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“You think you're the foreigner here, and I'm the American, and I just look the other way while the President or somebody sends down this and that . . . to torture people with. But nobody asked my permission, okay? Sometimes I feel like I'm a foreigner, too.”
Source: The Bean Trees: A Novel
“You think you're the only one?" Theo said. "Everyone has scars. We just don't all wear them on the outside.”
“You think you're winning, but it's hard to say sometimes.”
“You think you're writing one historical novel and it turns into three, and I'm quite used to a short story turning into a novel - that's happened through my whole career.”
“You think you've made something really great, but there's a reason why it's not resonating the way some previous work did. But it's not that easy to just replicate. Some people think, "Oh, just go do that thing you used to do before." But it just doesn't work like that. It's a lot more mysterious or slippery.”
“You think your children are better than mine? Ha! When yours were out playing with gold, mine were out fighting for survival. You taught your children to roll in money when I taught mine what it means to be strong.”
Source: No Secrets: Eternity series
“You think your congressman is working all day to get you a job? He may want to. He or she is probably not a bad person. They probably want to do the right thing. But they can't.”
“You think your friends have good taste in fashion, until they ask you to wear an ugly bridesmaid dress!”
“You think your life is unfurling in a certain way, and you let yourself grow happy about it, a smile rising at the slightest thing. A boy in short pants eating a pastelito makes you grin like a lunatic at the vision of your own hoped‐for children, their dark shiny heads rising, year by year, from the Cuban earth, your wife towering behind them, kind and wise. Then you find yourself in a midnight cemetery guarding your mustache from the covetous ghost of an American woman you once loved. Who wouldn’t laugh?”
Source: The Only Sound Is the Wind: Stories
“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.”
“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was Dostoevsky and Dickens who taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who ever had been alive. Only if we face these open wounds in ourselves can we understand them in other people.”
“You think your pains and heartbreaks are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. [and then you discover that others have suffered much more than you and your problems look good in comparison]”
“You think your past defines you, and worse, you think that it is an unchangeable reality, when really, your perception of it changes as you do.
Because experience is always multi-dimensional, there are a variety of memories, experiences, feelings, “gists” you can choose to recall…and what you choose is indicative of your present state of mind. So many people get caught up in allowing the past to define them or haunt them simply because they have not evolved to the place of seeing how the past did not prevent them from achieving the life they want, it facilitated it. This doesn’t mean to disregard or gloss over painful or traumatic events, but simply to be able to recall them with acceptance and to be able to place them in the storyline of your personal evolution.”
Source: 101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think
“You think your show of defiance will save you from my dominance? From my wrath? Trust me, you haven’t seen my worst. There are ways of torturing a vampire that can drive them literately insane. I know ways of making you suffer that will last for months or years—not seconds. I want you to test me so that I can teach you who your master is. Now get the fuck up and follow me. If I have to tell you again, I’m going to cut off your hand and send it to the werewolves.”
Theoden to Noel”
Source: Embraced
“You think your silence means peace, but to me, it feels like a distance I never chose. You call it space, I call it disappearing. You call it calm, I call it coldness. Silence doesn’t always heal, it sometimes kills what words could have saved. And maybe one day, you will realize that ignoring someone who cared was never peace, it was a slow destruction of a beautiful relationship.”
Source: Life Simplified: Quote - Unquote
“You think yourself better than me because you smile and pretend the world is filled with good men? Because you believe everything will work out for the best? Your optimism is shallow and false, and one day, Sunshine, it will get you killed.”
Source: The Road of Bones
“You think you’re a very clever fellow, don’t you?” Saldur challenged. “No, Your Grace,” Merrick replied. “Clever is the man who makes a fortune selling dried-up cows, explaining how it saves the farmers the trouble of getting up every morning to milk them. I’m not clever—I’m a genius.”
Source: Nyphron Rising
“You think, "Aw man, I would never want somebody else's poop on my hand," but when it's your child, "Oh, it's not that bad, I'll just wash it off."”
“You think, 'Here's something I can hold on to,' but it always slips away.”
Source: The Spectacular Now
“You think, as you walk away from Le Cirque des Rêves and into the creeping dawn, that you felt more awake within the confines of the circus. You are no longer quite certain which side of the fence is the dream.”
“You think, eventually, that nothing can disturb you and that your nerves are impregnable. Yet, looking down at that familiar face, I realized that death is something to which we never become calloused.”
“You think, I love more everyday. I love more everyday, more everyday, I couldn't possibly love any more, I'm going to blow up. And then you blow up. Your chest actually starts to hurt. You love so much you think I can't love any more. And then you love so much more than you ever dreamed possible.”
“You think, you become that thought. And consciousness, or the state of pure awareness, is lost.”
“You think, you don't just speak. The lines come off the thoughts.”
“You this day, gentlemen, assume new characters, enter into new relations, and consequently incur new duties. You have, by the favor of Providence and the attention of your friends, received a public education, the purpose whereof hath been to qualify you the better to serve your Creator and your country.”
“You thought a lot about heaven and hell, my friend, you exhausted yourself for nothing, you made silly definitions, you carried heaven and hell to an after-death dimension, to a place that does not exist! It's all here! Wherever there is a peaceful corner of the world, there is heaven, wherever there is chaos in the world, there is hell, it's that simple!”
“You thought her a pigeon. Pigeon, my arse. That bitch knew everything. She had been in on it from the start.”
Source: Fingersmith
“You thought I'd be down, but look at you worried.”
“You thought I was a lovelorn mistress; and I was only an expensive prostitute.”
“You thought I was a werewolf?" Dervish asks.
"Yes" I answer hollowly.
"You ass.”
Source: Lord Loss
“You thought I was answering "As you wish" but that's only because you were hearing wrong. "I love you" was what it was, but you never heard, and you never heard.”
Source: The Princess Bride
“You thought I was peculiar,” she said in a muffled voice.
His mouth brushed the edge of her ear and settled against her neck. She felt that he was smiling. “Darling love… you are.”
Source: Love in the Afternoon
“You thought I was silent whereas I was testing the limits of my patience.
Words not spoken will echo till eternity.”
“You thought I was that type: that you could forget me, and that I'd plead and weep and throw myself under the hooves of a bay mare, or that I'd ask the sorcerers for some magic potion made from roots and send you a terrible gift: my precious perfumed handkerchief. Damn you! I will not grant your cursed soul vicarious tears or a single glance. And I swear to you by the garden of the angels, I swear by the miracle-working ikon, and by the fire and smoke of our nights: I will never come back to you.”
“You thought I was weak because you tore me apart with your words. The sad thing is, you thought you were in control, but you never were... no, you never were, because you were never in control of yourself.”
~Love is respect ♥~”
Source: In Love With Blindfolds On
“You thought I was what… young? Stupid? Naïve, I think you said.” I took a step toward her. She stood her ground. “I have seen things in this life that defy logic. I have stretched the boundaries of my magic more than you can possibly imagine. I have done things in the name of the people I love and would do so again without regret. And even if the dark man comes for me, even if he tries to take from me, I will have my family at my side fighting with me, for me, every step of the way. And there is nothing you or Ruv or your people can say that would change my mind. Ryan Foxheart is my godsdamned cornerstone. I won’t let anything happen to him. You say you’ve seen the paths I will walk? Fuck you. Because I’m about to blaze my own fucking path, and you won’t even see me coming.
“Insolence,” she breathed as the throne room began to crack around us. The runes on my skin began to itch and burn, but I didn’t look away from her. “You would risk everything?”
“For them? For him?” I didn’t even have to think about it. “Yes. Because they would do the same for me. We are better together than we ever will be apart. We are bound to each other. And nothing, nothing, will change that. Not you. Not the Dark. Not anything.”
The roof cracked overhead as she said, “It would seem I have underestimated you.” I snorted.
“No shit. Maybe next time, don’t come in here pimping a half-naked guy when I already have someone’s junk to play with. Not cool, Grandma. Not fucking cool.”
Source: A Destiny of Dragons
“You thought I was writing The Truth? Honey, I don't even know what The Truth means.”
“You thought I would not weesh to marry him? Or per'aps you hoped?" said Fleur, her nostrils flaring. "What do I care how he looks? I am good-looking enough for both of us, I theenk! All these scars show is zat my husband is brave! And I shall do zat!" she added fiercely, pushing Mrs. Weasley aside and snatching the ointment from her.”
“You thought if you were good. If you gave up the things that made you different. The world you know. That it would be enough. But sacrifice is often so invisible. People do not look for it in others. They know their own. They list them out like titles at a ball. I've done for you. I've done for you. I've done. And it is always your turn now. To hurt, to long. To be a broken thing. A thing that differs. Before, you always thought you were a person.”
Source: Tangleweed and Brine
“You thought standing in his shadow was cold while he was alive, but standing in the shadow of his martyrdom is colder, isn't it?”
Source: Bonesmith
“You thought that the open door would always remain open, but you were wrong, look, that door is closed! You thought that the closed door would always remain closed, but you were wrong, look, that door is open! Oh, my friend, you don't understand this universe! Anything can happen at any time; when you think something won't change, you lose so badly!”
“You thought that you knew me so well. But if you did, you’d have known that I never turned away from my trauma. I paid attention. I took it all in. Every single detail. I owned my pain. It wasn’t separate from me. It was me. I was it. The fact that you even thought that you could hurt me, to feed on me, to use me… and believe that that was enough for me to kill you… shows just how little you understand. Every time I gave you my pain, I held back. Each and every time. I held back because I cared. You only glimpsed the tip of the iceberg. You want my pain? Take it. Take it all. Take what I have learned to live with all my life. This time I won’t hold back.”
Source: In the darkness we share
“You thought that you were the permanent part of your own experience, the net that held it all together - until you discovered that there were many selves, dissolving into one another so quickly over time that the buildings and the trees and even the pavement turned out to have more substance than you did.”
Source: The Newlyweds
“You thought the shine in your eyes was just the reflection of stars you could never reach. I swear you had the Universe in you and galaxies were peeking through.”
“You thought the story kept changing, but the most important part never did. She was always just a woman in pain, sitting right in front of you. Sometimes it hurts just to stand. Sometimes a person needs help because she needs it, not because her story is compelling or noble or strange enough to earn it, and sometimes you just do what you can.”
Source: Make It Scream, Make It Burn
“You thought you could create more indigo, and I understand why you wished it, Eliza, for indigo is the color of bluebirds, the color of the twilight sky. Newton insisted it be added to the colors of the rainbow, and once upon a time, its cousin true blue was such a rare pigment, its price rivaled gold. People have fought wars over indigo crops and used it to bolster and brag of their wealth. Why? All in an attempt to make beauty lasting.”
Source: Paint and Nectar
“You thought you could figure that out online? Somehow I don't think hellions are much into social networking.”
Source: My Soul to Save
“You thought you had the choice to stay still or move forward, but your didn't. As long as your heart kept pumping an your blood kept blowing and your lungs kept filling, you didn't. The pang she felt for Tibby carried something like envy. You couldn't stand still for anything short of death, and God knew she had tried.”
“You thought you knew what food was, you thought it was elemental. You forgot how much restaurant there was in restaurant food and how much home was in homemade.”
Source: The corrections
“You thought you were being made into a decent little cottage but He is building a palace. He intends to come & live in it Himself”
Source: Mere Christianity