I Quotes
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“I closed my eyes, held my breath and then everything went black.”
“I closed my eyes, put my right hand on top of the book, and passed it lightly across the cover. It was cool and smooth like a stone from the bottom of the brook, and it stilled me. A whole other world is inside there, I thought to myself, and that's where I want to be.”
“I closed my eyes, thinking, Let me love you, Hardy, just let me.”
Source: The Travis Family Series, Books 1-3: Blue-Eyed Devil, Smooth Taking Stranger and Sugar Daddy
“I closed my eyes, took a deep breath, and filled myself up with the breeze from the valley. Then I let it out slow so it could get back to its travels, with a little bit of me added to it.”
“I closed my eyes. I forced myself to relax, to remember that here, now, and always, I was the predator.”
“I closed my eyes. The only things I knew about why Empty Ones worked the way we did was that we had room for extra souls because we started out with less, and that we could make gates because of our innately human sense of home. But my home was here. How on earth was I supposed to find another one?The gate needs to be opened and closed before dawn, Cresseda said, a hint of strain flowing through her voice.YES. THANKS FOR THAT. VERY HELPFUL RIGHT NOW.”
“I closed my eyes. “Are you okay?” “I’m tired. My knee is hurting again and I’m trying to teleport myself upstairs.” “Um, Kate, you can’t do that.” “I know. But I’m trying very hard. Let me know if I start fading?”
“I closed my hand into a fist and captured the details of the feeling for later, when I might need them. Storing thoughts in my fist was a way of creating parts of myself, brighter rooms in the house that was my mind, parts that could hold on to feelings of being loved.”
Source: The Sum of My Parts: A Survivor's Story of Dissociative Identity Disorder
“I closed my lips around his thumb and sucked, swirling my tongue around the tip and across the pad.
He groaned. “Your mouth feels so good. I can’t wait to fill it with my c*ck.”
My breath caught. “Dirty talk?” I managed. “That’s new.”
“Yes, well, I’m full of surprises.”
Source: Don't Let Go
“I closed my mouth and spoke to you in a hundred silent ways.”
“I closed the book with a heart full of hope and warmth.”
Source: Beyond the Bouquet: A Symphony of Love in Fifty Movements
“I closed the box and put it in a closet. There is no real way to deal with everything we lose.”
“I closed the door and sank into my desk chair. My heart was pounding even harder. I felt like someone who had just staggered out of her car after an accident on a freeway. This was different from the cockroach and the books and the Barbie. I’d been injured. Someone had tried to physically harm me.”
Source: Eyes on You
“I closed the gulf of anarchy and brought order out of chaos. I rewarded merit regardless of birth or wealth, wherever I found it. I abolished feudalism and restored equality to all regardless of religion and before the law. I fought the decrepit monarchies of the Old Regime because the alternative was the destruction of all this. I purified the Revolution.”
“I closely follow everything about user interface or human-computer interface: technology that makes computers closer to the way the human being actually functions.”
“I club the thing over the head and that's the end of it.”
“I clung to books and words because, unlike people, they’d never abandon me.”
Source: The Fountains of Silence
“I clung to each word that fell from his lips like a spider to a web.”
Source: Twist
“I clung to nothing, in a way I was calm. But it was a horrible calm—because of my body; my body, I saw with its eyes, I heard with its ears, but it was no longer me; it sweated and trembled by itself and I didn’t recognize it any more.”
Source: The Wall: (Intimacy) and Other Stories
“I clung to that spark of hope, nurturing it into a small flame that chased some of the shadows in my heart away.”
Source: The Fiery Heart: A Bloodlines Novel
“I clutch for his knee, some kind of contact I have control over. I want to hold everything in the world in my arms, hold the universe itself.”
Source: The Water Cure
“I clutched at the brow. The mice in my interior had now got up an informal dance and were buck-and-winging all over the place like a bunch of Nijinskys.”
Source: Aunts Omnibus
“I clutched my tin of buttermilk beskuit. I wanted to give him something to help with the shock. But he needed something else even more than these broken rusks. Something we all needed: hope. We had to have hope.”
Source: Recipes for Love and Murder
“I co-edited an anthology called Interfictions with Delia Sherman and wrote a short scholarly book on three women poets called Voices from Fairyland: The Fantastical Poems of Mary Coleridge, Charlotte Mew, and Sylvia Townsend Warner. So I've been busy, but I haven't had time to write a novel.”
“I co-founded Duolingo with the mission of bringing free language education to the world.”
“I co-founded the DNC Veterans and Military Families Council in 2005.”
“I co-own the ranch with my brother, and he and his wife are really the backbone of the operation.”
“I co-pastor now, so I preach six months, then another guy preaches six months. So that's really why I'm preparing for January, because I'll finish in June; then I'll be writing and doing other projects for the rest of the year.”
“I co-taught a seminar called Small Group Processes with my professor. I learned so much from it, so much about myself, about groups, how this stuff works. I bring all that stuff to teaching now.”
“I coach a few guys and they work very, very hard, but in our day we did it because we just loved it.”
“I coach church planters to look at the ethnic diversity of schools and neighborhoods they are near. This will be an indicator how ethnically diverse their congregation can become.”
“I coach hockey players—some of them just happen to be girls. When I’m coaching youth hockey, I put the boys and girls together and they can’t tell the difference. They are just playing hockey.”
“I coach my daughter's softball and basketball team. We go to all the school functions. We go out to eat at night and take the kids to the movies. We try to be as normal as we can.”
“I coach to help boys become men of empathy and integrity who will lead, be responsible, and change the world for good.”
Source: InSideOut Coaching: How Sports Can Transform Lives
“I coach young people. I have a group called BTP - Broadway Theatre Project.”
“I coached against Dave the last couple of years, and I was very proud to be the first time a father ever coached against his son. He beat me for 30 minutes the first time and 59 and a half minutes the second time.”
“I coauthored my first nonfiction book by the time I was 25. I have been involved in nonfiction documentaries, newspapers, TV and internet since that time.”
“I coax my palm into his lapel in search of my wish, returning his feverish kiss. "Checkmate, you son of a bug," I say against his mouth two seconds before my fingers find an empty pocket.
"Sleight of hand, blossom," he says right back. "'Tis in fact in my pants pocket, if you'd like to search there."
I shove him off and drop to the floor, wiping my mouth. "It's mine!"
"And you'll receive it when the time is right." His lips, all I can look at, tilt into that smug smile that I've come to detest. He motions toward the chair. "Sit. You've just been soundly kissed. No doubt you're short of breath."
"Don't flatter yourself." I huff in an effort to hide the gulp of air and hold the teddy bear against my chest. "That kiss meant nothing. It had underlying motivation."
"Oh, to be sure. That kiss was nothing if not motivational.”
Source: Splintered
“I cobbled together that film-school experience for myself. I didn't ever sit in a classroom: I would watch DVD commentaries of directors. I was like, "...So, this person is just going to walk me through every single thing they did to make this movie? And it's on every movie ever made?!"
All that's to say: There are different ways to learn.”
“I cock an eyebrow and sass him before I run it through any filter, "Do you mind not checking out my ass?"
His eyes crinkle, and a cute dimple appears on his cheek. Dammit! Dimples!
He chuckles, "Of course, I mind. It's a nice ass."
Erogenous zones —activated.”
Source: Big Book Boss
“I cocked an ear, but there was nothing much to hear. A girl was on the phone next door, complaining about some guy to a girlfriend, and someone down a floor was either talking to his cat or having a psychotic episode, but both voices were clearer than the soft noises coming from the living room. The vamps were presumably cleaning the wounds better than I’d been able to do at the bar, and bandaging him up. I knew nobody was planning a snack– it would be like offering people used to Beluga caviar and Dom Perignon a sack of stale Fritos and a flat Coke. Sloppy seconds weren’t likely to appeal.”
Source: Midnight's Daughter
“I cocked my eyebrow at her. "Are you kidding me, Clare?" I indicated to the dead man on the broken pine table. "There is a dead Rogue in your kitchen."
"Why is there a dead Rogue in my kitchen?"
"Because I killed him in there.”
Source: She-Wolf
“I coined a word the other day, but I forgot what it was. It was a good one, it came to me in a dream.”
“I coined this term 'freedom thru limitation' back in the '90s because I was sick of art being treated like pop, because of this boring 'anything can be art' theory.”
“I collaborate a little bit with different aspects of my own mind. I kick my own ass instead of kicking other people's asses.”
“I collaborate with people because their music talk to me as much as mine talk to them.”
“I collaborate with people who know I'm a control freak.”
“I collaborated with a brilliant young sound designer named Anthony Mattana, who enriched the sound of the total production with vocal effects, percussive and other sounds. He also mixed the sound effects and the music, using the theater's first rate sound system to complement the theater's acoustics. This completed my score.”
“I collaborated with fellow cat lover and designer Geren Ford to create a sweater that we hope any cat parent would wear to show their kitty pride and that all animal lovers can wear in support of the ASPCA.”
“I collapse
I touch myself
a flower's gesture
frail
cold”
Source: The Galloping Hour: French Poems