I Quotes
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“I didn't want to be someone pretending to be a woman; I wanted to know what it was like to be a sexual woman... I wanted to be alluring, passionate, and mysterious, someone men found irresistible...”
Source: Confessions of a Transsexual Physician
“I didn’t want to be special.”
“Says the girl who was comparing herself so dramatically to a shadow earlier.”
“I just wanted what I asked for.”
“Which was?” Wyndle asked.
“Not important now.”
“I rather think it is.”
“I asked not to change,” Lift whispered, opening her eyes. “I said, when everything else is going wrong, I want to be the same. I want to stay me. Not become someone else.”
“Those are the exact words?” Wyndle asked.
“Best I can remember.”
“Hmm…” Wyndle said, snuggling down into his vines. “I believe that is too vague.”
“I wasn’t! I told her. Make me so I don’t grow up.”
“That is not what you said, mistress. And if I might be so bold—having spent a great deal of time around you—you are not an easy person to understand.”
“I asked not to change! So why am I changing?”
“You’re still you. Merely a bigger version.”
Source: Rhythm of War
“I didn't want to be the cause of them loosing the one resource more precious than water - privacy.”
Source: Spare
“I didn't want to be the kind of privileged person who tells oppressed people what their version of diversity should look like.”
Source: Love's Not Color Blind: Race and Representation in Polyamorous and Other Alternative Communities
“I didn't want to be the woman who gave herself over willingly to the first man to notice her. I didn't want to be the stupid girl in every novel who loved without question and entered relationships that didn't make sense.”
Source: Wishing on Raining Stars
“I didn't want to be treated like charity. I wanted to be invested in. If we want to see our foster youth empowered, we must grant them responsibility. I want vulnerable youth to have what they need for today, but more than that, I want vulnerable youth to obtain the skills they need for their families tomorrow.”
Source: Fostered: One Woman’s Powerful Story of Finding Faith and Family through Foster Care
“I didn't want to be with someone who put me in a box. I was far too skilled at doing that to myself. I wanted someone who showed me I could break out of it then helped me do it and supported me as I did. Someone who wouldn't, as Tanner had pointed out, run away when I tried to climb back into it, but would help me be my best even when I couldn't see what that meant.”
Source: Hearts Overboard
“I didn’t want to break your heart. So I broke mine instead.”
“I didn't want to come off arrogant or conceited, or basically how I've been acting the past year, year and a half ... although what's happened in the past has happened, I just want to ... be kind and loving and gentle and soft.”
“I didn't want to cry. Crying is for the week, and I wasn't that, but morning is only for people worth knowing, and I don't even know if I truly knew Madson enough to mourn him. I've lost people, yes, but none hurt as much as losing him did.”
“I didn't want to cry. I didn't. But she was my /sister/, and she'd died in my arms, and...
Griffin only held me quietly, his hands stroking my back. Once, he pressed his lips against my temple.
"Thank you," I whispered, when I could speak again.
"For what?"
"Everything. Going with me tonight. Fetching me a suit to change into, and pouring be brandy, and making sure none of the servants were listening in, and putting up with my awful family, and this..."
"I love you." He kissed me softly, once on each eyelid. "Whatever family you claim is mine as well. I'm with you no matter what."
I spoke thirteen languages, and yet I had no words to express what his presence meant to me.”
Source: Bloodline
“I didn’t want to cry in front of you.”
He wiped away the tears with the pad of his thumb.
“I want you to cry only in front of me.”
Source: Promise Canyon
“I didn’t want to deserve better as long as I had you.”
Source: Hey Humanity
“I didn't want to do it,' Kiala said. 'The universe just kind of conspired to force me to make a fool of myself. It does that quite a lot, actually.”
Source: Unspent Time
“I didn’t want to face the wrath of consequences from my actions.”
Source: Royals
“I didn't want to fight with him. And yet I could not promise him what I most wanted to give - my love, the promise that I would stay with him in the Winter Court, that I would throw caution aside and be with him.”
“I didn't want to go down a road I'd already been on. Why was it so hard to turn away from something that was already gone?”
Source: Chasing Kat
“I didn't want to go to hell, but even the idea of reclaining my halo scared me because it would mean leaving Aly.”
Source: Hollyweird
“I didn't want to hear about people I loved playing Happy Families without me while I was thousands of miles away.”
Source: Still Me
“I didn't want to hear another word he was saying, but then he was like, "You get to choose if you care. They can't take that away from you. And you get to choose if you're going to walk through the rest of your life like a dead man. I've made my choice."
After that, he stood up and stomped off like he was made at me. It's a good thing too. Because what Eddie and Sister--everybody in this place--doesn't realize is, you and I never had a choice. There wasn't a single moment when we weren't risking something. Every minute, every second. An anxiety that never leaves. Struggling for breath my whole fucking life.
And that's supposed to change in here?”
Source: We'll Fly Away
“I didn’t want to hide the memory from you. I wanted to cram it down your goddamn throat. I wanted to force you to face it, to want it, to want me, to be willing to fight for what was possible between us with the same single-minded devotion as you fucked. Well, Ms. Lane, you’ve got your precious memory back. Will you throw me away now?”
Source: Burned
“I didn't want to hurt him!" Ender cried. "Why didn't he just leave me alone!”
Source: Ender’s Game
“I didn't want to kill them all. I didn't want to kill anybody! I'm not a killer! You didn't want me, you bastards, you wanted Peter, but you made me do it, you tricked me into it!”
Source: Ender’s Game
“I didn't want to leave my dog with Jessy, who seemed miffed at me for having the part she wanted in the murder mystery Weekend. Jessy has only done extra work and bits in films. Girl please, you can't lift my resume.”
Source: Murder Mystery Weekend
“I didn’t want to leave you yet. We had so much living and loving left, didn’t we? But you are strong, you will endure, you will even thrive, though you don’t believe me now. I know today you are sad. Let that sadness sit with you a bit.”
Source: The Life List
“I didn’t want to let her go. I never wanted her to let her go again.”
Source: Misinformation
“I didn’t want to live life as an invalid. I wanted to live it as an adventurer.”
Source: The Dark Prince
“I didn't want to miss out on a chance to congratulate you on your bouncing baby boy.” Garrett’s eyes trailed over to Milo who stood tall with an arrogant smile on his face next to his father. “I’m not sure on the protocol over here, though, is it customary to celebrate bastards?” Garrett’s comment hit the mark just like he knew it would. The smile was wiped from Milo’s face, and he stalked right up to Garrett and threw a punch at his jaw.”
Source: A Beautiful Lie
“I didn’t want to read it, but it was my strict policy never to disagree with people. Bitter experience had taught me that the minute you contradict someone, you instantly get sucked into their asinine private world. By avoiding arguments I wound up not talking to anyone. I lived utterly alone in my own asinine private world. Terribly alone and constantly crowded by idiots—that was my life. Rats gnaw off their feet with less provocation.”
Source: The Troika
“I didn't want to sing.
I wanted to be music.”
Source: The Calligraphy of God: A Collection of Love Poems
“I didn’t want to sit in the murky unknown. I wanted to stand on concrete.”
Source: 10 Things I Can See From Here
“I didn’t want to swim in the lovely, clear pools of his eyes unless I’d been invited to”
Source: Call Me by Your Name
“I didn’t want to tell you,
That what you want doesn’t want you,
But if it’s meant to be yours,
It’d find you, it’d hold you,
It would call you home.”
“I didn't want to think about you dead."
"That's the thing, my love. Even if you don't think of the dead, the dead are thinking of you.”
Source: Labyrinth Lost
“I didn’t want to upset my loved ones, but I couldn’t carry this alone.”
Source: Wide Awake and Dreaming: A Memoir
“I didn't want to wait on my knees
In a room made quiet by waiting.
A room where we'd listen for the rise
Of breath, the burble in his throat.
I didn't want the orchids or the trays
Of food meant to fortify that silence,
Or to pray for him to stay or to go then
Finally toward that ecstatic light.
I didn't want to believe
What we believe in those rooms:
That we are blessed, letting go,
Letting someone, anyone,
Drag open the drapes and heave us
Back into our blinding, bright lives.”
Source: Life on Mars: Poems
“I didn't want to waste my time. I didn't want someone who wouldn't understand when I reference Tony Stark, Mal Reynolds, and Alexander Hamilton in the same breath―all handsome rogues, obviously. I wanted someone who didn't need me to backtrack and explain everything. Someone who would escort me to midnight showings but never ask me to dress up to attend. Someone who knew that I always, always, always wanted a Slurpee, but especially when it was snowing.”
“I didn't want Vince McMahon to be upset if the shots looked too good and take it out on Hogan! Hulk thanked me for "thinking in the right direction"... I took about 35 photos, and then Linda took one of Hulk and me together that I have never used in any magazine.”
Source: Is Wrestling Fixed? I Didn't Know It Was Broken!: From Photo Shoots and Sensational Stories to the WWE Network ― My Incredible Pro Wrestling Journey! and Beyond ...
“I didn't want you to fall in love with me because of fate...I wanted you to fall in love with me simply because you couldn't help yourself.”
Source: All Your Perfects
“I didn't want you to see me that way,' he went on. 'So I pretended that version of myself didn't exist. It does. And I'm- I don't like people to see it. I didn't want you to see it.”
Source: The Serpent and the Wings of Night
“I didn't write the Twelve Steps. I had nothing to do with the writing of them. But I think I probably had something to do with them indirectly.”
“I didn’t write this
to fit into a standard.
I wrote it because
if I didn’t let it out,
I would’ve fallen apart inside. "
— Phoenix Moon”
Source: Emotional Roller Coaster: Confessions of a soul reborn from the ashes
“I didn’t write those poems.
He did.
Through me.
For himself.”
“I didn’t write to be understood. I wrote to remember—what was given, what was lost, and what I chose to carry.”
Source: What Remains Is the Music - A Memoir
“I didn’t yet realize it was okay to be broken, that it was even, perhaps, essential to becoming a more porous animal capable of far more real love than I had known was possible. It would still take some time for me to learn that our flaws are not the problem; rather, it is the failure to forgive them—in ourselves and in others—that trips up our hearts.”
Source: Heartbreak: A Personal and Scientific Journey
“I didn't 'decide' to write YA, per se. But every time I thought of a story, it featured characters 15, 16, 17.”
“I didn't (and still don't) have comments [in my blog]. It's about simply writing for an audience of One.”
“I didn't -- I swear I didn't -- get into politics to feather my nest or feather my friends' nests.”
“I didn't abandon my studies. Because I was, through no - clarify this. Through no particular genius of my own, I was the first person from Libertyville Public High School to attend Harvard, not because I was smarter than anyone or better than anyone, but no one had ever applied before. It was like University of Illinois, a fine institution, was the sort of the upper echelon of places where kids went from that school. And so I felt sort of a duty to myself and my peers to continue with those studies, and to continue to, intellectually arm myself for my coming struggles.”
“I didn't accept it. I received it.”