Quotessence
Home / Quotes / I Quotes

I Quotes

Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.

All I Quotes

“I libri scritti per pura bontà sono rarissimi. Sono opere che si creano in abiezione e in solitudine, ben sapendo che dopo averle scagliate in faccia al mondo si sarà ancora più soli e più abietti. È normale, la principale caratteristica della gentilezza disinteressata è di essere irriconoscibile, inconoscibile, invisibile, insospettabile, perché un beneficio che dica il suo nome non è mai disinteressato.”

“I libri si scelgono come si sceglie una moglie. I libri si sfogliano, si legge una pagina e ci si rende conto che quelle parole sono proprio quelle che avremmo voluto sentire in quel momento. I libri che leggi entrano nella tua vita e cambiano un pezzettino di quello che sei. Io ho solo libri usati. I libri già sfogliati sono più preziosi di quelli nuovi perché sono già entrati nella vita di qualcun altro.”

“I libri sono firmati parola per parola. I loro pregi e tradimenti sono visibili, la loro libertà o corruzione o inutilità apparirà chiaramente, sulla pagina sterminata dei secoli. Alcuni dureranno, altri scompariranno. Ogni segno su di loro è nobile ruga di tormentata e ripetuta lettura, logorio del breve vento da una pagina all'altra, sbiadire di copertine tra amori e rifiuti, sottolineature, polvere di abbandono. Mentre inalterabili, mai scelti né respinti, ma veramente nostri, i dominanti schemi ci circondano di felicità non abitata, colpiscono ipocritamente, con falsa neutralità e velenosa indifferenza, creano parodie di sentimenti che evaporano nello spazio di una sigla. Hanno soldi, potenza, ma meno idee di una singola pagina. Scrivere nasce dal leggere e al leggere è grato. Scrivere è una delle poche cose rimaste uniche e nostre, dalla firma al romanzo, dal primo tema al testamento”

“I lick my lips as his teeth nibble on my earlobe. Between my muscles melting under his touch, my blood tingling with the teasing of my ear and the way my foot rubs against his calf, my thoughts become hazy. My shirt rides up and Isaiah rubs his thumb in small circles on the bare skin of my stomach. The sensation causes me to arch my back and Isaiah groans as I kiss his neck. I like these feelings. Actually, I more than like them. They’re addicting, and I love how every little thing I do causes Isaiah to kiss and touch me more. He rolls and I move with him. Our tangled legs become unraveled as my thighs fall open, accepting his weight. Isaiah’s body over mine is heavier than I would have imagined, but it’s a weight I craved without knowing it. Isaiah kisses up my neck and when his lips meet mine again, he rocks his hips. Suddenly very aware parts of him are touching very aware parts of me, and my head falls to the side as a new sensation spikes through my body.”

“I lick my lips as I stare at it and Dubh smiles. “Does it make you salivate, Lucy? Do you want it in your mouth?” I glare at him for just a moment before I slap him hard on the cheek again. “Quiet. And put your hands behind your back.” “Holy. Shit,” he mutters under his breath, and he complies. He squeezes his eyes shut for a second, and I think it’s to wallow in the sting.”

“I lick my lips as I take her in; she’s an enigma. Earlier as I watched her I was sure I had her pegged; pretty, rich, party girl, slightly shy but up for some fun. With my profile of her character in mind I had felt in control. Now that she’s surprised me my grasp on control feels looser. I don’t know what to expect from her and it leaves me feeling off kilter.”

“I lie awake in bed until way past midnight, fervently hoping Ky is going make an appearance at any moment to explain his behavior. But as the clock chimes two, I have no choice but to face facts. He isn’t coming. And it feels ominous. Like the winds are changing, and destiny is altering. His absence is more than telling. It has a finality to it that scares me half to death.”

“I lie down on many a station platform; I stand before many a soup kitchen; I squat on many a bench;--then at last the landscape becomes disturbing, mysterious, and familiar. It glides past the western windows with its villages, their thatched roofs like caps, pulled over the white-washed, half-timbered houses, its corn-fields, gleaming like mother-of-pearl in the slanting light, its orchards, its barns and old lime trees. The names of the stations begin to take on meaning and my heart trembles. The train stamps and stamps onward. I stand at the window and hold on to the frame. These names mark the boundaries of my youth.”

“I lie splayed out on the bed, staring numbly at the world's most beautiful bedroom. I've been given the Duchess Suite, a relic from the days when husbands and wives slept in separate rooms. The bedroom's damask walls are painted robin's-egg blue, the same shade as Tiffany's famous little boxes, with matching curtains framing the French windows. The ceiling above my bed is gilded in a mosaic pattern, and impressionist paintings grace the walls. Delicate white-and-gold furniture softens the room's edges, and the freshly cut peonies in a vase on my bedside table lend the air a sweet smell.”

“I lied," the dragon said with a fearful complacency. "Everyone you have ever met has lied to you. Life exists, and all who live are born to suffer. The best moments are fleeting and bought with the coin of exquisite torment. All attachments end. All loved ones die. All that you value passes away. In such a vexatious existence laughter is madness and joy is folly. Shall we accept that it all happens for no reason, with no cause? That there is nobody to blame but ourselves but that accepting the responsibility is pointless for doing so cannot ease, defer, or deaden the pain? Not likely! It is so much more comforting to erect a straw figure on which to blame it all. "Some bow down before the Goddess and others curse her every name. There is not a fart's difference between the two approaches. They cling to the fiction of the Goddess because admitting the alternative is unbearable." "Then what—why—what do you want me for?" To her dismay, tears coursed down Jane's face. Oh how Melanchthon must be enjoying this, she thought. What satisfaction it must give him. "You've toyed with me, made promises, gone through Hell-knows-what machinations to bring me here. Why? What's the point of it?" "I want your help to destroy the universe.”