I Quotes
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“I knew instantly that I wanted that type of love in my life. To have someone I could take care of in every sense and who would trust me to do so. No matter what I asked of them.”
Source: The Game Plan
“I knew instinctively that it was the very hardness of life in the desert which drew me back there - it was the same pull which takes men back to the polar ice, to high mountains, and to the sea.”
Source: Arabian Sands
“I knew intimately how devastating it was to lose someone you love, how your entire life can change – or end – in the blink of an eye.”
“I knew it back then, but I didn't want to admit that the woman who was perfect to me, wasn't perfect in everything she did. That she had flaws – cracks and jagged edges that sliced through people if they got too close.”
Source: Wretched
“I knew it!" he cried, jubilant. "I thought 'twas you, but there's more of you now. You should've seen
the likes of her, boys," he said, turning towards the other convicts as he pointed at Kel. "We was all outlaws, livin' on the edges, and this bunch of pages stumbled into our camp. We chased 'em back in a canyon, and her -" he jabbed his finger at Kel - "she gutted ol' Breakbone Dell, and him the meanest dog-skinner you'd ever hope to meet. Stood there afoot, her and her spear, cool as meltwater with Breakbone ridin' down on her with that neck-cutter sword of his. First time she got 'im in the leg, second in the tripes, and he was done. Her and six lads held us all back, just them. There she was, eyes like stone and that bloody spear in her hand. Lady." He bowed deep.
Kel looked at him, not sure what to say. Finally she asked, "What's your name, soldier?"
"Me? Gilab Lofts - Gil. Lady. It's - it's good to see you well." He bowed again and returned to his
seat, whispering with the men on either side of him.
Kel waited for them to quiet once again before she said ruefully, "I'm not sure that being known for
gutting a man is exactly a recommendation for a commander."
"It is in the north!" cried someone. Several men laughed outright; others grinned.”
Source: Lady Knight
“I knew it in my bones. That this time was it. I had finally made my choice, and so had he. He let me go. I was relieved, which I expected. What I didn't expect was to feel so much grief.”
Source: We'll Always Have Summer
“I knew it like destiny, and at the same time, I knew it as choice.”
Source: Lighthousekeeping
“I knew it might put him in an awkward position that we had a discussion before finality has finally happened in this presidential race.”
“I knew it!' Rhi grins. 'Tell me it's good.'
'I broke his window.' I wince and my cheeks heat.
'Like... you threw something at it?' Her brow knits.
'No. As in, lightning stuck... a lot, and I shattered his window.'
...
'Damn,' Rhiannon grins. 'I wish someone made me shatter windows.”
Source: Fourth Wing
“I knew it,” she snapped. “You’re no different from all men. You’re just another jerk pretending to be single! I didn’t wanna wrap a lie into a Christmas present anyway.”
Source: Intomesee: In Pursuit of a Passionate Life
“I knew it straight away when Twitter first came around, and also Facebook, where it was so easy to post, that this was another way to speak directly with people listening to my music. If they found my music and they like it, most likely they want to hear more from me and hear what I'm about. I've put an enormous amount of time into that and it's played out well for me.”
“I knew it the first of the summer, I knew it the same at the end, That you and your love were plighted, But couldn't you be my friend?”
Source: Leafs On An Idle Breeze - My Inspirational Poems (Annotated Edition)
“I knew it was a daily fight for her to stay clean. I just didn’t realize I was the reason she fights.”
Source: On the Come Up
“I knew it was a day of endings, one way or another.”
Source: Rootless
“I knew it was a risk but what I was after was a novel that is about the feeling that comes with a coincidence in real life - that you feel as if something divine has intervened and has arrived with a message.”
“I knew it was a terrible idea. We were supposed to be leaving our past behind us, not fully embracing it. But she was a part of my past that I wanted to hold onto. She was my only reminder of Tommy, my only remaining connection. I couldn’t let that die, not yet.”
Source: Program 13
“I knew it was all or nothing.”
“I knew it was bad. I knew it was bad because Braden didn't say anything. He seared me into my walls with a look I never wanted to see in his eyes again, and then he spun on his heel and slammed out of my room.
No argument. No discussion.”
Source: On Dublin Street
“I knew it was beautiful, but knowing something is beautiful and caring about it are two very different things, and I didn't care.”
Source: Let It Snow: Three Holiday Stories
“I knew it was cold, but singing familiar Christmas songs and the fellowship warmed me through and through—until we stopped in front of a bank and saw the temperature on its marquee: six degrees below zero!”
Source: Hair on Fire: A Heartwarming & Humorous Christmas Memoir
“I knew it was coming. I knew they didn't have the nerve.
Three days in and they've got faces like vexed tomatoes, their skins flaking sci-fi style: burnt to fuck. They were an embarrassment; not only to me and the wife and The Fall fans but to their own generation.”
Source: Renegade: The Lives and Tales of Mark E. Smith
“I knew it was easier to drill things in than to take them out.'
'It's like a screw!' Craig-Vyvyan shouted.... 'If you pull off it's head, you never get it out.”
Source: Freddy and Fredericka
“I knew it was God who made all the difference in their lives, but I didn’t know how to trust in Him like they did.”
Source: Pursued: God’s relentless pursuit and a drug addict’s journey to finding purpose
“I knew it was going to be enormous because of the number of people who bought the books, but, to be honest, I never thought it would be bigger than Bond. Never in a million years.”
“I knew it was going to be important that if I had an audience understand who she was, then all those things had to come from a place that was grounded, as opposed to being tics and manners and twitches. I didn't think it was going to be as rich, perhaps, as if I was going to make it more emotional.”
“I knew it was going to be the most extraordinary thing in my life, but how powerful it is, you can never know until you have a baby.”
“I knew it was going to hurt. No one sends such a long text, using so many words just to say "I love you.”
“I knew it was gonna go out. It was just a question of it being fair or foul. The wind must have carried it 15 feet toward the foul pole. I just stood there and watched. I didn't want to miss seeing it go out.”
“I knew it was happening, but I never paid much attention to it . . . just to the passage of time. Something new always slowly changes right in front of your eyes - it just happens.”
“i knew it was him
by the way he walked in
wearing respect like a nice suit
and holding that
take
it
slow
magic,
with his self-love, self-required,
just radiating liberation from old men’s tales,
and because…
before he’d let me love him,
it mattered
that i love myself
– butterflies rising”
“I knew it was important to box up these kind of moments, keep them locked away in my heart, and call them up when things got hard. Because moments like these reminded me that my life was hard, but not bad. There was a difference between the two.
A hard life equaled a life full of obstacles and challenging moments but also full of people you loved and cared about.
A bad life equaled an empty life. One that wasn't necessarily hard or challenging but was devoid of the people you loved and cared about.”
Source: Vicious
“I knew it was impossible, yet I made it possible through action.”
“I knew it was just a colon and a closed bracket, but when he typed that, it looked like the cutest smiley on the internet.”
Source: That’ll Be Our Song
“I knew it was love as I could cry at just the thought of him. But it didn’t mean sadness as I cried from happiness, too.”
“I knew it was my time to retire, when I saw Messi running past me.”
“I knew it was no coincidence that I survived the whole ordeal, but it was no guardian angel watching over me. He was a blue-eyed grim reaper.”
Source: Of Ladies and Cowboys
“I KNEW IT WAS OVER
when tonight you couldn't make the phone ring
when you used to make the sun rise
when trees used to throw themselves
in front of you
to be paper for love letters
that was how i knew i had to do it
swaddle the kids we never had
against january's cold slice
bundle them in winter
clothes they never needed
so i could drop them off at my mom's
even though she lives on the other side of the country
and at this late west coast hour is
assuredly east coast sleeping
peacefully
her house was lit like a candle
the way homes should be
warm and golden
and home
and the kids ran in
and jumped at the bichon frise
named lucky
that she never had
they hugged the dog
it wriggled
and the kids were happy
yours and mine
the ones we never had
and my mom was
grand maternal, which is to say, with style
that only comes when you've seen
enough to know grace
like when to pretend it's christmas or
a birthday so
she lit her voice with tiny
lights and pretended
she didn't see me crying
as i drove away
to the hotel connected to the bar
where i ordered the cheapest whisky they had
just because it shares your first name
because they don't make a whisky
called baby
and i only thought what i got
was what
i ordered
i toasted the hangover
inevitable as sun
that used to rise
in your name
i toasted the carnivals
we never went to
and the things you never won
for me
the ferris wheels we never
kissed on and all the dreams
between us
that sat there
like balloons on a carney's board
waiting to explode with passion
but slowly deflated
hung slave
under the pin-
prick of a tack
hung
heads down
like lovers
when it doesn't
work, like me
at last call
after too many cheap
too many sweet
too much
whisky makes me
sick, like the smell of cheap,
like the smell of
the dead
like the cheap, dead flowers
you never sent
that i never threw
out of the window
of a car
i never
really
owned”
Source: Final Girl
“I knew it was Peter playing. I fancied he was trying to tell me something - an absurd idea, but it persisted - 'I may not be able to spell, but just you listen to this.”
Source: Mary Bennet
“I knew it was really, really popular when my granny told me she watched it, and was addicted. When your granny is interested, you know you're on to a winner.”
“I knew it was silly to talk to a book, but it was hard not to with how much joy it brought me the moment I touched it. This was the key to everything. My way to freedom.”
Source: Tompkin's School: For The Resurrected
“I knew it was time to get off of reality TV when someone asked me if I sang as well as acted.”
“I knew it was time to leave when I realized I could no longer look students in the eye and tell them what a great place this was to work.”
“I knew it was time to shave off the beard and start an exercise regimen when I was asked to play Santa at a Christmas party!”
“I knew it was time to shave the beard off and start an exercise regimen when I was asked to play Santa at the Christmas party this year!”
“I knew it was too good to last. She is back.”
Source: Thornhill
“I knew it was unrealistic to think I could build an institution overnight. But if I took baby steps, eventually it would happen.”
Source: Do You!: 12 Laws to Access the Power in You to Achieve Happiness and Success
“I knew it wasn’t too important, but it made me sad anyway.
J.D. Salinger / The Catcher in the Rye”
Source: THE CATCHER IN THE RYE
“I knew it wasn't fair, I knew it was wrong, but I couldn't help it. And after a while, the anger I felt just sort of became part of me, like it was the only way I knew how to handle the grief. I didn't like who I'd become, but I was stuck in this horrible cycle of questions and blame.”
“I knew it wasn't good when it happened. It's definitely scary. Every now and then, something brings you back to reality.”
“I knew it wasn't too important, but it made me sad anyway.”
Source: THE CATCHER IN THE RYE