W Quotes
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“We're not going to make it," I said.
The words caught in my throat, choking me. What was it Leslie had said to me when we were discussing Shannon's and Antoinetta's disappearance? 'You're beginning to sound like one of the characters in your books, Adam.' She'd been right. If this were a novel my heroes would have arrived just in the nick of time and saved the day. But real life didn't work like that. Real life had no happy endings. Despite our best efforts, despite my love for Tara [his wife] and my determination to protect her, and after everything we'd been through at the LeHorn house, fate conspired against us. We were still nine or ten miles from home, and night was almost upon us. By the time we got there it would already be too late. I fought back tears. I had the urge just to lie down in the middle of the road and let the next car run over me.”
Source: Dark Hollow
“We're not going to split the heart of reality: not until the third semester.”
Source: Straw for the Fire: From the Notebooks of Theodore Roethke
“We’re not having sex, are we?”
“No,” Talia confirmed. “Don’t take it the wrong way, you’re by far the nicest insect I’ve ever spent time with, but first contact is one thing. I’m not sure my reputation can take sleeping with the first alien I meet.”
Source: A Quantum Mythology
“We’re not here to argue with you about the wisdom of our alliance that has kept the Persians at bay for forty years. An argument requires a measure of equality between those in the dispute and Samos is not the equal of Athens.”
Source: Pericles and Aspasia: A Story of Ancient Greece
“We're not here to make people like us, we're here to change the world for the better.”
“We're not hunter-gatherers anymore. We're all living like patients in the intensive care unit of a hospital. What keeps us alive isn't bravery, or athleticism, or any of those other skills that were valuable in a caveman society. It's our ability to master complex technological skills. It is our ability to be nerds. We need to breed nerds.”
Source: Seveneves
“We’re not in control. So we learn to pretend. We pretend to be good parents when all we really do is provide our kids with food and clothing and tell them off when they put chewing gum they find on the ground in their mouths.”
Source: Anxious People
“We're not in Fairyland! We're in Kansas!”
Source: Dust Girl
“We're not into music. We're into chaos.”
“We're not invited into relationship with God at a deeper level in the absence of our challenges, but in the midst of all of life, including our challenges. Difficulties provide us a chance for greater closeness.
Every situation in life carries with it an incredible opportunity for sweetness, depth and wonder. Receive every experience today as an opportunity and a gift.”
“We're not mad," he began, meaning he was. He was always a plural when mad, as though grammatically throwing his lot in with her mother gave him the power of her authority.”
Source: Artificial Gods
“We're not making mistakes. We're making experiences.”
“We're not making slides, we design it.”
Source: Amazing Slide Presentation
“We’re not meant to live among them, locked up in their houses, wilting beneath their roofs. You were meant for the stars and open skies. You were meant for freedom.”
Source: Rule of Wolves
“We're not migrating people,' she said. 'We live in our old houses, and eat on our old dishes and use our old silverware everyday. We're close to the past and comfortable with it. We've surrounded our lives with the pictures of all our relatives hanging on the walls, and we grow up hearing stories about them. It gives these things personality beyond just the material they're made of.”
Source: Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War
“We're not moments, Megan, you and me. We're events. You say you might not be the same person you were a year ago? Well, who is? I'm sure not. We change, like swirling clouds around a rising sun.”
Source: Calamity
“We're not paranoid or anything, but you know that Global Mind's databases are the mind of God, technologically speaking. They see the sparrow fall.”
Source: Dronefall
“We're not people," he said. "We're the stories that people tell each other about us. Belters are crazy terrorists. Earthers are lazy gluttons. Martians are cogs in a great big machine."
"Men are fighters," Naomi said, and then, her voice growing bleak. "Women are nurturing and sweet and they stay home with the kids. It's always been like that. We always react to the stories about people, not who they really are.”
Source: Babylon’s Ashes
“We’re not perfect, Rollin. But I think that’s the point, isn’t it? You and I—we’re figuring this out together. And that’s what makes us strong.”
Source: Love Lasts: Contemporary Clean Small Town Romance Moon View Series: Book 3 of 3
“We’re not put on this earth to fuck around. We have to make something of our lives.”
“We're not really conscious of what we're doing most of the time.”
Source: Engleby
“We're not responsible for what our parents do. They're not perfect people."
My sister raised an eyebrow at me. I was walking a fine line, and she wanted to shove me over to the safe side to protect her charmed memories of Momma.
"Well, it's the truth. Parents are prone to failure," I reiterated. "You and I know this better than anyone."
Marvina glared at me. "No one is perfect. Not mothers. Not daughters, either."
"I never claimed to be perfect. I made a mistake."
"No. A mistake is when you act without realizing those actions will have negative consequences as a result. That's different from a lapse in judgement." She didn't mince words. The way she sounded all calm and collected while criticizing me--- classic Momma move.
"Do you get a pass for being young? Naive? Inexperienced?"
Kerresha's spoon clacked against her bowl. "Ummm... Are we talking about me or one of y'all?"
"These are general understandings," Marvina deflected in a soothing manner.
"I call BS," Kerresha said.”
Source: Sisters with a Side of Greens
“We're not responsible, he thought. This planet is a temporary affair. It's whizzing with all kinds of other ones, a whole range of planetary stuff, toward a star in the Milky Way. On that kind of a planet we're not responsible, he thought.”
“We're not something, but we're certainly not nothing, either.”
Source: Royals
“We're not sorry. We don't know how to be. Most of us still believe that the room disappears after we close the door.”
“We’re not talking temporary, Charleigh. You’re mine, from now until eternity.”
Source: Jericho's Claim
“We’re not that fucking little”
Source: They'll Never Catch Us
“We're not that kind of parents, Gideon" my mom says. "We want you to be healthy and happy and mostly just not to die alone.”
Source: Been Here All Along
“We’re not the gods of this Earth. We’ll be the death of it.”
Source: Ink On My Skin!
“We’re not the greatest thing in the universe, certainly not the smartest. Seems logical there’d be a great many things in it we can’t comprehend.”
Source: Waking Gods
“We're not the ones who live, Em. We're the ones who fight alone, so others can live better.”
Source: Allied
“We're not the same. I was alone and sad before you came into my world. You gave me hope, Victor.
I don't need you to be like me. I need you to be YOU.”
Source: In the Lives of Puppets
“We’re not the same. Nothing will ever be the same. I try to say it, but it doesn’t come out. It can’t, because all the hurt needs to be spewed out first. Along with all the shame, hiding, guilt.” (Violetta, Pg. 358)”
Source: Forgive Me Not
“We’re not together anymore. Don’t forget it.
There is a pause before he responds. Hard to forget that. The gaping hole in my chest that was left when u ripped my heart out kind of reminds me every time I breathe.”
Source: One Percenter
“We're not used to having easy joy! So how does your face bring such delight with one look... We're a nation that sees sadness in joy, anxiety in opportunities, and fear in a smile, so that’s why your face worries us…”
“We’re not waiting behind on the sidelines with the other women. We want to be part of the contest,” Orla blurted out.
—"Addison’s Adventure" by Lisa M. Prysock”
Source: Addison's Adventure
“We’re not what people have done to us. We’re not what we’ve done to ourselves. We’re not the past. We’re the future. Not what’s been done. What we’ll do.”
Source: The Summer We Forgot
“We're not words, Henry, we're people.
Words are how others define us, but we can define ourselves any way we choose.”
Source: We Are the Ants
“We're not words...we're people. Words are how others define us, but we can define ourselves any way we choose.”
Source: We Are the Ants
“We’re nothing but monkeys that got lucky…”
Source: Finding Jesus
“We're nothing more than prisoners to your desire.”
Source: The Miniaturist
“We're nothing. We're dust.”
Source: The Fallen Boys
“We’re novel worthy, day walking, blood sucking, tortured souls trapped in a body that can’t die for all eternity with no feelings, no emotions and no heart. - Elaine White, Runaway Girl”
Source: Vampire News: The (not so) End Times Edition!: Volume II: 2
“We’re now living in a timeline where a Muslim is protecting New York City against America's #1 enemy: The American president.”
Source: American Fascism: A German Writer's Urgent Warning To America
“We're obliged to acknowledge the limits of reason; and to acknowledge the necessary reality of the realms to which reason has no access.”
Source: Serpent in the Sky: The High Wisdom of Ancient Egypt
“We're odd. She's odd. She fits right in, does she not?”
Source: The Witch's Heart
“We’re offered opportunities to,” he gave a slight chuckle, “integrate. Refusal is recorded as hostility.”
Source: They: A Sequence of Unease
“We're often asked how frequently a value stream should be improved. The answer is continuously. We understand that's a tall order for many organizations, but continuous improvement is your only way out of a culture of reactive firefighting, which prevents your organization from excelling on all levels.”
Source: Value Stream Mapping: How to Visualize Work and Align Leadership for Organizational Transformation
“We're often silent. We don't yell and we don't complain. We're patient, as always. Because we don't have the words yet. We're afraid to talk about it. We don't know how. It's not an ordinary experience, and the questions it raises are not ordinary. The world has been split in two: there's us, the Chernobylites, and then there's you, the others. Have you noticed? No one here points out that they're Russian or Belarussian or Ukrainian. We all call ourselves Chernobylites. "We're from Chernobyl." "I'm a Chernobylite." As if this is a separate people. A new nation.”
Source: Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster
“We’re old men now, it’s obvious. Most of us are gone and few remain. That's justice anyway: You ate, you lived, you saw good and evil, you suffered what you had to suffer, and you had your children. Then, all at once and before you know it, you're sent on your way. As for you lot though, this is what I'm trying to say: It's better to be ignorant and useful than learned and useless.”
Source: The Tale of Aypi