I Quotes
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“I've done so many bad things in my life but the stars always forgave me.”
Source: A Little in Love
“I've done so many things that I could never take back. It's just... I don't deserve any salvation!"
"I don't give a shit about how you see yourself. But Anzai was willing to take a beating to save you. Even if you think of yourself as trash... it doesn't always mean others will see you in the same light.”
Source: Wind Breaker 7
“I've done some stupid things I regret, but I've managed to keep my integrity. Which is important because integrity is fragile. Break it once and it's gone forever.”
“I've done things I deeply regret, but helping you isn't, and never will be one of them.”
Source: Of Broken Things and Paint Splatterings
“I've done this sort of thing before. Not prophecies so much, but you'd be surprised how many people want to realign their ancestral lines to seem nobler, or rewrite their family history to remove more morally questionable episodes." He paused to recall a recent rewrite. "One lord wanted the murderers removed from his family line. His family was so corrupt, he ended up with three virgin births, two generations removed entirely and a lady who gave birth at the age of two. Still, no one questions it as there is evidence in the archives." Bubo smugly tapped a book. "There is one thing though, faking a prophecy in the past is easy, you already know the result. How will you make this come true in the future?"
"I have someone in mind for it, but I'm not sure he'll go for it. But then prophecy is all optional anyway." Corvid looked up as if a thought had occurred to him. "I'd best go check on my man, I've not met him yet.”
Source: Gods Just Want To Have Fun
“I've done what I could; a man that can live as lone as I have and not know when to quit is a fool.”
Source: The Sound And The Fury
“I’ve drawn her unpicked, ribs splayed stretched like a xylophone with the dead birds playing tunes on her bones.”
Source: Grief Is the Thing with Feathers
“I’ve drawn this as a circle because the seasons will come and go. Joy always leads to another season of romance . . . which always leads to another season of trouble . . . which always leads to disillusionment . . . which always leads to more joy— if you hang in there.”
“I've dreamed about you my whole life, but I never imagined you were real. I should have known what you were, but it honestly never occurred to me. I don't know if I should be happy or sad that you're one of us. It doesn't make any sense for us to meet again, but I saw you and I can't unsee you now. All I can think about is that you're here, somewhere in the city. It makes me want to burn down every building between us until all that's left is you and me.
I think the less I know about you, the safer you'll be, but I can't shake this feeling that there's a reason I've been drawing you since I was old enough to hold a crayon. I need to hear from you.
Tell me you hate me.
Tell me to go to hell.
Anything.
Just write me back.
Ajax”
Source: Scions
“I’ve dreamt in my life dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas: they’ve gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the colour of my mind.”
Source: Wuthering Heights
“I've dropped my pebble in the ocean, and hopefully; throughout the course of the day; millions of others will drop theirs in too. No single one of us knows which pebble causes the wave to crest, but each of us, quite rightly, believes that it might be ours; an act of faith.”
“I've dropped out of their hearts like a little sparrow fallen from its nest.”
Source: No Exit and Three Other Plays
“I’ve earned the right to steal a little makeup. Scientists have confirmed that humanity is highly suggestible. If I intend to escape the jaws of consumerism, I have some hard choices ahead. I won’t say that the Devil is behind this, but Gretchen goes to Catholic school, she says the Devil can show up anywhere, and we wouldn’t even recognize him. Last week Gretchen told me, watch carefully to see how one thing connects to another.”
Source: Zonked Out: The Teen Psychologist of San Marcos Who Killed Her Santa Claus and Found the Blue-Black Edge of the Love Universe
“I’ve embarked on personal adventures with each of these quilts. I want to teach you how to do the same.”
Source: East-Meets-West Quilts: Explore Improv with Japanese-Inspired Designs
“I've encountered rumors of an ominous sort, which purport that by opening up the atom, humanity has exposed it selves to not only new forms of energy, but new avenues of conscious experience. Like, uy can't have one (1) without the other (0) type of paradigm.
Imagine an energy source that simultaneously releases new emotions into the social sphere as a necessary consequence.”
Source: Pataphysics: Mastering Time Line Jumps for Personal Transformation
“I've ended up with what are essentially dinner rolls that tried to dress as pretzels for Halloween. Benny's, meanwhile, are mall-food-court-level perfection. Apparently the boiling part---plus baking soda---is what gives pretzels their tough, dark brown exterior. Add that to the ever-growing list of things I didn't know about cooking.”
Source: Love from Scratch
“I've endured darkness that no one should face. Each morning, waking to the light brings me peace and hope. It reminds me that what I do today can inspire more hope and excitement for tomorrow.”
Source: Guided Transformation: Poems, Quotes & Inspiration
“I've endured the Trials of Initiation twice, a terrifying journey through an underground stream, encounters with killers, a bear and wild boars. How bad can school be?”
Source: Cirque Du Freak: Allies of the Night, Vol. 8
“I've envied you over the years, carving out a different life for yourself, going where the wind blows you. That takes guts."
For the briefest sliver in time, the world shimmered and Sugar saw her life as an enviable jewel: a shining gem radiating energy and possibility that no one but she would ever possess, no matter what its deficiencies.”
Source: The Wedding Bees
“I’ve even given Georgie his own P.O. Box so he can get mail. Sometimes I send him gifts and then I keep them for myself.”
Source: Sex, Drugs, and Schizophrenia
“I’ve experienced a lot of crap in my life but the one thing that I have learned, is it is better to laugh about it rather than complain about it.”
“I've experienced things I didn't want to know and I'm not happy at all with what's happening now. Those bad people will one day have to answer for their actions. I tell you again: in Libya there are people who have been murdered, because of the money that has been released here. And exactly no one has done it.”
“I've explained my feelings about old shoes; add to that decrepit hats for the rain. Rain can be pretty romantic. Why look like a drowned scarecrow when you can be a touch of sunshine on a dark day in perky rainwear?”
Source: Wife Dressing: The Fine Art of Being a Well-Dressed Wife
“I’ve faced down a handful of the scariest sons of bitches in the world, I’ve been intentionally trapped in a burning house, blinded, had my back broken, I’ve been paralyzed and at the mercy of no less than two lunatic tinkers, and I’ve killed a man, I thought. And going back to school stirs up old feelings of anxiety.”
Source: Worm
“I've failed over and over but I get back up stronger, better, and bolder. It's the only way I know and want to live.”
“I've faked orgasms before, but this is the first time I've faked not having an orgasm.”
Source: Crave
“I've fallen deep into a dark unkind hole. But I will not die. I will not die.”
“I've fallen for him. I've allowed him to burrow deep under my skin and into my heart. Kissing him won't change any of that, won't make it any less painful when the clock strikes midnight and I turn back into a commoner.”
“I've fallen in love. I'm an ordinary woman. I didn't think such violent things could happen to ordinary people.”
Source: Blaze Romance Novels Mixed Book Set of 10
“I’ve fallen in love or imagine I have; went to a party and lost my head. Bought a horse which I don’t need at all.”
“I've fallen in love with you," he whispered to kiss the top of my hand.”
Source: Once
“I've fallen in love with you. I love you even now when you sit before me with the eyes of a wolf. So take pity upon the fool I have become. I forgot it was only a bargain between us.”
Source: The Untamed One
“I've fallen into a universe I don't understand and don't want to.”
Source: Daughter of the Deep
“I've fantasized about kissing this mouth so often," he whispered, voice low and husky, his thumb brushing across my lips now. "You just have no idea what torture is."
Immobilized by the soft touch of his fingers cupping my jaw and the gentle, promising sweep of his thumb, I managed to say, "Sometimes it's better just to make your fantasies a reality. The only way to alleviate that torture.”
Source: Parks and Provocation
“I've felt as if I didn't exist, as if I were invisible, miles away from the world, miles away. You can't imagine how much alone I've been all my life.”
Source: The Sea, The Sea
“I've felt basically lucky ever since, almost every day of my life. That's something else love should make you feel. It should make you fell fortunate.
It will be made clear to you in a stray gesture, the line of a throat. Something in the hands. There may or may not be any music playing. But there will be a certain velocity of the spirit, a sensation of dropping through clear space unimpeded, and you think, This is the one. I found you.”
Source: The Zygote Chronicles
“I've felt it for some time now, closing around me like the jaws of a gigantic flower. Isn't that a peculiar analogy? It feels that way, though. It has a certain vegetable inevitability. Think of the Venus flytrap. Think of kudzu choking a forest. It's a sort of juicy, green, thriving process. Toward, well, you know. The green silence. Isn't it funny that, even now, it's difficult to say the word 'death'?”
Source: The Hours
“I've felt objectified and limited by my position in the world as a so-called sex symbol. I've capitalized on my body within the confines of a cis-hetero, capitalist, patriarchal world, one in which beauty and sex appeal are valued solely through the satisfaction of the male gaze.”
Source: My Body
“I've felt so sad for years about you. My love for you has always had a sad face.”
Source: The Sea, The Sea
“I've finally come to realize that no one can understand your feelings until it happens to them; Be strong enough to bear it.”
“I've finally decided what I want to be when I grow up - late.”
Source: We have our difference in common 2.
“I've finally experienced what the poet felt. The deep sense of loss after you've met the woman you love, have made love, then said goodbye. Like you're suffocating. The same emotion hasn't changed at all in a thousand years.”
Source: Hombres sin mujeres
“I’ve finally figured out a way to stand strong on my own.”
“I've finally figured out that almost no one is living in their dream house. And I don't know anyone whose life has gone exactly like they would have planned. You make the best choices you can at the time with the information you have, and then you deal with the consequences...”
Source: The Nesting Place: It Doesn't Have to Be Perfect to Be Beautiful
“I’ve finally given in, my eyes are shut under the blindfold. I can hear and smell, but I cannot see. My hands are clammy I feel cold yet I am warm. It is what I wanted, but I am now unsure, dubious yet at the same time excited and curious. I would like to think I feel a bit like Alice just before she fell down the hole into the rabbit hole. Yet there are no rabbits here… not even those of the rampant persuasion.”
“I've finally got you back, Dick. If you think for a second I'm angry at you for this, even a little, then you've been gone far too long.”
Source: Nightwing, Vol. 1: Better than Batman
“I've fixed my feelings into durable words
when they could have been spent on tenderness”
“I've forged you into stars
Under the vault of my skull”
Source: Vasko Popa: Collected Poems
“I've forgotten how to breathe with my lungs
I've forgotten speech
I'm scared for my language
Leave the rest and just bring back my language!”
Source: Mural
“I’ve fostered a substantial, almost protective affection for this particular group. These aren’t just any fifty people I don’t care about, these are my fifty people I don’t care about.”
Source: Dating Disasters of Emma Nash