I Quotes
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“I can't be a priest because although my heart is as loud as hers I can pretend no answering riot. I have shouted to God and the Virgin, but they have not shouted back and I'm not interested in the still small voice. Surely a god can meet passion with passion? She says he can. Then he should.”
Source: The Passion
“I can’t be certain that Frank and I would have felt the same depth of love and tenderness for each other, had sex ever been part of our story. Sex is so often a cheat, a short cut of intimacy, a way to skip over knowing somebody’s heart by knowing instead their mere body. So we were devoted to each other in our own way.”
Source: City of Girls
“I can’t be forgiven so I am not asking you for forgiveness. We lost each other, and we will never find each other again.”
Source: The Storyteller
“I can't be in two places at once, but I can be in two hearts at once.”
“I can't be light about [gun violence] anymore because it's terrifying to see my friends too scared to leave the house because of all the shootings.”
“I can't be mad because this is too important. Talk straight to me.”
Source: THE SHINING
“I can’t be my own person if I constantly require someone else to hold me together.”
Source: Unravel Me
“I can't be the center of your world, Kieli; it just won't do. I mean, if you stay like this, I wouldn't be able to go anywhere. I'll never be able to leave you behind again. Once I'm gone, what are you going to do?!”
Source: Kieli, Volume 7: As the Deep Ravine's Wind Howls
“I can't be the only one responsible for your happiness," I choked out. "It's too much. You need to fight for it too.”
Source: Naughty Brits
“I can’t be the person, you want me to be, Lissy.”
“That’s just it, you are already the person I want you to be. You don’t have to change. I don’t expect you to!!”
He holds me by my shoulders and bodily pushes me gently away from him. “I can’t.” His uncompromising reply is in sharp contrast with the working mechanism of his heart. I had felt it pounding at breakneck speed.
Anger bubbles up my throat. “Fine. Then you’ve lost the right to keep an eye on me, to take care of me. I’m going in the opposite direction.”
Source: THE FLAT MATES/FOES
“I can’t be the star in your sky when you’re the only star left shining in mine.”
Source: Rock Chick Reckoning
“I can’t bear the smell of cigars, can you?” said Lady Partridge.
“Lionel hates it too,” murmured Rachel. As did Nick, to whom the dry lavatorial stench of cigars signified the inexplicable confidence of other men’s tastes and habits, and their readiness to impose them on their fellows.”
Source: The Line of Beauty
“I can’t bear the thought of oblivion, Asriel,” she continued. “Sooner anything than that. I used to think pain would be worse—to be tortured forever—I thought that must be worse . . . But as long as you were conscious, it would be better, wouldn’t it? Better than feeling nothing, just going into the dark, everything going out forever and ever?”
Source: The Amber Spyglass
“I can't bear the thought that a man of lofty mind and heart begins with the ideal of the Madonna and ends with the ideal of Sodom.”
Source: The Brothers Karamazov
“I can't bear to think this British stud is heartbroken. What kind of monster breaks up with a hunk like that? #pickmeinstead
Nikki from @Tivas is an ice queen for leaving that hottie out to dry. Yo, Callum! I love @HungryChaps! Hit me up! I'll cheer you up!”
Source: Simmer Down
“I can’t bear to wear flats, and it’s not a height thing. The rounded toe of the ballet slipper-style shoes do not appeal to me. Let’s face it, none of us over thirty, forty, fifty and on, are ballerinas. No, girls, Pilates is not ballet.
I’ve been told I am built like a ballerina, but I’ve also been told I dance like a stripper. Did you ever ask someone how they thought you dance? You may be in shock, or maybe they will be.”
“I can't beat you, I can't join you.”
Source: Go Set a Watchman
“I can't begin to express how much your book helped me. I could open it and get lost in your words, and in those moments, it felt like everything would be okay. So, thank you for giving me words when I didn't think there were any left. I hope you never stop giving the world your words.”
Source: The Dead Romantics
“I can't believe gow many famous people and TV cameras there are in this room," said Mrs Walker, looking around at the other tables. "I feel like a star."
"You always look like a star to me," said Mr Walker, smiling at her.”
Source: Jae the Boy Band Fairy
“I can't believe he even has to ask. I would go anywhere. "Yes," I tell him. It feels like nothing else exists outside of that word, this moment. there's just us. Everything has happened this past summer, and every summer before it, has all led up to this. To now.”
Source: The Summer I Turned Pretty
“I can’t believe,” he went on, “that you would besmirch my good name by implying that I’m an oath-breaker-”
“I would have to know your name in order to besmirch it, would I not?”
“You’re besmirching the idea of my good name.”
“The idea of your name itself, or the idea that it’s a good name?”
He blinked at her and mouthed the word Oh.”
Source: The Witch's Heart
“I can’t believe I ever thought reading to her was a chore. I’d sit here some nights, fidgeting, thinking of all the things I needed to do, my voice hoarse, reluctant to read, ‘just one more chapter,’ wishing I could escape to my glass of wine. What did I have to do that was so important? What could be more important than reading my daughter a bedtime story?”
Source: The Stolen Child
“I can't believe I said it out loud. The truth doesn't set you free, you know. It makes you feel awkward and embarrassed and defenseless and red in the face and horrified and petrified and vulnerable. But free? I don't feel free. I feel like shit.”
Source: Saving Francesca
“I can't believe I spent 13 years at school and never got taught cooking, gardening, conversation, massage, Latin, or philosophy. What were they thinking? That I would somehow live off inorganic chemistry?”
“I can't believe I started this early. She's barely two," Gregori said.
"I was your friend, you maniac," Mikhail told him. "We got in so much trouble together, and you were always the instigator. Even at two."
"Don't believe him," Gregori said.”
Source: Dark Lycan
“I can't believe I've let you in, and now here I am telling you that I'm suffocating in here.”
“I can't believe I wrote that many words in a row.”
“I can't believe in your other attachment.”
Source: The Message To The Planet
“I can't believe it. He is sporting a bona fide erection in the middle of class. All because of me.
In history you learn about entire kingdoms crumbling into chaos because of a woman—or, in some cases, multiple women. I smile at Professor Delacroix, putting an extra bit of swing into my hips as I sashay out the door. I'm beginning to see just how easy it is to bring a man to his knees with a few flashes of bare skin, and the whispered promise of hot, sweaty sex.”
Source: Tantalized
“I can’t believe our entire tour is being taken out, one by one, all because of some stupid virus. We’ll probably all be dead by the time the day tour starts.”
Source: The Manhattanville Incident: An Undead Novel
“I can't believe our parents wanted more offspring after you," Rayna tells Grom. Even hoarse, she's still able to infuse her irritation in each forced word. "After birthing an idiot like you, I'd never think about having more-”
Source: Of Triton
“I can't believe she's lived this long. God must be avoiding her.”
Source: Natural Order
“I can’t believe that centralized schooling is allowed to exist at all as a gigantic indoctrination and sorting machine, robbing people of their children.”
Source: The Underground History of American Education, Volume I: An Intimate Investigation Into the Prison of Modern Schooling
“I can't believe that's true. Why would Giacomo fall for someone like me? (Simona)
Because you've given him what other women haven't. You've given him your trust and honesty. (Leena)”
Source: Giacomo's Patience
“I can’t believe that you, a grown woman taller than me and beautiful enough to make my heart ache, will be the same girl I used to lift off the ground so you could reach the drinking fountain, the same girl who used to trundle out of my bedroom draped in a dress and hat and four scarves from my closet.”
“I can't believe the news today
Oh, I can't close my eyes
And make it go away
How long...
How long must we sing this song
How long, how long...
'cause tonight...we can be as one
Tonight...
Broken bottles under children's feet
Bodies strewn across the dead end street
But I won't heed the battle call
It puts my back up
Puts my back up against the wall
Sunday, Bloody Sunday”
“I can’t believe the way people act and the cruelty they have towards those they say they love or once loved...”
Source: Bangtails, Grifters, and a Liar's Kiss
“I Can't Believe They're Gone Emotions aren't good or bad, or right or wrong—they just are.”
Source: I Can't Believe They're Gone: A kid's grief book that hugs, helps, and gives hope
“I can't believe this heat," Abbey said, taking her tunic and pulling it over her head. Underneath was a form-fitting top that showed a figure unaccustomed to idleness or excess. Kip stared at her the way he had at the shiney curves of the steel horse back in the garage. "Can you imagine what it must have been like hundreds of years ago, when weather changed just a few times a year?" she said, wiping sweat from her brow with the back of her hand. "Yeah, it must have looked great," Kip said. "What do you mean looked great?" Abbey said, turning her eye on Kip. "Must have been great, like you said," he corrected.”
Source: The Intern's Tale
“I can’t believe this is happening. My best friend is dead. Zombies are real??? The whole city is going to burn and we’re going to die!”
Source: The Manhattanville Incident: An Undead Novel
“I can't believe you. Are you under the impression that the Second Foundation is doing this for us? That they are some sort of idealists? Isn't it clear to you from your knowledge of politics—that they are doing it for themselves?
We are the cutting edge. We are the engine, the force. We labor and sweat and bleed and weep. They merely control—adjusting an amplifier here, closing a contact there, and doing it all with ease and without risk to themselves. Then, when it is all done and when, after a thousand years of heaving and straining, we have set up the Second Galactic Empire, the people of the Second Foundation will move in as the ruling elite.”
Source: Foundation's Edge
“I can't believe you ate all the ice cream, Daemon!"I cringed and stopped inside the dining room. There was no way I was going into that kitchen."I didn't eat all of it.""Oh, so it ate itself?" Dee shrieked so loudly I thought I heard the rafters in the ceiling shake."Did the spoon eat it? Oh wait, I know. The carton ate it.""Actually, I think the freezer ate it," Daemon responded dryly.”
Source: Obsidian
“I can't believe you called me," Anna said. "Nobody else from home has called me in forever. It's like they forgot about me. You think you're so close to people but when it comes down to it, they just forget.”
Source: You Know You Want This: Cat Person and Other Stories
“I can't believe you cheated!" I can't believe you didn't know it. Man, what kind of god are you? I never knew stupidity had a divine representative. Guess I was wrong, huh?" "You're such an asshole."
-Phobos & Diemos”
Source: Upon The Midnight Clear
“I can't believe you cheated!" "I can't believe you didn't know it. Man, what kind of got are you? I never knew stupidity had a divine representative. Guess I was wrong, huh?" "You're such an asshole."
-Phobos & Diemos”
“I can’t believe you didn’t have a real weapon on hand,” I said.
“I have my mind,” he said. “You should thank me.”
I raised my chained hands. “I am bursting with gratitude.”
Source: A Crown of Wishes
“I can't believe you didn't tell us," muttered Noah. "We could have gone for gelato."
Noah couldn't eat, but he liked the gelato parlor in town for reasons that escaped Blue.”
Source: Blue Lily, Lily Blue
“I can't believe you're being so profligate already.
Being so what? she said.
Profligate, I said.
You are bullying me with words longer than the length of my life, she said.”
Source: Gliff
“I can't believe you rode the Tilt-A-Whirl for me.
"I must really like you," he says.”
Source: Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda
“I can't believe you told Nana that you made this cake," Violet admonishes him.
He shrugs, not caring in the least. "Well, I made the money that I bought it with, so that's almost the same thing. And it's good.”
Source: My Big Fat Fake Engagement