I Realized Quotes - Page 24

• It was like that class at school where the teacher talks about Realization, about how you could realize something big in a commonplace thing. The example he gave--and the liar said it really happened--was that once while drinking orange juice, he'd realized he would be dead someday. He wondered if we, his students, had had similar 'realizations.' Is he kidding? I thought. Once I cashed a paycheck and I realized it wasn't enough. Once I had food poisoning, and realized I was trapped inside my body.

  Amy Hempel

  Teacher, Liars, Drinking

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• I created the OASIS because I never felt at home in the real world. I didn't know how to connect with the people there.

  Ernest Cline

  Real, Home, Oasis

  "Woodsy's World of Star Wars: My Q+A with Fanboys Screenwriter Ernest Cline!!". Interview with Laurel Woods, www.mtv.com. August 16, 2011.

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• Something inside me clicked, like an engine shifting into higher gear. My thinking suddenly became faster and clearer. The anger and fear didn't go away, but I realized they weren't important. They weren't going to help me.

  Rick Riordan

  Thinking, Important, Going Away

  Rick Riordan (2013). “The Kane Chronicles: The Complete Series”, p.340, Penguin UK

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• I realized that I'm a child." William looked point-blank at her chest. "No.

  Ilona Andrews

  Children, Blank, Chests

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• At some point, I realized I was Kaitlyning the encounter, so I decided to text Kaitlyn and ask for some advice.

  John Green

  Advice, Encounters, Asks

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.59, Penguin

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• And as I stood there in the hallway―alone―trying to understand what had just happened and why, I realized the truth: I wasn't worth an explanation―not even a reaction. Not in your eyes.

  Jay Asher

  Eye, Trying, Reactions

  Jay Asher (2011). “Thirteen Reasons Why”, p.168, Penguin

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• In the Duat, Anubis looked as he always had, with his tousled dark hair and lovely brown eyes, but I’d never seen him filled with such rage. I realized that anyone who dared to hurt me would suffer his full wrath, and Walt wasn’t going to hold him back.

  Rick Riordan

  Hurt, Eye, Dark

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• In the past, I used to think that it is fundamental and natural to have everything. But I realized that is not true. Instead I realized that those are things to be grateful for. After that realization, I became comfortable. Even if I don’t have it I am grateful. Such a realization also made me understand that is a way to love myself.

  Goo Hye Sun

  Grateful, Past, Thinking

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• I peered deeper and found my soul. A little tattered and with some holes, but there all the same. It had always been there, I realized with shock.

  Maria V. Snyder

  Soul, Littles, Holes

  Maria V. Snyder (2012). “Poison Study”, p.253, Harlequin

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• We talked--recent history only--and Lucas relayed the story of how Francis came to be his roommate. "He showed up at the door one night, demanding to be let in. Napped on the sofa for an hour, then demanded to be let out. It turned into a nightly ritual, with him staying longer and longer, until at some point I realized he'd moved in. He's basically the most brazen squatter ever.

  Tammara Webber

  Night, Doors, Stories

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• The cool thing about being a writer is: you get to make stuff up. When I started wring about Vampires, I realized, I can take everything i did like about that mythology and anything I didn't like, I didn't have to; because until a real Vampire stands up and says, 'you've got it wrong,' it's anyone's game.

  Jeaniene Frost

  Real, Games, Vampire

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• I realized a long time ago, with a certain amazement, that no mattter how important something is in your life, no matter how huge it is, how much space it takes up in your heart and in your thoughts, unless you mention it to other people, they have no idea it exists.

  Sharon Shinn

  Heart, Ideas, Space

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• I initially thought you were ugly, but then you walked closer to me and I realized you were pretty.

  Mindy Kaling

  Ugly

  Mindy Kaling (2011). “Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns)(Enhanced Edition)”, p.122, Crown/Archetype

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• You want to know what I was thinking?...I was thinking that I wished you'd been with me the last couple of days. I mean, I enjoyed getting to know everyone better. We ate lunch together, and the dinner last night was a lot of fun, but it just felt like something was wrong, like I was missing something. It wasn't until I saw you walking up the beach that I realized it was you.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Beach, Couple, Fun

  Nicholas Sparks (2010). “Dear John”, p.71, Hachette UK

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• The door burst open. Murphy came through it, her eyes living flames of azure blue, her hair a golden coronet around her. She held a blazing sword in her hand and she shone so bright and beautiful and terrifying in her anger that it was hard to see. The Sight, I realized, dimly. I was seeing her for who she was.

  Jim Butcher

  Beautiful, Eye, Hair

  Jim Butcher (2010). “The Dresden Files Collection 1-6”, p.733, Penguin

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• You know, Michael, I used to sit around looking for a way to make sense of what happened, like there was some kind of answer I could find if I just looked hard enough. Then one day I realized that if there had been one, Dave would still be here. And I wondered if this...this feeling that I couldn't figure it all out...was what Dave had been feeling, too.

  Jodi Picoult

  Feelings, One Day, Answers

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• It was only when I got to college that I realized that the rest of the world didn't run the way my world was run, and that there was a need for feminism. I'd thought it was all solved. There are people like my mom, clearly everyone is equal and it's all fine. Then I get into the world and I hear the things people are saying. Then I get to Hollywood and hear the very casual, almost insidious misogyny that just runs through so much of the fiction. It was just staggering to me.

  Joss Whedon

  Mom, Running, College

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• People I didn't know formed a circle around me, sheltering me from view. They escorted me safely back to our jurta, undetected. They didn't ask for anything. They were happy to help someone, to succeed at something, even if they weren't to benefit. We'd been trying to touch the sky from the bottom of the ocean. I realized that if we boosted one another, maybe we'd get a little closer.

  Ruta Sepetys

  Ocean, Views, Sky

  Ruta Sepetys (2011). “Between Shades of Gray”, p.194, Penguin

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• I realized I was afraid of living without him. How is it you have the right to destroy my life, I wanted to demand of him, but I’m not allowed a say in yours? But I had promised.

  Jojo Moyes

  Demand, Wanted

  Jojo Moyes (2012). “Me Before You: A Novel”, p.355, Penguin

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• Now I realized that me and him were just alike. We were both born to win. And, when we were not winning, it was OK 'cause we were busy planning to win.

  Sister Souljah

  Winning, Causes, Planning

  Sister Souljah (2004). “The Coldest Winter Ever”, p.142, Simon and Schuster

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• And then I got to my feet and stumbled toward the door again. And got halfway there before I realized I was naked. Of course I am, I thought angrily, and went back to the bed for a sheet. God forbid I actually wake up dressed anymore.

  Karen Chance

  Halfway There, Doors, Feet

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• I had to sit with my senses. This clear, beautiful intuition took over. I knew exactly how I felt, and I wasn't confused or clouded or compromised. I realized that none of my feelings had diminished, but I might have to lose someone I truly loved. I didn't want to run away from Claire, but I knew drug addiction was strong enough that I had to be willing, if need be, to let go of the person I'd just fallen in love with.

  Anthony Kiedis

  Beautiful, Letting Go, Running

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• I meditated on love and reasoned it out. I realized what is wrong with us. Men fall in love for the first time. And what do they fall in love with? ...They fall in love with a woman. They start at the wrong end of love. They begin at the climax. Can you wonder it is so miserable? Do you know how men should love? A tree. A rock. A cloud.

  Carson McCullers

  Falling In Love, Men, Clouds

  Carson McCullers (2012). “The Ballad of the Sad Café”, p.133, Penguin UK

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• I realized then that a man who had lived only one day could easily live for a hundred years in prison. He would have enough memories to keep him from being bored

  Albert Camus

  Memories, Men, Years

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Stranger”, p.79, Vintage

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• I realized that there were times when we talked not because we needed to communicate anything important, but simply because we each drew comfort from the other's voice.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Voice, Important, Comfort

  Nicholas Sparks, Micah Sparks (2013). “Three Weeks With My Brother”, p.91, Hachette UK

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