I Quotes
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“It was strange, I reflected, as we went out into the golden evening of the Byzantine streets, that even in the weirdest circumstances, the most troubeling episodes of one's life, the greatest divides from home and familiarity, there were these moments of undeniable joy.”
“It was strange. It was painful. It was wonderful. It was something unique to the twentieth century. To sit in a theater in 1994 and fall in love with a woman from 1929 … that would be like sitting in a theater in 1929 and falling in love with someone from 1864 … or like watching 1994 from the year 2059. These leaps across time are fantastic. Yet it’s inevitable that soon people will think nothing of watching a movie from a century before, any more than we would consider it odd to read a hundred-year-old book.”
Source: Complicated Women: Sex and Power in Pre-Code Hollywood
“It was strange. She'd been around the girls at school her entire life. But within these few minutes she began to feel like she had known this one for a million years.”
Source: May Bird and the Ever After
“It was strange sliding it [the key] into the knob and listening to the lock clack undone. [...] Keys meant Neil had explicit permission to be here and do what he liked. They meant he belonged.”
Source: The Foxhole Court
“It was strange that in some sort of Jeffrey Dahmer meets Ghandi way I was
able to love myself for hating myself. It seemed like a warped sense of
love. But it was love without conditions.”
Source: Snowflake Obsidian: Memoir of a Cutter
“It was strange the way he loved her; a side long and almost casual love, as if loving her were simply a matter of course, too natural to mention.”
“It was strange, the way I screamed and yet couldn’t hear my own voice. My chaos was so deathly silent.”
Source: As Night Falls
“It was strange. The words “panic attack” were thrown around so often
that I used to think nothing of it, applying the expression to the most trivial
things. But now whenever I heard it, my stomach turned itself into knots. I
used to be bulletproof, and I didn't even know it.
Describing a panic attack to someone who has never experienced one is
impossible. However, to one who has, no explanation is needed. You just
have to say the word “anxiety,” and their eyes would light up with a knowing
look. A mixture of “Welcome to the club” and “I know it sucks, but at least
you're not alone.”
“It was strange, this feral creature, the body. It would stay denied for months, for years, and then, at one touch, a moment’s trembling indiscretion, it would raise itself and reach out without a moment’s hesitation for what it wanted, in complete contravention of all previously held notions of honour, propriety and morality.”
Source: Missing, Presumed Dead
“It was strange though, that after that whole build-up, after the last bastion of "mustn't get in his vehicles", of being warned, not just by myself but by longest friend from primary school, "that whatever you do, no matter what, friend, do not get in his vehicles", once I did step over that threshold, I would have imagined - two months earlier certainly I would have imagined - that doing so would have produced much more tumult and emotion than this. There was no tumult. No emotion. Here was this thing that happened for always I knew it was going to happen, for it had been telling me for ages that it was coming and that it was going to happen. And now it was beginning.”
Source: Milkman
“It was strange to be naked in front of anybody. It was like that cold water out there in the bay: scary, you didn’t think you could stand it, but then you plunged in and pretty soon you got used to it. There was enough hiding in life. Sometimes you just wanted to show somebody your tits.”
Source: The Magicians Trilogy
“It was strange to be on her own back in the cottage until Annabel reminded herself she wasn’t technically alone.”
Source: The Ghost of Seagull Cottage: Inspired by The Ghost and Mrs Muir
“It was strange to be supervising summit workers that I would routinely see taking company supplied drugs in the medical room.”
Source: Summit Brain
“It was strange to become a vampire ,to be presented with what could only be described as an eternal life, and then to die anyway when you're sixteen.”
Source: City of Glass
“It was strange to find them here, still alive, with their shared bits of past that suddenly counted for nothing.”
“It was strange to have no self-to be like a little boy left alone in a big house, who knew that now he could do anything he wanted to do, but found that there was nothing that he wanted to do.”
Source: The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works
“It was strange to Old Robert that he, who knew so much more than his neighbors, who had pondered so endlessly, should be not even a good farmer. Sometimes he imagined he understood too many things ever to do anything well.”
Source: Cup of Gold
“It was strange to realize that a dragon who couldn't be hurt on the outside could have so many ragged holes on the inside.”
Source: Escaping Peril
“It was strange to see someone you have only known alone begin interacting with other people, for that somebody known to you disappears and is replaced by a different, more complex, person. You watch him revolve in this new company, revealing new facets, and there is nothing you can do but hope you like these other sides as much as you like the side that seemed whole when it faced only you.”
Source: The Weekend: A Novel
“It was strange to see the enemy up close, and at length. I could see fear in their faces - the knowledge that they could be cut down at any moment - but also a willingness to accept that fate in order to perform their solemn tasks. The fighters were young, as soldiers always are, dark beards beneath chestnut eyes. They were of Pashtun origin, but whether from Afghanistan or Pakistan, I could not tell. I only knew that they were the enemy, and when they returned with weapons, then we would kill them.”
Source: No Way Out: The Searing True Story of Men Under Siege
“It was strange to stand there in front of the mirror and see myself like I was my own best friend, a kid wanted to hang with forever. This was a boy I could travel to the seacoasts with, a boy I'd like to meet up with in foreign cities like Calcutta and London and Brazil, a boy I could trust who also had a good sense of humor and liked smoked oysters from a can and good weed and the occasional 40 ounces of malt. If I was going to be alone for the rest of my life this was the person I wanted to be alone with.”
“It was strange to think that all the great women of fiction were, until Jane Austen's day, not only seen by the other sex, but seen only in relation to the other sex. And how small a part of woman's life is that.”
Source: Selected Works of Virginia Woolf
“It was strange to us that none of these three victims made any attempt to resist the attack. Indeed, not one inhabitant in any of these worlds considered for a moment the possibility of resistance. In every case the attitude to disaster seemed to express itself in such terms as these:
"To retaliate would be to wound our communal spirit beyond cure. We choose rather to die. The theme of spirit that we have created must inevitably be broken short, whether by the ruthlessness of the invader or by our own resort to arms. It is better to be destroyed than to triumph in slaying the spirit. Such as it is, the spirit that we have achieved is fair; and it is indestructibly woven into the tissue of the cosmos. We die praising the universe in which at least such an achievement as ours can be. We die knowing that the promise of further glory outlives us in other galaxies. We die praising the Star Maker, the Star Destroyer.”
Source: Star Maker
“It was strange to wonder what she had really forgotten.”
Source: Lila
“It was strange walking through the empty apartment. My battered purple room was gone, Brittany’s bruised blue was gone. Two coats covered everything. It was like none of it had ever happened.”
Source: Loved
“It was strange what Chris was feeling within, but he didn’t mind for he was loving her.”
Source: How I Kissed Heartbreak Goodbye
“It was strange when he was around I thought things couldn't get any better and then they always did somehow.”
Source: Summer Romance
“It was strange, how easily and quickly protection could cause destruction. Sometimes, Vasher wondered if the two weren't really the same thing. Protect a flower, destroy pests who wanted to feed on it. Protect a building, destroy the plants that could have grown in the soil. Protect a man. Live with the destruction he creates.”
“It was strange, how readily authority could be conjured with nothing but a bit of strutting jackassery.”
Source: The Lies of Locke Lamora
“It was strange, I reflected.. that even in the weirdest circumstances, the most troubling episodes of one's life, the greatest divides from home and familiarity, there were these moments of undeniable joy.”
Source: The Historian
“It was strange, really. A couple months ago, I had thought I couldn’t live without him. Apparently I could.”
“It was strange: When you reduced even a fledgling love affair to its essentials--I loved her, she maybe loved me, I was foolish, I suffered--it became vacuous and trite, meaningless to anyone else. In the end, it's only the moments that we have, the kiss on the palm, the joint wonder at the furrowed texture of a fir trunk or at the infinitude of grains of sand in a dune. Only the moments.”
“It was, strangely, like coming home, as if this was the place Poe had meant to be all along.”
Source: Star Wars: Before the Awakening
“It was stressful [to live as a child in a Sylvian Hills]. It's always been complicated, honestly... I do not really want to tell you, actually. It bothers me that you want me to tell this.”
“It was strictly forbidden to preach to other prisoners. It was understood that whoever was caught doing this received a severe beating. A number of us decided to pay the price for the privilege of preaching, so we accepted their [the communists' ] terms. It was a deal; we preached and they beat us. We were happy preaching. They were happy beating us, so everyone was happy.”
“It was stumbling on to really the bible of the blues, you know, and a very powerful drug to be introduced to us and I absorbed it totally, and it changed my complete outlook on music.”
“It was stunning actually, because what you would hope for from our national leaders is some reflection, some understanding that the situation that we encountered in Iraq was not what we expected, that it was not what he said it would be.”
“It was stupid behaviour. And you take a look at the explosion, and it knocks you down and you wake up every morning and you're scared and you're depressed and sad, and you kind of got to let that knock you down and knock you down.”
“It was stupid how a rumor could all but fuck up your life. How what others thought of you really affected how they treated you.”
Source: Bittersweet Revenge
“It was stupid to hope, she knew. But sometimes hope was all you had.”
Source: Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls
“It was stupidity that forced us to discard anything that did not conform with ourself - reflective expectations.”
Source: Power of Silence
“It was such a beautiful day I decided to stay in bed.”
“It was such a bigger picture [ Westworld] than what I thought it was. It's more of a revolution than a TV show.”
“It was such a depressing time. I didn't look very depressed, maybe, but it was really dire. I made a conscious decision not to stop, but it could have gone the other way.”
“It was such a dismal time in Japan. It almost seemed as if they were dying as a people, their economy in tatters, the population dwindling, the remaining citizens isolated and adrift. Had they been wrong about everything? Kenzo wondered. The power of consensus and obligation, the imperatives of racial purity and harmony?”
“It was such a dramatic escalator that I was on. It was at 90 degrees. I was going straight up like a rocket ship into space. And I was thrown in with the sharks. They said sink or swim in this Cup deal.”
“It was such a feeling of developing your inner self to the people who liked to dig deeper and deeper until you cannot fathom the deepest evil in you.”
Source: OFW Struggles Hopes and Dreams
“It was such a heavenly dream: dreamed between the reality of war and the reality of hereditary madness.”
Source: The Undying Monster: A Tale of the Fifth Dimension
“It was such a horrible experience to helplessly watch someone die. Unfortunately, it wasn’t the first time he had to do so. He was getting very tired of it.”
Source: The Manhattanville Incident: An Undead Novel
“It was such a leap in my career when 'Truman Show' came along. It's always been a long process for me insofar as recognition goes, but that's OK because you appreciate it when it comes.”