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“You two have to promise to be careful!" Sinead handed Amy a small plastic bag. "I made you a going-away present–a high-powered miniature smoke bomb. Could come in handy against the Vespers. It works with knockout gas, so I tossed in a couple of breathing filters." "That's the Cahill equivalent of a Hallmark moment," Dan observed. "A smoke bomb. When you care enough to send the very best–explosives." "I'm not a flowers-and-candy kind of girl," Sinead informed him.”
Source: The 39 Clues: Cahills vs. Vespers Book 1: The Medusa Plot
“You two make great guards—I feel so safe and secure.
- Poseidon's Academy and the Final Battle”
“You two need a chaperone up here?'
Yes. No. Yes. 'I thought you were the chaperone.'
Az threw him a wicked smile. 'I'm not entirely sure I'm enough.'
Cassian flipped him off.”
Source: A Court of Silver Flames
“You two seemed inevitable.”
Source: Vow of Thieves
“You two start on home, Daisy,' said Tom. 'In Mr Gatsby's car.'
She looked at Tom, alarmed now, but he insisted with magnanimous scorn.
'Go on. He won't annoy you. I think he realises that his presumptuous little flirtation is over.”
Source: The Great Gatsby
“You two were in a cave together?’ said Miss Simpkins in horror. ‘Yes,’ said Kate, ‘and it was very, very dark.”
“You ugly, bald baby, I hate you.”
Source: Pioneer ghost
“You ultimately control only two things. You determine how you choose to perceive yourself, others, and your situation. You also control what you decide to do next.”
Source: Endeavor: Thrive Through Work Aligned with Your Values, Talents, and Tribe
“You ultimately decide, every day, whether or not your life will speak on behalf of the oppressed, or remain an inaudible but decisive tool for the status quo.”
Source: Speaking Up for Animals: An Anthology of Women's Voices
“You ultimately have to find out who you are inside and develop a set of values that are truly yourself, and then express them.”
“You ultimately judge the civility of a society not by how it treats the rich, the powerful, the protected and the highly esteemed, but by how it treats the poor, the disfavored and the disadvantaged.”
“You underestimate me and my army. We humans will reclaim our freedom and take back our rightful spot as the most powerful species on Affer.”
Source: The Quest for Freedom
“You underestimate yourself if you think any woman would have to pretend to have feelings for you.”
Source: Ruined
“You undergo too strict a paradox, Striving to make an ugly deed look fair.”
Source: The Plays of Shakespeare
“You understand and accept it when the bad guys work you over. But when the good guys use handcuffs to chain you to a wall, and then take turns to stomp and kick you, it's the whole system, it's the whole world, that's breaking your bones. And then there was the screaming. The other men, the other prisoners, screaming. Every night.”
Source: Shantaram
“You understand, as I do, that wealth and family mean nothing if a person is not willing to prove his full worth.”
Source: Forest of a Thousand Lanterns
“You understand, don't you, Mrs. Mackenzie?" Blackwell murmured, his hard mouth barely moving as the intensity of his regard pinned her to her seat. "The deeds of a willful youth."
A thrill of danger kissed her spine.
"Horseshit!" Morley roared.
Dorian turned back to face him, and Farah was able to let out a breath she hadn't been aware she'd been holding as the black spell he'd woven over her suddenly dissipated.
"For shame, Morley," he mockingly chided. "Such language in front of a lady."
"She is my employee," Sir Morley gritted through clenched teeth. "And I'll thank you not to bother about her if you want to keep the vision in the eye you have left."
"I can hardly help myself. She's such a ripe piece of skirt.”
Source: The Highwayman
“You understand, gentlemen,” explained Jabir, “that you are working under my supervision?”
Source: Fatal Identity
“You understand how much you know about a subject the moment you give explanations to someone who doesn't know anything about it.”
“You understand how stars are created and still you walk in the darkness of others hoping to bring them some light.”
“You understand how worthless it feels to be asked to change yourself only when someone asks you to change.”
“You understand. I don't know. I am not sure how I would feel in your shoes. My mother wanted me.”
“You understand? If the past must haunt you, then use it wisely. You cannot alter the past, but you can use it to alter the future. The terror you saw has strengthened you, Connavar. It has given you purpose. Bless the dead for that. And move on.”
Source: Sword in the Storm
“You understand more about yourself when you realise you're not as loyal as you like to think you're.”
“You understand my music.”
Source: Clockwork Princess
“You understand nothing," I told him with a weary shake of the head, but I would not try to make him understand. That there was no justification for it: the murder of another, no matter how vile. We had all been wrong and, blackest of ironies, I had known this to hold that precious and wondrous thing, life, in my hands. To hold it in my hands before I destroyed it.”
Source: On the Soul of a Vampire
“You understand nothing of—the horror—no wonder you can't write real books—you don't see—the horror—”
Source: The Black Prince
“You understand people better if you look at them-no matter how old or impressive or important they may be-as if they were children. For most men never mature; they simply grow taller.”
“You understand psychiatry?" Tracy said. "Psychiatry, no," Dr. Pingitzer said.
"People - little bit. Little, little, little bit. very year, every day - less, less, less. Why? People is difficult. People is people. People is fun, play, imagination, magic. Ah ha. People is pain, people is sick, people is mad, people is hurt, people is hurt people, is kill, is kill self. Where is fun, where is play, where is imagination, where is magic? Psychiatry I hate. People I love. Mad people, beautiful people, hurt people, sick people, broke people, in pieces people, I love, I love. Why? Why is lost from people fun, play, imagination, magic? What for? Ah ha. Money?" He smiled. "I think so. Money. Is love, this money. Is beauty, this money. Is fun, this money. Where is money? I do not know. No more fun. Work, now. Work, Tiger, Tiger.”
Source: Tracy's Tiger
“You understand reality while everyone else is running around confused and angry and upset because they think reality is something happening to them rather than something they are making every moment with every thought.”
“You understand sleep when you are awake, not while you are sleeping. You can see mistakes in arithmetic when your mind is working properly; while you are making them you cannot see them. Good people know about both bad and evil; bad people do not know about either.”
Source: A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis
“You understand Teacher, don't you, that when you have a mother who's an angel and a father who is a cannibal king, and when you have sailed on the ocean all your whole life, then you don't know just how to behave in school with all the apples and ibexes.”
Source: Pippi Goes to School
“You understand that he is thinking of the meager pay, the laborious, irregular duties that are never sufficiently recompensed, your bony hands with their protruding veins running along the backs.”
Source: Human Acts
“You understand that the piggies are animals, and you no more condemn them for murdering Libo and Pipo than you condemn a cabra for shewing up capim." That's right," said Miro. Ender smiled. "And that's why you'll never learn anything from them. Because you think of them as animals.”
Source: Speaker For The Dead: Book 2 in the Ender Saga
“You understand that you are being manipulated by others and you become overwhelmed by hospital bureaucracy. It feels as though you have been violated by administrators who have robbed you of your passion for helping children. That passion that drove you to become a healthcare provider is replaced with mistrust, negativity, and hopeless skepticism.”
Source: Burned Out
“You understand the fundamental principle of an icon, don’t you? “Inspired by God”
“Not made by hands” “Supposedly directly imprinted upon the background material by God Himself”
All Icons fundamentally were the work of God. A revelation in material form. And sometimes new icon could be made from another simply by pressing a new cloth to the original and a magic transfer would occur.”
Source: Memnoch the Devil
“You understand the importance of every single word you utter when you are handling someone having an anxiety attack.”
“You understand the logic behind the illogical, Alyssa. It's in your nature to find tranquility amid the madness. And that's what we're doing here. We are giving our food a fighting chance.”
Source: Splintered
“You understand the secret part of me that craves adventure. You push me to be better. You have faith in me. When you listen, you really listen. When you look at me, you really see me."
"I'm the best." He gave a satisfied growl and unbuttoned the rest of my shirt.
"Very best," I agreed as he lifted me and propped me on the desk, facing the chair with my skirt bunched around my waist.
"You love me."
"I do."
He sat in the chair facing me and slowly slid my panties over my hips.
"What are you doing?" I could barely hear my own words for the pounding of my pulse in my ears as he eased me back on the desk.
"We're going to play show-and-tell." His hands found my thighs and he spread me wide.”
Source: 'Til Heist Do Us Part
“You understand what good directing is, you can identify it pretty easily.”
“You understand why some animals eat their young.”
“You understand why you must go through with this marriage.”
“You say you couldn’t live with yourself if anything happened to Caspida. Yet you ask me to live with myself, knowing I sentenced you to this!” He holds up the lamp. “What’s the difference?”
I look away angrily. “The difference is that this is my choice, Aladdin.”
“Well, it’s a stupid choice!”
I stand up. “Promise me you’ll go through with it.”
He shuts his eyes.
“Promise me! Please!”
He opens his eyes then, and they are filled with pain. But he nods.
“I have to hear you say it.”
“I promise.”
Source: The Forbidden Wish
“You understand your place in it, and you feel an incredible love for everyone and everything, and you're just sublimely happy, and then you're suddenly jolted back to reality, and you've got to deal with the world as it is”
“You understand, you do not invent stuff on this team. Guys that invent stuff will not play for me. Make the easy play”
“You undo me, woman,” he breathed.
“You make me whole,” she whispered.”
Source: The Emerald Lily
“You undoubtedly have all it takes within you to fix yourself.”
Source: When Roses are Crushed
“You undress a woman in the same way that you would open a magic box sealed by an angel’s kiss.”
Source: The Gift of Girls
“You unfailingly omnibothersome bitch.”
Source: Rogues
“You unlock the door to greater levels of excellence and success when you accept who you are. It is from the point of acceptance that we can create a masterful life.”
Source: Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
“You unlock the door with the key of imagination.”