I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“I’m standing with other parents on the school playground. A misery of humans, huddled, hunched, and wet.”
Source: Edward's Cat: The Rise of the Kittens. And a Dog.
“I’m staring at the black of the road in front of me and thinking about why a girl might cry after she has sex. I think it doesn’t have to do so much with love. I think it has a lot to do with regret.”
Source: Something Happened to Ali Greenleaf
“I'm starting to feel as if you don't want to escape.' He definitely nipped her ear this time, teeth sharp as they scraped her skin. She wondered if he liked to hurt everyone, of if it was just her. Something about this was starting to feel personal. Although the nip of teeth at her ear didn't hurt so much as it unsettled her.
'Do you want me to toss you over the edge?' he taunted.
'Of course not!' she yelled.
'Then why aren't you fighting?' He sounded angry.
'I'm trying my best.'
'And I'm not, which means you need to try harder. Kick me.”
Source: A Curse for True Love
“I'm starting to feel like a character from one of these books”
Source: The Teacher's Billionaire
“I'm starting to learn that if things are messy, or pieces don't get put back right, they are going to hurt, either way.”
Source: I Hope You Fall in Love: Poetry Collection
“I’m starting to think I’ll be the first man to die from thinking too much — no gun, no poison, just the slow suicide of my own mind.”
Source: Living Colorful Beauty
“I'm starting to think I'll never be a woman. Or worst of all, I've actually been one all along.”
Source: Dear Universe
“I'm starting to think that my level of intrigue outweighs my fear of controversy.”
Source: Killosophy
“I’m starting to think that you have a really bad habit of trying to save me.”
She turns shy and looks down. “You are worth saving.”
Source: Sudden Hope
“I'm starting to think this world is just a place for us to learn that we need each other more than we want to admit.”
Source: Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year
“I'm starting to understand that attempting to be perfect has been the goal of my life. Our lives. Attempting to be this fault-free, smiling person in this loving, happy family that fits so perfectly in this pretty, inoffensive little town. What was so bad about that goal after all? Only that I couldn't do it. That I let everybody down. I've been so down about it, so depressed thinking about all the balls I was trying to juggle that I've dropped, and now the cogs are turning toward total apathy toward it all, everything and all I can think about is that I am a shell of a human being. I'm a pushover. I'm to blame.”
Source: Golden Boy
“I’m starting to understand that the longer you get away with something, the more reckless you become, until it’s almost as if you want to get caught.”
Source: My Dark Vanessa
“I'm starting to wonder if I should ever leave you alone," he said mildly, dropping a hand to my shoulder.
I stiffened.
"Then don't," I said. "Stay right here and never strike another bargain."
"Oh, you're that desperate to be with me?" He leaned forward, his hand still on my shoulder. "If you wanted a kiss, you only needed to ask."
His touch was light, but I felt it as precisely as the lines of a lithograph, with my body for the paper.”
Source: Cruel Beauty
“I’m starting to wonder if taking hostages was such a good idea.”
Source: Dark-Boy, Vol. 1: The Dead Blue
“I'm startled or at least taken aback when people walk up to me and without being questioned inform me that they are Christians. My first response is the question "Already?"
It seems to me that becoming a Christian is a lifelong endeavor.”
Source: Letter to My Daughter
“I'm starving and I'd much rather have cookies than another riot, wouldn't you?”
Source: Jamb
“I’m starving of myself.”
“I’m still afraid to sleep—too many ghosts peering creeping condemning.”
Source: Perfect Lies
“I’m still alive, I have time to build
My blood will outlast the rose.”
“I'm still angry with him, but I follow him through the drizzle anyway. Because this is Levi. This is my hero. And you always follow your heroes, even when you're mad, even when you'd rather punch them in the mouth. That's how trust works. It's blind and unconditional and it takes you places you can't reach by yourself.
Just like love.”
Source: Best Kind of Broken
“I'm still as stone, arms wrapped around myself to hold my breaking heart in. These stories always end the same way.”
Source: The Light Between Worlds
“I’m still bitter,” I say. “Nobody ever gave me anything for my first.” Byatt laughs, her hands moving quick to open the soup can, and she gives me the lid. “There. My gift to you.”
Source: Wilder Girls
“I'm still capable of doing good in the world; a few people who don't really know me don't get to decide what I'm worth. In time, I believe I'll meet different people who will value me and my abilities.”
Source: Love for Imperfect Things: How to Accept Yourself in a World Striving for Perfection
“I'm still dropping dishes thinking in slow motion about the GPS woman in Mom's car. I imagine her beckoning me from outside the kitchen window illuminated like some robot-angel calling me forth to the Lexus where she will ferry me off to that planet of monotonous peace that special otherworldly place where all the residents are relaxed and confident and completely numb.
Your life will. Get better in. Six. Point four. Million. Miles.”
Source: Fixing Delilah
“I’m still here. The doubt, the fear, the heartbreak, the depression, the anxiety, the insecurity: It didn’t win. The people who hurt me and let me down: They didn’t win. The disappointment and the failure, and the hopes and deferred dreams: Nope. They didn’t win either.”
Source: You Are Enough: Heartbreak, Healing, and Becoming Whole
“I'm still hurting from the frowning, cruel piano teacher who stole music from me. Hurting from the pain of my mother forcing me as a child to play exactly as I was instructed, to be the prodigy she so desperately wished me to be. I'm still holding a grudge as dark and sinister as the clouds outside for the both of them. Because I was never enough. I was never going to be the golden ticket into a life they craved.”
Source: The Fabric of Our Souls
“I’m still in bed writing this, lying on my back like an omelette in a pan.”
Source: running is flying intermittently
“I'm still in love with the parts I believed to be true. All the lies that began and ended with 'I love you'.”
Source: Abandoned Breaths
“i’m still learning how to be mine.”
“i’m still learning
how to hear the word beautiful
and let it be meant for me
…to breathe it in
and let it belong here”
“I'm still looking for someone
Who said they were here for me,
And I thought I was once there for you.
But when troubles are nearer than friends,
And the road comes to an end,
What could I do?
I wish I could fly away like you.”
Source: The Words
“I'm still missing you. Well I guess that I have, I guess that I have never really had you.”
“I'm still not afraid of you,' I replied, briefly glancing down. There was only a minor bit of relief when I saw several pale strands of hair plastered to my chest. They didn't hide nearly enough, but it was better than nothing.
'Well, I'm a little afraid of you,' he said, and he was somehow closer without seeming to have moved. He wasn't even a foot from me now, and an icy heat radiated from him, pressing against my flesh. His closeness heightened the sensitivity of every inch of skin. 'You want to claw my eyes out.”
Source: A Shadow in the Ember
“I'm still not sure I made the right choice when I told my wife about the bakery attack.But then,it might not have been a question of right or wrong. Which is to say that wrong choices can produce right results, and vice versa. I myself have adopted the position that,in fact, we never choose anything at all. Things happen. Or not.”
Source: The Elephant Vanishes
“I’m still not sure what she’s trying to accomplish here. Revenge, sure, but what happens after? If you try to get back at everything that’s wronged you, you’ll get stuck in a never-ending loop of fighting the world, a world that can’t be fought. The universe is not the enemy here. It’s not out to get us. And even if it is, well . . . good luck and wake me up after the war.”
“I'm still not sure why they call it social media. It robs us of genuine social interaction because we're forced to communicate through a device.”
“I'm still not totally sure I know what's true about me.”
“I’m still pretty sick about what I’ve lost, but I only admit it to myself late at night, which is probably why I’m not the best sleeper.”
Source: Juliet, Naked
“I’m still proud. That doesn’t mean I’m not allowed to question the system. And right now I’m questioning whether some of our traditions might be wrong and whether highbloods like you are really trained to all be entitled assholes.”
Source: The Bond That Burns
“I'm still shy," I admit, pulling the sleeves over my hands, "and I might always be, I don't know, but I think you can be shy and still feel okay about yourself at the same time.”
Source: Yellow
“I’m still thanking all the stars, one by one.”
Source: Winter
“I’m still the man here. You’re my wife,’ I walked forward, she had to back away, she looked scared. Good, it serves her right for once”
Source: Blessing
“I’m still the same Chelsea Knot. Bow down, bitches.”
Source: Speechless
“I’m still the same, even if I don’t feel the same.”
Source: Swallowed by a Secret
“I'm still the same guy you knew five minutes ago.”
Source: Exposure
“I'm still the same person, just a different version.”
“I'm still trying to become something, but I'm tired of mourning someone I never got to be.”
Source: Because i'm still breathing
“I'm still trying to decide how I feel about the fact that you knew about this before I did."
"Don't be disappointed," Jack said. "The fact that I've been ridiculously proud of you for days doesn't change how excited you should be about this. Besides, I pretty much know everything. You should probably just start getting used to it."
"And on that note, I'm hanging up," Cameron said.
"Rushing me off so you can call Collin next?" Jack teased.
"No" she said emphatically.
Damn, he really did know everything.”
Source: Something About You
“I'm still trying to wrap my head around the absurdity of the fact that the day before she was here, and now, just one day later, she isn't. Think about it. Death is so fucking absurd.”
Source: Bent: How Yoga Saved My Ass
“I’m still trying to wrap my head around the idea of someone buying and selling children in the twenty-first century.”
Source: The Sad Girl