I Quotes
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“It felt natural. That is what I remember most about becoming a father halfway through my 20s. As if Mother Nature was giving me the big thumbs up.”
“It felt now as if I'd never known them and I couldn't know them again. It seemed to me that whatever had existed back in the place where I'd grown up was so far away now, impossible to retrieve.”
Source: Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
“It felt odd to be laughing during a firefight. Then again, if you can't laugh when you're about to die, when can you?”
Source: Blackout: The Newsflesh Trilogy:
“It felt odd to have Regina laundering his clothes.
'Oh. If you’d rather clean them yourself . . .'
No, that didn’t sound right, either.”
Source: The Artist’s Redemption
“It felt odd to realize she was frightened more by what he might know, and not of what he might be.”
Source: Covet: A Novel of the Fallen Angels
“It felt oily inside her head. There were strings of Xavier Stancliff caught inside of her, holding on and spiderwebbing out as he plotted and waited and thought: this is all the bitch deserves. Swallowing, Sandra pushed herself off the bed. It was late and the room was dark. She could see the bundled lump of Jack beneath his own covers. He’d left the television on and the light flickered down the tiny hall. Shadows danced and Sandra shivered as she left the room.
In another life, she would have told Danny and Jack about the man. Danny would have whispered, “It’s alright,” and smoothed back her hair from her face and kissed her, lips dry and coarse on her forehead. Then he and Jack would’ve left while she was sleeping. They would’ve trampled the flowers and climbed into Xavier Stanliff’s window and when Sandra woke up there would have been one less man in the world.”
Source: Sticks and Stones
“It felt real, seeing his friend like that. It was like a gift. He wasn’t into spiritual bullshit, but damn. "Damn. That Mouse had become his friend was a gift, but a curse as well. If he’d left that whole situation alone, would Mouse — would James — have had a better life? A different outcome?”
Source: Return to Poughkeepsie
“It felt really good to kind of find my voice and say stuff, and to be funny, hopefully.”
“It felt really nice to not have anybody talking about numbers, and no one is talking about ratings. From my experience, it felt like there was one person running the ship and it felt like there was space for Jenji to be at the helm. That's not what I've experienced in television before. It felt more akin to an interesting movie, where there were producers who were really excited by the work and wanted to make space for the director's vision to be sort of shared with an audience. It felt more cohesive.”
“It felt really radically uncomfortable. And I was really not sure at first about releasing that body of work. But then the more I thought about it, the more I thought that that position, that location, is something that's just sort of interesting in its own right, as an experience, as a process. Again, we're talking about this rubric, this set of rules, this grid that I toss on top of different locations globally. This is what came out of Africa.”
“It felt right to be this close to him. It felt like home though she’d never imagined home could be anywhere but with her farming caravan.”
Source: The Shaman's Bones
“It felt scary because there was no auditioning, no rehearsing.”
“It felt smooth coming off my hands. I felt the laces around the ball. It was just all good.”
“It felt so empowering, to be that fit and strong and to have such mastery of the water, that she momentarily stopped worrying about her father and having to give a speech she really wasn't prepared for.”
Source: The Midnight Library
“It felt so good just to be held”
Source: The Fallen Series: 4-Book Collection
“It felt so good to be high. I felt the lid of the pencil-gray sky lift and I could breathe, I didn’t dread the rest of the afternoon now.”
Source: White Oleander
“It felt so huge, so significant, to share such an awful part of myself with him - to be so unbalanced, and to know that I could trust him to be my counterweight.”
“It felt so strange to see them all constrained to the breadth of the road after I’d known no limits but the sky for this long.
It’s my gift to you. The closest thing we mortals get to real freedom.”
Source: First Message
“It felt somehow comforting to return to the sparkling lake tucked into the mountains on Portal Prime. But why, when everything about Mesme made her the antithesis of comfortable?
Because here was where desperation had become hope. Where helplessness had become purpose.”
Source: Sidespace
“It felt strange to call them directly, to hear her father’s “Hello?” after the second ring, and when he heard her voice, he raised his, almost shouting, as he always did with international calls. Her mother liked to take the phone out to the verandah, to make sure the neighbors overheard: “Ifem, how is the weather in America?”
Source: Americanah
“It felt strange to have been given my freedom. It felt like teetering on the edge of a precipice.”
Source: A Vintage Friendship
“It felt terrific. It felt deeper and richer than laughter. It felt like opening a door and tumbling headfirst into a pile of feathers.”
Source: Bird After Bird
“It felt to me like I was living my life in a way that didn't make mockery of my values. That's what I intended to do. So, that became a very radicalizing proposition for me.”
“It felt unbearably important that he sat with people who listened to him when he spoke, treated him with kindness, and—if Miles knew his mom— made him eat too much lasagna.
He'd face his anxieties a thousand times over before telling Gabriel he wasn't welcome in his home.”
Source: The Forsaken and the Fated
“It felt very good to have him walking beside her. Good like rest and quiet, like something you could live without but you needed anyway. That you had to learn how to miss, and then you'd never stop missing it.”
“It felt very natural to me to write a Christmas song, but at the same time I had to really put all sorts of pressure aside and just let the creativity flow and see what came out.”
“It felt wrong for me to stay totally connected to that very strict way of approaching the heritage - what it can be, what it cannot be. That was also the period where I really thought, "No, let's open it up."”
“It felt wrong to be so proud of something that I had absolutely nothing to do with, but I couldn't help myself.”
Source: Shiver Trilogy (Shiver, Linger, Forever)
“It felt, like, so far from - or far enough from the reality of things that we can enjoy it purely as entertainment. And now it feels a little bit too in alignment, honestly, but yeah - so we'll see how season five [House of Cards] goes over there.”
“It felt—nearly twenty-five hundred years after Hippocrates had naively coined the overarching term karkinos—that modern oncology was hardly any more sophisticated in its taxonomy of cancer.”
Source: The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
“It [feminism] needs to recognise that disabled people aren’t inherently defective, but rather that non-disabled people have failed at creating a physical world that serves all.”
Source: Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race
“It figured my family would get along better with Clark than they did me.”
Source: Triple threat
“It figured. On the morning I'd been discharged from the psych ward, I was beginning to lose my mind.”
Source: Wonderland Academy
“It figures you've got to hate yourself if you've got any integrity at all.”
“It filled me with a terrible pity and guilt, so perfunctory it was as if I'd been made for it, a machine for dispensing grief.”
Source: Juniper & Thorn
“It fills me with dismay sometimes when you look at the scripts that do come to you that are primarily focused on violence. There are so many other things to play around with.”
“It fills me with great pleasure to learn that DARK TIMES has just received the 2020 LITERARY TITAN BOOK AWARD. It is the 4th international Literary Award for DARK TIMES. Thank you very much!
"The SIlver Award is bestowed on books that expertly deliver complex characters, intricate worlds, and thought provoking themes. The ease with which the story is told is a reflection of the author’s talent in exercising fluent, powerful, and appropriate language.”
Source: Dark Times
“It fills me with joy to encourage women to come together, to build a community focused on the positivity and beauty in running, and committed to helping each other to become our best selves—as runners and as women.”
Source: Strong: A Runner's Guide to Boosting Confidence and Becoming the Best Version of You
“It fills me with joy to realize that I can lay down my life daily for God, that I can sacrifice it willingly for Him. I may not be a martyr for the faith, but I can be a martyr of charity.”
“It finally happened - a lawsuit for wrongful doing unto others as you would have them do unto you.”
“It finally happened, he thought as he burrowed under his shirt and took hold of his heavy cross. All his life he’d wondered why he’d never fallen in love, and now he knew: He’d been waiting for this moment, this woman, this time. The female is mine, he thought. - Manny”
Source: Lover Unleashed: A Novel of the Black Dagger Brotherhood
“It finally happened. I got the GPS lady so confused, she said, "In one-quarter mile, make a legal stop and ask directions.”
“It find it funny how people from Boston and New York hate each other because of pro teams.”
“It fit into my scheme of things for many reasons. At the time it was true that male dancers were looked down upon, and it was true that a lot of the male dancers were effeminate. But what I was really trying to do was develop something that would be American.”
“It fit pretty nicely into my schedule because we'd pretty much finished the bulk of promotion for Mandatory Fun and were just getting geared up for the World Tour so this was a nice time for me to be working on it.”
“It fits to glorify God - it not only fits reality, because God is infinitely and supremely praiseworthy, but it fits us as nothing else does. All the beauty we have looked for in art or faces or places - and all the love we have looked for in the arms of other people - is only fully present in God himself. And so in every action by which we treat him as glorious as he is, whether through prayer, singing, trusting, obeying, or hoping, we are at once giving God his due and fulfilling our own design.”
“It fits with what I think I know, but I admit I don't know about "all" reality. Maybe there is no "all" as the human mind would like to think about it. Maybe reality extends forever, forward and backward in a process of change in time. Maybe the universe has no boundaries.”
Source: The art of staying sane;
“It flashed as a guiding light whilst
Duran was lost in his dreams”
Source: I'm Kita Duran
“It flew towards the roof of the net like a Wurlitzer”
“It flies so high, I swear I heard the organs playing.”