Quotes of: Myself Keyword

I told you before, I don’t want out of this marriage. And if you give me nothing but daughters for the next twenty years, I would consider myself blessed.

The Unwanted Wife

I long ago abandoned myself to a blind lust for the written word. Literature is my sandbox. In it I play, build my forts and castles, spend glorious time.

An Unnecessary Woman

Listen, I'm going to go lock myself in the coat closet, okay? Don't disturb me if you can help it?" She frowned at me. "Telepathy stuff," I said. "It may not work, but I've got to try.

Vacant

But at other times, I sit here reading in the afternoon, a myrtle in my buttonhole, and there are such beautiful passages in the book that I think I have become beautiful myself.

Varieties of Disturbance

You fainted and I caught you. It was the first time I'd supported a human. You had such heavy bones. I put myself between you and gravity. Impossible.

The Vintner's Luck

I'd say I never considered myself a great architect. I'm more of a creative problem solver with good taste and a soft spot for logistical nightmares.

Where'd You Go, Bernadette

I was used to sleeping with people because I endlessly found myself in identical situations where it was easier to just fuck them than to say no.

Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia

I'm dating myself, but this was before Jesus Christ. We worshiped a God named Sashatiba, who had five eyes, including one on the Adam's apple.

When You Are Engulfed in Flames

And so I pray I am today as honest with myself, with life all around me and below and above me, with all who I encounter.

Winter Poems Along the Rio Grande

For I chase but one hind, he says, one strange deer timid and wild, and she leads me off the paths that other men have trod, and by myself into the depths of the wood.

Wolf Hall

What a thing it is to have music that plays your terrible thoughts. I imagined that one piece could drive more delicate women than myself to insanity.

Wish I Was Here

Nelly, I am Heathcliff - he's always, always in my mind - not as a pleasure, any more then I am always a pleasure to myself - but, as my own being.

Wuthering Heights

Needing kindness myself, I am kinder now, and we get on amazingly well. [p. 110]

We Need to Talk About Kevin

What do you say when you feel your life is taken right from your chest, even though I miraculously find myself still breathing?

The Wednesday Letters

The soul of the world had opened and I fantasized that everything wicked, distressing and painful was on the point of vanishing...all notion of the future paled and the past dissolved. In the glowing present, I myself glowed.

The Walk

The truth was always the truth, but until I knew the truth for myself, I couldn't be free.

Why Can't We Just Get Along?: 6 Effective Skills for Dealing with Difficult People

What if I forgave myself even though I'd done something I shouldn't have?

Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail

What on earth would I do if four bears came into my camp? Why, I would die of course. Literally shit myself lifeless.

A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail

We no longer know each other. Hell, I barely know myself these days. I brush my teeth and look in the mirror and think, “Who is this guy taking care of my oral hygiene?

Xazaqazax

I want what we all want," said Carl. "To move certain parts of the interior of myself into the exterior world, to see if they can be embraced.

You Don't Love Me Yet

Don’t bother calling the cops, because nobody can find me here. I know, because after all these years, I’m still trying to find myself.

A Zebra is the Piano of the Animal Kingdom