I Quotes
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“I stopped writing short fiction early on - I was never really good at it, and I never liked the results. So I stopped trying to fit the material I was working with into these tidy little short fiction packages.”
“I store away my experiences and don't feel really happy until I've found a way to write about them.”
“I storyboard every shot of my thrillers in general. I draw them out and do them.”
“I straddled his lap and sank onto him so slowly I almost lost it. Each inch of him filled my already sensitive body. Nose to nose with him, I whispered. "You come with me.'
His mouth curved into a wicked smile. "Happily.”
Source: Blue Moon
“I straighten, desperately pulling in one more short breath, knowing deep in my chest that it is the last breath I will ever get.
And I give it to her. I give everything I have to her, the girl that I love. She deserves that.
- Will”
Source: Five Feet Apart
“I straightened up and shut my eyes, getting ready to start casting, and then had to push him off; he was trying to grab hold of my hand, which I needed rather urgently right then. "What are you doing?" I said, trying to get loose: he was being stupidly persistent about it. Yes, I really sincerely hadn't any idea: whatever was Orion doing, trying to hold hands with me in the moment of what he thought was his imminent demise, and then as soon as I spared it that much of a thought, the answer became so obvious that I felt like a complete idiot. "You are dating me?" I yelled at him, in a fury, and he turned around with his face screwed up in pinched determination and grabbed my face and kissed me.
I kneed him with as much energy as the situation called for, since I also needed my voice, and then pushed him down to the floor so I could turn back to the onrushing fires and conjure up my own wall of mortal flame, just in time to put it around us as a firebreak.”
Source: A Deadly Education
“I strain at my too-tight shell, my hermit crab body preparing to molt, ready to shed this skin in favor of a larger shell that will accommodate my new growth. It's time to head out into the aquarium unprotected in search of a better fit, time to quit burrowing down into the same old sand and hiding from the world.”
Source: The Thing with Feathers
“I strain to hear, but my old ears, for all their obscene hugeness, pick up nothing but snippets.”
“I strained to remember where I was or even what I was wearing, touching my green corduroy jeans and staring at the exposed-brick wall. As my paranoia deepened, I became convinced that I had died and no one was telling me.”
“I strangely feel better before I go through hair and makeup. Maybe that's just because I feel like me.”
“I strapped an MP3 player to one of those floor-cleaning robots. Call him DJ Roomba - little guy cruises around and plays music. What's hot, DJ Roomba!”
“I stray away from formulaic, the formatted.”
“I strengthen my indestructibility as I find things that I appreciate in myself”
Source: A World of Yoga: 700 Asanas for Mindfulness and Well-Being
“I strengthen the muscles around my heart, but I can’t harden it.”
“I strenuously object to the very word "grotesque" which has become hackneyed to the point of nausea...I would prefer my music to be described as "Scherzo-ish" in quality, or else by three words describing the various degrees of the Scherzo - whimsicality, laughter, mockery.”
“I stress a lot, sometimes.”
“I stress character, character, character.”
“I stress out so much about the red carpet and interviews and pictures, and, you know, not getting my skirt tucked in my knickers.”
“I stress that I am not attacking Friends of the Earth, Greenpeace, and the environmental movement in general. They have done some good work overall. I am merely pointing out that they can, and are, used to promote the New World Order, mostly (though certainly not in every case), without their knowledge.”
Source: --and the Truth Shall Set You Free
“I stress that we unambiguously support strengthening the non-proliferation regime, without any exceptions, on the basis of international law.”
“I stress the uniqueness of the Australian landscape and its metaphysical and mythic content.”
“I stressed that I did not want to be treated like a hero. I was only one member of the revolutionary masses who had fulfilled his duty towards his country. It was easy to write, rant, and mobilize people using the internet. The real heroes of this revolution were the people who had died and been injured.”
Source: Revolution 2.0: The Power of the People is Greater Than the People in Power: A Memoir
“I stretch in the morning a lot and I do a lot of saunas and steam rooms during fashion week just to keep my blood flowing.”
“I stretch my arms out —
Let the truth be told
These days, friends are modern day Pinocchios
Long nose, friend or foe
They're more fake than the wax statues standing still in Madame Tussaud.”
Source: Letter 19
“I stretch out to touch Nyame's muzzle eagerly, and the energy doesn't withdraw. I let her know she's going to be alone again. But then I see pictures of shamans in trances and dancers in drum circles and children sleeping and I know she's never been alone. She's never NEEDED us. There have always been those who transcend, and traversing is just one way to walk between worlds. I don't think she'll miss me, that's too limited a way of thinking, but she makes me feel like she's noticed me, and I am grateful for that too.”
Source: The Space Between Worlds
“I stretched out my arms and laid my palms on the earth, and, yes, the rocking persisted, the rocking of the island as it sailed through the sea and the night bearing into the future its freight of gulls and sparrows and fleas and apes and castaways, all unconscious now, save me. I fell asleep smiling.”
Source: Foe
“I stretched out my hand towards the little bookshelf where I kept cookery and devotional books, the most comfortable bedside reading.”
“I stretched out my hands as if to ward him off. “Not yet. I want to know what your end game is first.” Another flash of teeth, this time showing his fangs. “To have you screaming my name within the hour.”
“I stretched out on the bed and slept. It was twilight when I awakened and turned on the light. I felt better, no longer tired. I went to the typewriter and sat before it. My thought was to write a sentence, a single perfect sentence. If I could write one good sentence I could write two and if I could write two I could write three, and if I could write three I could write forever. But suppose I failed? Suppose I had lost all of my beautiful talent? Suppose it had burned up in the fire of Biff Newhouse smashing my nose or Helen Brownell dead forever? What would happen to me? Would I go to Abe Marx and become a busboy again? I had seventeen dollars in my wallet. Seventeen dollars and the fear of writing. I sat erect before the typewriter and blew on my fingers. Please God, please Knut Hamsun, don’t desert me now. I started to write and I wrote:
“The time has come,” the Walrus said,
“To talk of many things:
Of shoes—and ships—and sealing wax—
Of cabbages—and kings—”
I looked at it and wet my lips. It wasn’t mine, but what the hell, a man had to start someplace.”
Source: Dreams from Bunker Hill
“I stretched to my full height and kissed him. Like I kissed Dancer. Soft, sensual butterfly wings against his lips. Unlike the last kiss I gave Ryodan, this wasn’t one to provoke or challenge or say “Fuck you—can’t touch this.” It was a kiss that said simply, “I see you and admire you and want you to live.”
Source: Feversong
“I stretched up to him, and we stayed liken that for just a second, not kissing, not yet, just hovering in the moment before, only a breath apart.”
Source: The Unexpected Everything
“I strike fear into you because I am a man?" "It isn't funny." "I do not laugh. It is a sad thing, yes, that your husband is a man. A very terrible thing.”
Source: Comanche Moon
“I strike terror among men,
I can't be bothered by what they think.”
“I strike up conversations all the time and it is very interesting, finding out about things I know nothing about.”
“I string sounds together. But to string them I have to remember a bunch of old ones I heard somewhere and then juggle them into a new rhythm and shape.”
“I strive everyday to be a great parent so my kids can be better people when they move out into the world on their own.”
“I strive for honesty in playing what I feel.”
“I strive for individual pictures that will burn in people's memories.”
“I strive for nothing if not consistency”
Source: Mistborn Trilogy
“I strive for perfection, but Im not perfect. But what I can say is my morals are totally different than any other 24-year-old rapper my age now. I look at life totally different. A whole other aspect. I have different views and morals on life in general. And opinions.”
“I strive for perfection, but of course it can never be perfect. I'm never satisfied at the end of a performance. But the great thing about live theatre is that every night you get another chance to get it right.”
“I strive for what you do find in Shakespeare's work - that there is a definite humanity and a definite character behind the writing in the sonnets, and it's very real because it's so deeply personal. I try to aspire to that in what I do.”
“I strive never to forget the real world consequences of my decisions on individuals, businesses and government.”
“I strive on pressure.”
“I strive to avoid being Dostoevsky's 'piano-key'. I work hard to be, at least, a bit out of tune.”
“I strive to be brief, and become obscure.”
“I strive to be brief, and I become obscure.”
“I strive to be professional and to push myself always to do a better job.”
“I strive to be the wizard that’s able to depict my inner world and thoughts through words and visual descriptions.”
Source: Indigo Diaries: A Series of Novels
“I strive to climb mountains, forge streams and oceans to find the unwelcome silence that mocks my existence; I must aim higher...
~VA”