I Quotes
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“I didn't say he was dating you," he said, "but funny that you knew just what I meant, isn't it?"
"We're not dating," Alec said again.
"Oh?" Magnus said. "So you're just that friendly with everybody, is that it?”
Source: City of Ashes
“I didn't say I wanted him to back out. I said I wanted to renegotiate."
"Renegotiate," Win repeated as though the word tasted vinegary.”
Source: Back Spin
“I didn't say that," Ziara protested, eyeing him as a sudden idea occurred to her. "But I'm a practical person, and when I hear a new theory I like to give it a test."
"Shall we as the Ascendancy to declare war on someone?"
"I was thinking a little smaller," she said. "Come on.”
Source: Chaos Rising
“I didn't say that," Ziara protested, eyeing him as a sudden idea occurred to her. "But I'm a practical person, and when I hear a new theory I like to give it a test."
"Shall we ask the Ascendancy to declare war on someone?"
"I was thinking a little smaller," she said. "Come on.”
Source: Chaos Rising
“I didn't say what kind of book. You have a foul mind Bingley."
"Don't mock me on my sister's wedding day!"
"I mocked you on yours; I hardly see how this is as bad," was Darcy's reply.”
Source: The Darcys & the Bingleys: A Tale of Two Gentlemen's Marriages to Two Most Devoted Sisters
“I didn't say yes. I can say no to anything I say vile, and I don't have to count the cost. But because you said yes, all that you can do, for all your crown and your trappings, and your guards—all that your can do is to have me killed.”
Source: Antigone
“I didn't scream I wasn't afraid. I knew I was strong enough to survive it all.”
“I didn’t see clearly how you were right about the hypersexualization of this world. Men and women both chasing sex because they lack substance, because they lack personality, because they marinate in the old smelly sweat of one-night stands and broken hearts, they marinate in the fluids of bodies whose souls they have never met and whose eyes they have never looked into, their breath reeks of body fluids. They have cheapened sex and they have cheapened connection and bonding. Their breath stinks from cigarettes and alcohol and they have no idea how to make sweet love, they have no idea how to have a true orgasm. They have no idea how to love, they have no idea how to maintain a conversation beyond the repulsive small talk and the fakeness that reeks from their tongues.”
“I didn’t see Danny come in or run towards me. He was just suddenly there, pulling me up by my arm so hard that I gasped. I felt his grip on my skin long after he let go. We ran down the steps where Mom met us, coughing. She was followed by a thick black cloud of smoke. I had never felt smoke that hot in my life. I tasted ash when I breathed in.
“Go! Get out!” she choked, waving us towards the front door.
We ran out into the night in our pajamas.
“Run to Violet’s!” Mom called behind us.
- The Stable House”
“I didn't see his penis as often as I did my mother's breasts, but I could pick it out of a lineup, no problem.”
Source: Sensitive: My Journey through a Toxic World
“I didn't see myself as the busty type. Too bad bodies are issued randomly, not selected to match your personality”
Source: Glimmer
“I didn’t see you as a chance to seize, but as a life I yearned to live — even if its ending was goodbye.”
“I didn't see you Under the Mountain,' I said instead. I had to know without a doubt- if they were there, if they'd seen me, if it'd impact howI interacted while working with-
Silence fell. None of them, even Amren, looked at Rhysand.
It was Mor who said, 'Because none of us were.'
Rhys's face was a mask of cold. 'Amarantha didn't know they existed. And when someone tried to tell her, they usually found themselves without the mind to do so.'
A shudder went down my spine. Not at the cold killer, but- but... 'You truly kept this city, and all these people, hidden from her for fifty years?'
Cassian was staring at his plate, as if he might burst out of his skin.
Amren said, 'We will continue to keep this city and these people hidden from our enemies for a great many more.'
Not an answer.
Rhys hadn't expected to see them again when he'd been dragged Under the Mountain. Yet he had kept them safe, somehow.
And it killed them- the four people at this table. It killed them all that he'd done it, however he'd done it. Even Amren.
Perhaps not only for the fact that Rhys had endured Amarantha while they had been here. Perhaps it was also for those left outside of the city, too. Perhaps picking one city, one place, to shield was better than nothing. Perhaps... perhaps it was a comforting thing, to have a spot in Prythian that remained untouched. Unsullied.”
Source: A Court of Mist and Fury
“I didn't send them after you,' said the cool, familiar voice. 'I sent them after the Regent's Guard, who were making enough racket to raise the dead, the drunk, and those without ears.”
Source: Captive Prince
“I didn’t set out to commit a crime. I certainly didn’t set out to hurt anyone. When I was working at Enron, you know, I was kind of a hero, because I helped the company make its numbers every quarter. And I thought I was doing a good thing. I thought I was smart... but I wasn’t. I wake up every morning, and I take out my prison ID card, which I have with me here today. And it makes certain that I remember all the people. I remember that I harmed so many people in what I did. It encourages me to try to do the little things that I can to make amends for what I did.”
“I didn't simply want children - I probably could have found someone who would have been willing to do the baby thing - I wanted them with her. I longed to see the sparkle of her eyes in the eyes of a child; to have that infectious laugh of hers coming out of a baby's mouth as I tickled them; I wanted to hold a child in my arms and look at it and see her and me, our genes combined to make another human being. When it came to me that that would never happen, I put my fist through the back door. All these little things kept coming to me, all the "I'll nevers", but that was the worst one. I grieved for the children we'd never have almost as much as I'd grieved for her.”
Source: The Woman He Loved Before
“I didn't sleep much after that. I was too mad. I'm not even sure who I'm mad at. I just kept thinking about our country and the whole world and how screwed up is that people don't do more for each other. I don't know when humans started only looking out for themselves. Maybe it's always been this way. It made me wonder how many people out there were just like Atlas. It made me wonder there were other kids at our school who might be homeless.”
Source: It Ends with Us
“I didn't sleep well last night because one of my ghosts came back, haunting with his presence, and when I woke up, the others weren't here, haunting with their memory.”
“I didn't speak her language, but it didn't matter
Her face said it all!”
Source: The Mystic Soul
“I didn't spend an afternoon doing my hair and makeup to go on demon-duty.”
Source: Hold Tight
“I didn't spend seven aeons feasting on the souls of the righteous just so I could play typing games with the functionally illiterate.”
“I didn't start writing late. I started when the story was ready and so was I.
Writing@55”
Source: Wake Me: An African American New Adult Second Chance College Romance
“I didn’t stay because it was easy. I stayed because it mattered.”
Source: Life Simplified: Quote - Unquote
“I didn’t stay in New York and let David go to San Francisco because I like the Statue of Liberty. I did it because I want to climb the ladder as high as I possibly can. I did it because I want my name, the name my father gave me, in big, bold letters one day. This is my chance.”
Source: The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
“I didn’t steal her. I fell in love,” King narrows his eyes. “I acknowledge my part in this feud, but I won’t apologize for it.” His gaze slides from me to the woman sleeping in my arms. “Surely by now you understand the lengths men will go to for love.”
“Even start a war,” I whisper.”
“I didn’t stop feeling because I’m cold — I stopped because feeling too much nearly destroyed me. Disappointment carved silence into my soul, so now I walk with no expectations, no fear, no weight. I’m not broken… just built differently now. And if I ever feel again — it’ll be on my terms.”
“I didn’t survive a war to become no better than the monsters I fought against.”
Source: The Successor: Tales of Pern Coen
“I didn’t survive because I’m stronger than most. I survived because giving up would’ve kept the chains alive.”
“I didn’t survive — i just kept decaying.
A quiet truth for the forgotten.”
Source: Sex, Drugs, and Schizophrenia
“I didn't survive
the storm outside
to allow anyone
(including myself)
to erode my soul”
“I didn't take the death-and-dismemberment talk very seriously. Where could you rent a chainsaw at this time of night?”
Source: F is for Fugitive
“I didn't tell Frilla how being with Dianna made days feel like minutes, how time started to not exist the closer I had gotten to Dianna. After a while, against my better judgement, she was all I saw, all I thought about, and no matter how much I lied to myself in the beginning, she was all I craved. She lit a spark inside me, chasing away the harrowing darkness, and all it did was burn brighter the more I was with her. I never wanted it to go out, and I was afraid of what lengths I would go to keep it.”
Source: The Dawn of the Cursed Queen
“I didn't tell her about the free-for-alls on the school yard, muggings on the bus. A girl burned a cigarette hole in the back of another girl's shirt at nutrition right in front of me looking at me as if daring me to stop her. I saw a boy being threatened with a knife on the hallway outside my spanish class. Girls talked about their abortions in gym class. Claire didn't need to know about that. I wanted the world to be beautiful for her. I wanted things to work out. I always had a great day no matter what.”
Source: White Oleander
“I didn't tell her that death lies dormant in each of us and will bloom in time.”
“I didn't tell him that I'd put his awful stories in boxes and stacked them on a shelf at the back of my mind. I could hear a quieter version of them still, from their dark place, through all the other business that occupied my brain, but I wouldn't unlid those boxes until I was ready to hear [his] stories again as they wanted to be heard.”
Source: Wolf Hollow
“I didn’t tell him that I grew up in an ugly city that taught me how to look between dust and rubbish and potholes to find a splinter of glass that looked like unmelting ice, beautiful in its defiance of the sun.”
Source: Kartography: A Lyrical Literary Romance of Fated Love and Secrets in Pakistan
“I didn't tell him that the diagnosis came three months after I got my first period. Like: Congratulations! You're a woman. Now die.”
Source: The Fault in Our Stars
“I didn't tell Livvie about my plans involving illicit activity. I was becoming a very well-behaved boyfriend, but I was still me.”
Source: Epilogue
“I didn't tell you this because I'm sure you would've changed your mind about the dress."
"What?" I frowned. "Does it make my butt look big?"
She laughed. "No. You looked stunning in it."
"Then what's the deal?"
Her smile turned downright mischievous. "Oh, you know, just that the color red is Daemon's favorite.”
Source: Obsidian
“I didn't text you because I thought you'd probably run in the other direction," I snapped. "Or maybe back to Bloomingdale's for another smooch session with Clare."
"Uh-oh. Trouble in paradise." Emma held out her hand, and Gage and Anil each handed her a twenty-dollar bill.
"You took bets on us?" I stared at them, aghast.
"You gotta admit that you two were always an unlikely couple," Emma said, pocketing the cash. "Bad-boy rogue thief with dubious underworld affiliations and no fixed address. Hardworking cookie-cutter good girl who worked in a candy store, spent her Friday nights watching crime shows with her octogenarian landlady, showed up every Sunday for dinner with the fam, and never refused a meet and greet with a prospective husband because she didn't want to let her parents down."
"I organized a heist," I protested. "I was arrested for trying to break into a museum. I robbed a mob boss. I got so drunk I passed out on the floor. I did bad things."
"In a good-girl way. No selfishness involved.”
Source: 'Til Heist Do Us Part
“I didn’t thank God. Doctor Carter, do you think everything happened the way it did because I forgot to thank God? Do you think that God might somehow be as petty as I am?”
Source: Quietly Crazy
“I didn't think he'd go back for him. But it shouldn't surprise me, either, I guess . . . given their relationship. I'm extremely curious where they're hiding him, as he doesn't blend. At all. Ever. I can't imagine where they could put him that he wouldn't attract a lot of attention . . . in either form." Xev
"Well, aren't we Mr. Dark and Cryptic . . . shall we call him?" Nick pulls out his phone.
"I doubt he knows how to work that. I'm sure he'd sniff it and eat it if you gave him one. Do you know where they're keeping him?" Xev
"You know how akri-Caleb's house is up off the ground and gots all that room under it for storage?" Simi
"Oh dear Gods, he's in my wine cellar? Seriously? I'm thinking I should have made amends with my brother sooner and moved him into my house to watch the puca. What kind of mutant life form do I have living in my cellar? And do I need to fumigate my house?"" Caleb”
Source: Invision
“I didn't think I could ever write a book until I started drawing one.”
“I didn't think I could get through that dinner.'
'What do you mean?' He'd been rather... calm. Contained.
'Your sisters mean well, or one of them does. But seeing them, sitting at that table... I hadn't realised it would hit me as strongly. How young you were. How they didn't protect you.'
'I managed just fine.'
'We owe them our gratitude for letting us use this house,' he said quietly, 'but it will be a long while yet before I can look at your sisters without wanting to roar at them.'
'A part of me feels the same way,' I admitted, nestling down into the blankets. 'But if I hadn't gone into those woods, if they hadn't let me go out there alone... You would still be enslaved. And perhaps Amarantha would now be readying her forces to wipe out these lands.”
Source: A Court of Mist and Fury
“I didn't think I could trust love again. My
faith in love was shattered. But then I met you and once again my stone heart started to melt, you made me to believe in love again.”
Source: The Day I Met You
“I didn't think I had anything to give you, that I'd lost you to this city. But I have me, Rachel, I can give you me.”
Source: Cocky Cowboy
“I didn't think I seemed like the sort of person who would mind."
"What?"
"I'd have fucked you anyway." . . .
"I thought I'd lose you," he said at last.
"Have you ever told me the truth?"
"Look—" he paused. "People lie to me all day long. And I lie to them all day long. I've done it all my life.”
Source: In the Cut
“I didn't think I was going to survive. A lot of people don't make it, but I left anyway. I left my father and my mother and my sister and my brother."
She rinses the cloth, continues. "They tried to stop me. They said it wasn't worth my life, but I said that it was my life, going to go and either I was going to die or I was going to get a better life...I tell you, when I left my house that night I never felt more free. Even now, in all the time that I've been here, I never felt as free as that night.”
Source: Everything, Everything
“I didn't think I would end up here."
"Me neither.”
Source: Sunny Side Up
“I didn’t think it was possible — but this situation has managed to get worse.” “But you’re so calm,” she observed.
“That’s usually when you can tell everything has gone to shit.”
Source: Supernatural