Y Quotes
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“You were a stone wall, a fort in high, unreachable trees, an island, my own island, that no boat could reach.”
Source: The Story of Us
“You were a strange boy and you've grown into a stranger man, but a unique one, I think.”
Source: The Devil and the Dark Water
“You were a stranger to sorrow: therefore Fate has cursed you.”
“You were a stray cat, strutting so free and full of pride. But I could see your open wound. And without really thinking I just chalked it up to another cool thing about you. I never realized how much you hurt.”
“You were a summer gift, one I'll always treasure. You were a dream I never wanted to wake up from. You opened my eyes to things I'll never really see. You're the best thing that will ever happen to me.”
Source: Ellen Hopkins: Crank Trilogy
“You were a terrible baby, do you know that? Bawling all the time, never sleeping. And one night you just wouldn't shut up, screaming like a dying pig. I walked over to your crib, I looked down at you. I wanted to strangle you. And you looked up at me and you stopped screaming. You smiled at me. Don't die so far from the sea.”
“You were a vessel for the wrong thing. The devil’s purpose is great, but Mine is greater. My blood speaks louder. My light shines bright enough to purge the darkness. Do you believe that My blood is strong enough? Sacrificed for you. Do you believe?”
Source: Once I Knew
“You were a wanted child, God knows, she would say at other moments, lingering over the photo albums in which she had me framed; these albums were thick with babies, but my replicas thinned out as I grew older, as if the populations of my duplicates had been hit by some plague. She would say this a little regretfully, as though I hadn't turned out entirely as she'd expected. No mother is ever, completely, a child's idea of what a mother should be, and I suppose it works the other way around as well. But despite everything, we didn't do badly by one another, we did as well as most.
I wish she were here, so I could tell her I finally know this.”
“You were a wonderful lover.... Such a wonderful person to go to bed with, and I think mostly because you were really indifferent to it.”
Source: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
“You were about five feet short of a ten feet jump?”
“You were afraid of losing me, so you broke up with me? Please tell me how that makes any sense whatsoever.”
Source: Royals
“You were afraid of shooting people?" "No," I say. "I was afraid of my considerable capacity to kill." How many young men fear that there is a monster inside of them?”
“You were aimed from birth: you will never be alone... The whole wide world pours down.”
“You were all I wanted. Right from the start. Even when I knew it was wrong.” I pause before lowering my voice to a near whisper. “You’re still all I want.”
Source: Together We Burn
“You were almost like a haiku: said so little, but meant so much.”
“You were almost mine. That 'almost' is what breaks my heart.”
Source: Truly, Madly, Deeply
“You were already in a prison. You've been in a prison all your life. Happiness is a prison, Evey. Happiness is the most insidious prison of all. Your lover lived in the penitentiary that we are all born into, and was forced to rake the dregs of that world for his living. He knew affection and tenderness but only briefly. Eventually, one of the other inmates stabbed him with a cutlass and he drowned upon his own blood. Is that it, Evey? Is that the happiness worth more than freedom? It's not an uncommon story, Evey. Many convicts meet with miserable ends. Your mother. Your father. Your lover. One by one, taken out behind the chemical sheds... and shot. All convicts, hunched and deformed by the smallness of their cells, the weight of their chains, the unfairness of their sentences. I didn't put you in a prison, Evey. I just showed you the bars.'
'You're wrong! It's just life, that's all! It's just how life is. It's what we've got to put up with. It's all we've got. What gives you the right to decide it's not good enough?'
'You're in a prison, Evey. You were born in a prison. You've been in a prison so long, you no longer believe there's a world outside. That's because you're afraid, Evey. You're afraid because you can feel freedom closing in upon you. You're afraid because freedom is terrifying. Don't back away from it, Evey. Part of you understands the truth even as part pretends not to. You were in a cell, Evey. They offered you a choice between the death of your principles and the death of your body. You said you'd rather die. You faced the fear of your own death and you were calm and still. The door of the cage is open, Evey. All that you feel is the wind from outside.”
Source: V for Vendetta
“you were always a million miles away. Here in body, not in spirit,”
“You were always afraid of being caught while making love, and that fear never allowed you to completely surrender to any of your partners.”
Source: The Pink Cadillac
“You were always good,' he says, looking down at me. 'Just never good enough.”
Source: The Queen of Nothing
“You were always more beautiful than those flowers you love.”
Source: I Took a Plane to Die in Denver
“You were always pretty, he says. I should know, I'm a shallow guy. You're very pretty, you're beautiful”
Source: Normal People
“You were always saying you were gonna shoot him," he mutters, but it's kind of half-hearted. "Stupid fucking little tit, he needs a bullet in his head. What do you keep him round for, anyway?"
Because he makes me laugh. Because, fuck knows why, he adores me. Because he needs somebody to look after him and nobody else knows how. Because everything about us is wrong and I never ever want to be right. Because I wake up in the morning and see him sleeping next to me with his stupid dyed hair and his stupid painted nails and his stupid toy monkey and I remember I love him so much I don't know what to do, I love him I love him I LOVE HIM.”
Source: Stockholm Syndrome
“You were always so good with the dogs, Mary -- you amazed me. When they were born, you were the first human being they met. Or I should say sensed, being blind and deaf. Your hands were the first to touch every dog that came into the world under our care, and I can't help but believe that made a difference. Both ways -- who would you have turned out to be if you hadn't touched all those newborn pups? Who would those pups have turned out to be if they hadn't met the world in your caress? You were at the tip of a very long lever, and if nurture really does trump nature, then every pup came into the world greeted by the scent of their mother and the touch of Mary Sawtelle. I believe they remembered you all their lives. I never told you that when we were traveling, but I could see it every time we walked up to a house or a yard: they knew me, but they remembered you.”
Source: Familiaris
“You were always the King of Much Too Late.'
'And you were always the Queen of my heart,' said Burnet, and held out his arms to her.
For a second, Vanessa said nothing. Her angry profile was turned away; her dark hair shimmered silver. Burnet put his arms around her, and for a moment, she turned her face into the curve of his shoulder...
Then the air gave a giant sob, as if rushing in to fill a space, and the interlaced pair dispersed into dazzling fragments. Millions of butterflies and moths exploded into the turbulence, fluttering madly to escape; bright wings torching the London smoke into a cacophony of colors.
Golden-winged and orange-tipped; peacock-eyed and painted; speckled, stippled, spotted; striped; fretting the kaleidoscope air. And then, they slowly began to dissolve like smoke into the atmosphere.”
Source: The Moonlight Market
“You were always too good for here, Feyre. Too good for us, too good for everyone.' He squeezed my hands. 'If you ever escape, ever convince them that you've paid the debt, don't return.'
I hadn't expected a heart-wrenching good-bye, but I hadn't imagined this, either.
'Don't ever come back,' my father said, releasing my hands to shake me by the shoulders. 'Feyre.' He stumbled over my name, his throat bobbing. 'You go somewhere new- and you make a name for yourself.”
Source: A Court of Thorns and Roses
“You were always uncomfortable with the rhetoric of emotion, which is quite a different matter from discomfort with emotion itself.”
Source: We Need To Talk About Kevin
“You were ambitious - for your life, what it was like when you woke up in the morning, and not for some attainment. Like most people who did not answer a particular calling from an early age, you placed work beside yourself; any occupation would fill up your day but not your heart. I liked that about you. I liked it enormously.”
Source: We Need To Talk About Kevin
“You were an ass long before I made one outta ya!”
“you were
and always will be
that first ever touch
to have fertilized
the ground
beneath my life’s trees
that first ever rose
to have fragranced
the rest of my memories.”
Source: A touch, a tear, a tempest
“You were at school and you were pimply and no one wanted to know you. You get into a group and you've got thousands of chicks there.”
“You were at the age where you could fall in love with a girl over an expression, over a gesture”
Source: This Is How You Lose Her
“You were at the age where you could fall in love with a girl over an expression, over a gesture. That's what happened with your girlfriend, Paloma- she stooped to pick up her purse and your heart flew out of you.”
Source: This Is How You Lose Her
“You were at the party on Friday night, weren't you?" I didn't mentioned I'd followed him into the woods.
He leaned back in his chair, his legs sprawled out. His boots nudged the bottom ruffle of my skirt. "Aye."
Aye? Seriously? Could he be any hotter?
Unless he had been looking for his girlfriend at the party.
Not hot.
"I was supposed to meet my cousin," he elaborated, "but I didn't find her,"
Hot again.”
Source: Stolen Away
“You were banging hard enough to wake the dead."
"And you're lovely enough to rouse them.”
Source: Blood Fever
“You were baptized?"
"My sister told me that yes, Father baptized me shortly after birth. My mother was a Protestant of a faith that deplored infant baptism, so they had a quarrel about it." The Bishop held out his hand to lift the Speaker to his feet. The Speaker chuckled. "Imagine. A closet Catholic and a lapsed Mormon, quarreling over religious procedures that they both claimed not to believe in.”
Source: Speaker for the Dead
“You were beautiful
when you tried to paint
what you didn’t know was torn
from an older painting.
No one understood
your eyes were never meant
to be unveiled—
for no one has known you
since the beginning of the world.”
Source: The Void That Reflects Your Beauty
“You were beautifully and wonderfully created with the skin of diamonds, so if you do break, you are still valuable.”
Source: S.H.E. Serenity, Hope, & Encouragement: For Daily Motivation
“You were born a child of light’s wonderful secret— you return to the beauty you have always been.”
Source: Visions of a Skylark Dresed in Black (HB Gift Edition)
“You were born a giver, don't die a taker.
You were born an earner, don't die a begger.
You were born a sharer, don't die a hoader.
You were born a lover, don't die a hater.
You were born a builder, don't die a destroyer.
You were born a creator, don't die an immitator.
You were born a leader, don't die a follower.
You were born a learner, don't die a teacher.
You were born a doer, don't die a talker.
You were born a dreamer, don't die a doubter.
You were born a winner, don't die a loser.
You were born an encourager, don't die a shamer.
You were born a defender, don't die an aggressor.
You were born a liberator, don't die an executioner.
You were born a soldier, don't die a murderer.
You were born an angel, don't die a monster.
You were born a protecter, don't die an attacker.
You were born an originator, don't die a repeater.
You were born an achiever, don't die a quitter.
You were born a victor, don't die a failure.
You were born a conqueror, don't die a warrior.
You were born a contender, don't die a joker.
You were born a producer, don't die a user.
You were born a motivator, don't die a discourager.
You were born a master, don't die an amateur.
You were born an intessessor, don't die an accusor.
You were born an emancipator, don't die a backstabber.
You were born a sympathizer, don't die a provoker.
You were born a healer, don't die a killer.
You were born a peacemaker, don't die an instigater.
You were born a deliverer, don't die a collaborator.
You were born a savior, don't die a plunderer.
You were born a believer, don't die a sinner.”
“You were born a prey animal but you don't have to die as one." -Anastasia Bloody Thorn”
Source: War Bunny
“You were born a star; autograph your life with excellent works.”
“You were born a winner, a warrior, one who defied the odds by surviving the most gruesome battle of them all - the race to the egg. And now that you are a giant, why do you even doubt victory against smaller numbers and wider margins? The only walls that exist are those you have placed in your mind. And whatever obstacles you conceive, exist only because you have forgotten what you have already achieved.”
Source: Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
“You were born an original, don’t become a copy.”
Source: Paradigm Shift: Change Your Mindset and Live the Life of Your Dreams
“You were born an original work of art. Stay original.”
“You were born an original work of art. Stay original always. Originals cost more than imitations.”
Source: Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
“You were born and with you endless possibilities, very few ever to be realized. It's okay. Life was never about what you could do, but what you would do.”
Source: Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year
“You were born as a butterfly in the cobweb of society. This cobweb converts butterflies into spiders. Those who don't get converted feel stuck in it.”
“you were born as an origional don't die as a copy”
“You were born as pure gold. Family and social conditioning coated you with iron and magnetized it. Stop attracting the outside scrap and recognize the gold inside you.”