I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“I wonder how much victimhood they’d be willing to grant a girl like me”
Source: My Dark Vanessa
“I wonder how often I occupy spaces that were recently inhabited by dead people. I wonder who will occupy the spaces I've inhabited, after I'm dead.”
Source: Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead
“I wonder how often in the past I may have missed the good in people because I pre-judged, based on the differences?”
“I wonder how often it’s less about getting out of where we’re at, and more about giving ourselves the illusion that we’re trying to get out of where we’re at. And in the scandalous action of trading the fear of what ‘could be’ for the pain of ‘what is,’ we have traded away the whole of our lives.”
“I wonder how often not the intention but the desire springs up in a doctor's mind: 'Can I let this human being out of the trap of Life?”
“I wonder how one can hate to love and love to hate the same person over a period of time in a relationship”
“I wonder how people decided that women were supposed to shave their legs and armpits”
“I wonder how she broke the news to her husband. I don't really know what they talk about when I'm not around. In fact, I don't really understand couples at all. They seem like some sort of inexplicable gaseous body to me—a shapeless, colorless, unintelligible thing, trapped in a laboratory beaker.”
Source: The Diving Pool: Three Novellas
“I wonder how she'll make up her mind." "Oh, that I do know." I can just catch Gale's last words through the layer of fur. "Katniss will pick whoever she thinks she can't survive without.”
Source: Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)
“I wonder how the foreign policies of the United States would look if we wiped out the national boundaries of the world, at least in our minds, and thought of all children everywhere as our own.”
Source: A People's History of the United States
“I wonder how they deal with mice at Disney World.”
“I wonder how well she sleeps at night, and what kind of dreams she has. I wish I could step into them like she steps into mine.”
Source: Warm Bodies and The New Hunger: A Special 5th Anniversary Edition
“I wonder how you say goodbye to someone forever?”
Source: Sunny: Diary Three
“I wonder how you survived with those sugary lips; maybe there is no ant in your territory.”
Source: A moment with God ; Poetry
“I wonder how you're supposed to know the exact moment when there's no more hope.”
“I wonder how, among the Fremont, mothers and daughters shared their world. Did they walk side by side along the lake edge? What stories did they tell while weaving strips of bulrush into baskets? How did daughters bury their mothers and exercise their grief? What were the secret rituals of women? I feel certain they must have been tied to birds.”
Source: Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place
“I wonder idly how long i can go without sleep before I flip my shit and start running down the street in my underwear, hallicinating purple spiders.”
Source: Before I Fall
“I wonder if "an" ever occurs before "haughty" except in a quotation, or whether you can make anything sound like a quotation by adding a word like "goeth"?”
Source: The Words of Others: From Quotations to Culture
“I wonder if a bee ever gets a chance to just be, or if its in its head all the time, planning what flower to fly to next? I heard a rumor that, according to physics, a bumblebee shouldn't be able to fly at all.
Luckily no one told them that.”
Source: Find Me: She Believed in the Kindness of Strangers
“I wonder...if a life lived only in the mind is any less intense? If all the senses are engaged what is lost, but fact?”
Source: Shark Dialogues
“I wonder if a single thought that has helped forward the human spirit has ever been conceived or written down in an enormous room: except, perhaps, in the reading room of the British Museum.”
Source: Civilisation
“I wonder if a soldier ever does mend a bullet hole in his coat?”
“I wonder if all mothers feel like this the moment they realize their daughters are growing up—as if it is impossible to believe that the laundry I once folded for her was doll-sized; as if I can still see her dancing in lazy pirouettes along the lip of the sandbox. Wasn't it yesterday that her hand was only as big as the sand dollar she found on the beach? That same hand, the one that's holding a boy's; wasn't it just holding mine, tugging so that I might stop and see the spiderweb, the milkweed pod, any of a thousand moments she wanted me to freeze? Time is an optical illusion—never quite as solid or strong as we think it is.”
Source: My Sister's Keeper
“I wonder if all mothers feel like this the moment they realize their daughters are growing up- as if it is impossible to believe that the laundry I once folded for her was doll-sized; as if I can still see her dancing in lazy pirouettes along the lip of the sandbox. Wasn't it yesterday that her hand was only as big as the sand dollar she found on the beach? That same hand, the one that's holding a boy's; wasn't it just holding mine, tugging so that I might stop and see the spiderweb, the milkweed pod, any of a thousand moments she wanted me to freeze? Time is an optical illusion- never quite as solid or strong as we think it is. You would assume that, given everything, I saw this coming. But watching Kate watch this boy, I see I have a thousand things to learn.”
Source: My Sister's Keeper
“I wonder if all the bad brokenness in the world begins with the act of forgetting - forgetting God is enough, forgetting what He gives is good enough, forgetting there's always more than enough and that we can live into an intimate communion. Forgetting is kin to fear.
Whenever I forget, fear walks in. We're called to be a people known by our remembering - a remembering people. Forget to give thanks - and you forget who God is. Forget to break and give - and it's your soul that gets broken. Forget to live into...communion - and you end up living into a union of emptiness.
If all our bad brokenness begins with an act of forgetting, then doesn't the act of remembering, then making Christ present by being broken and given, doesn't that lead to...communion, which literally re-members us?
Everything He embodied in the Last Supper - it is what would heal the body's brokenness. Brokenness can be healed in re-membering, Remembering our union, our communion...with Christ. Re-membering heals brokenness.”
Source: The Broken Way: A Daring Path into the Abundant Life
“I wonder if almost can cost you as much as did, if the real wound is the moment you understand you can do nothing.”
Source: The Map of Salt and Stars
“I wonder if any element of interior design is more personal than color? Nothing can more quicly reveal aspect of personality and character than the choice - or absence - of color.”
“I wonder if any of them can tell from just looking at me that all I am is the sum total of my pain, a raw woundedness so extreme that it might be terminal. It might be terminal velocity, the speed of the sound of a girl falling down to a place from where she can't be retrieved. What if I am stuck down here for good?”
Source: Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America
“I wonder if anybody else feels this way, if anyone in here is as scared as I am. Are they as sad and angry and confused and ashamed? Is that even possible? Is it even possible for one building to hold all that pain?”
Source: Clean
“I wonder if anyone but me realizes what goes on in that head back of your deceptively sweet face.”
Source: Gone with the wind
“I wonder if anyone can ever succeed in making their children content.”
Source: The diary of a young girl
“I wonder if anyone else has an ear so tuned and sharpened as I have, to detect the music, not of the spheres, but of earth, subtleties of major and minor chord that the wind strikes upon the tree branches. Have you ever heard the earth breathe?”
Source: The Storm And Other Stories with THE AWAKENING
“I wonder if anyone gets through childhood without being broken. I certainly did not.”
Source: Now I Rise
“I wonder if anyone thinks of me when they can’t fall asleep at night.”
“I wonder if anyone watches me, if someone across the street sees the glow of my bedroom, the silhouette of my canopy, the flick of my vape light, the press of my palm against glass. Do they see a girl? Or do they see the monster inside the maiden?
I could be your neighbor. I could be the one who waves at your dog, the one who compliments your shoes on the train, the one who holds the door for your precious daughter.
And I could be the last thing you ever see.”
Source: Diary of a Damsel Dame
“I wonder if anyone will ever know the emptiness of my life. Personal Diary -- Last entry Oh whats the point?”
“I wonder if at this point, I mean, given [Donald's Trump] noted inability to deal with shame, humiliation and loss, and what seem like epically deep psychic wounds that he carries around, that he just wants to go and be in a place that he feels like he created.”
“I wonder if being sane means disregarding the chaos that is life, pretending only an infinitesimal segment of it is reality.”
Source: Koolaids
“I wonder if Bettie Page original gay cult had something to do with the ironies inherent in her image, as well as her innate fabulousness as an image.”
“I wonder if Blue knows she’s repainting her room.I wonder if he’s asking if she wants a ride to the party tonight.I wonder if he knows what being strangled feels like.”
Source: The Collector
“I wonder if books become in essence "files" if people wouldn't write them differently. I'm used to writing print books and I enjoy the slowness of the whole process. It makes me more deliberate about everything I say.”
“I wonder if childhood is ever really happy. Just as well, perhaps. To be blissfully happy so young would leave one always seeking to recapture the unobtainable. Like those people who were always happiest at school or university. Always going back. No reunion ever missed. It always seemed to me rather pathetic.”
“I wonder if children don't begin to reject both poetry and religion for similar reasons, because the way both are taught takes the life out of them.”
Source: The Cloister Walk
“I wonder if Chupacabras are... baby Mothmen?”
“I wonder if Communists occupied in producing plays are not safer than Communists starving to death. I have always felt that whatever your beliefs might be, if you could earn enough to keep body and soul together and had to be pretty busy doing that, you would not be very apt to have time to plot the overthrow of any existing government.”
Source: My Day: The Best of Eleanor Roosevelt's Acclaimed Newspaper Columns, 1936-1962
“I wonder if Dave Bearden still dislikes me.”
Source: The Collected Poems of Ted Berrigan
“I wonder if Dean is his nice persona and Holder is his scary one. Holder is definitely the one I saw at the grocery store earlier. I think I like Dean a lot better.”
Source: Hopeless
“I wonder if dogs have the word 'hate' in their barcabulary...”
“I wonder if Effie will still be wearing that silly pink wig, or is she'll be sporting some other unnatural color especially for the Victor Tour.”
Source: Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)
“I wonder if empathy has always been this, in every case: just a bout of hypothetical self-pity projected onto someone else. Is this ultimately just solipsism?”
Source: The Empathy Exams