D Quotes
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“Don't you know me, Sophia?" came his anguished whisper. He shocked her by sinking to the floor and clutching handfuls of her skirts, his dark head buried against her knees.
She was dumbstruck as she stared at the hands tangled in her skirts. A harsh sob lodged in her throat as she touched the back of his left hand. There was a small, star-shaped scar in the center. It was the same scar that John had gotten in childhood, when he had carelessly brushed it against a fireplace iron still hot from the coals. Tears continued to slip down her cheeks, and she covered the mark with her own hand.
His head lifted, and he stared at her with eyes that she now recognized were exactly like her own. "Please," he whispered.
"It's all right," she said unsteadily. "I believe you, John. I do know you. I should have seen it at once, but you are much changed."
He responded with a sorrowful growl, struggling to contain his feelings.”
Source: Lady Sophia's Lover
“Don't you know, my friend, that books are dreams in written form?”
Source: The Land of Unlived Dreams: A Middle Grade Portal Fantasy Adventure
“Don't you know Poole, you and I are about to place ourselves in a position of some peril?”
Source: The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Tales of Terror
“Don’t you know that everything you do in life has consequences?”
Source: Killer.com
“Don’t you know that I am sane and earnest now; that I am no lunatic in a mad fit, but a sane man fighting for his very soul?”
Source: Dracula
“Don't you know that I passionately dote on every chin on his face?”
Source: Strong Poison
“Don’t you know that most people take most things because that’s what’s given them, and they have no opinion whatever? Do you wish to be guided by what they expect you to think they think or by your own judgment?”
Source: The Fountainhead
“Don’t you know that’s what college is about...students spending years gathering useless information they’ll never use again, going hopelessly into debt, just so they feel smarter than the rest of their family? I mean, that’s why I worked so hard to get here, anyway.”
Source: Lost to You
“Don’t you know that you can have anything you want?” His eyes searched mine. “I’ll hurt anyone for you.”
The weight on my chest was too heavy, it almost hurt to breathe.
“Who is it?” he asked. “Who do I have to hurt?”
Source: Nightfall
“Don't you know the soul is an immortal principle? How can it suffer alteration?"
"I don't believe at all that it's an immortal principle. I believe it can perfectly be destroyed. That's what has happened to mine, which was a very good one to start with; and it's you I have to thank for it. You're very bad," she added with gravity in her emphasis.”
Source: The Portrait of a Lady
“Don’t you know what god is? God is everything and God is nothing; for the perfection created by man cannot be anything other than nothing. They decided to give a name to nothingness, and thereby the made it become something. Like you… God, who is nothing, can no longer be nothing since he is God. You could be a god for men. They need to give a body to nothingness so that nothingness can be seen and touched-at least with the imagination.”
Source: Man of Smoke
“Don’t you know what that is? It’s spring fever. That is what the name of it is. And when you’ve got it, you want—oh, you don’t quite know what it is you DO want, but it just fairly makes your heart ache, you want it so!”
Source: Tom Sawyer, Detective
“Don't you know? Whatever arrives from the shadows, you must greet as a blessing.”
Source: Masked Temptation
“Don't you know who I am?” Abby asked,
not answering the
girl's question.
“You're Abby, a fugitive that has been on the
run ever since you left the orphanage.” she responded.
“And that won't bother you? who are you?” she asked inquisitively.
“Riley is the name or RI for my nickname
and no, that won’t bother me! In fact, can I join you?” she answered.
Abby stared at her, “Join me? In running for my life?” she asked, shocked.
“Yes, if my name did not remind you,
I am a fugitive too!” she declared.
“Well, ok?” she said.”
“don't you know?
you are a golden thing
in this heavy, heavy world”
Source: wild spirit, soft heart
“Don’t you know you can’t git de best of no woman in de talkin’ game? Her tongue is all de weapon a woman got,” George Thomas chided Gene. “She could have had mo’ sense, but she told God no, she’d ruther take it out in hips. So God give her her ruthers. She got plenty hips, plenty mouf and no brains.”
“Oh, yes, womens is got sense too,” Mathilda Moseley jumped in. “But they got too much sense to go ‘round braggin’ about it like y’all do. De lady people always got de advantage of mens because God fixed it dat way.”
Source: Mules and Men
“Don't you know? You don't even exist.”
Source: Tell Me My Name
“Don't you know, you idiot, that that is what every fool of a woman says about her child?
Miss Bulstrode's thoughts.”
Source: Cat Among the Pigeons
“Don’t you know your best side shows when you are sensual?
To be sensual is to be unaware. It’s to not think. It’s to get out of your head and into your body.”
“Don’t you let nothing stop you from shining the way you supposed to! That be your job, every tick of the clock, just like them stars, until God himself tells you otherwise.”
Source: Opal Summerfield and The Battle of Fallmoon Gap
“Don’t you like them?” She ran her fingers across the waistband of
her panties.
“I’m afraid I can’t appreciate them in such low lighting. You will have to take them off and let me have a better look.” He tried to smile innocently.
She rested her hands on her hips and shook her head slowly.
“Very well. I will have to do it for you.” He took a step closer to her.”
Source: Razel Dazzle
“Don’t you long to be in Rome?’
‘I die for it!”
“Don't you look handsome.'
'I know.' He preens sarcastically, straightening his sash over a midnight-black doublet. 'I've heard healer cadets have a thing for riders.”
Source: Fourth Wing
“Don't you love fall?" Stacey asked. "All the little festivals, the changing leaves, kids in Halloween costumes, the dead spewing up out of their graves to haunt the living...”
Source: Maze of Souls
“Don't you love meeting an approachable person? They roll out the proverbial “welcome mat.” Their energy and engaging openness make us feel safe. They project the messages, “I'm so glad to meet you. I like you. Tell me more about you. I'm so glad that you're here,” without even saying a word.”
Source: The Art of Body Language: 8 Ways to Optimize Non-Verbal Communication for Positive Impact
“Don't you make the mistake that men will not let anything go for a beautiful thing to look at. In the morning, the evening, especially the night. Men are fools. Good grand fools. Don't let me mislead you, they are alright. Are they not rich sometimes? I still believe the world belongs to a woman, but only because it belongs to men and they give it to her!”
Source: The Matter Is Life
“Don’t you mind dying, sir?” the consul asked. “Forgive me a little lofty talk,” van Gulik said, “but all movement is illusory. From Seoul to
Kobe. From life to death.”
“Don't you oh well me,sir," Miss Maudie replied, recognizing Jem's fatalistic noises, "you are not old enough to appreciate what I said.”
“Don't you quit. You keep walking, you keep trying, there is help and happiness ahead.”
“Don’t you realize the Internet is just a way for millions of sad people to be completely alone together?”
Source: Notes from the Internet Apocalypse
“Don’t you realize you’re a hero?” said Shang. “Your legend grows by the year. Fa Mulan, fearless warrior and savior of China. The one who buried Shan Yu’s armies under a mountaintop of ice.”
“It was just a well-aimed rocket.” Mulan remembered the crack of ice, the avalanche cascading down.
“The warrior who came to the emperor’s aid when Shan Yu took him hostage. Who fought and defeated Shan Yu in mortal combat atop a palace roof, saving the emperor and restoring China to its rightful ruler. All while wearing a dress.”
Source: Feather and Flame
“Don't you recognize me, Mary? It's your good friend Allie the Outcast - although it looks like you're the one who's the out-cast now." Then Allie realized something with far too much glee. "Now that you're here - alive and all - there's something I've wanted to do for a very long time."
Then Allie reached back, curled her fleshie's right hand into a fist, and swung it toward Mary with all her might.
This was one strong fleshie!
The punch connected with Mary's eye so hard, that Mary's entire body spun around, and she collapsed into a leopard chair. Allie's knuckles hurt, but it was a good kind of pain.
"My eye!" wailed Mary. "Oh! My eye.”
Source: Everwild
“Don't you remember anything?! There is no 'devil.' There is no 'hell.' There is only Unrest. There is no down, only sideways; the transparent beside the opaque, and a thin wall to separate them.”
Source: The Strangely Beautiful Tale of Miss Percy Parker
“Don’t you remember? It was your first week at the office and I asked what your professional goals were and instead of the generic corporate answer, you said that you would like to be a published Author someday. I knew right then that you were made for something more than just being a Receptionist."
- Dr. Brian Alchan”
Source: Once Upon a Time..In a Dental Office
“Don't you remember you once told me: 'today's pain will be your joy tomorrow; there is nothing that escapes transfiguration.' Don't you remember? Maybe it wasn't exactly like that...”
Source: Near to the Wild Heart
“Don't you see?" And Shukhov shrugged his
shoulders. "The stars keep falling down, so you've got to have new ones in their place.”
Source: One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
“Don't you see Blaynie." Mitch put his arm around her shoulders. "You're like an illegitimate little sister that I never wanted.”
Source: Beast Behaving Badly
“Don't you see?' he asked. 'I'm not just the island's facilitator. I'm the island's parent. I keep this library far away from the people under my care, so that they will never be disturbed by the world's terrible secrets.”
Source: Panique à la clinique: Les désastreuses aventures des Orphelins Baudelaire , Tome 8 (POCHES NATHAN)
“Don’t you see?” he cried. “The American Standard translation orders men to triumph over sin, and you can call sin ignorance. The King James translation makes a promise in ‘Thou shalt,’ meaning that men will surely triumph over sin. But the Hebrew word, the word timshel—‘Thou mayest’— that gives a choice. It might be the most important word in the world. That says the way is open. That throws it right back on a man. For if ‘Thou mayest’—it is also true that ‘Thou mayest not.’ Don’t you see?”
“Yes, I see. I do see. But you do not believe this is divine law. Why do you feel its importance?”
“Ah!” said Lee. “I’ve wanted to tell you this for a long time. I even anticipated your questions and I am well prepared. Any writing which has influenced the thinking and the lives of innumerable people is important. Now, there are many millions in their sects and churches who feel the order, ‘Do thou,’ and throw their weight into obedience. And there are millions more who feel predestination in ‘Thou shalt.’ Nothing they may do can interfere with what will be. But ‘Thou mayest’! Why, that makes a man great, that gives him stature with the gods, for in his weakness and his filth and his murder of his brother he has still the great choice. He can choose his course and fight it through and win.” Lee’s voice was a chant of triumph.
Adam said, “Do you believe that, Lee?”
“Yes, I do. Yes, I do. It is easy out of laziness, out of weakness, to throw oneself into the lap of deity, saying, ‘I couldn’t help it; the way was set.’ But think of the glory of the choice! That makes a man a man. A cat has no choice, a bee must make honey. There’s no godliness there. And do you know, those old gentlemen who were sliding gently down to death are too interested to die now?”
Source: East of Eden
“Don’t you see how arrogant that is?! You soul reapers slay us as though we were vermin. Who do you think you are?! A god?! By what right do you you slaughter us hollows?! Is it because we devour humans?! Who made you their protectors?! No! No one gave you that authority!!! You soul reapers call us evil and slay us because you think you hold the power of justice in your hands!! But you’re just—”
“What makes you think I’m acting as a soul reaper? I’m going to slay you because…you…aimed your blade at my pride.”
Source: Bleach―ブリーチ― 34 [Burīchi 34]
“Don't you see? It’s all about God. You think it’s me that you love, but it’s really the God in me that you see. It’s the God in me that you love. It’s true. It’s why we love you too. It’s the God in you that looks at me and the God in me that looks back at you. It’s just the Big Bang God in love with Himself.”
Source: Jack McAfghan: Return from Rainbow Bridge: A Dog's Afterlife Story of Loss, Love and Renewal
“Don't you see Obi-Wan? They knew you'd rebel against any master you worked with. So they made sure you wound up with a Jedi who almost never followed the rules. The only way for you to rebel was to become the perfect jedi”
Source: Master and Apprentice
“Don't you see, Rosalia? I wouldn't mind giving up Paris for you. That's why I can think about staying here or even asking you to come with me to Paris. I can't envision being without you. Before, you said I was being kind to you when I told you how it makes me sad when you're sad, and happy when you're happy. But I'm not being kind. I'm falling in love with you. Can't you see that? I'm crazy about you, and it's tearing me up on the inside. You're all I think about when I wake up in the morning and go to sleep at night. You're in my dreams. Even when I'm struggling over how to make a better pastry better, you pop up into my mind! I wonder what you would add to make it better. Then again, whom are we fooling? Your desserts are always better than mine!"
Rosalia lowered her eyes and said softly, "That's not true. You've won a few of the contests we've had. Madre Carmela wouldn't lie."
"She's getting old. Her palate is changing. I've heard the other workers who have tried your pastries express how good yours are and how they're often better than everyone else's."
Rosalia folded her hands in her lap. He is falling in love with me. He'd said it! Though she was frightened to hear this, she couldn't deny that she was also elated.
Antonio came back to the bed and sat down next to her. This time, he closed the space between them. He pushed her hair back behind her ear, and then took her face in both of his hands. She had no choice but to look at him.
"I love you, Rosalia. I know you say we haven't known each other long, and we need to just think about today, but I'm tired of keeping how I feel about you inside of me. I love you. And nothing is going to change that. I'll wait for you. Whenever you are ready, I will be here, and I promise you my feelings won't change. Do you hear me?”
Source: Rosalia's Bittersweet Pastry Shop
“Don't you see?" said Calla. "He wasn't coming to pay your debt. He was coming to see if you'd returned to pay it yourself." Lila felt her face go hot. "I do not know why you two are circling each other like stars. It is not my cosmic dance. But I do know that you come asking after one another, when only a few strides and a handful of stars divide you.”
Source: A Gathering of Shadows
“Don’t you see," she would explain, "that when I see anything or do anything there is no joy in keeping it to myself? I want to give everything to you. If I am alone and I see a picture that I love, or I read some passage from a book, I think to myself there is no meaning in this unless he knows it too. You are such a part of me that to stand alone leaves me dumb, without speech, without eyes. A tree with hatched branches, like someone with no hands. Life is valueless unless I can share everything with you – beauty, ugliness, pain. There must be no shadows between us, no quiet corners in our hearts.”
Source: The Doll: The Lost Short Stories
“Don't you see that the whole aim of newspeak is to narrow the range of thought?”
Source: 1984
“Don't you see? The catastrophe is me. My very existence is an affront to everything that is natural and good.”
Source: Blood
“Don't you see we're all full of horrible power, working against each other however much we may love?”
Source: The Death Of The Heart
“Don't you see, what stirs me, stirs you too, ...what breaks me, breaks you too?'
'Could this be love?”
“Don’t you see? You and he might never cross paths again. Of course, a chance meeting could occur, and I hope it happens. I really do, for your sake. But realistically speaking, you have to see there’s a huge possibility you’ll never be able to meet him again. And even if you do meet, he might already be married to somebody else. He might have two kids. Isn’t that so? And in that case, you may have to live the rest of your life alone, never being joined with the one person you love in all the world. Don’t you find that scary?”
Source: 1Q84