I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“I'd done it for months now-the dizzying dance between grief and normalcy and the guilt I felt in moving between the two.”
Source: The Start of Me and You
“I'd done it, I'd crossed the line between accepted behavior and behavior most of the population would consider a lynching offense, and that morning I felt as real as any of the men in the Escape commercials. It had been dirty and nasty but I wanted more.”
Source: High Life
“I'd Drown For You
I opened my heart to you
A complete immersion
I offered my soul to you
A heavenly diversion”
Source: Enigmatic Evolution
“I’d eat a picnic in Hades with him.”
Source: The Will
“I'd fake the part for a second to infiltrate, gather intelligence, and then ditch it, laughing on my way back to the outside. That's the perk of being Chinese, you can walk through walls and no one really notices. (155)”
Source: Fresh Off the Boat
“I’d fallen captive to those expressive dark eyes again. I blamed my inappropriate behavior last night on champagne, but in the sobering light of day, I’d fallen into the same drugged stupor. She was soft. Strong. Real. And seriously curvy.”
Source: A Taste of Peace
“I'd far rather be happy than right any day.”
Source: The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
“I'd feel a whole lot better about the two of us if you didn't think I was the go-to guy for breaking and entering.”
Source: Glass Houses
“I'd felt obligated to get Ian a Christmas present. A chunk of coal sat in a brightly wrapped box under the tree, his name written in big bold letters on the front of it.
Ian might be family, but he still had been a very naughty boy this year.”
Source: The Bite Before Christmas
“I'd felt the pop of the needle sliding into my veins, like a fang into flesh. I'd been enveloped in the golden haze where nothing is wrong even when everything is falling apart. A dance with a hypodermic fiend, my hands in the claws of a vulture.”
Source: Sixteenth Notes: the breaking of the rose-colored glasses
“I’d felt this before, when my granddad was in the hospital before he died. We all camped out in the waiting room, eating our meals together, most of us sleeping in the chairs every night. Family from far-flung places would arrive at odd hours and we’d all stand and stretch, hug, get reacquainted, and pass the babies around.
A faint, pale stream of beauty and joy flowed through the heavy sludge of fear and grief. It was kind of like those puddles of oil you see in parking lots that look ugly until the sun hits them and you see rainbows pulling together in the middle of the mess.
And wasn’t that just how life usually felt—a confusing swirl of ugly and rainbow?”
Source: Perfect Glass
“I’d figured out that it wasn’t just about food and shelter. Obviously, that was important, but
it was the people that I met, the people who made a difference, that kept me going.
That made my world.”
Source: The Boy Who Painted the World
“I’d find someone else. No distractions. Men get in the way of ambition. Plus, they laugh at you when you fail”
Source: Flip That Haunted House
“I'd follow my father from book
to book, gathering citations, listen
as he named--like a field guide to Virginia--
each flower and tree and bird as if to prove
a man's pursuit of knowledge is greater
than his shortcomings, the limits of his vision.”
Source: Monument: Poems New and Selected
“I’d follow you through the gates of hell.”
Source: The Remote Viewer
“I’d forgive you for not having an inkling of who I am if you glimpsed me from a distance. You have your own idea of what a Gypsy is, I’m sure. We all make instant judgements. ’Tis our second thoughts that count. But I’m confident you’d be wrong with first, and second, impressions.”
Source: A Gypsy's Curse
“I'd forgotten about it, and now I forgot it again. There are things that have to be forgotten if you want to go on living.”
Source: The Killer Inside Me
“I'd forgotten how cunning her eyes were, how cold. She'd been made differently, from something harder and stronger than bone and blood. She was as different from the humans around us as I had become.”
Source: A Court of Thorns and Roses
“I’d forgotten how nerve-wracking it could be, asking someone if they wanted to hang out with you. As youngsters, we do it all the time, making new friends. But when you get older, it feels as though there is so much more on the line – the rejection is so much harder to take.”
Source: The Lost Bookshop
“I'd forgotten that a boy from the streets is no match for the future Princeps.”
Source: Champion
“I'd forgotten that human minds are easy to shatter as eggshells," Rhysand said, and ran a finger across the base of my throat. I shuddered, my eyes burning. "Look at how delightful she is - look how she's trying not to cry out in terror. It would be quick, I promise.”
Source: A Court of Thorns and Roses
“I’d fought alongside them in that battle, but up close, when they stood quietly watching us, they looked as beautiful as they looked unreal. The angels weren’t supposed to feel emotion, but they were weeping. All of them. Their tears stained their flawless faces like rain running in rivulets across stone.”
Source: Shadows in the Silence
“I'd found him, and he was mine - cute little bugger that he was, messed up glasses, funky shoes and all.”
Source: The Changelings
“I'd found out that if you pushed people away hard enough, they tended to go.”
Source: Amy & Roger's Epic Detour
“I'd give anything if you'd kiss me." I said. "I mean," I said when he tilted his head to look at me, his eyes wide in shock, "I've kissed guys before. It's like a handshake these days," I lied, just wanting to know what his lips on mind would feel like. "Almost required if you're leaving.”
Source: Into the Woods: Tales from the Hollows and Beyond
“I'd give anything to really want the life my parents want for me.”
Source: The Sun Is Also a Star
“I’d give in to the grief but make sure I wasn’t loud enough to draw attention from those who think words will make me feel better.”
Source: History Is All You Left Me
“I'd give me two eyes for a slice of apple pie." She was brain-cracked, but spoke for them all.
Then Tabby Jones joined in, holding forth on the making of the best apple pie: the particular apples, whether reinettes or pippins, the bettermost flavorings: cinnamon, cloves, or a syrup made from the peelings. Slowly, groans of vexation turned to appreciative mumblings. Someone else favored quince, another lemon. Apples, they all agreed, though the most commonplace of fruit, did produce an uncommon variety of delights: pies and puddings, creams and custards, jellies and junkets, ciders and syllabubs. The time passed a deal quicker and merrier than before.
Janey, the whore who had once been famed in Harris's List of Covent Garden Ladies, told them, in her child's voice, that the best dish she ever tasted was a Desert Island of Flummery, at a mansion in Grosvenor Square. "It was all over jellies and candies and dainty figures, and a hut of real gold-leaf. Like eating money, it were. I fancied meself a proper duchess."
She knew what Janey meant. When she had first met Aunt Charlotte she had gorged herself until her fingers were gummy with syrup and cream. There was one cake she never forgot; a puffed conceit of cream, pastry, and pink sugar comfits.”
Source: A Taste for Nightshade
“I’d give my right nut to see you wearing that,” Garrett whispered in her ear.
Melina laughed. “Your right nut is exactly what it would cost you, too.”
“Just one nut? I think a lady like you is definitely worth two,” a new voice said near her.”
“I'd give us ten forevers if I could”
Source: Wreck the Halls
“I’d give you my soul in an instant, even if it meant I had to spend eternity in torment — just for one moment with you as mine.”
Source: Emblaze
“I’d give you the world if I could. The moon, stars, and all the suns in the universe. Anything for you, my heart”
Source: Once Upon a Broken Heart
“I’d given him bits and pieces of my peculiar life, but colored softer and funnier than they had been. I’d painted my dad as Don Quixote in a semi, on a quest for philosophical truths and the best cup of coffee in the nation.”
Source: The Impossible Knife of Memory
“I’d given more information than necessary in my unwilling honesty, and I worried it would provoke the strange anger that flared whenever I slipped and revealed too clearly how obsessed I was.”
Source: Twilight
“I'd given talks for years about how when it comes to grieving, the culture lies--you really do not get over the biggest losses, you don't pass through grief in any organized way, and it takes years and infinitely more tears than people want to allot you. Yet the gift of grief is incalculable, in giving you back to yourself.”
Source: Stitches: A Handbook on Meaning, Hope and Repair by Anne Lamott
“I'd given up on the NGK dominee's God a while back. But when I listened to people talking about their HP (Higher Power), I realised God may not be a big, bossy guy with a white beard. She might be a quiet inner voice.”
Source: The Milk Tart Murders
“I'd gladly spend my days dizzy from following whim my heart led me on rather than locked into another thing I would grow to resent.”
Source: Wish Lists & Road Trips
“I’d go from being a woman to being a mother—and somehow those things appeared mutually exclusive in Hollywood.”
Source: The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
“I’d go to hell and back and cut off the devil’s head myself to save you.”
Source: Corcitura
“I'd go to my grave wearing lies like another layer of skin.”
Source: Trace of Doubt
“I’d gone from living alone in New York as a lowly shoe clerk to becoming a shieldmaiden with a family to come home to. It didn’t get much better than that.”
Source: Freed
“I'd gone my whole life with people expecting things I didn't seem capable of giving, so why should now be any different?”
Source: Elixir
“I'd gone so far past my fear threshold, I'd completely given up on being afraid”
Source: Haunted on Bourbon Street
“I'd gone to Central America because I didn't think politics was simply a matter of opinion. It wasn't about having the right "line," having an ideologically pure analysis. It had to be incarnate. And now I was seeing the same thing with faith. It couldn't be about wrangling over the Bible to find justification for your convictions. Like politics, faith had to be about action.”
Source: Take This Bread: A Radical Conversion
“I’d gotten further with Gideon in one week than I had with other relationships that lasted two years. I would always love him for that. Maybe I’d always love him, period. And one day, that might not hurt so badly.”
Source: Bared to You
“I'd gotten high enough to fly through time.”
Source: Mule
“I'd gotten on the piss and it had kicked me the fuck off. Hard.”
Source: Mule
“I'd gotten so used to seeing her unhappy at home that the joy on her face seemed scandalous to me, a deceit, a lie that had to be exposed as soon as possible.”
Source: Combats et métamorphoses d'une femme
“I'd grown fond of quoting Václav Havel, the great Czech leader who had said that "hope" was the one thing that people struggling in Eastern Europe needed during the era of Soviet domination.
Havel had said that people struggling for independence wanted money and recognition from other countries; they wanted more criticism of the Soviet empire from the West and more diplomatic pressure. But Havel had said that these were things they wanted; the only thing they needed was hope. Not that pie in the sky stuff, not a preference for optimism over pessimism, but rather "an orientation of the spirit." The kind of hope that creates a willingness to position oneself in a hopeless place and be a witness, that allows one to believe in a better future, even in the face of abusive power. That kind of hope makes one strong.”
Source: Just Mercy
“I'd grown to trust Mr. Bradshaw, even though he was the one who had taught me how to lie. Not to mention the day he lectured me on how to get close to someone to find out the truth about them, as if he was the ultimate expert. Nevertheless, I trusted him. I really did.”
Source: Tess Embers