I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“I wasn't going to Shield my children from the violence of this world, because I don't want to shield them from an even bigger reality; light always breaks Darkness. Love defies hatred when we stand alongside our neighbors and say “No More”, to violence.”
Source: Waging Peace: One Soldier's Story of Putting Love First
“I wasn’t going to wait for someone else. I was no longer interested in being saved. I picked me, myself, and I for the winning team.”
Source: Stronger Now: How to Thrive in Any Circumstance and Become Unstoppable
“I wasn't good at this dating business. If that's what we were doing. I wasn't very good at predating either. I'd say I wasn't good at postdating, but I hadn't yet had an opportunity to prove it.”
Source: Isla's Inheritance
“I wasn’t good enough—what a mortifying thing to discover about yourself.”
Source: Honey
“I wasn't grateful. You want to talk cranky, coitus interruptus takes me well beyond cranky. My engorged labia felt like they were pressing on my brain—what there was of my brain—and if I didn't get to fuck someone, something, now—a vampire would do—I was going to fucking explode. My cunt ached like a bruise.
Beyond cranky, rather fortunately, doesn't transmute into embarrassment. It transmutes into fury. As my blood pressure began to rearrange itself to a more standard unengorged pattern I was seething.”
Source: Sunshine
“I wasn't heartbroken when Don left me. I simply felt like my marriage had failed. And those are very different things.”
Source: The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
“I wasn’t human. The princess with stars in her eyes and darkness in her heart was a big, bad wolf. Black as a starless sky.”
Source: Unspoken
“I wasn't in love with her. And she didn't love me. For me the question of love was irrelevant. What I sought was the sense of being tossed about by some raging, savage force, in the midst of which lay something absolutely crucial. I had no idea what that was. But I wanted to thrust my hand right inside her body and touch it, whatever it was.”
Source: South of the Border, West of the Sun
“I wasn't in the habit of confessing my sapphic proclivities as a sin, since I didn't consider them to be one, but my idolatry of Carmilla definitely counted as something worth confessing.”
Source: An Education in Malice
“I wasn’t interesting. And he was. Interesting… and brilliant… and mysterious… and perfect… and beautiful… and possibly able to lift full-sized vans with one hand.
-Bella Swan”
Source: Twilight
“I wasn't just looking at photographs. I was walking through the aftermath of loving her.”
Source: Of Chasing Raindrops
“I wasn't kind, Jude. Not to many people. Not to you. I wasn't sure if I wanted you or if I wanted gone from my sight so that I would stop feeling as I did, which made me even more unkind. But when you were gone- truly gone beneath the waves- I hated myself as I never have before.”
Source: The Wicked King
“I wasn't kind, Jude. Not to many people. Not to you. I wasn't sure if I wanted you or if I wanted you gone from my sight so that I would stop feeling as I did, which made me even more unkind. But when you were gone—truly gone beneath the waves—I hated myself as I never have before.”
Source: The Wicked King
“I wasn’t leaving, and I would never stop.
Because I dreamed about licking a pussy as beautiful as this one.
Because I loved this as much as she did.”
Source: No, Don't Ever Stop
“I wasn’t living on the edge, I had gone over it. Insanity was now the norm and I had to keep feeding it in order to maintain the new domain I had created for myself. I had one eye on the road and one on the rear view mirror when I wasn’t pre-occupied with my beer, cigarettes or car stereo.”
“I wasn't loneliness if it could be eradicated with work or a Netflix marathon or a good book. Real loneliness would stick with you all the time. Real loneliness would hurt you nonstop.”
Source: The Bride Test
“I wasn't lonely. Loneliness, I think, has very little to do with location. It's a state of mind. In the centre of every city are some of the loneliest people in the world. If anything, because our whole planet was just outside the window, I felt even more aware of and connected to the seven billion other people who call it home.”
Source: An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth
“I wasn’t looking, and now all I see is you.”
“I wasn’t looking for you when I came here but you found me, Iris. And I’m going to hold on as long as I possibly can.”
Source: Damned and Beautiful
“I wasn’t made for Griffin, and he wasn’t made for me. We were made for each other.”
Source: Heart on Fire
“I wasn't myself. I'm not myself. Or maybe... maybe I'm more myself than I've ever been.”
Source: Cackle
“I wasn't nearly as good as he was, I knew, but I could at least try to stay in the game.”
Source: In the Cut
“I wasn't necessarily proud of my work as a waitress, but I did feel a sense of honor in it. I loved the camaraderie, the shared disdain for the customer...”
Source: Crying in H Mart
“I wasn’t nervous or frightened. I wasn’t anything anymore.”
Source: Shadow and Bone
“I wasn’t obsessed with him until I felt him fading. But maybe I was always obsessed, I just didn’t feel the anxiety of it until the trust was gone.”
“I wasn't offering her pity," Mrs. Caswell said impatiently. "Tragedies don't interest me, tragedies and heartbreaks are all alike, what matters is how a person meets them, how they survive them. Given the inevitability of losses and disappointments in life, that's where the challenge is and the uniqueness. I was offering her sympathy.”
Source: Incident at Badamya
“I wasn’t old enough to remember the day Daddy sent her there. The way he told it, she was stealing crank and spent most of her time climbing around the peter tree. So he sent her to this place. Loved her too much to give her nothing, but giving her anything at all squared things so he’d never have to love her again.”
Source: Where All Light Tends to Go
“I wasn't only hurt by love. I was ruined too.”
Source: Don't Tell You Want To Become An Entrepreneur
“I wasn’t perfect, and I made mistakes; but I learned from them and became a better person for it. I always followed my heart. And most of all, I loved — with every ounce of my being. I guess you could say the greatest love story ever written isn’t confined to the pages of a book. It’s in our lives; and we’re the ones who write it. So that’s what life’s all about, isn’t it? Why we’re here. It has nothing to do with dollars. In fact, it’s totally free. Life’s greatest gift. And the best part is, the best part, this gift we give to others… we get it back. It’s what makes the journey so worthwhile… it’s LOVE.”
Source: Sand Dollar: A Story of Undying Love
“I wasn't pissed off; I was just robbed of most of the cocky confidence my cunningness had created.”
Source: Misadventurous
“I wasn't possessed by a demon. I was the demon.”
Source: Turtles All the Way Down
“I wasn't prepared for you, Ava.”
Source: Tragic Beauty
“I wasn't pretty, but as my mother once said, prettiness wasn't my profession.”
Source: The Screaming Staircase
“I wasn't quite ready for it yet, but nevertheless it was happening. Because that's how things always seem to go here in Earth School: Just when you aren't ready for change, the changes begin.”
Source: All the Way to the River
“I wasn't raised Catholic but I had somewhere acquired the sensibility. Anyway I imagined it was wrong and that my body would therefore find a way to ensure I didn't get away with it.”
Source: Topics of Conversation
“I wasn’t raised in a household where it was considered abnormal to be gay. So for me to meet people who use the word 'faggot' as an insult, with a derogatory meaning, I can’t take it. I don’t understand it. It’s so foreign to me. I was raised in a household where being gay was like, the most normal thing. You know, my brother is gay, all of my best friends are gay. When my brother came out of the closet, it wasn’t a big deal for my family. Even my grandpa, who is like, super old-school, was like, Good for you! It’s outrageous to me when I see people hate on someone because of their sexuality. I hate the intolerance. I hate the judgment. I hate it so much. Most of my favorite people in my life are gay. It’s something I’m super passionate about, because whenever I would see my friends get bullied, or my brother get hurt for his sexuality, I would become a raging lunatic. I would literally become a raging lunatic because I just can’t take it. When you see someone you love hurting, for such a superficial, bullshit reason, it’s like, how small and spiritually unenlightened and dumb as fuck can a person be? How much further can your head get up your ass that you’re actually judging someone as a person based on their sexuality before you even have a conversation with them?”
“I wasn't raised to let a woman walk through a dimly lit parking lot alone. Wasn't born in a cornfield, you know.”
Velia turned. “No, I didn't know. So, you're quite a gentleman. Don't we sound like a good pair—the devil woman and the gentleman?”
Source: Howdy, Ma'am
“I wasn't ready for goodbye, not now, not yet. Stay with me tonight, please don't go just yet.”
“I wasn't ready for the world as I knew it to end. It wasn't perfect, but I was still quite attached to it.”
Source: Shattered Wards
“I wasn't ready to feel as bad as I did. I'd never felt so lonely.”
Source: Hideout
“I wasn't really interested in doing cartoons at that time, but I had one teacher, Miss McCoy, who used to call me and the other Black pupil in the school to the front of the room and present us to the class. She'd say. "These two, being Black, belong in a waste basket." Well, there was no way of defending oneself against that. So, I began to build up a kind of rage against her. There was no way that I could have gotten back at her because if I had, it would have been much more serious than it turned out. In the end, it turned out rather beneficial to me because I began doing cartoons of Miss McCoy in my notebooks.”
Source: Why I Left America and Other Essays
“I wasn’t really sure I could take a three-foot beaver, let alone one with a cockney accent.”
Source: Marriage And Monsters - An Eschatological Romance
“I wasn't rebellious. Maybe I was just more human than the average person.”
Source: Still Point
“I wasn’t saying it didn’t all happen like that, but all of that was included in the chunks of time that had gone missing from my brain. They dropped out somewhere. And if the chunks were round, they would have rolled away. So I was hoping they were bricks and heavy so they stayed in the same spot. I just needed to retrace my steps, if I only could remember where I’d been.”
Source: Separate Things: A Memoir
“I wasn’t seeking a place, but a person. I’d come home.”
Source: Cracked Kingdom
“I wasn't shocked by what they were doing as much as I was by Merritt's recklessness. Taking a man into her bed in broad daylight? It's not at all like her. She's behaving as if scandal can't touch her, and she knows better than that."
"So does Keir. But they’re both moonstruck. You remember how it is in the beginning.”
She grimaced. “Yes, a state of derangement with chapped lips." Folding her arms across her chest, she heaved a sigh. "Tell me about this young man. Is he a silk purse or a sow's ear?"
"He's pure gold. A big, fearless lad... engaging and quick-witted. Admittedly, the manners are a bit rustic, and I can't speak as to hygiene: so far, grooming him has been a collective effort. But all in all, a fine young man."
"And how is he with Merritt?"
Sebastian hesitated before replying, "No one outside a relationship can ever know its inner workings. But from what I've seen, it has the makings of something durable. They talk easily. They pull together in adversity. Many marriages have started with far less, including mine.”
Source: Devil in Disguise
“I wasn't sleepy or anything, but I was feeling sort of lousy. Depressed and all. I almost wished I was dead.”
Source: THE CATCHER IN THE RYE
“I wasn't somebody's listless, repressed wife at all. I was a modern woman who happened to be listless and repressed on my own terms.”
Source: Cheat Day
“I wasn’t stupid. I realized that I was preventing her from being around her sister and her parents. Her boyfriend. I was banishing her from everything she knew.
From a comfortable future.
From money and opportunity.
From family Christmases and blue-eyed kids with Dean, who was oh-so-fucking enchanted with her.
From love.
I was ruining her life.
Because. I. Was. Jealous.”
Source: Vicious
“I wasn't suicidal. Even in the beginning, when death unquestionably would have been a relief, I didn't consider it. I owed too much to Charlie. I felt too responsible for Renee. I had to think of them.”