I Quotes
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“I'd like to take what I know and just hand it over. But there is always a problem for a woman: being believed. How can I think I know something? How can I think that what I know might matter? Why would I think that anything I think might make a difference to anyone, anywhere?”
Source: Life and Death: Unapologetic Writings on the Continuing War Against Women
“I’d like to take you on a date – one, which doesn’t include a crime scene, dead bodies or being handcuffed to a bed by a psychopathic killer.” – Jase Devlin to Stephanie Carovela”
Source: Nowhere to Hide
“I'd like to thank my parents for making this night possible. And my children for making it necessary.”
“I’d like to think I’d be brave enough to defend myself, but most likely, I would be a runner too.”
Source: What I Did
“I'd like to think I will remember this particular moon, seen from this particular angle of this balcony on this night, but if I forget, I will never know that I've forgotten, as is the nature of forgetting.”
Source: Great Circle
“I’d like to think if you can’t really afford to have one family, why be so horny as to have another?”
Source: The Loophole
“I'd like to think of myself as delightfully complex.”
Source: Siege and Storm
“I’d like to think that the day I realize we will always be miserable will differ from every other. I hope it will so obnoxiously stand out from the monotonous cycle of my days, that I wouldn’t forget that sorrowful moment of comprehension. But, when that breeze of reality comes by, it wont be a memorable hurricane, nor a momentous tornado. It will be the same, sad, soft wind that I felt the day before, and the day before that. Because the moment you understand your inevitable misery in life, may also be the day you see you are to always be dejected.”
“I'd like to to know what it is he's after, I mean, is it an experience or a thought, is it something you'd put in a book, or die for, or die of?”
Source: The Message To The Planet
“I'd like to turn on the whole world for just a moment... just for a moment. I'm greedy; I'd like to keep most of it for myself and a few others, a few of my friends... to keep that superlative high, just on the cusp of each day... so that I'd radiate sunshine.”
Source: Edie: American Girl
“I'd like to turn the silence right up, but how do you do that?”
Source: A Bottle in the Gaza Sea
“I'd like to write the encomium of a new incoherence that could serve as the negative charter for the new anarchy of souls.”
Source: The Book of Disquiet
“I’d like us to rethink
What it is to be a nation. I’m in a mood about America
Today.”
“I’d like you to come to Kauai with me,” I say. “And Scottie. I think it would be good to get her away from the hospital for a day. We can leave in the morning, find him, and be home tomorrow night. If it takes us a day longer, that’s fine, but we won’t stay more than two nights. That’s our deadline. If we don’t find him, then at least we know we tried.”
“And this will make you feel better somehow?”
“It’s for her,” I say. “Not for him or me.”
“What if he’s a wreck? What if he loses his shit?”
“Then I’ll take care of him.” I imagine Brian Speer wailing on my shoulder. I imagine him and my daughters by Joanie’s bed, her lover and his loud sobs shaming us. “Just so you know, I am angry. I’m not this pure and noble guy. I want to do this for her, but I also want to see who he is. I want to ask him a few things.”
“Just call him. Tell his office it’s an emergency. They’ll have him call you.”
“I want to tell him in person. I haven’t told anyone over the phone, and I don’t want to start now.”
“You told Troy.”
“Troy doesn’t count. I just need to do this. On the phone he can escape. If I see him in person, he’ll have nowhere to go.”
We both look away when our eyes meet. She hasn’t crossed the border into my room. She never does during her nighttime doorway chats.
“Were you guys having trouble?” Alex asks. “Is that why she cheated?”
“I didn’t think we were having trouble,” I say. “I mean, it was the same as always.”
This was the problem, that our marriage was the same as always. Joanie needed bumps. She needed rough terrain. It’s funny that I can get lost in thoughts about her, but when she was right in front of me, I didn’t think much about her at all.
“I wasn’t the best husband,” I say.
Alex looks out the window to avoid my confession. “If we go on this trip, what will we tell Scottie?”
“She’ll think we’re going on a trip of some sort. I want to get her away from here.”
Source: The Descendants
“I'd like you to know there is a limit to the disgrace in the consciousness of one's own worthlessness and powerlessness beyond which a man cannot go, and after which he begins to feel a tremendous satisfaction in his own disgrace.”
Source: The Idiot
“I'd listen to you for hours.”
Source: Radio Silence
“I'd live in the fields on hard corn for a just cause.
Yes, for a just cause I'd live in the fields
On hard corn.”
Source: Selected poems
“I’d lived a quiet life as long as I could remember, so solitude didn’t frighten me. In fact, I slipped it on like a pair of well-loved shoes (p. 164).”
Source: Hope Between the Pages
“I’d looked around my room at the ribbons and sashes and rosettes hanging from the walls, at the photos of my ponies clearing the highest fences with me crouched in the saddle, a look of utter determination on my face. I’d made myself look hard at the pictures, at my legs swinging backwards over the fences, at my body lying low over my pony’s neck, my hands grasping at the reins as I turned them in mid-air. At the way that Teddy’s eyes were bulging as I pulled him around a tight turn, at the way the veins popped out on Buck’s lathered neck, at Springbok’s open mouth, dripping with foam.
I’d looked hard at them all, and I hadn’t liked what I’d seen.”
Source: Triple Bar
“I'd lost my family, the friends of my youth, my country and its culture—all the things that had defined me, and given me identity.”
Source: Shantaram
“I'd lost myself in that haze, too, now that I think about it. I'd forgotten all else, when we jammed. It was sublime in there. I felt timeless. Thoughtless. Borderless. Made of nothing but air and music.”
Source: One Song: Sometimes a Song Presses Pause on the World
“I'd lost myself in the abyss of someone else's tyranny...again.”
Source: Love Exactly
“I'd lost sight of the most basic things in life and now they fill me with joy. It's like the feeling when you've been ill and then you recover and promise you'll never take your health for granted again. I will never take my happiness for granted.”
Source: A girl can dream
“I'd love nothing more than to study the ink covering him from the waist up, tracing the lines and shapes with my fingers and tongue.”
Source: Headless
“I’d love to be tried out,’ I said, with a suggestive smile. ‘One should always explore something, before one goes in deeper.’
I saw a little flicker of fun in his eyes.”
Source: Naked and Sexual
“I'd love to be what I have been.”
“I'd love to cook a stew for you,
But I have no pot.
Id love to knit a scarf for you,
But I have no wool.
I'd love to write a poem for you,
But I have no pen.
"It's called 'I Have Nothing'," Midori announced.”
Source: NEW-Norwegian Wood
“I'd love to cook," she says, "but who has the time? I can't afford to spend two days baking a cake."
The implication, of course, is that only unimportant people have that kind of time. Unimportant people like me. I wait for Adam to jump in and save me, but instead he shoves a forkful of lamb into his mouth and feigns deep interest in the contents of his dinner plate. For someone with Adam's political ambitions and penchant for friendly debate, I'm always amazed at the lengths he goes to avoid confrontation with his parents.
"I have a full-time job," I say, offering Sandy a labored smile, "and somehow I manage."
Sandy delicately places her fork on the table and interlaces her fingers. "I beg your pardon?"
My cheeks flush, and all the champagne and wine rush to my head at once. "All I'm saying is... we make time for the things we actually want to do. That's all."
Sandy purses her lips and sweeps her hair away from her face with the back of her hand. "Hannah, dear, I am very busy. I am on the board of three charities and am hosting two galas this year. It's not a matter of wanting to cook. I simply have more important things to do."
For a woman so different from my own mother- the frosted, well-groomed socialite to my mother's mousy, rumpled academic- she and my mother share a remarkably similar view of the role of cooking in a modern woman's life. For them, cooking is an irrelevant hobby, an amusement for women who lack the brains for more high-powered pursuits or the money to pay someone to perform such a humdrum chore. Sandy Prescott and my mother would agree on very little, but as women who have been liberated from the perfunctory task of cooking a nightly dinner, they would see eye to eye on my intense interest in the culinary arts.
Were I a stronger person, someone more in control of her faculties who has not drunk multiple glasses of champagne, I would probably let Sandy's remark go without commenting any further. But I cannot be that person. At least not tonight. Not when Sandy is suggesting, as it seems everyone does, that cooking isn't a priority worthy of a serious person's time.
"You would make the time if you wanted to," I say. "But obviously you don't.”
Source: The Girls' Guide to Love and Supper Clubs
“I'd love to know how Dad saw me when I was 6. I'd love to know a hundred things. When a parent dies, a filing cabinet full of all the fascinating stuff also ceases to exist. I never imagined how hungry I'd be one day to look inside it.”
Source: The Bone Clocks
“I’d love to step off this well-trodden straight and boring path. To somehow live differently, think different thoughts, feel different feelings than others. It wouldn’t bother me to be as alone as a tree on the plains. My leaves would be like no other tree’s.”
Source: Sunflower
“I’d love to try to tame you... And I would simply adore it if you turn out untamable –”
Source: Nightmarish Sacrifice
“I'd love to wake up next to you in this room, in this bed, every day.”
Source: Take Me Now
“I'd love to wrap myself inside your sadness and pretend it is mine”
Source: Crazy
“I’d loved Emory since the moment I laid eyes on her when I was fourteen.
I could still see her—sitting on her bike outside the chain-link fence surrounding the school parking lot as she watched my friends and me on our skateboards that summer.
From that moment on, it seemed I was always aware of her, and everything I did, I did it with it in mind that she was watching.
Every joke in class. Every strut into the lunchroom. Every new haircut and every new pair of jeans.
Even the Raptor. My first thought when my parents bought it was how she’d look in it.”
Source: Nightfall
“I’d loved how he didn’t get mad at my mistakes and waited for me to do things at my pace. Just like now. He wasn’t mad I cut him.”
Source: Kill Switch
“I'd loved Sarah in a different way, but we had both lost her. I hadn't stopped to consider how horrible it was that Lu had lost her twice.”
Source: Wildwood Magic
“I’d loved women who were old and who were young; those extra kilos and large rumps, and others so thin there was barely even skin to pinch, and every time I held them, I worried I would snap them in two. But for all of these: where they had merited my love was in their delicious smell. Scent is such a powerful tool of attraction, that if a woman has this tool perfectly tuned, she needs no other. I will forgive her a large nose, a cleft lip, even crossed-eyes; and I’ll bathe in the jouissance of her intoxicating odour.”
“I'd made mistakes, but I'd paid for them. I'd learned from them. Mostly. I'd continue to learn from them. But not if I kept punishing myself over something I couldn't change. I'd done a bad thing, but I wasn't a bad person. I wasn't beyond salvation. Wasn't beyond love.”
Source: Once More with Feeling
“I'd make a lousy politician, because politics demands compromise of principles, and I'd rather give up my life than give up my principles.”
Source: Mucize Misafir Merhaba: The Peace Testament
“I'd make you my favorite jungle gym if you'd let me.'
- Katrina, 'Convicted”
Source: Undercover Lovers
“I'd met Claudette at Christmas and felt intimidated by the blank slate of her consciousness, and her proximity to the realm of nonexistence from which she had so recently emerged.”
Source: Sky Daddy
“I’d move to trim the front hedges by hand in an insane act of “yard maintenance.” This act of kaiju sized bonsai left me exhausted to attempt any more complex yard acts, but it did give me time to ponder the control a hand tool can provide.”
Source: A Pandemic Gardening Journal
“I’d much prefer to be in my flannel pajamas with a cup of Night-Night tea and a book, thank you very much.”
Source: Always and Forever, Lara Jean
“I'd much prefer to speak of the modern books that I hate at first sight: the earnest case histories of minority groups, the sorrows of homosexuals, the anti-American Sovietnam sermon, the picaresque yarn larded with juvenile obscenities.”
“I’d much rather a monkey throws a blanket instead of a brick.”
Source: A bit of rubbish about a Brick and a Blanket
“I'd much rather be hold up with a ball of yarn, tucked inside the safety of the house with my mother. Out there, you must come to grips with the rot and bone, bloom and disintegration. It's part of the world, this ruthlessness, this severed leg, this sun-bleached skull. I can't really stand it. All the signs point toward change, and all that means is death. - 140-141”
Source: The Mercy Papers
“I'd much rather fall to my death than admit my weakness to you."
"The captain of the Royal Guard wants to impress a lowly handmaiden?"
"A clumsy young man wants to impress a beautiful young woman.”
Source: The Moth & the Flame
“I’d much rather have all of this be the ‘pigment’ of my imagination rather than a ‘figment,’ for at least it would all have some color.”
“I’d never actually talked to a deaf person before but I’d been swimming and gotten water stuck in my ears lots of times, felt that underwater silence as I shook my head and watched people’s mouths moving without hearing the words, so I knew what it was like for her. I could empathize.”
“I'd never be where I am if more successful writers hadn't taken an interest in me and done me a good turn.”