I Quotes
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“I didn't mind the fact I was a virgin still, but I knew some girls saw it as a badge of shame. It was ridiculous how society acted. You were a prude if you hadn't had sex and a slut if you had. There needed to be a middle ground where people who actually liked sex could spend their time doing it as much as they wanted.”
Source: The Platypus and Her Wolves
“I didn't mind thinking you were a murderer," said Lady Mary spitefully, "but I do mind you being such an ass.”
Source: Clouds of Witness
“I didn’t mind this because it enabled me to justify the reckless lifestyle and actions I wanted, but if I’d had the choice I would have preferred an unbiased education where I could’ve learned about each viable theory.”
Source: Pursued: God’s relentless pursuit and a drug addict’s journey to finding purpose
“I didn't mind walking into danger on my own. Not the concept of it, anyway.”
Source: Triple threat
“I didn't mind what she called me, what anybody called me. But this was the room I had to live in. It was all I had in the way of a home. In it was everything that was mine, that had any association for me, any past, anything that took the place of a family. Not much: a few books, pictures, radio, chessmen, old letters, stuff like that. Nothing. Such as they were, they had all my memories.”
Source: the big sleep
“I didn't murder anyone last night.'
'You killed someone in front of me!'
'That wasn't murder. He was trying to kill you.”
Source: A Curse for True Love
“I didn't need a reason to love you — just a chance to notice everything you are.”
Source: My Dad Rocks: 101 Reasons Why I Love You, Dad: A Guided Fill-in-the-Blank Journal for Dad
“I didn't need his criticism. I carried enough guilt on my own. I had done everything wrong. I had the highest marks in school but couldn't master common sense.”
Source: Salt to the Sea
“I didn’t need the out-of-body experience to know that it was possible. But it was a beautiful thing to know is real.”
“I didn't need them to save me, I just wanted them to notice I was drowning.”
Source: Because i'm still breathing
“I didn’t need to be a writer to know that I could. Did you have to become a penis to act like a dick?”
Source: Write like no one is reading 2
“I didn't need to know the worth of everything in this room to understand that the emerald curtains alone- silk, with gold velvet- could have fed us for a lifetime.”
Source: A Court of Thorns and Roses
“I didn’t need to meet Pavarotti to feel connected. The house introduced us. His energy wrapped around me like a high note that refused to end.The greatest voices don’t disappear. They become atmosphere. And in his home, he was still very much alive.”
Vanishing Voices 2025”
“I didn't notice that someone stood beside me until the heap from his body leaked onto mine.
I went rigid when I smelled that rain and earthen scent, and didn't dare turn to Tamlin. We stood side by side, staring out at the crowd, as still and unnoticeable as statues.
His fingers brushed mine, and a line of fire went through me, burning me so badly that my eyes pricked with tears. I wished- I wished he wasn't touching my marred hand, that his fingers didn't have to caress the contours of that wretched tattoo.
But I lived in that moment- my life became beautiful again for those few seconds when our hands grazed.”
Source: A Court of Thorns and Roses
“I didn’t notice the hostess or any other girl in here since we walked in the door because I was too busy staring at your ass in those jeans.”
Source: The Cowboy and His Valentine
“I didn't order a pizza.”
Source: House of Earth and Blood
“I didn't plan it," she said. "I hoped that we would both just know when it was time... That we'd have one of those moments. Like in the movies, foreign movies, when something small happens, something almost imperceptible, and it changes everything. Like there's a man and a woman having breakfast... and the man reaches for the jam, and the woman says, "I thought you didn't like jam," and the man says, "I didn't. Once."
"Or maybe it isn’t even obvious. Maybe he reaches for the jam, and she just looks at him like she doesn't know him anymore. Like, in the moment he reached for that jar, she couldn't recognize him.
"After breakfast, he'll go for a walk, and she'll go to their room and pack a slim brown suitcase. She'll stop on the sidewalk and wonder whether she should say good-bye, whether she should leave a note. But she won't. She'll just get into the taxi and go.
"He knows as soon as he turns onto their walk that she's gone. But he doesn't turn back. He doesn't regret a single day they spent together, including this one. Maybe he finds one of her ribbons on the stairs...”
Source: Attachments
“I didn't plan on either children or writing. Once I realized that writing satisfied me in some enormous way, I had to make adjustments. The writing was always marginal in terms of time when the children were small. But it was major in terms of my head. I always thought that women could do a lot of things. All the women I knew did nine or ten things at one time. I always understood that women worked, they went to church, they managed their houses, they managed somebody else's houses, they raised their children, they raised somebody else's children, they taught. I wouldn't say it's not hard, but why wouldn't it be? All important things are hard.”
“I didn't play the cards I was dealt. I changed the cards.”
Source: Through the Wire: Lyrics and Illuminations
“I didn't pretend to comprehend what he meant. I simply closed my eyes and let his arms wrap around me. The warmth that came from his body made me feel at home, as if, somehow, this is where I belonged. He smelled of woods after a thunderstorm, clean and elemental.”
Source: Feathermore
“I didn't pretend to know Eli at all, but even so, I'd noticed that his manner was slightly hard to read. It was something in the way he talked that made it difficult to tell whether he was kidding or serious or what. This bothered me. Or intrigued me. Or both.”
“I didn't properly think about what was happening even as I kissed him back, my laughter spilling into his mouth and making stutters of my kisses. I was still bound up with him, our magic snarled up into great messy tangled knots. I didn't have anything to compare that intimacy to. I'd felt the hot embarrassment of it, but I'd thought of it vaguely like being naked in front of a stranger. I hadn't connected it to sex—sex was poetic references in songs, my mother's practical instructions, and those few awful hideous moments in the tower with Prince Marek, where I might as well have been a rag doll as far as he'd cared. But now I toppled the Dragon over, clutching at his shoulders. As we fell his thigh pressed between mine, through my skirts, and in one shuddering jolt I began to form a startled new understanding.”
Source: Uprooted
“I didn't realise how important the sky was until I didn't have one”
Source: Across the Universe
“I didn’t realise that we were also soldiers, fightin' a war o' wealth—only that those of us crushed beneath the boots o' the rich worked to make 'em newer, heavier boots.”
Source: Lifemaker
“I didn't realise you'd ridden here on your high horse”
Source: Extraordinary Means
“I didn’t realize how much I was carrying until I put it all down.”
Source: Self Love Poetry: For Thinkers & Feelers
“I didnt realize I actually had post-traumatic stress disorder at the time, but why would I think I had that? Anyway, how would I know which was post-traumatic stress, which is addiction, which is bipolar, which is Libra?”
Source: Wishful Drinking
“I didn't realize. I wasn't trying to rewrite history.
You couldn't if you wanted to. It already happened. It don't matter if anyone remembers it or not. He paused. Abbs, you're tryin' to find hope in the past, but the world and its lusts are passing away. Hope belongs to the future. -Abby Wells and Will Laughlin”
Source: Whispers in the Branches
“I didn't realize it until now, but I don't really know anything about them, or what kind of people they are, really. You can't see inside a person's heart.”
Source: Battle Royale
“I didn't realize our government considered altruism one of its core competencies," {he} finally replied. "Is that why we're dropping a treaty that provides free helium-3 for the New Third World?" He started to unstrap his restraints. "I thought it was so we could prove to the orbital executives that we can keep up with their production demands.”
Source: Gunpowder Moon
“I didn’t realize that in his wish to transform me was the proof that he didn’t like me as I was, he wanted me to be different, or, rather, he didn’t want just a woman, he wanted the woman he imagined he himself would be if he were a woman. For Franco, I said, I was an opportunity for him to expand into the feminine, to take possession of it: I constituted the proof of his omnipotence, the demonstration that he knew now to be not only a man in the right way, but also a woman.”
Source: Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay
“I didn’t realize the last time was the last time. And if I had, I would’ve made it more special.”
“I didn't realize there was a ranking." I said. "Sadie frowned. "What do you mean?" "A ranking," I said. "You know, what's crazier than what." "Oh, sure there is," Sadie said. She sat back in her chair. "First you have your generic depressives. They're a dime a dozen and usually pretty boring. Then you've got the bulimics and the anorexics. They're slightly more interesting, although usually they're just girls with nothing better to do. Then you start getting into the good stuff: the arsonists, the schizophrenics, the manic-depressives. You can never quite tell what those will do. And then you've got the junkies. They're completely tragic, because chances are they're just going to go right back on the stuff when they're out of here." "So junkies are at the top of the crazy chain," I said. Sadie shook her head. "Uh-uh," she said. "Suicides are." I looked at her. "Why?" "Anyone can be crazy," she answered. "That's usually just because there's something screwed up in your wiring, you know? But suicide is a whole different thing. I mean, how much do you have to hate yourself to want to just wipe yourself out?”
“I didn’t realize there were so many Brainiacs,” Ivy whispers.”
Source: Proud Pada
“I didn’t realize this building had a basement,” I said.
“Basement might be a bit of an understatement.” He grinned over his shoulder. When I responded with a raised eyebrow, he said, “You’ll see.”
Source: Remembrandt
“I didn’t really comprehend what was happening or how tonight had changed us and the course of our future, but I instinctively knew that things would never be the same again. Something had ended and something was definitely beginning, I just didn’t have the knowledge base to know what.”
Source: A Ripple of Fear
“I didn't really have any sharable anecdotes. That's the thing about anxiety - it limits your experiences so the only stories you have to tell are the "I went mad" ones.”
Source: Am I Normal Yet?
“I didn’t really like people to touch me.”
Source: Sinner
“I didn't really mind. I loved this drive, this moment.”
Source: The Summer I Turned Pretty
“I didn’t really see why people should look at me”
Source: the bell jar
“I didn't really spend much time with anyone my own age during high school because I believed my true calling would be representing New Jersey in the U.S. Senate, and if that didn't work out, I could always fall back on becoming an Olympic pole vaulter.”
Source: Are You There, Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea
“I didn’t really want this either
-Frederick”
“I didn't recognize it as such then, because I was only thirteen years old, but later I found it a bit ironic that my first time seeing a woman in all her form and glory and saggy drug-tainted tits, arrived at the same exact time as my first introduction to death.”
Source: Paradise City
“I didn’t revel in death, but I didn’t hate it either. Death had raised me, like an older sibling. Amidst death, I had found my bearings as a soldier. Surrounded by death, I had found my place as a leader.”
Source: A Crown of Wishes
“I didn’t say a word. He wouldn’t be using oxygen. K2 is more dangerous than Everest.”
Source: Finding Jim
“I didn't say another word to Mama that night, but I could feel something good even then: the YES in my heart, the swirling-around in my belly, the prickly tingling all the way from the freckle on my finger to the tip of my pinky toe. That much wonderful could only mean one thing:
There was still magic in Midnight Gulch.”
Source: A Snicker of Magic
“I didn’t say anything; I could find no words that would express the swirled chaos of emotions inside me. So I just watched him go right out the door.”
Source: Tall, Dark Streak of Lightning
“I didn’t say anything. I could hardly just say I was sick. I couldn’t explain it, the feeling I had that everything was falling away and trying to grab hold of any of it only made me lose it faster. The feeling that everything I did just made me sink lower, and I couldn’t move anymore.”
Source: Different Worlds
“I didn’t say anything to my dad. It’s not like he could do anything but talk on the phone anyway. We don’t live in the heroic age. Our separation isn’t any great poetic struggle. It’s just pain. It’s just ripping bodies apart.”
Source: Everything Sad Is Untrue
“I didn’t say Atwater gave me old dresses with rips, and seams coming apart, and leftovers to eat—like it was a tip for doing a real good job for little pay.”
Source: Iola O