I Quotes
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“I've lived through a war. I've seen burning corpses on the road side. And yes, I will tell you, peace is the only way out.”
“I've lived through some injustices in the last couple of centuries. Seen some fucking travesties. But one of the biggest, Oraya, is that anyone taught you that you should become anything other than exactly what you are.”
Source: The Serpent and the Wings of Night
“I've lived to see my longings die"
I've lived to se my longings die:
My dreams and I have grown apart;
Now only sorrow haunts my eye,
The wages of a bitter heart.
Beneath the storms of hostile fate,
My flowery wreath has faded fast;
I live alone and sadly wait
To see when death will come at last.
Just so, when the winds in winter moan
And snow descends in frigid flakes,
Upon a naked branch, alone,
The final leaf of summer shakes!”
“I've lived to see my longings die
I've lived to see my longings die:
My dreams and I have grown apart;
Now only sorrow haunts my eye,
The wages of a bitter heart.
Beneath the storms of hostile fate,
My flowery wreath has faded fast;
I live alone and sadly wait
To see when death will come at last.
Just so, when the winds in winter moan
And snow descends in frigid flakes,
Upon a naked branch, alone,
The final leaf of summer shakes!...”
“I’ve lived what feels like a thousand years to feel your kiss but my little mate, I’m in charge.” He said huskily, an air of authority lacing his words.”
Source: Life on the Rocks
“I’ve long had reservations about the emancipatory rhetoric of past eras, especially the kind that treats liberation as a one-time event or event horizon. Nostalgia for prior notions of liberation—many of which depend heavily upon mythologies of revelation, violent upheaval, revolutionary machismo, and teleological progress—often strikes me as not useful or worse in the face of certain present challenges, such as global warming.”
Source: On Freedom: Four Songs of Care and Constraint
“I've long joked that I got in through the back door, so whenever I am let in through the front door, I run to the back to see who I can let in.”
“I've long since been of the opinion that "home" is wherever you plant your boots.”
“I've looked at life from both sides now
From up and down and still somehow
It's life's illusions I recall
I really don't know life at all”
“I’ve looked at so
much porn that
every woman I meet
looks vaguely
familiar”
Source: Crushed Black Velvet
“I've looked at you, the person that you are. The kind of person I want to be. You've been my guiding light back to myself, Willow. Hell, probably finding myself for the first time. My lighthouse, a light in the dark.”
Source: Swann Song
“I’ve lost a friend for reasons I don’t understand.” I raised my hand for effect. “Yes, my hand is healing, but I still can’t sleep at night. Do you have any idea how hard it is to fall asleep when you are in pain and all you can see is your friend dying while you sit there and do nothing?”
Source: The Suicide Journal
“I’ve lost a lot of battles, but I’ve never lost sight of the war. My goal is to fight my way to a day when we’re old and gray and she looks at me and says ‘I’m glad you never gave up.’ Until then, I fight. No retreat, baby. No surrender.”
“I've lost count of those Father's and Mother's Days. In short, you don't need a schedule to express your love to your parents. Love them while they're still alive.”
“I’ve lost heart more times than I can count. But God has always helped me find it one more time than I can count.”
“I’ve lost more than my relationship in the present. I’ve lost my relationship in the future. We tend to think that the future happens later, but we’re creating it in our minds every day.”
Source: Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed
“I've lost people before. I've never stopped losing people. Why did it never feel like this?”
Source: Entangled
“I've lost so many battles than I can even remember. But I didn't know I was stronger than I thought.”
“I've lost so many battles than I can even remember. What I never knew, though, was that I was actually stronger than I thought I was.”
“I’ve lost something and I can’t describe
what it is
_____________
and what if that’s my job
to say how empty an absence is”
“I've lost the desire to hold onto that last physical artifact of the life I once had, as though I was buried and re-emerged as a person who doesn't believe in anything except the way existence rages on, furiously unconscious of when one life ends and another begins.”
Source: What the World Will Look Like When All the Water Leaves Us
“I've lost the TARDIS as well.'
I [Amy] was outraged. Considering my husband was dying and we were stranded in the past, the Doctor seemed fairly calm about things. 'Someone's nicked it!'
'Not so much, no.' The Doctor looked awkward. 'There's a mechanism... thingy. If the TARDIS senses a threat it removes itself from the scene. First sign of danger, it goes and hides behind the curtains.'
'Whose genius idea was that?'
The Doctor swallowed, embarrassed. He claims to be the last of the most advanced race in the universe. Sometimes, I'm just not convinced.”
Source: Doctor Who: Dead of Winter
“I've lost touch with myself.
It seems like she and I have not touched base for ages,
I can't remember the last time I talked to her, honest to God.
She's always been my best friend—my vicarious better half.
It's such a shame, really...
I wish I knew what she was up to these days.
I really, REALLY do.
It's not as though you can close a bond like ours
when the room gets too messy; you can't just shut the door.
It's common knowledge they'll only open a window
...and sneak out.
I don't know where she is now.
She could be on a train to the other coast, for all I know.
I quit listening to her wishes a long time ago.
Shame on me.”
Source: Ink Blot in a Poet's Bloodstream
“I've love cats so fondly, to be fearful of attitude, tooth and nail”
“I've loved dogs so fondly, to be fearful of slobbering tongues”
“I've loved her for centuries," he said. "And I will love her until the stars burn out."
"Well, okay then," I said, leaning into him. "That's all you had to say."
He stilled when he realized for certain that I knew. That I had all my memories back. The relief I felt from him melted me. His emotions were overwhelming.”
Source: The Dirt on Ninth Grave
“I've loved him my whole life, and somewhere along the way, that love didn't change but grew. It grew to fill the parts of me that I did not have when I was a child. It grew with every new longing of my body and desire until there was not a piece of me that did not love him. And when I look at him, there is no other feeling in me.”
Source: If He Had Been With Me
“I’ve loved him since I’ve known him, Mrs. Daniels. He just finally stopped fighting.”
Source: Sidecar
“I've loved keeping your secret, Remus wanted to say, I'd keep a thousand more, for you.”
Source: All the Young Dudes
“I’ve loved my family since the day I was born and I always will. But you’re the love I chose, Emma. Out of everyone in the world, out of everyone I’ve ever known, I chose you. I’ve always had faith in that choice. At the edge of everything, love and faith have always brought me back, and back to you.”
Source: Queen of Air and Darkness
“I've loved trees so fondly, to be fearful of their rough embrace”
“I've loved you for a long time, ' she said. 'But there was always something holding me back. Maybe it was that I was afraid of an emotion that was so consuming. It still frightens me,' she admitted in a whisper.
Tamani chuckled. 'If it makes you feel any better, it scares the daylights out of me on a regular basis.”
Source: Destined
“I've loved you for ages, Dani. I've just been waiting for you to catch up.”
Source: Overruled
“I’ve loved you for as long as I can remember. You are the fire in my blood, the reason I fight. You are my best friend, my fiercest defender, the only woman who has ever truly seen me.”
Source: Echoes of One Night: Forbidden Love Romance
“I’ve loved you from the first hour of our meeting. I loved you and despaired. Before I die, I want you to know that.”
Source: The Wicked King
“I've loved you in secret, and I've loved you openly in front of both our worlds, and if you think I'll stop loving you if you put an ocean between us, you're dead wrong.”
Source: Pretty Reckless
“I’ve loved you probably from the first moment that I met you and I will love you until my last breath leaves. I fell in love with you the first time you smiled at me and only
realized the truth of it the night you danced with me under the street lamp. You are the first person I think of each morning and the last person that I want to see before I close my eyes at night. You smell like donuts and coffee … And you have a smile that takes my breath away. You bowl me over with your sense of humor and your random comments and you inspire me with your bravery in the face of all that you’ve endured.”
Source: Falling Petals: A Story About First Chances
“I've loved you since the day Lou brought you home. I hated myself, but I couldn't stop the way I felt. I never would have touched you, I never would have told you. But when you kissed me that night, you suddenly handed me everything I'd ever wanted.”
“I’ve loved you since the first sunset we shared. Your soul is my home. And every moment I’ve had with you, every second, has been a gift I’ll cherish until my very last breath.”
Source: I Love You, Sunday Sunset
“I’ve lowered my character with a great deal of unwholesome reading material.”
Source: Devil in Spring
“I’ve made a decision: I’m not going to worry about money anymore. I’m just going to pretend I’ve got loads of it and spend it accordingly”
Source: Confessions of a Shopaholic
“I’ve made a ton of mistakes that never turned into failures because I learned from them before they got that far.”
“I've made countless variations on this recipe. Chai-infused shortbread diamonds. Rosewater shortbread squares. Cocoa shortbread sandwiches spliced with Nutella. But tonight, in honor of Grandma Damson, I make hers, from memory.
In a sense, I fail. No ghosts materialize in the kitchen, not Grandma Damson, not Nonna, not anyone.
But out of the mess I make a dozen ideal shortbread wedges, perfect in shape, size and flavor. Warm and delicate. With a glass of cold milk, they are delicious. When shortbread melts on your tongue, you feel the roundness of the butter and the kiss of the sugar and then they vanish. Then you eat another, to feel it again, to get at that moment of vanishing. I eat myself sick on them.”
Source: The Kitchen Daughter
“I’ve made her relive, over and over, the last few days,” I say softly, watching Ms. White’s body. “I’ve had to fill in the blanks with my own feelings and experiences. She’s spiraling around those last moments, those times when she went against me, and she’s feeling it from my side, the pain, the betrayal.”
She thinks she’s awake. I’m doing to her just what she did to me. I’m making her feel what it was like to slowly go crazy, to question everything. To watch my mother die. To fight for my life against my best friend. To feel the man who loved me try to kill me.
To know that the woman I trusted as much as my own mother betrayed me.
That’s what I’m making her feel.
I’ve turned her into me, and made her live the life she forced me to live.
Over and over and over again.”
Source: The Body Electric
“I've made him a monster by overloving. Lord knows, if hatred could make him human again.”
“I've made it my mission to be an ally to women in this generation, to break down misogynistic stereotypes, remove walls that divide them, and create a community grounded in us supporting one another. In my experience as a young women, a female business owner, a daughter, sister, and friend, I've learned the being a feminist isn't your own voice, but how you use your stage to encourage and support other women to find theirs.”
Source: Feminists Don't Wear Pink (And Other Lies): Amazing Women on What the F-Word Means to Them
“I’ve made many mistakes, but I’ve learned from them.”
“I've made my choice. I need you to make yours. You're not a puppet. Not anymore.”
Source: In the Lives of Puppets
“I've made my peace. He will always be part of me. I don't need to watch him die. I am just glad I was able to watch him live.”
Source: A Smile in One Eye: a Tear in the Other
“I've made my thoughts clear enough on what I want from you.'
He'd never met someone able to imply so much in so few words, in placing so much emphasis on you as to make it an outright insult.
Cassian clenched his jaw. And didn't bother to restrain himself when he said, 'I'm tired of playing these bullshit games.'
She kept her chin high, the portrait of queenly arrogance. 'I'm not.'
'Well, everyone else is. Perhaps you can find it in yourself to try a little harder this year.'
Those striking eyes slid toward him, and it was an effort to stand his ground. 'Try?'
'I know that's a foreign word to you.'
Nesta stopped at the bottom of the street, right along the icy Sidra. 'Why should I have to try to do anything?' Her teeth flashed. 'I was dragged into this world of yours, this court.'
'Then go somewhere else.'
Her mouth formed a tight line at the challenge. 'Perhaps I will.'
But he knew there was no other place to go. Not when she had no money, no family beyond this territory. 'Be sure to write.'
She launched into a walk again, keeping along the river's edge.
Cassian followed, hating himself for it. 'You could at least come live at the House,' he began, and she whirled on him.
'Stop,' she snarled.
He halted in his tracks, wings spreading slightly to balance him.
'Stop following me. Stop trying to haul me into your happy little circle. Stop doing all of it.'
He knew a wounded animal when he saw one. Knew the teeth they could bare, the viciousness they displayed. But it couldn't keep him from saying, 'Your sisters love you. I can't for the live of me understand why, but they do. If you can't be bothered to try for my happy little circle's sake, then at least try for them.'
A void seemed to enter those eyes. An endless, depthless void.
She only said, 'Go home, Cassian.'
He could count on one hand the number of times she'd used his name. Called him anything other than you or that one.
She turned away- toward her apartment, her grimy part of the city.
It was instinct to lunge for her free hand.
Her gloved fingers scraped against his calluses, but he held firm. 'Talk to me, Nesta. Tell me-'
She ripped her hand out of his grip. Stared him down. A mighty vengeful queen.
He waited, panting, for the verbal lashing to begin. For her to shred him into ribbons.
But Nesta only stared at him, her nose crinkling. Stared, then snorted- and walked away.
As if he were nothing. As if he weren't worth her time. The effort.
A low-born Illyrian bastard.
This time, when she continued onward, Cassian didn't follow.
He watched her until she was a shadow against the darkness- and then she vanished completely.
He remained staring after her, that present in his hands.
Cassian's fingertips dug into the soft wood of the small box.
He was grateful the streets were empty when he hurled the box into the Sidra. Hurled it hard enough that the splash echoed off the buildings flanking the river, ice cracking from the impact.
Ice instantly re-formed over the hole he'd blown over. As if it, and the present, had never been.”
Source: A Court of Frost and Starlight