I First Quotes
891 I First quotes by 771 unique authors
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I sometimes used to ask myself, what on earth did I love her for? Maybe fore the warm hazel iris of her fluffy eyes, or…
— Vladimir Nabokov
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And when her lips met mine, I knew that I could live to be a hundred and visit every country in the world, but nothing…
— Nicholas Sparks
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Maycomb was a tired old town, even in 1932 when I first knew it. Somehow, it was hotter then. Men's stiff collars wilted by nine…
— Harper Lee
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There are friends with whom we share neither interests nor any particular experiences, friends with whom we never correspond, whom we seldom meet and then…
— Stanislaw Lem
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I was fifteen when I first met Sherlock Holmes, fifteen years old with my nose in a book as I walked the Sussex Downs, and…
— Laurie R. King
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The more we let God take us over, the more truly ourselves we become - because He made us. He invented us. He invented all…
— C.S. Lewis
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Finally I am coming to the conclusion that my highest ambition is to be what I already am. That I will never fulfill my obligation…
— Thomas Merton
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You are part of my existence, part of myself. You have been in every line I have ever read, since I first came here, the…
— Charles Dickens
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Sitting there with them, it was almost hard to remember when I first came to Perkins, so determined to remember to be a one-woman operation…
— Sarah Dessen
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I've wanted you from the moment I first saw you in the museum. Before that. I wanted every part of you from the first time…
— Shana Abe
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I knew, you would do me good, in some way, at some time;- I saw it in your eyes when I first beheld you: their…
— Charlotte Bronte
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I liked you, cop. From the moment I met you. No… not the first moment. I wanted to kill you when I first met you.…
— J R Ward
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Esther, however, was the only woman who understood one very simple thing: in order to be able to find her, I first had to find…
— Paulo Coelho
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Above my cradle loomed the bookcase where/ Latin ashes and the dust of Greece/ mingled with novels, history, and verse/ in one dark Babel. I…
— Charles Baudelaire
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This pause in time, within time ... When did I first experience the exquisite sense of surrender that is only possible with another person? The…
— Muriel Barbery
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But you’re human, aren’t you? (Kat) I’m human, except when I first wake up in the morning. Even I don’t want to be around myself…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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When I first submerged my feet into frigid water, they hurt so badly I yanked them out again. I persisted, dunking them for longer and…
— Sara Gruen
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I remember a group therapy session when one of the patients was reluctantly turning his corner. He would accept it, he said, but he wouldn't…
— Sheldon B. Kopp
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Most eyes have more than one color, but usually they're related. Blue eyes may have two shades of blue, or blue and gray, or blue…
— Elizabeth Moon
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Yes," replied Darcy, who could contain himself no longer, "but that was when I first knew her; for it is many months since I have…
— Jane Austen
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I first became fascinated with the Sears catalogue because all the people in its pages were perfect. Nearly everybody I knew had something missing, a…
— Harry Crews
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When I first moved to LA, no one could understand a thing I said, you would think I was speaking another language. Every time I…
— Miley Cyrus
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Don't ask me when I first mastered the obvious.
— John Burdett
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But I liked you from the moment I first heard your voice,” he said, “when I had no idea what you looked like. I thought…
— Loretta Chase
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That’s when I first learned that it wasn’t enough to just do your job, you had to have an interest in it, even a passion…
— Charles Bukowski
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