I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“It was like being at the bottom of an ocean, she said. There was no light and a whole ocean crushing down on you. But most people had gotten so used to it they thought it normal, they forgot even that there was a world above.”
Source: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
“It was like being born in Germany after World War II, being from Japan after Pearl Harbor, or America after Hiroshima. History was a bitch sometimes. You couldn't change where you were from. But still, you didn't have to stay there.”
Source: Beautiful Creatures
“It was like being given a maths problem when your brain's exhausted, and you know there's some far-off solution, but you can't work up the energy even to give it a go. Something in me just gave up.”
Source: Never Let Me Go: With GCSE and A Level study guide
“It was like being high when you reach those high notes.”
“It was like being in a car with the gas pedal slammed down to the floor and nothing to do but hold on and pretend to have some semblance of control. But control was something I'd lost a long time ago.”
Source: Tweak: Growing up on Crystal Meth
“It was like being in a Jane Austen novel, but one with far less clothing.”
“It was like being in an elevator cut loose at the top. Falling, falling, and not knowing when you will hit.”
Source: The Handmaid's Tale
“It was like being in the eye of a hurricane. You'd wake up in a concert and think, Wow, how did I get here?”
“It was like being leaned on by a very heavy, warm brick. A sexy brick.”
Source: Iron Kissed
“It was like being understood before you had spoken.”
Source: Resonance: An Alien First Contact Romance
“It was like certain dinners I remember from the war. There was much wine, an ignored tension, and a feeling of things coming that you could not prevent happening. Under the wine I lost the disgusted feeling and was happy. It seemed they were all such nice people.”
Source: The Sun Also Rises
“It was like chasing ghostlights. Like killing smoke.”
Source: Darkdawn
“It was like dancing with a mask that was attached to a stick—she dared not lower it, no matter how tiring it was to hold the mask up. She was the ugly girl at the ball.”
Source: White Is for Witching
“It was like dawn, and then dusk cascading over the Himalayas. First, the gradual brightening over snow and contour, then the shining, sparkling sun mirrored; and then as the moment of joy passed – the lingering colour-changing light; reluctant to leave. That faint, bittersweet almost-light, and then indigo outlines and inky black.”
Source: Our Particular Shadows
“It was like death by a thousand paper cuts.”
Source: Ghostgirl: Homecoming
“It was like discovering that some part of you wasn't yours at all. And it made me wonder what else I couldn't claim.”
Source: Lock and Key
“It was like discovering that your innermost fires and terrors, the things you believed no one else could fathom, were in fact the basis of a recognized philosophy. Some part of you felt intimately invaded, threatened; some other part fell to its knees and sobbed in gratitude that it was no longer alone.”
Source: Exquisite Corpse
“It was like diving into winter waves. "I can't," I told him.
"Why not?"
"Because I need to find out who I am by myself before I can be with anyone else.”
Source: The Language of Stars
“It was like drinking a sunset, where the sun had stained the clouds the deepest, richest rose. Molten sunshine was dripping down her throat.”
Source: The Enchanted Greenhouse
“It was like drowning, only from the inside out.”
Source: The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon: A Novel
“It was like either: (A) I was a terrible guy who was knowingly doing this rotten thing over and over, or (B) it wasn’t so rotten, really, just normal, and the way to confirm it was normal was to keep doing it, over and over.”
Source: Home: Family Snapshots
“It was like Elvis came along and whispered some dream in everybody's ear”
“It was like every attitude or action which reveals a man's deep and hidden character; they bear no relation to what he has previously said, and we cannot confirm our suspicions by the culprit's evidence, for he will admit nothing; we are reduced to the evidence of our own senses, and we ask ourselves, in the face of this detached and incoherent fragment of recollection, whether indeed our senses have not been the victims of a hallucination...”
Source: Swann’s Way
“It was like everyone suddenly knew what mattered. Money didn't matter. Politics didn't matter. Tabloid news didn't matter. No-compassion mattered. Calm mattered. Respect mattered. Did it really take something of this magnitude to make us realize this?”
“It was like everything that supported the relationship was coming from the outside. Judging by all the signs, we were a perfectly successful couple and John was an ideal husband for me - rich, blond, tall, sensitive, ad nauseam. But even worse, it seemed as if our most intimate conversations were based on what we were supposed to be saying, and what we were supposed to be. Nothing seemed to come directly from us.”
Source: Bad Behavior: Stories
“It was like falling down an elevator shaft and landing in a pool full of mermaids.”
Source: Ancient Gonzo Wisdom
“It was like falling off a building and suddenly, bang, you hit the bottom. The first time it happened was on an ordinary day at home. I was taking down some curtains. I took one step, turned around, took another step and then I fell and hit my head hard on the rowing machine.”
“It was like finding Attila the Hun at a yoga class. Like finding Darth Vader playing ultimate Frisbee in the park. Like finding Megatron volunteering at a children's hospital. Like finding Nightmare Moon having a birthday party at Chuck E. Cheese.”
Source: Homeland
“It was like finding out the world was made of gossamer and could be so easily ripped apart. To be solely at the mercy of fate.”
Source: Just One Year
“It was like finding some weird tribe in the middle of the jungle and, you know, they all come out and go: "Fear of the Dark. Favorite Album." What?!?”
“It was like going back to a childhood home after decades away. You knew it intimately and saw past the changes time had wrought, the nostalgia seeping into you as forgotten memories sprang up, but it wasn’t quite right. It didn’t belong to you anymore, and you were left torn by the desire that things be as they once were, and the realization that the present was as it should be.”
Source: The Book of Eden: The Keepers Series, Book Two
“It was like growing out of your favorite sweater. It fits you perfectly at first, but then you wash it a million times, and it shrinks. And then you grow, too, and suddenly it isn't so perfect anymore. It's at the back of the dresser drawer, completely forgotten until it was time for a yard sale and someone would buy your sweater and wear it as their own.
We were two forgotten sweaters destined for new people.”
Source: Before We Break
“It was like having a box of chocolates shut in the bedroom drawer. Until the box was empty it occupied the mind too much.”
Source: The Portable Graham Greene
“It was like having a Dixie elf for a landlady.”
Source: The Institute
“It was like having a genie. I'd only get so many wishes.”
Source: Vampire Academy: The Complete Collection
“It was like he´d been living at half volume until that moment.”
Source: Book Lovers
“It was like he was a broken mirror, and everything about him was a shard. His voice, his laughter, the barest glimpse of him when she failed to look away fast enough, all of it razor sharp. All of it slicing easily through barriers she'd spent most of a lifetime building.”
“It was like he was a caveman grunting, "You woman. Me man. Let’s make babies together.”
Source: Alien Promise
“It was like he was always half-awake where other people were concerned. And then we met you, and he woke up."
— Isabelle to Clary, City of Glass”
Source: City of Glass
“It was like he was being controlled by a 10 year-old on a PlayStation.”
“It was like he was in a contest to see who could do the least work, only he was the only contestant.”
Source: Dairy Queen
“It was like he was saying, "Yes, I know you. I know all the things you have done. I am not shocked by any of it. Come close to me, my love, just like you are. I have already forgiven your past and future. And, if you let me, I will make you new. I will make you into all that I have planned for you. You are beautiful, my love.”
Source: The Reason: How I Discovered a Life Worth Living
“It was like heartbreak. That dreadful feeling everyone knows in their lifetime. That one specific sensation that isn’t ever easily forgotten.”
Source: Crocodile Tears
“It was like hiking into a Hemingway story; everything was sepia-toned and bristling with subtext.”
Source: Crazy Love: Stories
“It was like him, too, to love her and admit to it before he knew if she loved him. Maybe only mortals expected to barter their hearts.”
Source: War for the Oaks: A Novel
“It was like his mother always said: Rose-coloured glasses disguise red flags – and Bartley was draped in them.”
Source: The Lost Tide Warriors
“It was like holding a loosed arrow: Ty felt hot and sharp in his arms, and he was vibrating with some strange emotion. After what felt like a long time he relaxed slightly. His hands touched Kit, their motion slowing, his fingers winding themselves into Kit’s sweater.”
“it was like how I imagined water meeting the bank would be, eroding away at the strong surface and creating its impression in the soil, taking piece by piece away with each toss of the current. I was the embankment, and Hailey was the flowing water. Peaceful, graceful, tranquil”
Source: Saved By Dragons
“It was like how people find other people to be in love with, all random and accidental and lucky.”
Source: The Beginning of After
“It was like hugging a cat. Not Panther, because she is unusually cuddly, but you know what I mean; sometimes they go all stiff and rigid and you know that all they want is for you to stop so that they can get back to doing their own thing.”
Source: The Book Club Hotel