I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“It wasn't an endless future, and it wasn't one with a clearly defined goal, but maybe that was what living actually felt like.”
Source: The Cybernetic Tea Shop
“It wasn’t an unhappy marriage? Could a marriage be happy, standing on a shaky ground of adultery and a disregard for the wife’s feelings? He didn’t say anything; he listened to her quietly.”
Source: Tied to Deceit
“It wasn’t as easy for others to accept the darker side of themselves. Most like to cling to the notion that hesitation still marked the presence of morality. Deep down we were all just selfish animals. We liked to take… or be taken.”
Source: Pretty Little Things
“It wasn't as if crack was getting great press in the South Bronx in 1999, but it took a particular kind of idiot to wake up one day and say, 'Angel dust is a product I've heard nothing but good about, and it's about time I was involved.”
Source: Blue Blood by Conlon, Edward (2004) Paperback
“It wasn’t as if I’d grewn up in Los Angeles - I’d seen plenty of farms in my day. But never had I seen a place that made the tightness in my chest relax. The order in the rows of trees and the dark green of the lush grass beneath them soothed me like a hand brushing against my forehead.”
Source: Tom Lake
“It wasn't as if I would use sine, cos or tan to tell me how hot I am.”
Source: To Catch a Rebel
“It wasn’t as if she’d thought it through or anything, how what a person wanted wasn’t always what they needed, and what a person needed might be the last thing they could ever want.”
Source: Small Town Demons
“It wasn't as if they had a choice. They were soldiers whose choices had ended when they had signed contracts and taken their oaths. Whether they had joined for reasons of patriotism, of romantic notions, to escape a broken home of some sort, or out of economic need, their job now was to follow the orders of other soldiers who were following orders, too. Somewhere, far from Iraq, was where the orders began, but by the time they reached Rustamiyah, the only choice left for a solider was to choose which lucky charm to tuck behind his body armor, or which foot to line up in front of the other, as he went out to follow the order of the day.”
Source: The Good Soldiers
“It wasn't as though she'd had her mind set solely on surviving.”
Source: Human Acts
“It wasn't bad but he could never make a life of eating the things—God had given him a head full of good teeth, but not a one of them was sweet.”
Source: The Known World
“It wasn't because he had something to prove. Not to himself or his dads or...or even Nova.
No, this wasn't about him. This wasn't about the Sentinel.
This was about justice being served.”
Source: Archenemies
“It wasn’t because you weren’t beautiful, talented, funny, creative or had everything in common. It was because some men prefer plain vanilla ice cream. It’s predictable and a safe choice. Confident and adventurous men prefer the complexity and layers of a sundae, even the ones sprinkled with a little bit of nuts on top.”
“It wasn’t brave because he wasn’t scared: it was the only thing he could do. But going back again to get his glasses, when he knew the wasps were there, when he was really scared. That was brave.’ ‘Because,’ she said, ‘when you’re scared but you still do it anyway, that’s brave.”
Source: Coraline
“It wasn’t bullets that killed her father. It was compromise, wrapped in a handshake.”
Source: Vice and Virtue
“It wasn't cheating, but it was Science, which was almost as good.”
Source: Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality
“It wasn't cheating if it was a job. It wasn't cheating if it was only for money. If that was all it was, taking my clothes off pushed that line, but it was not crossing it.”
Source: The Temptation of Eden
“It wasn’t desire.
It was recognition.”
Source: WOLF SUIT: A Dark Supernatural Noir — Book 1
“It wasn’t easy, but most definitely it was worth it! I wouldn’t change a thing.”
Source: Dying on The Inside and Suffocating on The Outside
“It wasn't easy, but she was used to swallowing.”
Source: Selene
“It wasn't easy, living in the past. You couldn't whack someone for what they were going to do, or what the world was going to find out later. You couldn't warn people, either. You didn't know what could change the
future, but if he understood things right, history tended to spring back into shape.”
Source: Night Watch
“It wasn't easy to cram your whole life into thirty kilos of luggage.”
“It wasn't easy to understand how the love between two other people could diminish you. If those two people were still accessible to you, if they called you all the time, if they asked you to come into the city for the weekend as you'd always done, then why should you feel, suddenly, intensely lonely?”
Source: The Interestings
“It wasn't enough but it was a start. It might keep him going...”
Source: Insidious Intent
“It wasn't enough to be on the winning side. He would do whatever necessary to make sure he, Han Alister, came out on top.”
“It wasn’t enough to not be bad; a person had to be actively good. They had to try to do good. Apathy was as bad as villainy, and it would destroy this world.”
Source: What We Devour
“It wasn't even a lie - I don't feel well - it was really very true. She did not feel well in the world ; she did not feel well taken care of; she did not feel well loved.”
Source: Briefly, A Delicious Life
“It wasn’t even her I was upset with. It was the helplessness of the situation. All my life I’d felt like everyone else called the shots. They took and they took and they took and they took until the only pieces left of my self-worth were broken and splintered.”
Source: Bite Me! - You Know I Like It
“It wasn't even real. The thing between me and Curran. It wasn't real. I deluded myself. I had this aching need to be loved and it was screwing with my head. Sometimes, when you crave certain feelings, you'll trick yourself into thinking the other person is something other than what he appears.”
Source: Magic Strikes
“It wasn’t every day a girl lost her virginity, not to mention to a delicious, perfect specimen of man. One who had wings, to boot.”
Source: Heart of an Angel
“It wasn't every day a witch came to see him.
Darius deCompostela gave up on the paperwork he'd been trying to fill out and leaned back in his chair. Semantics. Technically, Georgia Clare hadn't come to see him. She'd come to see MacMillian. Most people did, often with barely a sideways glance in his direction. Usually, that chafed.
Not this time. For one thing, her reluctance to speak with him didn't seem to have anything to do with, well, him.
For another thing, he didn't do witches.”
Source: Season Of The Witch
“It wasn't every day that a lion shifter next in line to the throne, dealing with a possible uproar and war in his Pride, found himself a soon-to-be father with a not-so-human potential mate after he'd left her all alone because he'd been forced to hurt her. There weren't any manuals for this sort of thing....”
Source: Prowled Darkness
“It wasn’t every day that I got to see him, but when I did I knew I was on the right path and that life, while still shifting, was always improving for the
better.”
Source: Running With Vince
“It wasn't exactly like I'd sold out on my life and dreams and all that other bullshit, because the truth was I'd never actually had anything to sell. It was more like I slowly froze in place, inside my little office at the museum; more like some part of me just fell asleep one day and never woke up.”
Source: Waking the Moon
“It wasn't exactly love at first sight, but it was deeper than that. A sense of belonging to a place I never knew I wanted but somehow always needed. It was a home that carried a heartbeat.”
“It wasn’t fair, but maybe Tommy was right on that score. Maybe a man didn’t have no right to ask for fair. Maybe a man made fair for himself.”
Source: Pleas and Thank Yous
“It wasn’t fair, he thought — Aaron having no family and Tamara having her scary family and now Jasper. Soon, there would be no one left for him to hate without feeling bad about it.”
“It wasn’t fair. It wasn’t fair that I’d been denied this. It wasn’t fair that I knew the second this was over, I’d miss it so much it would hurt.
In another lifetime, one that wasn’t so cruel, the Scotts could have been my parents. What that would have been like to be given smiles instead of bruises. To be embraced in a hug and not restrained for a punishment. To be read a bedtime story instead of hiding in my closet until I knew I’d be spared. To be snuggled with and not left in the corner, cold and ignored. They would dry my tears instead of causing them. They would speak words of love and not ones to wound my soul. And when the nightmares came to haunt me, their arms would have held me tight and protected me instead of becoming the very thing I ran from.
But life was cruel and these parents weren’t mine. I’d only known hurt and loneliness. Scars had marked my skin instead of kisses. Words of hate had filled my ears. Fear was my world and every waking moment was the nightmare.”
Source: The Silent Cries of a Magpie
“It wasn't fair that men got the verbs and she ended up with adjectives. Jack plotted and squeezed and bulldozed. She was caught snooping—pathetic participle, half verb, half adjective.”
Source: Compass Rose
“It wasn't Fantasticland anymore. Sadie blew her away and those kids dug the grave where she landed”
Source: FantasticLand
“it wasn't fireworks, according to either of them. it was more like slipping into a warm bath.”
Source: Great Big Beautiful Life
“It wasn't gloom at all, really. There were lights and colors. If it hadn't been for the feel of the water gliding by against his skin he might have imagined himself up in the sky, with meteors and comets blazing past. But these were sea-things, shining in the dark, the luminous life that blazes beneath the southern sea.
First he'd see a tiny twinkling speck, like a star, and it might have been next to his face or a mile away, in that immense, featureless void, with its faint hint of green. It would grow larger. It would turn into a radiant sun of purple or crimson or orange and come rushing at him, and swerve aside at the last moment. There were sinuous ribbons of fire that coiled into bright patterns, and there were schools of tiny fish that flashed by like sparks. Down below, in the deeper abyss, the colors were paler, and once an enormous shape blundered past down there, like the sea-bottom itself moving heavily. Pete watched awhile and then swam up.
("Before I Wake...")”
Source: Masters of Horror
“It wasn't God who liked sacrifices, it was the priests who liked meat”
“It wasn't going places. It was being between...Mostly it was space. So much space. I liked the idea of nothing on top, nothing on the bottom, and a lot of nothing in between, and me in the middle of the nothing.”
“It wasn’t going to be okay. It had once been Alan’s job to imagine all the ways a thing might break, but he’d never thought of this: a quiet, painful fracture, so deep you only realized it was there when it was already too late to hold everything together.”
Source: Landing
“It wasn’t good. It was good in the beginning and I held on to that.”
“It wasn’t good to mess around with knees. Knees were stupid. Like a ball and two sticks held together with rubber bands. It took way less torque than most people thought to screw up a knee.”
Source: The Warehouse
“It wasn't goodbye forever. Only goodbye for now. And if ever the distance was too much to bear, she would just look inside her heart, for Agatha was already there.”
Source: The Last Ever After
“It wasn’t hard to understand. Mexican women are something special. They learn early on that men are subservient to them. They are trained by their mothers in the use of this power over these lowly creatures.”
Source: Driftwood: Stories from the Margarita Road
“It wasn’t Harren, Arya wanted to say, it was me. She had killed Chiswyck with a whisper, and she would kill two more before she was through. I’m the ghost in Harrenhal, she thought. And that night, there was one less name to hate.”
Source: A Clash of Kings
“It wasn’t heartbreak. It wasn’t betrayal. It was the slow death of something that could’ve mattered, if the world hadn’t gotten to him first.”
Source: Where The Cicada Sleeps: A Diary-Style Portrait of Girlhood, Betrayal, and the Quiet Violence of Being Misunderstood