I Quotes
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“I'd never been a big fan of disappointment.”
Source: Primal
“I’d never been happier to feel Yggdrasil’s bark beneath my fingers. I scurried up the trunk, scrambled through the branches, and finally found an opening to another world. I didn’t know which one it was until I tumbled out onto floor nineteen, right at Halfborn’s feet.
“Mallory!” he yelled. “I’ve been looking all over for you, woman! You are the most reckless, foolhardy einherji—”
I got to my feet and glared at him. Then I hurled myself into his arms. “Oh yeah?” I murmured against his bare chest. “Well . . . takes one to know one.”
Source: 9 From the Nine Worlds
“I’d never been like this with anyone else. I’d always been reserved, eager to please—a peacemaker, like Roderick. A people pleaser. A perfectionist. Docile and fake—so terrified of losing the affection I craved that I’d do anything to keep it, even compromise myself.”
Source: Cloudy With a Chance of Bad Decisions
“I'd never been to the Unnamed Sea, but my mother was born there. Her leathered skin and callused hands made her look as if she'd grown up on a ship, but she'd come to the Narrows on her own when she was no more than my age, finding a place on Saint's crew as a dredger and leaving her past in the Unnamed Sea behind. She would wrap her arms around me as we sat up on the mast with our feet dangling, and she would tell me about Bastian, the port city she called home, and the huge ships that sailed those deep water.
Once, I asked her if she'd ever go back. If she'd take me there one day. But she only said she'd been born for a different life, and so had I.”
Source: Fable
“I’d never been valued as highly as Alex valued me. Never been treated so softly. Never had someone pay attention to me the way he did. Never had someone to protect me, or coddle me when I needed it, or allow me to coddle back. He let me need him and he didn’t get angry.”
Source: Cloudy With a Chance of Bad Decisions
“I'd never before walked out of a classroom with my mind racing because of what I'd learned, and I wanted to savor the feeling as long as possible. It was as though my brain was suddenly capable of considering the world with far more complexity , as though there was so much more to see and do and learn.”
Source: The Beginning of Everything
“I'd never believed the future was inscribed for each of us the day we were born. If anything was written in the stars, it was we who joined those dots, and our lives were the writing.”
Source: The Pull of the Stars
“I’d never blame anyone else who falls for the same brand of seduction. I embrace that we’re all similarly flawed. That makes the self-inflicted wounds hurt less. I’d read Tennessee Williams. I just didn’t expect to be living my own tainted little version of Suddenly Last Summer.”
Source: The Price of Dick
“I’d never considered how some of our greatest losses lead us to choices that God uses for bigger things than we could have ever imagined. Sometimes brokenness and heartache force us into self-seclusion and fear, and sometimes they can propel us into something amazing, if we let them (pp. 251-252).”
Source: Hope Between the Pages
“I’d never dreamed anybody could love me the way he did. And even when he proved it to me time and again – I still could hardly believe it was true.”
“I’d never expected to find a partner. I’d never looked. And yet, one had stumbled upon my little nest and found me anyway. It seemed the universe was looking out for me because Robin was the happiest accident I’d ever made.”
Source: If Only In Our Dreams
“I’d never felt before like maybe we'd outgrown each other.
Like maybe Mike was someone I wouldn't have liked today if I hadn't known him as long as I had. I kept hanging on to who Mike was for me in a previous life, ignoring who he was now, and I was tired of trying to cling to that.
We're fed the narrative that you never give up on the ones you love. And I did love Mike. But it wasn't my job to hold him up while he decided if he wanted to stand or not. To scream at him to change until I lost my voice.
I felt done.”
Source: The Night We Met
“I’d never felt brave enough to share a one-night stand, figuring—with my luck—I’d end up with a missing kidney at the end of the night ...”
Source: Homecoming King
“I'd never forget how it felt to say those words. To be in our place. In love with you, in love with us, in love with our secret, with the island we were building, keeping out the whole wide world.”
Source: 21 Stolen Kisses
“I’d never forgive myself if he were to die tomorrow and that he didn’t know I loved him, Ezra. He’s not perfect but once upon a time, he showed up and I can’t expect you to understand because you’ve known him for only for the time he wasn’t his best but I love him. I love him more than his mistakes, and while it hurts when he’s not there for me
anymore, I still love him. I can’t just let him go. I’d be damned living my life knowing that I hadn’t even tried.”
Source: Damned and Beautiful
“I’d never get sucked into a community that swallows my individuality.”
“I’d never get used to an empty bed. I’d just get used to being haunted by the decisions I had made that put me alone under my covers.”
Source: The Price of Magic: A Cursed Magic Novel
“I'd never had a boyfriend, let alone a date with a full-grown man. But even if I was just an ordinary human woman dating the average Joe, there was no way in hell I'd let him order me about.”
Source: Queen Takes Knights
“I’d never had the opportunity to be the kind of boyfriend I’d always wanted to be—too afraid of being too much, too afraid of scaring whoever I was dating off with my “intensity.” Too afraid of being rejected when they realized what was beneath my polished exterior.”
Source: Cloudy With a Chance of Bad Decisions
“I'd never have gotten this far without you," I said.
Jack tipped his cap to me. My heart squirmed around to find a new position under my ribs. I closed the door fast before I could say something really stupid.”
Source: Dust Girl
“I’d never have predicted I would lose touch with him – before, that is, I did. I thought I had my reasons. But it turns out that they weren’t good reasons. It turns out that you should never lose contact with the people who are supposed to be important in your life. There is no excuse in doing that.”
Source: The Apple Tart of Hope
“I’d never heard my parents make love. If they made love, they did it silently, like bank robbers, like surgeons.”
Source: Eileen
“I'd never heard of them, but at that moment, it was the best song I'd ever heard. I went out and bought Ten and listened to it on repeat. When I listened to track five, "Black," it was like I was there, in that moment all over again.
After the summer was over, when I got back home, I went to the music store and bought the sheet music and learned to play it on the piano. I thought one day I could accompany Conrad and we could be, like, a band.”
Source: The Summer I Turned Pretty
“I’d never imagined anything could feel the way he did inside of me, and a part of me insisted it was because he was a monster.”
Source: Monster's Find
“I'd never know if I was the best person to be Nightingale. I only knew that I was going to be the best Nightingale that I could be. And that was enough.”
Source: Nightingale
“I'd never known a change that wasn't monstrous.”
Source: Medusa: The Girl Behind the Myth
“I'd never known a love before that could blot out the world around like this.”
Source: The Premonition
“I'd never known freedom could feel so hollow”
Source: The Boy in the Red Dress
“I'd never known that I could feel this broken and whole at once.”
Source: Silent Kingdom
“I'd never learned how to relate to people, much less how to speak up for myself. I preferred to sit and rage quietly.”
Source: Eileen
“I'd never lie to you, though," Raquel said, then laughed. "I'm kidding! Of course I would. I lie to everyone. Honest!”
“I’d never lived anywhere but here.”
Source: Let It Snow
“I’d never met a “why not?” person before. In the city, there’s generally more of a “why should I?” kind of vibe.”
Source: The Doughnut Fix
“I'd never needed to know that my sister was a screamer. Never. That Mal was a screamer too just kind of confused me.”
Source: Deep
“I'd never opened up the gas station if it had been someone else, but I know Tucker's fond of you. It's a shame you don't keep in touch with the old man.”
“I'd never planned on working all my life. I'd had this fantasy that I'd get married and suddenly find a calling beyond the humiliating need to make a living. Art or charity work, babies—something like that.”
Source: Homesick for Another World
“I'd never really believed in terrorists before--I mean, I knew that in the abstract there were terrorists somewhere in the world, but they didn't really represent any risk to me. There were millions of ways that the world could kill me--starting with getting run down by a drunk burning his way down Valencia--that were infinitely more likely and immediate than terrorists. Terrorists kill a lot fewer people than bathroom falls and accidental electrocutions. Worrying about them always struck me as about as useful as worrying about getting hit by lightning.”
Source: Little Brother
“I’d never ride a rocket into out space, so standing at the edge of the ocean was probably the closest I’d get to touching something boundless and greater than myself. For me, the ocean had a way of putting the rest of the world into context for a couple seconds.”
Source: Brave Face
“I'd never said no to him, not once. We went where he wanted when he wanted, ate what he wanted, touched or didn't touch as much as he wanted. And honestly, I think I said it just to fuck with him: "Oh, I'm not having an abortion."
He turned green almost instantaneously; it was extremely gratifying.
"What are you, Catholic?" he asked in a much nastier voice than he usually spoke to me in.
"No, but it's my choice," I said.”
Source: Margo's Got Money Troubles
“I'd never seen a red highlighter before, and could only assume she imported them directly from Dante's fifth circle of hell.”
Source: The Society For Soulless Girls
“I’d never seen anyone—anything—so beautiful.”
Source: Beyond Power
“I’d never seen him bare-chested. For the first time, he seemed vulnerable to me. His smooth, tight skin wrapped around the long muscles he’d developed over a lifetime of hard work.
He found a shallow spot and sat, settling me onto his lap, holding my back to his chest. I couldn’t stop shaking and it had nothing to do with the water or with being half dressed in a cave with a boy.
“Nothing else matters,” Henry said in my ear. “I’m here. Start at the beginning.”
Source: Glass Girl
“I'd never seen Lana lose control. I won't say it wasn't frightening; but then, uncontained emotion is always distressing to be around, isn't it? Particularly when it's from someone you love.”
Source: The Fury
“I'd never seen the footage on the news, and now in a way I'd never experience, seeing it on CNN somehow seemed to validate, at least in my mind, the significance of the event. On national television, in prime time. I broke down and sobbed, burying my head on the bar. At that moment, I cried harder and longer than I have in my entire life.”
Source: Hold the Line: The Insurrection and One Cop's Battle for America's Soul
“I'd never thought about what my favorite color was before. It never seemed important.
Not until I looked into a pair of ocean blue eyes and realized that perhaps drowning was a beautiful thing.
Not until I looked into a pair of fiery blue eyes and realized that perhaps burning was a painless thing.
Not until I looked into a pair of sky blue eyes and realized that perhaps falling was a peaceful thing.
I'd never thought about what my favorite color was before because I hadn't seen one that was worthy of the title. Until now, that is.
"Blue," I say, my voice low.”
Source: Powerless
“I’d never thought much about the moon before I got this job. But I love it here. I can spend hours just looking out at the stars and the rocks. It makes me feel very peaceful.”
Source: Mooncop
“I’d never told anyone the future I imagined for my sister and me, dreams that had been part of me as far back as I could remember, so long they’d grown roots and wings.”
“I’d never understood how someone can bring a child into this world and not love them for the rest of their lives, regardless if they were gay or straight or transgender or any other thing that might set them apart. If you couldn’t love your child no matter who they grew up to be, then you probably shouldn’t have become a parent in the first place.”
Source: The Queen & the Homo Jock King
“I'd never understood why hurting animals for fun was considered an early warning sign of serial killer behavior, while fishing and hunting were seen as healthy male bonding activities.”
Source: Headcase
“I’d never wanted to fuck someone’s insecurities more than I do yours.” He bit my earlobe softly, hands running up and down my arms. “Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, Ariadne. What to you seems fat, to me looks grabbable, kissable, and so utterly soft, I want to lose myself in your curves. The sweet arch of your ass has been calling my name since you first walked out on me, hips swinging like you knew where my eyes strayed.”
Source: Vow of Hell