I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“I didn’t think it worked like that. I thought love was supposed to happen when you least expected it, like a sap to the skull.”
Source: The Cruel Prince
“I didn’t think of myself as competitive. I thought in terms of having fun playing games and trying to win, but with me it was more hoping to win. I didn’t have that killer instinct they say is required to get to the top. I couldn’t see myself behaving as my dad did with his vociferous love for golf and football. The house resounded with his yells and groans during PGA and NFL tournaments. It seemed to me that yelling in itself required a killer instinct.”
Source: What Took So Long?: A Group-Phobic, Uncomfortable Competitor's Journey to Mahjong - A Memoir Essay
“I didn’t think saying good-bye would be so hard. And with everything that’s to come—
We’ll face it together. To whatever end.”
Source: Queen of Shadows
“I didn't think that Herefordshire Social Services would be best pleased about me dumping a poorly socialised pre-teen with mind control powers on them.”
Source: Foxglove Summer
“I didn’t think while I drew. The pencil flew across the page making marks, almost as if it had a mind of its own. Often times I didn’t know what it was going to be until it was completed. The cemetery was still with only a few birds calling off in the distance from time to time. When I finished I was not at all surprised by what had taken form on my paper. It was a portrait of my dad. He was sitting behind the tombstone, using it as a desk, his laptop open in front of him. He wore a peaceful smile. I smiled, too, as another tear fell.”
Source: Nowhere
“I didn't think you cared.'
'I don't. But you still owe me one kiss, and until I collect it, you're mine, and I do not like to share.'
'If I didn't know you better, I'd say you sounded jealous.'
'Of course I'm jealous. I'm a Fate.”
Source: Once Upon a Broken Heart
“I didn’t think you’d be afraid of me,” Wist said.
“You’re the one who’s afraid of me,” I insisted. My voice sounded thin.
“How so?”
“You wouldn’t hold me down like this if you had nothing to fear.”
Source: The Lowest Healer and the Highest Mage
“I didn't think you'd like romantic movies, pegged as you more of an action kind of girl. "I'm every kind of girl, Fintry”
Source: Saving Elliot
“I didn’t think you were much for religion,” Gavin said, trying to inject a bit of levity.
“Why would you think that? I speak with Orholam constantly.”
“ ‘Orholam, what did I do to deserve this?’ ” Gavin suggested.”
Source: The Black Prism
“I didn’t think you were real for a long time,” I confess. “I thought you were someone I’d dreamed up.”
“A dream worth reliving every night for ten years?” he asks, chuckling and slowly loosening his hold.
“For eternity,” I whisper, winding my arms around his neck to keep him close.
“Good.” He leans down and brushes his lips against mine. “That is exactly how long I plan on keeping you.”
Source: Sing Sweet Nightingale
“I didn't totally fit in. I kind of disintegrated around people and became what they wanted me to be. But paradoxically, I felt an intensity inside me all the time. I didn't know what it was, but it kept building, like water behind a dam. Later, when I was properly depressed and anxious, I saw the illness as an accumulation of all that thwarted intensity. A kind of breaking through. As though, if you find it hard enough to let your self be free, your self breaks in, flooding your mind in an attempt to drown all those failed half-versions of you.”
Source: Reasons to Stay Alive
“I didn’t treat my girl like she was mine
Yeah, I thought I didn’t need her at the time
But I changed my way of thinkin’ when she left
Yeah, I finally learned my lesson, but I learned it by myself”
“I didn't truly believe it back then. That I deserved to be seen. I do now, though. I do. And being seen requires being open about myself.
Joan looks at me, soft, patient.
I want to be seen.”
Source: If You Still Recognise Me
“I didn't trust anyone but myself.”
Source: The diary of a young girl
“I didn't trust him right away. I don't know if I do even now. But he showed me things, things that should have been impossible.”
Source: Under the Whispering Door
“I didn’t turn pain into power overnight. I sat with it. Named it. Then rewrote it.
And now it’s not just a scar. It’s a sentence in my blueprint.”
“I didn’t understand grief. I thought grief was something that happened when someone you love dies, not when they are still alive.”
“I didn't understand most of what he was saying. I should have had to understand what he was saying. I was still so young. And I certainly should not have had to learn it this way!”
Source: My Story
“I didn’t understand then what a profound act of generosity this was; to see another person as a part of your tribe when they don’t see themselves that way is an act of kindness. It requires that you extend yourself to another.”
Source: Son of Elsewhere: A Memoir in Pieces
“I didn't understand what it was about men—not all men, but a good portion of them—that turned a good, solid “NO” into an “I'm just playing coy; try harder.”
Source: Bleeds My Desire
“I didn’t understand what was supposed to happen from our swinging, but the need to make her happy bloomed in my chest.”
Source: The Muse
“I didn't understand why her eyes were so bright, why she was breathing so hard. "This book isn't for children," she said shrilly.”
Source: The Hazel Wood
“I didn't understand women at that period. I still don't for that matter. Nor men either. Nor animals either. What I understand best, which is not saying much, are my pains.”
Source: First Love and Other Novellas
“I didn’t vomit today. Guess that’s progress. The sadist doesn’t care. Still dizzy, though. Chanelle says I’ll get use to it. She’d know. She’s been here over a year. I don’t see myself lasting that long.”
Source: The Potrero Complex
“I didn’t wait for citizenship to chase the American Dream — I started building it one front door at a time.”
Source: How I Bought Five Properties Before Becoming a U.S. Citizen: The do’s and don’ts of building an American real estate empire as a millennial migrant
“I didn't wait for Luck. I tore after it with a truck.”
Source: Diamond Eyes
“I didn't wait for the world to happen to me. I stood up and happened to the world.”
Source: Either Reformist or Terrorist: If You Are Terror I Am Your Grandfather
“I didn’t wake up this morning worrying about what protest color I’d wear, or what the world would do without me because I didn’t wake up feeling like the victimhood narrative was a part of my story. Real women don’t have to remind the world every day that history once slighted them.”
“I didn’t want a sorry. I just wanted an answer.”
Source: Life Simplified: Quote - Unquote
“I didn’t want a story—a beginning. Not anymore. I have long ago stopped walking on a road where my dreams walk around. I change my destination a hundred times if I ever see an old wish of mine standing there in its real form. I don’t know them. I don’t want to. They too must not know me. They too must not recognise me as their owner.”
Source: Unexpressed Feelings
“I didn't want a world in which I had to choose between blind human babies and tortured monkey ones. To be frank, that's the sort of choice I expect science to protect me from, not give me.”
Source: We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
“I didn’t want any flowers, I only wanted
To lie with my hands turned up and be utterly empty.
How free it is, you have no idea how free——
The peacefulness is so big it dazes you,
And it asks nothing, a name tag, a few trinkets.
It is what the dead close on, finally; I imagine them
Shutting their mouths on it, like a Communion tablet.
--from "Tulips", written 18 March 1961”
Source: Ariel
“I didn’t want any new clothes at all; because if I had to look ugly anyway, I wanted to at least be comfortable. I let the awful clothes affect even my posture, walked around with my back bowed, my shoulders drooping, my hands and arms all over the place. I was afraid of mirrors, because they showed an inescapable ugliness.”
Source: Diaries, 1910-1923
“I didn't want any surprises; I churlishly thought if I revealed my Judaism at McDonald's, I would somehow be protected by the friendly American forces of crispy chicken sandwiches and supersized French fries.”
Source: Children of Jihad: A Young American's Travels Among the Youth of the Middle East
“I didn’t want anybody seeing my fire until I burned them with it.”
Source: Caged: Memoirs of a Cage-Fighting Poet
“I didn't want him to know somethin was comin his way until it was too late for him to do anythin about it.”
Source: Dolores Claiborne
“I didn't want him to think I was giving up - I wasn't. I simply couldn't put myself together just yet.”
Source: The Spell Master
“I didn't want my exhaustion to burn through my empathy. How terrifying was this loss of electric power superimposed on the powerlessness of aging and disability? I could not fathom it and tried not to be judgmental about my parents' reactions. How did it feel not seeing well to begin with and then functioning by flashlight? How did it feel to depend on others for your heat, water, and food?”
Source: While They're Still Here: A Memoir
“I didn’t want my life to be an occasional adventure. I wanted adventure to be my life.”
Source: I, Tarzan: Against All Odds
“I didn't want power. All I wanted was control. Over my life. I matter.”
Source: Shards of Fate
“I didn't want the bastards to see me bleed," she whispers to her mother.
"Sometimes, I'm afraid that they're going to have to. To understand that you're a real person," her mother sobs, clutching her daughter so very tightly in her arms.”
Source: Beartown
“I didn't want the details: I just wanted to know how to feel.”
Source: Becoming
“I didn’t want the same things that they wanted, and they should know this. They should know my difference, they should sense my unfathomable fucking depths.”
Source: Severance
“I didn't want the sun to rise. I didn't want the world to continue turning. I wanted the whole planet put into stasis until I could catch up.”
Source: A Long, Long Sleep
“I didn’t want this. But that meant, as far as I could tell, I didn’t want anything. And not wanting anything anymore was the worst thing of all. It was like all the color had vanished from life.”
Source: Different Worlds
“I didn’t want to be abandoned, alone, isolated and feeling all of this on my own. He was all I had. All I even could get from this world. But I was a horrible human being, and that was just the start of it all.”
Source: Atlas Loved
“I didn't want to be in hell, even for a moment. I sure as hell wasn't going there just to spit in the face of the Prince of Darkness, whoever he might be!
On the contrary, if I was a damned thing, then let the son of a bitch come for me! Let him tell me why I was mean to suffer. I would truly like to know.
As for oblivion, well, we can wait a little while for that.”
Source: The vampire Lestat
“I didn't want to be popular because it was easier; I wanted to be popular because in high school that's the best thing you can be: perfect. Everything else is shit.”
Source: Cracked Up to Be
“I didn’t want to be sad, but I didn’t know why I was sad or how not to be sad or how to talk about it. I was broken. I felt broken. My body ached. My stomach hurt. I couldn’t sleep. Nothing was pleasurable. Every morning, I woke up knowing I’d failed before my feet hit the ground. At night, I’d lie in bed and wish for a terminal disease.”
Source: The Weight of Air: A Story of the Lies about Addiction and the Truth about Recovery
“I didn’t want to be somebody’s tonight. Not even his. I wanted to be someone’s tomorrow.”
Source: Marrying Mr. Wrong