A Quotes
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“And why is it "homophobic" for Senate Republicans to look askance at sex in public bathrooms? Is the Times claiming that sodomy in public bathrooms is the essence of being gay? I thought gays just wanted to get married to one another and settle down in the suburbs so they could visit each other in the hospital.”
“And why is it all men think
everything a woman writes is trivial or trashy-or just plain silly
drivel? Don't men have romantic notions? Don't men dream of finding
the perfect love?”
Source: Flowers in the Attic
“And why is it somehow a mark against your strength to admit that there is someone, who happens to be male, worth returning to?”
Source: House of Earth and Blood
“And why is it that so many years later it is so easy to distinguish the bullies from their prey? Adult bodies surrounding the children of long ago. The years have changed nothing.”
Source: Coloured Lights
“And why is it the best looking ones are always straight?”
“And why is it the women who have to be virgins? Why suffer torment to satisfy an asshole? Because the man who demands "virginity" from a women is nothing but an asshole! Why don't we behave as Westerners do!? For them, since the problem of sex is resolved, they can move on to other things! This is the reason they progress!!!”
Source: Embroideries
“And why is it, thought Lara, that my fate is to see everything and take it all so much to heart?”
“And why is our music called world music? I think people are being polite. What they want to say is that it's third world music. Like they use to call us under developed countries, now it has changed to developing countries, it's much more polite.”
“And why just then, why that moment was the moment in which she understood quite suddenly her own death, she couldn't say. Simply, she saw how he would miss her.”
Source: The Guest Book
“And why love things you were destined to lose? Why let yourself feel things if the feelings were doomed to die?”
“And why not death rather than living torment? To die is to be banish'd from myself; And Silvia is myself: banish'd from her Is self from self: a deadly banishment!”
Source: The Plays and Poems of William Shakespeare: Two gentlemen of Verona. Comedy of errors. Love's labour's lost
“And why not do something new every day of your life? Change! Change!”
“And why not?' the merchant replied seriously. 'Why not have doubts? It's nothing but a human and good thing'.
'What?'
'Doubt. Only an evil man, master Geralt, is without it. And no one escapes his destiny'.”
“And why not—whatever despair we may feel concerning resurrection and reassemblage—find comic relief in the human determination to assert wholeness in the face of inevitable decay and fragmentation?”
Source: Fragmentation and Redemption: Essays on Gender and the Human Body in Medieval Religion
“And why not?” “You know why! This is a bad idea.” “Perhaps I like a challenge.” “Perhaps you’re a glutton for punishment!” “Perhaps I am in love.”
Source: Fury's Kiss: A Midnight's Daughter Novel
“And why’s Janis Joplin’s life read as a downward spiral into self-destruction? Everything she did is filtered through her death. Roger Gilbert-Lecomte, Kurt Cobain, Jimi Hendrix, River Phoenix all suicided too but we see their deaths as aftermaths of lives that went too far. But let a girl choose death—Janis Joplin, Simone Weil—and death becomes her definition, the outcome of her “problems.” To be female still means being trapped within the purely psychological. No matter how dispassionate or large a vision of the world a woman formulates, whenever it includes her own experience and emotion, the telescope’s turned back on her. Because emotion’s just so terrifying the world refuses to believe that it can be pursued as discipline, as form. Dear Dick, I want to make the world more interesting than my problems. Therefore, I have to make my problems social.”
Source: I Love Dick
“And why should any man who writes, even if he writes things immortal, nurse anger at the world's neglect? Who asked him to publish? Who promised him a hearing? Who has broken faith with him? Your poem, your novel, who bargained with you for it?”
Source: The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft
“And why should he interest himself at all in my moral and intellectual capacities: what is it to him what I think and feel?' I asked myself. And my heart throbbed in answer to the question.”
Source: Agnes Grey
“And why should it not be terrifying? A little terror, in my view, is good for the soul, when it is terror in the face of a noble object.”
Source: World of wonders
“And why should we go hunting for a substitute for youthful desires, when youthful desires never fail? A substitute for distractions, when we go on enjoying all the old fooleries to the very last? What need have we of repose when our minds and bodies continue to delight in activity? of consolation, when we have soma? of something immovable, when there is the social order?”
Source: Brave New World
“And why should we, of all people, expect the proud new developing nations to see the world precisely as we see it? Was any new nation ever more outspoken, independent and unaligned than the young America of Jefferson, Jackson, and Lincoln?”
“And why should ye not fight in the cause of GOD and of those who being weak are ill-treated?...”
“And why shouldn't a grown man live with his mother? Mothers were a rare and precious commodity and if you had one, why in the world would leave her?”
Source: Lost and Found
“And why shouldn't the miraculous, / Caught on this earth, visit / The old man alone in his hut?”
Source: Stealing Sugar from the Castle: Selected and New Poems, 1950-2013: Selected Poems, 1950–2011
“And why the hell should you do a really hard, important job that you don't want to do? That has extremely high stakes? That just blows my mind.”
“And why the name Bruno?"
"My papa picked it. He said it meant 'brown,' like his coat. But also 'protector.' We didn't mean to keep him at first. But he came to us looking so starved and sad that we took him in, and once he'd been fed, Papa and I couldn't part with him." Cinderella smiled at Bruno. "He's been my sweetest companion ever since. And my most loyal protector."
"I like dogs more than people," said the duchess. "For that very reason- they don't let you down as much.”
Source: So This is Love
“And why was I sitting on the curb? I honestly didn’t know, but it was better than being inside my apartment, all alone. And yeah, I was alone out here, but it didn’t feel that way. I was pretty sure there was a squirrel over by the tree, so that counted for something, right?”
Source: Wait for You
“And why was it when you finally met the man of your dreams you invariably found yourself in the middle of your worst nightmare?”
Source: Let's Meet on Platform 8 / A Whiff of Scandal
“And why would it? Ellie lied to me, because she knew I would come home to be with her. She selflessly gave me up so I could have everything, when the truth is, now I have nothing.”
“And why would you assume that the king is happy? They are all
afraid, concerned and jittery even at the zenith of their rule”
Source: The Oath of Shakuni
“And why, by the way, did it take Arabs to do what people here should have done a long time ago?”
“And why? Because they are suffocating within the lines that define their town and their times. And sometimes lines are made to be crossed.”
“And Wigan Athletic are certain to be promoted barring a mathmatical tragedy”
“And wild-scatter'd cowslips bedeck the green dale.”
Source: The Works: With an Account of His Life and a Criticism on His Writings to which are Prefixed Some Observations on the Character and Condition of the Scottish Peasantry : in Four Volumes
“And wilderness is paradise now.”
Source: The Bird and the Blade
“And will 'a not come again?
And will 'a not come again?
No, no, he is dead,
Go to thy death bed:
He will never come again.”
Source: Hamlet
“And will he not come again? And will he not come again? No, no, he is dead. Go to thy deathbed. He never will come again.”
“And will I like being called a jazz-baby?
You will love it.”
“And will I still be bound by this bargain at Nynsar, too?'
Silence.
I pushed. 'After- after what happened-' I couldn't mention specifics on what had occurred Under the Mountain, what he'd done for me during the fight with Amarantha, what he'd done after- 'I think we can agree that I owe you nothing, and you owe me nothing.'
His gaze was unflinching.
I blazed on. 'Isn't it enough that we're all free?' I splayed my tattooed hand on the table. 'By the end, I thought you were different, thought that it was all a mask, but taking me away, keeping me here...' I shook my head, unable to find the words vicious, clever enough to convince him to end this bargain.
His eyes darkened. 'I'm not your enemy, Feyre.'
'Tamlin says you are.' I curled the fingers of my tattooed hand into a fist. 'Everyone else says you are.'
'And what do you think?' He leaned back in his chair again, but his face was grave.
'You're doing a damned good job of making me agree with them.'
'Liar,' he purred. 'Did you even tell your friends about what I did to you Under the Mountain?'
So that comment at breakfast had gotten under his skin. 'I don't want to talk about anything related to that. With you or them.'
'No, because it's much easier to pretend it never happened and let them coddle you.'
'I don't let them coddle me-'
'They had you wrapped up like a present yesterday. Like you were his reward.'
'So?'
'So?' A flicker of rage, then it was gone.
'I'm ready to be taken home,' I merely said.
'Where you'll be cloistered for the rest of your life, especially once you start punching our heirs. I can't wait to see what Ianthe does when she gets her hands on them.'
'You don't seem to have a particularly high opinion of her.'
Something cold and predatory crept into his eyes. 'No, I can't say that I do.”
Source: A Court of Mist and Fury
“And will I tell you that these three lived happily ever after? I will not, for no one ever does. But there was happiness. And they did live.”
Source: The Dark Tower VII: The Dark Tower
“And will you succeed? Yes indeed, yes indeed! Ninety-eight and three-quarters percent guaranteed!”
“And William says, "I lost one son utterly."... ..."So I've held my tongue. But the truth is you didn't go to war. You went through the motions. But you turned it into graduate school. You contrived a comfortable place on the edge of the action to go study. You didn't even let the army decide your fate. You wangled your safe little job with a pre-enlistment deal and avoided the real thing. You told all the others who manned up, 'Better you do the dirty work, not me. Better your blood than mine.”
Source: Perfume River
“And wilt thou have me fashion into speech The love I bear thee, finding words enough, And hold the torch out, while the winds are rough, Between our faces, to cast light on each? - I dropt it at thy feet. I cannot teach My hand to hold my spirits so far off From myself--me--that I should bring thee proof In words, of love hid in me out of reach. Nay, let the silence of my womanhood Commend my woman-love to thy belief, - Seeing that I stand unwon, however wooed, And rend the garment of my life, in brief, By a most dauntless, voiceless fortitude, Lest one touch of this heart convey its grief.”
Source: Sonnets from the Portuguese
“And winning is a huge thing for me.”
“And winter, which modifies the note of such trees as shed their leaves, does not destroy its individuality.”
“And wisdom is a butterfly
And not a gloomy bird of prey.”
Source: The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats
“And with a few moments like that, with doubt from here and there, and within ourselves we were just striving for excellence. We had somehow understood and felt that all the musicians who would come to the House later on, that all the singers, the big artists, were striving for excellence in their life and we thought a house for them, there’s no limit to the excellence it should have because it should match their strive for perfection”
“And with a last stardrop, a last circle, I arrive, and she's there, chemical wonder in her eyes.”
Source: Moth Smoke
“And with a little sense of humor we can say that there are Christian bats who prefer the shadows to the light of the presence of the Lord.”
“And with a massive roar the fifth wall comes down and the house of fiction falls, taking Viola and Sunny and Bertie with it. They melt into thin air and disappear. Pouf!”
Source: A God in Ruins