I Liked You Quotes

• I think I liked you better when you were a raging idiot.

  Alethea Kontis

  Thinking, Idiot, Rage

  Alethea Kontis (2012). “Enchanted”, p.240, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Family, Party, Book

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Fellowship of the Ring: Being the First Part of The Lord of the Rings”, p.32, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The most important things are the hardest to say

  Stephen King

  I Love You, Valentines Day, Communication

  Stephen King (2016). “Different Seasons”, p.309, Simon and Schuster

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• I liked you better when you were drunk .

  Tom Hardy

  Drunk, Drug

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• By helping you, perhaps I was trying to lift up my life a trifle. Heaven knows anyone's life can stand a little of that.

  E. B. White

  Inspiring, Heaven, Trying

  E. B. White (2011). “In the Words of E.B. White: Quotations from America's Most Companionable of Writers”, p.117, Cornell University Press

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• After all, what's a life, anyway? We're born, we live a little while, we die.

  E. B. White

  Death, Littles, Birth

  E. B. White (2011). “In the Words of E.B. White: Quotations from America's Most Companionable of Writers”, p.117, Cornell University Press

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• You cannot be lonely if you like the person you're alone with.

  Wayne Dyer

  Confidence, Lonely, Clever

  "Dr. Wayne Dyer Lives On" by Stephanie Seibel, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 3, 2015.

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• You have been my friend. That in itself is a tremendous thing. I wove my webs for you because I liked you. After all, what's a life, anyway? We're born, we live a little while, we die. A spider's life can't help being something of a mess, with all this trapping and eating flies. By helping you, perhaps I was trying to lift up my life a trifle. Heaven knows anyone's life can stand a little of that.

  E. B. White

  Life, Heaven, Trying

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• Every time you hear someone read your book and liked your book, you're never sure whether that's going to follow with a similar remark from someone else. Perhaps I have low expectations, but whenever I hear someone say, 'I liked your book,' I don't know if it's going to happen again.

  Joshua Ferris

  Book, Expectations, Lows

  "Joshua Ferris Interview: Rock Star in the Book Store". Interview with Jason Pinter, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 10, 2010.

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• I liked you because you could make me smile. I fell in love with you because you made me want to be a better person. Now that you're leaving me, what am I supposed to do?

  Lisa Gilbert

  Break Up, Love You, Leaving

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• I don't myself believe that, even when we fulfil our minimum obligation not to cause pain, we have the right to kill animals.

  Brigid Brophy

  Life, Death, Pain

  "Don't Ever Forget: Collected Views and Reviews".

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• Because I liked you better Than suits a man to say, It irked you, and I promised I'd throw the thought away. To put the world between us We parted stiff and dry: 'Farewell,' said you, 'forget me.' 'Fare well, I will,' said I. If e'er, where clover whitens The dead man's knoll, you pass, And no tall flower to meet you Starts in the trefoiled grass, Halt by the headstone shading The heart you have not stirred, And say the lad that loved you Was one that kept his word.

  A. E. Housman

  Flower, Farewell, Heart

  A. E. Housman (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of A. E. Housman (Illustrated)”, Delphi Classics

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• I liked you better when you were this timid little kid. What happened?” “I started living with you guys.” “Oh, right.

  Rachel Caine

  Kids, Guy, Littles

  Rachel Caine (2007). “The Dead Girls' Dance: The Morganville Vampires”, p.67, Penguin

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• I liked you the first time I saw you. You were sitting on the floor surrounded by books, and you looked up when I opened the door and smiled right at me. It felt like you had been waiting for me, like you were welcoming me home.

  Josh Lanyon

  Book, Home, Doors

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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 it delicious, the way you bargained for me, as though I were an old rug. Then I loved the way you looked at me. Then I loved the way you ordered me about. I loved your patient and impatient ways of explaining things to me. I love the sound of your voice and the way you move. I love your courage and your kindness and your generosity and your obstinacy and your passion.” He paused. “You’re the genius. What do you think that means?

  Loretta Chase

  Kindness, Moving, Passion

  Loretta Chase (2005). “Mr. Impossible”, p.362, Penguin

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• I’m not sure I trust myself around you I liked you from the start, J.D. I really wish things had been different, that's all.

  Julie James

  Wish, Different, Trust Myself

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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. But then I liked you. A lot.

  J.R. Ward

  Firsts, Cop, Moments

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• I liked your opera. I think I will set it to music.

  Ludwig van Beethoven

  Art, Thinking, Opera

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