I Quotes
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“I should have drunk more Champagne.”
“I should have felt something—a pang of sadness, a twinge of nostalgia. I did feel a peculiar sensation, like oceanic despair that—if I were in a movie—would be depicted superficially as me shaking my head slowly and shedding a tear. Zoom in on my sad, pretty, orphan face. Smash cut to a montage of my life's most meaningful moments: my first steps; Dad pushing me on a swing at sunset; Mom bathing me in the tub; grainy, swirling home video of my sixth birthday in the backyard garden, me blindfolded and twirling to pin the tail on the donkey. But the nostalgia didn't hit. These weren't my memories. I just felt a tingling in my hands, an eerie tingle, like when you nearly drop something precious off a balcony, but don't. My heart bumped up a little. I could drop it, I told myself—the house, this feeling. I had nothing left to lose.”
Source: My Year of Rest and Relaxation
“I should have forfeited my own self-respect, and perhaps the good opinion of my countrymen, if I had failed to resent such an injury by calling the offender in question to a personal account.”
“I should have gone through life half awake if you'd had the decency to leave me alone. Awake intellectually, yes, and emotionally in a way; but here--" He pointed with his pipe stem to his heart; and both smiled. "Perhaps we woke up one another. I like to think that anyway.”
“I should have gone to college and gone into real estate and
got myself an aquarium. That’s what I should have done.”
“I should have gone with. Slayers are stronger together.” Valen drums his fingers on the table.
“Have you met Greer, slay bae?” One of his fries smacks into my face.
I blink twice, glance down at the fried potato in my lap, then give him a look. “Rude.”
“She’s the only one who can call me that, teddy bear.”
Source: Twilight Terrors
“I should have guessed you were Jace's sister," he said. "You both have the same artistic talent." Clary paused, her foot on the lowest stair. She was taken aback. "Jace can draw?" Nah." When Alec smiled, his eyes lit like blue lamps and Clary could see what Magnus had found so captivating about him. "I was just kidding. He can't draw a straight line.”
Source: Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls
“I should have had a circuitous answer; that was a non-answer.”
“I should have had more faith in my talent. I think I would have gotten to achieve more, earlier, had I believed in myself. But I let other people take credit for my work.”
“I should have had the pickle.”
“I should have held my tongue; I should have succumbed to the fact that facts were not facts anymore; I should have accepted the truth that truths were no longer considered true; I should have stayed silent.”
Source: Harp and the Lyre: Extraction
“I should have imagined how ugly life could be without you, how painful without your love and how lonely without your smiles.”
Source: LOVE, HATRED AND MADNESS
“I should have killed him when I had the chance.
You showed mercy, Nina. Never regret that.”
Source: King of Scars
“I should have kissed him then. Kissed all of them. A thousand times, or maybe a million. It was only such a short time, but I could have kissed them more.”
Source: Entangled
“I should have kissed more than your hand...thought I'd have more time," he whispered between liquid, panting breaths. "...too late now." I looked into his eyes and completely forgot the rest of the world. In that moment, all I knew was that I was holding Stark in my arms, and I was going to lose him very, very soon.”
“I should have known better. I shouldn’t have let my guard down. That’s been a big rule of mine for the last year or so. It’s easy to get your heart broken or your shoes stolen.”
Source: Taking chances
“I should have known better than to rely on pills. You can't buy unconsciousness quite so cheaply.”
Source: The Blind Assassin
“I should have known better. Pro-life arguments are now based on scientific evidence and the pro-choice arguments are not. That is a cultural, historical fact.”
“I should have known: destiny is a pretty story we tell ourselves. Lurking beneath it there are only people, and the terrible choices we make.”
Source: The Ten Thousand Doors of January
“I should have known from the Middle Passage to never trust a white man who says, "Take a seat." It could be your last.”
Source: Black Buck
“I should have known he’d be trouble as soon as he walked into my workshop, but I couldn’t have known he’d be the death of me.”
“I should have known I am the rain. I am the land and I am the rain. The grass will grow out of me in a little while.”
“I should have known it. You still have those chocolate-kiss eyes.”
Source: Dark Secrets 1: Legacy of Lies and Don't Tell
“I should have known right then it was too good to last, God, it's such a drag when you're livin' in the past”
“I should have known she’d read through the riddle of thy presence.”
Source: Hell and Earth
“I should have known something was wrong with my first wife. When I brought her home to meet my parents, they approved of her.”
“I should have known that if any girl was going to disobey an order, it would be you.”
“I should have known that the cruelty of girls is intensified here, living together 24/7, hundreds of miles away from home.”
Source: Girlhood
“I should have known that the dreams would come. They--- the girls--- are like sharks. They sense it when you're weak.”
Source: The Sirens
“I should have known
that when I poured myself
into your broken shell,
you’d leak me out;
Leaving you still broken,
and me empty.”
Source: The Ghost of You
“I should have known the power-hungry slave drivers at River's Edge would see my five days of freedom only as a challenge to be filled.”
Source: Immortal Beloved (Book One): Immortal Beloved: Book One
“I should have known then it wasn´t nothing, as he called it. But I was eight months pregnant. No sense closing the barn door now, or so I thought. I swallowed the nothing, straightaway after the usual tears and denial.”
Source: Split: A Memoir of Divorce
“I should have known when I first saw that picture. For it is a very remarkable picture. It is the picture of a murderess painted by her victim-it is the picture of a girl watching her lover dies.”
“I should have known you were no better than the rest of them. You are only a man, you do not have the ability to control yourself, but she," Lady Catherine nodded sagely, "she knew exactly what she was doing. Fluffing her feathers and shaking her tail for you! It was disgraceful!”
Source: The Houseguest: A Pride and Prejudice Vagary
“I should have known you'd side with them. It's some sort of of male bonding thing to think women aren't capable of running their own lives." He nuzzled the top of her head with his chin. "It's ego and sheer desperation. We have to keep you thinking we're the superior species." "News flash, Jack - no women on the face of earth believes that anymore." He trailed kisses down her cheek. "But men don't know women know that. We still live in our fantasy world, so don't muck it up for us.”
Source: Conspiracy Game
“I should have known. The first tip I got was when she rarely showed up in court for the second trial.”
“I should have learned French and learned how to count . . . menage a trois I have heard about . . . what's a menage a Suzi Quattro”
“I should have learned many things from that experience, but when I look back on it, all I gained was one single, undeniable fact. That ultimately I am a person who can do evil. I never consciously tried to hurt anyone, yet good intentions notwithstanding, when necessity demanded, I could become completely self-centered, even cruel. I was the kind of person who could, using some plausible excuse, inflict on a person I cared for a wound that would never heal.”
Source: South of the Border, West of the Sun
“I should have learned many things from that experience, but when I look back on it, all I gained was one single, undeniable fact. That ultimately I am a person who can do evil. I never consciously tried to hurt anyone, yet good intentions notwithstanding, when necessity demanded, I could become completely self-centered, even cruel. I was the kind of person who could, using some plausible excuse, inflict on a person I cared for a wound that would never heal.
College transported me to a new town, where I tried, one more time, to reinvent myself. Becoming someone new, I could correct the errors of my past. At first I was optimistic: I could pull it off. But in the end, no matter where I went, I could never change. Over and over I made the same mistake, hurt other people, and hurt myself in the bargain.
Just after I turned twenty, this thought hit me: Maybe I've lost the chance to ever be a decent human being. The mistakes I'd committed—maybe they were part of my very makeup, an inescapable part of my being. I'd hit rock bottom, and I knew it.”
Source: South of the Border, West of the Sun
“I should have learned mindfulness, and it’s too late now because it’s no good learning it when you’re already in crisis: you have to start when things are good. But only the very, very oddest would think, Hey, my life is perfect. I know! I’ll sit and waste twenty minutes Observing My Thoughts without Judgement.”
Source: The Break
“I should have learned my lesson from Greek myths, really. It so doesn't pay to fall in love with a god. It’s either you get transformed – flower, bull, you name it, the gods can be that petty – or you just get…crushed.”
Source: Drawn: His Secret Toy
“I should have learned this, she thought. I wanted to learn fire, and pain, but I should have learned people.”
“I should have liked to be asked to say what I knew. They always tried to ask what I did not know. When I would have willingly displayed my knowledge, they sought to expose my ignorance. This sort of treatment had only one result: I did not do well in examinations”
Source: My Early Life: 1874-1904
“I should have liked to get married, but over many decades I have lived essentially alone. I go to sleep when I'm tired, get up when I wake up, have my food prepared when I'm hungry. I can't bear the thought that I'd have to coincide, make an effort.”
“I should have liked to have had him beside me in a glass coffin, so that I could watch him all the time and he would not have been able to get away from me.”
Source: Burning your boats: the collected short stories
“I should have listened to my own inner voice. My fear of relaxing lived within me for a reason. Anxiety and stress were necessary tools for survival. My vigilance had always kept me and the ones I loved safe. And then I let myself be lulled into dropping my guard, all for science. Tricked into finding serenity. Manipulated into thinking that being a human was anything more than pure and simple weakness and mediocrity. And now what did I have? A dead husband.”
Source: Blood Sugar
“I should have looked into my own heart, and found this new growth springing up there, and plucked it out while it was young.”
“I should have loved freedom, I believe, at all times, but in the time in which we live I am ready to worship it.”
Source: Democracy in America
“I should have mixed something stronger than Coke floats.”
Source: Soul Screamers Volume Three: If I Die\Never to Sleep\Before I Wake
“I should have more vanity.”