I Quotes
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“I’m sorry not to have been more communicative. Yes, it was work in Russia.” Just not ‘legal’ work, he thought with chagrin.”
Source: Bottled Lightning
“I'm sorry on behalf of my species.”
Source: Tracking You
“I’m sorry. Really, Echo, I am. I didn’t make the Aires connection until after the movie, I swear.”
“It’s fine.” Really—we’re even. You took me to a crappy movie. I left and almost kissed a really hot guy. A guy who made my toes curl and shared his food. A guy I should really stop obsessing over because God knows he’s not thinking about me.”
Source: Pushing the Limits
“I’m sorry, Rob,” she said softly.
He grunted. “Sorry is a sorry word.”
-A Desperate Journey”
Source: A Desperate Journey
“I'm sorry," said the bureaucrat blandly when I went in and blew a fuse at him, "the criteria are quite clear. He's too able to get support."
"Too ABLE?" I roared. "How do you think he got this ABLE? He achieved all this by having constant SUPPORT.”
Source: Down to the Sea
“I’m sorry.”
She bit the inside of her cheek, trying not to cry. At the same time, she was oddly touched by his apology.
“I’m sorry,” he said again.
Something tore quite explicitly, and she inhaled but didn’t make a sound.
He opened his eyes, looking stricken and hot and savage. “Oh, God, sweetheart. I promise it
will be better next time.” He kissed the corner of her mouth softly. “I promise.”
She concentrated on steadying her breath and hoped he would finish very soon. She didn’t want to hurt his feelings, but this was no longer pleasant for her.
He parted his mouth over hers and licked her bottom lip. “I’m sorry.”
Source: The Serpent Prince
“I’m sorry,” she murmured, rousing after a minute. Her breathing had begun to return to normal and awareness was starting to creep back in,
particularly of his cock still buried hard and deep inside her. She propped herself up on her elbow. “I shamelessly used your body to get off and was too impatient to wait for you.”
“Just so you know, you are welcome to shamelessly use my body to get off any time you want.”
Source: Playing It Cool
“I'm sorry," she said quietly, knowing that he was thinking about Mark Bennett, the friend he hadn't been able to save. "I know why this medal is so odious to you."
Christopher made no reply. From the near-palpable tension he radiated, she understood that all of the dark memories he harbored, this was one of the worst.
"Is it possible to refuse the medal?" she asked. "To forfeit it?"
"Not voluntarily. I'd have to do something illegal or hideous to invoke the expulsion clause."
"We could plan a crime for you to commit," Beatrix suggested. "I'm sure my family would have some excellent suggestions."
Christopher looked at her then, his eyes like silvered glass in the moonlight. For a moment Beatrix feared the attempt at levity might have annoyed him. But then there was a catch of laughter in his throat, and he folded her into his arms. "Beatrix," he whispered. "I'll never stop needing you.”
Source: Love in the Afternoon
“I'm sorry,' she said to each of the dead as she unzipped and unfastened their things, 'I'm sorry Courtney. I'm sorry Marcus. I'm sorry Rachel. I'm sorry Jon. I'm sorry I'm alive and you're dead. I'm sorry I was asleep. I'm sorry I didn't save you and now I'm taking your things. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry.”
Source: The Coldest Girl in Coldtown
“I’m sorry,” she says. “I don’t mean to mock. It’s just so typical, you know? That way he’d berate himself to make you feel sorry for him.”
My head tips back as though the weight of my brain has suddenly changed. He did do that. He did it all the time. I'm not sure I've ever summed him up so neatly.”
Source: My Dark Vanessa
“I'm sorry someone let you believe you were hard to love, because, Blue, it's the easiest thing I've ever done.”
Source: The Right Move
“I'm sorry."
"Sorry? For what?" He straightened and moved a bit closer, sounding honestly puzzled.
"I am not much of a conversationalist, I'm afraid. I am not used to - to any of this. You must find this terribly..."
"Terribly what?"
"Boring." She faced him squarely then, for she refused to shy away from difficulties.
He let out a short bark of laughter. "Boring? My dear Miss Bainbridge, boring is definitely something you are not."
"I don't know how you can say that," she retorted somewhat crossly. "There is really no need for you to be polite. I haven't said any of the things I should. I have been blunt and no doubt impolite. I have never danced before with any man I haven't known since I could toddle. And now I cannot even come up with the most commonplace remark."
His chuckle was low and warm [...].
"Oh, you know what I mean." Really the man was maddening. "You shouldn't laugh at someone who is admitting their grievous social ineptitude."
"What else should I do?" His teeth glinted in the darkness. "Let me assure you that I have danced with a great many girls whom I have not known since childhood. And I have heard a great many commonplace remarks. It is, quite frankly, a relief to enjoy the quiet and cool of the garden without hearing that the weather is quite nice this evening or that the breeze is most refreshing or that the party is so enjoyable.”
Source: A Winter Scandal
“I'm sorry that I couldn't be what you wanted.”
Source: Beautiful World, Where Are You
“I'm sorry that I'm not Emily. But I was never supposed to be. Took me a while to learn that, and I hope you can see it too. I spent my whole life waiting because I was trying to live a future that was never mine. And I did it because I wanted you to be proud of me. To just once say “Good Job, Jet.” I needed it, lived for it, and I don't think that was healthy, for either of us.”
Source: Not Quite Dead Yet
“I'm sorry- that she still punished you for helping me during my task. I heard-' My throat tightened. 'I heard what she made Tamlin do to you.' He shrugged, but I added, 'Thank you. For helping me, I mean.'
He walked to the door, and for the first time I noticed how stiffly he moved. 'It's why I couldn't come sooner,' he said, his throat bobbing. 'She used her- used our powers to keep my back from healing. I haven't been able to move until today.'
Breathing became a little difficult. 'Here,' I said, removing his cloak and standing to hand it to him. The sudden cold sent gooseflesh rippling over me.
'Keep it. I swiped it off a dozing guard on my way in here.' In the dim light, the embroidered symbol of a sleeping dragon glimmered. Amarantha's coat of arms. I grimaced, but shrugged it on.
'Besides,' Lucien added with a smirk, 'I've seen enough of you through that gown to last a lifetime.' I flushed as he opened the door.
'Wait,' I said. 'Is- is Tamlin all right? I mean... I mean that spell Amarantha has him under to make him so silent...'
'There's no spell. Hasn't it occurred to you that Tamlin is keeping quiet to avoid telling Amarantha which form of your torment affects him most?'
No, it hadn't.
'He's playing a dangerous game, though,' Lucien said, slipping out the door. 'We all are.”
Source: A Court of Thorns and Roses
“I'm sorry that when you say 'love', I
always hear
'heartbreak'.”
Source: Howling at the Moon
“I'm sorry that you are hurting. It’s because of me that you are even here in the first place. I offered to get those passes so I could get to know you. There is something about you that feels so comforting and familiar, and I’m not sure why.”
Source: Fairest
“I'm sorry that you came back to earth.”
“I’m sorry that you cried on your own. Forgive me for not being your home.”
Source: Hey Humanity
“I'm sorry that you had to come back to earth.”
“I’m sorry, the message said.
The theft was a violation of privacy. It was an unbelievable act of impudence and disrespect. Not only that, it was—baffling. He was murderous, incandescent with fury. He was older than sin and could not remember when he had last been in such a rage.
He looked at the paper again.
I’m sorry I had to take your penny. Here’s another to replace it.
Yep, that’s what it said.
One corner of his mouth twitched. He gave himself a deep shock when he burst into an explosive guffaw.”
Source: Dragon Bound
“I'm sorry. The Truth is....
I'm an Otaku.
- Serinuma Kae”
Source: 私がモテてどうすんだ 1 [Watashi ga Motete dousunda 1]
“I’m sorry there is so much pain in this story. I’m sorry it’s in fragments, like a body caught in crossfire or pulled apart by force. But there is nothing I can do to change it.
I’ve tried to put some of the good things in as well. Flowers, for instance, because where would we be without them?”
Source: The Handmaid’s Tale
“I'm sorry to be all over the place, my mind doesn't know how to stop, but I'd rather rise up to the insanity, than to further depress on the drop.”
“I'm sorry to disturb you, madam,' said Nurse, 'but I thought I'd better speak to you. It's about Miss Delia's knickers' she continued, after a glance at the Vicar and a rapid decision that his cloth protected him. 'She really hasn't a pair fit to wear...”
Source: The Brandons
“I’m sorry to disturb your mid-afternoon mattress dance, but I have to ask you to try to control the volume.”
Source: The Archer and His Rosebud
“I'm sorry to hear it," he said, looking almost sincere. "Perhaps one day."
Perhaps when it rained oxen. Not a moment before.”
Source: The Traitor's Game
“I’m sorry to say, Marcus, that each of your recent choice of companions—the last four or five, at least—displayed all the intelligence of a turnip.”
Source: Again the Magic
“I’m sorry to say this, but the city is lost. Go home to your families, while you still can. They need you, now, more than ever.”
Source: The Manhattanville Incident: An Undead Novel
“I'm sorry to step you in your corners but the truth must be told that you can't Loved by all people cause you not the money.”
“I’m sorry to tell you that another Dani was found wandering around the time station in our building, confused and disoriented.”
Source: The Balance of Time
“I'm sorry, too,' she said.
'For what?'
'For acting mad at you all the time.'
'It's okay,' he said, 'sometimes I like it.'
'But not always.”
Source: Eleanor & Park
“I'm sorry," V'Aidan
"No, you're not." Erin
"No, I'm not, but I don't want you to be angry with me for it." V'Aidan
"You're evil." Erin”
Source: Dark Bites
“I'm sorry we don't visit more often. There's a war on and, well, no one likes you."
The Darkling touched a hand to his chest. "You wound me."
"All in good time," said Zoya.”
Source: Rule of Wolves
“I'm sorry you aren't as brave as you thought you were. But don't punish me because of it.”
Source: The Paying Guests
“I'm sorry you don't like coming back here," her mother often said, to cap whatever petty dust-up they'd had. How could Emily explain: it wasn't her mother or Kersey she'd disowned, but her earlier self, that strange, ungrateful girl who strove to be first at everything and threw tantrums when she failed.”
Source: Emily, Alone
“I'm sorry you don't want to know me anymore. I will spend the rest of my life regretting the fact that I wasted my second chance to know you. And I will always be conscious of your absence."- Gabriel to Julia.”
Source: Gabriel's Inferno
“I'm sorry you had to put all your feelings to the side so you could help me."
"I'm not," she says fiercely. "I can, in fact, be mad at you and help you at the same time. It's called being emotionally nuanced.”
Source: 6 Times We Almost Kissed [and One Time We Did]
“I'm sorry you lost the suit,' he said.
She shrugged.
'At this point, it was mostly a metaphor anyway,' she said...”
Source: Caliban’s War
“I'm sorry you lost your friends.'
'I'm sorry you lost yours.'
Bryce nodded her thanks, going back to stirring. 'I know people don't get it. It's just... a light went out inside me when it happened. Danika wasn't my sister, or my lover. But she was the one person I could be myself around and never feel judged. The one person that I knew would always pick up the phone, or call me back. She was the one person who made me feel brave because no matter what happened, no matter how bad or embarrassing or shitty it was, I knew that I had her in my corner. That if it all went to Hel, I could talk to her and it would be fine.'
Her eyes gleamed, and it was all he could do to not cross the few feet between them and grab her hand as she continued. 'But it... I'm not fine. I will never talk to her again. I think people expect me to be over it by now. But I can't. Anytime I get anywhere close to the truth of my new reality, I want to space out again. To not have to be me. I can't fucking dance anymore because it reminds me of her- of all the dancing we did together in clubs or on the streets or in our apartment or dorm. I won't let myself dance anymore because it brought me joy, and... And I didn't, I don't, want to feel those things.' She swallowed. 'I know it sounds pathetic.'
'It's not,' he said quietly.
'I'm sorry I dumped my baggage in your lap.'
A corner of his mouth turned up. 'You can dump your baggage in my lap anytime, Quinlan.'
She snorted, shaking her head. 'You made it sound gross.'
'You said it first.”
Source: House of Earth and Blood
“I’m sorry you lost your mom, but man, you got to look at this a different way. Now you have someone in heaven who is going to argue your case before god. It was silent for a few moments and then the most amazing thing happened, on a dark night in what must surely be the most desolate and dehumanizing place on earth, a man laughed.”
Source: The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row
“I'm sorry. You went too far.'
Lovely. What an epitaph.”
Source: The Gospel of Loki
“I'm sorry," you wrote in a diary I discovered at 11, "I'm sorry I did this to you."
But how could you have known that sorrow has a way with the womb? How could you have known that blood left scars that ran deeper than love could ever heal?”
Source: October Defined: an anthology of verse
“I’m stacking days, building a house of cards made from nothing but days. Monday is the Ace of Hearts. Saturday is the Four of Spades. Wednesday is the Seven of Clubs. Thursday night is, I suspect, the Seven of Diamonds, and it might be heavy enough to bring the whole precarious thing tumbling down around my ears. I would spend an entire hour watching cards fall, because time would stretch, the same way it stretches out to fill in awkward pauses, the way it stretched thin in that thundering moment of a car crash. Or at the edges of a wound.”
Source: Beneath an Oil-Dark Sea: The Best of Caitlín R. Kiernan, Volume 2
“I'm standing for you because I fell in love with you.”
“I'm standing in a crowd, with a crowd, actually just a part of the crowd.”
Source: The Labyrinth of Clouds
“I’m standing on the edge of some crazy cliff. What I have to do, I have to catch everybody if they start to go over the cliff—I mean if they’re running and they don’t look where they’re going I have to come out from somewhere and catch them. That’s all I’d do all day. I’d just be the catcher in the rye and all”
“I'm standing outside and so far I have nothing to say to anyone, and I like it that way because it makes me seem more interesting. It's amazing what not speaking can do for other people in terms of levels of interest.”
Source: A Room Called Earth
“I'm standing so close I can smell him, something familiar in the warmth of his skin--- the faintest whiff of his cologne with traces of warm amber and woody, resinous cedar and an underlying herbaceous, peppery note of olive oil that seems to be a part of his essence. I lean closer, my nose brushing his skin, and he pulls back enough to look at me incredulously. "Are you sniffing me?"
I giggle, half-embarrassed at being caught out. "Sorry, you smell delicious," I tell him a little flirtatiously.
"Oh, do I?" He watches me, intrigued. "What do I smell like?"
"Like warm honey and the sticky sap of a cedar tree.”
Source: The Secret of Orange Blossom Cake
“I’m standing with other parents in the school playground. A misery of humans, huddled, hunched, and wet. Our golf umbrellas are only helping the top half of our bodies. Even though the storm has passed, the wind is still whipping up the rain, our legs are soaked. And isn’t it fun standing in wet feet?”