I Quotes
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“I wondered how we looked to the rest of the world. Young and silly, probably. I often had the distinct feeling that strangers watched us with annoyance, teenage girls with cotton candy lives. They could think that—that we were frothy and carefree. Would they ever guess how strong we were from carrying each other?”
Source: The Map from Here to There
“I wondered how you would react when i revealed to you my hidden parts, my ugly parts that don't do well in the sunlight”
Source: Separate Things: A Memoir
“I wondered if a blessing is still a blessing if it lasts for only a little while.”
Source: Summer of my German soldier
“I wondered if all fathers secretly wanted to kill their sons. Just a little bit.”
Source: Darius the Great Is Not Okay
“I wondered if all of us churchgoers were just exhausted by grief. For the dying priest and us, I thought, "God" always refused to become glorious, instead stubbornly remaining plain, a headache, a sorrowful knot of language.”
“I wondered if anything would have turned out differently had a careless nurse switched the two of us in a hospital nursery, whether his family would be significantly changed, whether mine would have been, whether any of us Koreans, raised as we were, would sense the barest tinge of a loss or estrangement.”
Source: Native Speaker
“I wondered if Bill Goldman had ever experienced the same giant rats I had encountered while living in Manhattan - the ones the size of cats, that make you freeze in your tracks. The kind that are not afraid of human beings and carry themselves with that swagger and give you that look that seems to imply, "Yeah, what are you gonna do about it?”
“I wondered if children ought to have heroes at all. The men and women we worship are as flawed as the men and women we don't.”
Source: South of Haunted Dreams: A Memoir
“I wondered if could I ride Filo to another island.”
Source: The Rising of the Shield Hero Volume 05
“I wondered if emotions were like menstrual cycles, if you get enough women together. Give it time, and everyone was crying.”
Source: Along for the Ride
“I wondered if Grover could still read my emotions, mixed up as they were.”
Source: The lightning thief
“I wondered if he could ever understand that it was a blessing, not a sin, to be graced with more than one love. It could be complicated; of course it could be complicated. And it opened one up to the possibility of more pain and loss. Still, it was a blessing I would never relinquish. Love, genuine love, was always a cause for joy.”
“I wondered if he ever thought of me, and hated the pang I felt when I told myself he didn't.”
“I wondered if I could become a Muslim woman. It is unlikely. To live only for a man? No, it is not my way. I must live for myself. It is unwise to dedicate one’s life to someone as they won’t even be grateful in the end.”
Source: Through the Magic Sunglasses
“I wondered if I'd ever be nice enough to volunteer for anything. I was hoping not.”
Source: W is for Wasted
“I wondered if I'd ever grow up to become a child like her.”
Source: Lullaby Road
“I wondered if I had offended him. I wondered if I cared.”
Source: Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Collection 1-5
“I wondered if I might not be in the grip of demons, if they were not making me suffer for their own purposes, or simply for their enjoyment.”
Source: Transformation
“I wondered if I was afraid of him, after all.”
Source: In the Cut
“I wondered if I was just the sum of my brain scan, little dots clustered in my frontal lobe. Is that where the poems came from? The desire to destroy myself? This last depression had scared me. It had come on so quickly, not like the gradual woolgathering in my brain I had known before.”
Source: Food and Loathing: A Life Measured Out in Calories
“I wondered if I was just the sum of my brain scan, little dots clustered in my frontal lobe. Is that where the poems came from?.”
Source: Food and Loathing: A Life Measured Out in Calories
“I wondered if I would appear on a temple wall painting someday. A blonde Egyptian girl with purple highlights running sideways through the palm trees, screaming "Yikes!" in hieroglyphics as Neith chased after me. The thought of some poor archaeologist trying to figure that out almost lifted my spirits.”
“I wondered if i would spend the rest of my life inventing complicated ways to depress myself.”
Source: No One Belongs Here More Than You: Stories
“I wondered if I would talk about drug use. But I guess, why hide it?”
“I wondered if, in some way that I did not understand, he was using that knowledge to presume an intimacy between us, as if we shared a secret that was exciting because it was dangerous to both of us.”
Source: In the Cut
“I wondered if it was actually true or if he was simply obeying my commands to confess, but then I realized that I’m the only one who lies in this relationship.”
Source: Dungeon Crawlers #1: Origins
“I wondered if it was possible to donate my body to science before I was actually dead. I wondered if a disease were to be named after me what the symptoms would be.”
Source: A Complicated Kindness: A Novel
“I wondered if it was really because he cared about me, or if now I was just another challenge.”
Source: The Truth About Forever
“I wondered if it was the act of dying and bad dental hygiene that his mouth was so out of shape or did death rapidly decay the spirit?”
Source: Ned Finally Died
“I wondered if kicking him in the head would make the whole explanation pop out of his mouth in one chunk.”
Source: Magic Slays
“I wondered if maybe you and I could spend some time together," I asked, "just the two of us?"
"Steph, I just don't think that would be appropriate."
"Why?" I asked, straightening.
"I mean if you want to spend some time with me, then you'll have to accept that William will be there too," she said.
~~~~~
This visit, I wished to gain back the lost relationship with my mother, but not just as someone who could help care for Mia. I craved a Mom, someone I could trust, who would accept me unconditionally despite my living in a homeless shelter. If I had a mom to talk to, maybe she could explain what was happening to me, or make it easier, and help me not see myself as a failure. It was hard, admitting that level of desperation, vying for the attention of your own mother.”
“I wondered if my smile was as big as hers. Maybe as big. But not as beautiful.”
“I wondered if Olympus had gone to a commercial break, or if our ratings had been any good.”
Source: The lightning thief
“I wondered if other people had to work so hard to try and seem normal all of the time.”
Source: Iphigenia Murphy
“I wondered if parents had an easier time with the secrets their children kept than children did with the secrets of their parents. A parent's secrets seemed like some sort of betrayal, where my own just seemed like a fact of life and growing up and away. I was supposed to be independent, but he was supposed to be available. Him having his own life seemed selfish, where me having my own was the right order of things.”
Source: Stay
“I wondered if people might not have had enough of Simon Armitage and wondered whether I hadn't had enough of Simon Armitage.”
“I wondered if [people] weren't psychic because they didn't have the ability, or because they didn't want to have it. [...]
Later I'd come to understand how negative behavior and thought patterns block people from their psychic sense.”
Source: Diary of a Psychic: Shattering the Myths
“I wondered if she'd ever written on her notebook: GEB + NUT = TRUE LOVE or MRS GEB.”
Source: The Kane Chronicles, The, Book One: Red Pyramid
“I wondered if sometimes the difference between a psychopath in Broadmoor and a psychopath on Wall Street was the luck of being born into a stable, rich family.”
Source: The Psychopath Test
“I wondered if suicide
is the unforgivable sin
because by taking control
and beating God at His own game,
He still makes sure,
that you never win.”
Source: 88
“I wondered if that was how forgiveness budded; not with the fanfare of epiphany, but with pain gathering its things, packing up, and slipping away unannounced in the middle of the night.”
Source: The Kite Runner
“I wondered if that was true: if they were all really children wrapped up in adult bodies, like children's books hidden in the middle of dull, long adult books, the kind with no pictures or conversations.”
“I wondered if that was what I was doing myself – caring so much about something that was so long gone that I was only propping it up.”
Source: Ma Polinski's Pockets
“I wondered if that's what aging felt like. That desire and reality were dueling until the day you die, that nobody every got to a place of peace. I had always wanted to get old so I didn't have to care anymore, but I began to think that it would be best just to skip the getting older part and just die.”
Source: Unbearable Lightness: A Story of Loss and Gain
“I wondered if the Demon that whispered "Why not be free?" was Freedom itself.”
“I wondered if the fire had been out to get me. I wondered if all fire was related, like Dad said all humans were related, if the fire that had burned me that day while I cooked hot dogs was somehow connected o the fire I had flushed down the toilet and the fire burning at the hotel. I didn't have the answers to those questions, but what I did know was that I lived in a world that at any moment could erupt into fire. It was the sort of knowledge that kept you on your toes.”
Source: The Glass Castle: A Memoir
“I wondered if the life that was right for one was ever right for two!”
Source: My Ántonia
“I wondered if the person who really loves you is the person who knows all your stories, the person who WANTS to know all your stories.”
“I wondered...if there should be anything wrong with Sen. Joe McCarthy (Republican) of Wisconsin which a .577 solid would not cure.”
“I wondered if there was a way to teach people how to use their imaginations in prayer and worship. So I began reading books on cognitive therapy and neuroscience and started studying the devotional traditions of the church.”