I Quotes
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“I know grief leaves a unique imprint in every heart. I know healing is messy. And I know how powerfully beautiful it feels when we let go and ride the waves.”
“I know growing up as a young gay person how much you hate yourself, how much you already think you're different.”
“I know guys aren’t supposed to cry, but I cried a bunch that night. And I guess that’s when I decided being good at something didn’t mean you had to do it. Just ‘cause something’s easy doesn’t make it right.”
Source: Dumplin'
“I know guys in my hometown that drive by feel and sound.”
“I know guys that are going to struggle. I know guys that don't play and 'bean' up. To me, that's becoming pretty reliant on something. It's going to have an effect. I don't think there's any doubt.”
“I know guys. I know the way they think.”
“I know gymnastics. It's always been a subjective appreciation.”
“I know hands down I would lose for sure, but I would love to just dance with Beyoncé. Really, that's what my dream is. She is such a good dancer and I know I would lose, like hands down I know I would lose, but I just want to be in her presence and see her dance up close. She is so good, I am literally obsessed with her and I think she's amazing.”
“I know hate is a strong word and everything, but its okay: we're teenagers.”
Source: Gossip Girl 2: You Know You Love Me
“I know have lived, so many times, that the only thing I have left to remember is my writing, cause every single moment in life it's already written.”
“I know having a job can sometimes be very challenging, but not having one can be too.”
“I know Haye's a good fighter as well and he beat Mormeck but Mormeck is not Enzo Maccarinelli and does not have the speed, stamina or punching power.”
“I know he (Albert Belle) hates me. If he needs that hate to succeed, it's fine by me. I always liked him. He was a good kid. He just had a hard time with the pressure.”
“I know he [Julian Assange] is a man of fierce determination, and now living under the strain of house arrest in the Ecuadorean embassy as a "political exile," as he calls himself.”
“I know he [Prince] is up there saying to me, "This is not the way I wanted it to happen, Stevie."”
“I know he did horrible things in the jungle. Things no amount of alcohol or pills could erase. War stains soldiers, all the way through their psyches, into their souls. I understand that, and could almost forgive him for taking his own life, to quiet the ghosts. But I can never forgive him for taking my mother with him.”
“I know!" he growls back, his voice guttural. I wonder if all of his fire kind have eyes like his. Eyes that burn and smolder.”
Source: King's Cage
“I know he has a consort he favors, though she is of low rank.”
“I know he hasn't a mean or petty bone in him, but one can err on the side of caution as well as rashness.”
Source: The King's Buccaneer
“I know he is afraid of that desert which would be around him if our love were to end, but he can't realize that I feel exactly the same. What he says aloud I say to myself silently and write it here. What can one build in the desert? Sometimes after a day when we have made love many times, I wonder whether it isn't possible to come to an end of sex, and I know that he is wondering too and is afraid of that point where the desert begins. What do we do in the desert if we lose each other? How does one go on living after that?”
Source: The End of the Affair
“I know he is younger than me, but I absolutely love Zac Efron. His hair is always so pretty.”
“I know.” He leaned in and brushed his knuckles across her cheek. “And you can try and pretend it’s okay. That you’re strong and tough and you don’t need anyone. That you didn’t need her. But that’s all bullshit. I know it, and you know it.”
Savannah stared at Cole.
“You’re so pushy. I told you my story. Why can’t you leave it alone?”
“Have you ever dealt with it?”
She’d spent so many years holding it all inside.
“I’m here right now, aren’t I? I obviously dealt with my past.”
“I’m not talking about surviving it. Yeah, you survived it. But you haven’t let go of it.” He rubbed her arm. “What she did to you mattered. It wasn’t fair.”
He was wrong. She was fine. It didn’t matter. She had always shown everyone how strong she was.
“Show me how you feel, Peaches.”
Her bottom lip trembled. She got up, walked to the window to look outside, staring at the darkness, not really seeing anything but the years falling away, stripping away the cool, confident woman she was now, revealing the scared little girl she once was. She’d vowed to never go back to that place, to never revisit those feelings again, yet here she stood.
Cole wrapped his arms around her. She stiffened.
“It’s okay to be vulnerable, Savannah, to let someone see you scared.”
“I’m not scared. Not anymore.”
Source: Playing to Win
“I know he’ll never get on my nerves, and that I’ll never yell at him for coming home late. I know we’ll never experience the petty bickering that goes hand in hand with domestic life.”
Source: Sa préférée
“I know he loved me even then. But sometimes love isn’t enough to overcome our fears.”
Source: Winter's Thrall
“I know he loved me. I know that he wanted to save me. But if you loved someone so much, you could love them enough to allow them to go. Right? That’s how love works. It may tear you apart and rip you to shreds, but you still do it and allow whatever to happen, anyway. You have to accept it, heartbreak or not. You need to face it, tears or not. You must stand up and move on and do the things that you are fated to do. Caspian Marks was fated to do a lot of things; a lot of great things that were never set out for me.”
Source: Counting Stars
“I know he’s a realist, he’s okay with being alone, and he helps people when he thinks no one is watching.”
Source: Tall, Dark Streak of Lightning
“I know he's rich. He knows he's rich, too.”
Source: A Raisin in the Sun
“I know,” he said, looking down at himself — skin like papier-mache, ribs like violin strings. “I am not — I mean, I look —”
“Beautiful,” she said, and the word was a pronouncement. “You are beautiful, James Carstairs.”
Source: Clockwork Prince
“I know,” he said, very softly. “Let’s go home. Let’s go home, and you can tell me whatever you want, and I’ll believe you.”
Source: American Love Songs
“I know,” he says, and it’s the strangest thing. I can tell he’s smiling, slow and syrupy, when he says it.”
Source: Power Play
“I know he says it’s a mind upload problem,” said Aideen. “But we won’t know that for sure until we get there. And maybe not even then if he restricts our access to the outside world of 2253.”
Source: Time Chain
“I know,' he says, titling his carapace in what I've come to realise is a smile.”
Source: Project Hail Mary
“I know he sees it, because for the briefest moment he drops his expressionless mask and the look in his eyes shows me he feels the same way. A mirror of every part of myself I can't bear to face.”
Source: Snow Like Ashes
“I know he wants to get serious. He's definitely not a player, not a poser, not a loser, not a user.”
Source: Identical
“I know he was definitely beaten by her. I saw it many times. But we had a different way of dealing with her. He'd let her have more and more booze until she passed out.”
“I know he was desperate. That makes people do all kinds of crazy things.”
Source: The Hunger Games Complete Trilogy
“I know he wasn’t perfect…
But he did the best impression of it I’ve ever seen.”
“I know he would die if you died, Luce”
Source: The Fallen Sequence: An Omnibus Edition
“I know he'd be a poorer man if he never saw an eagle fly.”
“I know he's a good general, but is he lucky?”
“i know he's been looking forward to this--and i know that i've been looking forward to this. but now i have to stop looking forward and start looking at where i am. it's hard.”
Source: Will Grayson, Will Grayson
“I know he's coming by this sign, That baby's almost wild; See how he laughs and crows and starts — Heaven, bless the merry child! He's father's self in face and limb, And father's heart is strong in him. Shout, baby, shout! and clap thy hands, For father on the threshold stands.”
“I know he's dead! Don't you think I know that? I can still like him, though, can't I? Just because somebody's dead, you don't just stop liking them, for God's sake--especially if they were about a thousand times nicer than the people you know that're alive and all.”
“I know he's going to be fired up. He's going to try to get some revenge for the NCAA finals. He's probably been looking forward to this match since last March.”
“I know he's retired, but I'm a big fan of Shaquille O'Neal, his game and his personality. I have a pair of his shoes in my office. You see the size of his shoe and think, 'This is not real, this couldn't belong to a human being.' But he is human!”
“I know her by intuition as if she were inside my head.”
Source: The Black Prince
“I know her in the biblical senseand when I say that, I mean I don't believe a word she says.”
“I know High Ladies are probably supposed to wear a new dress every day,' I mused, smiling at the gown, 'but I'm rather attached to this one.'
He ran his hand down my thigh. 'I'm glad.'
'You never told me where you got it- where you got all my favourite dresses.'
Rhys arched a dark brow. 'You never figured it out?'
I shook my head.
For a moment, he said nothing, his head dipping to study the dress.
'My mother made them.'
I went still.'
Rhys smiled sadly at the shimmering gown. 'She was a seamstress, back at the camp where she'd been raised. She didn't just do the work because she was ordered to. She did it because she loved it. And when she mated my father, she continued.'
I grazed a reverent hand down my sleeve. 'I- I had no idea.
His eyes were star-bright. 'Long ago, when I was still a boy, she made them- all your gowns. A trousseau for my future bride.' His throat bobbed. 'Every piece... Every piece I have ever given you to wear, she made them. For you.'
My eyes stung as I breathed. 'Why didn't you tell me?'
'He shrugged with one shoulder. 'I thought you might be... disturbed to wear gowns made by a female who died centuries ago.'
I put a hand over my heart. 'I am honoured, Rhys. Beyond words.'
His mouth trembled a bit. 'She would have loved you.'
It was as great a gift as any I'd been given. I leaned down until our brows touched. I would have loved her.
I felt his gratitude without him saying a word as we remained there, breathing each other in for long minutes.”
Source: A Court of Frost and Starlight
“I know him by another name. His real one is Slem, not uncommon for men of his generation. It stands for Stalin Lenin Engels Marx. He's always making up new names for himself--wouldn't you?”
Source: Performance Anomalies
“I know him, February's thrush, And loud at eve he valentines On sprays that paw the naked bush Where soon will sprout the thorns and bines.”
Source: The Complete Works of George Meredith