W Quotes
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“What did you tell him?"
"The truth: that you're spending your days cloistered away and that you only emerge for sleep and sustenance."
Jack seizes her arm and nibbles the crook of her elbow. "I suppose that makes you sustenance, does it?”
Source: The Peacock Summer
“What did you tell me, Jesse? Sure Jake, Stephanie will do exactly what you tell her. Sure Jake, protecting her will be a piece of cake. “
Snorting in disbelief, he added, “Being at war is safer compared to this shit, and it’s a hell of a lot easier than looking after your girlfriend.”
Source: Nowhere to Run
“What did you tell the queen?"
"I told Inisha about you."
"What, exactly?"
He hesitated. "I'm afraid to say."
"I want you to."
"You might leave."
"I won't."
He stayed silent.
She said, "I give you my word."
"I told her that I belong to you, and no other. I said that I was sorry.”
Source: The Winner's Kiss
“What did you think?"
I blurted, "That when you wanted something, you wouldn't rest until you got it."
"Only when we are talking about women, dear Nirrim.”
Source: The Midnight Lie
“What did you think of Beatrix the first time you saw her?"
Agatha stared at the candy plum in her teacher's hand.
"Agatha?"
"I don't know. She was beautiful, " Agatha groused, remembering their fart-filled introduction.
"And now?"
"She's revolting."
"Has she gotten less pretty?"
"No, but-"
"So is she beautiful or not?"
"Yes, at first sight-"
"So beauty only lasts a glance?"
"Not if you're a good person-"
"So it's being good that matters? I thought you said it was looks. "
Agatha opened her mouth. Nothing came out.
"Beauty can only fight truth for so long, Agatha. You and Beatrix share more in common than you think.”
Source: The School for Good and Evil
“What did you think the answer would be, Elisabeth? I toy with you because I can. Because it gives me great pleasure. Because I was bored."
An inarticulate scream of rage strangled me. I wanted to destroy something, to spend my anger against the unfairness of everything. I wanted nothing more than to grapple with the Goblin King, to tear him limb to limb, a Maenad against Orpheus. I tightened my hands into fists.
"Yes," he murmured. "Go ahead. Hit me. Strike me." The invitation was not just in his words, but his voice. He advanced. "Use your rage against me."
We stared at each other, scarcely half a breath between us. This close, I could see that his gray eye was flecked with silver and blue, his green one ringed with amber and gold. Those eyes mocked me, inviting and inciting me into a passion. If I were a smoldering ember, he was the poker, stirring me into flames.
I retreated. I was afraid. Afraid to touch him for fear of starting a fire within me.
"What," I asked tightly, "do you want from me, mein Herr?"
"I already told you what I want," he said. "You, entire."
We did not relinquish each other's gaze. Let go, his eyes seemed to say. But I couldn't; if I surrendered to my fury, I wasn't certain what else I would give up.
"Why?" My voice was hoarse.
"Why what, Elisabeth?"
"Why me?" My words were barely audible, but the Goblin King heard them. He had always heard me.
"Why you?" Those sharp, pointed teeth glistened. "Who else but you?" Even his words were sharp, each slicing through me like a knife. "You, who have always been my playmate?”
Source: Wintersong
“what did you think would happen—best case? She’ll forget about you when you return to Caliban, you know that. Or do you think she won’t wish, that you can stay here with her? That for the rest of her life, she’ll put you above getting whatever she wishes for? Even better—that for the rest of her life, she won’t slip up and say something like ‘I wish it would stop raining’? You can’t win this. In the end, you’ll be in Caliban. She’ll forget you. And whatever ‘friendship’ you think you have will be gone. Relationships are not for immortals. A bird and a fish may long for each other, but where could they live?”
Source: As You Wish
“What did you think, that joy / was some slight thing?”
“What did you try hard at today?”
Source: Mindset: The New Psychology of Success
“What did you want to be when you grew up?' I ask, just to keep the conversation going.
'Alive.' He shrugs.
Well, that's... something.”
Source: Fourth Wing
“What did you work at?” Colum asked, shifting a bit on the bench to look more directly at me.
“I was in service,” I said quietly, more quietly than I intended. I wondered if maybe the answer had gotten lost in the rumble of the engines. It didn’t.
“Honest work,” Colum said. I knew that that was what people say about work they consider beneath them. Hauling and scrubbing and digging are “honest work.” Grubbing and mucking? “Honest work.” Tell someone you’re a doctor or a mill owner, and they never say “honest work.”
Source: Clare
“What did you write on here? ‘Don’t die’?” “No, I wrote, ‘Don’t be an asshole!’”I headed for the house. “On yours or mine?” “On yours.” “Well, in that case, your magic isn’t working. I’m still an asshole.”
Source: Magic Dreams: A Penguin Special from Ace
“What did your husband do to make you leave him?”
“He breathed.”
Source: Lady Be Good: The Life and Times of Dorothy Hale
“What did your mom say?"
"She said I better not be pregnant."
Janie snorts. "What the hell is wrong with our parents, anyway? Wait -- you're not, are you?"
"Of course not! Sheesh, Janers! I may not have gotten the best grades in school, but I'm not stupid. You know I'm on the Pill. And his Jimmy doesn't get near me without a raincoat, yadamean? Ain't nothin' getting through my little fortress!”
Source: Gone
“What did your mother used to say about the potter's wheel?"
Sazana closed her eyes. "When you sit at the wheel, tuck your elbow against your thigh. That's the anchor that will keep your arm from quivering."
Arta joined his voice to hers, and together they finished her mother's oft-repeated advice. "But anchor your heart to God, and he will keep you from being shaken.”
Source: The Royal Artisan
“What difference, being a pawn for the Light or a pawn for the Dark?"
There was a short silence.
"There is a great difference," said Cadvan softly. "One difference is that for the Dark, certainly you are a pawn. For the Light, you are a free human being, free to make mistakes, to do wrong, even. You are free to choose, whether or not you believe it."
"Funny idea of freedom."
"It is the difference between committment and slavery," Cadvan said. "Between working for what you hope for and believe in the depths of your heart, and what someone else forces you to do.”
Source: The Naming
“What difference do it make if the thing you scared of is real or not?”
Source: Sula
“What difference does a New Year make but for the change of the calendar”
Source: Benign Flame: Saga of Love
“What difference does a New Year make for me but for the change of the calendar?’ said Roopa gravely.”
“What difference does it make after all?--anonymity in the world of men is better than fame in heaven, for what’s heaven? what’s earth? All in the mind.”
Source: On the Road
“What difference does it make how much there is laid away in a man's safe or in his barns, how many head of stock he grazes or how much capital he puts out at interest, if he is always after what is another's and only counts what he has yet to get, never what he has already. You ask what is the proper limit to a person's wealth? First, having what is essential, and second, having what is enough.”
“What difference does it make how much you have? What you do not have amounts to much more.”
“What difference does it make if the bread and wine turn into the Body and Blood of Christ and we don't?”
“What difference does it make if the Gospel is mostly a lie? It's an engrossing story and the words of its hero are excellent words to live by, even today.”
“What difference does it make if you live in a picturesque little outhouse surrounded by 300 feeble minded goats and your faithful dog? The question is: Can you write?”
Source: Ernest Hemingway Selected Letters 1917-1961
“What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or in the holy name of liberty or democracy?”
“What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?”
“What difference does it make to you what someone else becomes, or says, or does? You do not need to answer for others, only for yourself.”
“What difference does it make whether the women rule or the rulers are ruled by the women?”
Source: Politics
“What difference does it make whether you slay him or Horus slays him? He will be just as dead either way."
Wakim pauses, apparently considering the matter, as if for the first time.
"This thing is my mission, not his." he says at length.
"He will be just as dead, either way," Vramin repeats.
"But not by my hand."
"True. But I fail to see the distinction."
"So do I, for that matter. But it is I who have been charged with the task."
"Perhaps Horus has also."
"But not by my master."
"Why should you have a master, Wakim? Why are you not your own man?"
Wakim rubs his forehead.
"I—do not—really know…. But I must do as I am told.”
Source: Creatures of Light and Darkness
“What difference does it make whether you're looking at a photograph or looking at a still life in front of you? You still have to look.”
“What difference does it make whether your work is appreciated or not? The work will still be yours. Anyway, most of us are only appreciated after we are dead.”
Source: Gist of Art: Principles and Practice Expounded in the Classroom and Studio
“What difference does it make which road you follow as you seek the truth? Such a great secret is not to be reached by a single path.”
“What difference does it make which toad you follow as you seek the truth? Such a great secret is not to be reached by a single path.”
“What difference does it make, after all, what your position in life is if you dislike it yourself?”
“What difference does it make?”
“What difference does it really make?”
“What difference does the uniform make? You don't hit with it.”
“What difference is there between us, save a restless dream that follows my soul but fears to come near you?”
“What difference is there in the color of the soul?”
Source: Slave Narratives Compilation: Twelve Years A Slave, My Bondage and My Freedom, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, Narrative of Sojourner Truth: A Northern Slave
“What difference is there, do you think, between those in Plato's cave who can only marvel at the shadows and images of various objects, provided they are content and don't know what they miss, and the philosopher who has emerged from the cave and sees the real things?”
Source: Literary and Educational Writings: Panegyricus and Philippum Austriaeducem. Moriae encomium. Dialogus Julius exclusus e coelis. Institutio principis christiani. Querela pacis
“What difference would a clear vision of my principles, values, and ultimate objectives make in the way I spend my time?”
Source: The Stephen R. Covey Interactive Reader - 4 Books in 1: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, First Things First, and the Best of the Most Renowned Leadership Teacher of our Time
“What difference, at this point, does it make?”
Source: Hard Choices
“What difference, being a pawn for the Light or a pawn for the Dark?" "There is a great difference. One difference is that for the Dark, certainly, you are a pawn. For the Light, you are a free human being, free to make mistakes, to do wrong, even. You are free to choose, whether or not you believe it.”
“What difference, if you are mistaken? For if I am mistaken, I am. For he who is not, assuredly cannot be mistaken; and therefore I am, if I am mistaken. Therefore because I am if I am mistaken, how am I mistaken that I am, when it is sure that I am, if I am mistaken.”
“What differences were there between Maradona and Platini?”
“What differentiated us was our perception of our mutual reality, which made no difference.”
Source: Where Pain Thrives
“What differentiates human from lower-animal consciousness is time. You can't explain the concept of "tomorrow" to your dog. Our consciousness is dominated by time - We're constantly running simulations of the future. Our brain is a prediction machine. The hallmark of intelligence, indeed of genius, is the number and complexity of the feedback loops we use in predicting the future.”
“What differentiates humans from all other creatures is the deep and unquenching desire to be appreciated.”
“What differentiates the success stories from the failures is that the successful entrepreneurs had the foresight, the ability, and the tools to discover which parts of their plans were working brilliantly and which were misguided, and adapt their strategies accordingly.”