W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Why did you ask me to live with you? Werewolves hate vampires.”
“I don’t,” said Kyle.” I’m not too fond of their kind, though.” He jabbed a finger at Jace. “They think they’re better than everyone else.”
“No,” said Jace. “I think I’m better than everyone else. An opinion that has been backed up with ample evidence.”
Kyle looked at Simon. “Does he always talk like this?”
“Yes.”
Source: City of Fallen Angels
“Why did you betray your own heart, ...?”
Source: Wuthering Heights
“Why did you bother coming here at all?"
"For my work. That's my profession. Writing about important things that are happening in the world."
"I'm curious to know what exactly you wrote about Gulu. What important thing has been happening here in our town?"
"Do you think what I do is of no significance?"
She gestured impatiently. "Others have come here too, asked the children questions and then gone away, and at least it was all cut-and-dried. But you came back. I thought it was going to be different. What did you come back for? ... You barged into our lives, and now you've got cold feet. What are you afraid of? You got too close to us, right?”
“Why did you choose to save me?”
“I could not let you die.” He placed the plate and glass on the kitchen counter.
“But you have let goodness knows how many people die. Why me?”
“You made me...” He leaned against the counter and looked at her. “You made me…feel.”
Source: The Collector
“Why did you choose to stay here?" (...) "I don't know," he said. "It's as if there's more oxygen here.”
Source: The Solitude of Prime Numbers
“Why did you?” Clary asked.
“Why did I what?”
“Help me back there.”
“You’re my sister.”
She swallowed. In the morning light, Sebastian’s face had some color in it. There were faint burns along his neck where demon ichor had splashed him.
“You never cared that I was your sister before.”
“Didn’t I?” His black eyes flicked up and down her. “Our father’s dead,” he said. “There are no other relatives. You and I, we are the last. The last of the Morgensterns. You are the only one left whose blood runs in my veins, too. You are my last chance.”
Source: City of Lost Souls
“Why did you come back?” I asked.
“I wanted to see if you’d dance again.”
“How did you know I’d be alone?”
“I don’t give a fuck if you’re alone,” he said. “Just as long as I have you to myself.”
Source: Kill Switch
“Why did you come back?" she asked weakly.
He stared directly into her eyes. "You know why."
Before Catherine could stop herself, her gaze dropped to the fine contours of his mouth.
"Cat... we have to talk about what happened."
"I don't know what you mean."
He inclined his head slightly. "Would you like me to remind you?"
"No, no..." She shook her head for emphasis. "No."
His lips twitched. ""One 'no' is enough, darling."
Darling?
Filled with anxiety, Catherine fought to keep her voice steady. "I thought I made it clear that I wanted to ignore what happened."
"And you expect that will make it go away?"
"Yes, that's what one does with mistakes," she said with difficulty. "One sets them aside and moves on."
"Really?" Leo asked innocently. "My mistakes are usually so enjoyable that I tend to repeat them."
Catherine wondered what was wrong with her that she was tempted to smile. "This one will not be repeated."
"Ah, there's the governess voice. All stern and disapproving. It makes me feel like a naughty schoolboy.”
Source: Married by Morning
“Why did you come?” Gaia asked, passing over his shirt.
“I wanted to see you,” he said.
“That’s all? No problem with the crims or anything?”
It seemed like so long ago that he’d left the crims to come into the village to find her. He fingered his shirt, which was all but dry. “No. Just you.”
“You’re awfully untalkative for a guy who came all this way to see me,” she said. He glanced up again, seeing the concern in her eyes when she smiled at him. His loneliness began to thaw.
“You were amazing in there, you know,” he said.
She shook her head, turning his hat in her hands. “I hope I didn’t boss you around too much. I can get a little single-minded.”
“Hardly at all. ‘Take yer boots off and git yerself in here,’” he drawled.”
Source: Ruled
“Why did you come here? To find you.”
“Why did you come if not to murder my king?" "I came to steal his magus." "You can't," said the magus in question. "I can steal anything," Eugenides corrected him, "even with one hand.”
“Why did you come out when you knew how your family would react?” I murmured, wrapping my arms around his waist. I brushed my lips the length of Lock’s neck.
“Because I didn’t want to hide. I hated acting like I was someone I wasn’t.”
“I never did thank you for that sub.”
Lock laughed. “Adan, you’ve thanked me a hundred times over.”
“I don’t recall.”
“Every time we’re together, or when you kiss me, it’s a constant reminder of how we met, and I wouldn’t exchange that for anything.”
Source: Seduction Squad
“Why did you come to my door?”
She wet her lips and whispered, “I promised my friend at work that tonight would be a night of yes.”
Her final word carried a breathiness that had his blood rushing to his groin. His voice dropped to a raw growl more than a whisper. “What if I asked if I could kiss you?”
Her eyes searched his as she whispered, “Yes.”
Source: Pirate's Passion
“Why did you come to the frontier? [...] To track down a common thief? To revel in a moment's revenge? I thought there was more to you than that."
Still Glass said nothing. Finally Kiowa said, "If you want to die in the guardhouse, that's for you to decide.”
Source: The Revenant
“Why did you destroy Manny's office, then?" "I--can't breathe--" "That is the point of choking you," I pointed out. "Haste, please, if you want to live." -Cassiel”
“Why did you do all this for me?' he asked. 'I don't deserve it. I've never done anything for you.' 'You have been my friend,' replied Charlotte. 'That in itself is a tremendous thing.”
Source: In the Words of E.B. White: Quotations from America's Most Companionable of Writers
“why did you do it? i search and search and i search, and i can't understand it, Willy. I made the last payment on the house today. Today, dear. And there'll be nobody home. we're free and clear. we're free. we're free... We're free...”
Source: Death of a Salesman
“Why did you do it?" I say. "You want me dead. You were willing to do it yourself! What changed?" He presses his lips together and doesn't look away, not for a long time. Then he opens his mouth, hesitates, and finally says, " I can't be in anyone's debt. Okay? The idea that I owed you something made me sick. I would wake up in the middle of the night feeling like I was going to vomit. Indebted to a stiff? It's ridiculous. Absolutely ridiculous. And I couldn't have it.”
“Why did you do that?' I cry, my fingers searching for purchase on his leathers to pull him closer. I settle for the back of his collar and yank. 'Why would you risk it?' Gods, if anything happened to them...
His gaze collides with mine. 'That thing was going to take a chunk out of Tairn. You've saved my life and now it's my turn. No matter what you think of me for keeping secrets, we're friends, Violet.”
Source: Fourth Wing
“Why did you do that?" she asked, weakly, but, hey, the fact that she could talk at all was a minor miracle.
"You needed to be kissed."
For some reason, the tone of masculine satisfaction in his voice needled her. "I needed it? Really?"
"Fine, I needed it.”
Source: Flash Fire
“Why did you do this? You could lose your job or worse.”
“I wanted to spend some time alone with you. Tomorrow, you might be leaving for good.” He leaned down and pressed his lips to hers. Reluctantly, he pulled away. “You’re worth the risk.”
“Why did you even try? Do you think you actually mean something to it?"
"I don't know," Alan snapped. "How could I know? That's not the point. He means something to me.”
Source: The Demon's Lexicon
“Why did you fight as you did? Why did you risk death so often? Did you do it for the good of the country?
..The war wasn't for the good of the country. It was for the benefit of private mercantile interests, fueled by by the conceit of politicians.
You fought for the glory and medals then?
Hardly.
Then why?
...Everything I did was for my men. For the noncommissioned ones who had joined the army to avoid starvation or the workhouse. And for the junior officers who were experienced and long-serving but hadn't the means to buy a commission. I had the command only because I had money to purchase it, not for reason of merit. Absurd. And the men in my company, the poor bastards, were supposed to follow me , whether I proved to be incompetent, an imbecile or a coward. They had no choice but to depend on me. And therefore I had no choice but to try and be the leader they needed. I needed to keep them alive... I failed far too often. And now I would love for someone to tell me how to live with their deaths on my conscience.”
Source: Love in the Afternoon
“Why did you go through with it?" she heard him ask quietly.
"I thought it best for Michael." She felt a twinge of satisfaction as she saw how that had annoyed him.
Harry half sat on the bed, his posture informal. His gaze didn't stray from her. "Had there been a choice, I would have done all this the ordinary way. I would have courted you openly, won you fairly. But you'd already decided on Bayning. This was the only alternative."
"No, it wasn't. You could have let me be with Michael."
"It's doubtful he ever would have offered for you. He deceived you, and himself, by assuming he could persuade his father to accept the match. You should have seen the old man when I showed him the letter- he was mortally offended by the notion of his son taking a wife so far beneath him."
That hurt, as perhaps Harry had intended, and Poppy stiffened.”
Source: Tempt Me at Twilight
“Why did you go to her?
Because with her he was human again.”
Source: Rule of Wolves
“Why did you go to her?"
Because with her he was human again. How had she bested him? Sheer stubbornness. Something more. He's known a name for it once, a hundred lifetimes ago.”
Source: Rule of Wolves
“Why did you go to the Red Pearl, Poppy? Why did you let me kiss you under the willow?'
I opened my mouth, but his lips brushed the curve of my cheek, stealing my words.
'You were there to live. Isn't that what you said? You let me pull you into that empty chamber to experience life. You let me kiss you under the willow because you wanted to feel. There's nothing wrong with that. Nothing at all.' His lips coasted back up my cheek, sending a fine shiver over my skin. 'Why can't tonight be that?”
Source: From Blood and Ash
“Why did you guys not tell me that anger management is not about pissing off the office management?”
“Why did you have to change?”
“I wonder why…”
Source: Tokyo Ghoul
“Why did you have to die?"
"I couldn't help it,”
Source: Kafka on the Shore
“Why did you have to prove a thing like that, Miss Emily? Did someone think we didn’t have souls?” (Ch.22 p.201)”
Source: Never Let Me Go
“Why did you help me?” I hissed when I neared him. “I still won’t kiss you, you know.”
“I know no such thing,” Bensiabel whispered back. “You’ll have plenty of opportunity to rethink it, in the coming days. Believe me.”
Source: Thief, Witch, And Liar
“Why did you hit him? (Grace) Because it gave me a great deal of pleasure. (Julian) Nice. You haven’t seen me in what, two thousand years? So, instead of a friendly, brotherly hug, I get slugged. (Eros)”
“Why did you laugh right before you lost consciousness.”
“Death’s an adventure. I lived big. Rigor mortis makes your face stick. So, who knew how to thaw me?”
“Death’s an insult.”
“At least an affront,” I agree.”
Source: Iced
“Why did you leave all the others?
he asked me.
They weren’t soft enough.
—redefining masculinity”
Source: The Moon and Her Sisters
“WHY DID YOU LEAVE ME ALL ALONE..! I'm lovely.. I don't want to be alone. Mom... I... I wanted you to choose me... I WANTED YOU TO LIVE FOR ME!" "Even if it meant letting your aunt die?" "EVEN IF IT MEANT LETTING HER DIE!”
Source: 東京喰種トーキョーグール 7 [Tokyo Guru 7]
“Why did you leave me?How could you do that to me?That note you left didn`t explain,didn`t tell me anything,just said you were going and not coming back and not to look for you.Not look for you!How could you think i wouldn`t?Did you really believe I´d let you go like that?You must have known i would go crazy,wondering where you were,what was happening to you...you must have known what you had done to me,vanishing like that."
-Domenico Alessandros”
Source: Dark Fate
“Why did you leave my hand? I’ve never felt so good, she thought. I felt good too, he thought.”
Source: Undying Affinity
“Why did you leave? (Aiden) I took care of the person harassing him. Threat gone. Job eliminated. Anything else you want to know? Dental records, fingerprints? Retinal scan? (Leta) Urine sample would work. (Aiden) What cup you want me to use? (Leta) Does anything faze you? (Aiden) I fight people for a living. Do you honestly think peeing in a cup is going to frighten me? (Leta)”
“Why did you lie?'
'I wasn't lying. I asked you what your cat's name was. I never said I didn't know what your cat's name was. Do you understand the difference? I just wanted you to say his name, so that you would feel something.”
Source: The Midnight Library
“Why did you look at the sunset?' Philip answered with his mouth full: Because I was happy.”
Source: Of Human Bondage (人性枷鎖)
“Why did you make it so hard for me? I'd rather empty the ocean with a sieve. I do it for you. Or count the grains of sand on every beach. All for you. There are so many people, so many countries. But I have time. All the time in the world. Eternity.”
“Why did you make me?' I asked her, before she could speak. I felt like a convict standing on a gallows with a noose around my neck, asking about the nature of God. 'Why like this? Can I really end my story? Were you ever going to let me go?'
'Let you go?' Her voice was honey on razor blades. 'Go to /what/? This is your purpose-- the start of your story. This is what you were made to do.'
'So you lied. I can't really change anything.'
She smiled at me, a tender smile that sent fear jackrabbiting through my blood. 'You wouldn't want to... can't you see that yet? The Stories are perfect. The Stories are /worlds/. I made a whole world just for you, and in it you get to do what no one else gets to: you get to live, and live, and live. And everything will come out the way it's meant to be, no matter what. I made it that way.'
'But how is that living?' I whispered.”
Source: The Hazel Wood
“Why did you marry Dad, Mom?"
My mother sniffled through her nose, looked at me, then smiled.
"I wanted something more and he was it. We both had big dreams."
"That must have taken a lot of courage," I said. "To marry Dad. He was so different from you."
"It was hardly courageous. It was just the only thing to do. We were in love.”
Source: Sources of Light
“Why did you not forget your heart also? I should never have let you have that back." ...”
Source: Swann’s Way
“Why did you push her ?' Rosa screams again. I realise she's pointing at me.”
Source: My Sister Rosa
“Why did you save me?”
The Death Dealer's reply was a murmur, barely audible, “Because this world is flawed,” he confessed, his words imbued with a deep-seated belief in the potential for change. The air around them seemed to quiver, charged with a sense of purpose so potent it was as if the Kosmos—and perhaps even the Gods themselves—were listening. “Maybe you have a part to play in making this world a better place.”
“Why did you say you believed me ?" In profile, he could see both the young woman she was becoming and the little girl he remembered. "Because I trust you.”
Source: The Last Song: Student edition
“Why did you stay?"
He stilled; again, Patience felt the net draw tight, felt paralysis set in as his predator's senses focused on her. It was as if the world stopped spinning, as if some impenetrable shield closed about them, so that there was nothing but her and him- and whatever it was that held them.
She searched his eyes, but couldn't read his thoughts beyond the fact that he was considering her, considering what to tell her. Then he lifted one hand. Patience caught her breath as he slid one finger beneath her chin; the sensitive skin came alive to his touch. He tipped her face up so that her eyes locked on his.
He studied her, her eyes, her face, for one instant longer. "I stayed to help Minnie, to help Gerrard... and to get something I want."
He uttered the words clearly, deliberately, without any affectation. His heavy lids lifted. Patience read the truth in his eyes. The force that held them beat in on her senses. A conquerer watched her through cool grey eyes.”
Source: A Rake's Vow
“Why did you take me down this road if you don't want to walk with me? Why do you exist all alone, when you could just talk to me?”