I Quotes
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“I needed nothing and was needed nowhere. I almost doubted I was alive.”
Source: The Answers
“I needed out. The Jeep wasn’t fast enough. I shut it down, grabbed the keys and started running like a bear was at my heels. I couldn’t even see Henry anymore through my tears so it surprised me when he caught me in his arms halfway. The first thing I did was pound on his chest and ask him why he hadn’t called. The second thing I did was kiss him so hard he couldn’t answer me.”
Source: Perfect Glass
“I needed pain; I needed blood. Judge me if you want, but I’m talking about my own body. My own catharsis. About marking myself with beauty instead of ugliness.”
Source: Going Feral: Field Notes on Wonder and Wanderlust
“I needed people to deliver my feelings back to me in a form that was legible. Which is a superlative kind of empathy to seek, or to supply: an empathy that rearticulates more clearly what it's shown.”
Source: The Empathy Exams: Essays
“I needed real help in New York and I had no friends. I looked up at those buildings, I couldn't see the sky or nothing, and I said, 'Well, there ain't no mountain high enough,' and I just started - the words just fell out of my mouth, really.”
“I needed seven hours of sleep. At least. I've always envied those who don't need much sleep. Those who wake up after five hours and are ready to preform at their best. They're the ones who really go far in life, I've heard.”
Source: Bienes historie
“I needed sleep. Big squishy bunches of it. Soon.”
Source: Magic at the Gate: An Allie Beckstrom Novel
“I needed so much tenderness, love, and support. I needed a team of adults who could keep me safe while honoring my agency and autonomy. Instead, I got the state: two white social workers in my living room.”
Source: Beyond Survival: Strategies and Stories from the Transformative Justice Movement
“I needed some real danger and some mortal risk to run, to tranquilize me.”
“I needed some space to lay myself out, so that I could decide which pieces I wanted to pick up.”
Source: A Writer's Year: Fennel's Journal No. 3
“I needed someone really intense, but also somebody with a lot of theatrical credibility.”
“I needed someone to tell me how God could allow someone He loved to suffer so much when I wouldn't do this to someone I hated.”
“I needed someone to tell me it was all right to feel the anger and despair, but I received only kudos for my synthetically mature, responsible behavior.”
“I needed someone to tell me that I was sane, that I was special, and that I wasn't all that special.”
Source: White Hot Truth: Clarity for Keeping It Real on Your Spiritual Path - from One Seeker to Another
“I needed someone with me beyond the digital, in the interaction that only exists when people sit in the same space and look at each other, and breathe in what has been breathed out by another.”
Source: Peace, Pipe
“I needed something else, some kind of juice.
He gave me a hooked-eyebrow glance and took a showy swig of the water.
Mmm, he said, smacking his lips. Water-juice. It's fantastic.”
Source: Crazy for the Storm: A Memoir of Survival
“I needed something to distract me-anything far away from my parents’ drama-just for a second. And when I saw my chance I didn’t stop to think about how much I’d regret it later. An opportunity sat on the bar stool beside me, and I lunged at it. Literally.
I kissed Wesley Rush.
One second his hand lay on my shoulder, and his gray eyes rested, for once, on my face, and the next my mouth was on his. My lips were fierce with bottled emotion, and he seemed to tense, his body frozen in shock. That didn’t last very long. An instant later, he returned the aggression, his hands flying to my sides and pulling me toward him. It felt like a battle between our mouths. My hands clawed into his curly hair, tugging it way harder than necessary, and his fingertips dug into my waist.
It worked better than punching someone would have. Not only did it help me release the agonizing pressure, but it definitely distracted me. I mean, it’s hard to think about your dad when you’re making out with somebody.
And as disturbing as it sounds, Wesley was a really good kisser. He leaned into me, and I tugged at him so hard that he nearly fell off his bar stool. In that moment, we just couldn’t get close enough to each other. Our separate seats seemed like they were miles apart.
All of my thoughts vanished, and I became a sort of physical being. Emotions disappeared. Nothing existed but our bodies, and our warring lips were at the center of everything. It was bliss! It was amazing not to think.
Nothing! Nothing… until he screwed it up.”
Source: The DUFF: Designated Ugly Fat Friend
“I needed something--the distraction of another life--to alleviate fear.”
“I needed space from Renn’s snoring. Last couple of nights the idea of smothering him with a pillow has grown real tempting,” Jett said as they ambled along the sidewalk.”
Source: Captivating Melody
“I needed targets, different things to go for on a daily basis—a distance on the treadmill or a weight goal. Without them, I wasn't celebrating myself enough, and I got really good at beating myself up.”
“I needed the 'Chuck' phase to appreciate the 'Captain Awesome' phase because otherwise I don't think I would have realized the flip side of that coin. I think I needed to see the world through Chuck's eyes before becoming Captain Awesome.”
“I needed the company of another failure to make my own bearable.”
Source: Between Silk and Cyanide: A Codemaker's War, 1941-1945
“I needed the puppy. More to the point, I needed that puppy. Willow kept me connected to the world when I was tempted to give up on it. She seemed to know what I was thinking or was about to think. She followed me everywhere, her tail eager to wag, her pink tongue quick to loll with doggy laughter. If I went out without her, she knew the moment I turned for home, and waited by the door for me to appear. She filled the empty spaces of my life with her bright spirit and lively presence. I came to feel that she reflected me, in an uncanny way, as if she were the canine version of myself.”
Source: The Witch's Kind
“I needed them, sure, and we can all argue about the moment when the balance tipped and I needed them so much that I would hurt. But you can't pretend they didn't need me too, each in his or her way. They wouldn't necessarily have admitted it - except Reza - but you can't tell me they didn't love me. The heart knows. The body knows. When I was with Sirena, or Reza, or Skandar, the air moved differently between us; time passed differently; words or gestures meant more than themselves. If you've never had this experience-but who has not been visited by love, laughing?-then you can't understand. And if you have, you don't need me to say another word.”
Source: The Woman Upstairs
“I needed this cold shower for more than one reason; the sexy male from my dream this morning returned during my little siesta. His sultry baritone was still fresh in my mind as I waited for the water to heat up. My Gaelic may have been a bit rusty, but from what I could understand, he had planned quite the erotic encounter under a sacred willow tree. I wasn’t sure I understood the reason for the tree, but he was quite adamant about it. Hey – tree or no tree, when he spoke and kissed my neck, I would have found a way to steal the Eiffel Tower if he had asked.”
Source: Entasy
“I needed time to stand back and go through a lot more experience in life. Then I have something to write about, joke or to animate.”
“I needed to address that I've had some profound moral shifts in my own life.”
“I needed to be able to hear the mix before you do - that's when I came up with the "peek-a-boo" system.”
“I needed to be accepted, not humored. I intended to act.”
Source: Self-portrait
“I needed to be alone for whatever would happen. I knew that something would as certainly as if this were a last chapter.”
Source: Embassytown
“I needed to be alone, I felt. I wanted to be going on alone to my future.”
“I needed to be in the bush. There I find solitude and beauty and purity and focus. That's where my heart lies.”
Source: Dare to Succeed: How to Survive and Thrive in the Game of Life
“I needed to be myself and find my own identity.”
“I needed to be pushed as an artist and as a person.”
“I needed to become something besides the star everybody had built me up to be.”
“I needed to bring my own gifts to my new home, not resist them, not sway to and fro like the tidal waters of the lagoon, but rather chart my own course through the shallows like an experienced boatman.”
Source: The Virgins of Venice
“I needed to carve out my own place and find out what I was going to do”
“I needed to change my name just to liberate myself and find out I could do it without walking into a Hollywood casting office with the name Coppola.”
“I needed to change the lens through which I viewed everything familiar.”
Source: The Happiness Project: Or, Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun
“I needed to choose between the one thing that really filled m thoughts-my love for that woman-and losing my freedom and all the choices that the future promised me. To be honest, the decision was easy. -Lukas Jessen-Petersen”
“I needed to come and go as I pleased without any questions being asked, especially ones about my sanity. I wanted to feel free.”
Source: How to Fall in Love
“I needed to create some dramatic tension to sustain the interest of the audience. For instance, the boy in the film is not in the play, so this relationship that he had with the former teacher, and his guilt, this is not at all in the play. I thought it would be interesting to look at in the film, and I added stuff like that around the main character. For me, it was not more difficult or less difficult.”
“I needed to create something I could take with me wherever I went.”
“I needed to decide if I would still worship God if he allowed Matt to lose his eye.”
Source: Honest Wrestling: Questions of Faith When Attacked by Life
“I needed to do a lot of saying no. I had a lot of [interest] from people who I just didn't think were quite right for it. And I didn't want a bad film to be made of the book, either a sentimental one or a creepy one, so I did a lot of, "No thank you." Then when the right filmmaker came along, yes, I suppose I presented myself very much as wanting to be the writer.”
“I needed to do my current job well, keep preparing, and wait on God's timing. I needed to trust His leadership rather than try to force an outcome I wanted.”
Source: Quiet Strength: A Memoir
“I needed to enhance the outward threat to Rachel.In the book [Girl on the Train], her inner threat is so strong; the fear of herself and her inability to remember and the false memories. In the film [Girl on the Train]I wanted to increase the exterior threat. So that's why Allison's part was bigger and was an important part of the climax of the film.”
“I needed to escape my loneliness. I needed comfort and companionship. I needed certainty and faith and stability. But the truth is that I can’t fix that all now. Instead, I made a commitment to noticing. I made it my job to seek the beauty around me; to witness the little magic shows of nature unveiling in hedgerows and verges and the changing of the seasons. By turning my attention outward and finding places and creatures to love, I found beauty to focus on. I had reasons to stay.”
Source: Your Life in Bloom: A Manual on Courage and Finding Your Path for When You Need it Most
“I needed to explain that Louisiana's coast accepts the drainage from two-thirds of the United States and, while the necessary levees constructed upstream have prevented floods, they have also contributed to problems downstream.”
“I needed to explore my talent and versatility and see if I had another side to me, another sound.”