I Quotes
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“It was like hunting fish with an underwater gun, a sport which he had once been foolish enough to try. At one moment there is the fish - graceful, mysterious, desirable and free - and the next moment there is nothing but struggling and blood and confusion.”
“It was like I couldn't think of any words. Now I can think of about nine million."
"How many words are in the English language?"
"Not the point.”
Source: A Little Something Different
“It was like I couldn't even begin to tell my mom I was singing. I didn't want anyone to think that she was trying to get me to sing. I wanted to prove to myself I could do it on my own. I really wanted to do a completely different thing.”
“It was like I existed in a kind of parallel universe, thinking thoughts and feelings that no one else understood.”
“It was like I had a baby and I suddenly started to feel I could play anything.”
“It was like I had a curse on me. I couldn't believe how much God was piling on. There was so much death around me.”
“It was like I had evolved to a certain stage where I was stuck in this songwriter bag as an image. But basically at heart, I'm a rocker. And I still am. But I was caught up in the singer/songwriter bag and I wasn't really enjoying it.”
“It was like I had opened a book to my own dull story and rewritten the words, creating events that only existed in dreams.”
Source: A Little Magic
“It was like I saw your soul in the notes of the music. And it was beautiful.”
Source: Clockwork Princess
“It was like I saw your soul in the notes of the music. And it was beautiful." She leaned forward and touched his face lightly, the smooth skin over his hard cheekbone, his hair like feathers against the back of her hand. "I saw rivers, boats like flowers, all the colors of the night sky.”
Source: Clockwork Princess
“It was like I was a tree who was attracted to axes.”
“It was like I was asking for attention, but I didn't really want attention.”
“It was like I was in a tunnel. Not only the tunnel under the hotel but the whole circuit was a tunnel. I was just going and going, more and more and more and more. I was way over the limit but still able to find even more.”
“It was like I was in an SNL sketch about the over-singing pop-star mom.”
Source: Open Book
“It was like I was inside a fishbowl in the middle of a typhoon, and everyone else was on the outside cluelessly enjoying lovely weather.”
Source: House of Night Series
“It was like I was talking to a man with a gun to his head.
It was like he was already dead. Like his fate was set in stone. Like the trigger was already pulled. And he was the pause that came right before 'it's too late'. The pause that takes a small infinity, looked down upon dead stars, floating around in the dead unforgiving sky. The pause that was written in stars a million years ago. Could the shot echo in space? Did this moment find it's way into a vortex? Were the stars looking down on a field of the dead? A graveyard? Are we not significant? Did anything we do matter?”
Source: X
“It was like in Samoa when they'd put up a movie screen on the beach and show movies and the locals would run behind the sheet to see where the people went. It was pretty grim.”
“It was like in the film, when I was actually doing a take and wasn't quite sure of the context, and then in the completed film it works beautifully.In the end I didn't know why I felt so shitty doing it, and why it turns out great in the final product. I guess you have to live in that unknown.”
“It was like I’d stepped out into an afterlife. Only there were no angels.”
Source: Stolen
“It was like Jerry McGuire. I was poor, starstruck Dorothy—minus the kid and the vagina—and Ben was Show Me the Money Jerry and he never gave me a chance to have him at hello.”
“I have no clue what you just said.”
He waved me off. “I’m well aware, but it was a perfect comparison that shouldn’t go to waste.”
Source: The Silent Cries of a Magpie
“It was like leading people to the edge of a cliff, showing them the view, and then shoving them off.”
Source: The City of Mirrors
“It was like letting go and falling back into water and seeing yourself grinning up through the water, your face like a mask, and seeing the bubbles coming up as if you were trying to speak from under the water. And how do you know what it's like to try to speak from under water when you're drowned?”
“It was like listening to the universe in motion. Planets spinning on their appointed courses, the lives of men intersecting and parting, the unimaginable harmony of the human body itself in hierarchy and order, were all implied in the song, but something greater as well: the genius of the composer, which must surely approach the miraculous. Perceval closed his eyes and was lost in the weaving music.”
Source: Pendragon's Heir
“It was like living in a new house. I saw the undersides of tables, walked through the tangle of chair legs. It would be good to be a dog, I thought. You would feel safe surrounded by all of these leggy objects that never tried to run away.”
“It was like looking at a knot, knowing it was a knot, but not knowing how to untie it. I had no map for this life.”
Source: Chains
“It was like looking into the most despairing kind of madness, a madness that only felt hurt and pain, a madness that therefore could only act in hurt and pain.”
Source: Snowscape
“It was like losing an important weight-bearing bone, and I knew I would spend the rest of my life trying to figure out how to walk the streets without it.”
Source: The Year of Endless Sorrows: A Novel
“It was like love, he thought, this crumbling chapel: it has been complicated, and therefore perfected, by what time had done to it”
“It was like magic, but so much of magic is about misdirection, whereas so much of redemption is straightforward and ordinary, piercing true and lit with surprise.”
Source: The God Cookie
“It was like making a blunder at a party; there was nothing to do about it, it was dreadfully mortifying, but it showed a lack of sense to ascribe too much importance to it.”
Source: The Painted Veil
“It was like Mama suddenly realized I was good, that she didn't have to apologize for me. It was the strangest feeling. One minute I was on stage with my mother, the next moment I was on stage with Judy Garland. One minute she smiled at me, and the next minute she was like the lioness that owned the stage and suddenly found somebody invading her territory. The killer instinct of a performer had come out in her.”
“It was like meeting someone out of your dreams, or fantasies, or a beloved character from a favorite book.”
“It was like naming a baby: the title fitted for a while, then didn't, the creation outgrowing her meager definition.”
Source: The Other Side of the World
“It was like Nils had said, about the little lake on the mountain that had been turned into marsh and the large one that had remained a lake. A being was either strong enough to hold their ground or they became small and bottomless and started feeding on themselves. They turned into something they never saw coming. Something they never intended.”
Source: Wolf Winter
“It was like noticing the sun. You couldn't help but see it, to turn to face the heat of it, to bask in the glory of it. But often when the sun is high in the sky, the moon is up there, too. A dim memory of what she will be in the night, but there, nonetheless, dim and misty, hard and white. At night, there is only the moon, the sun is nowhere to be seen. There are no distractions when the moon rules the sky.”
Source: Cerulean Sins
“It was like one of those dreams at high school when everyone else has clothes on except you.”
“It was like orderin a hamburger and getting only the buns”
“It was like orderin a hamburger and getting only the buns" (After Brooke White of season 7 on american idol sang the song 'Hero' by Mariah Carey)”
“It was like passing the scene of a highway accident and being relieved to learn that nobody had been seriously injured.”
“It was like peeking behind the curtain only to discover the great and powerful Oz was an imposter. Child molesters, dressed in respectable Roman collars, had preyed on children for decades, leaving a wasteland of irreparably damaged souls.”
Source: A Saint and a Sinner: The Rise and Fall of a Beloved Catholic Priest
“It was like Percy had faced death before, like he knew about grief. What mattered was listening. You didn’t need to say you were sorry. The only thing that helped was moving on—moving forward.”
Source: The Son of Neptune (Heroes of Olympus Book 2)
“It was like pulling teeth trying to get me to L.A. I hated it for so long, but now I've got this great life here.”
“It was like reaching for someone's hand, then missing their fingers, or even their arm, and hitting their shoulder instead. But no matter. You hang on tight anyway.”
Source: Along for the Ride
“It was like rush hour on four paws”
Source: Oswald the Almost Famous Opossum
“It was like sawdust, the unhappiness: it infiltrated everything, everything was a problem, everything made her cry - school, homework, boyfriends, the future, the lack of future, the uncertainty of future, fear of future, fear in general - but it was so hard to say exactly what the problem was in the first place.”
“It was like seeing Bill Gates at age thirteen, times two. And half of him was wearing a cheerleader uniform. Yes, I know that’s a weird image.”
“It was like she'd forgotten that it was my mother who'd died too. As if, because I'd never really known her, I had no right to mourn her loss. As if I didn't already feel guilty every day that I live and breathed and my mother didn't”
Source: A Shiver of Snow and Sky
“It was like she had been playing 'nhodo' with her life, foolishly trying to outsmart an imaginary playmate named Fate.”
Source: Sweet Medicine
“It was like she was cheated. Only nobody had cheated her. So there was nobody to take it out on. However, just the same she had that feeling. Cheated.”
Source: The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
“It was like she was MADE of cake, light and pretty and decorated on the outside-with her sweet laugh and pink streak to her hair-but it was anyone's guess what was on the inside.”
Source: The Girl Who Chased the Moon: A Novel