I Quotes
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“I can’t help but think, does money determine if I am good enough? If I was in your shoes, would life pity me or accept me because of what I have? Why can’t people look at others for who they are instead of putting a price tag on a person because of the type of car they drive or the kind of house they live in? I guess that’s life.”
Source: The Stars Choose Our Lovers
“I can't help but think of a particularly vicious parody of Shakespeare's Seven Ages of Man. First, she is an aborted female foetus, then a cyber bullied schoolgirl, then a raped and trafficked victim of a grooming gang, then a adjudged predatory Lolita responsible for her own molestation by some dirty old man. And that's just before she's old enough to vote. In young adult life, at the height of her beauty, she will groped, grabbed and molested in the street as she goes about her daily business, Seeking refuge from this, she may put herself under the protection of one man through marriage or cohabitation. If he doesn't kill her, she will lose her beauty and become the despised battle axe butt of a million mother in law jokes until she will be an unwanted older woman dying for a drink of water on an NHS hospital ward. Considering that life under the patriarchy can be such a slog, it's a feat of evil genius and the throat-choking cherry on the cake that the 50 Shades of Grey franchise managed to beautify male bullying of women and sell it back to them in their millions as exciting erotica.”
Source: Welcome to the Woke Trials
“I can’t help but think that I’ve been chasing happiness all my life, but it keeps running away from me.”
Source: Pinwheels and Dandelions
“I can’t help but to dance!”
Source: Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
“I can’t help but to wonder with my thoughts.”
Source: Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
“I can't help but watch his lips as they cover the opening of the bottle that my lips were just touching.
We're practically kissing.”
Source: Hopeless
“I can't help but wonder, if 50 SHADES OF GREY is supposed to be sexually empowering to women how come the girl isn't the one holding the whip?”
“I can't help feeling a connection with Luna beyond just our being rag dolls. Both of us quiet. Bookish. Daydreamy. But whereas I grew up as friendless as a lone daisy in a graveyard, Luna has every chance to blossom.
Besides, I tell myself, I'm not some lost stray cat hiding in the shadows anymore. Dr. Finkelstein was wrong. I am a queen, and I'm exactly where I belong-- with my family and Jack, who completes me in ways I didn't even know possible.”
Source: Hour of the Pumpkin Queen
“I can’t help feeling as if this is my last chance,” Evan said. He was sitting opposite Dr. Lorne, a psychiatrist at the Havilland Recovery Cabin in north western New Jersey. It was the next to the last day of his fourth pass through a twenty-eight day program for sex and alcohol addiction. The sex addiction was questionable; the alcohol was not.”
“I can’t help from drowning in your eyes. You make me wanna come and clean up all these lies. Let me up before I die. Mine. ~From Jaxon James' song, Mine”
Source: Sin's Flower
“I can't help frowning. "But Madison designed that cocktail dress herself...”
“I can't help it. I'm just a big gasbag. I still got leftover barbeque gas." She squeezed her eyes shut tight and did a full minute-long far. "Excuse me," she said.”
“I can't help it. I've always been a philanthropist. For the legitimate aspirations of the peoples, arms and explosives were necessary, and for the legitimate aspirations of the human soul, drugs were necessary. Always in the front rank of the benefactors of humanity, you see.”
Source: The Roots of Heaven
“I can't help it. I want everybody to love me and it hurts so when anybody doesn't.”
Source: Anne of Avonlea
“I can't help it, it's what I feel. And I can't change it, nor can I explain it. I was just naïve enough to believe that the people closest to me would get it. I don't understand how a biological condition can end up defining how we are supposed to live - what kind of work we should do, how we should dress, how we should feel, whom to love? How to walk! It seems like the only way I can exist is if the world can decode me according to a gender. Anything else makes people uncomfortable and my existence becomes a freak show.”
Source: Rain Must Fall
“I can’t help it, Your Honor. Something in my brain ain’t wired right.”
Source: Deadly Decisions
“I can't help that you're my muse, that every river in me runs back to you. - Jamila Woods”
Source: Black Love Letters
“I can’t help the laugh that spills out next. But then he takes my chin with his fingers. “Your laugh,” he breathes. “I could drink an ocean’s worth.”
Source: A Dance of Lies
“I can't help thinking: Am I related in some traceable way to all redheads, if there were any such genetic thing as "all redheads"?”
Source: Roots of Desire: The Myth, Meaning and Sexual Power of Red Hair
“I can't help thinking of Jackson Pollock, who poured, splattered and lashed the canvass with strings of paint. His process was about snaring not only a vision, but the moment the vision occurred to him. The paint becomes a net cast around something too fast to be caught. The bare spaces between the net's strands are as significant as the strands themselves because they hint at what can't be painted, can't be described.”
“I can't help thinking that caring possibly is the riskiest enterprise known to man. But how stop caring?”
Source: Illusions
“I can't help thinking that somewhere in the vast universe, there has to be something better than man - Has to be.”
“I can't help who I am," I pointed out. "i mean, do you think I should just hide?" I tapped one finger against my chin. "Gee, if only there was some place, some safe place, like in the middle of freaking nowhere, where I could surround myself with strong immortals and maybe learn how to protect myself and...oh, wait!" I looked at Solis, my eyes wide with excitement. "Oh my God--that sounds like here! It sounds like I'm already actually doing exactly what you thing I should be doing! Awesome!”
Source: Eternally Yours
“I can’t help you, I can only guide you, and you are the one who can help yourself.”
Source: Equating the Equations of Insanity: A Journey from Grief to Victory
“I can’t hold my anger when you smile.”
Source: A moment with God ; Poetry
“I can’t hold on to this moment any longer. It won’t stretch and stay with me no matter how badly I want it to.”
Source: Him
“i can't hold onto love.
i'm not gentle enough.
i always end up
crushing the thing
in between my fingertips.”
Source: you are safe here.
“I can’t! I can’t calm down any more! Why should I?”
Source: A Good Girl's Guide to Murder Complete Series Paperback 3 Books Set: A Good Girl's Guide to Murder; Good Girl, Bad Blood; As Good as Dead.
“I can't--I can't think about anything or anyone else," he whispered. A hand drifted up, dragging back through his hair. "I can't think straight when you're around. I can't sleep. It feels like I can't breathe--I just--"
"Liam, please," I begged. "You're tired. You're barely over being sick. Let's just... Can we just go back to the others?"
"I love you." He turned toward me, that agonized expression still on his face. "I love you every second of everyday, and I don't understand why, or how to make it stop--"
He looked wild with pain; it pinned me in place, even before what he had said registered in my mind.
"I know it's wrong; I know it down to my damn bones. And I feel like I'm sick. I'm trying to be a good person, but I can't. I can't do this anymore.”
Source: Never Fade
“I can't. I'm just some kid, remember.'
'An idiot said that to you ' he said. 'You are not just some anything. You're Pippa fricking Fitz-Amobi'. He smiled and it was the saddest thing she'd ever seen.”
Source: A Good Girl's Guide to Murder
“I can't imagine a universe in which I try to unlove her.”
Source: Magonia
“I can't imagine a world where you would need to feel less than compared to someone else, because I am entirely and unequivocally entranced by you, Lysta.”
Source: War Hour
“I can't imagine any fairminded future person feeling there was an important moral difference between the Soviet gulag and the American one.”
“I can’t imagine any version of Oscar I wouldn’t want in my life.”
Source: Dear Sweet Pea
“I can't imagine anyone messing with you, Meg." Hercules caressed her cheek. "You're the strongest person I know."
"I think that's you," Meg murmured, running her fingers through his hair. "Literally."
Hercules grinned. "Tied for first place, then?"
Meg agreed with a long, lingering kiss.”
Source: A Twisted Tale Anthology
“I can’t imagine anything worse than being married to a poet.”
Source: Delicious Death
“I can’t imagine feeling that way about someone,” she said. “I mean, building a house for them, and then burning parts of it to the ground when they die, and burying them beneath black flowers—” She broke off, glancing at him. “Who does that?”
“My family,” he said.”
Source: Raise the Blood
“I can’t imagine how hard it is to let someone be your shoulder to lie on, when all you’ve known is being the strong one.” Alec reached over and took my hand in his.
“You’ve always been strong for Bee, then for each of us when our individual bullshit came back to bite us in the ass. You’re incredible, Bran, and we don’t mean to pester you, we just want to show you that we’re here for you like you’re always there for us.”
Source: Ryder
“I can't imagine how many generals and soldiers, past and present, including those of the future, laugh at the fifth commandment of "you shall not kill". However, murder is a different case.”
“I can't imagine how many vegetarians still drink the blood of Christ.”
“I can't imagine,' I said one afternoon after a long silence, 'how it would be possible for such a small island to support enough artists and stonecutters to build all these wonders. And I can't imagine how all these different people get along without quarreling.'
'Oh, it is possible,' said Nallab, sucking thoughtfully on a mango, 'but only if you DO imagine it...”
Source: Dinotopia: A Land Apart from Time
“I can't imagine telling all my thoughts to someone else, speaking them into the atmosphere like flint sparks in a cloud of gasoline fumes. I think the world might explode.”
Source: And It All Came Tumbling Down
“I can't imagine what a happy home is like: parents cuddling and laughing, music playing, books on the shelves, discussions round the table? We don’t have any of that, but if Mum’s happy, I’m happy.”
Source: Clothes, Clothes, Clothes. Music, Music, Music. Boys, Boys, Boys
“I can't imagine what kind of poverty would motivate a person to forget themselves and everyone they loved so their families could get a monthly stipend. I may have lived on Abnegation bread and vegetables for most of my life, with nothing to spare, but I was never that desperate. Their situation must have been much worse than anything I saw in the city. - Tris”
Source: Allegiant
“I can’t imagine what you’ve been through, but I want to understand you, okay? I want to help you get through this. If you want to talk, I’m here. If you don’t . . . well, I’m still here. Always.”
Source: What Unbreakable Looks Like
“I can't imagine why a media company views a law preventing the commission of hate speech as a restriction on media freedom, but it is probably similar to how some religious folk view hate speech as being essential to religious freedom.”
Source: The Time Saving Agency
“I can't - is sacrificing your potential...”
Source: Stress Diary Journal
“I can't." It was too ragged and too honest, but Neil couldn't help it. If he didn't get rid of that phone he was going to be sick. "Nicky, I—" "Okay, okay," Nicky said, taking Neil's hand in both of his. "We'll figure it out." Neil thought he'd feel better when Nicky had the phone, but the overwhelming sense of loss still knotted up his lungs. He tugged his hand free and took the bags of clothes Nicky had hooked over his arm. He didn't have to ask for the keys. Andrew pilfered them from Nicky's pocket and held them up in offering. Neil grabbed them, but Andrew held on for a moment. Andrew leaned forward on his perch and smiled at Neil. "Hey, Neil. Honesty looks awful on you.”
Source: The Raven King
“I can't judge any of you. I have no malice against you and no ribbons for you. But I think that it is high time that you all start looking at yourselves, and judging the lie that you live in.”
“I can't just give up on it, on them. No matter what you say.'
Even if I had been a fool- a stupid, human fool- to believe my father would ever actually come for me.
Tamlin eyed me sidelong. 'You're not giving up on them.'
'Living in luxury, stuffing myself with food? How is that not-'
'They are cared for- they are fed and comfortable.'
Fed and comfortable. If he couldn't lie, if it was true, then.. then it was beyond anything I'd ever dared hope for.
Then... my vow to my mother was fulfilled.
It stunned me enough that I didn't say anything for a moment as we walked.
My life was now owned by the Treaty, but... perhaps I'd been freed in another sort of way.”
Source: A Court of Thorns and Roses