I Quotes
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“I've been able to classify most of their responses into ten emotional needs—admiration, affection, conversation, domestic support, family commitment, financial support, honesty and openness, physical attractiveness, recreational companionship, and sexual fulfillment.”
Source: His Needs, Her Needs: Building an Affair-Proof Marriage
“I’ve been able to cultivate in myself a vast interior world, with an ocean deep and blue, with calm waters and stormy waves; with the scorching sun at the surface and darkly salted, cold depths, far away from the sounds of the wold. I fill it at times with glaciers and at others with sunrises. I, too, have made a forest deep and filled with life. It is full of sounds that permeate the night, morning dew, and deep, foggy darkness.
And I’ve explored the forest a thousand times, and a thousand times they’ve explored me too. There lies the depth of my being—the depth of my story. It is beyond the emptiness of words. I’ve found depth in that which is shallow, and I’ve made it my home.”
Source: The Golden Sun
“I’ve been able to find some meaning in schizophrenia, which helps me redefine how I see myself.”
Source: Sex, Drugs, and Schizophrenia
“I've been able to get most people I've wanted, but this one still hurts. Which just shows that the exception proves the rule: when I can get someone, I have to leave them before they leave me, because I'm not enough and I'm about to be found out, but when someone I want doesn't choose me, that just proves I'm not enough and I've been found out. Heads they win, tails I lose. Either way, to this day if someone mentions her name, my stomach clenches.”
Source: Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing
“I've been able to see colors around people and objects my whole life long. Through my eyes, colors drifted around people, like softly falling snow, offering glimpses of personalities. Floaters, I called them. It had taken me years to figure out the language of the colors, their meaning. Take Alice, for example. Orange floated around her, telling me of her playful, energetic personality.
But after my car accident, other colors, secondary colors, had become sharper, clearer, louder. They were emotional colors and were nearly impossible to ignore. After Mabel had knocked me down, around Alice there had been sparks of dark plum. Remorse.
"Were you able to see her personality?" Glory asked, her thin eyebrows raised high.
Only close family knew how I could see color---it was too hard, too strange, to explain to others. However, my abilities weren't the least bit odd to Glory, who knew where to plant a flower seed simply by looking at it, or to my mother, who had never been lost a day in her life because she instinctively knew which direction to go. We came from a long line of people who had enhanced intuitions connected to nature.”
Source: In the Middle of Hickory Lane
“I've been accepted to UC Davis. Heading to Sacramento in a few weeks, so I won't be here when you return. Should I send your jacket to Camp Pendleton? - Haley
Negative, Haley Cooper. Will collect it in person... along with something else I promised myself. - Reid
In your dreams, Marine - Haley
Every single night, sweetheart - Reid”
Source: Sharp Shootin' Cowboy
“I've been accused of teaching a one-sided course, that I don't expose students to the other side, except that my course is the other side—the one that students aren't getting in conventional history or political science courses that present violent militaristic solutions as rational and necessary.”
“I've been accustomed to mysteries, holy and otherwise, since I was a child. Some of us care for orphans, amass fortunes, raise protests or Nielsen ratings; some of us take communion or whiskey or poison. Some of us take lithium and antidepressants, and most everyone believes these pills are fundamentally wrong, a crutch, a sign of moral weakness, the surrender of art and individuality. Bullshit. Such thinking guarantees tradgedy for the bipolar. Without medicine, 20 percent of us, one in five, will commit suicide. Six-gun Russian roulette gives better odds. Denouncing these medicines makes as much sense as denouncing the immorality of motor oil. Without them, sooner or later the bipolar brain will go bang. I know plenty of potheads who sermonize against the pharmaceutical companies; I know plenty of born-again yoga instructors, plenty of missionaries who tell me I'm wrong about lithium. They don't have a clue.”
Source: Scattershot: My Bipolar Family
“I've been afraid of the knot of shame that was tied in my belly then: the shame of earnest belief. Don't let them see the thing you love, I wanted to shout at you, but it was too late. I wanted to cover your mouth. I'd already learned from my father and my bullies that believing in something, for people like you and me, was a punishable crime.”
Source: The Thirty Names of Night
“I've been all over the place in all kinds of living situations. Due to the fact that my mind is my own worst enemy. In a way I am perpetually and permanently in a state of rehabilitation m in an attempt to rehabilitate from the shock of being born.Some people are too sensitive to withstand that.”
Source: Lullabies for Little Criminals
“I’ve been alone in my mind for so long that this void doesn’t frighten me.”
“I've been alone since my mom met Scott.
He sucked the nectar from her heart
like a famished butterfly. No nurture,
no nourishment left for Kristina.
A vacation is a poor substitute
for love.”
“I've been alone with my thoughts for too long; I'm starting to feel unreal.”
Source: The Carrier
“I’ve been amazed as an adult that most people don’t have stories constantly playing in their minds.”
“I’ve been an inmate in Broadmoor, Rampton and Ashworth. I was one of ‘them’. I was once Britain’s most unstable madman! This book is a complete one off! If you’re a nervous type of reader then don’t read it. You’ve been warned! You are now entering the world of insanity; please keep hold of your sanity until the book comes to a stop!”
Source: Insanity: My Mad Life
“I’ve been angry. I’ve been confused. I’ve been so many things, but mostly, I’ve been grateful. I wouldn’t change one day we had together.”
Source: Beyond Power
“I've been around in this world causing drama”
“I've been around the world now, but the alleys of my childhood will always be special. I carry the old stories and memories with me wherever I go.”
Source: The Merchant of Stories: A Creative Entrepreneur's Journey
“I’ve been as good as dead since the day I was born. I accepted that a very long time ago.”
Source: Blood Secrets
“I've been asked by lots of people, "What happens if you do kill yourself?" They want to know about what it would be like for other people around you, like the person who would find your body, the other kids at school, whoever would have to clean up the blood, what your family holidays would be like.”
Source: Crash Into Me
“I've been asking around to find out what girls are into," Eugene tells me, really pleased with himself. "So I'm gonna get a spray tan and make red-velvet cupcakes.”
Source: The Boy Recession
“I've been asleep and I don't know if it's the same day or week or year, but who the hell cares anyway?”
Source: Go Ask Alice
“I’ve been at this a long time. The good guys don’t always win. You take what you can get...”
Source: Bangtails, Grifters, and a Liar's Kiss
“I've been badly scared myself, badly, for quite a few years now. You learn to live with it.”
Source: Brother Odd
“I've been beautiful all along.”
Source: The School for Good and Evil
“I've been born into a broken world and my purpose is to make sure when I leave it, know I have left my mark of kindness on it somewhere.”
“I've been burdened with blame trapped in the past for too long, I'm moving on”
“I've been burned in the past, which you know. I rebuilt my life once. I can't rebuild it again. I make sure I get things right at the first time. Going slow is good for me, too.”
Source: This Summer Will Be Different
“I’ve been burnt, once or twice, when it comes to love
But what’s there to gain when we feel no pain?”
Source: Letter 19
“I've been called many a thing in my quarter century, and what I've learned is that the common expression about sticks and stones often hurt far less than words.”
Source: The Maid
“I've been calling you. Calling you away from the hold of your past"
"I tried to reach You."
"Jace. You didn't have to reach Me. I was always there. You only had to answer Me.”
Source: Samara's Peril
“I've been chased, shot, cut, beaten, and dragged a hundred leagues in the blink of an eye. I need a drink.”
Source: The Forbidden Wish
“I’ve been chasing you since before I knew what chasing a girl meant.”
Source: Sweet Girl
“I've been clinging to this world like a discarded shell of an insect stuck to a branch, about to be blown off forever by a gust of wind.”
Source: Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage
“I've been clinically diagnosed with sociopathy,' I said. 'Do you know what that means?'
'It means you're a freak,' he said.
'It means that you're about as important to me as a cardboard box,' I said. 'You're just a thing - a piece of garbage that no one's thrown away yet. Is that what you want me to say?'
'Shut up,' said Rob. He was still acting tough, but I could see his bluster was starting to fail. He didn't know what to say.
'The thing about boxes,' I said, 'is that you can open them up. Even though they're completely boring on the outside, there might be something interesting inside. So while you're saying all of these stupid, boring things I'm imagining what it would be like to cut you open and see what you've got in there.”
Source: I Am Not A Serial Killer
“I've been coasting down these open roads alone for so, so long—
traveling the roads less traveled on my own, taking in the scenery.
But, now I am here to s(t)ay...
you can ride in my sidecar, any day.”
Source: Ink Blot in a Poet's Bloodstream
“I've been compared to Inspector Clouseau...or has he been compared to me?”
“I've been convinced for years that the Labour Party were are errand boys for Russians to invade our country and make us submit to sodomy. Surely the BNP were the only people who could save the country from being bummed by some comrade from Moscow.
Most of my mad views were backed up by the Daily Mail (our family bible), and, the rare times I was allowed to peek into it, a copy of The Sun.”
Source: HATE: My Life In The British Far Right
“I've been crying for eight hours now, and he hasn't even noticed."
"I know," said Julie. "When Alexandra was two I cried for eight months and she never noticed.”
Source: Heartburn
“I've been cut open
and spread out
so everyone can see
how every moment my heart pumps
is a moment it bleeds.”
Source: The Truth Project
“I've been depressed all day. I feel like such a fraud. People say how special and wonderful I am. I think,
"Can't they tell? "
—Nita, September 18, 1984”
Source: Becoming One: A Story of Triumph Over Dissociative Identity Disorder
“I've been developing killer updated versions of things like Black Forest cake, now with bittersweet devil's food cake, a dried-cherry conserve, and whipped vanilla creme fraiche. I've perfected a new carrot cake, adding candied chunks of parsnips and rum-soaked golden raisins to the cake and mascarpone to the frosting. And my cheeky take on homemade Pop-Tarts will be available in three flavors- blueberry, strawberry, and peanut butter and jelly- and I've even ordered fun little silver Mylar bags to pack them in.”
Source: Wedding Girl
“I’ve been dodging men’s hands since I was twelve, so wishing a man would touch me is a novel experience.”
Source: The Wife Upstairs
“I've been doing a lot of thinking"
"Uh-Oh, Thinking. That's a dangerous business!”
Source: Tide of Terror
“I've been doing this a long time- manipulating people to get my way. That's why you think you love me. Because I've broken you down and built you back up to believe it. It wasn't an accident. Once you leave this behind..... you'll see that. -Caleb”
Source: Seduced in the Dark
“I’ve been dragged through hell. My fight brings me back to life. And, my purpose puts me in alignment with heaven...
wherever that may be.”
“I’ve been drawing my beautiful and magical Universe around myself.”
Source: The Eye of Universe
“i've been dying to feel even just a little bit of air inside my lungs… suffocating myself for so long, always asking for permission for the shape of my presence and the width of my wings… it's time to let myself breathe and unfold”
Source: she's flowers and fire
“I've been eating my version of Herme's Ispahan macaron all week, trying to get it right."
"Eating what?"
"Ispahan. It's a rose macaron, with raspberry insertion... that berry jelly in the middle.”
Source: The Color of Tea
“I’ve been eating this shit for so long that I’ve transcended the need to actually enjoy my food. No more desires. Eat to live, not live to eat.”
Source: Thru-Hiking Will Break Your Heart: An Adventure on the Pacific Crest Trail