I Quotes
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“I let go of the notion that the Bible is a divine product. I learned that it is a human cultural product, the product of two ancient communities, biblical Israel and early Christianity. As such, it contained their understandings and affirmations, not statements coming directly or somewhat directly from God. . . . I realized that whatever "divine revelation" and the "inspiration of the Bible" meant (if they meant anything), they did not mean that the Bible was a divine product with divine authority.”
“I let go of the past and choose to accept every situation as being for me and not against me.”
“I let go of what stops me from moving forward and create space for better things to enter into my life.”
Source: Let Go and Create: Unleash Creativity, Bring Your Ideas To Life
“I let go so you could grab on.”
“I let go usually by talking to many people in different areas, in different realms of life that make me look at what I'm dealing with as being small fries stuff, you know?”
“I let go. Lost in oblivion. Dark and silent and complete. I found freedom. Losing all hope was freedom.”
“I let God be the judge and I believe that we worship a just and fair God who won't punish innocent people unnecessarily.”
“I let her do some of my laundry and she slipped in a few meals in between, and next thing I remember, she was all moved in.”
“I let her go
because I knew she could do better
and now she's gone
I wonder
if I should've
just been better.”
Source: Love Her Wild
“I let her through. She checked Derek's pulse and his breathing, saying both seemed okay, then leaned down to his face. "Nothing weird on his breath. Smells . . . like toothpaste." Derek's eyes opened, and the first thing he saw was Tori's face inches from his. He jumped and let out an oath. Simon cracked up. I madly motioned for him to be quiet. "Are you okay?" I asked Derek. "He is now," Simon said. "After Tori jump-started his heart.”
Source: The Reckoning: Number 3 in series
“I let her use my pencil to draw me into her beautiful world, while taking classes together in the arts of love.”
“I let him hold me, let him press us length to length so close that nothing might fit between us.”
Source: The Song of Achilles
“I let him know a hurt had been mended in a way that he couldn’t have known, and for that alone there would always be a piece of me indebted to him.”
Source: Me Before You: A Novel
“I let him run on, this papier-maché Mephistopheles, and it seemed to me that if I tried I could poke my forefinger through him, and would find nothing inside but a little loose dirt, maybe.”
Source: Heart of Darkness
“I let him take everything, until there was nothing left for him to take.”
Source: Too Close For Comfort
“I let his voice be my comfort. It bore no trace of pain or self-pity, carrying only good humor and softness and just the tiniest hint of jazz. I lived on it as if it were oxygen. It was sustaining, and it was always enough.”
Source: Becoming
“I let it all out--my mom's date,my dad's conversation,my confusion about it all.Caleb doesn't laugh,he doesn't pull away,he doesn't talk .. He just lets me be me. When I settle down,I lean back and witness the mess I've made on his shirt."I made ur shirt all gross," I say between sniffles. "Forget the shirt.What's going on? I could.nt understand a word you mumbled into my chest." Now I'm half laughing and half crying.”
Source: Leaving Paradise
“I let it fall, my heart
And as it fell, you rose to claim it,
It was dark, and I was sober,
Until you kissed my lips and you saved me.”
“I let it go, for all the many reasons that we let a lot of things go as women. You can’t fight everything, everyone. You pick your battles because it’s a long life.”
Source: Good Husbands
“I let it go. It's like swimming against the current. It exhausts you. After a while, whoever you are, you just have to let go, and the river brings you home.”
“I let it ring. I wanted to breathe for a few minutes, and I could think of nothing that couldn't wait. Besides, I had paid almost $50 for an answering machine. Let it earn its keep.”
Source: Darkly Dreaming Dexter
“I let my [past] life in peripherally, because I'm interested in what's over there; I want to keep going forward.”
“I let my anger get too carried away, I told myself, I should have stopped before I did what I did. Anger was my worst attribute. It was as if I left myself when it shot up in me, and by the time I was rid of it I had already done the damage. And even thought I could justify why I had reacted the way I had, I always regretted my particular action.”
Source: A Place for Us
“I let my boy go and do and say pretty much as he likes, as, and perhaps because, my father kept no string on me.”
Source: The World of Lincoln Steffens
“I let my characters do the talking, simple as that.”
“I let my drinking do the talking.”
“I let my emotions get the best of me—at times, it is okay to spaz out, but next time I will not let myself go that far.”
Source: Why Are You Obsessed with My Race?
“I let my eyelids fall closed. In my mind, Draven’s voice rang out over and over, shouting my name. His voice was more powerful than the sea. More primordial than the stars. My name was on his lips as he promised unspeakable darkness to any who came between us.”
Source: Queen of Roses
“I let my eyes deceive me from the start, they told me I wanted her more than I wanted you. Guess my eyes were bigger than my heart.”
“I let my eyes drift down to his.
“I like you rumpled. It’s very…sexy.”
Source: Crossing the Line
“I let my face go blank and nodded slowly. "Yes.The trolls.Back. With me. Cannot form.Complete sentences." I shook my head. "Yeah,so not happening." He considered me,annoyed and at a loss for what to do next."I don't kill humans." "Me niether!See,common ground already.”
“I let my feet spend as little time on the ground as possible. From the air, fast down, and from the ground, fast up.”
“I let my gaze travel out the picture window. Unlike at my old doublewide trailer perched on the fringe of a played out quarry, here I owned a real yard with real grass that screamed for mowing each Monday a.m. I sat at the kitchen table, cooling off from just having finished this week's job. Yes, here in 2005, I was a full-fledged suburbanite, but I'd been called worse.”
Source: The Zinc Zoo
“I let my head drop back against his shoulder.
I let go of the part of me that heard their words- whore, whore, whore-
Let go of the part that said those words alongside them- traitor, liar, whore-
And I just became.
I became the music, and the drums, and the wild, dark thing in the High Lord's arms.
His eyes were wholly glazed- and not with power or rage. Something red-hot and edged with glittering darkness exploded in my mind.”
Source: A Court of Mist and Fury
“I let my head fall back, and I gazed into the Eternal Blue Sky. It was morning. Some of the sky was yellow, some the softest blue. One small cloud scuttled along. Strange how everything below can be such death and chaos and pain while above the sky is peace, sweet blue gentleness. I heard a shaman say once, the Ancestors want our souls to be like the blue sky.”
“I let my head fall forward into his shoulder, breathing in his scent. "Now what do we do?" He's quiet for a while and I finally lean back to look him in the eyes. He appears conflicted by something and then he sets me down on the ground, lacing his fingers through mine. "Should we see where the wind takes us?" he asks. I stare at my hand in his and then look up at him. "That sounds good to me.”
Source: The Coincidence of Callie and Kayden
“I let my initial stance on her prettiness stand and didn't let any superficial thoughts hobble it.”
Source: Misadventurous
“I let my mind wander and it didn't come back.”
“I let my music do the talking. Ain't no TV show gonna help me. Ain't no hit single gon help me sell no records.”
“I let my music take me where my heart wants to go.”
“I let my narrative embroidering impulses take over in prose poems.”
“I let my personal feelings take care of themselves. I find that works better.”
“I let my racket do the talking. That's what I am all about, really. I just go out and win tennis matches.”
“I let my summer days pass idly on.”
Source: Drift: A Sea-shore Idyl : and Other Poems
“I let my sword slip to the ground, and for the second time I stood unarmed in the presence of werewolves.
Kresh put his lips to my forehead, and my skin burned beneath his kiss. When his hands repositioned to take me by the waist, my breathing—already shallow—ceased entirely. Then his lips fell on mine and I was suddenly everything he claimed me to be—his mate, his wife, his world.
The taste of him seemed mysteriously new and old at the same time. Every bit of tension eased as if internally I had come home again, and yet a sense of foreignness made our connection a sweet venture. My breast was afire as he continued to grasp my hips, keeping me close. I burned for him as if vampire venom were coursing through every inch of me.
The man was a constellation of suns in my desire, unlike Thaddeus who hardly equaled a speck of stardust. The thought of that coward reminded me of grim news. It took every bit of willpower I possessed to tear my lips away from what they craved, and yet I remained a submissive puddle in this werewolf’s arms.”
Source: The Tarishe Curse
“I let my towel drop to the carpet. Nakedness stared at nakedness, and nakedness smiled.”
Source: One Night
“I let myself be sad. I let myself think of him.”
Source: The Selection Series 4-Book Collection: The Selection, The Elite, The One, The Heir
“I let myself cry for exactly one minute in the shower—one of six stalls in what used to be a shared space but now belonged to just me.”
Source: The Weight of Command
“I let myself down a million times," she confessed.
"We all do that. It is getting back up that defines your character, Julija, and you did that.”
Source: Dark Illusion
“I let myself feel good and sorry for myself, but only for a second. Daddy always said that the most useless of all human emotions was self-pity.”
Source: All These Things I've Done