I Quotes
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“I couldn’t go to sleep. I kept hearing him calling me, wanting me. I got up and drifted down the hall and again got in his bed, where he lay waiting.
“You’ll never be free of me, Cathy, never. As long as you live, it will be me and you.”
“No!”
“Yes!”
“No!”
But I kissed him, then jumped from his bed and raced back to my room, slamming and locking the door behind me.”
“I couldn’t handle the sudden rush of emotions. You couldn’t handle any emotions. We made quite the pair.”
Source: DCU Halloween Special '09 (2009) #1
“I couldn't have a lifetime, but I could have this moment.”
Source: The Thirteenth Child
“I couldn’t have dreamed you into existence because I didn’t even know I needed you. You must have been sent to me.”
“I COULDN’T HAVE GIVEN THEM MORE LIFE. I COULD ONLY HAVE GIVEN THEM IMMORTALITY. THEY DIDN’T THINK IT WAS WORTH THE PRICE.
“I…think I know what they mean.”
Source: Soul Music
“I couldn't have gotten through any of this without you. Through all of it, you've been my support, my anchor. I don't know how one man's shoulders can possibly be so strong."
...
He tilted her face up to his. "With the love I feel for you, bella, I could lift up the world.”
Source: Striking Distance
“I couldn’t have told you the difference between a, Chanel, and a cabbage, and quite often went out wearing odd shoes.
'The Riviera Affair.”
“I couldn’t,” he finally whispered. “You were the one who taught me to live, to take chances. For a while, I convinced myself that we were too different, and that it was better to let you go. But now, I’ve come to the realization that my life is probably going to be very short. And I want to spend it doing something that matters. With someone that matters. I don’t want to regret that I gave up without a fight.”
Source: Soldier
“I couldn't hear anything or anyone, there was only the sound of our sex and the smell of books.”
Source: The Freshman: Volume II
“I couldn't help but feel a little smug at the prospect of finding my phone this way. I was going to beat Dad at his own game, using the ability he didn't believe I had.
Ha! Take that, you muggle!”
Source: XODUS
“I couldn’t help but feel as if everyone had lied about everything. We all had secrets. We all had a dark side to our innocent cover. I wondered what we would be like, if we had been completely honest with each other in the first place. Maybe more people would be alive, but then again, more people could be dead.”
Source: November Snow
“I couldn't help but let out a great sigh when I heard this; and I call it a great sigh because it contained many smaller sighs within it - one sigh of disappointment, one of frustration, one of sadness. . . and I don't know what else”
Source: Memoirs Of A Geisha
“I couldn't help but marvel at how beauty remained so immutable in such a broken world.”
Source: Part Two: Execution
“I couldn't help but remember a similar moment, another view of infinite sunset as I sat side by side with Asuna, watching the end of Aincrad. Her voice echoed in my ears: We'll always be together.”
“I couldn't help but suspect something he'd seen or encountered had changed his view of what had happened between them. It had somehow set him free. And he'd let it fly, that gorgeous blackbird of a love he'd been keeping in a cage. What was it like for him, every day standing outside in the wind and rain to stare at the ocean, yearning for some sign of her, never giving up hope? At The Peak perhaps she'd finally come into view, a ship coming neither toward him nor away, only riding that perfect line between heaven and earth, long enough for him to know that she had loved him, that what they had was real, before slipping out of sight, probably forever.”
Source: Night Film
“I couldn‘t help but think how time keeps slipping away.”
Source: Sukoon
“I couldn’t help but think I’d missed something, that there was a gaping hole in the net I’d set up to catch myself.”
Source: The Heir
“I couldn’t help but think, wasn’t it crazy how a song can do that? How it could make you feel seen, understood, and be part of something bigger.”
Source: Gnight, Sara / 'Night, Heck
“I couldn’t help but think, wasn’t it crazy how a song can do that? How it could make you feel seen, understood, and be part of something bigger. And I looked at Sara, and I knew she got it. She really got it.”
“I couldn’t help but think, wasn’t it crazy how a song can do that? How it could make you feel seen, understood, and be part of something bigger."
– Heck Archibald of Gnight, Sara / 'Night, Heck”
“I couldn’t help but wonder if the God who had been answering my prayers, cleaning my slate, and erasing the evidence against me, even that which was entwined in my very blood, also made all of this. If He made it all, He must also be bigger than all of it. And yet, somehow, it seemed that this great Being was willing to be intimately involved in my life.”
Source: Pursued: God’s relentless pursuit and a drug addict’s journey to finding purpose
“I couldn't help concluding that disabled people with adequate resources and support are, as a group, particularly equipped to weather the adjustment to parenthood. Physical weakness and change do not scare us as they do others. We have spent years decoupling joy from physical or mental function.”
Source: Unfit Parent: A Disabled Mother Challenges an Inaccessible World
“I couldn’t help grinning at the sight of her. Megan, in turn, raised a nine-millimeter square at my chest.
Well, that was familiar, at least.”
Source: Firefight
“I couldn't help marveling at how far we'd come.
I still wasn't sure if it would be enough.
But Goddess, it was something, wasn't it?”
Source: The Ashes & the Star-Cursed King
“I couldn't help smiling as he grasped my arms and held me in place because his warmth infected me. I hadn't known I was freezing until he held me. I hadn't known until then, after the long hours of separation, that with Cain I could pretend to be human.”
Source: Stay
“I couldn't help staring at him, slurping up every atom and utterance and whistle in his voice. He'd become more relaxed in the kitchen, relaxed yet assertive. He bit his thumb in thought and the contrast between his big, strong hands and this adorable, boyish habit made me woozy.
"Well... what are we doing with this dish?"
"Let me think," I said, letting my exhalations calm me down yet again. "I think the dish needs something more to ground it. Something earthy."
"That's the lovage," he said, now looking in the fridge, his jean-clad butt poking out.
"No, the lovage is the wild card," I said, as steadily as I could, even though I was intensely distracted and slightly astonished that a man's butt excited me so much.
"That flavor remains suspended in your mouth," I continued. "You need something that goes deeper." As I said it, he slowly approached me. I lifted my hand to make way for him but he caught it in midair.
"I need something?" he asked, tightening his grip with a little smile and a little threat. He walked one inch closer and that inch set my heart fluttering again, the air between us compressed and tickling.
"Yes. Um, I mean..."
Still holding my hand, he grabbed a bowl of toasted almonds. "Like this?" He dropped one in my mouth with his free hand, his fingers barely touching my lips.
I didn't feel like eating it. I felt like either running back to my apartment and hiding under the covers, or maybe just pretending I was someone else and kissing him right then and there.
But I ate the almond and resigned myself to imagining his lips on mine. His hand was still around my wrist... his finger on my lips...
"Or, maybe this." He gripped me tighter and, with his other hand, picked up a frond of dehydrated kale, as big and light as a feather. He touched the end of my lips, but when I opened my mouth, he pulled it away. "Careful," he said. "It crumbles." He placed it on my lips once more and I took a bite, little flakes of kale falling like green fairy dust.”
Source: Food Whore
“I couldn't help the snort that escaped my mouth.
"Oh, you'll pay for laughing at that." When he blew a loud raspberry against my neck, a flicker of something golden and bright shot through me as I scream-laughed.
Joy. I'd missed it.”
Source: The Slowest Burn
“I couldn't help thinkin' if she was as far out o' town as she was out o' tune, she wouldn't get back in a day.”
Source: The Country of the Pointed Firs
“I couldn't help thinking how well Cain had prospered after killing his brother: he founded the first city--and, although we don't like to talk about it all that much, we are all his children.”
Source: We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families
“I couldn't help thinking that if I, by pure chance, had found a whole universe in a single unknown book, buried in that endless necropolis, tens of thousands more would remain unexplored, forgotten forever.”
Source: The Shadow Of The Wind
“I couldn’t help wondering what it was that made me not good enough. It was a familiar feeling. I’d had it off and on my entire life.”
Source: Arcade
“I couldn't help wondering where porpoises had learned this game of running on the bows of ships. Porpoises have been swimming in the oceans for seven to ten million years, but they've had human ships to play with for only the last few thousand. Yet nearly all porpoises, in every ocean, catch rides for fun from passing ships; and they were doing it on the bows of Greek triremes and prehistoric Tahitian canoes, as soon as those seacraft appeared. What did they do for fun before ships were invented?
Ken Norris made a field observation one day that suggests the answer. He saw a humpback whale hurrying along the coast of the island of Hawaii, unavoidably making a wave in front of itself; playing in that bow wave was a flock of bottlenose porpoises. The whale didn't seem to be enjoying it much: Ken said it looked like a horse being bothered by flies around its head; however, there was nothing much the whale could do about it, and the porpoises were having a fun time.”
Source: Lads Before the Wind: Diary of a Dolphin Trainer
“I couldn't hold down furniture and I couldn't hold down people. It all just peeled away from me.”
Source: Show Them a Good Time
“I couldn't. I couldn't do it. It wasn't like hunting; it wasn't for survival or defence. It was cold-blooded murder- the murder of them, of my very soul. But for Prythian- for Tamlin, for all of them here, for Alis and her boys... I wished I knew the name of one of our forgotten gods so that I might beg them to intercede, wished I knew any prayers at all for guidance, for absolution.
But I did not know those prayers, or the names of our forgotten gods- only the names of those who would remain enslaved if I did not act. I silently recited those names, even as the horror of what knelt before me began to swallow me whole. For Prythian, for Tamlin, for their world and my own... These deaths would not be wasted- even if it would damn me forever.”
Source: A Court of Thorns and Roses
“I couldn't imagine Jericho Barrons as a child, going to school, face freshly scrubbed, hair neatly combed, lunch box in hand.
He'd surely been spawned by some cataclysmic event of nature, to born.”
Source: Dreamfever
“I couldn't imagine living the way she lived, free, like an exposed wire ready and willing to touch whatever it touched. I couldn't imagine being willing, and even after those few stolen moments of psychedelic transcendence, nonaddictive, harmless, and, yes, euphoric, I still couldn't imagine being free.”
Source: Transcendent Kingdom
“I couldn't jump into action even when people were in real danger. I'm not a man. I'm nothing."
~Eijiro Kirishima”
Source: My Hero Academia Manga Volumes 16-20 Collection – 5 Book Set
“I couldn’t just start killing people. That wasn’t really my thing.”
Source: Dark Forsaken
“I couldn't keep a fish alive," she said. "I kill plants just by looking at them."
"I suspect I would have the same problem," Mark said, eyeing the fish.
"It is too bad - I was going to name it Magnus, because it has sparkly scales."
At that, Cristina giggled. Magnus Bane was the High Warlock of Brooklyn, and he had a penchant for glitter.
"I suppose I had better let him go free," Mark said. Before anyone could say anything, he made his way to the railing of the pier and emptied the bag, fish and all, into the sea.
"Does anyone want to tell him that goldfish are freshwater fish and can't survive in the ocean?" said Julian quietly.
"Not really," said Cristina.
"Did he just kill Magnus?" Emma asked, but before Julian could answer, Mark whirled around.”
Source: Lord of Shadows
“I couldn't keep doing this to myself. One day, I was going to wake up and realize that, in my desperate escape from the pain in the present, I'd let the future pass me by.”
Source: The Darkest Sunrise
“I couldn't keep myself from wondering how on earth I got to have such demented parents".”
Source: A Shadow of Light
“I couldn’t keep you but I never left you either.”
Source: Closure
“I couldn’t kill that rebel.” It was a choked, bewildered rumble in her ear. “One word from you and I let my guard down. I couldn’t kill you, either, all those times before … What am I, if I’m not a weapon? What have you done to me?”
Source: A Monsoon Rising
“I couldn’t leave you alone with them. I’m your Guardian and I swore to protect you, no matter what.” And if anything had happened to you I’d never be able to forgive myself. You’re already too important to me, and it scares me.”
Source: Just A Touch
“I couldn't let go of my star, not even if she was meant to align with the rest of the universe.”
Source: Right Where You Left Me
“I couldn't let him have you, Jessalyn," he said, his throat raw. "I know that I am worthless, a degenerate Trelawny buried in debts. But you're all I've ever wanted out of this life, the only thing I will ever need. Without you I have no reason to live." He held his hands up to her, spreading them in supplication, and they shook as if he had an ague. "I have no pride left. You have it all.”
Source: Once in a Blue Moon
“I couldn’t lie to myself any longer. I wanted him as more than my friend. It didn’t matter that it hadn’t been long since Brayan. Tristen was the boy next door with dirty dance moves. He helped me with math and watched stupid shows with me when I was sad. He walked with me, challenged me. Liked me. Every time I tried to push him away, I knew it was morally right, but it felt wrong.”
Source: The Hall of Art and Pleasure
“I couldn't loose somebody else like that, without even the chance to say good-bye. Not again. Not her.”
“I couldn’t love you for who you are because you showed me who you truly wanted to be, and I loved her more.”
“I couldn't make any sense of this logic, that the better off got more and those had little got less. The world ran on this law and only on this.”