I Quotes
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“I'm still waiting for a moment with our gracious host." Something in his wry smile offsets the intensity in his eyes. Really, he is very handsome. "And in the meantime," he adds, with a sideways glance, "I have you."
He is flirting with her; very gently, but definitely flirting and it's at that moment that Lillian realizes he have no more idea of her identity than she has of his.”
Source: The Peacock Summer
“I’m still waiting for something, searching for something I cannot describe.”
“It’s called true love. Most people never find it.”
Source: True Love
“I'm still waiting to bump into someone or just look at him and realize he's the one.”
Source: Fated to Meet You
“I'm still walking, so I'm sure that I can dance.”
“I’m strangely comforted when I hear from scientists that human beings are the most complex creatures we know of in the universe, still, by far. Black holes are in their way explicable; the simplest living being is not. I lean a bit more confidently into the experience that life is so endlessly perplexing. I love that word. Spiritual life is a way of dwelling with perplexity—taking it seriously, searching for its purpose as well as its perils, its beauty as well as its ravages.”
Source: Becoming Wise: An Inquiry into the Mystery and Art of Living
“I'm stripped and vital, and I see rules that almost fit. And if I voice my opinion, will you stay and sit? And as I stand here screaming in despair, I say yes this is my life and yes you should care.”
“I'm strong and independent and I don't need anyone,' but the truth is: We do need people. People who'll laugh with us and cry with us and make the bad days bearable and the good days better; people who'll remember what we forget and `listen even when they don't completely understand; people who'll need us back. It had nothing to do with strength at all, and everything to do with being human.”
Source: This Time It's Real
“I'm strong beyond appearances reveal,
But I'm human, and have weak moments still.”
Source: Reality Check: A Collection of Poems
“I'm strong enough to protect what's mine.”
Source: Falling
“I'm strong, fight to deat, ja?' I almost laughed at hearing a wolf accent through mindspeech.”
“I'm stronger than titanium, tungsten, or steel;
In prayer to You I blaze as I kneel.”
Source: Fractures of Gold
“I'm stronger today," I said, hoping that by saying the words out loud it would make them true. I leaned across the sink, resting my palms against the mirror's surface. My reflection fogged over. As I began to disappear, I wiped the steam from the mirror, just like I'd temporarily wiped away all the ugliness that stained my soul.”
Source: Chasing Rainbows
“I'm stuck between giving up and already done. I'm not sure where I am right now but there's no light at the end of the tunnel and the end feels near”
“I`m stuck
I`m here on the inside
Longing to be seen on the outside
Wanting to step up
not ready to step out
Finding my feet
but unable to walk
Knowing my song
yet cannot sing
Filled with LOVE
ready to share
Healed on the outside
still scarred on the inside
Feeling my passion
bursting to be expressed
Trusting my SOUL
with EGO still present
Aware of the TRUTH
yet lying to myself
Ready to change
I must LET GO
If I let go
who will catch me
Confined by FEAR
beliefs and thoughts
I hold myself prisoner
I am stuck
where is the KEY
to set myself FREE”
“I'm stuck. I'm stuck in yesterday, and you're tomorrow.”
Source: Out of Breath
“I'm stuck on rewind, staring at memories of us and the life we lost, wondering how I got this wrong.”
Source: Memories of Us
“I'm stuck on this planet with you. And honestly, I'm glad. I've been exposed to a lot of awful people in the last few months, but I've met so many more that are amazing, thoughtful, generous, and kind. I honestly believe that is the human condition. And if the Carls are testing us, this final test is the hardest to accomplish. If you pay attention, there is only one story that makes sense, and that is one in which humanity works together more and more since we took over this planet. Yeah, we fuck it up all the time, yeah, there have been some massive steps backward, but look at us! We are one species now more than we have ever been. People fight against that, and they probably always will, but could there be any time in history when what Carl is asking would be more possible?”
Source: An Absolutely Remarkable Thing
“I'm Styles Von Thron."
"And I'm Bored Von Blow Me.”
Source: Soaking Wet Stepbrother
“I'm such a Barbie.”
“I’m such a negative person, and always have been. Was I born that way? I don’t know. I am constantly disgusted by reality, horrified and afraid. I cling desperately to the few things that give me some solace, that make me feel good.
I hate most of humanity. Though I might be very fond of particular individuals, humanity in general fills me with contempt and despair. I hate most of what passes for civilization. I hate the modern world. For one thing there are just too Goddamn many people. I hate the hordes, the crowds in their vast cities, with all their hateful vehicles, their noise and their constant meaningless comings and goings. I hate cars. I hate modern architecture. Every building built after 1955 should be torn down!
I despise modern music. Words cannot express how much it gets on my nerves – the false, pretentious, smug assertiveness of it. I hate business, having to deal with money. Money is one of the most hateful inventions of the human race. I hate the commodity culture, in which everything is bought and sold. No stone is left unturned. I hate the mass media, and how passively people suck up to it.
I hate having to get up in the morning and face another day of this insanity. I hate having to eat, shit, maintain the body – I hate my body. The thought of my internal functions, the organs, digestion, the brain, the nervous system, horrify me.
Nature is horrible. It’s not cute and loveable. It’s kill or be killed. It’s very dangerous out there. The natural world is filled with scary, murderous creatures and forces. I hate the whole way that nature functions. Sex is especially hateful and horrifying, the male penetrating the female, his dick goes into her hole, she’s impregnated, another being grows inside her, and then she must go through a painful ordeal as the new being pushes out of her, only to repeat the whole process in time.
Reproduction – what could be more existentially repulsive?
How I hate the courting ritual. I was always repelled by my own sex drive, which in my youth never left me alone. I was constantly driven by frustrated desires to do bizarre and unacceptable things with and to women. My soul was in constant conflict about it. I never was able to resolve it.
Old age is the only relief.
I hate the way the human psyche works, the way we are traumatized and stupidly imprinted in early childhood and have to spend the rest of our lives trying to overcome these infantile mental fixations. And we never ever fully succeed in this endeavor.
I hate organized religions. I hate governments. It’s all a lot of power games played out by ambition-driven people, and foisted on the weak, the poor, and on children.
Most humans are bullies. Adults pick on children. Older children pick on younger children. Men bully women. The rich bully the poor. People love to dominate.
I hate the way humans worship power – one of the most disgusting of all human traits.
I hate the human tendency towards revenge and vindictiveness. I hate the way humans are constantly trying to trick and deceive one another, to swindle, to cheat, and take unfair advantage of the innocent, the naïve and the ignorant.
I hate the vacuous, false, banal conversation that goes on among people.
Sometimes I feel suffocated; I want to flee from it.
For me, to be human is, for the most part, to hate what I am. When I suddenly realize that I am one of them, I want to scream in horror.”
“I’m such a stickler for veracity that I hired nine fact-checkers to go through every citation of the How Not to Die manuscript, and I committed to the same rigor with this book.”
Source: How Not to Diet
“I'm such a strong human being. I amaze myself even. If only you knew what I've been up against, you'd want my autograph. I'm a real life superhero.”
Source: Write like no one is reading
“i’m such an easy mark for the way that forever is such a pretty word off the corner of your smile”
“I’m suddenly not hungry,” Shane, said, his face ashen. “Noah, you go get the note. Be careful not to touch anything else. Don’t step in the blood.”
Source: Dissolve
“I'm suffering;
Always people wanted to hurt me
To harm me
With bullying
And other schemes
I always felt inferior
Unable to defend myself
Weak as lonely
Mentally tortured
This world is cruel
But I can say “no”
And I will be saying it”
Source: Rose: Future Heart
“I'm super sorry I slept so long. You should've nudged me or something."
Several somethings came to mind.”
Source: Keeping Mr. Right Now
“I'm supposed to a man who never blows his composure
A boy trapped in a war, forced to be a solider
The weight of the world just put on top of my shoulders
But if there's one thing I know for sure
It's that my mind has had its exposure
And my emotional turmoil has finally had its closure”
“I'm supposed to carry you over the threshold, right?"
I laugh. "If that's what you're doing, I must've slept through something important," I say dryly.
He quirks one eyebrow and shoots me a cocky grin.
"Oh trust me, I won't let you sleep through any of the good stuff.”
Source: Down to You
“I'm supposed to feel bad that I'm better now? I'm supposed to cry over a little cut. To what? To make you feel like I'm not a monster. I need to perform my little bit of pain for you so you'll know I'm human?”
Source: All's Well
“I'm supposed to feel like it’s such a great apartment, but I don’t. It’s the right price, there are no bugs and it’s got a great view, but it’s the lair of Satan...”
Source: Horrorbook: twenty-two tales of terror
“I’m supposed to feel like it’s such a great apartment, but I don’t. It’s the right price, there are no bugs and it’s got a great view, but it’s the lair of Satan...--Nil Caveat”
Source: Horrorbook: twenty-two tales of terror
“I'm supposed to hate you for what you did, I think. But her eyes linger on me in a way that refuses to let me.”
Source: Legend
“I’m supposed to meet Ainsley for lunch and then...we’re hanging out.”
He was silent for a moment and then shoved his hands into his pockets. “Cool.” His gaze flipped up and over me. I turned slightly, spying Hector’s car coming down the center aisle. “I’d like to meet her.”
Wait.
What?
He wanted to meet Ainsley?
Rider bit down on his lower lip. “So, you know, I’m sort of inviting myself along.”
He really wanted to meet my best friend?
His head tilted to the side. “And if you think that’s not cool, this is about to get real awkward.”
Source: The Problem with Forever
“I'm supposed to stay calm? Seriously?"
I nodded.
She shook her head. "Cow shit might be more helpful than that advice.”
Source: Blood Moon
“I’m suprised to feel tears running down my cheeks. Everytimes I pick up this journal I think I’ll be fine— that it all happened so long ago and I won’t still feel what I felt back then.”
Source: Colleen Hoover Book Bundle
“I’m sure everyone’s sorry and said they’re sorry, and you’ve heard it a thousand times. We all mean well, by the way. We just don’t have words.”
I rubbed a hand over my forehead. Maybe that was the end of it. A little different than the standard lines. She meant well. Good talk. “It’s fine. Most people just say ‘sorry.’ I don’t need a speech.”
“I’m not, though.” Her hair swished against my arm as she shook her head. “It’s sad your mother died. It is. Because of all the things she’ll miss. It’s very sad. But, I’m glad she lived.””
Source: Chasing Headlines
“I'm sure for that comming there was a reason, but what's going to happen with that reason and Gotham?”
“I'm sure he didn't always feel fearless. But he acted with fearlessness. That's something he taught me.”
Source: The Immortalists
“I’m sure I’d remember if we’d met. It doesn’t happen every day to witness perfection on Earth.”
Source: Bound by Water: Pisces
“I'm sure I'll swear fealty soon. I just have..."
"Trust issues.”
Source: Lodestar
“I’m sure I look a wreck. But he’s the one who wrecked me so he may as well take a good long look at what he’s done.”
Source: Fair Game
“I'm sure I'm worth a lot more dead than alive--the sum of the parts equals more than the whole. I wonder who might wind up walking around with my liver, my lungs, even my eyeballs. I wonder what poor asshole would get stuck with whatever it is in me that passes for a heart.”
Source: My Sister's Keeper
“I'm sure I've had my phone tapped for years, I don't think it's a crime against humanity they just ought to quit doing it, god damn it.”
“I'm sure if I saw Ashley again I'd struggle with all of that. Anger, and hurt, and yeah - the love I still have for her. I never got to fall out of love. I just had to move on when she walked out.”
Source: Love and Other Words
“I’m sure if Socrates were alive today, and had to sit through even a single meeting discussing how to use data to inform instruction, he’d kill himself all over again.”
Source: A White Rose: A Soldier's Story of Love, War, and School
“I'm sure it is," she replied. Her expression turned fierce, making her look far different from the scattered teacher I knew.
"But listen to me when I say this. You are exceptional, taleneted, and brilliant young woman. Do not ever let anyone make you feel like you're less. Do not ever let anyone make you feel invisible. Do not let anyone-not even a teacher who constantly sends you for coffee-push you around." She put her glasses back on and began randomly lifting up pieces of papers. At last, she found a pen and grinned triumphantly.
"Now, then. What is your brother's name?”
Source: Bloodlines
“i'm sure it's going to be a total disaster. but i guess the point is that i'm going to do it anyway.”
Source: Will Grayson, Will Grayson
“I'm sure it's not all hot buttered crumpets out there in the breathing world of asphalt and heartbeats.”
Source: One of Our Thursdays Is Missing
“I'm sure it was one of the most important things to have happened to you in a long time.'
My eyes narrowed. 'You have an over-inflated sense of involvement in my life if you really think that.'
'I think I have a good grasp on just how much of a role I play in your life.'
'Doubtful,' I parroted back.
'I do wonder if you actually believe half the lies you tell.'
Tawny's gaze snapped back and forth between us.
'I am not lying, thank you very much.'
He smiled, showing off the dimple in his right cheek. 'Whatever you need to tell yourself, Princess.'
'Don't call me that!' I stomped my foot.
Hawke lifted an eyebrow. 'Did that make you feel good?'
'Yes! Because the only other option is to kick you.'
'So violent,' he chuckled.”
Source: From Blood and Ash
“I’m sure it wasn’t easy being in your big sister’s shadow for 104 years. You complained about it a lot but I know you’d have been miserable without me.
Well, I’m glad things have worked out the way they have, because you never had to be alone, Bessie
Funny thing is, though, by leaving me here by myself, you're letting me get the last word. Ooooooh, I'm not sure you would have liked that!
- Sarah L. Delany”
Source: On My Own at 107: Reflections on Life Without Bessie