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 Hell; only fools and drama queens throw that word around about a place like Gotham. It was worse, in a way, because it was manmade. There wasn’t any timeless malevolence behind it all, it was just… what human beings can descend to when they let themselves forget they can be heroes.”
Source: Cattitude
“It wasn't her dream job, but she did quite enjoy the satisfaction of transforming a messy pile of paperwork into neat rows of figures.”
Source: Big Little Lies
“It wasn’t her first kiss, but it was the first one that mattered.”
Source: Otherborn
“It wasn’t him speaking. It was panic, anger, fear, and confusion. But how could he show it on the outside? Men are supposed to be fearless.”
Source: Illusive Intrusion
“It wasn't his intellect that made him unwanted.
It was his face.
- Enrique”
Source: The Gilded Wolves
“It wasn't in my dreams where I held you; it was in my prayers where I clasped you.”
“It wasn’t just a coincidence — it was all meant to happen.
I walked hundreds of miles, wandered through streets and alleyways, drifting along strange paths with no sense of direction.
I searched for you in every passing face, certain you were among them.
Until I saw that look drawn across your forehead… and only then, did I realize — you were never the one I was searching for.”
“It wasn’t just a passing encounter, but a curse that took hold of my soul… and every attempt to heal from it was in vain.”
“It wasn't just a room, it was a library filled to the brim with books--volume upon delicious volume of delight.”
Source: Bellarose III
“It wasn't just Adnan being indicted at this grand jury proceeding, it wasn't just him being prosecuted. His faith, his ethnicity, his community--they were all on trial.”
Source: Adnan's Story: The Search for Truth and Justice After Serial
“It wasn’t just her beauty. It was the attitude in her smile, the tilt of her head, and the loving look in her eyes when she caught me sneaking a peek down her shirt.”
Source: Kick
“It wasn't just him in the same way it wasn't just me. It was because I was sick of men like him. Because I'd seen them all, each as unoriginal in their selfishness as the next.”
Source: Eggshell Skull
“It wasn't just hostility I felt around my mother, it was inadequacy. I had loved my early childhood with her. We'd spent long hours playing beauty parlor and teay party, baking holiday cookies.”
Source: Waiting for Daisy: A Tale of Two Continents, Three Religions, Five Infertility Doctors, an Oscar, an Atomic Bomb, a Romantic Night, and One Woman's Quest to Become a Mother
“It wasn't just that feeling of coming home - of being intrinsically attached to what was familiar - but more a case of being so in love with a part of the world that everything else paled in comparison.”
Source: The Secret of You
“It wasn’t just that I didn’t know anything about my family’s history: I didn’t want to know anything.”
“It wasn't just that Mr. Beaumont and his creepy staring was freaking me out. And it wasn't that my dad's warning was ringing in my ears. My mediator instincts were telling me to get out, now. And when my instincts tell me to do something, I usually obey. I have often found it beneficial to my health.”
Source: Ninth Key
“It wasn’t just the heat of the moment. Ask me for anything. The answer is yes.”
Source: We Contain Multitudes
“It wasn’t just the loss of people I had known but also the loss of myself. The loss of who I had been when I had been with them.”
Source: How to Stop Time
“It wasn't just the panic attacks. It just felt wrong. I don't know...For what it's worth. I think you're happier in this life than the one where you're' — she nearly said dead — 'in the band.'
Her brother smiled and looked at Ewan. She doubted he believed it, but Nora had to accept that — as she now knew only too well — some truths were just impossible to see.”
Source: The Midnight Library
“It wasn't just the way he always looked at her- with a mix of genuine joy and longing rolled into one- or his appearance, although he wasn't hard on the eyes with those rippling pectorals. She found herself drawn to those kind blue eyes and the hard line of his jaw, which moved when he was thinking. It was the dimples in his cheeks when he flashed her that magnetic smile, and the way his reddish blond hair had a single curl that was always falling in front of his eyes. But mostly it was that earnest nature of his, and his need to find the good in every situation, which was so different from how she viewed life, and gave her hope that the world could be more than she imagined it to be.”
Source: Go the Distance
“It wasn't just this street that she was afraid of or that was bad. It was any street where people were packed together like sardines in a can.
And it wasn't just this city. It was any city where they set up a line and say black folks stay on this side and white folks on this side, so that the black folks were crammed on top of each other—jammed and packed and forced into the smallest possible space until they were completely cut off from light and air.
It was any place where the women had to work to support the families because the men couldn't get jobs and the men got bored and pulled out and the kids were left without proper homes because there was nobody around to put a heart into it. Yes. It was any place where people were so damn poor they didn't have time to do anything but work, and their bodies were the only source of relief from the pressure under which they lived; and where the crowding together made the young girls wise beyond their years.
It all added up to the same thing, she decided—white people. She hated them. She would always hate them.”
Source: The Street
“It wasn’t just writing on paper anymore. It was writing on the world.”
Source: Mindscript: A Psychological Horror Thriller That Reads You Back
“It wasn't like America, where we scraped the earth clean, thinking we could start again every time. We hadn't learned yet, there was not such thing as an empty canvas.”
Source: White Oleander
“It wasn't like he could name one single thing about them that made them stand out in his mind. They just gave off a dangerous vibe. Being with them really did feel as if he were inside a tiger's cage, surrounded by the big cats.”
Source: Toxic Game
“It wasn’t like he was purposely being an asshole. It just came naturally to him.”
Source: Playing for Keeps
“It wasn’t like I had started magically eating two entire meals in a day. I would still survive the day with black coffee and apples, but it just seemed like I’d taken one step heavenwards. The mirror felt a little less frightening with each passing day. It was refreshing to talk to someone who was fully convinced that my eating disorder was as real as I thought.”
Source: Imperfect Mortals : A Collection of Short Stories
“It wasn't like Naina didn't know what an orgasm felt like. Riz, her vibrator, had some goodly miles on him. But when Vansh said he was going to make her scream, she was never again taking that lightly.
Her throat felt raw as she sagged against him like he'd wring every last drop of pleasure from her, wrung every last scream and whimper from her.
Had she begged?
Yes, she'd begged.
He'd taken her by surprise. Yet, God, he hadn't.
He was panting between her legs like someone who'd sprinted up a hill. One of her knees was hooked over his shoulder. There was a thunderstorm inside her. Her entire wet body was throbbing and spasming like she'd turned into her vagina, all of her that one beautifully, blessedly pleasured organ.”
Source: The Emma Project
“It wasn’t like she hadn’t come across hot guys throughout the course of the last three years, so why was her heart racing? Why did she feel flushed?”
Source: Naked Truth
“It wasn't like the World Trade Center, something vile and astonishing within our own borders, happening to people who'd saved coins of the same currency in their piggybanks when they were children. I knew intellectually that shouldn't make a difference, but it seemed to.”
Source: The Straw Men
“It wasn't like there was a dating and mating website for bear shifters. If there had been, its mascot would have been that yellow Care Bear with the heart on its stomach.”
Source: Burden
“It wasn't like they were all too eager to take different sides when my sister betrayed us all...But I'm getting ahead of myself. You see, I was going to die.”
Source: To Take a World: The GhostMaker
“It wasn’t like this in the stories. In the old tales, when a young man went forth to have adventures, he endured his trials and came forth triumphant. He became a leader, or acquired a magical skill, or at the very least wed a princess. Maybe all three. There was never any question, not even in the darkest moment, that the hero would conquer both his enemies and his self-doubt. Perhaps that was why I had been angry with Simon, because I wanted the ending of his story to be the good one he deserved.”
Source: Daughter of the Forest
“It wasn't likely that I would die. Dave didn't know that then. Prayer isn't about likelihood anyway, it's about desire---loving someone enough to get on your knees and ask for her to be saved. When he cried in that chapel, it wasn't empathy---it was something else. His kneeling wasn't a way to feel my pain but to request that it end.”
Source: The Empathy Exams
“It wasn’t long before Jonathan Gull was off by himself again, far out at sea, hungry, happy, learning.”
“It wasn’t long before the court systems began to mandate AA attendance for drug and alcohol offenders. AA won a landmark decision in 1966 when two decisions from a federal appeals court upheld the disease concept of alcoholism and the court’s use of it, despite the fact that there was scant precedent for a US court of law to assign itself the power of medical diagnosis. Although later decisions would rule court-mandated 12-step attendance unconstitutional, judges still refer people to AA as part of sentencing or as a condition of probation. Dr. Arthur Horvath, a past president of the Division on Addictions of the American Psychological Association, summarizes the current legal status of this practice: "If you have been convicted of an offense related to addiction, it is common to be ordered to attend support groups, treatment, or both. It has also been common that you would be ordered, not just to a support group, but to Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) specifically, or to another 12-step based group. Based on recent court decisions, if you have been ordered to attend a 12-step group or 12-step based treatment by the government (the order could be coming from a court, prison officer, probation or parole officer, licensing board or licensing board diversion program, or anyone authorized to act on behalf of the government), you have the right not to attend them. However, you can still be required to attend some form of support group, and some type of treatment. These court decisions are based on the finding that AA is religious enough that being required to attend it would be similar to requiring someone to attend church. Five US Circuit Courts of Appeal (the 2nd, 3rd, 7th, 8th, and 9th) have made similar rulings. . . . The 2nd Circuit Court decision states that AA “placed a heavy emphasis on spirituality and prayer, in both conception and in practice,” that participants were told to “pray to God,” and that meetings began and adjourned with “group prayer.” The court therefore had “no doubt” that AA meetings were “intensely religious events.” Although some have suggested that AA is spiritual but not religious, the court found AA to be religious.”
Source: The Sober Truth: Debunking the Bad Science Behind 12-Step Programs and the Rehab Industry
“It wasn't lost on him, the poetry, the symmetry of this last bite.
Everything had begun with a taste of liver. Now it would end with one.
Kostya reached inside himself, to the place in his gut that felt inevitable, an entry point, its emptiness like a door. He reached for his dad. For Frankie. For the other side.
He could almost feel the hands of the Dead reaching out for him in turn.
He placed the pufferfish liver onto his tongue.
Wet, cold, slippery with blood.
Toxic, exotic, a once-in-a-lifetime taste.
He chewed hard, fast, before he lost his nerve.
Fatty, mineral, metallic, cream. Bitter, in the back of his throat.
Tears streamed down his face. Liquid fear.
Like salt, he told Maura, instead of goodbye, and swallowed.”
Source: Aftertaste
“It wasn't love at first sight. They ran into each other one morning in a sunny clearing in the forest. A few moments of stunned silence. `Glockenspiel,' Adam pronounced, thinking (but with terrible doubt) he'd found another animal in search of a name. When Eve approached him, proffering a handful of elderberries, he threw a stick at her and ran away.”
Source: I, Lucifer
“It wasn't love. It wasn't romance. I don't know what to call it, but it was much more refreshing than fairy-tales and deceitfully implied suggestions of a future together.”
Source: Pot Sex Love God Jesus: A Unique Journey
“It wasn’t luck. It was fate. We were meant to be together. Always.”
Source: Hearts on Fire
“It wasn't Mamigonian who made my parents stay in San Ignacio instead of moving to Fresno, say, where there really was an Armenian colony, whose members supported each other and kept the old language and customs and religion alive, and at the same time became happier and happier to be in California. My father could have become a belived teacher again! Oh, no--it wasn't Mamigonian who tricked him into being the unhappiest and loneliest of all the world's cobblers.”
Source: Bluebeard
“It wasn't me. Mrs Queenie Bligh, she wasn't even there. This woman was a beauty -- he couldn't get enough of her. He liked the downy softness of the blonde hairs on her legs. Her nipples were the pinkest he'd ever seen. Her throat -- he just had to kiss her throat. This woman was as sexy as any starlet on a silver screen. The zebra of their legs twined and untwined together on the bed. Her hands, pale as a ghost's, caressed every part of his nut-brown skin. She was so desirable he polished her with hot breath -- his tongue lapping between her legs like a cat with cream. It wasn't me. This woman watching his buttocks rise and fall sucked at every finger on his hand. She clawed his back and cried out until his mouth lowering down filled hers with his eager tongue. It wasn't me. This woman panted and thrust and bit. And when he rolled her over she yelped wickedly into the pillow. Mrs Queenie Bligh would never do such a thing. That one, Mrs Bligh, usually worked out what she could make for dinner during sexual relations with her husband. But this woman, if it hadn't been for the blackout, could have lit up London.”
Source: Small Island
“It wasn't me, the boy thinks, who was inside my mother's womb, but this bullet, this seed I bloomed around.”
Source: On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
“It wasn't merely a walk; it was a journey. Behind every opened or closed door, there was a story to tell.”
Source: What's Wrong With Faris?
“It wasn't much
And it was everything.”
Source: 42
“It wasn’t my day. My week. My month. My year. My life. God damn it.”
Source: Pulp: Charles Bukowski's Final Hardboiled Noir Comedy – Lady Death, Aliens, and the Absurd
“It wasn't my fault. ANd I'm not going to let it kill me. I can grow.”
Source: Speak
“It wasn't my fault, yet I could have prevented it.”
“It wasn't necessary to know your own demons in order to find God.”
“It wasn’t often he met someone who had her emotions so on display. Most of the women he knew were interested in more material things and kept their emotions well hidden beneath a mask of sophistication. It was refreshing to find someone who was so natural – so passionate.”
Source: Lie to me
“It wasn’t often they surprised each other, but when it happened, it sent a little thrill of passion through her. Two-thousand years and he still managed to be the best thing to have ever happened to her. He simply asked for her best in return.”
Source: Vertus State