I Quotes
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“I slowly began to realize that I should be doing more with my life, and although I felt my past choices were good, it was only the beginning of what was to lie ahead for me.”
Source: In my own words
“I slowly breathe in and out,and i find myself relaxing more and more with each breath”
Source: 21 Days to Master Affirmations
“I slowly came to realize that this job of being an actor, you spend most of your time looking for work. That is your job. Your job is auditioning. You spend very little of your time actually working.”
“I slowly climbed back to my feet, walked back into the emergency department through the silently swishing glass doors, and, covered in my girlfriend's blood, lied perfectly for the first time in my life. "I tried to stop her.”
Source: Linger
“I slowly climbed the porch steps while wondering, what exactly did Elias know about my life in London; what precisely was wrong with his mind...
And what was the heaviest item in my bag.”
“I slowly continued to compensate for the physical problems I was having and ended up completely destroying my swing, my set-up, my posture. Everything was gone.”
“I slowly dug a stand-up foxhole up to my neck using my helmet. I don’t think any of us slept that night. It was the first time in my tour when I wasn’t sure I would make it. I’m not ashamed to say I did a lot of thinking about home and a lot of praying to the man upstairs.”
Source: Vietnam Diary: A Memoir for my Posterity
“I slowly lean in toward her when her lips part into a smile.
“Are you planning on using tongue this time?” she whispers.
I squeeze my eyes shut and take a step back, completely thrown off by her comment. I rub my palms down my face and groan.
“Dammit, Six. I was already feeling inadequate. Now you’ve just put expectations on it.”
She’s smiling when I look at her again. “Oh, there are definitely expectations,” she says teasingly. “I expect this to be the most mind-blowing thing I’ve ever experienced, so you better deliver.”
Source: Finding Cinderella
“I slowly lost any dream for myself. No one warned me of this, that the stars in New York can infect the light inside, that they can trap you in their shadow. Dylan was of course a star. He had achieved the thing we all came to New York wanting.”
Source: Sonora
“I slowly realized that perfectionism just not that important. What's more important is to try to love the people around you. Whatever that means at a particular time is the best you can do.”
“I slowly surrender to the child in me who can't say goodbye.”
“I slowly take the gun out of his hand and hold it tight before I aim it at his head.
He just grins and scoots toward me until the barrel is pressed against his forehead. “You are a crazy fucking bastard, Dubh Burton. You have frightening mental issues. So many that I know you can never heal. But I suppose I do, too.”
Source: Bloody Fingers & Red Lipstick
“I slumbered spring's morning and missed the dawn from everywhere, I heard the cry of birds. That night the sound of wind and rain came. Who knows how many petals had fallen?”
“I slumped in the chair. I'd known it was coming. Absolutely no doubt. You know. I'd been feeling sick about it for weeks. So, why did I now feel even sicker? Love. Not a word for casual use. The life-scarred use the word with extreme caution. If you're lucky, you go through life being held up by people loving you. But you don't know you're being held up. You think you're buoyant. You think the buoyancy came first, the love is a bonus you get for being buoyant. And that can go on for a long time. But then one day, the love isn't there anymore and you're sinking, waving arms and sinking, all the old sources of love gone, the newer ones turn out to be fickle. They move on. No one to hold you up, you're just a skinny boy, all ribs, knees, and feet, out in the deep water, can't touch bottom.”
Source: Black Tide
“I slung off my outer clothes on to the sagging dresser- frowning at the violets and roses I'd painted around the knobs of Elain's dresser, the crackling flames I'd painted around Nesta's, and the night sky- whorls of yellow stars standing in for white- around mine. I'd done it to brighten the otherwise dark room. They'd never commented on it. I don't know why I'd ever expected them to.”
Source: A Court of Thorns and Roses
“I smack myself in the forehead. “Holy priceless collection of Etruscan snoods, they’re not moving!” I exclaim. There’s a choking noise over my head somewhere. “Etruscan snoods?” I glow quietly inside. Some accomplishments mean more than others. I am officially the Shit. Now and forever. “Dude, watch your question marks. I just pried one out of you.” “I have no idea what you’re talking about.” “Admit it, you lost your eternal fecking composure.” “You have an obsession with a delusion about how I end my sentences. What the fuck are Etruscan snoods?” “Dunno. It’s just another of Robin’s sayings. Like, ‘Holy strawberries, Batman, we’re in a jam!’ ” “Strawberries.” “Or, ‘Holy Kleenex, Batman, it was right under our nose and we blew it!’”
Source: Iced
“I smacked her, cracked her, put her in a full nelson.”
“I smash guitars because I like them.”
“I smashed his hand as hard as I could with the Wiffle bat. "Ow!" he screamed. Carson was rubbing his red palm, inspecting it for damage. "That hurt," he shrieked. "You really hurt me." "Right back at you," I said. "Good-bye Carson." He frowned, massaging his hand, the big baby. "I just wanted to end this nicely." "Yeah?" I cocked the bat up to hit him again. "Well, this time you don't get what you want.”
“I smell blood and an era of prominent madmen.”
“I smell blood. I'm like a pit bull. Once I taste blood I'm on you .. and I'm about to taste blood.”
“I smell fear, he said with a quiet intensity. But not nearly enough.”
“I smell it again, his scent. The calming aroma. The one that’s become my new favorite. I take a deeper breath.”
Source: Crash into You
“I smell of sweat. I don't like people smelling of all these weird things. I think deodorant is disgusting.”
“I smell pancakes," Al said as he jauntily smacked Pierce's hat back on the witch's head. "Did the runt make you breakfast?" Al said, leaning over the stove. "Quickest way to a woman's crotch is through her gullet, eh?" he said, leering at Pierce, who was now rinsing out the percolator. "Is it working? I'd be curious to know. I'd buy her a cake or something.”
“I smell varmint poontang. And the only good varmint poontang is dead varmint poontang, I think.”
“I smell?"
"You smell..." He flicked a glance at Bo, who was growling. "You tell her then."
Bo's jaw tightened, but he looked at her with a rawness on his face that completely undid her. "Like roses and sunshine. It makes them want to kill you or eat you or..." He cleared his throat, not needing to finish because she knew what he meant. "It's very enticing.”
Source: Hunted by Darkness
“I smelled blood. You were hurt." And then, with a hesitation in his voice I had never heard from him before: "I... don't like the idea of you being hurt."
My heart hammered in my rib cage at the reluctant admission. He'd been about to rip that kid's head off. All because he thought I might have been injured.
How was I supposed to process this?
It had been a wild, indefensible reaction to a negligible injury. So why did I find his going feral like that one of the hottest things I'd ever experienced?
If he'd reacted like this when I'd barely hurt myself, what might he do if I were really threatened?”
Source: Road Trip With a Vampire
“I smelled it before i saw it, and the same unicorn I'd met on a field trip with Jack pranced up, pleased as anyting to see me again. It wasn't mutual.
"It's so cute, isn't it?" Arianna said dreamily.
"Are we seeing the same creature? It's like a demented goat with a bone growth”
“I smelled war on the horizon, with more deaths and trouble to come"
Bombing of the Twin Towers
From Rape of a Nation by Sara Niles”
“I smelled you,” he breathed, his painted chest rising and falling so close to mine. “I searched for you, and you weren’t there.”
.............
“I would have been gentle with you, though.” I shuddered as I closed my eyes. Every inch of my body went taut as his words echoed through me. “I would have had you moaning my name throughout it all. And I would have taken a very, very long time, Feyre.”
Source: A Court of Thorns and Roses
“I smil'd to my self at the sight of this money, O drug! said I aloud, what art thou good for? Thou art not worth to me, no not the taking off of the ground, one of those knives is worth all this heap, I have no manner of use for thee, e'en remain where thou art, and go to the bottom as a creature whose life is not worth saving. However, upon second thoughts, I took it away.”
“I smile a lot. I heard someone say once that it takes fewer muscles to smile than to frown, so i'm trying it out.”
Source: Boy Proof
“I smile all the time, even when I'm in a bad mood. I always try to keep a smile on my face.”
“I smile, amused by whatever game this is we're playing.
He smiles, too.
He.
Smiles.
Too.”
Source: Ugly Love
“I smile and I think that one human being must always be discovering another - through love. And that this is the most important thing on earth, and the most lasting.”
Source: This way for the gas, ladies and gentlemen: and other stories
“I smile and lift the can of beer to the empty and so poetical sky we are all under and take in the immense joy in this very moment. The empty sky above us is our sole witness as we commit the horrible crime of enjoying our lives! After all we are a bunch of crazy, fun and completely beaten down group of people. Looking at their very own strange path in life ready to go mad on the way till we reach the end, after all what’s the point of staying sane if that means a life of total boredom?”
Source: Nietzsche’s Birthday Party: A Short Story Collection
“I smile and play pretend through the Morning Show in the kitchen.”
Source: Wintergirls
“I smile and say, thank you,' because the rudest thing you can do to a Mexican lady is refuse her food—might as well spit on a picture of La Virgen de Guadalupe or turn the TV off during Sábado Gigante.”
Source: I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter
“I smile and shed tears of joy when I see someone being kind to others.”
“I smile and think; This is my job, this is what I do for a living, and its what I’ve always wanted”
“I smile as Teemo slips into a shortcut, watching through the eyes of my scions as they help put back together the mess we made of Silvervein. It's going to be a lot different from how we found it, but that was kinda the point. Different doesn't always mean better, but I'm going to give it my best shot.”
Source: Dungeon Life 3: An Isekai LitRPG
“I smile at her. "You're an angel." "Nah," she says. "I'm just a girl crazy in love.”
Source: I Am Number Four: (Lorien Legacies Book 1)
“I smile at them, my two boys who should have broken me, each in his own way. Because of them, I know what matters, and it is not what I have lost. It is my memories. Wounds heal. Love lasts. We remain.”
Source: The Nightingale
“I smile at you, hinting at the pleasures ahead, and silently point to the zip at the back of my dress…”
Source: The Apartment of Sex
“I smile back in the tired way the living have of appeasing the dead. How are you supposed to smile at a ghost without feeling lonely?”
Source: The Thirty Names of Night
“I smile, because I think I finally know who I am now, or who I might become, anyway. I think I might like her.”
Source: The Pretenders
“I smile bitterly at him, then weave an illusion of his face across my own. Raffaele’s expression flickers in surprise for a moment before settling back into its pool of calm. “They may have a hard time finding me,” I reply.
Raffaele gives me a tight smile in return. “Do not underestimate your enemies, Your Majesty,” he says.”
Source: The Midnight Star
“I smile, comforted by the knowledge that I am not alone. That I haven't been left behind. That when everyone else moves on, when they find new lives and loves and joys, it just might be alright to stay where you are, as long as there's someone standing next to you, holding your hand, telling you it will be okay.”
“I smile for all people, even if you have wronged me.
I'm afraid that i will darken you with my corrupt words i hurt you more than you hurt me.”