I Quotes
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“It was later revealed, after the damage was done to the presidents reputation, that the Capitol incursion was already well underway before the president had finished delivering his speech where he said: I know that everyone here will soon be marching over to the Capitol building to peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard.”
Source: Toward Fascist America: 2021: The Year that Launched American Fascism
“It was later, when she was in her old bed in the dark, that the shock of it sank in. He was gone, and she was on her own with the child. She would never find happiness again. There was a pain sitting like a lump in her chest, a proper presence, and an anxious charge like a current through her limbs. Her ears hummed as she lay trembling in the dark, and for the first time in that long day her tears flowed. It felt as if love had fled from her forever.”
Source: Theft
“It was leadership here at home that gave us strong American influence abroad, and the collapse of imperial Communism. Great nations have responsibilities to lead, and we should always be cautious of those who would lower our profile, because they might just wind up lowering our flag.”
“It was left for the present age to endow Covetousness with glamour on a big scale, and to give it a title which it could carry like a flag. It occurred to somebody to call it Enterprise. From the moment of that happy inspiration, Covetousness has gone forward and never looked back.”
“It was less a literary thing than a linguistic, philosophical preoccupation... discovering how far you can go with language to create immediate, elementary experience.”
“It was less humiliating to admit crying because of your feet than because - because somebody had been amusing himself with you and your friends had forgotten you, and other people patronised you.”
Source: Rilla of Ingleside
“It was less like seeing than like being for the first time seen, knocked breathless by a powerful glance.”
Source: The Abundance
“It was life under the Soviet system - we were struggling with every big problem. Publicly, my parents had to queue up to buy food, but were able to live secret lives in their private rooms. With the TV set in the living room, we were able to see Western pop culture -a different reality from what we were living. For me, it was like two different universes existed at the same time, and we got used to being in these parallel universes.”
“It was life, you were stuck with it, and all you could do was live it.”
Source: Laurie
“It was life, often unsatisfying, frequently cruel, usually boring, sometimes beautiful, once in a while exhilarating.”
Source: Insomnia
“It was like a bad movie except he didn’t actually twirl his mustache.” -Jace to Maryse about Valentine, pg.122-”
“It was like a big family, since so many of us brought our kids. We all went surfing. It was so relaxed and easy.”
“It was like a bird of rarest-spun heaven metal or like silvery wine flowing in a spaceship, gravity all nonsense now.”
Source: A Clockwork Orange
“It was like a braid, the song- a plait of seven voices, weaving in and out, individual strands that together formed a pattern.”
Source: A Court of Silver Flames
“It was like a broken calculator... It just didn't add up.”
Source: Based on a True Story: A Memoir
“It was like a church in there as only the truly lost sit in bars on Tuesday mornings at 8:00 a.m.”
Source: The Pleasures of the Damned: Selected Poems 1951-1993
“It was like a comedy by Shakespeare. All the ends of the story were being bound up in a good way.”
Source: The Unicorn
“It was like a commercial for laundry detergent or tampons or a prescription medication with death listed as a possible side effect.”
Source: Ruthless
“It was like a dam breaking, its walls giving way all at once under the crushing weight of his emotions.”
Source: The Gypsy Morph
“It was like a dam of musical critique had broken. Imasu turned on him with eyes that flashed instead of shining. "It is worse than you can possibly imagine! When you play, all of my mother's flowers lose the will to live and expire on the instant. The quinoa has no flavour now. The llamas are migrating because of your music, and llamas are not a migratory animal. The children now believe there is a sickly monster, half horse and half large mournful chicken, that lives in tha lake and calls out to the world to grant it the sweet release of death.”
Source: What Really Happened in Peru
“It was like a death in the family: You go through the mourning stage, then the rebellion, and then all of a sudden you have to find life by yourself. . . . I loved everything about marriage. I loved having a companion to wake up with and have barbecues with. But things happen and people grow apart. I don't really ever talk about the divorce because it was a heart-wrenching thing to go through.”
“It was like a dream to me to suddenly get into the market with that kind of movie, like La Haine. It actually created my identity as an actor, that thing.”
“It was like a dream you might have after death in which lost people came back to life, your friends loved you again no matter what you had done, and your failures were unaccountably forgiven.”
Source: Sisterhood Everlasting (Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants): A Novel
“It was like a family reunion, watching the movie. It's always a good feeling when I can get a screening for my family.”
“It was like a fork in the road has closed, shut off by an avalanche of grief, choked with rocks and a broken heart. It wasn't supposed to open, and honestly, it still hadn't, but somehow, an entirely new path had formed, green and creeping.”
Source: You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty
“It was like a frat house for film geeks, the Pad O' Guys. That's what being at UCLA afforded me. So when one of us had some success - in this case, my pal Fred Dekker - he would reach down the ladder and help me up a rung, give my work to his agent to pass around to see if anyone liked it.”
“It was like a great bee come home from some field where the honey is full of poison wildness, of insanity and nightmare, its body crammed with that over-rich nectar and now it was sleeping the evil out of itself.”
Source: Fahrenheit 451
“It was like a hand had turned the volume way down on the hum of anxiety that always buzzed in my head. He was all calm competence. He knew what to do, and he'd tell me how in that dark-brown-sugar voice, and I could just be.
I slowly followed his instructions. He leaned in and I got a whiff of white soap and pine forest. "Closer," he said softly. "Cut closer."
He could whisper in my ear, he was that near. His scarred lower lip so close to my skin.”
Source: The Slowest Burn
“It was like a hand which had opened and thrown suddenly upon her a handful of sunbeams.”
Source: Les Misérables
“It was like a heart transplant. We tried to implant college in him but his head rejected it.”
“It was like a life-line to a sinking man. It seemed to bring hope where there was none. The generosity of it was beyond our belief.”
“It was like a million fireworks exploding inside me, filling my veins with starlight.”
Source: A Court of Thorns and Roses
“It was like a miracle, but before our very eyes, and almost in the drawing of a breath, the whole body crumbled into dust and passed from our sight.”
Source: Dracula - Literary Touchstone Edition
“It was like a miracle. I'm just feeling fabulous. What's incredible is someone has given your life back. I'm out in the garden today. This time last year I was looking out a window at a hospital.”
“It was like a mouthful of contaminated water after a month in the desert.”
Source: The Bee Sting
“It was like a musician playing notes. Everything we trained worked.”
“It was like a new world opened to me, the world of science, which I was at last permitted to know in all liberty.”
Source: Pierre Curie: With Autobiographical Notes by Marie Curie
“It was like a page torn from a history book, from some historical novel about the captivity of babylon or Spanish Inquisition.”
“It was like a phoenix rising from the ashes of my story, my pain was my fuel, as I look back I am grateful for this time in my life...”
“It was like a Stygian plain, like a vision of Hades: a land of shadows, vapours and water. Everything was going misty and disappearing like spirits. The moon was enchanting and pulling at the plain just as she enchants and pulls at the sea, drinking all that vast earthly dampness from the horizon with her silent, insatiable throat.”
Source: The Flame
“It was like a switch flipped inside him. Whereas moments ago his kisses had been gentle and restrained, now he was a man unleashed. His hands slid down my body and gripped my ass, hauling me closer to him, the chill of his touch seeping through the fabric of my clothes and down to my skin. My arms wrapped instinctively around his neck, and he held me tight, tighter, as he ravished my mouth, his tongue tracing the seam of my lips before delving inside. He smelled incredible--- like the laundry detergent he must have used on his shirt, cool male skin, and his own uniquely Reggie scent. It was indescribably erotic, what we were doing. I moaned against the pleasure already rising inside me.
"I'm going to make you feel so good tonight," he promised against my lips. "Can I tell you what I plan to do?"
There was a hint of wickedness in his voice. I melted against him. "Yes." My hands slid into his hair, tugging hard on the strands of messy gold. He groaned--- he liked that, I thought through my haze of lust; I'd have to file that away for later--- and gripped my ass hard. "Tell me."
It took him a moment to regain composure enough to respond. "I'm going to bend you over every flat surface in this apartment like we are in one of those filthy Regency novels Frederick pretends he doesn't read," he murmured against my cheek.”
Source: My Vampire Plus-One
“It was like adults had their own little world that we weren't allowed to be a part of, and it didn't make sense because we were part of the world, too.”
Source: Gold in the Days of Summer
“It was like an explosion. You just don't get ready for it. I don't even know how you can, because you just don't expect it. For me, up until that point, you would do a gig, and then you'd go out and try to find the next job.”
“It was like an exponential weed. And people treated me as if I was an established musician. I wasn't.”
“It was like any other relationship, there was jealousy on both sides, there were split-ups and reconciliations. There were also fragmented moments of great peace and beauty. I often tried to get away from her and she tried to get away from me but it was difficult: Cupid, in his strange way, was really there.”
“It was like archeology. There was digging and there was dirt. And there was broken things.”
Source: A Great Reckoning
“It was like autumn, looking at her. it was like driving up north to see the colors.”
Source: Middlesex
“It was like being alone without being alone.”
Source: The Crown
“It was like being around a particularly irritating two-year-old.”
Source: Sookie Stackhouse 8-copy Boxed Set
“It was like being at an Arabian hoedown with a band of psychedelic hillbillies (p. 171).”