I Quotes
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“I can't forgive myself. You tell me there's nothing I can do about a natural change in feelings, but my relationship with Naoko was not that simple. If you stop and think about it, she and I were bound together at the border between life and death. It was like that for us from the start.”
Source: Norwegian Wood
“I can't forgive myself. You tell me there's nothing I can do about a natural change in feelings, but my relationship with Naoko was not that simple. If you stop and think about it, she and I were bound together at the border between life and death. It was like that for us from the start."
"If you feel some kind of pain with regard to Naoko's death, I would advise you to keep on feeling that pain for the rest of your life. And if there's something you can learn from it, you should do that, too. But quite aside from that, you should be happy with Midori. Your pain has nothing to do with your relationship with her. If you hurt her any more than you already have, the wound could be too deep to fix. So, hard as it may be, you have to be strong. You have to grow up more, be more of an adult. I left the sanatorium and came all the way up here to Tokyo to tell you that---all the way on that coffin of a train.”
Source: Norwegian Wood
“I can’t fuck your life, I’m monogamously fucking my own life.”
Source: Leah on the Offbeat
“I can’t get by with seeing such close friends once every three months. It made me realize that while my close friends feel essential to me, I might not necessarily feel essential to them. That can really hurt. What they are to me, their families are to them. I exist much lower down on their list of needs.”
Source: 7 Myths about Singleness
“I can’t get enough of you,” he said against her neck. “When I walk away from you I feel like I’ve cut myself off from breathing.”
Source: Spellbinder
“I can’t get enough of you,” he said. “You’re like oxygen. I crave you, I need you, I can’t live without you.” “Oxygen’s explosive,” I teased. “It most definitely is,” he said”
“I can’t get forensics over here to dig up the yard because my friend here, and her dog, didn’t hear a single thing. I don’t think they’ll go for it, Valerie.”
Source: And Then I Heard the Quiet
“I can’t get her out of my head”
“I can’t get Him out of my head. I never have. I never will.”
Source: The Vampire Armand
“I can't get it why did I name my book series, I'm talking about "The Life Of One kid". I'm talking about the last word "Kid"?? Aren't your curious I'm with British Accent and putting "Kid" the American word for child the last? I'm also curious I still don't know, I really don't know why. Child sounds like a baby maybe that's all, kid sounds like a child in aobut 7-8 years old!”
“I can't get my head around why I didn't just call your name that day. Why I just came tottering on behind, struggling for breath and dumb as a mute. If I call your name next time, will you please just turn around? You don't need to say "Yes, Mum?" or anything like that. Just turn round so I can see you.”
Source: Human Acts
“I can't get myself to stay; I cannot enjoy the crowd,
But I hate that I hate it because I wish I could let go.
I'm all alone in this corner and their laughter is loud.
Well that's okay, I think I'll just go home.”
Source: Can I Tell You Something?
“I can't get that Little Red-Haired Girl out of my mind. ~ Charlie Brown”
Source: The Complete Peanuts, 1977-1978
“I can't get why people are afraid of books or films which are horror. What's the scary of the film "Cube 1,2,3" - Yeah it was brutal I get scary, but after an hour I'm fine. I just continue to live my life. I check out "Saw", the most brutal film ever watched, yeah I could have some kind a bad thoughts and other stuff about the film. Like to think that this guy "Saw", is there with the bike, but after few days everything it went on the right path. I had chance to see what is the real face of the killers - "Saw" and what does goverment do "Cube"!
GreenMile was a sad story, I still can't believe that Stephen King has written it!”
“I can't give solutions to all of life's problems, doubts,
or fears. But I can listen to you, and together we will
search for answers.
I can't change your past with all it's heartache and pain,
nor the future with its untold stories.
But I can be there now when you need me to care.
I can't keep your feet from stumbling.
I can only offer my hand that you may grasp it and not fall.
Your joys, triumphs, successes, and happiness are not mine;
Yet I can share in your laughter.
Your decisions in life are not mine to make, nor to judge;
I can only support you, encourage you,
and help you when you ask.
I can't prevent you from falling away from friendship,
from your values, from me.
I can only pray for you, talk to you and wait for you.
I can't give you boundaries which I have determined for you,
But I can give you the room to change, room to grow,
room to be yourself.
I can't keep your heart from breaking and hurting,
But I can cry with you and help you pick up the pieces
and put them back in place.
I can't tell you who you are.
I can only love you and be your friend.”
“I can't give to you what I have failed to give my self.”
“I can’t give you a life because I take lives. Even if we escape these people at the camp and thrive without any money, I can’t escape the fact that my conscience died long ago. This feeling is within me now; I can always kill again. It’s too late for me to change. You’re a diamond, and I’m a stone; one is meant to decorate, the other to throw.”
Source: Diamonds and Stones: An Unlikely Story
“I can't give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time.”
“I can’t give you forever, but I can give you now.”
“I can't go around the kit.... I can't go snare drum, top tom, middle tom, floor tom[.] I can go the other way. So all these things made up these so-called 'funny fills,' but it was the only way I could play. [QUOTED FROM Ringo: With a Little Help (2015) by Michael Seth Starr]”
“I can’t go back there. Back to a time when I had a weakness. When I lost control, and lost loved ones and territories in the process. The WUN still remains out of my hands. If I woke her now, what would I lose next?”
“I can’t go down without a fight. Only I keep wishing I could think of a way to… to show the Capitol they don’t own me. That I’m more than just a piece in their Games.”
“I can’t go into detail, but it’s why I went to the special meeting at the Pentagon.”
Source: Counter Identity
“I CAN'T GO ON! I FEEL LIKE NONE OF MY EMOTIONAL WOUNDS CAN HEAL! AS SOON AS IT TRIES TO HEAL, IT SHATTERS AGAIN! I CAN'T HEAL!”
“I can’t go on saving the world if it means neglecting my duties as a cheerleader.”
Source: Girls That Growl
“I can't go outside, I know to much to be out there and I had never liked people.”
“I can’t go to school like this,” I protest, waving my hands in front of my
bare chest in an exaggerated gesture.
“They’re just breasts, Malena. Everyone has them.”
Source: Does My Body Offend You?
“I can’t go with you,’ he told her. ‘Whatever you have to face down there, you must face it alone.’
‘I understand.’
And she did. It didn’t mean she wasn’t scared, but she was stronger now, altered forever by this journey. The Ceres who had first arrived would not have been capable of walking through that doorway - or more correctly, would not have believed herself capable of it, which was not the same thing. That Ceres was lost, and melancholic, but had forgotten for a while that this was the human condition: often to be lost, confused or anxious, but finally to comprehend that, at crucial instances, we will find ourselves lost precisely where we were meant to be; that there is little of use to be learned from the familiar - only from what is strange and new; and that everything worth experiencing or embracing is, because unknown, first touched by fear.”
Source: The Land of Lost Things
“I can’t grow attached to shadows. They’re gone as quickly as they come”
Source: Young & Beautiful
“I can't handle you being dead, Ter. But you know that.”
Source: A Manual for Cleaning Women: Selected Stories
“I can't hardly believe, I did it.”
“I can’t hate you. We’re too connected. I can’t hate you without hating me.”
Source: The Last Girl
“I can't have children," I whisper hoarsely.
His head rears back, and his forehead creases in confusion. I could have just lied. I could have glossed over it and promised I couldn't get pregnant.
I'm just sick of lying when I don't have to.
"Why?"
Instead of telling him another lie outright, I point the scars on my side. "I lost a lot that night," I say quietly.”
Source: Sidetracked
“I can't have it
and you can't have it
and we won't
get it
so don't bet on it
or even think about
it
just get out of bed
each morning
wash
shave
clothe
yourself
and go out into
it
because
outside of that
all that's left is
suicide and
madness
so you just
can't
expect too much
you can't even
expect
so what you do
is
work from a modest
minimal
base
like when you
walk outside
be glad your car
might possibly
be there
and if it is-
that the tires
aren't
flat
then you get
in
and if it
starts—you
start.
and
it's the damndest
movie
you've ever
seen
because
you're
in it—
low budget
and
4 billion
critics
and the longest
run
you ever hope
for
is
one
day.”
“I can't have my housekeeper rushing all about London so very agitated."
"Your housekeeper," Lord Caire said, his head snapping alarmingly to Val.
"Oh, yes, and rather more," Val drawled, taking her hand and kissing her knuckles in the most horrifying manner.”
Source: Duke of Sin
“I can’t have sex with you today because there aren’t enough spoons.”
Source: Furiously Happy: A Funny Book About Horrible Things
“I can’t have sex with you, Troy.”
“Yeah. You’ve mentioned it once or twice.”
She groaned again. “It’s just that…you’re so damn tempting.”
He grinned. At her conflict and the absurdity of it. As if they were teenagers who’d sworn a virginity pledge and had the purity rings to prove it. He rolled up on his side, supporting his head with his palm. “I’m sorry. For being so tempting.”
She snorted. “No you’re not.”
Troy laughed. “You’re right. I’m not.”
Source: Troy
“I can't have you making tea for me. It's not decent.”
Source: Imperial Palace
“I can’t…” he said, gasping as if he, too, were starved of air. “I can’t…” Kell’s voice wavered as his fingers tangled in his brother’s bloody shirt. “I can’t give up.”
Source: A Darker Shade of Magic
“I can’t heal your scars, baby. Never will be able to. I wish I could, but I’ll be here to give you peace.”
Source: In Desperate Ruin: A Forbidden Romance
“I can’t help but ask, “Do you know where you are?”
She turns to me with a foreboding glare. “Do you?”
“I can't help but be changed, touched by something otherworldly as we spend the early afternoon in our small corner of paradise. I wouldn't have blinked twice if a mermaid swam past us, singing a siren song. Anything feels possible here.”
Source: A Little Help From a Hex
“I can’t help but be concerned. That last letter…”
What he wanted to say was “we have to find True Fan before True Fan finds you,” but he held his tongue. She was already scared enough. She didn’t need him sharing his instincts or experience with her.
Unfortunately, those instincts and his experience on the job told him that True Fan would be making good on those threats – and soon.
As he pulled up in front of her house, he turned to her and reached for her hand. “Do me a favor, okay?” She nodded, seeming surprised by how serious he’d become. “Don’t go anywhere alone. Take one of your sisters if you insist on going out. Especially don’t go chasing True Fan. Wait for me. I’m not sure how long my business is going to take me, but –“
“You don’t have to worry about me. I’ll be fine.”
How many times had he heard those words?
“That’s what they all say.” He felt her shudder. “Just do it for me.”
Source: Rogue Gunslinger
“I can’t help but blush a little at her compliment. I don’t do those things for the recognition, I do them because it makes me feel like I can make a difference, even if that difference might be small.”
“I can't help but feel, across oceans and vast fields we will connect again. What we share is too rare to let go of for good but sometimes we have to accept, the timing isn't right.”
“I can’t help but imagine what that would be like—to be all alone on this island with eternity taunting me with loneliness. To say goodbye to the last human you will ever see—there is no crueler hand of fate.”
Source: Day One: A Novella
“I can't help but marvel at the resiliency of trans people who sacrifice so much to be seen and accepted as they are. Despite those sacrifices, trans people are still wrongly viewed as being confused. It takes determination and clear, thought-out conviction, not confusion, to give up many of the privileges that Genie did to be visibly herself, though her experiences varied from my own.”
Source: Redefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love & So Much More
“I can’t help but notice that you keep writing love poetry to my wife. Well, you see, I married her, which makes her my wife. You know what you might want to try? Writing some poems about the sunset. The sunset isn’t fucking married.”
Source: The Know-It-All
“I can’t help but notice you have no hair on your vagina,” I said matter-of-factly to the woman with no hair on her vagina.”
Source: Tasteful Nudes and Other Misguided Attempts at Personal Growth and Validation
“I can't help but question how my spirited daughter could fix her choice, once again, on a tepid Larson male. Is your blood really so thin that it calls for such milk-warm companionship?"
Phoebe stopped in her tracks, while outrage raced through her like wildfire. "Henry was not tepid!"
"No," her father allowed, stopping to face her. "Henry did have one passion, and that was you. It's why I eventually consented to the marriage, despite knowing the burden you would have to shoulder. Edward Larson, however, has yet to evince any such depth of feeling."
"Well, he wouldn't in front of you," she said hotly. "He's private. And it was never a burden to take care of Henry."
"Darling child," he said softly, "the burden is what you're facing now.”
Source: Devil's Daughter