I Told Quotes
1322 I Told quotes by 860 unique authors
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I would assign every lie a color: yellow when they were innocent, pale blue when they sailed over you like the sky, red because I…
— Steve Martin
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Safer than we are.” I told Franny. “Safer than love.” “let me tell ya kid,” Franny said to me, squeezing my hand. “Everything’s safer than…
— John Irving
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She was wearing a pair of my pajamas with the sleeves rolled up. When she laughed I wanted her again. A minute later she asked…
— Albert Camus
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I hate this guy,” Ari muttered, keeping his head down “There’s a club,” I told him. “The Haters of ter Borcht Club. Have you gotten…
— James Patterson
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You asked me once,' said O'Brien, 'what was in Room 101. I told you that you knew the answer already. Everyone knows it. The thing…
— George Orwell
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How many times have I told you not to hit people in the face. You kick them in the body where it doesn't show.
— Janet Evanovich
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Bad news, Harry. I've just been to see Professor McGonagall about the Firebolt. She – er, got a bit shirty with me. Told me I'd…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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. . . What do you wish to be? What would you like to become?” I did not know, and I told her so, but…
— Louis L'Amour
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Mom said that people are interested in birds only in as much as they exhibit human behavior - greed and stupidity and anger - and…
— Douglas Coupland
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Great loves have legs and wings. They are substantial. They do not dissapate so easily... Great loves have staying power. Or so I told myself.
— Erica Jong
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I'll make my report as if I told a story, for I was taught as a child on my homeworld that Truth is a matter…
— Ursula K. Le Guin
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I know you look both ways before you cross the street, but I want you to look both ways a second time, because I told…
— Jonathan Safran Foer
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You are okay?" he asked. "Not eaten by monsters?" "Not even a little bit." I showed him that I still had both arms and both…
— Rick Riordan
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But mostly they were lies I told; it wasn't my fault, I couldn't remember, because it was as though I'd been to one of those…
— Truman Capote
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He accused me of being Dumbledore's man through and through." "How very rude of him." "I told him I was." Dumbledore opened his mouth to…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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Do you like him much?' I told you I liked him a little. Where is the use of caring for him so very much: he…
— Charlotte Bronte
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Written on her tombstone: "I told you I was sick.
— Erma Bombeck
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Nobody who says, ‘I told you so’ has ever been, or will ever be, a hero.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
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I wandered over across the hall where they were showing a short movie about vasectomies. Much later I told her that I'd actually gotten a…
— Denis Johnson
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I told myself, 'All I want is a normal life'. But was that true? I wasn't so sure. Because there was a part of me…
— Augusten Burroughs
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Found, I told myself. Try to get found.
— Jennifer Weiner
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During the First World War, I told her, Hitler had been a runner, delivering messages between the German trenches, and he was disgusted by seeing…
— Chuck Palahniuk
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I told her tea bags were just a convenience for people with busy lives and she said no one is so busy they can't take…
— Frank McCourt
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I appealed to my mother. I told her it wasn't fair the way the whole family was invading my dreams and she said, Arrah, for…
— Frank McCourt
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So you're always honest," I said. "Aren't you?" "No," I told him. "I'm not." "Well, that's good to know, I guess." "I'm not saying I'm…
— Sarah Dessen
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