I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“I can’t just snap my fingers and take away distance for no good reason; the magic doesn’t work like that, and let’s all be grateful,” said the Luidaeg. “There have to be limits, even on the Firstborn. We can’t be gods. The world would shatter and turn to dust beneath our feet. ... And all the ones who would be gods are the ones who shouldn’t be gods. ...”
Source: The Unkindest Tide
“I can’t just take it.’
‘You can. I’m giving it to you.’ She affirms, glimpsing quickly up at me and then down to the floor, moving her foot once and then back again. Still her hand is offered to me, still flinching with the ring in her palm.
‘What do you want for it?’
‘Nothing.’
‘You must want something.’
‘I... got what I wanted.’ She smiles, such a light, smooth movement of her lips, but it dies out so quickly, like a candle light being blown in the wind.
‘What’s that?’
‘I got to see you again, to give it to you.”
Source: Grey October
“I can't just wish for the future; I have to take risks to create it”
Source: They Both Die at the End
“i can't keep choosing between you and me.”
Source: Bridges: A Lost Connection
“I can't keep myself from creativity. Ideas flash like lightning burning my bones. It must flow out of my hands or it will burst me apart.”
“I can't keep writing about just the rainbows, sunshine and those calm oceans. All that thunder, pain, demons, and chaos have their own beauty too. The moment my pen starts bleeding from the same end, where it was spilling the stars too. All I can do is sit in silence and witness how it starts placing the darkest demons around the same paradise it had built till now.”
Source: The Abandoned Paradise: Unraveling the beauty of untouched thoughts and dreams
“I can't learn or will myself into God's holiness, but my own willpower and planning can make all of the difference in whether I am present for God and his transformation.”
Source: Flee, Be Silent, Pray: An Anxious Evangelical Finds Peace with God through Contemplative Prayer
“I can't leave her now. I like her too much. There, I said it. But I won't say it again.”
Source: Free Four: Tobias Tells the Divergent Knife-Throwing Scene
“I can't leave you," he says hoarsely.
"I can't leave you either," I say, shaking my head. "I can't."
"Then don't," he says, and grabs me behind the neck and kisses me again, and the world is tilting, and everything goes black.”
Source: Boundless
“I can't let myself get flustered. I can't lose to myself again. I've been through that ugly battle too many times already. No more.”
Source: ちはやふる 18 [Chihayafuru 18]
“I can’t let that happen. I can’t let someone else show her this world, not when I know how good I can make it for her. I actually care about her, unlike any of these strangers. I could unfurl every stunning petal and show her everything her body is capable of. I could keep her safe. Arguably this is the right thing to do. Better me than some fucking arsehole with a trust fund and a worn copy of 50 Shades of Grey.”
“I can’t let the emotion of fear submerge me. Drown me. The ocean is so big, so full of life, but I won’t drown in it. I can swim. I’ve learned to swim now.”
Source: Send Me Their Souls
“I can't let the killing go on. No more death, not because of me. This is the only way. You and I both know it. Eio.”
Source: Origin
“I can't let the mistakes I've made bury me.”
Source: Glass Sword
“I can't let them go, those days of summer gone.”
Source: The Last Nostalgia: Poems 1982-1990
“I can't let you die without knowing you are loved. By so many, and so much. And by no one more than me.”
“I can't let you in. I'm sorry. That's one mistake I won't make twice.”
Source: Black Widow #2
“I can't let you take the blame for something I did. You have too much to lose.”
“I can't let you walk away.
Your sadness is suffocating me.
I can't breathe.
The pain laced within his tone made me weak.”
Source: Kept
“I can't lie to her,' Cassian said, looking at Rhys. 'I can't.'
'You don't need to lie,' Amren answered. 'Simply don't volunteer the information.”
Source: A Court of Silver Flames
“I can’t lie to you and tell you that standing in front of someone and offering them your soul and having them reject you is not gonna be one of the worst things that ever happens to you. You will wonder for days or weeks or months or years afterward what it is about you that was so wrong or broken or ugly that they couldn’t love you the way you loved them. You will look for all the reasons inside yourself that they didn’t want you and you will find a million.
Maybe it was the way you looked in the mornings when you first woke up and hadn’t showered. Maybe it was the way you were too available, because despite what everyone says, playing hard to get is still attractive.
Some days you will believe that every atom of your being is defective somehow. What you need to remember, as I remembered as I watched Grace Town leave, is that you are extraordinary.”
Source: Our Chemical Hearts
“I can't live a lie. I can't run from my life.”
Source: Battle of the Spheres: Crust, Mantle and Core
“I can't live anymore
In this world
No one is fair
No one truly cares
And I can't find my love”
Source: vViIrRuUsS: I Never Forget
“I can’t live life just going on my own counsel, my own wisdom, my own strength and my own desires. It has to be something more than just a self-serving life for me. I was self-serving for many years when I was young and it almost destroyed me. I was so preoccupied with my own desires and needs. So, it’s essential to be of service to some higher cause. The best part of acting for me is to be of service of some kind, to my community, and to my nation. That gives me the kind of strength to go on, and enjoy life.”
“I can't live like this any longer;
I don't have friends;
I don't have life...
I thought I liked being alone;
...But it was an illusion;
I'm living a lie”
Source: vViIrRuUsS: I Never Forget
“I can't live one way in town and another way in my home.”
Source: To Kill a Mockingbird
“I can’t live there, but I don’t know what I’d do if Buenos Aires didn’t exist. Chaotic, dehumanizing, dirty, anarchic — but she is my mistress, my lover.”
Source: Children of the Stars
“I can't live this traitor life anymore. I can't wake up one more day feeling like a fraud, living a counterfeit existence that I never even wanted”
“I can't live up to your expectations if I don't even know what you expect from me.”
“I can't live with my heart half-broken all the time”
Source: The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
“I can’t live without books, music and wonder.”
“I can't live without the sun shining down on my face, and I can't dream without the stars kissing me goodnight.”
Source: Taint
“I Can’t Live without You.” expresses the full meaning of true love. It is a beautiful and powerful emotion, words can never express, nor can the mind comprehend its connection within two souls.”
“I can't live without your Touch.You'll see that I've provided enough money to pay for at least twenty or so.”
Source: The Perfect Game
“I can't look at everything hard enough,' Lewis whispered into the stars again and again. The combination of words belonged to a character he would never play, but in that moment, he felt that the line had been written for him.”
Source: Shark Heart
“I can't look at everything I've already done wrong, only the things I can choose to do right from here on out.”
Source: Cut Me Free
“I can't look at you. I don't want to talk to you. I just want my things. I want to go home.-Blaire Wynn”
Source: Fallen Too Far
“I can't look into those honey eyes,
I get afraid of what I might find.
Through the heartbreak, pain, and veiled lies,
I hid behind what my mind always denied.
I did not deserve that.
I kept thinking... why me?
A child lost in silence,
When no one dared to see.
I wore smiles like shields,
Laughed so no one would ask.
But the echoes never faded,
They lived behind my mask.
I forgot how to trust,
How to rest, how to breathe.
Love knocked on a shattered door,
But I had ghosts beneath.
He saw more than I ever showed,
He touched the cracks too deep.
Now I wonder if he left
Because I was too much to keep.
I didn’t mean to hide,
I didn’t know the truth myself.
My past was a locked room
On a forgotten, dusty shelf.”
“I can't loose you...you are the whole reason for everything in my life. Please don't do this!”
Source: Deliverance
“I can't love anymore.
Except for you...
I love you so much it hurts to breathe.”
“I can't love you -
Because though you love me, and today
My love will please you,
You'll regret loving a man like me one day...”
“I can't make my peace with people who cannibalise the land in the name of saving it.”
Source: Confessions of a Recovering Environmentalist and Other Essays
“I can't make out what you're up to . . . You strike me as having mysterious purposes — vast designs.”
Source: The Portrait of a Lady
“I can't make someone stay, but I can make me stay with someone. A successful relationship needs a constant decision to remain committed.”
“I can't make those two realities -- what I've lost and what I've found -- fit together in some tidy pattern of divine causality. I just have to hold them on the one hand and on the other, just like that.”
Source: Here If You Need Me
“I can't make you forgive me. I don't deserve your forgiveness. I can't change the past. All I can do is give you what you want. If this is what you want, I'll walk away, Blaire. It'll kill me but I'll do it.”
Source: Fallen Too Far
“I can't mate with you and hope to live.”
Source: Shadow's End
“I can't miss the huge wink Lia throws my way as she distracts the rest of the group with promises of summer-perfect food. The rest of them go off---Lia manages to pull Jack after her even though his forehead is furrowed like he still wants to get in the last word to ruin my potential date---to load up on buckets of garlic fries and cones dripping with decadent ice cream.”
Source: The Charmed List
“I can't mourn her without bringing shame to her name--I can't go back home now and mourn her,' wailed Jamie; 'oh, and I want to go back to Beedles, I want to be home among our own people--I want them to know how much I loved her. Oh God, oh God! I can't even mourn her, and I want to grieve for her home there in Beedles.”
Source: The Well Of Loneliness
“I can’t move, can’t get up,
My arms are chained,
My head’s not straight,
I can’t see anyone at the end of the tunnel,
I can’t move, can get up,
My head’s not straight,
My dreams have left,
I feel empty and hollow,
My arms are chained,
The angel of fear is here with me,
To give me a message “soon you’ll be free”
There’s not light at the end of the tunnel,
I feel empty and hollow.”