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“You watch the country-music awards that they show on the television, and you see country music has reached about 1985. It's all huge processed drum sounds and chiming chorus guitars and programmed synths bobbling along in the background.”
“You watch the game, you don't see Busquets. You watch Busquets, you see the whole game.”
“You watch the interview afterwards, and they didn't really say much, but it's interesting, funny, and engaging. Whereas I sit there and look a little bit too serious, and as soon as that happens then you're uncomfortable and you don't want to watch.”
“You watch the lonely cloud walking across the sky, you watch how wind pushes it, breaks it and turns it into something even more beautiful.”
“You watch the news these days? It's unbelievable. You think you just walk out your door, you're immediately gonna be raped by some crack-addicted, AIDS-infected pitbull.”
“You watch the Supreme Court in action on these cases, and they are a conflicted court. However, when it comes to speech issues generally, the court has been protective.”
“You watch yourself age and it's hard to feel like a sex symbol.”
“You watch yourself. One day you're going to pick a hole in the sky and the universe is gonna fall right through. Then we'll all be in a fix”
“You watched and you saw what happened and in the accumulation of episodes you saw the pattern: Daddy ruled the roost, called the shots, made the money, made the decisions, so you signed up on his side, and fifteen years later when the women's movement came along with its incendiary manifestos telling you to avoid marriage and motherhood, it was as if somebody put a match to a pile of dry kindling.”
Source: Motherhood Deferred: A Woman's Journey
“You wave your hands up to the sky, kick your legs to the side. Are you ready, let's do the Freddie.”
“You wear a mask for so long, you forget who you were beneath it.”
“You wear clothes so beautifully!”
“You wear nice clothes, you seek respect, you make a lot of money, but what's the point? It's all pointless. Of course, this kind of meaninglessness might suit this crappy nation. But, you see, we still have emotions like joy and happiness, right? They may not mount to much. But they fill up our emptiness. That's the only explanation I have.”
“You wear out a good wholesome forenoon in hearing a cause between an orange wife and a fosset-seller.”
Source: THE PLAYS OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE.: CONTAINING, TIMON OF ATHENS. TITUS ANDRONICUS. MACBETH. C. MMARCIUS CORIOLANUS. VOLUME the EIGHTH
“You wear poetry in your eyes.”
Source: Chaos in Utter Silence
“You wear your armor even to dinner, Lady Wilhelmina?"
“Of course I wear armor. I am sitting with a pirate, a mercenary, an adventurer, and a bounder. If a shot is not fired tonight, I daresay that your reputations are nothing but lies.”
Source: The Iron Duke
“You wear your honor like a suit of armor... You think it keeps you safe, but all it does is weigh you down and make it hard for you to move.”
Source: A Game of Thrones: The Illustrated Edition: A Song of Ice and Fire: Book One
“You wear yourself out in the pursuit of wealth or love or freedom, you do everything to gain some right, and once it's gained you take no pleasure in it.”
“You weave the threads and there is the cloth. If the threads are removed, there is no longer cloth. When there are Godly thoughts, there is peace of mind.”
“You weep, and a garden grows from the grave. This is how fresh flowers grow on the soil, wet where you wept.”
“You weep for a week, secretly keep an eye on for a month and then you realize how big of a prize you are and how little your lover had to offer.”
Source: Just the Way I Feel
“You weep
thinking I’m off to a better place..
I weep
thinking I’ve left you at a place
better than the one I’m going to...
Oh, the game of places
Oh, the winds of misfortune...”
Source: أنا زهرة برية [I am a Wildflower]
“You weigh how much you should criticize the President because hes black.”
“You well know, sir, that when the Constitution was submitted to the People of the respective States for their adoption or rejection, it awakened the warmest debates of the several State conventions.”
“You went alone. You were right beside those irreplacable things...yet you couldn't bear to immerse yourself together in sorrow with them. So instead...you ran away so that your own malice could burn within you.”
Source: Berserk, Vol. 17
“You went and broke our lives. You are so much worse than a cheater. You killed something. And you killed it when its back was turned.”
Source: The Lover's Dictionary: A Novel
“You went away. Cause you said that you can't stand me. So I went away. I was sure that you can't stand me. Well I don't think we have to be like this forever. Is there more to life than love and being together?”
“You went out with a girl at first because the sheer sight of her made you weak in the knees. You fell in love and were desperate not to let her get away. And yet the more you thought about her, the less you knew who she was. The hope was that love transcended all differences. That was the hope.”
Source: The Marriage Plot: A Novel
“You went shopping with Rebecca?'
'Yep,' I said, pulling the shoes out of the box.
His brows went to the heavens.
'Wow, those are like…Jenn shoes.'
'These are not hooker shoes,' I said defensively.
'Well played,' he said.”
“You went to all that trouble just for my body?" I said, amazed and so grateful. Reyn looked up, irritation on his face. "Yeah. We were going to have you stuffed, as an example to future students." I grinned, "You could put me on wheels, move me from room to room.”
“You went to save her son before yourself." His voice drops and he says quietly to me, "You shouldn't have done that."
"Of course I should've," I volley back.
He stands there and exhales slowly. The tension eases from his body. "You're right," he says, voice measured, deliberate, soft. There's a glint in his eyes, unguarded and affectionate. "My mistake. I won't forget again. You lead with your heart.”
Source: Tokyo Ever After
“You went to school," Lee said. "I mean, at some point. And it didn't suit you very well. They wanted to teach you things you didn't care about. Dates and math and trivia about dead presidents. They didn't teach persuasion. Your ability to persuade is the single most important determinant of your quality of life, and they didn't cover that at all. Well, we do. And we're looking for students with natural aptitude.”
Source: Lexicon
“You went to Woodstock and all that trash, your generation is fading fast.”
“You went up a girl and came down a woman.”
“You went up to be examined with the other Jewish children, your heart heavy about that matter of your nose.”
Source: The Promised Land
“You went with Cameron?" Julian said.
Livvy held up a hand. "In Emma's defense, Cameron's annoying, but he's hot." Julian gave her a look. "I mean, if you like guys who look like a redheaded Captain America, which I... don't?"
"Captain America is definitely the most handsome Avenger," said Cristina. "But I like the Hulk. I would like to heal his broken heart."
"We're Nephilim, said Julian. "We're not even supposed to know about the Avengers. Besides," he added, "Iron Man is obviously the best-looking."
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"I have no idea who the Avengers are," observed Mark, who had finished his strawberries and was eating sugar out of a packet. Ty looked gratified - he had no time for superheroes.”
Source: Lady Midnight
“You were a bare rock. Someone hammered and took a piece out of you. You can either cry about it or let me chisel some more pieces out of you and sculpt you into a divine form.”
“You were a beauty born of darkness. You wore it wrapped around as a cape. Designed to draw others to you, only to never allow them in. Behind your innocent mask, lies your dark beauty that none can see.”
“You were a child once, too. When you arrived in the world, your only food preferences were milk and buried memories from your mother’s diet. Those early weeks were dominated by meals - the stab of hunger, the sweet contentment of being sated - but you could not yet tell dinner from breakfast. You didn’t yet know - lucky you! - what a trans fat was; or a frappuccino. No one had taught you to worry whether you were getting enough protein, or to feel guilt when your stomach was full. You had never watched a fast-food commercial, and on the relative merits of quinoa and macarons you had no opinion. Food was a wide open for you. The great garden of ingredients - from bitter greens to sweet dates - was all equally unknown: all new, all strange, all waiting to be discovered.”
Source: First Bite: How We Learn to Eat
“You were a cop?" Sarah remarked, surprised. She couldn't imagine this elegant woman posted on duty anywhere. Well, Lord and Taylor, maybe.”
Source: The Nature Of The Grave
“You were a crushed and broken thing, like a butterfly crumpled in the hand of a child.”
Source: Beyond the Veil
“You were a Downworlder once. That will always be a part of you. Even if you forget, they never will.”
Source: The Lost Herondale
“You were a fish in an aquarium. You went swimming in free waters with someone who turned out to be a shark, You are back in aquarium but now water is red because of your wounds. Only parasites will grow in it.
Change your perspective towards your past. Accept that the shark gave you courage. Now all you need is the knowledge of self. Then you will become a swan swimming in the eternally peaceful lake.”
“You were a language I learned by ear,
syllables pressed into the curve of my neck,
intonations traced along my spine.
But love, I have forgotten how to conjugate us—
the past imperfect, the future conditional,
sentences unraveling into tenses
that no longer hold.”
Source: Saltwater & Smoke: Poems of Almosts, Goodbyes, and What We Leave Behind
“You were a lesson;
the difference between
attraction and compatibility.
Want and need.
Everything
I was starving for,
and nothing
that could feed me.”
“You were a mistake, girl,' she said simply, 'but a mistake honestly meant.”
Source: A Skinful of Shadows
“You were a monster. But to be a monster did not mean to be uncultured. You have known many monsters. Many of them have been civilized. Most have been human.”
Source: The Best of Elizabeth Bear
“You were a prisoner when we met.” Vidrol smirked at me. “And then you were a slave.”
“And then I won my freedom—” I started, but he cut me off with a tittering sound.
“You became an apprentice as we trained—”
“Tortured,” I corrected dully.
“But even that’s a far leap from a queen”
Source: A Dream of Embers
“You were a rhyme who mattered, a being who slipped all too often.”
“You were a soldier?" "Yes, sir." "You barely look old enough to have seen the last battle." "My father was a career army man, sir. I was there at the first engagement with Analousia, and took up my father's rifle when I was barely fifteen." "Saints preserve us," Dr. Kelling said, and squeezed Galen's shoulder. "What have we done to our youth?”
Source: Princess of the Midnight Ball