I Quotes
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“I knew there was only one place to go. I sank down into the center of my soul, grew still, and listened to the Rabbi's heartbeat.”
“I knew there was something I had to do yesterday. I couldn't remember what it is. I can't figure it out. I know it's a holiday. I know I don't have a meeting. It's very confusing.”
“I knew there was something wrong when I couldn't say he or she in my own language.”
Source: Miss Behave
“I knew there were no such things as death cooties. Unfortunately, that's an intellectual fact. And death cooties are an emotional reality.”
Source: Hard Eight: A Stephanie Plum Novel
“I knew there were, in myself, the souls of millions of people who lived centuries ago; not just people but animals, plants, the elements, things, even, matter. All of these exist in me.”
“I knew there would be a negative reaction in the press to my divorce, but I am not going to live my life because of something someone might say.”
“I knew there would be a talk coming, but obviously we couldn't let the food get cold. Or warm, in the case of the tuna tartare with benne seeds I finally got to compare to Jada Knox's review. It really did taste a little bit like coffee, which, contrasted with the cold, clean chunks of tuna and hits of acid, was the perfect mellowing factor. The red stew, with a tender chicken thigh nearly falling apart in the spicy, sharp broth, was both hearty and exciting, the bland, fluffy fufu it was served over the perfect contrast. And the curried goat with roti and crispy potatoes? The whole fried red snapper with jerk seasoning? All the contrasts of flavor and texture made me want to eat and eat and eat until I burst.”
Source: Best Served Hot
“I knew there would come a morning when I would wake up differently than I had become used to, or there would be a night I never fell asleep.”
Source: The Doctor's Daughter
“I knew they were my people, but it didn't feel like it. I was pushing against any first-generation narrative, while all the people in that area were seemingly proud of it. Aunties wore salwars to go grocery shopping, and little kids had those silver or gold bangles we were all given at birth...We were different from them, and I was determined to keep us different. Every piece of gold jewelry ever given to me was hidden in my dresser; I refused to wear any of it, because it made me feel I was being marked as an Other. (I now wear all of it, sometimes at the same time, a signal to other Others that I'm an Other too.)”
Source: One Day We'll All Be Dead and None of This Will Matter
“I knew they would kill me when they found out, but…” He struggled for words, releasing a sharp breath. “I think I realized that I would rather die because I betrayed them, than live because I betrayed you.”
“I knew this feeling, the 2 a.m. loneliness that I'd practically invented.”
Source: This Lullaby
“I knew this for a fact. Little by little, the ache to see him, to hear him would disappear. Little by little I’d forget how his arms felt, how his fingers felt, how his lips felt..the sound of his voice, the intensity of his gaze, all of it. Trace by trace it would slip from my mind, recede into foggy memory. The painful haze that dulled my present would melt into the past. Maybe not all the way, maybe there would be a few scars. Maybe I'd be different, but I’d be me again. Little by little.”
“I knew this friendship with myself couldn’t last forever.”
Source: Stealing Sugar from the Castle: Selected and New Poems, 1950-2013: Selected Poems, 1950–2011
“I knew this girl named Tropicana,
She's always juicin'.
Producing cash for a sexual task.
She loves men that trick like Halloween and treat...
You ain't paid? Then your grade is incomplete.”
“I knew this guy he'd been in a motorcycle accident and it really ruined him and he was a linesman working on the power
and he was working with someone who had Parkinsons so they both had complimentary inadeqacies and so two of them could do the job of one person
so they're out there fixing powerlines in the freezing cold despite the fact that one was three quarters wrecked and the other one had Parkinsons
That's how our civilization works, there's all these ruined people out there they've got problems like you can't believe,
off they go to work to do things they don't even like and look!
The Lights Are On”
“I knew this was still here somewhere." He pulls a knife from the back of the drawer, takes it out of its sheath and shines the torch on it. I move closer until our shoulders touch.
"That's beautiful," I whisper.
"You gave this to me."
I take the knife. It's heavier than I expect. "Please, tell me it was a gift and not something I stabbed you with.”
Source: Shimmer
“I knew this was where the real battle would begin, arriving at the Devil's unofficial land. It's never seen by the naked eye, but it is very real indeed. It's a gathering place for the worst of them, just so they can get in the way of prayers being answered.”
Source: Last Night, When I Prayed
“I knew this would happen," Marla says. "You're such a flake. You love me. You ignore me. You save my life, then you cook my mother into soap.”
Source: Fight Club
“I knew Thomas Jefferson. He was a friend of mine. And believe me, you are no Thomas Jefferson. (at 1992 Republican party convention, referring to Bill Clinton)”
“I knew those feelings of wanting to be with another brother were not dead; they were just asleep.”
Source: The Ex-Factor: Finding Freedom to Heal, Forgive & Love Again
“I knew those were precious times, Mama. I knew they were going by too fast, everybody knows that. Where I went wrong is, I thought that would protect me, the fact that I knew. Knew and appreciated, felt for a minute, and now… I don’t know, something’s going on with time, it’s not passing the way it used to, and I hate it. Because you know it all comes down to is good-bye.”
Source: Mad Dash
“I knew underneath that intimidating demeanor of yours was a reasonable woman,” Walter began. “I’m only reasonable when I’m not in danger of drowning, so please, get on with it before I sink again.”
Source: A Match in the Making
“I knew unless I got stopped I was going to go all the way. I don't know if I can run any faster. I just ran as fast as I could.”
“I knew very early on that there would be quite a bit of attention: Superman is known all over the place.”
“I knew very early that somehow I would sing and draw and paint my whole life.”
“I knew very little about Rugby. But, I think it helps in terms of an American audience the game is enough like football in that it's a battle for field position and you score by running into what looks a lot like an end zone. I think in terms the nuance of the game, Americans won't get that stuff. I think in terms of the peanut butter and jelly version of what you need to know, I think it's pretty clear.”
“I knew very little or nothing about the Olympics. Having qualified was itself a big achievement for me, and then being there was quite overwhelming. Although I lost in the opening round, but the fact that I fought well was enough for me to take away from Athens.”
“I knew very well that I could not stay. Everything collapsed. Everything in my life just collapsed, and it started with the kidnapping of three teenaged settlers and then judging the life - the young Palestinian from Jerusalem. That was the day that I decided that I have to go now.”
“I knew we could improve our lives even in jail. We could come out as different men, and we could even come out with two degrees. Educating ourselves was a way to give ourselves the most powerful weapon for freedom.”
“I knew we needed a weapon to break through to the US market, and it had to be something different, something that nobody else was making.”
“I knew we were both in mortal danger. Still, in that instant, I felt well. Whole.”
Source: The Twilight Saga Complete Collection
“I knew we were going to marry someday, but I was absolutely surprised when he actually proposed. And surprised he had bought a ring. I ran around the yard screaming.”
“I knew we were having problems when you put those piranhas in my bathtub again.”
“I knew we were in for a long season when we lined up for the national anthem on opening day and one of my players said, 'Every time I hear that song I have a bad game.'”
“I knew well enough that one could fracture one’s legs and arms and recover afterward, but I did not know that you could fracture the brain in your head and recover from that too.”
Source: The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh
“I knew well in advance even before I stepped on the stage for my first event that I was going to lose.”
“I knew well that the only way I could get that door open was to knock it down; because I knocked all of them down.”
“I knew well therefore what would be my father’s feelings, but I could not tear my thoughts from my employment, loathsome in itself, but which had taken an irresistible hold of my imagination. I wished, as it were, to procrastinate all that related to my feelings of affection until the great object, which swallowed up every habit of my nature, should be completed.”
Source: Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
“I knew we’d wear them down,” Eve said. “After all, we really are amazingly cool.” And now it was Eve’s turn for the high five with Shane. “For a bunch of misfit geeks, slackers, and losers.” Which one are you?” Shane asked. She flipped him off. “Oh, right. Loser. Thanks for reminding me.”
Source: The Morganville Vampires:
“I knew what happened in fairy tales. The strong survived while the weak were eaten alive.”
Source: The Marriage of Opposites
“I knew what he felt. The huge buoyant air sack of love that filled his body had just exploded and the collapse was devastating.”
“I knew what he was doing. He was walking away from his thoughts but his thoughts were staying with him.”
Source: Jayber Crow
“I knew what I did and I knew how I did it, but I didn't know why.”
“I knew what I didn't want to do- that's always my starting point. The starting point is always that I don't want to repeat myself. Or I try my best not to, with varying degrees of success.”
“I knew what I didn't want, and I knew whatever it was going to be it had to be believable and it had to come from me and I had to drive it. The way I write is very honest and when I think of the music that I listened to growing up, I loved it because I believed it.”
“I knew what I felt, but I’d rather lather myself in whale sperm and feed my hand into a woodchipper before admitting it, even to myself.”
Source: The Billionaire's Second Chance: An Enemies to Lovers Sweet Romance Second Chance
“I knew what I had left behind. The question was: What was I going to find ahead?”
Source: Dinner with a Vampire
“I knew what I had to do as party leader had to be sensible and relate to the real situation we were in, rather than a situation you would like to have.”
“I knew what I knew, the mindless, mechanical bruteness of things, and when the harper’s lure drew my mind away to hopeful dreams, the dark of what was and always was reached out and snatched my feet.”
Source: Grendel
“I knew what I stood for, even if nobody else did. I knew the piece of me on the inside, truer than all the rest, that never comes out. Doesn't everyone have one? Some kind of grand inner princess waiting to toss her hair down, forever waiting at the tower window. Some jungle animal so noble and fierce you had to crawl on your belly through dangerous grasses to get a glimpse.”
Source: Valencia