I Quotes
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“I didn't know much about politics or our history with the Middle East, or even about this particular war. I'd always been taught to accept anything people in power told me. I did what I was told without asking why. But, looking around, I knew something was wrong, and I was sick of accepting it.”
Source: Alive Day: A Memoir
“I didn't know my boss likes pugs so much so one time we were talking about dogs, I said pugs are really, really ugly. She followed that sentence with, "I have two pugs.”
“I didn’t know my dad in person and I never got to say goodbye to him at his funeral and I thought it would be nice to say a few words now that I sort of feel I know him a bit better.’ She gave a nervous smile, and pushed a strand of hair from her face.
‘So. Will … Dad. When I first found out you were my real father, I’ll be honest, I was a bit freaked out. I’d hoped my real dad was going to be this wise, handsome man, who would want to teach me stuff and protect me and take me on trips to show me amazing places that he loved. And what I actually got was an angry man in a wheelchair who just, you know, killed himself. But because of Lou, and your family, over the last few months I’ve come to understand you a bit better.
‘I’ll always be sad and maybe even a bit angry that I never got to meet you, but now I want to say thank you too. “. You gave me a lot, without knowing it. I think I’m like you in good ways – and probably a few not-so-good ways. You gave me blue eyes and my hair colour and the fact that I think Marmite is revolting and the ability to do black ski runs and … Well, apparently you also gave me a certain amount of moodiness – that’s other people’s opinion, by the way. Not mine.’
‘But mostly you gave me a family I didn’t know I had. And that’s cool. Because, to be honest, it wasn’t going that well before they all turned up.’ Her smile wavered.
‘ So, um, Will … Dad, I’m not going to go on and on because speeches are boring and also that baby is going to start wailing any minute, which will totally harsh the mood. But I just wanted to say thank you, from your daughter, and that I … love you and I’ll always miss you, and I hope if you’re looking down, and you can see me, you’re glad. That I exist. Because me being here sort of means you’re still here, doesn’t it?’ Lily’s voice cracked and her eyes filled with tears. Her gaze slid towards Camilla, who gave a small nod.”
Source: After You
“I didn't know someone whom I wasn't seeking, could make me feel like I didn't need to search anymore.”
“I didn't know that cats could grin.'
'They all can,' said the Duchess, 'and most of 'em do.”
“I didn't know that freedom is not a reward or a decoration that is celebrated with champagne. Nor yet a gift, a box of dainties to make you lick your chops. Oh, no! It's a chore, on the contrary, and a long-distance race, quite solitary and very exhausting. No champagne, no friends raising their glasses as they look at you affectionately. Alone in a forbidding room, alone in the prisoner's box before the judges, and alone to decide in the face of oneself or in the face of others' judgement. At the end of all freedom is a court sentence; that's why freedom is too heavy to bear, especially when you're down with a fever, or are distressed, or love nobody.”
Source: The fall
“I didn't know that I've completely left them all in the past. There's a part of me, wishing and hoping, that she would come back for me, and we would start a new life together, but she didn't.”
Source: One Minute to Midnight
“I didn't know that I was going to have to eat my own words:
- Milo”
Source: The phantom tollbooth
“I didn't know that my culture had fashioned the shape of my mourning; I didn't know that my grief could be improper.”
Source: Wandering Souls
“I didn't know that my life forever changing would be because you loved me and then left, and in such a final way.”
Source: All the Bright Places
“I didn’t know that my skin color was a target.”
Source: Why Are You Obsessed with My Race?
“I didn’t know that princes sat on wooden benches.” Prince Rakturan’s grin was humorless and threatening - as usual.
“I didn’t know that peasant girls ran off to fight Magikas. We learn new things every day. It’s what makes being alive so exciting, am I right?”
Source: Sworn
“I didn’t know that the times we spent together on the weekends, the times that we laughed together, and the times you helped me out was your way of silently wishing me a beautiful goodbye.”
Source: Purple Buddha Project: Purple Book of Self-Love
“I didn’t know that these flashes of information were even thoughts. Until I did. And that they belonged to me. It was my voice talking to my self except I didn’t have to make a sound.”
Source: Emergency Contact
“I didn't know that was how you had been scarred," he said. She looked away .
"Now you will say that it is not so ugly or that you do not even see it, or something like that."
"I see it," Gideon said in a low voice. "I am not blind, and we are a people of many scars. I see it, but it is not ugly. It is just another beautiful part of the most beautiful girl I have ever seen.”
Source: Clockwork Princess
“I didn't know that would be the last time I'd see him, his neck scar lit blue by the diner's neon marquee. To see that little comma again, to put my mouth there, let my shadow widen the scar until, at last, there was no scar to be seen at all, just a vast and equal dark sealed by my lips. A comma superimposed by a period the mouth so naturally makes. Isn't that the saddest thing in the world, Ma? A comma forced to be a period?”
Source: On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
“I didn’t know the grim reaper looked like Sid Vicious. – Jen”
Source: Living Dead Girl
“I didn't know the real reason that she was crying. I was just carried away by the feeling of her in my arms, trembling and warm.”
Source: The Gods Lie
“I didn't know then that a person is never sure about a lot of things, no matter how much he wants to be.”
“I didn’t know then that young girls were a sort of poison, infectious to the man of age; and that men of age justly take woman of age to cure themselves of the diseases of youth.”
“I didn't know till 15 that there was anyone in the world but me,and it cost me plenty.”
“I didn't know until a year later that Marilyn Manson had canceled concert dates in our area out of respect, or that the NRA did not cancel their annual meeting, held at a hotel fifteen miles away from the school, just ten days after the shootings.”
Source: A Mother's Reckoning: Living in the Aftermath of Tragedy
“I didn't know until I licked the mocha buttercream from my third devil's food cupcake that this was the flavor of starting over- dark chocolate with that take-charge undercurrent of coffee.
I could actually taste it, feel it. And now I craved it.”
Source: The Cake Therapist
“I didn't know we received CNN this deep in the Andes.”
Source: Inca Gold
“I didn't know what cause the change. But one day, she came with her eyes flashing, her hair pulled back in a tight ponytail, and she managed to sweep my legs out from underneath me. I was dazed, looking up at the clouds through the trees and she just laughed.
God, I loved that woman. More than anything”
Source: Wolfsong
“I didn’t know what darkness was until I lost you”
Source: The Raven
“I didn’t know what figgy pudding was, but it sounded like the sort of dish that sat cold and alone at the end of the buffet table because no one wanted it. Like me. Cold and alone and probably lumpish.”
“I didn’t know what I was doing at college aside from fulfilling a destiny that no one bothered explaining to me.”
Source: City of Girls
“I didn’t know what it was, who I was or who he was. I just knew what we could have become as one.”
“I didn’t know what to call it, what was happening between us, but I liked it. It felt silly and fragile and good.”
Source: Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
“I didn’t know what to do.
I couldn’t go to school because I was still green. I couldn’t go downstairs to breakfast because I couldn’t eat. So, I did the only thing I could do — I stayed in bed.
And, I don’t mean for just a few hours. I stayed in bed for a whole week.”
Source: Top Secret
“I didn’t know what to do.
I knew what I wanted to do. I knew what I was supposed to do.
But I didn’t know what I was going to do.”
Source: When You Were Pixels
“I didn’t know what to do. When it wouldn’t stick, I panicked, but it stuck everywhere I didn’t want.” Sheepishly, I handed over the box and winced. “You need patience. Just take it little by little.” She chuckled at the state of the cup and shook her head. “Kintsugi teaches us to embrace imperfection, but all such things will take time and care to achieve.”
Source: A Sinful Silence
“I didn't know what to protect. He was too quick. And when he found the poker, it all fell away from me. Everything. Every hope I had. Every naive, stupid hope. I learned something in that moment; you're on your own in this world. No one is coming to save you. People don't suddenly change, say they're sorry and begin to treat you with respect. They are a jumble of hurt and pain and they will take it out on whomever they can. I had to save myself.”
Source: The Lost Bookshop
“I didn't know what to say. I just stood there and noticed Gordon Ramsay over by the carrot truffle fries and all I could think was, "What is Gordon going to think if I say no?”
Source: China Rich Girlfriend
“I didn't know what to say. I knew I had a big choice to make. I could let it all go and try to love him, try to trust him, try to make something lasting and good. He obviously had strong feelings for me or about me. And he wasn't being so bad right now. We could build something sturdy, beautiful. Or I could try to make a dash for the door by crawling under the dining room table.
There was a good chance that he would kill me later either way.”
Source: Intimations: Stories
“I didn't know what to say. I was bursting to talk about it, but afraid of her judgement.”
Source: The Woman Who Stole My Life
“I didn't know what to say. It kind of hurt just to look at her, in a way i'd forgotten. Sort of like a splinter - not when you first get it under your skin, but the slow ache after it has been taken out.”
Source: Ballad: A Gathering of Faerie
“I didn't know what to think, but what I felt was magnetic and so big it ached like the moon had entered my chest and filled it up. The only think I could compare it to was the feeling I got one time when I walked from the peach stand and saw the sun spreading across the late afternoon, setting the top of the orchard on fire while darkness collected underneath. Silence had hovered over my head, beauty multiplying in the air, the trees so transparent I felt like I could see through t something pure inside them. My chest ached then, too, this very same way.”
Source: The Secret Life of Bees
“I didn't know what to think, but what I felt was magnetic and so big it ached like the moon had entered my entire chest and filled it up.”
Source: The Secret Life of Bees
“I didn’t know what you wanted from me, at times I wish I was enough but I don’t give a fuck anymore. You had a fucking time bomb in your head, that always exploded on me. I couldn’t keep up with you. You lead me on and on, all you did was have me run in a circle.”
~Love is respect ♥~”
Source: In Love With Blindfolds On
“I didn’t know when I grew up, but it happened like this: I was so very young, and then suddenly, I was old.”
“I didn't know where it would lead. I wanted things to develop naturally.”
“I didn't know where they had taken his body, but I understood her impulse to be here. To be with him, even without him.”
Source: Beautiful Creatures
“I didn’t know where to start. I got a job where I could travel. I think somewhere in the back of my mind I thought maybe I’d run into you somewhere or at least come across some sort of sign you’d been somewhere—something so that I could at least be sure you existed, that you weren’t some figment of my imagination. But everywhere I went, I could tell right away you weren’t there.”
Source: The Words Between Us
“I didn't know whether it was the events of the night or the coffee that had made me jittery. I reached into the cabinet over the sink and pulled down the bottle of Jack Daniels.”
Source: The Ruins of Woodman's Village
“I didn’t know whether these pictures would end up in history books or be used against me in a court hearing, but they would testify to something.”
Source: Singer Distance
“I didn’t know whether to feel smart for figuring out Kiki’s advice, or feel like a simpleton for having a horse tell me the right thing to do”
Source: Magic Study
“I didn’t know whether to play my lucky hand. Or do the right thing and not go in. How did I get here again? How did I end up in this spot of bother?”
Source: Unlonely Planet
“I didn't know who I was any longer, so I just was.”
Source: Rites