I Quotes
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“I was going to buy my girl a Packard car for Christmas, but it took too long to deliver, so I bought her some handkerchiefs.”
“I was going to come in and push you down the stairs.”
“I was going to die and it was taking forever.”
Source: No One Belongs Here More Than You: Stories
“I was going to die, sooner or later, whether or not I had even spoken myself. My silences had not protected me. Your silences will not protect you.... What are the words you do not yet have? What are the tyrannies you swallow day by day and attempt to make your own, until you will sicken and die of them, still in silence? We have been socialized to respect fear more than our own need for language."
I began to ask each time: "What's the worst that could happen to me if I tell this truth?" Unlike women in other countries, our breaking silence is unlikely to have us jailed, "disappeared" or run off the road at night. Our speaking out will irritate some people, get us called bitchy or hypersensitive and disrupt some dinner parties. And then our speaking out will permit other women to speak, until laws are changed and lives are saved and the world is altered forever.
Next time, ask: What's the worst that will happen? Then push yourself a little further than you dare. Once you start to speak, people will yell at you. They will interrupt you, put you down and suggest it's personal. And the world won't end.
And the speaking will get easier and easier. And you will find you have fallen in love with your own vision, which you may never have realized you had. And you will lose some friends and lovers, and realize you don't miss them. And new ones will find you and cherish you. And you will still flirt and paint your nails, dress up and party, because, as I think Emma Goldman said, "If I can't dance, I don't want to be part of your revolution." And at last you'll know with surpassing certainty that only one thing is more frightening than speaking your truth. And that is not speaking.”
“I was going to die, but I didn't have to grovel.”
Source: Halfway to the Grave: A Night Huntress Novel
“I was going to die, if not sooner, then later, whether or not I had ever spoken myself. My silences had not protected me. Your silence will not protect you.”
Source: Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
“I was going to dine at the television company’s expense with one of the most beautiful women in show business and some television producer with an inferiority complex. In my experience, there’s always a price.”
Source: Black Art
“I was going to do a big radio show, and I said to my driver, 'Radio can wait, take me to the Full House house.' It literally was a drive-by. I photobombed the Full House house yesterday. I took like 20 pictures because I thought I didn't look good in any of these - you can't see the house! You gotta really show that that's the house!”
“I was going to do a book about the first prearranged Karpov-Kasparov match, '84-'85. But the God-damn Jews have stolen my entire file on that.”
“I was going to do some more work when I got home, but…” She sighs, rubbing her knuckles against her eyes. “I didn’t have enough juice.”
“Ah,” I say.
For her birthday this summer, I splurged and bought a small bushel of oranges, which we squeezed into glasses and pretended was the real, gourmet orange juice our father used to make. As we sat at the table, acting like the drink wasn’t sour and pulpy, we got to talking about how her illness had come to affect her life. She explained to me that her energy reserves were like that glass of yellow juice. Every action of daily life—getting out of bed, bathing, dressing, doing research—siphoned juice away. Once the glass was empty, no matter how much she had left she needed to do or how much she’d hoped to get done, her body needed to rest. To refill the glass. If she tried to push beyond that, it could knock her out for days. Even weeks.”
Source: A Forgery of Roses
“I was going to either fail or thrive, and I was going to do it in full view of everyone I respected and resented.”
Source: Eat a Peach
“I was going to end it all. A decision no one makes freely.
It comes from a very dark and desperate place without rationality or salvation, but the decision isn't the hardest part; taking action is the true war. You lose everything once you cross that line, including the control you so dearly tried to claim.”
Source: A Sinful Silence
“I was going to engineering school but fell in love with physics.”
“I was going to fight vampires, and my name wasn't Buffy--I was so screwed.”
Source: Frost Burned
“I was going to get an abortion the other day.
I totally wanted an abortion.
And it turns out I was just thirsty.”
“I was going to get drafted, but I didn't really want to go into the Army.”
“I was going to get my teeth whitened, but I said, "I'll just get a tan instead."”
“I was going to get myself recognized at any price. If I could not win fame by goodness, I was ready to do it by badness.”
“I was going to get the Carolyn Bessette story out of her one way or another.”
“I was going to go make a film in Greece. If they caught you with this much marijuana, they threw you in jail, no questions asked, and I was trying to stuff it in my deodorant bottles. I thought, what I am doing?”
“I was going to go to a four-year college and be an anthropologist or to an art school and be an illustrator when a friend convinced me to learn photography at the University of Southern California. Little did I know it was a school that taught you how to make movies! It had never occurred to me that I'd ever have any interest in filmmaking.”
“I was going to go to bed early and maybe read for a little bit."
"Reading. Wow. Not sure I know many girls who do that."
Her brows rose. "Then you're hanging out with the wrong girls."
"No doubt. I most definitely have been... in the past, but I've raised my standards a bit recently.”
Source: Midnight Ride
“I was going to go to church, but I decided to get doughnuts instead.”
Source: More Plums in One: Four to Score, High Five, and Hot Six
“I was going to go to Macchu Picchu and then I just ended up working the whole year.”
“I was going to go to school to become a neurological surgeon.”
“I was going to have a few comments on the other Democratic presidential candidate, John Edwards, but it turns out that you have to go into rehab if you use the word 'faggot.'”
“I was going to have an opening statement, but I decided that what I was going to say I wanted to get a lot of attention, so I'm going to wait and leak it.”
Source: Ronald Reagan
“I was going to have Brian La Croix do a cameo on Degrassi. But, unfortunately, the scheduling didn't work out. When I was in Toronto, they weren't shooting. To me, that would've been a pretty crazy meta experience.”
“I was going to have cosmetic surgery until I noticed that the doctor's office was full of portraits by Picasso.”
“I was going to have the worst night of my life, and they should be there for it. That was what friends did for each other.”
Source: My Life as a Hashtag
“I was going to have to come up with a rank for myself besides Alpha's mate. In the pack, I was just Mercy- but if ten more people called me the Alpha's mate, I was going to hit someone. It sounded like a chess move.”
“I was going to have to hunt him down.
I was going to hunt him down and destroy him.
No, not destroy. That was a weasel word. It was vague, meaningless. I was going to kill him.”
Source: The Solution
“I was going to have to leave you anyway. Because I loved you too much to drag you down with me." My hand crept up to caress the rigid line of his jaw. "Why'd you change your mind?" I whispered. "After I calmed down a little and had a chance to think, I figured . . . I love you enough to try and deserve you. I would do anything, be anything, for you.”
Source: The Travis Family Series, Books 1-3: Blue-Eyed Devil, Smooth Taking Stranger and Sugar Daddy
“i was going to kick my ass if i hurt her in a dream”
“I was going to kiss him, and I was going to regret it. But at that moment, I couldn't bring myself to care.”
Source: The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer
“I was going to live on my salary or go down swinging.”
Source: Self-portrait
“I was going to look like one of the sweet little white girls who were everybody's dream of what was right with the world.”
Source: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
“I was going to loose her. I was going to loose the only reason I lived.”
Source: A Thousand Boy Kisses
“I was going to make him proud of the man I would become. I was finally going to chart my own course, rattle the stars, and then… Then I would deserve it.”
“Deserve what?”
“The way he used to look at me, like I was a hero, or something close to one.”
Source: Neverland
“I was going to make it simple, but complications felt good.”
“I was going to make movies. I was the one in the family who was always rolling the video camera, making movies of my brothers around town, and then screening them for my parents. I still would love to make movies someday that's something that really means a lot to me, and I know I'll have the chance to do it one day.”
“I was going to make myself miserable on this trip by being overly serious and overly self-conscious and overly self-critical. And Jake was going to make me even more miserable by being the pure opposite of all those things.”
“I was going to middle school in Berkley, and I did not fit in at all. Like a lot of kids, I found theater to be a good place for me.”
“I was going to move back to Dallas, and my goal was to work at Channel 8 and be a sportscaster and cover my Cowboys and live happily ever after.”
“I was going to play in First Blood, but I suggested to changing it and I dropped out. I said to [Silvester] Stallone, 'You know, I almost stopped you from making millions of dollars,' because in my suggestion, I killed his character at the end of the picture .”
“I was going to public school in the post-World War II, the grey doldrum years. But I was in this extraordinary environment of Manhattan, of Greenwich Village, of bohemian parents.”
“I was going to put what birthday it was on the sign," he said, "but Jace said that after twenty, you're just old, so it doesn't matter anyway."
Jace stopped with his fork halfway to his mouth.
"I said that?”
Source: City of Heavenly Fire
“I was going to record a solo album when I was 15 on a four-track. I started working on it, but then Fall Out Boy happened. The band was awesome and took me in a totally different direction. I don't regret it at all, but the band delayed the record I had been planning.”
“I was going to save the world, and I thought I would start with the African continent.”
“I was going to say 'my friend Stuart', but I suppose he's not a friend any more. I seem to have lost a number of friends in the last few years. I don't mean that I've fallen out with them, in any dramatic way. We've just decided not to stay in touch. And that's what it's been: a decision, a conscious decision, because it's not difficult to stay in touch with people nowadays, there are so many different ways of doing it. But as you get older, I think that some friendships start to feel increasingly redundant. You just find yourself asking, "What's the point?" And then you stop.”
Source: The Terrible Privacy of Maxwell Sim