Y Quotes
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“You were the one who changed us when you left me in the tree house; and you keep thinking that if you push hard enough, you can make everything go back to before that moment. It doesn't work that way. Give me a chance to choose you.”
“You were the one who hit me on the roof? I hit you on the jaw. We just happened to be on a roof at the time.”
“You were the one who made it intense. You were the one telling me you wanted to marry me. Or that you couldn't stop thinking about me. You rang me twice a day. You insisted we spent every other night together. I just wanted to hang out and get to know each other. You decided the entire pace of this relationship then you slammed on the brakes when it suited you. It was like I was just a lucky passenger along for the ride.”
Source: Ghosts
“You were the one who made things different, you were the one who took me in. You were the one thing I could count on, above all, you were my friend.”
“You were the one who said it was just a game.''
''I lied.'' The words, a knife. ''You loved me,'' he says. ''And I loved you.”
Source: The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
“You were the one who taught me," he said. "I never looked at you without seeing the sweetness of the way the world goes together, or without sorrow for its spoiling. I became a hero to serve you, and all that is like you.”
Source: The Last Unicorn
“You were the one who threatened us with an Inquisitor," the Bishop reminded him. With a smile.
The Speaker's smile was just as chilly. "And you're the one who told the people I was Satan and they shouldn't talk to me.”
Source: Speaker for the Dead
“You were the only one
who ever felt like home.
And I'll probably spend
eternity trying to recreate
what we had, and it will
forever fall short.”
“You were the only one who looked at me and didn't see her”
“You were the only ones who came to help. The only ones. And yet you asked for nothing in return. Why?'
Rhys's voice was a bit hoarse as he asked, 'Isn't that what friends do?'
A subtle, quiet offer.
Tarquin took him in. Then me. And the others. 'I rescind the blood rubies. Let there be no debts between us.'
'Don't expect Amren to return hers,' Cassian muttered. 'She's grown attached to it.'
I could have sworn a smile tugged at Varian's mouth.”
Source: A Court of Wings and Ruin
“You were the only thing that made me feel safe when the earthquakes threatened to break me. I needed you here because when you're not here, I don't have a home.”
Source: Bear, Otter, and the Kid
“You were the poem I never knew how to write because no words could describe the wind you cannot see, but feel.”
“You were the poem I wanted to write,
But could not find words to write
You were the melody I wanted to sing,
But my voice failed me.
You were the dream I wanted to see
Yet sleep evaded me.
But, etched in memory's silent space
You will always whisper like a soul in the body”
“You were the reason and
I will never deny the fact,
But upon introspection,
I realized It was all due to the placebo effect.”
Source: Ethereal
“You were the reason I fell in love with that city. And now you're the only reason I hate it.”
Source: The Sun Shines Once Again: Poetry & Prose
“You were the safety of land, I was the wild freedom of the ocean.”
“You were the stars, and I was the dark sky behind you."
"Without dark sky, you couldn't see the stars."
"I knew I was useful," he says.
"You're essential.”
Source: Starry Eyes
“You were the stray cat who wandered into my verses and finally found your way home—dumpster diving deep within yourself.”
Source: Sleeping With Enormity: The Art Of Seducing Your Dreams & Living With Passion
“You were the strongest, most beautiful girl I’d ever seen. I still can’t figure out what I did to get so lucky.”
Source: Homecoming
“You were the sun, and I was crashing into you.”
Source: Carry On
“You were the sun I always wanted.”
Source: The Bleeding Hearts
“You were the sun to my moon. But to you? I was just another celestial body in a sky full of stars.”
“You were the two insect parts per million allowed in peanut butter.”
Source: Lucifer at the Starlite: Poems
“You were the vampire in my dream. My perfect one.”
“You were there all day long, 12 hours a day. So there was none of this, 'I'm going back to my trailer, my trailer's bigger than your trailer,' that kind of Hollywood nonsense.”
“You were thinking about how suburbs are perfect cradles for dreaming: they practically beg you to imagine another life, one lived at a burning voltage. The dreaming hidden in this place — murmuring beneath the comfort of the uniform gardens in their perfect rows, the mowed lawns, each driveway that bit too small for the two large cars — you couldn't have become what you are if you hadn't always been from this.”
Source: Kala
“You were too busy crawling, trembling, into the next street, a street where a sight even further from your experience was unfolding.”
Source: Human Acts
“You were too late to be my first, but I badly want you to be my last.”
Source: Wealth of Words
“You were too lazy to learn to dance until it was almost too late, and in the same way you were too lazy to learn to love. As for ideal and tragic love, that I don't doubt you can do marvellously- and all honour to you. Now you will learn to love a little in an ordinary human way.”
“You were tossed away like a pair of beautiful, brand new shoes that did not quite fit.”
“You were totally unprepared for her.” “That's for damned sure.”
“You were trained to play a game, and you're not even good enough to do that. I was trained to kill people, and I was the best at it.”
“You were traveling through the bloodline and entering each of your ancestors' minds. You know things about all of us now."
Lily was right. Sibyl knew where Ivy kept the baking soda. She knew the family recipe for scones, which Sadie had brought over from Scotland. She remembered that Rose had been particularly fond of currant and cream scones, though she'd never seen her eat one.”
Source: The Women of Wild Hill
“You were true to her, even if she was not to you. Never repent of your own goodness, child. To stay true in the face of evil is a feat of strength.”
Source: Daughter of Smoke & Bone
“You were true to her, even if she was not to you. Never repent of your own goodness, child. To stay true in the face of evil is a feat of great strength.” “Strength,” she said with a little laugh. “I gave her strength, and look what she did with it.”
Source: Daughter of Smoke and Bone: Daughter of Smoke and Bone Trilogy
“You were trying to tell me something and I was trying to tell you something else. We didn't trust each other and that was reason enough to make each of us right.”
Source: The Reasons I Won't be Coming: Stories
“You were unsure which pain is worse -- the shock of what happened or the ache for what never will.”
Source: Everything Beautiful Began After
“You were up at 5 o'clock in the morning, and then you'd ride in a caravan, because we didn't have big movie trucks or trailers that is the hardware of a movie camp.”
“You were very brave doing that needlessly dangerous thing you were in no way required to do.”
Source: Something Fabulous
“You were very serious,” her grandmother continued. “You had these big brown eyes and you were always going, ‘What’s that? What’s that?’ You wondered what everything was. You would frown and point a lot, like a conductor looking for your orchestra. You always seemed very busy, like you were between appointments all the time, but you were just a little child.”
“You were
water to me
deep and bold and fathoming' - Praise Song For My Mother by Charlotte Mew”
Source: The Complete Poems
“You were... Well, you were who you were.'
'We're all that,' says Claudia. 'It's something one has to overcome.”
Source: Moon Tiger
“You were wise not to waste years in a lawsuit ... he who commences a suit resembles him who plants a palm-tree which he will not live to see flourish.”
“You were with Margo Roth Spiegelman last night? At THREE A.M.? I nodded. Alone? I nodded. Oh my God, if you hooked up with her, you have to tell me every single thing that happened. You have to write me a term paper on the look and feel of Margo Roth Spiegelman's breasts. Thrity pages, minimum! I want you to do a photo-realistic pencil drawing. A sculpture would also be acceptable. I was wondering if it would be possible for you to write a sestina about Margo Roth Spiegelman's breasts? Your six words are: pink, round, firmness, succulent, supple, and pillowy. Personally, I think at least one of the words should be buhbuhbuhbuh.”
Source: Paper Towns
“You were worth it, old friend, and a thousand times over.”
Source: Where the Red Fern Grows
“You were wrong. She really is the new general in town." I smiled back, hoping he wasn't aware of my body's reaction to us standing so close. "Maybe. But, it's okay. You can still be colonel." He arched an eyebrow. "Oh? Did you demote yourself? Colonel's right below general. What's that make you?" I reached into my pocket and triumphantly flashed the CR-V keys I'd swiped when we'd come back inside. "The driver," I said.”
“You were you,
and I was I;
we were two
before our time.
I was yours
before I knew,
and you have always
been mine too.”
Source: Love & Misadventure
“You weren’t alone,” he says, making sure I hear every word. “And you weren’t floating.”
“How do you know?” I ask.
“Because I was carrying you.”
Source: Give Up The Ghost
“You weren't born to whisper through life. You were made to dance barefoot on the tables, laugh too loud, and shatter every invisible shackle with a wink and a wild idea. This is what alive feels like when unrestrained, unedited and unapologetic about who you are.”
“You weren’t broken. You were surviving.”
Source: Breaking Free: A Journey from Chaos to Clarity