I Quotes
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“I’d been there, taken by surprise in ways that shattered everything I thought I understood about the world. “It knocks you down when you least expect it, hits you right where you’re most vulnerable. But that’s when you find out what you’re really made of. You have to keep pushing forward, even when it feels as if everything’s been taken from you. You don’t stop. You keep going, even when the pieces of your life don’t fit the way they used to.”
Source: Christmas Cancellation a Holiday Romance
“I'd been thinking about how close Jack and his mum seemed, their love for each other active and unashamed. But then, that's what tends to happen, loved ones rally for the initial drama, attracted to the shock, and then slowly people wander away, disinterested in the long grind towards rehabilitation.”
Source: If You Knew Her
“I'd been treating love like a thing, an achievement, a trophy to be and hung around my neck. People talk about it that way sometimes. My love for you is undying. He never knew my love. It is an error of grammar to make love a noun. It is not a thing you can have. Love—like doubt or hate—is a verb. It has no fixity. Like song, it's truth is in its unfolding. Language is filled with these illusions. A fist, an embrace, A blow—they are actions, not things. Action takes time, and time is the tool of my god.”
Source: Skullsworn
“I'd been trying to get high off of bath salts unsuccessfully for twenty minutes when Lucas walked in and shut the door behind him.
Yeah, I was using again. Or at least trying. Shit, I wasn't even good at being a drug addict. How embarrassing was that?
"Don't even think about it." I sniffed, trying to light up the little rocks of salt. How the fuck could you get high on them? I needed new mates. New, young, loser mates who'd teach me how to get high on pathetic things.”
Source: Midnight Blue
“I'd been very influenced by what I'd seen in Japan. Part of what I greatly admired there - and part of what we were lacking in our factory - was as sense of teamwork and discipline. If we didn't have the discipline to keep that place spotless, then we weren't going to have the discipline to keep all those machines running.”
Source: Steve Jobs
“I’d been waiting for you to come along; I just didn’t know it until you smiled at me.”
Source: Property Of
“I'd been with boys before; I'd been with boys I'd thought were men. But this was different. David kissed like a man. He tasted, he smelled and he fucked like a man.”
Source: Come Undone
“I'd been writing for as long as I could remember, but once I read Otherworld, I'd stopped writing original stories to focus on fan fiction. It was such a rich, exciting world that I couldn't think of writing anything else.”
Source: The Vampire Stalker
“I’d begun to think of the Immortality Bus as the Entropy Bus, and of ourselves as trundling across Texas in a great mobile metaphor for the inevitable decline of all things, the disintegration of all systems over time.”
Source: To Be a Machine : Adventures Among Cyborgs, Utopians, Hackers, and the Futurists Solving the Modest Problem of Death
“I'd begun to wonder whether to start my Christmas list.”
Source: Still Me
“I'd believed mine was the greatest of all the arts, the noblest of all the lies, the creation of hope. I thought hope could overcome everything, but I was wrong. Hope cannot overcome truth. Hope and truth cannot co-exist. Truth destroys hope. The most savage cruelties man inflicts on man are committed in the pursuit of truth. My last lie had been the most honest, the most honorable of them all, for there is an art greater even than the creation of hope. The greatest art of all is the destruction of truth.”
Source: Company of Liars
“I’d bet that the average person is probably far more likely to see Bigfoot riding a unicorn than to find happily ever after,” he said.”
Source: Better Than Me
“I'd better explain something about myself. Just as I wasn''t your archetypal beauty of a miller's daughter, I also did not have the same hankerings after pretty golden princes as my peers were universally supposed to have. Don't ask me why. A matter of personal taste. The King, as handsome as a former fairytale prince must be once he's stopped being a frog, left me cold. I had always been attracted to—how can I put it?—the unusual. The shepherd boy was no one's idea of an Adonis; he suffered badly from the after-effects of chickenpox, and had a body which at best could be called weedy. But once he did the things he did, I came to love each and every pock mark on his pallid cheeks, and lay in my bed at night entertaining myself with visions of his skinny thighs and thin, unmanly, rounded shoulders. It's fascinating how human desire can find all manner of things exciting once it's been given a push in the right direction.”
Source: The Vanishing Princess
“I'd better go," Alesha said, kissing Kirsty and Rachel goodbye – tiny, tickly fairy kisses on their faces”
Source: Alesha the Acrobat Fairy
“I'd better go,” he said, without leaving.
That one eye, the blue one, just kept staring up at him. Bloodshot, with a cut across the brow above it, the thing shouldn’t have been able to focus. But it was.
“I have to go,” Blay said finally.
Without leaving.
Damn him, he didn't know what the hell he was doing—
A tear escaped from that eye. Welling up along the lower lid, it coalesced at the far corner, formed a crystal circle, and grew so fat it couldn't hold on to the lashes. Slipping free, it meandered downward, getting lost in dark hair at the temple.”
Source: Lover Reborn
“I'd burn down the world for you.
-Alex Volkov”
“I’d burn it all to save her, I realized. So, I’d better start the fire.”
Source: The Games of Enemies and Allies
“I'd burned all the bridges that might've led me home.”
Source: Shantaram
“I'd called Marin a nuisance, had made her feel unwelcome and unwanted, the same way I was feeling now. Not being wanted was the loneliest feeling in the world, it seemed, and if I could have had one more moment with Marin, I would have been sure to tell her I didn't mean it. She wasn't a pest. I loved her. She was wanted. More than she could ever know.”
Source: Torn Away
“I'd chased this life with all of my heart. I wanted so badly to express myself and be heard and bring solace to other people with my own words. But it became a hell I'd created, a cage I'd built and locked myself in. I came to hate that I'd put my heart and my pain into my music because it meant that I couldn't ever leave it behind. And I had to keep singing it to him, night after night after night, and I could no longer hide how I felt or what being next to him was doing to me.
It made for a great show. But it was my life.”
Source: Daisy Jones & The Six
“I’d cheat on you with sushi in a heartbeat I’d even let you sleep and go eat it on my own.”
“I'd chosen the regret I could live with best, that's all. I'd chosen the life I belonged to.”
“I'd come away from intense scenes of family pride and emotion between fathers and children and would conclude that a man could build whatever monuments he wanted in the worlds of politics, sports, entertainment, and business, but if they come at the expense of his children, then he has failed. Once the attention fades and the crowds stop cheering his name and his accomplishments are little more than fine print in a history book, the only thing that truly survives him is his child. That is his legacy. That is what defines him. All else is but a footnote.”
“I'd come to be certain that a person could never be cried out. So many times I'd thought the last tear I would ever shed had fallen, only to discover there were always more. Good and bad, there were endlessly more.”
Source: The Cruel Dark
“I'd come to see that home wasn't just about the place where you lived or the memories within the walls. It was the love you saw reflected in the eyes of the people around you, and the strength of your own feelings that made a place home.”
Source: A Flash of Fang
“I'd come unglued. That's why I usually don't let any tears fall. They get you wet. Your glue washes off.”
Source: Run Away
“I'd commit war crimes for horchata, you don't wanna know what I'd do to never return to the office.”
Source: 94,000 Wasps in a Trench Coat
“I’d consider it an act of mercy if you would eat at least one of those scones, Lindsey. Clearly, you don’t have my problem. You look even thinner than you did the last time we saw each other.”
Source: Plausible Liars: A Dr. Lindsey McCall Medical Mystery 5
“I’d crossed the portal to the Spirit World looking for my family, for my life’s purpose; they weren’t what I’d expected, but I’d found them both in Faivendei.”
Source: Luminiferos: The Omen of Light
“I’d decided last night, and strengthened my resolve this morning, to have eyes for no man but Jesus. If intimacy was really what He desired most, then I desired it too. I felt strangely free from life as I had known it…”
Source: Perpetua: A Bride, a Martyr, a Passion
“I'd decided the campus was just a place to hide. There were some campus freaks who stayed on forever. The whole college scene was soft. They never told you what to expect out there in the real world. They just crammed you with theory and never told you how hard the pavements were. A college education could destroy an individual for life. Books could make you soft. When you put them down, and really went out there, then you needed to know what they never told you.”
Source: Ham On Rye
“I'd decided the goodness of people's hearts was their own business. I hadn't experienced any when I was knocking on those first four doors that night.”
Source: After the Eclipse: A Mother's Murder, a Daughter's Search
“I'd describe it less as cold, and more just painful. I feel like my blood vessels are going to freeze up and burst."
It would have made sense to her if her ears and nose had dropped off and fallen to her feet, leaving red stains on the dirt track below.
"You Tokyoites, you're all wimps," Reiko said, but her cheeks were a vivid red, and her teeth were chattering.”
Source: Butter
“I'd developed an apology-is-much-better-than-asking-for-permission mentality.”
Source: Misadventurous
“I'd developed an inability to demonstrate much negative emotion at all. It was another thing that made me seem like a dick - my stomach could be all oiled eels, and you would get nothing from my face and less from my words. It was a constant problem: too much control or no control at all.”
Source: Gone Girl
“I’d developed the concept over time as a practitioner back in my General Electric and International Paper days, and I’d been teaching the 4C’s to my students at the University of Carolina at Chapel Hill since I’d been appointed to the chair professorship in 1986 as well as expounding on it in executive education programs and consulting work I was doing in the U.S. and Europe during that same time. I was also writing a column for the leading trade magazine “Advertising Age” for a few years and I first wrote about the 4C’s for publication in one of those columns, sometime in the year 1990.”
“I’d die a million times for you.”
Source: Dark Alpha's Awakening
“I'd die for him. There's nothing else to say. I'd give the last breath in my body and the last hope in my heart to keep him alive.”
Source: Faefever
“I'd die for my club, but I want my own woman, one worthy of living for.”
Source: Vendetta Road
“I'd die for them, but I'd live for you.”
Source: Crimson Rivers
“I'd die for your sins, but I'd probably enjoy them first”
Source: And That’s Why I’m Single
“I’d dim her glow. I’d change her, and I would hate myself for it.”
Source: Secretly Yours
“I'd discovered how proud and fragile men could be, the sense of self that courses through their veins. I knew that fathers and sons were capable of killing each other. Whether it was father's killing their sons, or sons killing the fathers, men always emrged victorious , and all that was left for me to do was weep.”
Source: Kırmızı Saçlı Kadın
“I'd discovered that Savannah couldn't be fully explained to those who hadn't visited it. Photos, no matter how glorious, and movies, no matter how accurate, couldn't convey the way Savannah felt - seductive and lazy, busy and slow, modern and ancient. Savannah was a contradiction and a complicated melody that could only be known by walking through it, absorbing its every sensual detail.”
Source: Surviving Savannah
“I'd discovered that the sun equated happiness. Its bright and lovely existence was hope incarnate. It exposed the dark, brought forth the light and showed you that no matter how strong or oppressive the night was, that it was infinitely stronger, exponentially more substantial and just because you couldn't see it with your eyes, didn't mean it wasn't still with you. it was stalwart and constant. It was infinite.”
“I'd distanced myself from love for so long, told myself that I didn't need it, didn't want it, that I wasn't so sure I knew what love looked like anymore outside of a book. I'd grown to care about this man, somehow, over the last few days. I'd gotten used to his wry charm, and his sarcasm, and I found myself looking for his shadow at the bar, and the bookstore.”
Source: A Novel Love Story
“I’d do anything for her if she really wanted me to. I would even walk away from the chance of a lifetime if she asked me to... and I could even be happy about it.”
Source: Soccer Sweetheart
“I'd do anything for you, Tessa. I know you don't realize that now, but you will.”
Source: Becoming Alpha
“I’d do it all over again, knowing that you were going to be there at the end. I’d walk through the sadness and the loneliness all over again for you.”
Source: Beautiful Broken Mess
“I'd done a bit of research on fun things you can fire out of a shotgun, and as it turns out, there's all kinds of interesting stuff you can shoot at people. - Harry Dresden”
Source: Small Favor