I Quotes
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“I know. You're afraid of making mistakes. Don't be. Mistakes can be profited by.”
Source: Fahrenheit 451
“I know you’re afraid of me. I can smell your fear, and I actually kind of like it.”
Source: Finding Kylie
“I know you're angry with me...' I begin.
'Am I?' he asks, looking up at me as though there is a bitter taste in his mouth. 'Maybe I'm glad that you gave me an opportunity to be my worst self.”
Source: The Stolen Heir
“I know you're carrying as much pain as I am. Let us forgive each other for what we've done. It's time we let go, heal, and find peace.”
Source: Rhythm Of The Heart
“I know you’re clever, but do you really think you’re going to outsmart the ocean?”
Source: Aru Shah and the City of Gold
“I know you're competent and your thesis advisor knows you're competent. The question in our minds is are you really serious about what you're doing?"
This was said to a young woman who had already spent five years and over $10,000 getting to that point in her Ph.D. program.”
Source: How to Suppress Women's Writing
“I know you're feeling worried,
But I promise I'm okay.
You think I'm missing all the fun,
But I don't want to play.
And I'm not feeling lonely;
Yeah, I've got a friend with me.
I'm just keeping this corner company.”
Source: The Words
“I know you're good inside. You're warmth and light and everything I don't deserve, but you- you believe that I deserve you. Knowing all that I have done in my past to other people and to you, you still believe I deserve you."
"I -"
"And that's because you're good inside - You've always been and will be." His hands slipped down my throat, to curve around my shoulders. "There is nothing you can say or do that will change that. So grieve what you had to do. Mourn it, but never, ever blame yourself for things that are beyond your control.”
Source: Opal
“I know. You’re hungry. But you can’t eat Kieran. That would make me a little sad.”
“I know you’re hurting, Taylor, but grief is clouding your judgement and you need to stay focused. If you attack her now, you won’t win. You know she has the advantage, Taylor. I’ve taught you this. Please, we just need to get out of here.”
Source: Tess Embers
“I know you're in a world of pain, but that pain will lessen. At the beginning you can't see that. You can only see your pain and you think it will never go away.
But the nature of pain is that it changes— it changes like a sunset. At first, it's this intense red-orange in the sky, and then it starts getting softer and soften. The texture of pain changes as you work through it. And then one day, you wake up and realize that life isn't just about working through your incest; it's about living, too.
- survivor of child sexual abuse”
Source: The Courage to Heal: A Guide for Women Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse
“I know you’re in there, Mercedes,” Faye says. “I can see your dirty Converse shoes. You really should get a new pair.”
“Did you see it?” I croak. “If you saw it, you probably saw a lot more of me. You probably shouldn’t be seen talking to me. And I should probably switch schools.”
“That’s the thing,” Faye says, stopping right outside the stall door and rapping on the metal with her fist.
“What’s the thing?” I say, pushing my shoe against the toilet paper dispenser, making no move to let her in.
“I never was any good at doing what people tell me.”
And like that, her head appears under the stall door, followed by her body. She pulls herself in and wipes her hands on her jeans.
I raise my eyebrows. “You know how disgusting that floor is?” I say. “Janitorial service at this school leaves a lot to be desired.”
She cocks her head and puts her hands on her hips. She looks like what I imagine a stern parent would look like, not that I know from experience. I wonder if she got that posture from Lydia.
“First of all, you didn’t let me in, so I had no choice.”
Source: Firsts
“I know you’re just a rag doll now, sewn together with memories that we might have had. I know you’re just the dream inside of a dream And don’t worry, I know I don’t know you, anymore.”
Source: I Wrote This For You
“I know you're learning how to follow in your father's footsteps, and that's good, but when was the last time you went outside the castle walls? With someone other than this staff? A good queen knows herself inside and out, and you are too inside your head. The only way you can understand the people you serve is to get to know them. Enjoy their company. Hear their stories. In the process you might figure out what you enjoy, as well, when you're not focused on your studies and your future.”
Source: Conceal, Don't Feel
“I know you're listening to me," Kyle said stubbornly. "You're a control freak, Warren. Everybody knows it. And that's fine most of the time. Good for business. But now things are slipping out of control. That's how life is, okay? It's in the nature of things. Entropy, whatever. And a guy like me, when the water starts rising, I go with the flow. I let the current carry me, and I make the necessary adjustments to keep things in proper trim. You, on the other hand, are like a robot optimized to run within a certain set of parameters. When life breaks outside those parameters, you're lost. Your programming no longer suits the environment. You're like a submarine stranded in the middle of an interstate. And partner, there is a big-ass tractor-trailer headed straight for you. I'm trying to drag you out of the way, but you just won't let me. You're staying where you are because you don't know how to move”
Source: Third Degree
“I know you're making a joke, but that Predator blew himself up with a bomb. The first human to actually kill an alien was Mike Harrigan, played by Danny Glover, in Predator 2.”
Source: Project Hail Mary
“I know you're more than fae."
She just grinned. "It's true, I'm part fae, part awesome.”
Source: Hunted by Darkness
“I know you're not familiar with what a real restaurant is like, but the front door isn't usually located in the alley," she snapped.
He clicked his tongue before responding. "See, for a moment I was wondering if I'd made a mistake coming here. But I'd hate to miss this witty repartee."
"It's not repartee if I'm the only one with wit." She straightened, like one of those exotic birds she'd seen in an episode of Planet Earth when they wanted to intimidate predators. "Why do you look like an extra from SVU?"
Leo pulled down the hood and took off his sunglasses. "Did you know there are paparazzi outside your restaurant? I'm surprised they're willing to drive this far east." He shook his head to himself. "Why have a restaurant in Silver Lake? It's like the Brooklyn of LA . Shouldn't you be in West Hollywood, where the real money is?"
"If I'd known there was a portal from hell located so close by I would've reconsidered the location." Less than a minute in Leo's presence, and she'd slipped back into insult mode as easily as popping dark chocolate into her mouth. The taste of knocking him down a peg was as sweet as always.”
Source: For Butter or Worse
“I know you're not going to admit it,' Hawke said, voice low and thick. 'But you and I both know that I was right.”
Source: From Blood and Ash
“I know you’re not going… to kill me. I’m already dead.”
Source: In Limbo
“I know you're not ready to believe it," he added. "Just like I wasn't. Until I met you I thought I could never love again. But here I am, yelling it down an alley because I am not letting you go without a fight. You said you're not the same, so prove it. Prove you're not the scared little girl anymore and turn and face me like the woman I know you are. Because that woman has changed me too, Sophie. That woman has made me fall in love again. So don't you dare walk away from me.”
Source: Blood Torn
“I know you're OK on your own. I've always been OK on my own, too. I guess I still would be if you don't ... I'll survive, anyway. I just wondered whether we might be OK together. I thought we might be more than OK. I thought we might be happy.”
“I know you're out there. I can feel you now. I know that you're afraid... you're afraid of us. You're afraid of change. I don't know the future. I didn't come here to tell you how this is going to end. I came here to tell you how it's going to begin. I'm going to hang up this phone, and then I'm going to show these people what you don't want them to see. I'm going to show them a world without you.
A world without rules and controls, without borders or boundaries. A world where anything is possible. Where we go from there is a choice I leave to you.”
“I know you're real, Laila. I merely wish you weren't.”
Source: The Gilded Wolves
“I know you’re rolling your eyes at me,” he murmurs, and I hear the trace of humor in his voice.”
Source: Fifty Shades Darker
“I know you're scared. But I promise you don't have to be.”
Source: The Gilded Cage
“I know you’re scared. I’m scared too, all of the time. But I have been running for the last six years and I can’t run anymore. Our world is falling apart. We aren’t living, not really. We are just… surviving.”
Source: Rising
“I know you’re scared, Letti, but sweetheart…you haven’t seen anything yet. You’ve not known true fear...”
Source: No Secrets: Eternity series
“I know you’re strong and so resilient it’s fucking unbelievable, but you don’t have to always be strong with me. It’s okay to not be okay when you’re with me,”
Source: The Crown of Gilded Bones
“I know you're strong," said Lei, his eyes ruminative in the fire light, "but being strong doesn't mean you don't deserve to be protected and taken care of.”
Source: The Dragon Wakes with Thunder
“I know you're there. I can detect your presence each time it closes in on mine.”
“I know you're worried. I'm sorry. I'm just...very..." I can't think of the right word. How do I explain that mind is too slow and too jumbled all at once. That I'm out of gas? That I've failed, and the only way to keep from falling apart is to accept that? Or that maybe I've already fallen apart, and I don't know if I can sweep the pieces back together?
I settle on three words. "I am tired.”
Source: On the Edge of Gone
“I know you, Ruth Ann Carver. I know you better than you know yourself. You think you do things right. You think you're a paragon of right living. This is a self-told lie, one bolstered by your coddling parents and grandparents.”
Source: Ruthless
“I know you said it in anger, but deep down, I know it was the truth.”
Source: Life Simplified: Quote - Unquote
“I know you,” said Maddy. “You’re -“
“What’s a name?” Loki grinned. “Wear it like a coat; turn it, burn it, throw it aside, and borrow another. One-Eye knows; you should ask him.”
“But Loki died,” she said, shaking her head. “He died on the field at Ragnarok.”
“Not quite.” He pulled a face. “You know there’s rather a lot the Oracle didn’t foretell, and old tales have a habit of getting twisted.”
“But in any case, that was centuries ago,” Maddy said bewildered. “I mean - that was the End of the World, wasn’t it?”
“So?” said Loki impatiently. “This isn’t the first time the world has come to an end, and it won’t be the last either.”
Source: Runemarks
“I know you see me as some crazy old bitch nagging at you," she said, "but you forget the reason I ride you so hard and give you so much shit is because I love you. Everything I have ever done I've done from a place of love. If I don't punish you, the world will punish you even worse. The world doesn't love you. If the police get you, the police don't love you. When I beat you, I'm trying to save you. When they beat you, they're trying to kill you.”
Source: Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood
“I know you shouldn't spit in your own soup but I think most crime writing is like TV and doesn't make enormous demands on one's intellect.”
“I know you so well, dragon king, you only get that particular look on your face when you're burning to give me one of your lectures." "Do I give you lectures ?" "Oh, I don't mind. I think you're kind of cute when you do, and I don't really listen anyway.”
Source: Predatory Game
“I know you still dream of him. Even if you don’t say his name.”
Source: Ashen Embrace (Divine Destinies
“I know you think I'm crazy. Maybe that's because I am. About life, about this moment, about you.”
Source: Write like no one is reading
“I know you think I was pressured into binding myself with you before, but that's not true,I always intended to marry you, kitten.”
Source: At Grave's End: A Night Huntress Novel
“I know you think my life is good 'cause my diamond piece,
But my life been good since I started finding peace.”
“I know you think that I have some kind of perfect, unyielding self-control, but that's not actually the case. - Edward Cullen”
“I know you think that we saved you or something, Jeremy," he said. "That we were stronger than you. But we're not. We weren't. We're all just trying to survive however we can.”
Source: Fans of the Impossible Life
“I know you think that when you're 35, 45, 55, you'll be different. But I'm going to let you in on a bit of a secret. You're going to look different, and your life is going to be different, but in your head you'll always be that 16-year-old girl.”
“I know you think this world is too dark to even dream in color, but I’ve seen flowers bloom at midnight. I’ve seen kites fly in gray skies and they were real close to looking like the sunrise, and sometime it takes the most wounded wings the most broken things to notice how strong the breeze is, how precious the flight.”
“I know you think what we have is sordid. Perhaps it is. Perhaps neither of us knows how to love properly and this is our twisted way of showing that we care. Or perhaps we should both be committed to an asylum”
Source: Of Fate and Phantoms
“I know you think you understand what you thought I said, but I'm not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.”
“I know you thought you were making the world better by undermining the family and asking the government to pass laws to make you "somebody" but instead you played into the psychopaths' plans. To disrupt society and rebuild it into a monstrosity that follows order at every command and those commands are evil. If you had done the inner work, you'd have automatically made their world better, freer, and cleaner.”
“I know you told me you thought you’d be okay being a secret, and I thought I’d be all right with it too. But I’ve lied to my family enough. I feel like a spineless asshole. I don’t want to hide anymore.”
Source: Moonlight