I Quotes
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“I thought you were going to break out into the running man, Carlton?”
“I thought you were going to kiss me.'
'Isn't that what I'm doing?'
I shook my head. 'That's not what you can do.'
He chuckled against my lips. 'You're right. It's not.'
Then he truly kissed me.”
Source: A Kingdom of Flesh and Fire
“I thought you were going to stay away from me," she said.
He looked at her, this princess who seemed so dangerously sharp that he might cut himself just brushing against her shadow.
"I don't know how."
"Then don't.”
Source: A Crown of Wishes
“I thought you were gone forever, I thought you’d walked away from everything, because I failed, because I destroyed the only thing that ever mattered to me. I waited for you to come, but you didn’t.”
Source: Halo
“I thought you were her knight, but you have become only her woodsman--taking little girls into the forest to cut out their hearts.”
Source: Ironside
“I thought you were in L.A."
"And now I'm back," Mr. Hargrove said. "Only for the night, I'm afraid."
"A warning would've been nice."
Mr. Hargrove folded his arms over his chest and leaned against the back of the couch, a rueful smile twisting his lips. "A warning?" he repeated, then flashed a look at Rose that said, Can you believe this kid? "Like I'm a hurricane?"
Hart shrugged and held Rose's hand closer to him. "The wreckage is about the same.”
Source: Of Earthly Delights
“I thought you were just mean," Reagan said. "I liked that about you.”
Source: Fangirl
“I thought you were mad at me.” “I am.” “Well, I make it a rule never to have sex with anyone who’s mad at me.” He arched a brow. “It’s a wonder you’ve ever had sex at all.”
Source: Seventh Grave and No Body
“I thought you were mad at me." She whispered, looking intently in his eyes before briefly glancing at his lips.
“I was." He admitted. "But no matter how mad I am I’m not going to let anything happen to you. Now let’s get out of here. It’s freezing.”
Source: Afraid to Fall
“I thought you were sane," I said, "but you're just as crazy as the rest of them.”
“I thought you were some sort of camp counselor,” Julian finally said to Kelly. “Work with troubled kids and all that.” Kelly pursed his lips. “Yeah. It’s called Camp Asskicker.
I’ll give you a ‘you tried’ badge next time I see you.”
Source: Cross & Crown
“I thought you were supposed to be pretending I don’t exist, not irritating me to death.”
“I thought you were supposed to be the champion of your people,' I said. I live because I need to do that. For anyone who is left.' Don't you see? No one will be left. Protect them now or there will be no one to protect!' This is a battle that goes on and on. It never ends. You're too young to understand. No! You're too much of a coward to fight.' I was sick of lies and secrets and of battles so old we had to erase who we were to fight back. And still we lost. Still we were tied to posts.”
“I thought you were worried I was going to die," Sam said.
"No. You'll never die. And if you ever died, I'd just start the game again," Sadie said.
"Sam's dead. Put another quarter in the machine."
"Go back to the save point. Keep playing, and we'll win eventually.”
Source: Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
“I thought you weren’t going to do that sort of thing.”
“I’m not going to seduce you without invitation,” Heilyn clarified, “but I’m still allowed to flirt, and that was flirting.”
“I think you’re changing these rules as we go along.”
“More fun that way, isn’t it?”
Source: Emyr's Smile
“I thought you would at least help me retrieve my horse."
He stopped and mumbled under his breath, "If your horse has any sense he'll keep going.”
Source: Hard Rain
“I thought you would end up in my memories but you’re still here.”
Source: Hey Humanity
“I thought you would never find another love again. Oh, but you haven't missed a thing, no you haven't missed a thing.”
“I thought you wouldn’t come,” she admitted.
“When have I ever not?”
“But—”
“—Look…It’s hard being with you, I’m not going to deny that. So sometimes I’m gonna need you to take the first step. But I promise I will always be there to take the second.”
Source: Don't Let Go
“I thought you'd be arguing [in the law school], and then I realized you have to read all these cases, and it's mostly writing, and then I just thought, "Well, I might as well stay and get the degree."”
“I thought you'd gotten over your whoring when you left him, Catherine, but it seems you only postponed it." Bones' face turned to stone, and he answered her even before I could snap out an indignant response. "Don't you ever speak to her that way again." There was pure warning in the whip of his words. "You can call me any name you like and more, but I will not stand by while you slander her out of your own ignorance.”
“I thought you'd have the decency to change. But babe, I guess you didn't take that warning, cause I'm not about to look at your face again.”
“I thought you'd like it," he said, seeming hurt. "You look very pretty.”
Source: The Abandon Trilogy: Abandon, Underworld and Awaken
“I thought you'd rather have a live donkey than a dead lion.”
“I thought your heart was just mine. Sadly it belongs to somebody else too.”
“I thought ‘I wonder what will happen if I try and root myself somewhere?‘ Look back over the past eight years.”
“I thought, "I don't want to be the only unfunny guy in this movie. I really would like to be somehow involved in the comedy if I'm going to do it."”
“I thought, "If I can make you feel what it's like for that first super-passionate love, other people might like that too," and, of course, they did.”
“I thought, "If I could bring these characters [Wonder Boys] to life and lead the audience to react the same way I did, this could be a really special picture." Then I read Michael's [Chabon] novel and got even more enthusiastic about it.”
“I thought, "Oh, my god, that's what happens every time I talk with a journalist in the middle of shooting and I talk about my character. I describe him, I objectify him, and I kill him." So, I've never spoken with a journalist in the middle of a film. I don't do the EPK until the very end of a film. I can't talk about Kiefer's process, but what he brings to the table is beautiful.”
“I thought, "The flowers, save the flowers..." I never thought for a second we wouldn't save the people”
“I thought, "Well, I'm writing about early childhood, so maybe it would make sense to write about late childhood as well, early adulthood." Those were my thoughts, and this was how this crazy book [Winter Journal] was composed. I've never seen a book with pictures like at the end, pictures related to things you've read before.”
“I thought, "What the hell happened with James Comey ? Who did this? I mean, the only people clamoring for this are the Democrats! What the hell?" My initial reaction was, "Why do the Democrats get what they want in every damn one of these things?" Then I had to stop and catch myself. It's not just the Democrats. This is the Washington establishment. As I looked at it, digested more, I started reading this universal love and admiration for Robert Mueller. And I started saying, "Everybody's happy with this! This is the most acceptable outcome there could have been".”
“I thought, "Why? and how did we evolve with this weak, and useless passion in tact within the deep heart's core?" And the answer as I've formulated it to myself is that empathy is the engine that powers all the best in us.”
“I thought, "Wow, English is like magic." It not only shattered my voice, it changed me physiologically. I believed this for months ... There's magic in the language. I never fell out of the enchantment.”
“I thought, "Wow, it sounds really stoned anyway." It sounded good to me. I found out that there was a lot in there. What all this comes down to is I was just trying to get in touch with myself. And I met some interesting people in New York who weren't in show business. I even got to know my dentist.”
“I thought, 'If I'm going to die, I'm going to videotape it.' So I got out my little video recorder and was taping goodbyes to my family.”
“I thought, 'If you're going to be on TV, and if you're going to be out and glamorous, the natural look can stay at home.'”
“I thought, 'My God, I'm gonna make $15,000 a week for 13 weeks.' What would I do with that kind of money? You know, I had never seen anything like that before in my life.”
“I thought, 'My God, this is like Buddy Guy on acid.'”
“I thought, 'OK, I'm done here. I'll take responsibility and go away.' Little did I know I was going to be going away limping because someone cut my legs out from under me.”
“I thought, 'OK, Melissa Gilbert is playing my mom, and I'm playing her old role - no pressure.' So I went up to Melissa and said, 'It's such an honor playing your daughter,' and she smiled and said, 'Oh, shut up.' I thought, 'Great, a normal person.'”
“I thought, 'Okay, what's going to be my edge, and how am I going to define what I'm doing differently?' Once I had that key idea of the software developer as an artist, once I had that idea, a whole bunch of other ideas flowed from that, because I realized that I need to go study the music industry, I need to study the book publishing and Hollywood and figure out how they do things, why they do them that way, and then I need to borrow, and rearrange, the things that they're doing to fit my industry so that I can invent and create this new industry.”
“I thought, 'There are a lot of poets who have the courage to look into the abyss, but there are very few who have the courage to look happiness in the face and write about it,' which is what I wanted to be able to do.”
“I thought, 'Well, I'll amuse people a little bit.' During lunch hour, while everyone was off to the faculty club and this and that, I set up a bunch of bases down the hallway of the school and I put all of the portraits I had completed... and I waited for the reaction.... that's how I got started again, doing portraits of people around me.”
“I thought, acted, and thereupon found myself removed.”
Source: The Devil's Notebook
“I thought, after the Pulitzer, at least nothing will surprise me quite that much in my life. And another one happened. It was quite amazing.”
“I thought, better to get out while I'm still alive.”
“I thought, between sports and news and television and friendship, that you could end the Cold War and, by God, we did.”
“I thought, briefly, that I would never feel as intensely connected to the world, to another human being, as I did at that moment.”
Source: Me Before You: A Novel