I Quotes
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“It was the intimacy, a sort of spiritual suppleness, when mind prints upon mind indelibly.”
Source: Selected Works of Virginia Woolf
“It was the joy of admiration and of one's own ability, growing together.”
Source: Atlas Shrugged
“It was the joy of your life to know Clark Gable. He was everything good you could think of. He had delicious humor, he had great compassion, he was always a fine old teddy bear. In no way was he conscious of his good looks, as were most other men in pictures at that time. Clark was very unactorly.”
“It was the kind of blind, gulping, insensate greed that you associate with some milk-eyed creature in a volcanic fissure at the bottom of the Marianas Trench-an organism with no understanding of the existence, let alone the feelings, of other members of the ecosystem.”
“It was the kind of building that remembered things, deep-down things, things that rode tears into the world, telling them back to anyone old enough or wise enough to know how to listen with their eyes.”
Source: Fire Shut Up in My Bones: A Memoir
“It was the kind of country that made you feel better about yourself.”
“It was the kind of crying that comes from the pit of the stomach and brings a headache with it. The kind that makes a person snort and gasp, and no matter how idiotic you feel or how hard you try, you can't stop.”
Source: Christy Miller Collection
“It was the kind of establishment that was not too concerned with their customers, just as long as they paid up front and did not mess up the rooms too much”
Source: Miriam: Private Investigator
“It was the kind of experience, Molly said, that would grow calluses on an angel's ass.”
Source: Spin
“It was the kind of feast she loved to fix. She made her falling-apart-tender ribs, smoked on the way-too-fancy patio barbecue and finished in a slow oven. She prepared three kinds of sauce and her very best sides---homemade cornbread with pepper jelly, plates of slow-simmered greens in pot liquor, and a salad of heirloom tomatoes and grilled peaches and herbs from the local farmers’ market, topped with a scoop of burrata cheese. Hummingbird cake for dessert, because who didn't like a hummingbird cake?”
Source: Sugar and Salt
“It was the kind of horse they have in mines—he must have worked underground somewhere because his eyes were so beautiful, the kind I would se in stokers and people who worked in artificial light all day or in the light of safety lamps and emerged from the pit or the furnace room to look up at the beautiful sky because to such eyes all skies are beautiful.”
Source: I Served the King of England
“It was the kind of horse they have in mines—he must have worked underground somewhere because his eyes were so beautiful, the kind I would see in stokers and people who worked in artificial light all day or in the light of safety lamps and emerged from the pit or the furnace room to look up at the beautiful sky because to such eyes all skies are beautiful.”
Source: I Served the King of England
“It was the kind of job that needed you more than you needed it.”
Source: The Box in the Woods
“It was the kind of kiss that made me know that I was never so happy in my whole life.”
Source: The Perks of Being a Wallflower YA edition
“It was the kind of library he had only read about in books.”
“It was the kind of light blow that is exchanged without notice or consequence hundreds of times in a game.”
“It was the kind of love that, sooner or later, cornered you into a choice: either you tore free or you stayed and withstood its rigor even as it squeezed you into something smaller than yourself.”
Source: And the Mountains Echoed
“It was the kind of love you can only feel toward someone you don't actually know.”
Source: Downtown Owl: A Novel
“it was the kind of moon
that I would want to
send back to my ancestors
and gift to my descendants
so they know that I too,
have been bruised...by beauty.”
Source: Turquoise Silence
“It was the kind of mouth that should only be found on angels. Chick angels.”
Source: Playing the Player
“It was the kind of place you went when your earthly troubles became too much for you and you were looking for a creative way to commit suicide.”
Source: Magic Slays
“It was the kind of promise a father makes easily and sincerely, knowing at the same time that it will be impossible to keep. The truth of some promises is not as important as whether or not you can believe in them, with all your heart. A game of baseball can't really make a summer day last forever. A home run can't really heal all the broken places in our world, or in a single human heart. And there was no way that Mr. Feld could keep his promise never to leave Ethan again. All parents leave their children one day.”
Source: Summerland
“It was the kind of pure, undiffused light that can only come from a really hot blue sky, the kind that makes even a concrete highway painful to behold and turns every distant reflective surface into a little glint of flame. Do you know how sometimes on very fine days the sun will shine with a particular intensity that makes the most mundane objects in the landscape glow with an unusual radiance, so that buildings and structures you normally pass without a glance suddenly become arresting, even beautiful? Well, they seem to have that light in Australia nearly all the time.”
“It was the kind of regret that gave lobotomies a certain appeal. Better to have it all wiped clean than to spend the rest of your life defined by one impulsive, destructive, decision. One lie. One pull of a trigger. (page 387)”
Source: Rainbow Black
“It was the kind of road that made people confess without realizing, and the kind of morning that made lies look overdressed.”
Source: Veins of Truth
“It was the kind of smile that no one further than ten inches from her face would perceive. Her expression was so lightly cast to my eyes that had it been a snowflake on my lashes it would have melted away with an accidental blink.”
Source: Dynamo
“It was the kind of summer evening that made Ursula want to be alone. 'Oh,' Izzie said, 'You're at an age when a girl is simply consumed by the sublime.' Ursula wasn't sure what she meant ('No one is ever sure what she means,' Sylvie said) but she thought she understood a little. There was a strangeness in the shimmering air, a sense of imminence that made Ursula's chest feel full, as if her heart was growing. It was a kind of high holiness - she could think of no other way of describing it. Perhaps it was the future, she thought, coming nearer all the time.”
Source: Life After Life
“It was the kind of sword that would make a lifelong pacifist look for tall boots and a hat with feathers.”
Source: Magic Bleeds
“It was the kind of talk that made me want to break off a limb and take to whacking her and that bunch of hypocrites across the back of the head.”
Source: Edge of Dark Water
“It was the kind of terrified look that reminds you that no matter how rational or grown up a person might seem, some part of him is absolutely sure - knows - that an evil other-world exists just outside of our regular, everyday world. And that although we don't expect that world to collide with our calm, predictable one...well, really, at any moment that is exactly what might happen.”
“It was the kind of town that made you feel like Humphrey Bogart: you came in on a bumpy little plane, and, for some mysterious reason, got a private room with balcony overlooking the town and the harbor; then you sat there and drank until something happened.”
Source: The Rum Diary
“It was the kind of town that made you feel like Humphrey Bogart: you came in on a bumpy little plane, and, for some mysterious reason, got a private room with a balcony overlooking the town and the harbor; then you sat there and drank until something happened.”
“It was the kind of weather that lowered the spirits, although Teddy's were lifted a little by the sight of the jousting hares and the high, fluty notes of a blackbird answering his own whistle from somewhere unseen.”
Source: A God in Ruins
“It was the king's army, the king's people, the king's taxes; and he who questioned the propriety of the royal prerogative of taking from his people without return or accounting, was reckoned, and felt himself to be, a criminal, guilty of the highest crime of disloyalty.”
“It was the kiss by which all the others of his life would be judged and found wanting.”
Source: Stephen King Goes to the Movies
“It was the kiss. For that brief moment, the volume of her world had been cranked up to Metallica levels, and she had loved the booming bass, and the spinning and twirling, and the sense that her heart had taken flight and not left her body, but taken her physical form along with it.”
Source: Dearest Ivie
“It was the kiss of a man who had waited years for the moment, and feared that it would never come again.”
“It was the labor movement that helped secure so much of what we take for granted today. The 40-hour work week, the minimum wage, family leave, health insurance, Social Security, Medicare, retirement plans. The cornerstones of the middle-class security all bear the union label.”
“It was the lack of artifice between us. Jack knew me. Knew everything that mattered about me and to me. I had willingly removed the armour for Jack and in return, he didn’t blame me for stripping him of his.”
Source: Why the Devil Stalks Death
“It was the last game of the year and you were supposed to commit suicide or something if old Pencey didn't win.”
Source: THE CATCHER IN THE RYE
“It was the last generation of writers [ the Cheers] that had grown up reading books instead of watching TV. So you weren't getting anything that was derivative of I Love Lucy or Happy Days. You were getting real characters [like those] they read in P.G. Wodehouse or Dickens or somewhere along the line, because they had all grown up with a love of literature.”
“It was the last night that she would
breathe the same air as he, or look out over the deep sea and up into the star-blue heaven. A dreamless,
eternal night awaited her, for she had no soul and had not been able to win one.”
Source: The Little Mermaid and Other Tales
“It was the last of the dancers whom my Master embraced next. He caught the man’s face in his hands as if it were love, and drank again, grasping at the man’s throat so that I saw the blood just for an instant, a veritable deluge which my Master then covered with his mouth and his bent head.
I could see the blood pump into my Master’s hand. I couldn’t wait for him to raise his head, and this he did very soon, sooner even than he had left his last victim, and he looked at me dreamily and his countenance afire. He looked as human as any human in the room, even crazed with his special drink as they were with their common wine.”
Source: The Vampire Armand
“It was the last rage of a lost battle.”
Source: Atlas Shrugged
“It was the last that remained of a past whose annihilation had not taken place because it was still in a process of annihilation, consuming itself from within, ending at every moment but never ending its ending.”
“It was the last thing I ever said to her. A lie. The worst kind of lie --the kind shrouded in good intentions. The kind cowards use to justify their weakness.”
Source: The Wrath and the Dawn
“It was the last time I would ever do that.”
“It was the last time she’d see the river from that window. The last time of anything has the poignancy of death itself. This that I see now, she thought, to see no more this way. Oh, the last time how clearly you see everything; as though a magnifying light had been turned on it. And you grieve because you hadn’t held it tighter when you had it every day.”
Source: A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
“It was the laughter of birthdays, of money found in an old pocket.”
Source: Knots and Crosses: An Inspector Rebus Novel
“It was the Law of the Sea, they said. Civilization ends at the waterline. Beyond that, we all enter the food chain, and not always right at the top.”
Source: Generation of Swine: The Brutal Odyssey of an Outlaw Journalist