I Quotes
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“It feels that way when I'm doing a play, absolutely. On film and television, it's more complicated than that I think, and when you start to add the business into the mix, and the industry into the mix, it doesn't maintain it's purity. That's something that's inevitable and unavoidable, but that's why I try to do plays as much as I possibly can.”
“It feels to me as thought I've become the character in it, and the character's life ends when the books does. I suppose there are times I'm glad too. Then the ending is like coming out of a bad dream, and I feel all light and free, reborn. I sometimes wonder whether writers really know what they're doing to us readers. [...] I don't read much anymore [...] maybe for that reason. Because I didn't want books to have me in their power. It's like poison. I imagined I'd become immune. But you never become immune. On the contrary.”
Source: Agnes
“It feels to me like everyone is going to do their best work when they feel emotionally safe.”
“It feels very different to have long, thick, brightly colored hair. It makes me feel so conflicted to wear, and I believe showing a conflicted person onstage is actually really interesting and emotionally engaging. I'm trying to not just be the person standing on the outside and looking at something, but to actually be it, in a way.”
“It feels very good to sing in Russian. It feels so good inside my body.”
“It feels weird, being out in the real world again. Around people just living their lives like normal. Their presence is oppressive. The very fact that the world is going on as usual, like nothing ever happened, makes me want to scream. I know it's irrational to expect everything to grind to a halt because of June, but still. A wave of anxiety builds in my chest, my head pounding so loud it drowns out the noise of people talking and tapping away on their laptops.”
Source: Saving June
“It feels weird in our ear holes to hear people worshipping a guy named Ron. We know Rons in our life.”
“It feels wonderful to be go back to the 1940s and recreate the whole era through my clothes, voice and body language. I am tired of playing the larger-than-life hero.”
“It feels worse to stay silent when thoughts in your head scream loud.”
“It feels wrong.'
'Hmmm?'
'Sending you out there, Thor. It feels wrong.'
'How might that be?'
'Well...I'm staying here to fix the Avengers while you're...'
'Undergoing a different trial.'
'I'm just saying...The auger is going to throw all of you to the other side of the multiverse. Tens of thousands of Universes away.'
'Sounds very far.'
'You certainly don't measure the distance in miles. Regardless...I stay here and try and fix the Avengers--a group of which you were a founding member...'
'While I go to smite at the very heart of what caused...all this. I wish you well in repairing the dream, Roberto...I hope that when the moment comes, my will is as steady as yours. My heart as righteous. Soon...we shall see.'
'Thor.'
'Yes?'
'You understand, right? There's no coming back. You're all going to die out there.'
'Aye. It is an end. But to die...striking down the great destroyer? That would be a fitting one. So if you pray, pray that I am not found wanting...and instead am worthy of such a glorious end.”
“It feels wrong to have rituals right now, for things to continue in their carved-out way when something has cut through the routine.”
Source: The Near Witch
“It fell like powdered sugar, brittle, yet airy and without direction as it covered the land under an unforgiving tomb.”
“It felt [at the Allied set] like, "At last, I'm in Hollywood," even though I was in West London. It was like, "This is how a film should be made." It was beautiful.”
“It felt after the Bonds, after my four outings as James Bond, there seemed to be unfinished business. And the way that the Bond finished in my life and the demise of Bond going off stage left into the night, it seemed like there was a certain void there, as they say, of unfinished business.”
“It felt almost rude to ignore toe pretty white bed, but we just weren’t going to make it that far.”
“It felt as if a huntsman had ripped out her heart and then pressed it back into the cavity, where it would never quite fit again.”
Source: The Eye of the Beholder
“It felt as if everything that had happened so far in my life had been leading me to this point, preparing me for this task, and that I was uniquely equipped to pursue this quest. It was a perfect collision of personality, past experience, purpose, and timing.”
Source: Stop Drifting, Start Rowing: One Woman's Search for Happiness and Meaning Alone on the Pacific
“It felt as if he had been given to her by the gods, and she to him.”
Source: Lore
“It felt as if he were reaching into her, as if there were invisible fingers digging in to her mind, taking things they shouldn't. Memories.
...
With her body weakened, she fought to lock him out of her mind, to hide her remaining memories, but one by one he plucked them out.
The night in the crypt with Jacks... gone.
Marrying Apollo... gone.
Her friendship with Lala... gone.
Apollo infected with the Archer's curse... gone.
Jumping off the cliff with Jacks-
'No!' she screamed.
... gone.
The wonder of the Hollow... gone.
Jacks bandaging her wounds... gone.
Jacks confessing he was the Archer... gone.
'Please, stop,' she begged.”
Source: The Ballad of Never After
“It felt as if her own body betrayed her. Her body wanted this vicious and cynical man so badly that it was willing to respond to his every need.”
Source: Two Months and Three Days
“It felt as if I had no choice. As if. . .It felt as if I'd die there.”
Source: The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
“It felt as if I was suddenly walking around in wet socks, weighing my feet down as if two kids were sitting on my feet with their legs wrapped around mine.”
“It felt as if Jay would always be the one who had made it to the sand and Hud would be the one thrown off the wave. But even before 10 years old, Hud was managing this, redirecting his interests.
‘Nice one!’ Hud said, giving Jay a thumbs-up. This was some thing Hud took pride in, his lack of ego, his ability to appreciate the success of others, even when he had failed. His mother called it ‘good character’.”
Source: Malibu Rising
“It felt as if maybe the curse had lifted, the tide had shifted, but then the breeze picked up and a skeet took a very unfortunate turn. Seconds later, Angus was pulling his shot far to the right, shooting a large hole in the second-story galley not ten feet above Marcus's head.”
Source: Heist Society: Uncommon Criminals
“It felt as if she were bleeding - but it wasn't blood that leaked out of her, not something that could be easily transfused. Instead she was losing her dreams.”
Source: Firefly Lane
“It felt as if the world had suddenly revealed itself to be a dream. She knew that she was free to do whatever she wanted, but she didn’t dare. Real or not, she had to go on living in this dream world day after day.”
Source: Dreck
“It felt as if we'd been to war together. Deep in a jungle, alone, I had relied on them, these strangers. They'd held me up in ways only people could. When it was over, an ending never felt like an ending, only an exhausted draw, we went our separate ways. Be we were bonded forever by the history of it, the simple fact they'd seen the raw side of me and me of them, a side no one, not even closest friends or family had ever seen before, or probably ever would.”
“It felt as large as an orange and as heavy as grief.”
Source: The Bookseller's Apprentice
“It felt as though I were going to take a crowbar to a church door on Christmas Eve or stood outside a grove where demon worshipers were about to sacrifice a virgin.”
Source: The Road to Vent Haven
“It felt as though the whole globe was dressed in snow. Like it has pulled it on, the way you pull on a sweater. Next to the train line, footprints were sunken to their shins. Trees wore blankets of ice. As you may expect, someone has died.”
Source: The Book Thief: Enhanced Movie Tie-in Edition
“It felt as though they were the only people in the world, two young women about to bury the symbol of their helplessness, as if that's all it would take to make them whole again.”
Source: The Peach Keeper: A Novel
“It felt civilised and modern. It felt refined and tantalising, all at once, like a polite collective pre-orgasm.”
Source: Reasons to Stay Alive
“It felt dangerous. It felt amazing. It felt like of course the lights were out, because all the electricity in the city was in my veins.”
Source: The Ends of the World
“It felt dangerous, that feeling, something she couldn't control, that got bigger even as she tried to banish it, to tell herself that these were the feelings that hurt you eventually, that destroyed lives, that needed to be ignored. She'd followed her heart once, when she was too young to know how completely a heart could be shattered.”
Source: Little Darlings
“It felt easy, natural, unthinking, but the thrill--- there was the proof it was a first kiss, the first kiss, as if she had never kissed or been kissed properly by anyone before. Every sense was heightened in a swirl of pleasure; the woodsy smell of his skin, the bittersweet Campari on his tongue, the warm envelopment of his presence even as he touched only her lips and her elbow, the sight of fireworks behind closed eyes, and the sound of the world falling silent. A cyclone of sensation overloading her system, and the two of them, alone together in the eye of a beautiful storm.”
Source: Full Bloom
“It felt even heavier now but she managed to close the book and gasped in relief.”
Source: The Midnight Library
“It felt good being independent and I loved it. Space. That was something familiar to me. That was something I could understand. Before my first kiss, I prized my solitude and had learned to associate safety and security in isolation.”
Source: Broken
“It felt good doing a physical job, and going home each evening feeling like I had really done a day's work.”
“It felt good to be close to Raolcan again.
Like warm honey.
We should never be apart.
I agree.”
Source: Dusk Covenant
“It felt good to be surrounded by books, by all this solid knowledge, by these objects that could be ripped page by page but couldn't be torn if the pages all held together.”
Source: Wide Awake
“It felt good to be writing in her own room, in her own bed. To get lost in the World of Mages and stay lost. To not hear any voices in her head but Simon's and Baz's. Not even her own. This was why Cath wrote fic. For these hours when their world supplanted the real world.”
Source: The Rainbow Rowell Collection: Eleanor & Park, Fangirl, Landline, and Carry On
“It felt good to get out there, move a little and break a couple of tackles and get back to myself to get ready for Week 1.”
“It felt good to help a girl and her friend. Friends can be trusted. A hen hopped onto the stoep and made a comforting, throaty noise. I threw it a handful of crushed mielies and the other hens came running too. Friends and hens can be trusted.”
Source: The Milk Tart Murders
“It felt good, the whole family together on a sunny morning in a wholesome environment. If it hadn't been for the warshiping God part, he would have happily attended church on a regular basis.”
Source: Little Children: A Novel
“It felt important to acknowledge our small successes, to stop and observe the tiny pockets of sunshine that broke up the boredom of our monochrome days and made us smile.”
Source: Rewriting My Happily Ever After: A Memoir of Divorce and Discovery
“it felt increasingly, as I became more whole, that I had made it all up, and that I was a phoney. I had to come to some place of acceptance. If I made it all up, then I am an unspeakably evil person, leading so many wonderful, intelligent people astray. What a scheming mind I must have. I knowledge will be hard too live with. But harder still is the thought that perhaps, just perhaps it is all true; that I really was horribly, ritualistically abused in a satanic setting, over and over again and as a result my mind fragmented. The implications of that are completely overwhelming. It was me, my body, that they did those things to. No, I would rather believe I am an evil and deceitful person. At least the I can change, and say sorry, and live a better life from now on.”
Source: Am I a Good Girl Yet?: Childhood Abuse had Shattered Her. What Would it Take to Make Her Whole?
“It felt kind of good to scream. I wished it were socially acceptable to scream more often. Not in class or anything, but maybe there could be some roped-off area or campus designated for screaming your cares away.”
Source: Here to Stay
“It felt like a dream.”
“It felt like a family- the one I'd never quite had, had never dared really hope for.”
Source: A Court of Mist and Fury
“It felt like a kiss from a man whose reasons were strictly carnal. And I like it.”
Source: Reunion at Cardwell Ranch