A Quotes
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“Are you feeling any better?" I asked.
He nodded. "A lot better. I think it's fine."
I looked at his ankle. It still looked puffy to me. "Well, you need to be careful. You know what the... uh... doctor said." I would take the knowledge that Dr. Peter Herbert's patients typically had four legs with me to my grave.”
Source: The Irresistible Blueberry Bakeshop & Cafe
“Are you feeling helpless when you think about the dark roads of the future? Then read the biographies of the great men! Learn their life stories; they will lead you to the light! Buddha will lead you to the light; Gandhi will lead you to the light! Men of wider horizons will broaden our own horizons!”
“Are you feeling lucky? Cause I'm on a roll.”
“Are you filling your head with empty calories?”
Source: Soul Food: Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life
“Are you finally admitting that you can sell a man hope? Have I at last succeeded in teaching you that?”
He laughed and flicked his whip again, harder. He was in a better mood than I had seen for months.
“No, Camelot, not hope. Hope is for the weak; have I not succeeded in teaching you that? To hope is to put your faith in others and in things outside yourself; that way lies betrayal and disappointment. They didn't want hope, Camelot; they wanted certainty. What a man needs is the certainty that he is right, no self-doubt, no fleeting thought that he might be wrong or misled. Absolute certainty that he is right—that's what gives a man the confidence and power to do whatever he wants and to take whatever he wants from this world and the next.”
Source: Company of Liars
“Are you finally starting to breathe in a normal fashion?” Shahrzad teased. “I must confess I find your behavior rather odd, considering you said only a child would be afraid to fly.”
“I wasn’t afraid.” Khalid wrapped a forearm of corded muscle around her. She slanted a disbelieving look his way. “You just lied to me.”
“I wasn’t afraid,” he repeated. “I was terrified.”
Source: The Rose & the Dagger
“Are you fire or just another flame?”
“Are you fixing to stay in this country, then, Walter? After you've dug yourself a patch, and made yourself a pile?'
'I expect my luck will decide that question for me.'
'Would you call it lucky to stay, or lucky to go?'
'I'd call it lucky to choose,' said Moody—surprising himself, for that was not the answer he would have given, three months prior.”
Source: The Luminaries
“Are you fleeing from Love because of a single humiliation?
What do you know of Love except the name?
Love has a hundred forms of pride and disdain,
and is gained by a hundred means of persuasion.
Since Love is loyal, it purchases one who is loyal:
it has no interest in a disloyal companion.
The human being resembles a tree; its root is a covenant with God:
that root must be cherished with all one's might.”
Source: The Rumi Collection: An Anthology of Translations of Mevlâna Jalâluddin Rumi
“Are you flirting with me?”
“Are you following me?" He asked.
"Us?" I was the first to speak. "Um, maybe. Hi there. How are you tonight?"
He looked at me like I might be a bit crazy.”
Source: Dark Kiss
“Are you following me?" she asks, but doesn't meet my gaze. "Yeah," I say. "Why?" I give her the only honest and true answer I have. "You're where I want to be.”
Source: Leaving Paradise
“Are you following their content because of what is being shared or by how many shares and followers they have? Popularity does not always equal authority or authenticity.”
“Are you for peace? The great test of your devotion to peace is not how many words you utter on its behalf. It’s not even how you propose to deal with people of other countries, though that certainly tells us something. To fully measure your “peacefulness” requires that we examine how you propose to treat people in your own backyard. Do you demand more of what doesn’t belong to you? Do you endorse the use of force to punish people for victimless “crimes”? Do you support politicians who promise to seize the earnings of others to pay for your bailout, your subsidy, your student loan, your child’s education or whatever pet cause or project you think is more important than what your fellow citizens might personally prefer to spend their own money on? Do you believe theft is OK if it’s for a good cause or endorsed by a majority? If you answered yes to any of these questions, then have the courage to admit that peace is not your priority. How can I trust your foreign policy if your domestic policy requires so much to be done at gunpoint?”
“Are you French?' I asked instead.
'Oui!'
Foreign. Foreign spy. French Communist Party acted on Stalin's instructions during part of World War II. French Communist spy.
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I turned to Art, a black kid who was a foot and a half taller than me and whose pecs were about to burst of his shirt and eat someone. I gave him a two on the delusion detector. I didn't trust those pecs.
'Hi,' he rumbled.
I waved weakly.”
Source: Made You Up
“Are you frightened now?"
I nodded, shame flushing my skin.
"Is it going to stop you?"
"No."
"That is the courage of a warrior.”
Source: Eon: Dragoneye Reborn
“Are you from London?” Ruby asked. “Originally.”
“My home town’s much less glamorous. Can’t we pretend I sprang fully formed from the head of Zeus?”
“Your accent puts you somewhere between Hampstead and Philadelphia.”
“That’s the middle of the ocean!”
“Yes. Maybe you’re Venus, rather than Athena.”
Source: The Psychology of Time Travel
“Are you fucking kidding me? How do you get this wet? Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ. I don’t even…ohhhhh God. It’s all over your legs. Oh baby, I’m gonna fuck you so hard.”
Source: Doubled
“Are you fucking kidding me, you lying thieving hairy-legged beast?”
Source: Hidden Bodies
“Are you fully convinced that what is familiar to you is really the better way?”
Source: Teaching Naked: How Moving Technology Out of Your College Classroom Will Improve Student Learning
“Are you gay, Cherie?
Me, No… I’m not anything… I-I mean I prefer not to indulge, I stammered.
“Really... how do you mean?”
Well love has been an elusive story, like a fairytale adults tell children but I have never known any of it to be true. In reality it reminds me of religion. I am not sure God is real either, if God is real why do so many innocents suffer?
Innocents suffer because it is their destiny to suffer.
What? What does that mean?” I’m annoyed.
God has nothing to do with it. We are born into this world to experience all that is not God-like, so we can then be inspired to reach for higher spiritual goals.
I have never thought of it that way before. If that is so then I must be preparing for sainthood. Am I to think that all of my suffering as a child has been to prepare me for greatness?”
Source: Angel Sins
“Are you genuine? Or just an actor? A representative? Or what it is that is represented?-In the end, you might merely be someone mimicking an actor ... Second question of conscience.”
“Are you getting a big kick out of the Enron scandal? I find this interesting that whenever a big crisis starts, people start showing up in church. So, Ken Lay shows up in church this weekend. Church officials are still looking for the collection plates.”
“Are you getting your period?" She narrows her eyes. No! God. I hate that. I hate when every negative act is blamed on your period." Sometimes bitchiness is just bitchiness, happily unattached to anything hormonal. It should get full credit.”
Source: Nature of Jade
“Are you gloating inside? That's what this is about, isn't it? Getting me to trust you so you could blow it up in my face!" [...] "I get that you're angry—," said Patch. "I am ripped apart!" I shouted.”
Source: The Complete Hush, Hush Saga: includes Hush, Hush; Crescendo; Silence and Finale
“Are you gluten-free?”
“No.”
“Great. That means our entire menu is open to you.”
“Can’t wait.”
He chose to ignore the sarcasm. “You look like a vanilla person.”
Okay, maybe he hadn’t ignored it.
Her lifted eyebrow said she’d caught the shot. “Is that the best this shop can offer?”
Source: Fake It Till You Bake It
“Are you going home?’ I asked him. ‘Home?’ He was puzzled by my question. ’To Ireland,’ I said. I looked at the circlet, ‘King Finan.’ He smiled. ‘I am home, lord.”
Source: Warriors of the Storm
“Are you going to allow the world around you to change while you remain stagnant? Make this the time you throw away old habits that have hindered your happiness and success and finally allow your greatest self to flourish.”
Source: Life, the Truth, and Being Free
“Are you going to answer my questions, or do I have to whack you with a stick until delicious candy surprises fall out?”
Source: Nice Girls Don't Have Fangs
“Are you going to be able to fly this naked?” I asked.
“Baby, I could fly a ship through the outer edges of a black hole while you were sucking my dick and be free in time for the cum to splash down your throat.”
“Creative.”
Ever grabbed his erection, “Want to give it a try?”
Source: Handsome Slave Seeks Horny Hero
“Are you going to be able to shave your legs? Are you going to be able to get married? So it was constantly thinking about both choice in terms of possibilities - I mean because choice is the thing that is supposed to enable you to be whatever it is you want to be - and yet, at the same time you have to think about choice in terms of its limitations.”
“Are you going to be all right now?" Loki asked. He'd walked me over here, and he waited just inside the doorway.
"Yeah I'm great," I lied and sat on the bed. "The entire kingdom is falling apart. People are dying. I have to kill my father. And my husband just went crazy”
Source: Ascend
“Are you going to be just kind of a walking monument to a job, or are you going to have some kind of really significant inner life of your own? Because the external things the job, the house, the this, the that do not really fill the place inside.”
Source: Conversations with Robertson Davies
“Are you going to be nice to me now?"
"I'm always nice to you." Sure. Law ground his chin into Tom's groin, making
Tom jump.
"Why would I suddenly start being nice to you?" Law said. "You put out for an asshole. That guy is still here.”
Source: Force of Law
“Are you going to be okay?'
'I thought I was. I'll get over it.' I'd heard too many characters say the same thing in too many novels. It let the runaway lover off the hook. It allowed everyone to save face. It restored dignity and courage to the one whose cover had been completely blown.”
Source: Call Me by Your Name
“Are you going to be playing for the pure thrill of unreluctant desire?”
Source: Dash & Lily's Book of Dares
“Are you going to be serious?" She scowled.
"No. I'd rather cause an earthquake.”
Source: Shield of Winter
“Are you going to cater to the whims and prejudices of people who have no intelligent knowledge of what they condemn?”
“Are you going to come down or do I need to set the apothecary on fire?'
'That threat might work better if you actually had a torch,' Castor replied.”
Source: A Curse for True Love
“Are you going to come inside or just stand out there gawking all night?” she asked with a smile.
He chuckled and stepped into the foyer. “Can’t I do both?”
Source: Wolf Unleashed
“Are you going to come quietly, or do I have to use earplugs?”
“Are you going to cut my throat?" Mark asked.
I'm going to cur your hair. Hold still," Christina said.
"As my lady requests.”
Source: Lady Midnight
“Are you going to dance with me tonight?" I ask.
"Hell, yeah."
"Colin never wanted to dance with me."
"I'm not Colin, querida, and never will be."
"Good. I've got you, Alex. I realize it's all I need and I'm ready to share it with the world."
Inside the club, Alex immediately heads for the dance floor with me. I ignore the gawking stares from Fairfield students from my side of town as I pull Alex close to me and we move as one to the beat.
We move together as if we've been a couple forever, every movement in sync with each other. For the first time I'm not afraid of what people think of me and Alex together. Next year, in college, it won't matter who came from what side of town.”
Source: Perfect Chemistry
“Are you going to deliver whatever threat Avari sent you with, or are we going to have to start guessing?" Tod said. "I gotta warn you, I'm insanely good at charades.”
Source: Before I Wake
“Are you going to distract me by playing footsie?"
"Absolutely, princess," he says with a wink.
"Then I won't remember a thing."
"It's a samurai training technique," he teases, spinning the test prep book toward him. "I distract you as much as possible right now." He slides the book into his lap. "And you'll learn how to test through anything.”
Source: Fins Are Forever
“Are you going to divest in the banks and pension funds? Plenty of people are willing to invest in stock of those companies. You can argue that when a lot of people divest, it makes the stock price artificially low, which makes their price-to-earnings ratio more favorable, which makes it a better investment for the people who don't give a damn - - and is it really going to change corporate behavior? It begins to create a climate of antagonistic opinion, the result might be that the corporate executives will retreat even more into their own selfjustifying narratives.”
“Are you going to do it?” she asked. “Hell, yeah,” Abby said. “Are you scared?” she asked. “Hell, yeah,” Abby said. “So why?” “Because I want to know if Dark Side of the Moon is actually profound.”
Source: My Best Friend's Exorcism
“Are you going to eat me?” she asked.”
Source: The Rogue King
“Are you going to fly home?' I said.
A soft laugh. 'Unfortunately, it would take longer than I can afford. Another day, I'll taste the skies again.'
I glanced at the wings tucked into his powerful body, and my voice was hoarse as I spoke. 'You never told me you loved the wings- or the flying.' No, he'd made shape-shifting seem... base, useless, boring.
He shrugged. 'Everything I love has always had a tendency to be taken from me. I tell very few about the wings. Or the flying.'
Some colour had already come into that moon-white face- and I wondered whether he might once have been tan before Amarantha had kept him belowground for so long. A High Lord who loved to fly- trapped under a mountain. Shadows not of his own making still haunted those violet eyes. I wondered if they would ever fade.”
Source: A Court of Thorns and Roses
“Are you going to frisk me?" he asked when I stepped in close to measure the width of his shoulders. He smelled of pine and leather and the fresh ocean breeze--- wild and free.
"This is a custom tailor shop, not a police station."
"I might have a dangerous weapon in my pocket," he teased.
I pulled the measuring tape tight under his arms, reminding myself that I was a professional. I was totally unaffected by the rock-hard pecs that flexed under my hands or the fact that I was now so close, I could feel the heat of his body. It was disconcertingly intimate. I'd measured many clients over the years for my dad and not once had I ever felt like I needed an immediate date with my vibrator.”
Source: To Have and to Heist