Y Quotes
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“You took a poison arrow and you aimed it at my heart. It's heavy and it's bitter, and it's tearing me apart.”
“You took a pretty picture and you smashed it into bits, sank me into blackness and you sealed it with a kiss.”
“You took a quarter century off my age with that kidnapping stunt. No more going off with a strange men, hear me? -"You're a strange man." I'm your strange man.”
“You took a shot even though it was scary. You tread the land even though it was contagious. You took a leap when the sky was high. You took a blame without being guity. And you took them all not because you are strengthless. You did all these because you are self-sufficient.”
“You took a walk on a Sunday afternoon and came to a nice neighborhood, very refined. You saw a small one of these trees through the iron gate leading to someone's yard and you knew that soon that section of Brooklyn would get to be a tenement district. The tree knew. It came there first. Afterwards, poor foreigners seeped in and the quiet old brownstone houses were hacked up into flats, feather beds were pushed out on the window sills to air and the Tree of Heaven flourished. That was the kind of tree it was. It liked poor people.”
Source: A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
“You took advantage of me while I was sleeping," she said breathlessly. "That's not fair."
Gentry's hand moved over her hip in a slow circle."I seldom play fair. It's usually easier to cheat."
A sudden laugh bubbled in Lottie's throat. "You are the most shameless man I've ever encountered."
"Probably," he conceded, pushing her hair aside and lowering his smiling mouth to the back of her neck.”
Source: Worth Any Price
“You took away
My ray of sunshine,
My unending glow.
You took away
Everything with you,
My dreams and my feelings!”
Source: The Forest of Feelings
“You took care of your horse, and your horse took care of you.”
“You took in the name of God, took in the name of science, took because only your conscience stood in your way; in other words, nothing stood in your way at all. You crushed us with disease, then guns, then laws, then drink. And last and most of all, you crushed us by simply looking the other way.”
Source: Bunyan and Henry; Or, the Beautiful Destiny
“You took it with good grace when you could have sliced him to ribbons with a few words."
"I was tempted," she admitted. "But I couldn't help remembering something Mother once said."
It had been on a long-ago morning in her childhood, when she and Gabriel had still needed books stacked on their chairs whenever they sat at the breakfast table. Their father had been reading a freshly ironed newspaper, while their mother, Evangeline, or Evie, as family and friends called her, fed spoonfuls of sweetened porridge to baby Raphael in his high chair.
After Phoebe had recounted some injustice done to her by a playmate, saying she wouldn't accept the girl's apology, her mother had persuaded her to reconsider for the sake of kindness.
"But she's a bad, selfish girl," Phoebe had said indignantly.
Evie's reply was gentle but matter-of-fact. "Kindness counts the most when it's given to people who don't deserve it."
"Does Gabriel have to be kind to everyone too?" Phoebe had demanded.
"Yes, darling."
"Does Father?"
"No, Redbird," her father had replied, his mouth twitching at the corners. "That's why I married your mother- she's kind enough for two people."
"Mother," Gabriel had asked hopefully, "could you be kind enough for three people?"
At that, their father had taken a sudden intense interest in his newspaper, lifting it in front of his face. A quiet wheeze emerged from behind it.
"I'm afraid not, dear," Evie had said gently, her eyes sparkling. "But I'm sure you and your sister can find a great deal of kindness in your own hearts."
Returning her thoughts to the present, Phoebe said, "Mother told us to be kind even to people who don't deserve it.”
Source: Devil's Daughter
“You took life by the horns and tried to hold on tight, for fear of being ripped to shreds, left bloodied and battered.”
Source: Polar
“You took me once
to an older part of earth
I'd never seen—
where monsters were born
and killed.
They sacrificed everything
and nothing
for a taste of this
life.”
Source: She Had Some Horses
“You took me riding in your rocket gave me a star
But at a half a mile from heaven you dropped me back
Down to this cold, cold world”
“You took me to adventure and to love. We two have shared great joy and great sorrow. And now I stand at the gate of the paddock watching you run in an ecstasy of freedom, knowing you will return to stand quietly, loyally, beside me.”
“You took me to Heaven and put me through Hell. And I'd go back and do it all again.”
“You took my empty dreams
And filled them every one
With tenderness and nobleness,
April and the sun.
The old empty dreams
Where my thoughts would throng
Ae far too full of happiness
To even hold a song.
Oh, the empty dreams were dim
And the empty dreams were wide,
They were sweet and shadowy houses
Where my thoughts could hide.”
Source: The Collected Poems
“You took my freedom away a long time ago and you can't give it back because you haven't got it yourself.”
“You took my heart and you held it in your mouth
And, with a word all my love came rushing out
And, every whisper, it's the worst, emptied out by a single word
There is a hollow in me now...
And
Every whisper, every sigh
Eats away at this heart of mine
And there is a hollow in me now.
So I put my faith in something unknown
I'm living on such sweet nothing
But I'm trying to hope with nothing to hold
I'm living on such sweet nothing.”
“You took nothing from me.”
Source: Birds of Prey, Vol. 12: Platinum Flats
“You took out the mouthy one?'
I nodded as Casteel cursed when the arrow he'd been pulling on most likely got stuck on something important. Like an organ.
'With your dagger?' Kieran sounded impressed.
'That and my sparkling personality.'
The wolven snorted. 'It was probably the latter than did him in.”
Source: A Kingdom of Flesh and Fire
“You took so long I got bored.” She widened her smile, teeth showing. “Next time freshen up quicker, princess.”
Source: Poisoned Apple
“You took the Alkaholik challenge, and lost your balance
You underground, we under water drinkin liquid by the gallons”
“You took the best, so why not take the rest?”
“You took the part of him
that still believed
in something more than pain—
and dressed it up in pixie dust
so you could pretend
you gave him peace.
You don't get to twist that into legend.
You don't get to wrap your hunger
in fairy dust and dusk
and call it rescue.”
Source: Venom In Velvet: A Dark Fantasy Novel-in-Verse
“You took the words right out of my mouth, it must have been while you were kissing me.”
“You took to the streets to free yourself of expectations and obligations. You took to the streets because you wanted to be left alone - or rather because you wanted the privacy that could only come from living publicly, from having people pretend not to see you.”
Source: The Theory of Flight
“You took too much man, too much, too much.”
“You took your own insecurity and put it on her. That weakens her. And it weakens you. You treat a young woman like that with respect. If nothing else it'll teach you about yourself. teach you who you want to be whenever you're ready to be that person.”
Source: Prodigal Son
“You tormented
a hummingbird of love
between your teeth.”
“You totally just outed us to the criminals.
-Ty to Zane”
Source: Armed & Dangerous
“You totally love him. He's your widdle snookums.”
Source: Serpent's Kiss
“You totally need to watch the news." "Can't." "Why?" "It's too depressing." "Right, because hanging with dead people isn't.”
Source: Third Grave Dead Ahead
“You totally value and respect your body as you get older.”
“You touch every other ball and, if you screw up, you only have one more person to back you up. You can't go hide in the corner.”
“You touch everyone, Emily. You touch a father's heart. A stranger's loyalty, and the soul I never knew I had. You touch it, and you remind us of all the innocence we've lost in the world." - Kell Krieger”
“You touch her again,” came Killian’s low and quiet warning, “and I’ll kill you.”
Source: Of Ladies and Cowboys
“You touch her, and I will take that dagger at your side and cut your heart out with it. (Julian)”
“You touch me again, you arrogant Ardenine swine, and I swear on the blood of Hanalea the warrior, I will geld you. Do you understand?”
“You touch my shit, Red, you get used like it.”
Source: Elegy
“You touch some of the reasons for my going, not for my staying away.”
Source: A Tale of Two Cities and Great Expectations (Oprah's Book Club): Two Novels
“You touch the world even if you do not want it to touch you. -Leona Montgomery”
“You touch things lightly or deeply; you move along because life herself moves, and you can’t stop it.”
Source: Conversations with Jim Harrison
“You touched her
In ways she yields
To every longing,
Every desire;
Dreams fulfilled,
As stars are felt
In each caress
And tender smile.”
Source: Where Written Words Remain: Route to My Soul
“You touched my hand, my heart went pop. Ooh, when we kissed, I could not stop.”
“You touched my heart by your kindness.”
Source: Think Great: Be Great!
“You touched my heart...ever so softly
and I realized
tears had never been...merely salt
and the rain
Oh the Rain!
had never been merely water.”
Source: A touch, a tear, a tempest
“You tour and you work hard and you take care of your fans and very real things lead to other real things. There's never been some fantastic fluke or break in my career, it has all been very slow and steady.”
“You toyed with her heart. I know what that’s like. I can have compassion for her because of that.”
“I met you first,” he whispered.
“That doesn’t give you license to be cruel.”
Source: Gabriel's Rapture
“You toyed with my heart, like it was a toy heart. (Lisa Simpson)”
“You train best where you are the happiest.”