I Quotes
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“I could feel the blood rushing to my cheeks. Montgomery had gotten the flowers. Sometime yesterday he’d picked wild flowers like he used to when we’d visit cousins in the country.”
Source: The Madman's Daughter
“I could feel the certainty of a reality leeching out of me like calcium from a bone. I was starving my mind into obliqueness. I felt less and less. Words came and I spoke them in my head, then nestled in on the sound of them, got lost in the music.”
Source: My Year of Rest and Relaxation
“I could feel the collapse under their forces.”
“I could feel the day offering itself to me, and I wanted nothing more than to be in the moment-but which moment? Not that one, or that one, or that one.”
Source: The Trouble with Poetry: And Other Poems
“I could feel the full weight of Tamlin's undivided attention on me- on every breath and movement I took. I studied the candelabras atop the mantel beside the table. I had nothing to say that didn't sound absurd- yet for some reason, my mouth decided to start moving.
'You're so far away.' I gestured to the expanse of table between us. 'It's like you're in another room.'
The quarters of the table vanished, leaving Tamlin not two feet away, sitting at an infinitely more intimate table. I yelped and almost tipped over in my chair. He laughed as I gaped at the small table that now stood between us. 'Better?' he asked.
I ignored the metallic tang of magic as I said, 'How... how did you do that? Where did it go?'
He cocked his head. 'Between. Think of it as... a broom closet tucked between pockets of the world.' He flexed his hands and rolled his neck, as if shaking off some pain.
'Does it tax you?' Sweat seemed to gleam on the strong column of his neck.
He stopped flexing his hands and set them flat on the table. 'Once, it was an easy as breathing. But now... it requires concentration.'
Because of the blight on Prythian and the toll it had taken on him. 'You could have just taken a closer seat,' I said.
Tamlin gave me a lazy grin. 'And miss a chance to show off to a beautiful woman? Never.' I smiled down at my plate.'
'You do look beautiful,' he said quietly. 'I mean it,' he added when my mouth twisted to the side. 'Didn't you look in the mirror?'
Though his bruise still marred my neck, I had looked pretty. Feminine. I wouldn't go so far to call myself a beauty, but... I hadn't cringed. A few months here had done wonders for the awkward sharpness and angles of my face. And I dared say that some kind of light had crept in to my eyes- my eyes, not my mother's eyes or Nesta's eyes. Mine.”
Source: A Court of Thorns and Roses
“I could feel the ghosts of all the girls I'd been behind me in the alleyway, creeping in my wake. I could almost hear my own footsteps as an echo. For a moment it was so real that I spooked myself. I stopped and turned to look. There was only silence and darkness. I walked on.”
Source: The Opposite of Everyone
“I could feel the heat rising in my cheeks. 'We spent one night together.'
'You had sex then?'
'No we crocheted a quilt.' I cocked my head to side and gave him my nastiest glare." Lorelei Preston to Agent Brody-The Wild Hunt”
Source: The Wild Hunt
“I could feel the muscles in my face twitch as his response sunk into me. It was a resounding no with a slap of you fucking drunk attached.”
Source: Faded Perfection
“I could feel the real interaction between directing and acting, when an actor or an actress really suggests very interesting things.”
“I could feel the tears beginning to collect in my throat again, but I pushed them apart, away from each other. Tears are only a threat in groups.”
“I could feel the warmth of his presence as if a soft blanket had been wrapped around my soul, around my heart. It held me and protected me. It sheltered me and I knew I wasn't alone anymore.”
“I could feel the weight of it pressing down upon me like the heavy sky that Atlas bears upon his mighty shoulders.”
Source: Ariadne
“I could feel the whole tunnel shake as Kampê pounded against it, roaring furiously. We didn’t stick around to play knock, knock with her, though.”
Source: The Battle of the Labyrinth
“I could feel the winter shaking my bones and banging my teeth together.”
Source: the bell jar
“I could field as long as I can remember, but hitting has been a struggle all my life.”
“I could fight with the living but I could not fight the dead. If there was some woman in London that Maxim loved, someone he wrote to, visited, dined with, slept with, I could fight her. We would stand on common ground. I should not be afraid. Anger and jealousy were things that could be conquered. One day the woman would grow old or tired or different, and Maxim would not love her anymore. But Rebecca would never grow old. Rebecca would always be the same. And she and I could not fight. She was too strong for me.”
Source: Rebecca
“I could fight with the living but I could not fight the dead. If there was some woman in London that Maxim loved, someone he wrote to, visited, dined with, slept with, I could fight her. We would stand on common ground. I should not be afraid. Anger and jealousy were things that could be conquered. One day the woman would grow old or tired or different, and Maxim would not love her anymore. But Rebecca would never grow old. Rebecca would always be the same. And she and I could not fight. She was to strong for me.”
“I could fill an entire second life with working on my prints.”
“I could fill my whole time doing interviews, speaking to crowds, and there's this natural human tendency because of our culture to think that the more people I talk to, the bigger the
impact I'll have, and yet Jesus didn't spend His time just speaking to the masses. He spent the bulk of his time with a small group of people.”
“I could finally quit my job as a bartender and stop dreaming that I might be Superman and know that I was. Then I started thinking about how cool it was.”
“I could find David Beckham naked in a cardboard box on my doorstep and I would drop him off at the pound.”
“I could find faults with all my albums because that's just a part of being an artist - it's hard being a human being, isn't it?”
“I could float and drift and not have to speak to anybody, explain anything, just swim beneath the surface. It was always my escape. It still is now.
Family, life, love, search, Cecelia Ahern, The Marble Collector”
Source: The Marble Collector
“I could float in the pool for hours, just letting the water carry me.”
“I could follow dusk always,
brushing it with stripes and dots
of simple beginnings
for us to share in time.
[Dusk Heart]”
Source: Bare Spirit: The Selected Poems of Susan Marshall
“I could forget that part, but it had to have been true.”
Source: The Story of Us
“I could forgive my own brother of anything, at the end of the day, because we're brothers. You can't get in between that blood.”
“I could forgive the boy, now, if he'd committed a million sins!”
Source: Tom Sawyer & Huckleberry Finn
“I could forgive you anything but taking my memories. You stepped over the line.”
Source: Passion Ignites
“I could fully express myself in lacrosse.”
“I could get a better education interviewing John Steinbeck than talking to an English professor about novels.”
“I could get a T-shirt that says 'All in for Week 4 of the Preseason.' That's not quite as catchy, and I don't have an endorsement deal with an apparel company. Maybe someone will sign me now. I don't make enough money to get fined. Maybe I'll get a deal with some off-brand or something that sells at Walmart or something.”
“I could get an audience into my world and if you can do that, they'll go with you not all the way, but a lot of the way.”
“I could get away with not taking care of myself as a bachelorette but as a mom I can't.”
“I could get drunk and run around Nashville naked. But I won't because I want to set a good example for my fans. I think they deserve to have a role model.”
“I could get in there with a total stranger and do the thirty-six questions and next thing you know I'm hopelessly smitten with some kind of, like, troll or something."
"To the best of my knowledge, no trolls have applied."
"Dumb question."
He hasn't said that. She fiddled with the buttons on her overcoat, then sort of laughed.
"Who am I kidding? The real problem would be if the troll didn't love me back.”
Source: 36 Questions That Changed My Mind About You
“i could get lost in all the little ways you carry love, and carry light, and hold so much goodness in your being, you are a golden thing in this heavy, heavy world, and everything feels new when i look at you”
“I could get rejected for jobs in acting, directing, or writing for the rest of my life, but nothing would ever take away what the experience of directing my first feature film had taught me: that I know myself better than I think I do and that I know my worth better than others think they do.”
Source: Era of Ignition: Coming of Age in a Time of Rage and Revolution
“I could get used to this, coming home to a hot meal."
His teasing made me put up an attitude as a defense, which only spurred on his amusement. Hot as he may be, he was also a fucking bastard. Taking the spatula, I cut a sliver of hot meat off and he caught it, popping it into his mouth.
"You would be able to catch that," I muttered, my mouth trying not to jerk up into a smile as I turned my attention back to the pan.”
Source: Dirty Lying Dragons
“I could get you to smile like that, and without sales tax.”
Source: The Complete Hush, Hush Saga: includes Hush, Hush; Crescendo; Silence and Finale
“I could get you to smile like that, and without sales tax." I whirled around to find the real Patch standing in the fitting room behind me. He was wearing jeans and a snug white tee. His arms were folded loosely over his chest, and his black eyes smiled down at me. Heat that wasn't entirely uncomfortable flushed through my body. "I could make all kinds of pervert jokes right now," I quipped.”
Source: The Complete Hush, Hush Saga: includes Hush, Hush; Crescendo; Silence and Finale
“I could give 48 penalties in every match if I wanted to. It is a question of sometimes choosing what is - in your own mind - of material importance and what isn't, what might be a crucial potential penalty and what might not be.”
“I could give a flying crap about the political process. We're an entertainment company.”
“I could give all to Time except -- except
What I myself have held. But why declare
The things forbidden that while the Customs slept
I have crossed to Safety with? For I am There,
And what I would not part with I have kept.”
Source: The poetry of Robert Frost
“I could give all to Time except--except
What I myself have held.”
Source: Robert Frost, a tribute to the source
“I could give any woman in the world a piece and a move; to Gaprindashvili even, a knight.”
“I could give examples of cabinet ministers, including defence ministers, who have no technological culture at all. In other words, what I am suggesting is that the hype generated by the publicity around the Internet and so on is not counter balanced by a political intelligence that is based on a technological culture.”
“I could give up chocolate but I'm not a quitter.”
“I could give you a thiught sheath to put that in,"Isabelle offered. "I got tons." "CERTAINLY NOT," said Simon. Clary shot him an irritated look. "Thanks, but I'm not really a thigh sheath kind of girl," -pg. 214”
“I could give you absolutely sterling advice on how to avoid writing, how when you run out of things to do other than going to your desk and writing, when every closet is reorganized and you've called your oldest living relative twice in one day to see what she's up to and there isn't an unanswered e-mail left on your computer or you simply can't bear to answer another one and there is no dignity, not a drop left, in any further evasion of the task at hand, namely writing, well, you can always ask your dentist for a root canal or have an accident in the bathtub instead.”