If I Could Quotes - Page 37

• If I could have any job in the world I'd be a professional Cinderella.

  Susanna Kaysen

  Jobs, Girl Interrupted, World

  Girl, Interrupted, www.imdb.com. 1999.

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• A beautiful and binding morning The world outside begins to breathe See clouds arriving without warning I need you here to shelter me. If I could make these moments endless If I could stop the winds of change If we just keep our eyes wide open Then everything would stay the same And I know that only time will tell me how We'll carry on without each other So keep me awake for every moment Give us more time to be this way We can't stay like this forever But I can have you next to me today

  Josh Groban

  Beautiful, Morning, Eye

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• If I could but know his heart, everything would become easy.

  Jane Austen

  Heart, Easy, Knows

  Jane Austen (2006). “The Complete Novels: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.242, Penguin

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• I never submitted the whole system of my opinions to the creed of any party of men whatever, in religion, in philosophy, in politics, or in anything else, where I was capable of thinking for myself. Such an addiction is the last degradation of a free and moral agent. If I could not go to heaven but with a party, I would not go there at all.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Philosophy, Party, Men

  Thomas Jefferson, Joyce Appleby, Terence Ball (1999). “Jefferson: Political Writings”, p.410, Cambridge University Press

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• If I could tell you what it meant, there would be no point in dancing it

  Isadora Duncan

  Music, Dance, Ballet Class

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• I wish, peevishly, that he didn't know anything about how soldiers sleep, how they protect their fellow soldiers. It would be nicer if I could share the cloaks warmth with him, if we could lie with our faces together, whispering into the night.

  Margaret Haddix

  Lying, Sleep, Night

  Margaret Peterson Haddix (2010). “Palace of Mirrors”, Simon and Schuster

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• One of the few downsides to being awakened is that we no longer require sleep; therefore we also no longer dream. It's a shame, because if I could dream, I know I'd dream about you.

  Richelle Mead

  Dream, Sleep, Shame

  Richelle Mead (2010). “Spirit Bound: A Vampire Academy Novel”, p.5, Penguin

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• I’ve tried that. I’ve tried aspirin, too. Rusty thinks I should smoke marijuana, and I did for a while, but it only makes me giggle. What I’ve found does the most good is just to get into a taxi and go to Tiffany’s. It calms me down right away, the quietness and the proud look of it; nothing very bad could happen to you there, not with those kind men in their nice suits, and that lovely smell of silver and alligator wallets. If I could find a real-life place that made me feel like Tiffany’s, then I’d buy some furniture and give the cat a name.

  Truman Capote

  Real, Nice, Cat

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• Those blue, blue eyes, icy blue, looking back at me as if I could warm them up. They’re pretty powerful, you know, those eyes, pretty beautiful, too.

  Lucy Christopher

  Beautiful, Powerful, Eye

  Lucy Christopher (2014). “Stolen”, p.4, Scholastic Inc.

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• Many things happened in my life, and I thought that they changed me. But in the end, nothing has changed since I was seventeen. If I could keep today’s happiness I wouldn’t worry about tomorrow. 

  Ai Yazawa

  Worry, Today, Tomorrow

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• If I could not smile, I think my situation would be even more serious.

  Chris Cleave

  Thinking, Would Be, Serious

  Chris Cleave (2012). “Chris Cleave Ebook Boxed Set: Little Bee, Incendiary, Gold”, p.302, Simon and Schuster

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• If I could only turn the etch-a-sketch of my life upside down.

  Lynda Barry

  Etch A Sketch, Upside Down, Turns

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• I'm not allowed to bet, but if I could, my money would be on you.

  Suzanne Collins

  Games, Would Be, Ifs

  Suzanne Collins (2009). “The Hunger Games”, p.141, Scholastic Inc.

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• Butch nodded as if he knew exactly what was doing. "Like I said, my man, it's whatever. You and me? Same as always, no matter who you screw. Although… if you're into sheep, that would be tough. Don't know if I could handle that.

  J.R. Ward

  Men, Sheep, Would Be

  J.R. Ward (2007). “Lover Unbound: A Novel of the Black Dagger Brotherhood”, p.211, Penguin

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• No," I say, looking up at Griggs. "It's actually because my heart belongs to someone else." And if I could bottle the look on his face, I'd keep it by my bedside for the rest of my life.

  Melina Marchetta

  Heart, Looks, Bottles

  Melina Marchetta (2006). “On The Jellicoe Road”, p.190, Penguin UK

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• It's because I'm alone.. If I could just feel it, it would be different, because I would not be alone. But if I were not alone, everybody would know it. And he could do so much for me, and then I would not be alone. Then I could be all right alone.

  William Faulkner

  Different, Would Be, Feels

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• If I could sum it up in 50 words, I wouldn't have needed to write a whole novel about it.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Writing, Novel, Needed

  "10 Second Interview: A Few Words with Patrick Rothfuss". Amazon Interview, www.amazon.de.

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• Mine. He was mine, and not even death would take him from me—not if I could help it.

  Patricia Briggs

  Helping, Mines, Ifs

  Patricia Briggs (2011). “River Marked”, p.128, Penguin

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• Not that I'd really been planning on keeping the attack secret; it had just been an option I'd wanted to keep open if I could.

  Patricia Briggs

  Secret, Planning, Wanted

  Patricia Briggs (2011). “River Marked”, p.149, Penguin

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• sometimes i'd wake up at two or three in the morning and not be able to fall asleep again. i'd get out of bed, go to the kitchen, and pour myself a whiskey. glass in hand, i'd look down at the darkened cemetary across teh way and the headlights of the cars on the road. the moments of time linking night and dawn were long and dark. if i could cry, it might make things easier. but what would i cry over? i was too self centered to cry for other people, too old to cry for myself.

  Haruki Murakami

  Morning, Fall, Dark

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Feb 13, 2012

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• If I could give you one thought, it would be to lift someone up. Lift a stranger up--lift her up. I would ask you, mother and father, brother and sister, lovers, mother and daughter, father and son, lift someone. The very idea of lifting someone up will lift you, as well.

  Maya Angelou

  Daughter, Mother, Brother

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• I'll think about something else. I'll just sit quietly. If I could sit still. If I could sit still, maybe I could read. Oh, all the books are about people who love each other, truly and sweetly. What do they want to write about that for? Don't they know it isn't true? Don't they know it's a lie, it's a God-damned lie? What do they have to tell about that for, when they know how it hurts?

  Dorothy Parker

  Hurt, Lying, Book

  Dorothy Parker (2002). “Complete Stories”, p.80, Penguin

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• If I could not walk far and fast, I think I should just explode and perish.

  Charles Dickens

  Thinking, Hiking, Feet And Walking

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• It makes me boil when I think of the power we profess and the utter impotency of our action. Believers who know one-tenth as much as we do are doing one-hundred times more for God, with His blessing and our criticism. Oh if I could write it, preach it, say it, paint it, anything at all, if only God's power would become known among us.

  Jim Elliot

  Writing, Thinking, Blessing

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• Suddenly the clouds seem high above us. They’re moving over us in an arch, circling the planet. They have seen abysmal oceans and charred, scorched islands. They have seen how we destroyed the world. If I could see everything, as the clouds do, would I swirl around this remaining continent, still so full of color and life and seasons, wanting to protect it? Or would I just laugh at the futility of it all, and meander onward, down the earth’s sloping atmosphere?

  Lauren DeStefano

  Ocean, Moving, Clouds

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