I Quotes
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“I hadn’t flown half around the world to shack up with a Cairns five. I was here for one reason: to find myself. In the first twelve hours, I had only found the guy I hated, the drunk who fucked anything that walked. The woman was adamant that I take her phone number and email. She scribbled down both on notebook paper. I grasped the sheet of paper, assuring her I’d be in touch. I gave her a final nudge toward the door and a final kiss goodbye, carefully avoiding her snaggle tooth.”
Source: Vicious Cycle: Whiskey, Women, and Water
“I hadn’t given much thought to answering the question of what to do once the game was over, mainly because a winning conclusion was always so unlikely.”
Source: Permanent Record
“I hadn't grown up fat. Not overweight. Not obese, or plus-size, or whatever you can call it now without sounding politically incorrect, or insensitive, or unscientific. But I always *felt* fat. Did that somehow meat I was destined to one day *be* fat, or did my obsession with being fat even when I wasn't lead to me eventually being fat? Does what we try most to avoid come after us because we paid too much attention to it with our worry?”
Source: There There
“I hadn't known Chancel very well, but ten days earlier I had seen him laughing with the others around the Christmas tree. Maybe Robert was right; the distance between the living and the dead really isn't very great. And yet, like myself, those future corpses who were drinking their coffee in silence appeared ashamed to be so alive.”
Source: The Mandarins
“I hadn't known I was so fragile, so delicate in motion. I didn't know Borne had loved me quite so much.”
Source: Borne
“I hadn't known what to expect as I entered the ring of white trees- tall and straight as pillars- but it was not the tall, thin veiled figure in dark tattered robes. Its hunched back facing me. I could count the hard knobs of its spine poking through the thin fabric. Spindly, scabby gray arms clawed at the snare with yellowed, cracked fingernails.
...
Then slowly, it turned to me, the dark veil draped over its bald head, blowing in a phantom breeze.
A face that looked like it had been crafted from dried, weatherworn bone, its skin either forgotten or discarded, a lipless mouth and too-long teeth held by blackened gums, slitted holes for nostrils, and eyes... eyes that were nothing more than swirling pits of milky white- the white of death, the white of sickness, the white of clean-picked corpses.
Peeking above the ragged neck of its dark robes was a body of veins and bones, as dried and solid and horrific as the texture of its face. It let go of the snare, and its too-long fingers clicked against each other as it studied me.”
Source: A Court of Thorns and Roses
“I hadn't learned to decipher the mysterious ways of the undermind, How occasionally it erupts into an avalanche of clarity, a sheet of snow shearing off the roof and thundering to the ground, leaving the shingles exposed, knowledge issuing a messenger to announce its arrival.”
Source: Spinster: Making a Life of One's Own
“I hadn't lied to her when I said things would be the same as yesterday. It was maybe the most honest thing I'd ever told her because I had been in love with Jaime forever. Yesterday, today, and always.”
Source: Same As Yesterday
“I hadn’t lost my sunrise, after all. He was sitting right beside me[...].”
Source: Possess Me! - I Want You To
“I hadn't met a lot of openly queer people before. There'd been a crowd of people at school who Pip hung out with with from time to time, but there could only have been about seven or eight of them, max. I don't know what I expected. There was no particular type of person, no particular style or look. But they were all so friendly. There were a few obvious friendship groups, but mostly, people were happy to chat to whoever.
They were all just themselves.
I don't know how to explain it.
There was no pretending. No hiding. No faking.
In this little restaurant hidden away in the old streets of Durham, a bunch of queer people could all show up and just be.
I don't think I'd understood what that was like until that moment.”
Source: Loveless
“I hadn't moved on. I don't know how anybody moves on from anything.”
Source: Show Them a Good Time
“I hadn't noticed until that moment that I'd been treated as a part of Cleve, rather than an individual human being with her own needs. I hadn't realized how much I needed someone to ask me if I was okay.”
Source: Alive Day: A Memoir
“I hadn't realized having ones life saved could be so humiliating.”
Source: The Girl of Fire and Thorns
“I hadn't realized that misery maybe got worse the older you were.”
Source: When the Tripods Came
“I hadn't seen it coming, this attraction to him that was unfamiliar, haunting. No one had ever had that effect on me before. No one ever would again, though I didn't know it yet. My body sensed it long before I did.”
Source: Sa préférée
“I hadn’t shaken my bone-deep sadness, but in small ways, I was coming back to life. My body, that had gone numb, began to feel again. Sun on my skin, good food, something as simple as the smell of the freshly squeezed orange juice (...)”
Source: The Bird Hotel
“I hadn't slept for seven nights. My mother told me I must have slept, it was impossible not to sleep in all that time, but if I slept, it was with my eyes wide open, for I had followed the green, luminous course of the second hand and the minute hand and the hour hand of the bedside clock through their circles and semi-circles, every night for seven nights, without missing a second, or a minute, or an hour.”
Source: the bell jar
“I hadn't stopped believing in God. I'd just stopped believing God cared. There might be a god, Clary, and there might not be, but I don't think it matters. Either way, we're on our own.”
Source: City of Bones
“I hadn’t thought about prom, Bailey, or that car crash in years. I’d been under the assumption that therapy had wiped it from my mind completely. The search for Lizzie was doing something to me. Causing me to regress, in a way. Bailey Shepherd was no one to me, but at the same time, she was everything. My cause and value of life forever changed by a girl buried in a labyrinth of gnarled alloy and gasoline.”
Source: The Organist
“I hadn’t thought of myself as a kid for a long time, but I guess I never really knew what I was. When you drop out of high school and go about things the way KC and I did, you’re not really following the normal milestones, you know? Like what everyone expects of you. Graduate middle school and high school and have a couple of friends and have at least one girlfriend and maybe have sex at sixteen and it’s really awkward and then you go to college, get a career, get married. Accident or otherwise, it didn’t matter. At least with these milestones, you know if you’re doing something right. Without those, how do you know if you’re making it?
You know, things can look pretty bright before they burn out.
Though, I guess there are plenty of people who may say KC and I never lit up. We were just embers, fighting against wind, trying to keep lit against the elements.”
Source: Bodymore Zero
“I hadn't understood funeral pyres before, but now I do. It's ghastly to burn someone you love but watching the smoke going into the sky, I think that's rather beautiful now. And I wish Tess could be up in the sky. Somewhere with color and light and air.”
Source: Sister
“I hadn't wished Mom good luck that morning. [...] I felt bad about it after. Even though I tried to be a good son, and most of the time succeeded, sometimes I suspected it didn't come naturally to me the way I knew it had to Ethan.”
Source: Tattoo Atlas
“I hadn't yet come to terms with the man my father was, or the lives he'd destroyed. But I accepted that he was part of me, and that he'd loved me once.”
Source: Nearly Gone
“I hadn't actually watched 'Entourage.' But I do understand that if you know and love that show, Jeremy Piven is about as good as it gets.”
“I hadn't bargained for this. I didn't think it would be like this - shabby clothes, worn-out shoes, circles under your eyes, your hair getting straight and lanky, the way people look at you. ... I didn't think it would be like this”
“I hadn't been a recording artist all that long when albums came on the scene, and I was one of the first singers to point the way to how varied an album's contents could be.”
“I hadn't been exposed to music except in church. They used to have me singing a solo when I was five years old.”
Source: I am the blues: the Willie Dixon story
“I hadn't been free from adult responsibilities since I was 12, and I needed to experience that. I really needed to just be a kid again.”
“I hadn't been in Vegas 20 minutes when I got word that the bookmakers were offering three to one that Frank wouldn't show for my wedding.”
“I hadn't been onstage in a while. The last time was pre-children. And before I went on [at Roseland], my kids were backstage, and I thought, This isn't how I usually do it. I've got kids, and I'm thinking, This is weird. It's weird juggling children on your knee while you're in your rhinestone outfit. And I'm thinking, Okay, I'm gonna go out and do a show and I'm gonna be Superwoman! But I'm not really, `cause I'm a mom. It's all very strange.”
“I hadn't been out to the hives before, so to start off she gave me a lesson in what she called 'bee yard etiquette'. She reminded me that the world was really one bee yard, and the same rules work fine in both places. Don't be afraid, as no life-loving bee wants to sting you. Still, don't be an idiot; wear long sleeves and pants. Don't swat. Don't even think about swatting. If you feel angry, whistle. Anger agitates while whistling melts a bee's temper. Act like you know what you're doing, even if you don't. Above all, send the bees love. Every little thing wants to be loved.”
Source: The Secret Life of Bees
“I hadn't been that impressed with someone since I worked with Meryl Streep.”
“I hadn't been there [Comic-Con] before. It's pretty eye-opening, when you haven't been there, just with the sheer amount of fans that are there for different shows and films. It's like a big fan symposium, in a way, as well a way for film studios and television studios to really promote their product to their loyal audience base. It was an experience.”
“I hadn't done a comedy for a while. I had directed a very low budget movie called The Ape and it was playing at a festival in Austin. Judd [Apatow] was there and he came and saw it and it's kind of funny.”
“I hadn't done any of the things that I normally did with girls, yet somehow I'd fallen in love.”
Source: A Walk to Remember
“I hadn't done any professional singing. I had sung in the shower and in my car and sometimes at a family bonfire if there was enough alcoholized wine.”
“I hadn't done anything in six years; I was just vegetating.”
“I hadn't done just a straight-out comedy in a long time, just letting an ensemble do really good character acting, having them carry the movie as in my earlier pictures”
Source: Interviews
“I hadn't even been looking, not for you, and now you were my heart's desire.”
Source: Why We Broke Up
“I hadn't even dreamed of getting another Academy Award, and there I was unhappy in my private life and miserable, I remember Odets drove me three times around the Biltmore, where the Oscars were given out, because I was so full of tears.”
“I hadn't even released my first proper single when I started to feel the strain of attention. But I don't believe that it was the attention that was giving me panic attacks. I think it was everything in my life colliding at the same time. It really did get to a serious point where I couldn't even walk down the street without getting the pain.”
“I hadn't even thought about what I wanted to do when I left school because I was only 14 when I started modelling.”
“I hadn't expected to be kidnapped today or I'd have worn something more conservative.”
Source: Once Burned: A Night Prince Novel
“I hadn't fallen through his arms. He was ripped from mine.”
“I hadn't focused on mechanics since I signed professionally.”
“I hadn't fought enough for the injustice of the Apartheid.”
“I hadn't found out yet that mankind consists of two very different races, the rich and the poor. It took me ... and plenty of other people . . . twenty years and the war to learn to stick to my class and ask the price of things before touching them, let alone setting my heart on them.”
“I hadn't fully realized just how powerful words could be before this. Whoever came up with the saying 'sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me' was talking out of his or her armpit.”
Source: Black & White
“I hadn't given much thought to the prospect of a Hugo nomination at the time it happened, but obviously once you're nominated, winning one seems a bit less far-fetched than before.”
“I hadn't gotten far when I ran into Mason. Good God. Men everywhere.”
Source: Vampire Academy: The Complete Collection