I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“I wondered if there was a word for homesickness not for a place but for people.”
Source: Mrs England
“I wondered if there were other restless people asking the question with me: What if Jesus meant the stuff he said?.”
“I wondered if there were sheep here to feed them.
Horses make a great substitute.
I hoped he was joking.
I’m not.
He really did push jokes too far!”
Source: First Message
“I wondered if there would ever be a day when I didn't think about Alaska, wondered whether I should hope for a time when she would be a distant memory - recalled only on the anniversary of her death, or maybe a couple of weeks after, remembering only after having forgotten.”
Source: Looking For Alaska Special 10th Anniversary Edition
“I wondered if they had rehearsed this weird three-way-talking thing they had going on. I imagined them sitting in a circle in their dorm room, brushing their hair and saying, "Okay, so I'll say we feel bad, and then you'll say that your hot boyfriend thinks she's pathetic.”
Source: Hex Hall
“I wondered if this was how it felt to sell your soul to the devil. I bet there were awesome cookies in hell, too.”
Source: Playing the Player
“I wondered if we were put on this earth only to destroy every beautiful thing, to make chaos. Or were we meant to overcome this? Did bad things happen so that goodness could show through in people?”
Source: A Parchment of Leaves
“I wondered it these people had been there all along. People willing to be friendly and helpful. Why had I never noticed them before?”
Source: Paul, Big, and Small
“I wondered over again for the hundredth time what could be the principle which, in the wildest, most lawless, fantastically chaotic, apparently capricious work of Nature, always kept it beautiful.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of George MacDonald (Illustrated)
“I wondered quickly if I'd give my life so that a dragon could live. If someone offered me that deal, your life for the existence of dragons.I thought maybe yes, maybe no.”
“I wondered straightaway how he could sit at peace there, of an evening, with the row of heads staring down at him. There were no pictures, no flowers: only the heads of chamois. The concession to melody was the radiogram and the stack of records of classical music.
Foolishly, I had asked, "Why only chamois?"
He answered at once, "They fear Man."
This might have led to an argument about animals in general, domestic, wild, and those which adapt themselves to the whims and vagaries of the human race; but instead he changed the subject abruptly, put on a Sibelius record, and presently made love to me, intently but without emotion. I was surprised but pleased. I thought, "We are suited to one another. There will be no demands. Each of us will be self-contained and not beholden to the other."
All this came true, but something was amiss. There was a flaw - not only the nonappearance of children, but a division of the spirit. The communion of flesh which brought us together was in reality a chasm, and I despised the bridge we made. Perhaps he did as well. I had been endeavouring for ten years to build for my self a ledge of safety. ("The Chamois")”
Source: Echoes from the Macabre: Selected Stories
“I wondered then why children played so in the river, but adults ceased to see it with the same eyes. Why couldn't we embrace such simple joys?”
Source: Beneath a Marble Sky
“I wondered to myself why no one else had seen him standing so far away, before he was suddenly, impossibly saving my life. With chagrin, I realized the probable cause - no one else was as aware of Edward as I always was. No one else watched him the way I did. How pitiful.”
Source: Twilight: Twilight
“I wondered what a man I had encountered the day before on the plane en route to Chicago's O'Hare airport would have made of this. As he tried to push through a crowded aisle, he said loudly: "Life is never easy. And it's never pleasant." I couldn't let this go. I looked up at him from my seat and said, "I do hope life gives you cause to change that opinion. Otherwise you may find that opinion walking ahead of you, giving you more and more reasons to believe it.”
“I wondered what else in my life I perceived to be wrong or difficult instead of exploring to understand the true purpose.”
Source: Mutant Message Down Under
“I wondered what happened when you offered yourself to someone, and they opened you, only to discover you were not the gift they expected and they had to smile and nod and say thank you all the same.”
Source: My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel
“I wondered: what happens when a hundred thousand people memorize the same poem? Does anything change?”
Source: Do Not Say We Have Nothing
“I wondered what I had seen that afternoon and not noticed.”
Source: They: A Sequence of Unease
“I wondered what I might have learned about myself had I given myself the freedom, when I was fresh out of college, the permission to wander and contemplate what I wanted from my life.”
Source: Wander: A Memoir of Letting go and Walking 2,000 Miles to a Meaningful Life.
“I wondered what I thought I was burying.”
Source: the bell jar
“I wondered what I would do if I didn't have my God to turn to and be able to read the Book He had divinely inspired.”
“I wondered what it does to each of us to spend the majority of our waking hours doings things we'd rather not do, wishing we were outside or simply elsewhere, wishing we were reading, thinking, making love, fishing, sleeping, or simply having time to figure out who the hell we are and what the hell we're doing.”
Source: A Language Older Than Words
“I wondered what it was like to be inside her, just a curl of flesh swimming in the darkness, the quiet things that had passed between us.”
“I wondered what it was like to feel whole, to not feel torn up or stunned out or wigged out or any of those things. I wondered what it was like to walk around the world looking up at the sky instead of searching the ground, eye to eye with things that crawled.”
Source: Last Night I Sang to the Monster
“I wondered what it would be like to die. Was it like going to sleep or like waking up? Was there no more time? Or did time go on forever?”
“I wondered what it would be like, to love a girl, to know how a girl thinks, to see the world through a girl's eyes. Maybe they knew more than boys. Maybe they understood things that boys could never understand.”
Source: Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
“I wondered what I’d end up looking like once I bloomed. I couldn’t even guess. If I had to be stuck in my own skinny, gawky, coltish body forever… well. It probably wouldn’t be so bad. I wouldn’t mind a little more in the chest, though. But wild horses wouldn’t drag that out of me. Ever.”
“I wondered what made one a Kurd and what made one half of that. Having only one Kurdish parent, or was it more about resisting ethnocide, going the extra mile to learn the language, to understand the history?”
Source: Daughters of Smoke and Fire
“I wondered what my father had looked like that day, how he had felt, marrying the lively and beautiful girl who was my mother. I wondered what his life was like now. Did he ever think of us? I wanted to hate him, but I couldn't; I didn't know him well enough. Instead, I wondered about him occasionally, with a confused kind of longing. There was a place inside me carved out for him; I didn't want it to be there, but it was. Once, at the hardware store, Brooks had shown me how to use a drill. I'd made a tiny hole that went deep. The place for my father was like that.”
“I wondered what on earth she saw in me that could make her want to befriend me, other than a pale reflection of herself, an echo of solitude and loss. In my ..reveries, we were always two fugitives riding on the spine of a book, eager to escape into worlds of fiction and second hand dreams”
Source: The Shadow Of The Wind
“I wondered what one wore to visit a vampire. The chic red sweater set didn't go so well with my darker hair, and I was afraid it might be construed as a flirtatious invitation to color me bloodier.”
Source: The Fever Series 7-Book Bundle: Darkfever, Bloodfever, Faefever, Dreamfever, Shadowfever, Iced, Burned
“I wondered what sort of woman loved a man like that.”
Source: The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry
“I wondered what that was like. To live a life so untouched by such ugliness that the very concept of it was startling."-Tisaanah”
Source: Daughter of No Worlds
“I wondered what that was like, to hold someone’s hand. I bet you could sometimes find all of the mysteries of the universe in someone’s hand.”
“I wondered what the Teacher would do if I refused, but I had no reason to. I found him to be a fascinating ... being, and I enjoyed his company.”
Source: Child of Another Kind
“I wondered what things what things became when you no longer needed them, and I wondered what the future would hold once we'd gotten past our personal tragedies and proven them ultimately survivable.”
“I wondered what you would be like. Humans. What you would be capable of. How your minds would work. How your hearts would beat. You are animals. Fierce and wild. You are harsh and brutal and beautiful. There is no one like you in all the universe. You have the power for such destruction within you. And such joy. It's a dichotomy that shouldn't exist, and yet here it is. Within you. Within all of you.”
Source: The Bones Beneath My Skin
“I wondered what you'd have on the side with a plate of Deep Fried Anxiety. Pickles? Coleslaw? Potato-strychnine mash?”
“I wondered when Blayze would speak up, and he didn't disappoint.
"I think Miss Kaylee swallowed her salad all wrong when I told her you had a crush on her. I know you said I'd have to walk to Billings if I didn't stop singing my song, but we're here now, so I want to sing it for her too.
The entire table stilled--well, with the exception of Kaylee, who was groaning.
Ty stared at his nephew. "I do not have a crush on Kaylee, Blayze. We already went over this. And you'll walk back home if you start that song.”
Source: Never Enough
“I wondered where he was now whether I would ever hear him again. Whether someone would love him, someday show him what beauty mean't.”
“I wondered where the person was who had taken my place, who wanted to know what news people had been told. I'm always looking for the person who replaces me, who thinks the things I do, who fills in for me when I'm not there. I know there is someone younger than me doing what I did and someone older doing what I will do, and someone my age being just like me.”
“I wondered where those roads, in which the world diverged,
became the promises of another life,
the hilly embankment that touched the horizon in
tranquil virescent spikes, splattered with hazel lines,
that conquered truth and candour.”
Source: Under the Rose
“I wondered whether any woman could be happy with a man who says 'folderol'.”
“I wondered whether I could find a Great Perhaps here at all or whether I had made a grand miscalculation.”
Source: Looking for Alaska
“I wondered whether the scientific modern brain could not get to the stage of realising that Space is not an empty homogeneous medium, but full of intricate differences, intelligible and real, though not with our common reality.”
Source: NO-MAN’S-LAND & Other Supernatural Stories (Mystery & Horror Series): The Watcher by the Threshold, Space, The Keeper of Cademuir, A Journey of Little Profit, The Outgoing of the Tide, The Grove of Ashtaroth, Basilissa & Fullcircle
“I wondered which was harder, in the end. The act of telling, or who you told it to. Or maybe if, when you finally got it out, the story was really all that mattered.”
Source: Just Listen
“I wondered who in this room I would go to if I had problems. Anyone my own age looked silly, immature, unfocused. The older ones seemed too perfect and uptight. I couldn't find anyone I'd confide in. The only person I trusted here in this group, apart from God, was myself.”
Source: Like sant som jeg er virkelig
“I wondered whose voice that was—yours or mine or the great
collective mouth that hums through the cloud and thinks it knows
best how I should grieve, says get over it already”
“I wondered why a person's feelings couldn't dissolve like salt in hot water? For some, a can of tuna lasted longer than feelings. And then I realized that salt dissolved in hot water did not disappear. Without forcible separation, it remained in the solution for ever and ever.”
Source: Piekarnia czarodzieja
“I wondered why, after such a great loss, they ever let us out of their sight. Later I realized that it was their way of fighting that loss, sitting there in the darkness and feeling, vicariously, our hearts running through the night, and through the woods-a way of speaking to the sorrow, and to Mother, too-a way of saying that all had not been for naught, that her children's lives and joy would be irrepressible, because they had come out of her.”
Source: The Sky, The Stars, The Wilderness: Three Lyrical Short Stories of Texas, Appalachia, and the Untamed American West