I Quotes
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“It's a certain tragedy when agony and resentment are all you have left connecting you to someone you once loved.”
Source: Now and at the Hour of Our Death
“It's a challenge. This is what we do, I realize. We talk in circles. We give each other riddles, confounding clues, half answers. Everything and anything but the truth.”
Source: I Hope This Doesn't Find You
“It’s a chancy business, taking our cues about how much to consume from our surroundings.”
Source: First Bite: How We Learn to Eat
“It's a change. You never know what might happen, do you?"
"Never." The kind of things, perhaps, that might have happened in books written by authors who still remembered magic.”
Source: The Magician’s Daughter
“It's a characteristic of human nature that the best qualities, called up quickly in a crisis, are very often the hardest to find in a prosperous calm.”
Source: Shantaram
“It's a choice, it’s a bold move - disassembling the Box - and one that requires assertion, but the rewards are remarkable!!”
“It's a choice to occasionally let go of the urge to feel good in an instant in favor of the long-term goal of shaping our internal state and character which will eventually translate into a good quality of life.”
Source: A Relentless Pursuit of the Truth - A philosophical guide to living a life of fulfillment and meaning
“It’s a choice to put in the hours, go the extra mile, and do the things others aren’t willing to do.”
“IT’S A CHOICE
Try as we might; neither I nor anyone else can change the past. Yet, our history does not have to hold us hostage. We can’t change things said and done to us, nor can we undo and change what we have done to others. There is no do-over, unfortunately. What we can choose to do, however, is grow and take ownership of our mistakes and share our history and experiences to heal ourselves and others. We can also choose to forgive ourselves and others, and we can also choose to use our experiences to raise ourselves while giving hope and inspiration to others. We can choose to grow from adversity, and we can choose to let go of victimhood.
And that is what I decided to do when I left prison, here and in my book. I choose to own it all – the good, the bad, and the ugly, and I choose to let it all go and use my story as both a cautionary tale and a source of inspiration.”
Source: Hey White Boy: Conversations of Redemption
“It's a Christmas miracle. I had no tree. Now I have a forest.”
Source: Succubus Dreams
“It's a Cinderella story, only at midnight she turns back into a fugitive.”
Source: Choke
“It's a classic love story. I hit on him at a party, he asked me out, then we fought an epic magical battle between good and evil side by side, and now we need a vacation.”
Source: The Red Scrolls of Magic
“It’s a classic scam.”
“Classic or classless?” Hardison said. “Ripping off old people for the simple crime of trusting you doesn’t seem like much of a challenge.”
“Aren’t we a little out of this guy’s league?” Parker said, blunt as ever.
“The man’s out to rob these comic-book legends of the last things they want to get rid of,” Hardison said. “They gave the world some of its finest heroes. Saving them’s the least we can do.”
Source: The Con Job
“It's a cliche, but all the good things have already been said and done and it feels like there's already a bar set for me to try to cross over. So, here it goes- "Don't be sorry for who you are, even if you feel like you don't belong here because there ALWAYS is a new place (and people) to discover.”
“It's a cliche to tell someone "respect is earned." I guess you want me to sit there and continue to be disrespected until I 'earned' your respect. Never that. Respect is a mutual thing, don't care if you don't like me but you damn sure will respect me regardless or not...”
Source: 31 Days to Live
“It’s a cliché that public speaking is the greatest private fear, but what if this is dead wrong? What if public dancing—and by extension, being willing to dance courageously through life—is our greatest secret fear?”
Source: Get Out of Here Alive: Inner Alchemy & Immortality
“It's a cloudy day when the rain threatens sunshine.”
“It's a comedy, but I'm sure I'll cry.”
Source: Paradise Kiss, Part 3 of 3
“It’s a common assumption that all power exchange-based relationships ‘should’ or ‘must’ involve punishment and/or discipline. The truth is a bit more grey. Whether a Disciplinarian, Service Top, or Dominant (or all three!), the makeup of your relationship is 100% up to you and your partner.”
Source: The Kynk 101 Handbook
“It’s a common quality of autistic thinking that we aren’t sure which details are considered necessary by others when making a point or telling a story. What’s funny about that — and we will dig into this later — is the certainty that the reader or listener has a better idea of what these details are than the person doing the explaining and that it just so happens that the correlation between the included details and the patience of the listener is one to one. This raises no red flags at all. It just “is what it is.” This makes sense because their attention has to be engaged — but it also seems unfair.”
Source: The Autistic's Guide to Self-Discovery: Flourishing as a Neurodivergent Adult
“It's a commonly expressed and rather nice, romantic notion that we are all "sisters" and "brothers."
Let's be real. Fact is, we might be better served to accept that we are all siblings.
Siblings fight, pull each other's hair, steal stuff, and accuse each other indiscriminately.
But siblings also know the undeniable fact that they are the same blood, share the same origins, and are family.
Even when they hate each other.
And that tends to put all things in perspective.”
Source: The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration
“It’s a complete compendium of sad, silly and utterly stupid thoughts, ugly instances of damage…”
Source: Looking for Oranges
“It's a completely different feeling when I return from work now. There are practical benefits: finding things quickly, being able to walk around the car without squeezing against boxes, and feeling less anxiety about the garage that I knew needed to be cleaned.
But the benefits go beyond that. My minimized garage helps me to feel more in control of my life.”
Source: The Minimalist Home: A Room-by-Room Guide to a Decluttered, Refocused Life
“It's a constant in this country that the people who make the laws love to talk about God when they take things from you.”
Source: Wild Faith: How the Christian Right Is Taking Over America
“It’s a contradiction: Kids have to be taught how to use tools that will help them reduce their work-time, without it actually reducing their work-time.”
Source: Kids These Days: Human Capital and the Making of Millennials
“It's a creamy lobster mashed potato, but it's so much more than that. She can taste the the sweet meat of the shellfish, the salinity of the butter, the earthiness of finely chopped chives. The potatoes are soft, lighter than air, almost like they've been whipped for hours. Eden determines that he's used brie instead of cheddar, giving the whole thing a much milder taste.”
Source: Knives, Seasoning, & A Dash of Love
“It’s a cruel fact of war that it takes little more than applying pressure to one finger to end another person’s life. More than that, it’s a cruel fact of life that we are hardwired to follow the crowd in a moment of panic.”
Source: Dystopia Boy: The Unauthorized Files
“It’s a cruel joke of the universe that the one person who makes me come alive is himself dead. And evil. His very existence defies all moral laws and all known laws of physics.”
Source: The Last Girl
“It's a cruel trick we play on girls, exposing them to these realities at the same time that we exert the most social pressure on them to ignore and hide the anger they provoke. We look away from girls' anger and collude in the systems that erode their sense of self worth; then we turn around and wonder what it is about their "nature" that makes them so lacking in confidence as women.”
“It’s a cruel world, Mus,’ I said, using her old nickname, ‘and you have to hope the warriors defending you are just as cruel as your enemies.’ ‘Are you cruel, lord?’ ‘I’m good at war,’ I told her, ‘and war is cruel.”
Source: War of the Wolf
“It's a cultural matter. They take pride in their unpride. It reflects their lack of status. Bottom... of the bottom of the human world, and they know it, and they don't like it, and the squalor is like a badge of nonstatus for them. Saying, you want us to be filth, we'll live in filth too. Reveling in it. Wallowing in it. If we're not people, we don't have to be tidy....”
Source: Tower of Glass
“It's a curse to have traumas imprinted in our wiring, to accept that what we fear and grieve and impale ourselves upon from day to day defines the way we translate the chemistry of emotions into a fixed identity wired for suffering.
It's also a marvelous asset, our malleability. When the imprinting experience is loving, exciting, rich and worthy of our more expansive nature, we align pleasurably with harmony and bliss.
But let's face it, we're humans.
Disasters entertain our brains far more than comforts, ease and joy ever will.
No one straps into the ride for the smoothness of it all going well.”
Source: The Look of Amie Martine
“It's a damn shame that when I finally fall in love that it had to be after I died." He dropped his head and shut his eyes.
Oh, mylanta. Did he just say what I think he did?
He looked back up at me, taking my breath. "What are we gonna do?"
I knew what I was gonna do—hyperventilate.”
Source: For Always
“It's a dangerous assumption and I know I shouldn't jump to conclusions, but it's always easier to pin suspicion on someone you dislike.”
Source: M is for Malice
“It’s a dangerous feeling getting noticed, being wanted. Getting seen deep and proper, it’s shit hot but terrible too. It’s like being took over. And your whole skin hurts like you suddenly grew two sizes in a minute.”
Source: The Shepherd's Hut
“It's a dangerous game Cherrycoke's playing here. Often he thinks the sheer volume of information pouring in through his fingers will saturate, burn him out...she seems determined to overwhelm him with her history and its pain, and the edge of it, always fresh from the stone, cutting at his hopes, at all their hopes. He does respect her: he knows that very little of this is female theatricals, really. She has turned her face, more than once, to the Outer Radiance and simply seen nothing there. And so each time has taken a little more of the Zero into herself. It comes down to courage, at worst an amount of self-deluding that's vanishingly small: he has to admire it, even if he can't accept her glassy wastes, her appeals to a day not of wrath but of final indifference...”
Source: Gravity’s Rainbow
“It's a dangerous thing, going out your front door.”
“Because the road might sweep you off on some adventure without time for breakfast?”
“Well… I was thinking more of the monsters, but yes, that too.”
Source: Fate's Pawn
“It's a dangerous thing to mistake speaking without thought for speaking the truth.”
“It’s a dangerous thing, when you go loving the wrong person. When you love somebody who doesn’t deserve it. You have to be with someone that deserves your faith and you have to be deserving of someone else’s. It’s sacred.”
Source: Daisy Jones & The Six
“It's a dangerous thing when you have love without faith and trust... No one wants to feel unsure when they give their heart away.”
“It's a dark, cool, quiet place. A basement in your soul. And that place can sometimes be dangerous to the human mind. I can open the door and enter that darkness, but I have to be very careful. I can find my story there. Then I bring that thing to the surface, into the real world.”
“It's a dark place, not knowing. It's difficult to surrender to. But I guess it's where we live most of the time. I guess it's where we all live, so maybe it doesn't have to be so lonely. Maybe I can settle into it, cozy up to it, make a home inside uncertainty.”
Source: We Are Okay
“It's a dark world where the dead are cursed and the cursed still live.”
Source: A Canticle for the Fallen
“It's a date, isn't it," she realized. "Praise to the Virgin Scribe, I have a date!"
Trez laughed, the sound a rumble in his broad chest. "You'd better believe you do. And I'ma treat you like a queen. My queen." ~Trez
'The Shadows' page 205”
Source: The Shadows
“It's a date."
"It's a cookie."
"It's a cookie date.”
Source: We Are the Ants
“It's a date, not a duty”
“it’s a day to celebrate love.” “Love?” he asked, then straightened up. “Isn’t it?” I wanted to see his face, his expressions, but I couldn’t, and I waited, breathlessly for his words in the dark. “Are you still talking about Valentine’s Day?” he asked. “No,” I said. “You love me?” “Of course I love you,” I said. “As more than a friend?” “I just kissed you, Jack.” “I kissed you.”
Source: Lonely Hearts Day
“It’s a dead silent morning. One of those mornings where even the clouds are wondering why you’re out of bed. ‘Look, at this idiot,’ they whisper to each other.”
Source: Tom Collins: A 'Slightly Crooked' Novel
“It's a deeply entrenched process that nobody really wants to change because all the major players, except athletes, have a stake in the monetary gain. Everyone bends to the will of the brand, and only accepts the check they can receive from the brand, instead of holistically solving the problems and thinking about what is best for each individual.”
Source: GPS Guide for Athletes and Those Who Surround Them: How to Empower Your Sports Goals, Navigate the Process, and Steer Toward Success
“It's a delicious paradox,
a contradictory co-existing reality,
to love unconditionally
but stay separated
enough
to see
clearly
at least sometimes.”