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I told him I'm not going to marry you and hang on to you like a barnacle, just to keep you to myself and stop you loving anyone else. — Kristin Cashore

I always saw myself as really ugly. My father even told me I was ugly because I would shave my head and look like a boy. — Asia Argento

The knowing, I told myself, is only a vapor of the mind, and yet it can wreck havok with one's sanity. — Diane Ackerman

I stood up for myself as I always have done. Nobody has ever told Coco Chanel what to think. — Coco Chanel

I told myself over and over again, do it for its images, for the pleasure you get out of it. Do it for your friends If you get more, that's a bonus. — Patricia Rozema

There was something about the smallest gestures with him that made me feel like a teenager again. I told myself to just enjoy it. — Cindi Madsen

I'm just trying to grow. That's one thing I told myself is, 'Don't worry about who people say is the best player.' — Kevin Durant

took something serious away from it. I told myself I would never get so deep into my cups that I wouldn't be able to play. — Duff McKagan

She was looking right at me, shaking her head, and I told myself she was wrong, so wrong, even as she spoke. You're a goner. — Sarah Dessen

Eventually, I told myself not to expect anything from him, and as a result it has gotten easier for me to take what comes. — Jodi Picoult

I studied opera, and when I left conservatory I told myself I would never sing in public again. — Garth Greenwell

I will laugh about this one day, I told myself. I will laugh about it with people so clever and sophisticated I can't imagine them properly now. — Jo Walton

I do have fun writing, and a long time ago, I told myself, 'You got to have fun at this, or it'll drive you nuts.' — Elmore Leonard

I had dreams, but always told myself, 'Nah, that would never happen.' For a poor Latina, (acting) wasn't a reality. — Diane Guerrero

God isn't fooled by mercenary goodness I told myself and went back to manic smiling. — Janice Galloway

Maybe it was what I needed too. For all those years I told myself — Dorothea Benton Frank

The first time I was told that I had a brain injury, I immediately thought to myself, "I'm not crazy. — Amy Rankin

I told my mom I would graduate. I owe that much to her and myself. — Carmelo Anthony

So we baked and sweated together. I like punching the dough. I told myself it was the moon and punched it senseless. — Susan Beth Pfeffer

I walked onstage in a play at prep school, and with childish naivete, told myself, 'Wow, I'm an actor!' — Efrem Zimbalist Jr.

During my time in prison, I told myself that I wanted to be a part of the solution and not the problem. — Michael Vick

That won't happen, I told myself. I won't let it happen. Like Hillary Clinton said in 2008, I'm in it to win it. Except, of course, she had lost. 5 — Stephen King

I told a perspective employer don't spend 50 Bucks looking up my back ground info on the net. Give me the 50 Bucks and I'll tell you myself. — Stanley Victor Paskavich

I am living on the moon, I told myself, I have little house all by myself on the moon. — Shirley Jackson

I never knew I had an inventive talent until Phrenology told me so. I was a stranger to myself until then! — Thomas A. Edison

I'll never forget one time a fan came up to me crying, and told me, 'You really inspire me to be me. I feel OK to be myself now.' — Becky G

But things can change, that's what I told myself. Mistakes can be undone, wrongs righted. That's what brought me home. Hope. — John Hart

I wanted to tell her secrets I hadn't even told myself yet. — Molly Beth Griffin

One final time I told myself I wasn't abducting my little brother. — Marcus Sedgwick

I told myself that it took forty-two facial muscles to frown and only four to stretch out my arm and bitch-slap the witch. — Kathy Lette

I told myself firmly that it was just a feeling, the echo of an anxiety. I could overcome it, just as I would overcome everything else. — Jojo Moyes

Could be worse, I told myself. I could be studying cheese demons. — Rick Riordan

I have told myself a hundred times that I should be happy if I were as brainless as my neighbor, and yet I do not desire such happiness.1 - Voltaire — Frederic Lenoir

The world after a war is a good world, I told myself. A happy world. A secure world. In this world, I might do anything. — Jennifer Niven

Fortune favors the brave, I told her. It also kills the stupid, but I decided to keep that fact to myself. — Ilona Andrews

I told myself that the last thing I needed was something else to love- something else to lose. — Ellery A. Kane

I figured if I told it to myself often enough, I would start believing it. — Lisa Kleypas

This wouldn't be so bad, I told myself. But secretly, I knew that I was quite wrong. — Bill Bryson

She told me I wasn't playing for the coach, I was playing for myself. — Eric Dickerson

Till now, I told myself, You have only seen the shadow and been well content with it; now, I am going to lead you into the substance. — Nikos Kazantzakis

I've told so many lies about my age I don't know how old I am myself. — Ruby Wax

[On being told Mary, Queen of Scots, was taller than she:] Then she is too high, for I myself am neither too high nor too low. — Elizabeth I

We are told, that the black bear is innocent; but I should not like to trust myself with him. — Samuel Johnson

I told myself no matter what she did i would not let the b**** take me down — Dave Pelzer

I must give up seeing people, I told myself. — Anthony Burgess

Perhaps it didn't matter, I told myself. Who was there to miss me? No one would suffer from my going. That was a blessing. — Diane Setterfield

I've told people that I don't see myself living very long. That really upsets them, but I'm just being honest. — Michael Angelakos

If I told you about all the stories I don't tell, I would be violating the very boundaries I set for myself. — Joyce Maynard

I told myself when I was broke and homeless that my biggest goal was just to have a house. That goal was achieved. I'm just really, really lucky. — Rosa Salazar

I told myself there was no way I was going to let this training go to waste. It was my time, and I was ready to go. — Katie Hoff

I told myself that I'd had life too easy, conditioned by an upbringing where fear of change was disguised as caution. — Ingrid Betancourt

I told myself that I was letting him keep his dignity, while choosing to forget that for thousands of nights, he sacrificed it. — Hanya Yanagihara

I should have told her at the time. I could have taken a deep breath, looked away, and forced myself to say it. — Banana Yoshimoto

From an early age my mother told me that there were so many of us that if I was to get anything in life I would have to get it myself. So I did. — Michael Lee-Chin

The Three Cs, I told myself. When you're not Comfortable with it, it's not a Compliment, it's Creepy. — Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

I told myself, 'I am teaching entrepreneurship, so I should be an entrepreneur myself.' — Dan Shechtman

I was thinking that surgeons had to be the happiest people on earth. To cut people up and get paid for it-that's happiness, I told myself. — Norman Mailer

I don't like it, but this afternoon I've told myself I am going to go and get a dress. — Antonia Fraser

People have always told me I look young for my age ... and I think it's because I've always taken care of myself. — Ian Ziering

Do you remember when you told me I couldn't see myself clearly? You obviously have the same blindness — Stephenie Meyer

I told myself that I'll do everything within my power to never let that happen again. — Andre Ward

Guerilla warfare? I was in way over my head. I told myself that I could do this. It was guerilla warfare every time I went to sleep. — Laura Thalassa

Let's enjoy these aimless days while we can, I told myself, fearing some kind of deft acceleration. — Don DeLillo

At some point, I told myself: the dress doesn't own you, you own the dress! So act like it and attack. — Magdalena Frackowiak

During the act of writing I have told myself something that I didn't know I knew. — Gail Godwin

Nobody ever told me, I found out for myself, you got to believe in foolish miracles. — Ozzy Osbourne

It didn't matter what my heart said, I reminded myself. My heart told me stupid stuff all the time. My heart should just shut the hell up. — Karen Chance

Well, I can't remember not being able to read. I was told I could read by myself very well at the age of three. — Diana Gabaldon

I told myself that historically when people do too well too quickly, they are a Greek tragedy waiting to happen. — Anne Lamott

Great loves have legs and wings. They are substantial. They do not dissapate so easily ... Great loves have staying power. Or so I told myself. — Erica Jong

I told myself, Malala, you have already faced death. This is your second life. Don't be afraid - if you are afraid, you can't move forward. — Malala Yousafzai

I have switched on this modern laptop machine. And I have told myself that I must resist the temptation to start playing solitaire upon it. — Margaret Drabble

I told myself that I was the one pretending to fit in, but life has taught me that we are all pretenders. Every single one of us. — Tarryn Fisher

I've told myself I have a chance to make history, and that's my focus. — Jordan Spieth

So I told myself I would give it up, even prayed at night for it to be taken away, not knowing that 'it' was love. — Paul Monette

I had my eyes closed in the dark, I sighed a million sighs, I told a million lies, to myself, to myself. — Van Morrison

Pull yourself together," I told myself sternly. "You have to stay positive. You'll never make it if you give up. — Norah McClintock

One day," I told myself, "one brave and magnificent day, I will actually be cool." I — Jim Butcher

I'd only been in the business three or four years, but I told myself that someday I'd like to be Mort Janklow. — Larry Kirshbaum

I've often been told that I'm a bit strange. I hear that pretty regularly, but it is not how I see myself. — Clemence Poesy

Don't think, I told myself. Think nothingness. But even nothingness was something. It was a thought. — Markus Zusak

Although I had no regrets, I told myself sadly that growing up was not the painless process one would have thought it to be. — Maya Angelou

A relationship that is not actively nurtured dies out eventually, I told myself. Or does it? — Sandhya Jane

You told me to be myself, so I am. — Cora Carmack

The beaver told the rabbit as they stared at the Hoover Dam: No, I didn't build it myself, but it's based on an idea of mine — Charles Hard Townes

There were times when chemo would eat my body, but I told myself that I have the strength and courage to win and come out stronger. — Yuvraj Singh

I told myself this was probably a bad idea, to let him kiss me into a confession. But, I reasoned, if there was ever a way to cave, this was it. — Kiera Cass

Sometimes, I told myself, change was good. — Dorothy Benton Frank

i'm going mad, i told myself. let me not be mad. — Ian McEwan

I was actually very surprised, and I told myself wow, I want to fight this guy. — Vitali Klitschko

You told me to look into the mirror each morning and be proud of myself, to do nothing that I would be ashamed of. — Kavita Kane

My injury, I told myself to deal with it, and bounce back stronger. I think I have. — Djibril Cisse

I told myself that, too. It turned out myself was a skeptical bitch and didn't believe me. — C.E. Murphy

I like a good story well told. That is the reason I am sometimes forced to tell them myself. — Mark Twain

At just ten years old, I told myself not to fall in love. Not again. Not ever. — Melissa M. Futrell

Today I told myself that in actual fact anyone who takes an innocuous and random delight in his life is an absolute lummox. — Robert Walser

I used to save all my rejection slips because I told myself, one day I'm going to autograph these and auction them. And then I lost the box. — James Lee Burke

And then one day, one of my daughters sat me down and told me that even though he was gone, I wasn't. That it was time to find a new life for myself. — Brenda Rothert

You are strong and independent, I told myself as I unlocked the door. Capable and clever. No males needed. — Susan Dennard

They told me to just "act like myself." When I said, "How do I do that?" they said to just have fun with it, but I'm not sure what they meant. — Steve Martin