W Quotes
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“We've been working for barely two weeks, Nesta. Physically, you might be seeing changes, but what's happening in your mind, your heart, will take far longer than that. Fuck, it took Feyre months-'
'I don't want to hear about Feyre and her special journey. I don't want to hear about Rhy's journey, or Morrigan's, or anyone's.'
'Why?'
The words, the rage, built again. She refused to speak, instead focusing on tamping down that power inside her until it didn't so much as murmur.
'Why?' he pushed.
'Because I don't,' she snapped. 'Put those bat wings away.'
Cassian obeyed, but stepped closer, towering over her. 'Then I'll tell you about my special journey, Nes.' His tone was icy in a way she'd never heard.
'No.'
'I slaughtered every person who hurt my mother.'
She blinked up at him, the weight in her vanishing at the vicious words.
Cassian's face held only ancient rage. 'When I was old and strong enough, I went back to the village where I was born, where I'd been ripped from her arms, and I learned that she was dead. And there was no one I could fight to change that. They refused to tell me where they'd buried her. One of the females hinted that they'd dumped her off the cliff.'
Horror and something like pain went through her.
His eyes flared with cold light. 'So I destroyed them. Anyone who wasn't responsible- children and some females and the elderly- I let them leave. But anyone who had played a role in her suffering... I made them suffer in return. Rhys and Azriel helped me. Found the piece of shit who'd sired me. I let my brother tear him apart before I finished him.'
The words hung between them.
He said with soft fury, 'It took me ten years before I was able to face it. What I'd done to those people, and what I'd lost. Ten years.' He was trembling, but not with fear. 'So if you want to take ten years to face whatever is eating you alive from the inside out, go ahead. You want to take twenty years, go ahead.”
Source: A Court of Silver Flames
“We've been working out of our tin can for half a decade. Nobody suggests moving into a brick-and-mortar office; nobody wants to peer through glass windows, in a building with a foundation, and admit that the insomnia emergency is now a permanent condition.”
Source: Sleep Donation
“We've both changed. We're tired of having the world push us into places we don't want to be. We're both scared of losing love that maybe we never had to being with. We can have whatever we want in our lives. It's only a matter of deciding. But we don't have to do it alone. We have each other.”
“We've both got a million bad habits to kick, not sleeping is one.
We're biting our nails, you're biting my lip, I'm biting my tongue.”
Source: Lorde - Pure Heroine Songbook: Piano/Vocal/Guitar
“We’ve braved its ghosts often together, and dared each other to stand among the graves and ask them to come. But, Heathcliff, if I dare you now, will you venture? If you do, I’ll keep you. I’ll not lie there by myself: they may bury me twelve feet deep, and throw the church down over me, but I won’t rest till you are with me. I never will!”
Source: Wuthering Heights
“We’ve called terminal what heaven calls temporary. We’ve settled for symptom management when Jesus offers resurrection.”
Source: Healed to Heal
“We’ve carried our picket signs in demonstrations, preached hellfire and brimstone on the corner of every major city in America, and boycotted major corporations in the name of God. We’ve ignored the simple truth of honor that literally transformed entire kingdoms in the days of Daniel and Joseph. Because Daniel and Joseph demonstrated honor to the pagan kings they served, both Pharaoh and Nebuchadnezzar eventually acknowledged the hand of God on their lives.”
Source: The Supernatural Ways of Royalty: Discovering Your Rights and Privileges of Being a Son or Daughter of God
“We've carried too far
every broken heart.”
Source: Profound Reverie
“We’ve chased the dawn, Anastasia, now the dusk.”
Source: Fifty Shades Darker
“We've come a long way from the time when the crowning achievement in a woman's life was her youthful marriage. And many would agree that this represents progress for women. But when did the search for someone to marry become self-absorbed and pathetic? This absence of social sympathy for women's ambitions to marry is all the more striking because the social world has cared so deeply about virtually every other aspect of these privileged young women's inner and outer lives. (...) The achievement of a good marriage is the one area of life where the most privileged, accomplished, and high achieving young women in society face a loss of support and sympathy for their ambitions and where the social expectations are for disappointment and failure, not success.”
Source: Why There Are No Good Men Left: The Romantic Plight of the New Single Woman
“We've come to understand that all land not explicitly designated for public use is privately owned, regardless of whether it's put to use or not. The next time you pass by a property that's only minimally used but nonetheless owned, consider how harmless it seems. You might even think that the private ownership may have preserved a little piece of nature from human contact... However, this perspective only arises because of the scarcity we have collectively created; such a situation would not occur if we only used as much land as we actually needed. If our exclusive use of land came with an ongoing responsibility to our local community, nature would no longer be exploited: Most people would tend to use no more land than absolutely necessary,”
Source: Land: A New Paradigm for a Thriving World
“We've come to use the word "evolution" as though it were a resolutely positive thing, but all it means is that the species best-adapted for a particular environment survive, and the others die out.”
Source: Butter
“We’ve covered ourselves with everything we own, plus a snow blanket on top. It does provide warmth. The snow is everywhere - our pillows, our hair. You stick your head out, take a deal breath, slip under the covers again and breathe out. Feels warm. The snow on your hair melts, then turns to ice. A winter hat. Silence. Darkness... The only thing visible is the snow.”
Source: Shadows on the Tundra
“We've created lives where we can watch other people crash into the wall but still hope that somehow we're going to pass straight through it. The closer we get, more confidently we believe that some unlikely solution is miraculously going to save us, while everyone watching us is just waiting for the crash.”
Source: Anxious People
“We've decided that your birthday present will be a car", said Marion.
Danny was touched. "But the thing I can't figure out is, why would I need a new car?"
"You can't very well gate a girl to the movies, Danny," Leslie replied.
"I think you're overlooking the biggest point here," said Danny. "I don't need a CAR so I can date. I need a GIRL.”
Source: The Lost Gate
“We've decided to wake a miss for you because you are nice. We want a booby as roomful as ours."
Everybody had seen the Hobgoblin laugh, but nobody believed he could smile. He was so happy that you could see it all over him -- from his hat to his boots! Without a word he waved his cloak over the grass -- and behold! Once more the garden was filled with a pink light and there on the grass before them lay a twin to the King's Ruby -- the Queen's Ruby.”
Source: Finn Family Moomintroll
“We've done a good job of ruining our own lives," I said. "We should branch out and ruin someone else's.*”
Source: Cold Water
“We've done the grilled tomato and peach pizza at Le Papillon Sauvage. We've served the beet and peach soup. And the peach and cucumber salsa over the chicken. The tarts. The cobblers. The homemade ice cream. I don't know. I'm tapped out for ideas."
Phillipa rolled a peach on a cutting board, massaging it. "Pork," she said. "Peaches and pork would taste amazing together. Or pan-seared foie gras? What do you think?"
"If you can come up with something interesting, I'm all for it."
"Me?" she asked. "But you're the chef. And I want to be inspired by you."
"That makes two of us," I said.
"You're doing amazing things." Phillipa halved a peach, cut into it, and then handed over a slice. "Eat this, savor it. Find your inspiration!" she said, and as I bit into it, I tried, able to focus only on the texture.
As the juices from the slice ran across my tongue and down my throat, the sensation transported me to my childhood, to the teachings of my grand-mère in this kitchen, and her recipe for a peach crumble. The way she taught me to knead the flour, butter, and sugar into flaky crumbs, working her gentle hands with mine. I could almost feel her next to me, smell her cinnamon and nutmeg scent.”
Source: Sophie Valroux's Paris Stars
“We've eaten, but he looks hungry, and experience tells me that crazy takes a lot of calories to sustain.”
Source: The Paradox of Vertical Flight
“We’ve entered dangerous territory. You can’t kiss someone with so much emotion if you’re preparing to walk away. Alarms ring through my head, too loud and too obvious to be ignored. There are way too many complex emotions being passed between us. I already know he’s going to shatter my heart.”
Source: Adam's List
“We've evolved from the jungle, violence is in our DNA. That's not up for debate, it's a biological fact. Question is, will we continue to pass on the parasitic traits of the past, in the name of heritage and loyalty, or will we choose the path that deviates from the coward's quo of jungle tribalism into the sunlit valley of valiant peace!”
Source: Neurosonnets: The Naskar Art of Neuroscience
“We’ve evolved to be private, so that people see the best sides of us. No one posts their worse selfies, for everyone’s idea of who you are, is actually only what they’ve seen of you.”
Source: sciVive
“We've failed in our ultimate sacrament. Our shame is for ourselves. Our disgust is for each other.
The survivors who still wear church costume do it to brag about their pain. Sackcloth and ashes.
They couldn't save themselves. They were weak. The rules are all gone, and it doesn't matter.
We're all going overnight express delivery straight to Hell".”
Source: Survivor
“We’ve flipped through all 6,000 pages of government-speak so you don’t have to. All killer, no filler.”
Source: Red Raven Part 107 Guidebook: A Complete Study Guide for the FAA Part 107 Remote Pilot Certification
“We've forgot the melodic chirping of birds; all we see like a coordinated act, ' mats' rolling in and out daily, daily, daily, that turns the streets into a canvas of 'mats”
“We’ve given up on rehabilitation, education, and services for the imprisoned because providing assistance to the incarcerated is apparently too kind and compassionate. We've institutionalized policies that reduce people to their worst acts and permanently label them "criminal," "murderer," "rapist," "thief," "drug dealer," "sex offender," "felon," - identities they cannot change regardless of the circumstances of their crimes or any improvements they might make in their lives.”
Source: Just Mercy
“We’ve gone from a planet ruled by natural geography to political geography to kinetically functional geography to a cyber geography that is ruled by ideological variation rather than politically constructed boarders.”
“We've got a bond in common, you and I. We are both alone in the world.”
Source: Rebecca
“We've got a form of brainwashing going on in our country," Morrie sighed. "Do you know how they brainwash people? They repeat something over and over. And that's what we do in this country. Owning tings is good. More money is good. More property is good. More commercialism is good. More is good. More is good. We repeat it-and have it repeated to us-over and over until nobody bothers to even think otherwise. The average person is to fogged up by all this, he has no perspective on what's really important anymore.”
Source: Tuesdays With Morrie: An old man, a young man, and life's greatest lesson
“We've got a war about to be unleashed here-one that I'm going to die for. One where you and I are an impossibility. So I don't get to tell you that I love you. And you don't get to look at me like that.” - Daniel”
Source: Sovereign Hope
“We've got an unbeatable team."- Sauron”
Source: Myth Directions
“We've got enough going on in our lives today without stressing about things that might or might not happen tomorrow”
Source: A Gallery of Scrapbook Creations
“We've got exactly what we need to fulfill our destiny!”
Source: Stardust Family - We Are One!
“We've got exactly what we need to fulfill our destiny! The universe has designed us on purpose to who we are! We are God's MASTERPIECE! We are the most BEAUTIFUL thing in this universe!”
Source: Stardust Family - We Are One!
“We've got facts," they say. But facts aren't everything; at least half the battle consists in how one makes use of them!”
Source: Crime and Punishment
“We've got one another's back.”
“We've got so much in this life that all we know how to do is want more. So we concentrate on the wrong things--things we can see--as being the measure of a person. We think if we win something big or buy something snazzy it'll make us more than we are. Our hearts know that's not true, but the eyes are powerful. It's easier to fix on what we can see than listen to the still, small voice of a whispering heart.”
Source: Squashed
“We've got something about ourselves we wish we could change, and we never knew that none is perfect.”
“We've got this idea that there are only two options in grief: you're either going to be stuck in your pain, doomed to spend the rest of your life rocking in a corner in your basement wearing sackcloth, or you're going to triumph over grief, be transformed, and come back even better than you were before.
Just two options. On, off. Eternally broken or completely healed.
It doesn't seem to matter that nothing else in life is like that. Somehow when it comes to grief, the entire breadth of human experience goes out the window.”
Source: It's OK That You're Not OK
“We've got this weird dysgenic situation where we're basically just paying idiots to breed and taxing intelligent people to stay away from each other with anything remotely resembling fertility.”
“We've got to do better, I thought. This story of injustice had continued on far too long. It's time for the misinformation and stigmatization surrounding ME/CFS to stop. Our leaders need to step up to the plate, acknowledge past mistakes, and fix them. All the evidence is there in black and white. More research funding to find a cure would prevent so much unnecessary suffering and save lives.”
Source: The Puzzle Solver: A Scientist's Desperate Quest to Cure the Illness that Stole His Son
“We’ve got to get her out of that goddamned art school. Besides, that money could be put to much better use. I want to redecorate.”
Source: TREE OF LIVES: My rocky path out of the Wildwoods
“We've got to get on the same page before we can turn it. We've tried a do-it-yourself approach to writing the racial narrative about America, but the forces selling denial, ignorance, and projection have succeeded in robbing us of our own shared history--both the pain and the resilience. It's time to tell the truth, with a nationwide process that enrolls all of us in setting the facts straight so that we can move forward with a new story, together.”
Source: The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together
“We’ve got to go to the police,” Alec repeated. He wondered if somebody was actually dead or if the vicar had imagined it. But then there was the bloody cassock.
“Come with me,” Father Joe pleaded. “It’s just down the road in my vestry. And then we can decide what we should do about the police.”
Alec thought he might as well. There might be a story in it if it was something to do with Charlotte de Tournet. Would people remember her disappearance? It was so long ago. But then there was the connection to Baroness Freya Saumures …”
Source: The Wasp Trap
“We've got to have had the losses, so that we can understand why something fails; it's only with that understanding, that we can then comprehend what's needed to win.”
“We've got to make change our national pastime and hold protests more regularly than weekend parties.”
Source: Steam Drills, Treadmills and Shooting Stars - a story of our times -
“We've got to stand with our North Korean allies.”
“We’ve got to stop meeting like this.”
“No, we don’t.” He liked meeting like this, over her bare ass, a hot-off-the-presses copy of the Rocky Mountain News, and a steaming cup of coffee. It was so perfect, he planned on doing it every day for the rest of his life. He just hadn’t told her yet.”
Source: On the Loose
“We've gotten so used to democracy that we think we have the right to vote who we want God to be.”
“We’ve gotten to that stage all soulmates reach of speaking in broken phrases and incomplete sentences, our connected and all-knowing minds filling in the blanks left by redundant words.”
Source: The Counting-Downers