I Quotes
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“I wonder what the retirement age is in the novel business. The day you die.”
Source: Beauty and Sadness
“I wonder what the vintners buy one half so precious as the stuff they sell.”
Source: Edward FitzGerald, Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám: A Critical Edition
“I wonder what the world would be like if everybody walked their talk; if word was married with deed; promises delivered by action.”
“I wonder what Tommy Morris would have had to say to all this number 6-iron, number 12-iron, number 28-iron stuff. He probably wouldn't have said anything, just made one of those strange Scottish noises at the back of his throat like someone gargling.”
“I wonder what unconditional love is? In my world, unconditional love is blowing dandelions in the daytime and hugging the stars during the night. I guess that’s all the love I need.”
Source: Pinwheels and Dandelions
“I wonder what will happen if i put a hand cream on my feet, will they get confused and start clapping?”
“I wonder what will happen when you actually enjoy the pains that life gives us sometimes. You'll be above them.”
Source: The Reason
“I wonder what would happen if everyone suddenly woke up together and realized they’d been living in an invisible prison run by greedy psychopaths.”
Source: Cali the Destroyer
“I wonder what would happen if I said the words: Nicasia humiliated me. Valerian tried to murder me. They did it to impress Prince Cardan, who hates me. I am scared of them. I am more scared of them than I am of you, and you terrify me. Make them stop. Make them leave me alone.
But I won't. Madoc's anger is fathomless. I have seen it in my mother's blood on the kitchen floor. Once summoned, it cannot be called back.”
Source: The Cruel Prince
“i wonder what would happen if I started to believe it could be a possibility rather than blocking my focus by living in fear?”
“I wonder what you look like under your t-shirt. I wonder what you sound like when you're not wearing words. I wonder what we have when we're not pretending.”
“I wonder what you sound like?”
Her words sound sad to me, and so I kiss her palm to distract her. It does not matter what I sound like. I sound like hers. I am hers.”
Source: Barbarian's Touch
“I wonder what you want from me
Served you my heart on a silver platter
And I watched you devour it
Eating daintily with your forks and your knives
Watched you stab me down
Watched you cut me off
And during every single second of it
I gazed at you with loved
As you ate your fill of me
And tossed the rest in the trash”
Source: A Beautiful Mess
“I wonder what your idea of heaven would be — A beautiful vacuum filled with wealthy monogamists. All powerful and members of the best families all drinking themselves to death. And hell would probably an ugly vacuum full of poor polygamists unable to obtain booze or with chronic stomach disorders that they called secret sorrows.”
Source: Ernest Hemingway Selected Letters 1917-1961
“I wonder whats wrong with me. Sometimes I just keep wanting to go deeper and deeper into the world of self destruction. Like as if I want to see myself fail completely and disappear.”
“I wonder, when God permitted us to fall, if He knew we'd fall so far.”
Source: Melmoth
“I wonder when he is going to leave. I'd have left by now.
"I'm not going anywhere," he says, even though I can't tell if I said any of that out loud.”
Source: Carrie Soto Is Back
“I wonder when you stop marking time, as an adult - when life starts. What would I even do with it if I had the freedom - live?”
Source: Looking Glass Sound
“I wonder where a guy, an everyday Joe like myself can find a little action.”
“I wonder where he lies. Wedged under a rock, with a thousand small mouths already sucking on his spongy flesh. Or floating still, on and down, on and down, to wider, calmer reaches of the river. I see them gathering: the drowned, the shot. Their hands float out to touch each other, fingertip to fingertip. In a day, two days, they will glide on, a funeral flotilla, past the unfinished white dome rising out of its scaffolds on a muddy hill in Washington. Will the citizens recognize them, the brave fallen, and uncover in a gesture of respect? Or will they turn away, disgusted by the bloated mass of human rot?”
Source: March
“I wonder where it is...that unknown house. Shall I love it best by moonlight or dawn? That home of the future where we will have love and friendship and work...and a few funny adventures to bring laughter in our old age.”
Source: Anne of Windy Poplars
“I wonder where she came from,
I wonder where she's gotta go.
Who's to say she's single
and who's to say she's on her own...
Girls like that don't sleep alone”
“I wonder where we are going," I said.
"Wherever the way is going," Exi replied calmly.
"But where do you suppose the way is going?"
"Wherever we go."
"That doesn't really make sense, does it?"
"Oh, yes. Quite good sense."
"Why?"
"Do you know any method by which you can go way and your path another? Not the path, but your path?"
"Well-" I hesitated. "Well, if you put it that way, I guess not. But what about crossroads? Couldn't you choose the wrong one?"
"I suppose you could. However, if it was the wrong way you chose, it would still be your way, wouldn't it?"
"Yes," I answered, "yes, it probably would.”
Source: Knee-Deep in Thunder
“I wonder where we'd be if the masses knew just what a poem could do”
“I wonder where we go when we die?” “…Pittsburgh?” “You mean if we’re good or if we’re bad?”
“i wonder where you are right now
what are you doing?
what are you thinking about?
is it me
and what we used to be?
or is it someone else again?
do i ever cross your mind?
do you think about me now when i'm not there?
did you think about me when i was?
i wonder what we could have been
would there have been evenings by the fireplace
as you read to me?
or the candle light dinners on our balcony
because it was your last minute surprise?
would there have been long walks in central park on valentine's day evening?
or just any other night you wanted an excuse to hold my hand?
would there have been movie nights
after cancelling on that boring party we planned?
would there still have been a me and you
if i hadn't made you feel blue?
did i burn the bridge we found home at?
was i really such a brat?
then i'm sorry, i always say
but you didn't hear it as you walked away”
“I wonder where you got that idea from? I mean, the idea that it's feeble to change your mind once it's made up. That's a wrong idea, you know. Make up your mind about things, by all means - but if something happens to show that you are wrong, then it is feeble not to change your mind, Elizabeth. Only the strongest people have the pluck to change their minds, and say so, if they see they have been wrong in their ideas.”
Source: Naughtiest Girl Collection 1 (books 1-3)
“I wonder whether any other generation has seen such astounding revolutions of data and values as those through which we have lived. Scarcely anything material or established which I was brought up to believe was permanent and vital, has lasted. Everything I was sure or taught to be sure was impossible, has happened.”
Source: A Roving Commission
“I wonder whether art has a higher function than to make me feel, appreciate, and enjoy natural objects for their art value?”
Source: Sketch For A Self Portrait
“I wonder whether being a scientists daughter makes you so conflicted about free will and fate.”
“I wonder whether he saw just how easily he could manipulate me. He saw the fear in my eyes, and he wanted it all to himself.”
Source: Perfectly Fractured (The Imperfect, #1).
“I wonder whether I might have meant "terrify us" but perhaps as well there was a less than conscious effort to show that the suppression of debate about Palestine and about the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement - within many academic circles - does seek to establish those who would address such issues in speech as already collaborating with "terrorist" regimes, although now only Hamas is officially terrorist according to the US government and its allies.”
“I wonder whether if I had an education I should have been more or less a fool that I am.”
“I wonder whether my bleak-o-meter is set differently from other people's. I have such passion for what I do that I can't see it as bleak. When people use that word, or “grim” or “gritty,” I just think, “Oh, come on, look a bit deeper.” My films don't give you an easy ride. I can see that. The sense I get is that people have quite a physical experience with them. They feel afterwards that they've really been through something.”
“I wonder whether our adoption of Shrink-ese as a second language, the move from religious phrases of judgment to secular words of acceptance, hasn't also produced a moral lobotomy. In the reluctance, the aversion to being judgmental, are we disabled from making any judgments at all?”
“I wonder whether she was sorry for leaving us behind.”
Source: Delirium: The Complete Collection: Delirium, Hana, Pandemonium, Annabel, Raven, Requiem
“I wonder whether there has been too much emphasis on teaching women to conform, to fit into the system. Certainly that suits conservative organizations in conservative times. But now ... innovation and creativity are necessary.”
“I wonder whether there is such a thing as a sense of individuality. Is it all a facade, covering a deep need to belong? Are we simply pack animals desperately trying to pretend we are not?”
Source: I, The Divine: A Novel in First Chapters
“I wonder whether there is such a thing as critical art. I suppose there are portraits of people who could destroy you.”
“I wonder whether they have rum and Coke in Heaven? Maybe it's too mundane a pleasure, but I hope so -- as a sundowner. Except, of course, the sun never goes down there. Oh, man, this heaven is going to take some getting used to.”
“I wonder whether those of our political masters who have been put in charge of the defence of the country can distinguish a mortar from a motor; a gun from a howitzer; a guerrilla from a gorilla, although a great many resemble the latter.”
“I wonder which is preferable, to walk around all your life swollen up with your own secrets until you burst from the pressure of them, or to have them sucked out of you, every paragraph, every sentence, every word of them, so at the end you're depleted of all that was once as precious to you as hoarded gold, as close to you as your skin - everything that was of the deepest importance to you, everything that made you cringe and wish to conceal, everything that belonged to you alone - and must spend the rest of your days like an empty sack flapping in the wind, an empty sack branded with a bright fluorescent label so that everyone will know what sort of secrets used to be inside you?”
Source: The Blind Assassin
“I wonder which is worse-the death, not knowing what comes after, or the wedding, when you think you know, but you're wrong.”
“I wonder which of the megaton bombs Jesus, our President's personal savior, would have personally dropped on the sleeping families of Baghdad?”
“I wonder which was more frightened among old tribes -- those bursting out of their darkness of woods upon all the space of light, or those from the open tiptoeing into the forests.”
Source: Sons and Lovers
“I wonder-?" whispered April Bell, her long eyes narrowed and dark. "I wonder what they really found?"
"Whatever it is," breathed Barbee, "the find doesn't seem to have made them very happy. A fundamentalist might think they had stumbled into hell."
"No," the girl said, "men aren't that much afraid of hell.”
Source: Darker Than You Think
“I wonder who first discovered the efficacy of poetry in driving away love!- Elizabeth Bennet”
Source: Pride and Prejudice: The Story of Elizabeth Bennet and Her Dealing with Issues of Manners, Upbringing, Morality, Education and Marriage in the Society of the Landed Gentry of Early 19th-Century England (Beloved Books Edition)
“I wonder who I left behind on the other side of fame.”
“I wonder who is going to finish second.”
“I wonder who it was defined man as a rational animal. It was the most premature definition ever given. Man is many things, but he is not rational.”