I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“If he could learn to love another, and earn her love in return by the time the last petal fell, then the spell would be broken. If not, he would be doomed to remain a beast for all time. As the years passed, he fell into despair and lost all hope. For who could ever learn to love a beast? -Beauty & the Beast”
“If he could not restore her to the status of a respectable woman, then Sohrab would make her into something else entirely, something hitherto unknown in their entire extended family, an educated woman, a professional woman.”
Source: The Good Daughter: A Memoir of My Mother's Hidden Life
“If he could only have died like Hedwig, so quickly he would not have known it had happened!
Or if he could have launched himself in front of a wand to save someone he loved? … He envied even his parents’ deaths now? This cold-blooded walk to his own destruction would require a different kind of bravery?”
Source: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
“If he could only prevent himself growing up! He did not want to be a man.”
Source: Jude the Obscure
“If he could only see how small a vacancy his death would leave, the proud man would think less of the place he occupies in his lifetime.”
“If he could will himself to die, he’d do it, just to no longer feel the pain.”
Source: The Manhattanville Incident: An Undead Novel
“If he couldn’t appreciate the passion and beauty in you than that’s his shame, not yours.”--Ciaran Ross, Killer Curves”
Source: Killer Curves
“If he'd cut off his right arm to make her happy, then how much harder could it be to cut out his heart?”
Source: The Bear Who Loved Me
“If he'd feel better, he'd have laughed at the irony of how quickly their relationship had deteriorated into their own private Hunger Games.”
Source: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes
“If he decided to pursue Sienna...Sucking in a breath Indigo promised herself she'd warn the girl if and when the time came-because no woman should have to face that campaign unprepared.”
Source: Play of Passion
“If he declares he has none, then we will know that Saddam Hussein is once again misleading the world.”
“If he descended from heaven today the great warrior who beat the money-traders you would shout your "crucifige!" and nail him to the cross which he himself bore. But he mildly smiles upon your hate: "The truth will prevail, even if the bearer falls; the faith will live, for I give my life ... and stand tall at the cross for all warriors of the world.”
“If he desired to know about automobiles, he would, without question, study diligently about automobiles. If his wife desired to be a gourmet cook, she'd certainly study the art of cooking, perhaps even attending a cooking class. Yet, it never seems as obvious to him that if he wants to live in love, he must spend at least as much time as the auto mechanic or the gourmet in studying love.”
“If he did not betray her, he would master her. She did not know which of those she feared the most.”
Source: A Dance with Dragons
“If he did not succeed, he at least failed in a glorious undertaking.”
“If he didn’t care about you, you couldn’t upset him,” Liza tells Bod.”
Source: The Graveyard Book
“If he didn’t change, the world around him wouldn’t change either. Nothing would happen. His future was in his own hands, and he had the feeling that right now this was something more than a daydream.”
Source: Ai no Kusabi Vol. 2: Destiny
“If he didn't hate me so much and he wasn't an evil supernatural being, I'd be on him like black on Cookie's toast.
That woman could not make toast.”
Source: The Dirt on Ninth Grave
“If he didn't know what it was "supposed" to do, he wasn't going to try to make it do anything; it might do the wrong thing, and someone might think it was his fault.”
Source: How Children Learn
“If he didn't like the writing, then he didn't like her, and everything she had done in her whole life would be for nothing.”
Source: Enchanted
“If he didn’t love so deeply, he couldn’t grieve so deeply. But he’s drowning in it.”
Source: The Protector
“If he didn't care about you, you couldn't upset him.”
“If he didn't get out of here - right now - Harrier was either going to break into hysterical laughter or strangle somebody.”
Source: The Phoenix Transformed: Book Three of the Enduring Flame
“If he didn't want to be mauled, he shouldn't have put himself right in my path.”
Source: Halo
“If he does find himself back in the mountain of Marvels, or if he never leaves it, I hope he finds its glorious imaginary world changing all the time, keeping pace with the real one in which he lives, and I hope he appreciates it for changing. I hope, too, that what he cares about is the story itself -- the characters, the images, the imaginative leaps and eleventh-hour improvisations that hold it together -- and its creators, rather than the business entity that stamped a logo everywhere on it. A story can never leave you; a corporation can never love you back.”
Source: All of the Marvels: A Journey to the Ends of the Biggest Story Ever Told
“If he does go, the change will be doleful. Suppose he should be absent spring, summer, and autumn: how joyless sunshine and fine days will seem!”
Source: The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
“If he does he's a fool," said Hazael. "The message is clear. Please enjoy this lovely fruit while contemplating all the ways we might kill you in your sleep.”
“If he does not plant the field that was given over to him as a garden, if it be arable land, the gardener shall pay the owner the produce of the field for the years that he let it lie fallow, according to the product of neighboring fields, put the field in arable condition and return it to its owner.”
“If he does really think that there is no distinction between virtue and vice, why, sir, when he leaves our houses let us count our spoons.”
“If he does that, he will be the greatest man in the world.”
“If he doesn’t come out soon and tell us what’s going on, I am going in there.”
A rush of relief flooded Harper at the sound of Drea in the hallway.
“As much as you think she loves you, shortcake, she loves him a bit more. Give them a minute.”
Trent laughed. Harper opened her eyes and looked at him. “My money is on Drea,” she whispered.
“Can you get your stupid frigging arms off me?”
Drea and Cujo burst through the door. Cujo’s arms were wrapped tightly around Drea’s middle, and the angle she was bending his fingers back to release his grip had to hurt.
“I tried to stop her but it’s like getting a feral cat into a shoe box.” Cujo let out a grunt and let Drea go. Harper looked from Cujo to Drea, desperate to bury the laugh she could feel brewing.”
Source: The Strongest Steel
“If he doesn’t get here soon, I’m going to fall asleep, Susan grumbled.
He loved hearing her voice in his head even when she was cranky.
The thought made him smile. I’ve been keeping you up too late.
Not really, she replied. I’ve always been a night owl. I just haven’t been sleeping late the way I usually do.
And had had one scare after another whilst awake.
Did I mention I’m still sore from digging your handsome ass up?
He laughed.
It was totally worth it, of course, she went on.But if we find out you’re single, I might hit you up for a nice long massage.
He cursed when his body immediately responded to the image of her naked and laid out before him, waiting for him to run his hands all over her body. Now who’s flirting?
Ooh, she purred. That’s so cool. Even in your thoughts, your voice deepens and gets all growly when you’re turned on. Before he could respond, she made a sound of impatience.Damn it. Now I’m turned on.
He laughed, delighted that she inspired him to do so even in such grim circumstances.”
Source: Awaken the Darkness
“If he doesn't respect his mama, love he ain't gonna respect you.”
Source: My Faith Saved Me
“If he doesn't ride in on a motorbike, I shall be very disappointed.”
Source: The Last Devil to Die
“if he doesn’t think you’re absolutely stunning at your dirty sweats
& grass-stained feet, then he sure as hell doesn’t deserve you at your fancy dress & uncomfortable heels.”
Source: Break Your Glass Slippers
“If he doesn't stop trying to save your life he's going to kill you.”
“If he emotionally cheated on you remember this before you take him back. It was a choice to do it and in his mind a chance for a better life than what you offered.”
“If he even survives." She shivered, and Amon put his arm around her, drawing her into his steady warmth. "It's that bad?" Raisa nodded. "He looked...he looked awful, Amon. Willo doesn't know if he'll...She's worried about him. My mother died, and I never got to tell her that I loved her, that I finally understood - just a little anyway. If Han dies too, I don't know what I'll do.”
“If he ever got married, he decided, he would find a woman older than him. Too much pressure, being the older one in the relationship. When you were the baby, a woman didn't expect much from you. She wanted to take care of you and he felt comforted by it all, her attention and her low expectations.”
Source: The Mothers
“If he ever had a bright idea it would be beginner's luck.”
Source: Bitter Truth
“If he ever left me, I wouldn't even be sad; no, 'cause there's a blessing in every lesson, and I'm glad that I knew him at all.”
“If he ever wanted vengeance on me for all I did, he has it now. This is the worst thing he could do to me. Now I know how it feels to be left behind. As I left him.”
Source: Assassin's Fate
“If he exalts himself, I humble him. If he humbles himself, I exalt him. And I go on contradicting him Until he understands That he is a monster that passes all understanding.”
Source: Pascal Pensées
“If He exists the creator has an inordinate fondness for beetles.”
“If he failed, it was with honor.
In his name we all dwell
in Camelot
Long after the towers fall,
and merlins nest
in the ruined stones.”
“If he failed the first time he took his driver's licence test, it was mainly because he started an argument with the examiner in an ill-timed effort to prove that nothing could be more humiliating to a rational creature than being required to encourage the development of a base conditional reflex by stopping at a red light when there was not an earthly soul around, heeled or wheeled. He was more circumspect the next time, and passed.”
Source: Pnin
“If he fancied her anymore," Saphira said to both Eragon and Roran, "I'd be trying to kiss Arya myself." "Saphira!" Mortified, Eragon swatted her on the leg.”
“if he found a book misplaced at a bookstore, would return it to the shelf where it belonged.
Everything had its place.
He was a bullet journal guy, and I was a sticky note kind of girl.”
Source: The Dead Romantics
“If he full-out flexed, I would probably faint, or jump off the building.”
“If he gimme the word then I'm flippin the bird & then I'm spinnin around & I'm grippin the burn”