I Quotes
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“I gave you three proofs of witchcraft. A cat that drinks blood! A horse that talks! And a man who propagates POODLES!”
“I gave you too much power because I always yearned for your love, but I guess the love card wasn’t meant for me to have in my life. I always thought I was dealt a bad hand because that card never appeared in the deck.”
Source: Dying on The Inside and Suffocating on The Outside
“I gave you two choices as a test: there are never just two choices. That is a lie to keep you from thinking too deeply.”
Source: Tess of the Road
“I gave you up and died a little each day”
“I gave you water every day,
Sunshine songs, a cozy clay.
You stretched your leaves so wide and fair—
I thought you knew how much I cared.
But puddles grew where roots should breathe,
Your stem turned soft, a silent plea.
One leaf dropped, then two, then three—
My love drowned you, and now I see.
You were my friend in that bright room,
A green hello that fought the gloom.
I didn’t mean to steal your light,
Just wanted to hold your petals tight.
Now your pot sits empty, small,
Dirt stained with tears I let fall.
Sometimes love pours like a storm—
Too much warmth can break what’s warm.”
“I gave you wings to fly looming high and easy
over unboarded sea and the entire earth.
At every meal and banquet you will be present
on the lips of guests. Graceful young men
will sing of you in limpid lovely notes
to the clean piping of the flutes.
When you go under the dark vaults of earth
to the mournful chambers of sad Hell,
even when you lie dead you will not lose
your glory. Your name will be recalled
among men always, Kyrnos. You will wheel high
over the mainland and Greek islands
and cross the unharvested sea pulsing with fish,
not by horse but carried to those who love you
in the gifts of Muses capped in violet flowers.
You will be like a song to the living
as long as there is sun, earth. Yet you ignore me
and trick me as if I were a child.”
“I gaze at his unshaven face; it's manly. He's handsome in an old-fashioned kind of way, straight out of a 1950s movie”
“I gaze at the orchid sitting on his windowsill. It's wrapped in bamboo and tied with a purple tassel. Its yellow and green leaves are long and narrow, striped like a tiger's tail. The blooms are tiny, white, and fragrant.
"Fūkiran," my father says. "Grown since the Edo Period and collected by feudal lords as gifts to the shogun or emperor." He slides the office doors closed.
"I know." I smile because it's familiar. My mother has a woodblock of it above her nightstand. Neofinetia falcata.”
Source: Tokyo Ever After
“I gaze forward without fear.”
“I gaze into the doorway of temptation's angry flame And every time I pass that way I always hear my name”
“I gaze into the glassy eye of yoursome god, and pluck him by the beard; I uplift a broad-axe, and split open his worm-eaten skull!
Compton”
“I gaze lovingly at "Hilal" a love that is reflected through time or what we imagine to be time, as in a mirror. She was never mine and never will be; that is how it is. We are both creators and creatures, but we are also puppets in God's hands, and there is a line we cannot cross, a line that was drawn for reasons we cannot know. We can approach and even dabble our toes in the river but we are forbidden to plunge in and let ourselves be carried along by the current.”
“I gaze out of the window at the lanes of red taillights streaming towards the hills, the city laid out in anonymous grids and quadrants, the view confirming that I was much more alone than I thought, and all those red lights inspired nothing more than a sense that I, too, should be fleeing somewhere.”
Source: Being a Girl
“I gaze out, to the stars. I remember the first time I saw real stars, through the hatch window. They were beautiful then, but now, seeing them here, all around me, beautiful feels like an inadequate word. I see the stars as a part of the universe, and having spent my life behind walls, suddenly having none fills me with both awe and terror. Emotion courses through my veins, choking me. I feel so insignificant, a tiny speck surrounded by a million stars.
A million suns.
Centuries away is Sol. Circling around it is Sol-Earth, the planet Amy came from. And one of these other stars is the Centauri binary system, where the new planet spins, waiting for us.
And here we are, in the middle, surrounded by a sea of stars.
Any of them could hold a planet. Any of them could hold a home.
But all of them are out of reach.”
Source: A Million Suns
“I gaze up at the ceiling. Through it. Past Kim and Chip's room on the second floor into the sky, space, heaven, hell. Who says hell is down? It could be up. It could be next door to heaven. Hell could be a subset of heaven, like a ghetto in the middle of a glass city.”
Source: By the Time You Read This, I'll Be Dead
“I gaze upon the thousand stars
That fill the midnight sky;
And wish, so passionately wish,
A light like theirs on high.
I have such eagerness of hope
To benefit my kind;
I feel as if immortal power
Were given to my mind.”
“I gazed again at that sad, dark house- the place that had been a prison. Elain had said she missed it, and I wondered what she saw when she looked at the cottage. If she beheld not a prison but a shelter- a shelter from a world that had possessed so little good, but she tried to find it anyway, even if it had seemed foolish and useless to me.
She had looked at that cottage with hope; I had looked at it with nothing but hatred. And I knew which one of us had been stronger.”
Source: A Court of Thorns and Roses
“I gazed around the room and my eyes stopped dead on a little boy standing in the corner. This was a particularly eerie doll. Life-sized and blond-haired and blue-eyed. I saw a little Nazi boy, pockets probably stuffed with scissors and retractable blades. My grandfather on my mother's side was rumored to be half Jewish, which practically makes me Jerry Seinfeld's brother, and thus wary of blond German boys with their hands out of sight.”
Source: Possible Side Effects
“I gazed at every mirror on the planet, not one gave back my reflection.”
“I gazed at him. And when Caspian Marks glared at me, I finally... I finally saw it. The stars had no longer blinded his vision. That spot had been long replaced. The stars no longer blinded his vision, because I did.”
Source: Counting Stars
“I gazed at the horn, the long, corkscrew curve of it, the tip so sharp it was not actually visible to my mortal eyes, except as the narrowest of shadows. It filled me with the strangest desire to touch it, as if it were a spindle and I the hapless witch-touched maiden.”
Source: Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands
“I gazed at the monster and couldn't rip my gaze away. He was... beautifully twisted.”
Source: The Legend of Acacia Vitak
“I gazed into the mirror... There, staring at me, was the pallid, flabby-mouthed face of a crook”
“I gazed up as if I hadn't heard, but what I was thinking was, tell
me more about the pretty girls. I was embarrassed for wanting it, it
was base, what did pretty matter? I had thought that so many times
with my mother. A person didn't need to be beautiful, they just
needed to be loved. But I couldn't help wanting it. If that was the
way I could be loved, to be beautiful, I'd take it.”
Source: White Oleander
“I gazed up at the sky and let my eyes flicker from one constellation to another, to another, jumping between stepping stones. I thought of the heavenly bodies throwing down their narrow ropes to hook us. I’ve never believed the future was inscribed for each of us the day we were born. If anything were written in the stars, it was we who joined those dots, and our lives were the writing. But baby Garrett, born dead yesterday, and all those whose stories were over before they began, and those who opened their eyes and found they were living in a long nightmare, like Bridie and baby White, who decreed that, I wondered, or at least allowed it?”
Source: The Pull of the Stars
“I gazed up at the stars as I waited. They twinkled down at me, like a huge handful of diamonds someone had coated in glue and thrown on the ceiling.”
Source: One Day You'll Find Me
“I gazed upon the earth and saw that a body, in its tender faithlessness, had located it in the sky. A splendid scarf of blood, looming above the abyss.”
“I gazed upon the glorious sky
And the green mountains round,
And thought that when I came to lie
At rest within the ground,
'Twere pleasant, that in flowery June
When brooks send up a cheerful tune,
And groves a joyous sound,
The sexton's hand, my grave to make,
The rich, green mountain-turf should break.”
“I generalized rashly: That is what kills political writing, this absurd pretence that you are delivering a great utterance. You never do. You are just a puzzled man making notes about what you think. You are not building the Pantheon, then why act like a graven image? You are drawing sketches in the sand which the sea will wash away.”
Source: Force and Ideas: The Early Writings
“I generally avoid over-population arguments. But there's no question we're in population overshoot. The catch is we're not going to do anything about it. There will be no policy. The usual suspects: starvation, war, disease, will drive the population down. There's little more to say about that really, and it's certainly an unappetizing discussion, but it's probably the truth. In any case, we're in overshoot and we face vast resource scarcities.”
“I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.”
“I generally believe in polls. Scientific polls are accurate.”
“I generally blog between 5:30 A.M. and 7 A.M. I will from time to time add something during the day, but for the most part blogging is an early morning activity for me.”
“I generally circuit train and do Pilates.”
“I generally deal with something happening.”
“I generally disagree with most of the very high margin opportunities. Why? Because it's a business strategy tradeoff: the lower the margin you take, the faster you grow.”
“I generally do things I'm proud to be in and generally I'm in things people like.”
“I generally don't harbor good feelings about the future health of our planet. I am not a fan of the fact that Earth's fate does not lie in the hands of scientists, environmentalists, conservationists, or even artists but rather lies in the hands of the powers that be.”
Source: Memory Road Trip: A Retrospective Travel Journey
“I generally don't enjoy relaxing and doing nothing on holiday.”
“I generally don't involve myself in giving the actors some tips on acting. At the same time, I don't do that with the director.”
“I generally don't like living in a world where being what a man is, is a horrible thing; and no matter what a woman is, is a wonderful thing.”
“I generally don't regret decisions that have poor outcomes for me because that's the best way you can learn.”
“I generally don't select my chicken or my hamburgers based on the personal ideology of the person who is either flipping the hamburgers or making the money back at corporate headquarters. But if people want to do that, they're free to do it.”
“I generally don’t become overexcited about things anyway, I’m just not one of those people. I’m not easily surprised by things either. I think it’s because I expect that anything can happen”
Source: The Time of My Life
“I generally enjoy the rehearsal process because that's where you can share your ideas, get your thoughts and feelings out and see whether or not they're going to land, whether or not people are going to agree with them, particularly the director. So you can sort out in that process any elements that need to be sorted out before you're on the set, and of course that saves time and it also makes everyone more comfortable working together.”
“I generally find an affinity with a lot of the people I play and I suppose if I didn't feel an affinity for them then they wouldn't be particularly good performances.”
“I generally find subtlety a waste of time.”
Source: To the Brink
“I generally find that comparison is the fast track to unhappiness. No one ever compares themselves to someone else and comes out even. Nine times out of ten, we compare ourselves to people who are somehow better than us and end up feeling more inadequate.”
“I generally follow my own compass and make films about what's scaring me.”
“I generally get challenged; I haven't been typecast, which is really, really, nice. It's not something that every actor gets, really. It's luxury. Most actors are capable of it, but they aren't afforded the opportunity to express their variety.”