I Quotes
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“It seemed cruelly unfair to me, even then, how fast your life can change before you have an opportunity to rethink your choices. We should get second chances on the big stuff. We should come equipped with erasers attached to the tops of our heads. Like pencils. We should be able to flip over and scribble away mistakes, at least once or twice during the duration of our existence, especially in matters of life and death.”
Source: God Shaped Hole: A Novel
“It seemed each band member was in his own world. Yet, each was in tune with the other.”
Source: A Ghost In New Orleans
“It seemed especially cruel to hate someone for loving, but she knew that people could be especially cruel.”
Source: The Color Thief
“It seemed everything that had ever lived and died in this world had passed through here, had left its indelible imprint.”
Source: The Book of Broken Hearts
“It seemed evident to me that this client was not genuinely androphilic: He was
clearly an autogynephilic man whose most intense source of erotic arousal involved
the most common type of behavioral autogynephilia, autogynephilic interpersonal
fantasy involving a male partner. But what was evident to me was not at all evident
to this client, even though he was probably more intelligent than 99.9% of the population and had read more about autogynephilia than most psychologists and psychiatrists who specialize in the treatment of gender dysphoria. The most intense and
rewarding sexual experiences of this man’s life had involved sex with male partners.
How could he not wonder whether his real sexual attraction was toward men? His
uncertainty about an issue that seemed so straightforward to me was a reminder of
how profoundly confusing this type of behavioral autogynephilia can be, even to
highly intelligent, well-informed people. Eventually, this client recognized that he
was not genuinely androphilic, but this realization occurred only gradually.”
Source: Men Trapped in Men's Bodies
“It seemed far more reasonable to belong to a species that had evolved natural tooth replacement than to belong to one that had developed the dental profession.”
Source: The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating
“It seemed for a moment as if something was there, loitering between the knurled and towering cherry trees, a flash of a presence as stark as the sight of the snow against their bare branches and cracked, piceous bark. Unblinking, I watched the edge of the lake, waiting for it to reappear, but whatever it had been was gone, vanished under cover of a willow tree, lofty and dense, rearing over the lake, its branches dripping all the way to the ground. The tree’s lament had been transformed into a thing of such beauty I was tempted to go and hide within it.”
Source: Chasing Azrael
“It seemed forever before someone remembered to applaud, and then there was no end to it.”
“It seemed from the media that we were being told that all Haitians had AIDS. At the time, I had just come from Haiti. I was twelve years old, and the building I was living in had primarily Haitians. A lot of people got fired from their jobs. At school, sometimes in gym class, we'd be separated because teachers were worried about what would happen if we bled. So there was really this intense discrimination.”
“It seemed fun to play a villain on stage and I wanted my jokes to be so good that I could just calmly tell them on stage.”
“It seemed funny that one day I would go to bed in her arms and the next not feel anything, like a switch had gone off. But no, that wasn’t honest either. This had been building for a long time. Our silences were getting longer. Our arguments more frequent. How do you stay with someone when there are no dreams to build? No purpose to accomplish? No meaning? No meaning —that was the monster that drove us away from one another in the end. Always.”
Source: A Short Stay in Hell
“It seemed funny that the sunset she saw from her patio and the one I saw from the back steps was the same one. Maybe the two worlds we lived in weren’t so different. We saw the same sunset.”
Source: The Outsiders: That was Then, this is Now ; Rumble Fish
“It seemed her biological father was a saint.
Except for the one mistake, the man who didn’t make mistakes, made.
Her.”
Source: Crossover
“It seemed his demon couldn't tell the physical difference between when he was in danger and when he was "in" Danger.”
Source: Sins of the Night: A Dark-Hunter Novel
“It seemed I'd always been chasing after something, anything that moved -a car, a bird, a blowing leaf -anything that might lead me into some more lit place, some unknown land downriver. I had not even the vaguest notion of the broken world I was living in, what society could do with you.”
Source: Chronicles, Volume One
“It seemed impossible that a modern airport, full of prosperous and purposeful travellers, was only kilometres away from those crushed and cindered dreams.”
Source: Shantaram
“It seemed impossible that I was supposed to keep loving - even revering - my body as it decomposed in slow motion. Why not give in and have low self-esteem? Maybe I could slay in that way instead.”
Source: Really Good, Actually
“It seemed impossible that there could be people in the world who still desired food, who laughed, who neither knew nor cared that Sirius Black was gone forever.”
“It seemed impossible to leave the world until I had produced all that I felt called upon to produce, and so I endured this wretched existence an excitable body which a sudden change can throw from the best into the worst state. Patience I must now choose for my guide, and I have done so. Divine One, thou lookest into my inmost soul, thou knowest it, thou knowest that love of man and desire to do good live therein.”
“It seemed impossible to make an appealing show about bulimia. I mean, it's my story, and even I don't wanna watch that. Plus, everybody told me not to - I like a challenge.”
“It seemed improbable that men really wanted sex this badly, and yet they did, there was an entire economy based on how badly they wanted it, and for a moment Margo understood the sexual desire she felt was mild in comparison She would never pay fifteen dollars to look at a guy naked.”
Source: Margo's Got Money Troubles
“It seemed in some other incarnation she had lived all her life in the village, had served a soldier, and the mingling of noises from the square outside was a comforting music.”
Source: Beauty's Punishment
“It seemed, in the beginning, that fighting back would only bring me further pain. That's the lesson they wanted me taught, but soon I realised I would be hurt anyway. Better to hurt someone else when I had a chance. Better to make them hesitate, to know it would cost them something.”
Source: The Stolen Heir
“It seemed, in the beginning, that fighting back would only bring me further pain. That’s the lesson they wanted me taught, but soon I realized I would be hurt anyway. Better to hurt someone else when I had a chance. Better to make them hesitate, to know it would cost them something.”
Source: The Stolen Heir
“It seemed inconceivable that such an inferno, lofting embers into the heavens and scorching the clouds themselves, could have started with the tiny spark struck from my flint and nursed by my breath. Still, perhaps that's all lives are, all the world is, a collision of vast conflagrations, each sparked from nothing.”
Source: Prince of Fools
“It seemed incredible that this day, a day without warnings or omens, might be that of my implacable death.”
Source: Ficciones
“It seemed incredible to me now that I had never understood. I wondered how many people there were in the world who suffered, and continued to suffer, because they could not break out from their own web of shyness and reserve, and in their blindness and folly built up a great distorted wall in front of them that hid the truth. This was what I had done. I had built up false pictures in my mind and sat before them. I had never had the courage to demand the truth.”
Source: Rebecca
“It seemed incredible to me that day without premonitions or symbols should be the one of my inexorable death .”
Source: Everything and Nothing
“It seemed incredible to me, that physical courage should be so commonplace and revered, while moral courage . . . is so rare and despised.”
“It seemed inevitable to try to address my feelings about everything that had happened. To a certain degree, it felt cathartic, but it's less cathartic to me than it is illuminating and helping me navigate my own feelings.”
“It seemed intended by the blessed providence of God that I should be blind all my life, and I thank him for the dispensation. If perfect earthly sight were offered me tomorrow I would not accept it. I might not have sung hymns to the praise of God if I had been distracted by the beautiful and interesting things about me.”
“It seemed ironic that Lowell Levine and I,who were both Jewish, were going over toidentify the remains of a man who was soanti-Semitic.”
“It seemed ironic to her that women were considered far too meek for the morbidity of war, and yet a child could give their life in a battle they did not even understand.”
Source: The Patriot's Daughter
“It seemed Kaida was a bit too anxious about her mother's estate, all of it, to be exact. It worried Gail.
In a lucid moment, considering that Christmas was again approaching, Gail cleverly devised a quit claim deed giving her property to herself, Elsie, and Melanie with Kaida inheriting her mother’s share at her death. This would repair the damages done by her will. She filed this quit claim deed in a cabinet, meaning to ask an attorney about it with her potential bequests and concerns, but it slipped her mind. Instead, she shopped for gloves and slippers and bought other novelties that Christmas. She forgot to bring the deed to light.”
Source: The Fearless Moral Inventory of Elsie Finch
“It seemed Lady Luck hated me worse than usual.”
Source: The Immortal Rules
“It seemed like a garden where no frost could wither or rough wind blow--a garden remembering a hundred vanished summers.”
Source: Emily of New Moon
“It seemed like a lifetime ago.”
Source: Let It Snow
“It seemed like a lose-lose, and then lose again, and then lose some more, type of situation. It seemed insane.”
Source: The Love Hypothesis
“It seemed like a magical city, floating on the lagoon as if conjured by an enchanter's wand. I sat in the meadow and stared at it, picking meadow flowers from around my feet- clover and daisies and wild garlic- and making myself a wreath.”
Source: Bitter Greens
“It seemed like a matter of minutes when we began rolling in the foothills before Oakland and suddenly reached a height and saw stretched out ahead of us the fabulous white city of San Francisco on her eleven mystic hills with the blue Pacific and its advancing wall of potato-patch fog beyond, and smoke and goldenness in the late afternoon of time.”
Source: On the Road: The Original Scroll: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
“It seemed like a mistake. And mistakes ought to be rectified, only this one couldn't be. Between the way things used to be and the way they were now was a void that couldn't be crossed. I had to find an explanation other than the real one, which was that we were no more immune to misfortune than anybody else, and the idea that kept recurring to me...was that I had inadvertently walked through a door that I shouldn't have gone through and couldn't get back to the place I hadn't meant to leave. Actually, it was other way round: I hadn't gone anywhere and nothing was changed, so far as the roof over our heads was concerned, it was just that she was in the cemetery.”
Source: So Long, See You Tomorrow
“It seemed like a nice neighborhood to have bad habits in.”
Source: The Big Sleep & Farewell, My Lovely
“It seemed like after the 80s and 90s there came a sort of weird time in politics, where something like Spitting Image was no longer feasible because politicians weren't the big personalities that they once were. But now it seems like we're coming out of that, I mean we've got Boris Johnson, and Trump overseas, and Jeremy Corbyn.”
“It seemed like all the way to tomorrow and over it to the days beyond.”
Source: The Hobbit
“It seemed like an impossible task to do full justice to all Luther classics. And yet these landmark artists have done just that. Memorable performances of wonderful songs that ensure Luther's legacy will live on forever.”
“It seemed like an interesting movie [Independence Day], and I thought I had a take on the part that was going to be unique. That doesn't happen to me very often.”
“It seemed like an original act, the very kindest act of being human, that he listened.”
Source: The Secret Cure
“It seemed like forever ago, like we've had this brief but still infinite forever. Some infinities are bigger than other infinities.”
“It seemed like I always did some great hitting in Brooklyn. The field there was close to the stands. Every time I started walking to the plate, I could hear the fans say, 'Here comes that man again. Here comes that man.'”
Source: The Cardinals Encyclopedia
“It seemed like life was a sort of narrowing tunnel Right when you were born, the tunnel was huge. You could be anything,. Then, like, the absolute second after you were born, the tunnel narrowed down to about half that size....I figured on the day you died, the tunnel would be so narrow, you'd have squeezed yourself in with so many choices, that you just got squashed.”