I Quotes
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“I thought wanting something more eclectic would make me easy to please, but when I explained my vision, most of the places we've visited have looked at me like I've got four eyes."
"Roses and babies' breath." Alice nodded. "Maybe the occasional daisy or ranunculus. Although I do love ranunculus. They've got such a whimsy about them.”
Source: Where the Last Rose Blooms
“I thought we came out with too much respect at the beginning of the game and were on our heels instead of coming out attacking the way we did the last few games without Ricky and Kevin.”
“I thought we had lost you. I thought we'd done something worse than let you die.' His old arms were tight and strong about me. I was kind to the old man. I did not tell him they had.”
Source: The Farseer Trilogy 3-Book Bundle: Assassin's Apprentice, Royal Assassin, Assassin's Quest
“I thought we had reached an understanding, the institution of marriage and I. Weddings are like the triathalon of female friendship: the Shower, the Bachelorette Party, and the Main Event. It's the Iron Woman and most people never make it through. They fall of their bikes and choke on ocean water.”
“I thought we might even retell some of the stories she used to invent for us."
"Like the one about the gate at the bottom of the garden that led to fairyland."
"And the dragon eggs she found in the woods."
"And the time she ran away to join the circus."
"Do you remember," said Iris suddenly, "the circus we had here?"
"My circus," said Daphne, beaming from behind her wineglass.
"Well, yes," Iris interjected, "but only because-"
"Because I'd had the horrid measles and missed the real circus when it came to town." Daphne laughed with pleasure at the memory. "She got Daddy to build a tent at the bottom of the meadow, remember, and organized all of you to be clowns. Laurel was a lion, and Mummy walked the tightrope."
"She was rather good at that," said Iris. "Barely fell off the rope. She must've practiced for weeks."
"Or else her story was true and she really did spend time in the circus," said Rose. "I can almost believe it of Mummy."
Daphne gave a contented sigh. "We were lucky to have a mother like ours, weren't we? So playful, almost as if she hadn't fully grown up, not at all like other people's boring old mothers.”
Source: The Secret Keeper
“I thought we stopped using grunts as guinea pigs decades ago. Even the Nazis didn't run medical experiments on their own troops in combat. This book explodes like a grenade in the Pentagon's privy. Red it and weep; better yet, get mad."
Col. David H. Hackworth (U.S. Army, ret.)”
Source: Vaccine A: The Covert Government Experiment That's Killing Our Soldiers--and Why GI's Are Only the First Victims
“I thought we talked things out!' 'Yes, and you listened very carefully to every word you had to say.”
Source: Mary, Mary
“I thought we told each other everything."
"This isn't about us."
"It's always going to be about us"
"No, you want this to be about you. You care about what happens to me because of what would mean for you. You are the only thing that matters to you.”
Source: The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue
“I thought we were a real love relationship. I did. I was very invested in love, but it was just this long long sex thing that could end at any moment because after all, it's just about getting off. Almost all the time, you tell yourself you're loving somebody when you're just using them. This only looks like love.”
Source: Invisible Monsters
“I thought we were aggressive across the board defensively, and you could just see it grow. As the game went along, you could see the confidence grow. It showed in the fourth quarter.”
“I thought we were celebrating being richer and cleverer than everyone else!”
Source: The Lies of Locke Lamora
“i thought
we were crazy
in a sense of simplicity
where we found ourselves
within each other
where one was a beacon
the other your fire
and both
each other’s desire”
“I thought we were going to take a 20-mule team out to the Grand Canyon and get a Bunsen burner and a bow and arrow, and whatever you can catch you cook. And it’s gotta be gourmet and it better look good.”
“I thought we were gonna get "Smooth Operator." That song was big in the '90s.”
“I thought we were gonna open up the world of poetry and music to all kinds of things, and yet, I can't really think of anyone who's done anything like it since.”
“I thought we were gonna take this relationship slow."
"A back rub is harmless."
My eyes roam over her kick-ass bikini-covered bod. "I'll have you know I've been intimate with girls wearin' a lot more.”
Source: Perfect Chemistry
“I thought we were on the same page."
When I shake my head no, we are not on the same page, Luka rubs at that little line with his thumb. Clearly we aren't even reading the same book.”
Source: Lovelight Farms
“I thought we were out of money!? You can't simultaneously fire teachers AND tomahawk missiles.”
“I thought we were perfect for each other."
"There's no such thing as perfect," Eli commiserated.”
Source: Every Wrong Reason
“I thought we weren't working together anymore.'
'You're on probation. You can thank your abs for that.'
He took her face in his hands, squeezing her cheeks as he pressed a chaste kiss to her brow. 'I'll send you some photos later. Don't show Athalar.'
Bryce shoved him. 'Send me an otter and we'll be even.”
Source: House of Sky and Breath
“I thought we would be concerned if he knew how to stay on message, if [Donald] Trump knew how to make the most of an argument against Secretary [Hillary] Clinton, by using some of the things that have been put on the news.”
“I thought we'd be discussing about me not leaving Philadelphia and they just kept asking me about the practice, so I lost it.”
“I thought we'd die there, quarrels in our backs, you for what you did and me for bearing witness.”
“I thought weirdness was a good thing. I don't mean that defensively, either. I thought it was something to be cultivated.”
Source: Tithe: A Modern Faerie Tale
“I thought we’d turned a corner. Maybe we did, but we hit a brick wall anyway.”
Source: The Crossfire Series Books 1-3 by Sylvia Day
“I thought what I was good at doing was playing real simple guitar licks, since I'd cut my teeth on what Duane Eddy was doing; licks that were simple but had staying power.”
“I thought what I'd do was I'd pretend I was one of those deaf-mutes.”
Source: THE CATCHER IN THE RYE
“I thought what if death is more like thinking, well, war is like the boss at your shoulder, constantly wanting more, wanting more, wanting more, and then that gave me the idea that Death is weary, he's fatigued, and he's haunted by what he sees humans do to each other because he's on hand for all of our great miseries.”
“I thought what Steve Bannon said was probably more chilling or more threatening than anything the president [Donald Trump]says, I mean, because he said, it's a constant day. We have to defeat the press.”
“I thought what the military was doing was unconstitutional.”
“I thought what would be really just choice for a revamp and a reboot is 'The Greatest American Hero.' I think I'd be just that kind of perfect not prepared for this kind of thing, but thrust into circumstances he's not prepared for... that's another niche of mine. Unpreparedness. Not knowing what to do. I'm good at being that guy.”
“I thought when I became a Christian I had nothing to do but just to lay my oars in the bottom of the boat and float along. But I soon found that I would have to go against the current.”
“I thought when I started meditation that I was going to get real calm and peaceful and it's going to be over. It's not that way; it's so energetic. That's where all the energy and creativity is.”
“I thought when I started writing that I'd have a book out in four or five years, and as it became apparent that that wasn't going to happen, I became increasingly frustrated and unsure of myself.”
“I thought when I... made my first big
mistakes in public that that was really
going to be the end of me. My parents
cried. My friends were desperate.”
“I thought when love for you died, I should die.
It's dead. Alone, most strangely, I live on.”
Source: Collected Poems
“I thought when you finally kissed me, I'd be able to walk away." He shook his head, his voice lowering to a throaty whisper. "I was dead wrong.”
Source: Legend of Love
“I thought
wherever we were, we were in lasting love—
even in our separateness and
loneliness, in love”
Source: Stag's Leap (Pulitzer Prize Winner): Poems
“I thought why not write a kind of mystery, murder, thriller book, but use romance language where the language plays completely against the very dark subject matter, that very strange murderous plot, but use that Harlequin Romance language.”
“I thought Winston Churchill was a young man of promise, but it appears he is a young man of promises.”
“I thought with melancholy how an author spends months writing a book, and maybe puts his heart’s blood into it, and then it lies about unread till the reader has nothing else in the world to do.”
Source: The Razor’s Edge
“I thought with resignation that men seemed in some ways to pass their lives on an unregenerately primitive level.”
“I thought women enjoyed affairs. I thought they got sparks of pleasure at the buzz of their phone, thought they ran around with a glow, their world suddenly on fire with new love. I thought they were women with terrible husbands and unhappy lives, an affair the first step in an eventual ending of their marriage. I thought that they were horrible, selfish women. I never thought that I would be one of them. I never thought that I'd be so weak. It turned out being the perfect wife was only easy when there was no temptation, no mistake haunting and overshadowing your marriage.”
Source: Moonshot
“I thought writing about somebody current would be a little closer to what I'm used to doing.”
“I thought yesterday was the first day of the rest of my life but it turns out today is.”
“I thought yoga was easy - I went out and I bought a yoga video tape. I bought the beginners' yoga tape. I couldn't do anything on the whole hour - nothing - just fast forwarding: can't do that, can't do that - I know I can't do that. This woman in a soothing voice: 'Simply take the bottom of your right foot and place it on the small of your back.”
“I thought you came down right on the side of go directly to jail, do not pass Go, do not collect two hundred dollars.”
Source: City of Ashes
“I thought you could build a story that would function as a machine or else a complex of machines, each one moving separately, yet part of a process that ultimately would produce an emotion or a sequence of emotions. You could swap out parts, replace them if they got too old. And this time you would build in some redundancy, if only just to handle the stress.
One question was: Would the engine still work if you were aware of it, or if you were told how it actually functioned? Maybe this was one of the crucial differences between a story and a machine.”
Source: All Those Vanished Engines
“I thought you could play ... You've got nothing. Where's the big hair? I brought my scissors today so I could cut the hair. You've got nothing.”
“I thought you could run it, but it's Lisha Rae for certainly.”