Here I Am Quotes - Page 9

• I came into this world anxious to uncover the meaning of things, my soul desirous to be at origin of the world, and here I am an object among other objects.

  Frantz Fanon

  Soul, World, Anxious

  Frantz Fanon (2008). “Black Skin, White Masks”, p.89, Grove Press

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• Yes here I am doing what I do best; and that's taking a selfie. People make fun of me but the reality is if I didn't take them you would never see me as I want to be seen. I'm a difficult subject and my greatest fear is dying and someone finding my phone and the hundreds upon hundreds of selfies.

  Sara Quin

  Fun, Reality, Phones

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• I do not want to choose which one of you I must love or hate. Here, I am free to do neither. I want no part of your bitterness.

  Patricia A. McKillip

  Hate, Want, Bitterness

  Patricia A. McKillip (2017). “The Forgotten Beasts of Eld”, p.64, Tachyon Publications

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• Yesterday I wrote the majority of a song called 'Burn the Nightclub Down' which was about kind of driving into Cleveland full of dread at the prospect of playing at this night club and actually just the night before I had called my girlfriend whose birthday it was. And it's her birthday and here I am on the road in some hellhole in Ann Arbor in Michigan.

  Rhett Miller

  Song, Girlfriend, Night

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• The speaker tentatively reaches out with that feeling and realizes that it's kind of absurd, or at least a dangerous consolation, which is what I think is discovered as that longish sentence at the end of the poem comes to its conclusion. But here I am interpreting my own poem, which is kind of like making out with one's own high school yearbook photo.

  Matthew Zapruder

  School, Yearbook, Thinking

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Here I am an old man in a long nightgown making muffled noises at people who may be no worse than I am.

  Learned Hand

  Men, Long, People

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• The primary function of the government is - and here I am quoting directly from the U.S. Constitution - 'to spew out paper.'

  Dave Barry

  Government, Paper, Constitution

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry in Cyberspace”, p.11, Ballantine Books

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• (After getting out of another treatment center) I came home one Sunday morning. I sat on the edge of my bed. I never grew up going to church. I never read a Bible. I wasn't anti-God. I just never thought about God. I just lived for myself and thought about myself...I was married by this point. I'd been married for two years. So, here I am sitting on the edge of my bed, nine o'clock Sunday morning. I have a son who's not quite two yet and I just broke down crying because I had been out all weekend doing cocaine.

  Jay Haizlip

  Morning, Home, Son

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• For a person who grew up in the '30s and '40s in the segregated South, with so many doors closed without explanation to me, libraries and books said, 'Here I am, read me.' Over time I have learned I am at my best around books.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspiring, Reading, Book

  FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Oct 30, 2010

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• The doctor said, 'He can't last a week.' And I did. And they said, 'There's no way this kid's going to last a month.' And I did. And so they said, 'Two years. He's not going to make it.' Two years. 'Five years. He can't do that.' I lived to be five years. 'He's never going to hit double digits.' And here I am, a new teenager.

  Mattie Stepanek

  Teenager, Kids, Doctors

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• Here I am Rock You Like a Hurricane.

  Dave Eggers

  Rocks, Velocity, Hurricanes

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• But it all zipped by. One minute Marlena and I were up to our eyeballs, and the next thing we knew the kids were borrowing the car and fleeing the coop for college. And now, here I am. In my nineties and alone.

  Sara Gruen

  Kids, College, Car

  Sara Gruen (2016). “The Sara Gruen Collection: Water for Elephants - At the Water's Edge - Ape House”, p.306, Hachette UK

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• You’d better tell me what you know, toad,” said Tiffany. “Miss Tick isn’t here. I am.” “Another world is colliding with this one,” said the toad. “There. Happy now? That’s what Miss Tick thinks. But it’s happening faster than she expected. All the monsters are coming back.” “Why?” “There’s no one to stop them.” There was silence for a moment. “There’s me,” said Tiffany.

  Terry Pratchett

  Thinking, Silence, Missing

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• Here in Raine, I can walk with the sunlight on my face. I can speak to anyone who speaks to me. I can learn my daughter's language. I can be called the name I was given when I was born. Here I am no longer my own secret. Will you let me stay?

  Patricia A. McKillip

  Daughter, Names, Secret

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• And yet here I am. Broken and bleeding on the inside, heartsick, I am here.

  Elizabeth Scott

  Broken, Bleeding

  Elizabeth Scott (2011). “As I Wake”, p.80, Penguin

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• I am a quiet man. I tend to think things through and try not to say too much. But here I am, saying perhaps too much. But there are these feelings inside me which need badly to escape, I guess. And this makes me feel relieved because one of my big concerns these past few years is that I've been losing my ability to feel things with the same intensity- the way I felt when I was younger. It's scary- to feel your emotions floating away and just not caring. I guess what's really scary is not caring about the loss.

  Douglas Coupland

  Loss, Caring, Past

  Douglas Coupland (2012). “Life After God”, p.75, Simon and Schuster

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• So here I am walking around with another person inside of me. Though I think I put it better the day we parted when I said there is a third person we have created from the two of us. And I am stalked now by that other entity.

  Robert James Waller

  Thinking, Two, Said

  Robert James Waller (2013). “The Bridges Of Madison County”, p.23, Random House

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• This morning I understand what it means to die: when we disappear, it is the others who die for us, for here I am, lying on a cold pavement and it is not the dying I care about; it has no more meaning this morning that it did yesterday. But never again will I see those I love, and if that is what dying is about then it really is the tragedy they say it is.

  Muriel Barbery

  Morning, Lying, Mean

  "The Elegance of the Hedgehog". Book by Muriel Barbery, September, 2008.

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• Oh, I'm good. Seriously, after all these years, you'd think I would stop amazing myself. But here I am, still doing it.

  James Dashner

  Thinking, Years, Stills

  James Dashner (2013). “The Kill Order”, p.90, Chicken House

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• Up in this air you breathed easily, drawing in a vital assurance and lightness of heart. In the highlands you woke up in the morning and thought: Here I am, where I ought to be.

  Isak Dinesen

  Morning, Heart, Air

  Isak Dinesen (1952). “Out of Africa, with an introduction by Bernardine Kielty”

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• Here I am, where I am supposed to be.

  Isak Dinesen

  Supposed To Be

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• Here I am. Here we are. Here we go. Here is all that matters.

  Patrick Ness

  Matter

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• Here look at me. I'm Charlie, the son you wrote off the books? Not that I blame you for it, but here I am, all fixed up better than ever. Test me. Ask me questions. I speak twenty languages, living and dead; I'm a mathematical whiz, and I'm writing a piano concerto that will make them remember me long after I'm gone.

  Daniel Keyes

  Book, Writing, Son

  Daniel Keyes (2007). “Flowers for Algernon”, p.187, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Here I am, your one man circus freak show, having bled out for mother Russia, having desperately tried to get to you, now on top of you with this scourge marks, and you, who used to love me, who was sympathized, internalized, normalized everything, you are not allowed to turn away from me....this is what I am going to look like until the day I die. I can't get any peace from you ever unless you find away to make peace with this. Make peace with me. Or let me go for good.

  Paullina Simons

  Mother, Men, Russia

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• I took a drink. "I guess it's different for you.""Hmm?" "I bet you have girls hanging all over you. Dozens would probably kill to be in my spot and here I am, allergic to your bread.

  J. Lynn

  Girl, Over You, Different

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