I Quotes
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“I could still remember how having a two day old baby makes you feel faintly sorry for everyone else, stuck in their wan unmiraculous lives.”
“I could still smell her on my fur. It clung to me, a memory of another world. I was drunk with it, with the scent of her. I'd got too close. The smell of summer on her skin, the half-recalled cadence of her voice, the sensation of her fingers on my fur. Every bit of me sang with the memory of her closeness. Too close. I couldn't stay away.”
“I could still taste her kiss on my lips as I walked along a deserted Chalk Farm Road at sunrise.”
Source: Unforgettable
“I could still turn back before I pass the last houses and really have to commit to this.”
Source: The Runaway
“I could still walk the street. I don't have to have no massive security.”
“I could stop and live carefully but that's ridiculous. I don't want to live carefully.”
“I could stop and say, Well that was a D minor, G seven, but I really don't want to know that. I just want to know that there's a combination of notes that makes a sound.”
“I could suddenly see the pressures all around; these endless magazines and cheap reality TV programmes poking at women, humiliating us for every flaw. It makes me so angry. I really wonder what it is we are doing to ourselves, because I do think women can be the worst ones for picking each other apart.”
“I could sum it up in one thing: A guy has to be what he is. He's got to coach and have a philosophy based on his own personality. You see too many coaches trying to imitate other coaches, trying to be someone else. It's all right to emulate the qualities of good coaches but I don't think you should imitate. You've got to be yourself.”
“I could surrender and please the masses. But the self-betrayal would be the end of me.”
“I could survive for months, years, on a crush.”
Source: The Summer I Turned Pretty
“I could survive in a Turkish prison, probably.”
“I could swear I’d just swallowed the sun.”
Source: Crave
“I could swear that the house was not an empty shell but lived and breathed as it had lived before.”
“I could take a cow and implant a camera in it and let it amble around the city or in its own domain (I say a cow because a human being I would not trust). If the camera was programmed to go off at an indeterminate series of moments, the samplings would be fantastic.”
“I could take a hand in certain household matters," she conceded. "In addition to working as your assistant."
"You propose to do both?" In a gently sardonic tone, he asked, "Don't you think that might be too much work for one person to handle?"
"People say that you do the work of six men," she shot back. "If that is true, I could certainly manage to do the work of two."
"I am not offering you two positions. I am offering only one- that of housekeeper."
Strangely, the authoritative statement made her smile. There was no mistaking the challenge in her eyes, but it was a friendly provocation, as if she knew somehow that he was not about to let her walk away. "No, thank you," she said. "I'll have what I want or nothing at all.”
Source: Lady Sophia's Lover
“I could take a photo, but I'd rather paint a picture.”
“I could take a walk with my wife and try
to explain the ghosts I can't stop speaking to.
Or I could read all those books piling up
about the beginning of the end of understanding...
Meanwhile, it's such a beautiful morning,
the changing colors, the hypnotic light.
I could sit by the window watching the leaves,
which seem to know exactly how to fall
from one moment to the next. Or I could lose
everything and have to begin over again.”
Source: Failure
“I could take an umbrella and balance it on my chin or on my foot. And I just got interested in that kind of thing. And as I played games more and more and got stronger physically, I just became more coordinated.”
“I could take back those moments that snatched you away from me or maybe just wipe away those ten minutes when you came to me for the first time and I looked into your eyes to realise what love is.”
“I could take care of that obstacle for her - I'd tear down anything standing between us - but I couldn't destroy what I couldn't even see.”
Source: Blood Bound
“I could take everything I have built up over 35 years in my ministry and destroy it all if I went out tomorrow and committed one act of rebellion.”
“I could take my time, and nobody was pressuring me to be a headliner. I could go up there, find my voice, and figure out what I wanted to do.”
“I could take on England, but I couldn't take on one heroin user.”
“I could take over as host of The Daily Show for Jon Stewart and make that thing actually watchable.”
“I could take revenge, i could give pain, But i do not know how to be such a cheap
So hurt to one,i love you more than my life to whom always i speak”
Source: "Zaki's Gift Of Love"
“I could take this home, Marilyn. This is something teenage boys might find of interest.”
“I could take you down on this sidewalk and be up that skirt of yours in a heartbeat. And you wouldn't fight me, would you? No, she probably wouldn't. Wrath and Beth”
Source: Dark Lover: Number 1 in series
“I could take you for a walk on the beach and I could point out just about any creature and give you their Latin names.”
“I could talk about Blade Runner forever.”
“I could talk food all day. I love good food.”
“I could talk more directly in a nonfiction voice than I could in fiction.”
“I could taste the salt on her lips, each kiss like a summer wave breaking on an empty beach.”
“I could teach an eighth-grader in twenty minutes how to brief a case. Yet for all three years in most law schools the casebook method of learning the law is still in. The matriculating young lawyer is as qualified to represent a client with the education he has suffered through as a doctor who has never seen a patient, who has never held a scalpel in his hand and who learns surgery by having read text books about it and becomes skilled in surgery, if ever, after having stacked up piles of corpses who represent his pathetic learning process.”
“I could teach. I could wait tables. I could cook in a restaurant. Food and teaching were the two skills I had.”
“I could tell by his expression that once he got over his anger at me for keeping this secret from him, there was nothing left to talk about. He wasn't confused. He didn't need questions answered. He didn't ask why or how or with whom or whether I thought maybe it might just be a phase. He didn't ask who knew and who didn't know or whether I thought it might ruin my career. I was his sister and he didn't care whether I was straight or gay; it simply didn't matter to him.”
Source: Unbearable Lightness: A Story of Loss and Gain
“I could tell from Anna's face that she had already told him about dancing in Saint Petersburg and that the memory weighed on her heavily. What monstrous things, our pasts, especially when they have been lovely. She had told a secret and now had the sadness of wondering how much deeper she might dig in order to keep the first secret fed.”
Source: Dancer
“I could tell he was becoming sulky, as boys and men do when they're caught bluffing. And I ignored him, as girls and women do when they catch them out.”
Source: Thrice the Brinded Cat Hath Mew'd
“I could tell he was being genuine because of all the warmth that was coming down the phone. Your voice changes when you're smiling, it alters the sound somehow.”
Source: Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine
“I could tell he was just as scared to love as I,
But we still both carelessly climbed into eachothers arms and before we knew it, love had found us.”
“I could tell her from personal experience that when people we love make choices we don't always understand them. But we can go on loving them, just the same. It isn't a matter of comprehension. It's forgiveness. But all this took me a lifetime to discover, and where has it gotten me?... Some lessons can't be taught, they simply have to be learned.”
Source: The Jodi Picoult Collection #3: Vanishing Acts, The Tenth Circle, and Nineteen Minutes
“I could tell him I love him, but love seems too cliché, too overdone. I feel love, but I also feel jokes and front porch fights, pinky promises and friendship bracelets. I feel rolling my eyes when he made fun of my favorite songs, yelling at him when he paired up with Ashley Olson on our seventh-grade field day. I feel love, but I also feel our history, years and years of choosing him, the good and bad, highs and lows. Choosing to love. Not despite the flaws. Because of them. Because the mistakes prove we were together long enough to make them.
Because we knew each other at our worst and even then, no one else compared.”
Source: The Summer We Forgot
“I could tell Hugo was convinced that he would get to walk back up these stairs: after all, he was a civilized person. These were all civilized people. Hugo really couldn't imagine that anything irreparable could happen to him, because he was a middle-class white American with a college education, as were all the people on the stairs with us. I had no such conviction. I was not a wholly civilized person.”
Source: Living Dead in Dallas: A Sookie Stackhouse Novel
“I could tell it was a popular move as a writer to walk down the bass lines while you were writing a song.”
“I could tell it was going to be a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day.”
“I could tell my parents hated me. My bath toys were a toaster and a radio.”
“I could tell she was snooty. If she leaned her head back any further, her nostrils would act as teacups.”
Source: Beautiful Entourage
“I could tell that Mom was dreaming, but I didn't want to know what she was dreaming about, because I had enough of my own nightmares, and if she had been dreaming something happy, I would have been angry at her for dreaming something happy.”
Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel
“I could tell that my parents hated me. My bath toys were a toaster and a radio.”
“I could tell you a story.
I could tell you a tale.
I could spin my life,
And make it sound so well.
But then you wouldn’t understand my being.
You wouldn’t catch my meaning.
You wouldn’t understand what I was seeing.
You wouldn’t see the beauty.
The hurt, the smile, the love. You wouldn’t see it truly.
So I’m not going to lie.
I’m just going to let the time go by.
Eventually you’ll get it. You’ll stop asking why.
I’m not trying to be mean.
I just want you to see what I’ve seen.
Like watching it on a movie screen.
Scene by scene.
Tear by tear.
Each and every fear.
All of it, I want you to hear.
Does this make me mad?
Does it make me bad?
Does it make you sad?
Am I annoying you now?
Would you like me to tell you how,
It came to be this way?
Sorry, but I don’t really think I should say.
Because then you wouldn’t understand my being.
You wouldn’t catch my meaning.
You wouldn’t understand what I was seeing.
You wouldn’t see the beauty.
The hurt, the smile, the love. You wouldn’t see it truly.
So I’m not going to lie.
I’m just going to let the time go by.
Eventually you’ll get it. You’ll stop asking why.”