and boxed and played rugby, and drove cars at speed with abandon and joy, but that was not what he wound up with.”
“I finally made up my mind I wanted to be an actress and I was not going to let my lack of confidence ruin my chances.”
Source: Marilyn Monroe in her own words
“I finally made up my mind that I would neither disclaim the black race nor claim the white race; but that I would change my name, raise a mustache, and let the world take me for what it would; that it was not necessary for me to go about with a label of inferiority pasted across my forehead.”
Source: The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man
“I finally managed to try to do away with myself, as neatly and concisely as possible. I would rather die young leaving various accomplishments, some work, my friendship with you, and some other artifacts intact, instead of pell-mell erasing all of these delicate things.”
“I finally moved out of my parent's house. It was only fair to let my sister have her own room.”
“I finally overcame my phobia, and now I approach flying with a sort of studied boredom - a learned habit, thanks to my learn-to-fly-calmly training - but like all former flying phobics, I retain a weird and feverish fascination with aviation news, especially bad news.”
“I finally reached the conclusion that mathematics was the study I was best fitted to follow, though I did not clearly see in what way I should turn the subject to account.”
Source: The reminiscences of an astronomer
“I finally realized only few people around you care about your life, the rest are just curious.”
“I finally realized that being grateful to my body was key to giving more love to myself.”
“I finally realized that I had to embrace the madness, let it transform me instead of letting it define me.
....
"You, my ferocious girl, are embracing the madness. Lean into it, won't ya?”
Source: Portals of Water and Wine
“I finally realized that my relaxation is practicing the piano and writing. I've tried to do other things, but I've learned through the decades, that this is what I enjoy, practicing music and writing.”
“I finally realized that no one is perfect and that I like the fact that I look different and don't have the perfect body. No one does!”
“I finally realized that so much of the music world is about how much money you've got, how much you can pay to make your record successful.”
“I finally realized that this 'place' that I kept bursting into [on a psychedelic experience] was somebody's idea of a playpen.”
“I finally realized that until you understand why you do things, you have no control over what you do.”
“I finally realized that yeah I did want to be an actor and it wasn't out of habit, but I needed to grow up for myself and then kind of re-enter the industry with a sound understanding of what my sensibilities and my values are as a relatively formed human being.”
“I finally realized the happy medium, 'honey blonde' was the correct color and line for me.”
“I finally realized the source of your mutual attraction," Saiman said, his voice dry. "You both think violence is foreplay.”
Source: Magic Rises: A Kate Daniels Novel
“I finally realized there is no such thing as ‘one-sized love’ when it is not given from an act of selfishness.”
Source: Pinwheels and Dandelions
“I finally recover use of my voice. “It wasn’t your fault, Rajkumar . You didn’t do anything.”“No, I didn’t. And with my silence, I became an accomplice.”
Accept love, no matter how barbed it may look. It is the only way to restore balance in the world.
“So you see, Siya, he is not the sort of king who will let you go if you simply ask him to. He relishes combat, thrills in it. As I’ve grown older, I’ve seen the damage my father has done to this kingdom and his people. For all the power I supposedly have as a prince, I have done nothing except play the role of a useless bystander.”
Source: Hunted by the Sky
“I finally returned to Iran in 1979, when I got my degree in English and American literature, and stayed for 18 years in the Islamic republic.”
“I finally said, "Let's put it this way: I'd rather lose you than stop my shots.""You mean that chemical is more important to you than I am?""No, I am more important to me than you are.”
Source: We Both Laughed in Pleasure: The Selected Diaries of Lou Sullivan
“I finally saw the whole conspiracy standing as plain as an elephant in the street; also the conspiracy was admitted to me in great detail by one of the princes of the conspiracy."
"Bad, Smith, very bad."
"If one of the inmates should come to you right now, Doctor, and tell you it was raining outside, you'd say 'Bad, very bad', and make damning marks on his record."
" That's probably true. It's an automatic response with me.”
Source: Fourth Mansions
“I finally slice into my steak. My first bite is velvety and robust. Melt-in-your-mouth tender. Hardly have to chew. I swallow my morsel of meat. Relish in the taste.”
Source: Savage Indulgence: A Grisly Short Story with a Twist Ending
“I finally spoke, my voice trembling. “Hello…Son. I love you. I made you. I’m your God. I will always be there for you. I will do everything I can to keep you safe.”
My love for him was so strong.
Adam just looked at me, intrigued. He then smiled and opened his arms in a wide embrace. I started crying, feeling his tight hold over me.
He then released his grip and said one word: “Daddy.”
Source: The Creation Project
“I finally stop feeding my mind with toxic thoughts and started nurturing my heart and soul with love instead.”
“I finally stopped complaining about 'Why isn't everybody else making me what I want to be?' You can't rely solely on your agent or your managers to educate people as to who you are.”
“I finally stopped fretting and tried to think of Donald Trump's election as an opportunity. I didn't shift my thesis but I added some lines, in the Blurred Lines introduction, to my description of the progressive awakening that has happened in this country over the last five years - "Trump's presidency is a macroaggression". I wanted Trump to be a specter from the book's outset.”
“i finally stopped waiting…
waiting for him to feel sorry, to feel regret,
to feel guilty, to realize how much he had lost
in me and to feel some certain way for all
that he had done to me
i finally understood…
it really never had anything to do with me.
someone who is capable of all
that he had done was just never capable
of feeling anything at all.”
“I finally understand / for a woman it ain't easy tryin to raise a man / You always was committed / A poor single mother on welfare, tell me how ya did it / There's no way I can pay you back / But the plan is to show you that I understand / You are appreciated”
“I finally understand for a woman it ain't easy trying to raise a man.”
“I finally understand that it’s okay to be a little afraid of things but that obsessing over them does not mean you have any more control over what you fear.”
Source: I Can Barely Take Care of Myself: Tales From a Happy Life Without Kids
“I finally understand the meaning of acceptance on the grief chart. It’s not that the bereaved ever accepts the death of the loved one—I will never accept your death—it’s that you come to accept that these really are your shitty, irreversible circumstances.”
Source: Everything is Horrible and Wonderful: A Tragicomic Memoir of Genius, Heroin, Love and Loss
“I finally understood that by being on a perpetual diet, I had practiced a "disordered" form of eating my whole life. I restricted when I was hungry and in need of nutrition and binged when I was so grotesquely full I couldn't be comfortable in any position by lying down. Diets that tell people what to eat or when to eat are the practices inbetween. And dieting, I discovered, was another form of disordered eating, just as anorexia and bulimia similarly disrupt the natural order of eating.”
Source: Unbearable Lightness: A Story of Loss and Gain
“I finally understood that I didn’t lack pen and paper but my own
memorizing mind. It had been given away with a hundred poems, called
rote learning, old-fashioned, backward, an enemy of creative thinking,
a great human gift disowned.”
Source: Just As I Thought
“I finally understood that no matter what I did, or who I found, I-he-none of us-would ever be able to win over the memories she had of Dad, memories that soothed her even while they made her sad, because she'd built a world out of them she knew how to survive on even if no one else could.”
Source: The History of Love: A Novel
“I finally understood that what we put into the world, into the universe, often has a way of coming right back to us.”
Source: The Dark Dictionary: A Guide to Help Eradicate Your Darkness, Restore Your Light, and Redefine Your Life.
“I finally understood — the past belongs in the past.
What we hold onto as fantasy doesn’t always survive reality.”
“I finally understood what true love meant...love meant that you care for another person's happiness more than your own, no matter how painful the choices you face might be.”
“I finally understood why it is that we humans keep cats as pets. There’s a limit to how well we know ourselves. For example, we don’t know what we look like to others; we can’t predict our own future or what our own death will be like. So that’s why we need cats, to help us understand ourselves better. It’s just like my mother said: Cats don’t need us. It’s us who needs them.”
Source: If Cats Disappeared from the World
“I finally understood why so much monkey business happened in the backs of buses. Put us in close proximity, with wheels spinning under us, and nothing to do but wait, we’re going to start thinking of lovely uses for our bodies. I don’t care who you are.”
Source: Glass Girl
“I finally understood: In order to contribute to Africa, I would have to know myself better and be clearer about my goals. I would have to be ready to take Africa on its own terms, not mine, and to learn my limits and present myself not as a do-gooder with a big heart, but as someone with something to give and gain by being there. Compassion wasn't enough”
Source: The Blue Sweater : Bridging The Gap Between Rich And Poor In An Intercnnected World
“I finally went
where everyone goes
and I realized
I was
never
missing
out.”
Source: Divine Trouble
“I find 'Fatal Attraction' really romantic. I really like the seduction. Almost every time I see it, I'm surprised when it goes dark. I know that's the claim to fame, but I key into how genuinely romantic it is.”