I Quotes
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“I grew up, I was going I want to be Jerry Lee Lewis. Only I can't play piano and sing that good.”
“I grew up, in my childhood, with some of the greatest women performers, on stage and on screen, and even my family - my mother and my sisters. So I was very busy watching women, as a child! I have a lot of memories of great women performers”
“I grew up, obviously, watching tons of animation; Saturday morning cartoons or anything that we could get our hands on. And then when 'The Simpsons' premiered, that just kind of changed the landscape of everything. We hadn't had prime time animations since 'The Flintstones.'”
“I grew up, probably like a lot of people, on cartoons. And I never thought I would have the chance to be in an animated movie. It's good also to show the world my sweet side with them.”
“I grew up, really, in the country.When I was a kid there were three country stores, a railroad depot, and a post office.”
“I grew up. I began to think the United States had some problems that really required the help of artistic people to solve. And I gave myself permission to be a writer instead of a civil servant.”
“I grew wings after I left you. I soared without you.”
“I’ll burn your fucking wings.”
“I grew, a happy, healthy child in a bright world of illustrated books, clean sand, orange trees, friendly dogs, sea vistas and smiling faces.”
Source: The Annotated Lolita: Revised and Updated
“I grew. Going outside my comfort zone is a big one for me.”
“I grieve and dare not show my discontent, I love and yet am forced to seem to hate, I do, yet dare not say I ever meant, I seem stark mute but inwardly do prate. I am and not, I freeze and yet am burned, Since from myself another self I turned. My care is like my shadow in the sun, Follows me flying, flies when I pursue it, Stands and lies by me, doth what I have done.”
“I grieve for every death.”
“I grieve for every death.'It breaks my heart to think about a family weeping over the loss of a loved one. I understand the anguish that some feel about the death that takes place.”
“I grieve for life's bright promise, just shown and then withdrawn.”
“I grieve for you, how I mourn for you, who are so very dear to me, but again I can rejoice within my heart, not for nothing have I labored, neither has my exile been in vain.”
“I grieve nothing. I take everything.”
Source: Destroy Me
“I grieve to leave: I love this place-I love it,
because I have lived in it a full and delightful life,-
momentarily at least.
I have not been trampled on.
I have not been petrified.
I have not been buried with inferior minds,
and excluded from every glimpse of communion with
what is bright and energetic and high.
I have talked, face to face, with what I reverence,
with what I delight in,- with an original, a vigorous, an
expanded mind.
I have known you; and it strikes me with terror and
anguish to feel I absolutely must be torn from you for
ever.
I see the necessity of departure;
and it is like looking in the necessity of death.”
Source: Jane Eyre: The Original 1847 Edition With Illustrations
“I grieve you as a lover grieves, lingering.”
Source: Heaven
“I grieved for what was yet to come. But I grieved more for what I had lost: myself. I may not have grown in inches as my grandmother had almost a century ago, but I had certainly allowed marriage to change me in fundamental ways.”
Source: Rewriting My Happily Ever After: A Memoir of Divorce and Discovery
“I grieved my situation; I grieved the fact that the fines existed and I was to be held to some higher standard. I grieved my arrests and fines and penalties with ferocity, but I did not grieve the actions that got me into these circumstances. I grieved my pain but I did not grieve my sin. In fact, I did not believe in sin, so I let it continue to destroy my life as I hopelessly, cluelessly, and despondently wondered what on earth was wrong. I repeated the same mistakes, feeling bad for myself, hating the consequences, but never changing a thing.”
Source: Pursued: God’s relentless pursuit and a drug addict’s journey to finding purpose
“I grieved time perceived lost. In my mind, I was robbed of thousands of memories, but I loved and cherished each and every one I conjured with a passion I’ve yet to process. (Light Over Dark Water)”
“I grieved, but a part of me felt a lightening of a burden that I had carried all my life: that I could never be worthy of them, that I would always disappoint or fail them. As an unknown slave in the fields of the baron, I knew the worst was over. I had failed them. At least I could not do so again”
“I grill almost all of my fish with the skin on because that gives you real protection at least on one side. It's a nice barrier against super high heat which tends to make a lot of fish to turn really flaky. It's very easy to overcook fish on the grill. But I still brush it with oil before I start.”
“I grill, therefore I am.”
“I grin, and he beams with pride.
“So what kind of hat is that?” I ask, unable to resist. He’s adorable when he’s showing off his wardrobe—like a puppy doing tricks. Although I remain cautious, knowing in the blink of an eye he can become a wolf again.
“My Peregrination Cap,” he answers.
“Huh?”
His smile widens—baring white teeth. “Peregrination. An excursion … a journey.”
“So, why don’t you just call it your traveling cap?”
“Then it wouldn’t be much of a conversation starter, would it?”
I raise an eyebrow. “Um, the fact that it’s made of living moths might give you something to talk about.”
Morpheus laughs. For once our relationship feels comfortable, friendly.”
Source: Unhinged
“I grin at the fierce burn in my legs, in my chest. Using pain to relieve pain. It doesn't make much sense.”
Source: Insurgent
“I grin back and breathe in the sweet smell of sweat, whiteboard marker and fear. The smells of high school.”
Source: Apocalypse Now Now
“I grin, imagining it.
“I can hear your creepy smile right now.”
“I don’t have a creepy smile.”
“You do when it comes to my cousin.” I frown.
“Don’t worry, his smile for you is even creepier.”
“All his smiles are creepy.”
Source: This May End Badly
“I grin. “It’s just a party,” I assure her. “Nothin’ big.”
“There ain’t nothin’ that happens on this ranch that’s organized by your mama that ain’t big. That woman’s about as subtle as a shotgun.”
“A shotgun can be subtle if it ain’t bein’ fired,” I point out.
She narrows her eyes. I think she’s about to quip back with something super sassy, but then a smile wrinkles up her face. “You sayin’ I’m better off to keep the shotgun from firin’?”
“I’m sayin’ quit playin’ with the trigger, Grandma.”
Source: Football Sundae
“I grin. "What say ye to taking down the monster we call Saint Patty?"
The maiden of Loch Ness breaks into a wide smile, displaying beautiful ivory fangs. "I say aye, lad. That is if ye can keep up with me.”
Source: Guardian
“I grind my teeth and keep my thumbs in so tight that I've dislocated them, just not to scream. Sometimes as an actor one is lucky enough to be asked to scream.”
“I grinned at Daemon and held up a bulb that was so green it almost matched his eyes. I decided it was going to be his bulb.”
Source: Onyx
“I grinned at him, feeling more enthusiastic about my plan now that he was on board. Rosalie was a pain, but I would always owe her one for choosing Emmett; no one had a better brother than mine.”
“I grinned at him. 'Jealous?' He grinned right back. 'That's a trick question. If I say yes you'll accuse me of being paranoid and unreasonable, and if I say no you'll make some defensive crack about how I don't think you're worth getting jealous over.' This is what I got for hooking up with a lawyer.”
“I grinned. “So you are human after all.” I touched his chest, feeling him breathe hard in and out. “I always thought you were made of steel, you know,” I said.
“Superman?” Nat arched his eyebrows.
“No, the Tin Man,” I answered back. I settled my head against his chest, turning my ear to listen to his heartbeat. “I sometimes wondered if you had a heart.” - Summer, Perfect Summer”
Source: Perfect Summer
“I grinned. “Start at the beginning.”
“Once upon a time---“
“It did not start with “Once upon a time.”
“No? It should have. All the best stories do. Now, where was I? Once upon a time…”
Source: Golden Braids and Dragon Blades: Steampunk Rapunzel
“I grip Colin harder, kissing him longer, unwilling to let him go. This is what I want; this is what I’ve wanted since his damn phone interrupted us this morning, his mouth, his body claiming mine. I’m on fire, every muscle in my body attuned to his, my groin clenching with delicious need. When the voices grow louder his hold loosens.
“Don’t stop, please,” I beg into his mouth. Diving into me once more his tongue slays me, erases every thought of the outside world until the passion has left us breathless and we have to break away if only to live. His forehead presses to mine as we gasp together, the cold air barely cooling the heat raging between us.
-Midnight, A McKenna Chronicle”
Source: Midnight
“I griped about it at lunch one day to Bill Weist and Dr. Leslie Squier, our visiting psychologists from Reed College. I'd been trying to train one otter to stand on a box, I told them. No problem getting the behavior; as soon as I put the box in the enclosure, the otter rushed over and climbed on top of it. She quickly understood that getting on the box earned her a bite of fish, But. As soon as she got the picture, she began testing the parameters. 'Would you like me lying down on the box? What if I just put three feet on the box? Suppose I hang upside down from the edge of the box? Suppose I stand on it and look under it at the same time? How about if I put my front paws on it and bark?' For twenty minutes she offered me everything imaginable except just getting on the box and standing there. It was infuriating, and strangely exhausting. The otter would eat her fish and then run back to the box and present some new, fantastic variation and look at me expectantly (spitefully, even, I thought) while I struggled once more to decide if what she was doing fit my criteria or not.
My psychologist friends flatly refused to believe me; no animal acts like that. If you reinforce a response, you strengthen the chance that the animal will repeat what it was doing when it was reinforced; you don't precipitate some kind of guessing game.
So I showed them. We all went down to the otter tank, and I took the other otter and attempted to get it to swim through a small hoop. I put the hoop in the water. The otter swam through it, twice. I reinforced it. Fine. The psychologists nodded. Then the otter did the following, looking up for a reward each time: swam through the hoop and stopped, leaving its tail on the other side. Swam through and caught the hoop with a back foot in passing, and carried it away. Lay in the hoop. Bit the hoop Backed through the hoop. 'See?' I said. 'Otters are natural experimenters.”
Source: Lads Before the Wind: Diary of a Dolphin Trainer
“I gripped against her like she was metal and I was all full of lightning, charged up and jagged and of that moment alone.”
Source: Rootless
“I gripped hold of that scarf like my life depended on it. Still to this day I inhale it every night, despite what has happened over the years. I don’t blame her now for not waiting. For all she knew, I wouldn’t return. But to marry him, god, she could have done so much better.”
Source: Never Another You
“I gripped the stapler even harder and felt like a fool planning to battle a crazy man with a stapler that even, I suddenly remembered, contained no staples. Well, strike that line of defense.”
Source: Real Murders
“I grit my teeth. Despite everything, I mutter with a smile, “No.”
“No, what?”
“No, I’m glad you came.”
“I haven’t . . .yet.”I slap my book across his arm, blushing furiously.
“You’re impossible.”
“And you’re incredible.”
“I gritted my teeth and forced myself to calm down.
"You're the only person I let talk to me this way. You know what would happen if you were anyone else?”
Source: Bad for You
“I gritted my teeth and suffered my agony in silence. I did it for a sense of control, even though I knew that screaming was a release that would help ease a little of my pain.”
Source: Claimed by the Elven King: Part One
“I groan. “I got the gist.”
But she shakes her head and gets a determined look in her eyes. “I made the mistake of not communicating last time, and I’m not going to do that again. You deserve more.”
“More kissing? Yes.”
She laughs but doesn’t kiss me.”
Source: For Butter or for Worse
“I groaned as me limbs grew to immense proportions an' me neck stretched. Moss-coloured scales emerged upon me slick skin. Me snout elongated and me teeth sharpened to the size o' small dirks.”
Source: Guardian
“I groaned. Man and his codes! Even in a lawless inferno, man has to give himself some honor, he's so desperate to separate himself from the beasts.”
Source: A Fraction of the Whole
“I groom, but it doesn't take me a long time to get to what people see.”
“I ground matter to find the continuous line. And when I realized I could not find it, I stopped, as if an unseen someone had slapped my hands.”
“I ground my faith upon God's word, and not upon the church.”
Source: The Literary Remains of Lady Jane Grey: with a Memoir of Her Life. By N. H. Nicolas. L.P.
“I grouped my fellow employees into three categories: the plebes, the damned, and the demons.”
Source: Dark Hope