I Quotes
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“I wasn't supposed to tell anyone. But this was Annabeth. If I couldn't trust her, I couldn't trust anyone.
"The small of my back."
She lifted her hand. "Where? Here?"
She put her hand on my spine, and my skin tingled. I moved her fingers to the one spot that grounded me to my mortal life. A thousand volts of electricity seemed to arc through my body.”
Source: The Last Olympian
“I wasn’t sure, but I thought it kind of suited me. With the right shoes and everything.” I displayed the new blue pumps. “I wanted to look, you know, pretty.”
Yves gaped. I felt a little bit sorry for him. “Um…Phee, I don’t know what to say.”
I let my bright expression dim. “You… you think I look horrible in it?” My voice rose in a convincing squeak of distress.
He put his hands on my soulders. “No, you look great. You always look great, no matter what you’re wearing.”
Zed laughed. “Ouch. Wrong thing to say.”
Source: Stealing Phoenix
“I wasn’t sure how I felt about there being another me sharing space in the universe. Would I even like myself?”
Source: Superposition
“I wasn't sure I'd been born with the ability to forgive. Not for terrors inflicted on those I loved. For myself, I didn't care- not nearly as much. But there was some fundamental pillar of steel in me that could not bend or break in this. Could not stomach the idea of letting these people get away with what they'd done.”
Source: A Court of Wings and Ruin
“I wasn’t sure I would ever be able to deal with the world. It seemed too big and demanding and there was no fixed syllabus.”
Source: Em and the Big Hoom
“I wasn't sure if I'd imagined you and it'd be very telling of my mental state if I was bringing sodas to something I'd imagined.”
Source: Small Orange Fruit
“I wasn’t sure if I was made for great things, but surely, I was made for a great love.”
Source: Fourteen Springs of Separation
“I wasn't sure if it was safe for me to be sharing time and space with other people, who all seemed so much gentler and safer and less of a secret to themselves than I felt I was.”
Source: Nobody Is Ever Missing
“I wasn't sure if that was true, or if he simply wanted it to be true, but I did know from experience that despair and humiliation haunt the poor.”
Source: Shantaram
“I wasn’t sure what was happening, but the hairs on my arms stood on end and it was as though he suffused the air with electricity. Maybe it had something to do with adrenaline. There was no way was it because of…him.
Right?
We stood, orbiting each other, not speaking—as usual. I was a mere foot from his broad frame, the late day sun hitting his bronzed skin just so and the breeze carried his spiced scent right to me, warming the muscles low in my belly, speeding up my traitorous pulse.
Ah, hell. It was totally because of Mason Scott.
I should just punch myself in the lady parts or start banging my head against the wall because Jamey was right. There was no denying what he could do to me. For weeks, I’d fallen asleep to those green eyes. For weeks, I’d taken those memorized photographs of him and built him up in my head, imagined things I had no business dreaming about. I was physically attracted to Mason Scott. And now that I knew him, the kind of man he was, how cruel he could be, I couldn’t turn it off. I had let the fantasy go on for too long.”
Source: The Silent Cries of a Magpie
“I wasn’t sure what was worse: being oblivious or living within reality. (Eric)”
Source: Minutes Before Sunset
“I wasn't sure what you might like, so I just took things from all over the house. There's a copy of A Tail of Two Cities with the second half missing, so maybe it's only a tale of one city.”
Source: Chain of Gold
“I wasn't sure whether I liked "goodness" so much as I had supposed. This is a very terrible experience. As long as what you are afraid of is something evil, you may still hope that the good may come to your rescue. But suppose you struggle through to the good and find that it also is dreadful? How if food itself turns out to be the very thing you can't eat, and home the very place you can't live, and your very comforter the person who makes you uncomfortable? Then, indeed, there is no rescue possible: the last card has been played.”
Source: PERELANDRA:
“I wasn't sure which was worse - to know you were a liar or to believe your own bullshit.”
Source: The Hanging Girl
“I wasn't sure why I wanted to spare Ethan. I guess we'd had enough fighting for one day, and in truth I felt sorry for the kid. He would be in enough trouble when he reported back to Kronos.”
Source: Percy Jackson and the Sword of Hades
“I wasn’t surprised when I was told there were body parts. After reading the emails and knowing how
Marcela really felt about my dad, I could totally see her being capable of keeping souvenirs.”
Source: Malcom is Missing: A True Story of Murder and a Daughter's Quest for Justice in Mexico
“I wasn't taught to hate white people. That dead body hanging from the platform broke the heart and wounded the spirit of every black man and woman who passed by. But I suspected that it also hurt right-thinking white people. Both parents had spoken well of fair-minded white people - my namesake, Jim O'Reilly, and Flake Cartledge - so I knew better than to blame a whole race for the rotten deeds of a few. When some blacks talked about whites as devils, I could see the source of their wrath. I could still see the dead man outside the courthouse on the square. But I couldn't turn the fury into hatred. Blind hatred, my mother had taught me, poisons the soul. I kept hearing her say, 'If you're kind to people, they'll be kind to you.”
Source: Blues All Around Me: The Autobiography of B.B. King
“I wasn't that good you know. What I was was a guy who could write a little, publishing in magazines surrounded by people who couldn't write at all. So I looked pretty good. But I never thought I was that good at all. All that I thought was that I tried to tell the truth.”
Source: The Fantastic Stories of Cornell Woolrich
“I wasn't the kind of girl who fell for musicians, but it wasn't fair that Dev had a beautiful singing voice that did things to the surface of my skin. I opened my eyes, and there was Lexie again, in the wings, staring at Dev like he was an advanced reader copy of the last book in a series.”
Source: Bookishly Ever After
“I wasn’t the violin out of tune anymore. It was like he suddenly came to the piano and played the A so I could tune my string. It felt so right to be next to him, so comfortable. My rapid-beating heart began to slow, and I let my exhausted body lean closer to him. I laid my head on his shoulder and closed my eyes. He stroked the side of my face until, at last, my mind and body gave up the fight of the last two days and fell into a deep, dreamless sleep.”
Source: Remembrandt
“I wasn’t there. I don’t know what happened. I am no expert on the beginning of literal time. All I know is... there was a world before this current world began a long long long time ago. Let’s figure out piece by piece what could have happened up in Heaven all before Day 1 officially began.”
Source: The Creation Project
“I wasn't there yet, I wasn't finding joy and gladness in my barrenness, but I believed I would. I believed He would make my barren soul as beautiful as His perfect garden.”
Source: This Undeserved Life: Uncovering The Gifts of Grief and The Fullness of Life
“I wasn't thinking all of them—just Zed and Victor. Zed as the seventh son has a touch of most of our skills and can hold us together when we do a joint investigation. He’s a pain in the neck but a useful one.”
Source: Seeking Crystal
“I wasn't to blame for my granddads death and that I could have a strong independent life. I was on my way to the hospital for my dental operation and was convinced I'd die”
Source: Mentality - A book for men
“I wasn’t too late. I got there in time. I didn’t lose her.”
Source: Take Me With You
“I wasn't trying to make you jealous. But if jealousy does this to you, I might need to consider it.” He gripped my sides firmly, letting his lips gently dance over mine, “Mags, I’m yours. You have nothing to worry about.”
Source: Crashing Back Down
“I wasn't unstoppable, but I was harder to stop.”
Source: Becoming Bulletproof: Protect Yourself, Read People, Influence Situations, and Live Fearlessly
“I wasn't used to be these weak before. But the day I saw you, it felt like somebody was punching me very hard on my chest. It was hard to breathe, it was hard to sleep. With your name echoing in my mind all the time. Like somebody was singing a song to me, that no one else heard. It was the first time I realised how beautiful it is to be weak.”
“I wasn’t used to being attacked like this and it was frightening. I thought of myself as an independent person, so independent that the opinions of others were irrelevant to me. Now I was afraid that Nick was right. I isolated myself from criticism so I could behave badly without losing my sense of righteousness.”
Source: Conversations with Friends
“I wasn't used to looking ahead. Not like Jack. Maybe that was why he had that ready grin. I could see through the dust, but he could see through time, and he didn't even need magic to do it.”
Source: Dust Girl
“I wasn't used to seeing a lone wolf. I could've sword the FBI sent them out in identical pairs. This one even have that generic look about him, like God had rolled a lot of him off a belt thirty years ago, got 'em to quality control, gave 'em one good once over and said, 'Eh, good enough for government work.”
Source: A Cult of Questionable Motives
“I wasn't very good at the bike thing. Really, it was just dangerous to trust two skinny little wheels and spindly brakes with the considerably uncoordinated woman that is me.”
Source: Dark Side of Dawn
“I wasn't wearing war paint. But that didn't matter. I didn't need war paint. I was a different person than I had been, back then.”
Source: The Wild Girls
“I wasn't well on Earth. I didn't like living in such close proximity to so many people.”
Source: The Employees
“I wasn’t wise enough yet to understand that not everyone out there wants you to win.”
Source: Banshee
“I wasn't writing home. I wasn't writing a death letter, either. I was writing a death journal, a piece of fiction meant for my family and my fiancee, Sara.”
Source: Soft Spots: A Marine's Memoir of Combat and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
“I wasn't- you're a pain in the ass, you know that?'
'I'd rather be a pain in the ass,' she said slyly over her bare shoulder, 'than a snooping pervert.”
Source: House of Earth and Blood
“I wasn't a 'hot chick' in high school. I was 'funny' and a tomboy and probably a little uncomfortable with my amazing boobs.”
“I wasn't a [gay] activist, really.”
“I wasn't a babe in the woods. I'd watched a lot of stars, from James Dean to Brando, and I'd seen everybody alive work at MGM. I had a certain old-timer's quality, even though I was young and new, and drew on what I believed before I made it.”
“I wasn't a bad basketball player, but I was far from the world's greatest. Good defense, no offense - that was me.”
“I wasn't a bad guy. I just wanted God to give me a second chance.”
“I wasn't a ballet baby. My first dance class was in an outdoor pavilion when I was three. It was called 'creative movement.' The teacher gave us chiffon scarves in beautiful colors. She turned on some music and said, 'Now go dance.' So for me, dance has always been about self-expression.”
“I wasn't a big comic book reader. I always had trouble knowing which box to read next. I was always reading from the wrong box. I was like, this is a comic book that doesn't make any sense! I think I was reading them all out of sequence.”
“I wasn't a big fan of social anthropology. And, luckily, that created room for me to work in visual arts because I sort of ignored my requirements. I think I was attracted to social anthropology because I liked to travel and was always interested in far-off places.”
“I wasn't a big guy. People thought the big guys would eat me up. But it was the other way around. I loved to fight bigger guys.”
“I wasn't a big science fiction aficionado, there were a few films like 2001 or Blade Runner that were favorites of mine, but since I started this series I have gained more respect for the genre and become more of a fan myself.”
“I wasn't a big science-fiction fan growing up. But I loved Jules Verne and Sherlock Holmes. Both came into play on 'The X-Files.'”
“I wasn't a businesswoman, so I didn't know how to build a career.”
“I wasn't a cheerleader or the prom queen. I don't move through the world with a mirror in front of my face, and I've never been attracted to projects that had an emphasis on what I look like.”