Y Quotes
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“Yes I graduated from high school. Welfare. Temporary work, please. What is my problem? I want to eat.”
“Yes, I guess you could say I am a loner, but i feel more lonely in a crowded room with boring people then i feel on my owm.”
“Yes, I had dreamed of becoming a botanist, my entire life, really. I'd thought a great deal about the various species of maple and rhododendron while braiding challah, and I'd successfully planted a wisteria vine in a large pot and trained it over the awning of the bakery. And at night, after we closed shop, I volunteered at the New York Botanical Garden. Sweeping up cuttings and fallen leaves hardly seemed like work when it provided the opportunity to gaze into the eye of a Phoenix White peony or a Lady Hillingdon rose, with petals the color of apricot preserves.
Yes, horticulture, not pastries, was my passion.”
Source: The Last Camellia
“Yes I had to dress up in drag but what fun. And now I feel like a real lady.”
“Yes, I hate orthodox criticism. I don't mean great criticism, like that of Matthew Arnold and others, but the usual small niggling, fussy-mussy criticism, which thinks it can improve people by telling them where they are wrong, and results only in putting them in straitjackets of hesitancy and self-consciousness, and weazening all vision and bravery.
...I hate it because of all the potentially shining, gentle, gifted people of all ages, that it snuffs out every year. It is a murderer of talent. And because the most modest and sensitive people are the most talented, having the most imagination and sympathy, these are the very first ones to get killed off. It is the brutal egotists that survive.”
Source: If You Want to Write: A Book about Art, Independence and Spirit
“Yes I have a belt. I wear big pants because my ass is huge. So I can't go to a store by off the rack a size that is appropriate for my waist because they don't fit my ass!”
“Yes, I have a romantic nature; it is a character flaw which should be viewed with pity, not derision.”
Source: A Mixture of Madness
“Yes, I have certainly seen and heard much. But there were not many heroes. We men are a flawed and rebellious herd. Our aspirations are lofty, but our doing is mired deep in the troubles of our own muddy mess.”
Source: The Stone Cutter: A novel of Petra In Ancient Arabia
“Yes, I have changed and no,
I am not sorry about it.”
Source: Life Simplified: Quote - Unquote
“Yes! I have changed. I don't let anyone hurt me now.”
Source: Life Simplified: Quote - Unquote
“yes, i have dated Salvador Dali guy when i was a high school girl. he was a great lover. but i had to dump him because he stole my inspiration of bent clock*~* .... who cares...”
“Yes I have done it all. Tested the shallow waters, swam through the dangerous tides, met strangers, seen friends turn strangers, taken risks to achieve my goals, persevered to out do myself each time, rose high, fell hard, learned to climb, learned to dream and in dreaming learned to relate to reality.
I have earned respect, achieved things very young, believed in my potential, questioned it too but through it all I have never stopped to aspire. I am a human and I must adapt to the changing seasons, learn new skills and master them all.
Now as I stand and look up, I see a heap of laurels yet to achieve and chest of mysteries yet to resolve. I am not one in the crowd. I'll forever be the one whom they could never be”
“yes, I have feelings
and no, I’m not afraid of them
not even the shadowy ones
that you’d rather ignore
i gather them in
welcome them home
give them space to breathe
and light them on glorious fire
just to see
what might be illuminated
while they burn”
“Yes I have had a tan, actually. I went to Los Angeles and got one there, but it didn't make it back to Britain. You're not allowed to come through customs with a tan.”
“Yes I have loved, as no one on earth ever loved, with an insensate and furious love, so violent that I wonder it did not break my heart”
“Yes I have made a lot of money and I have a lot of respect, my films have done well, and I know there are loads of loads of people who look up to me and really love me. I really just thought this is like a strange dream. I have never thought this is a success - I don't have a standard.”
“Yes. I have much Astrophage. My ship was more efficient than planned on trip here. You can have two million kilograms.'
I fall back in to my seat. I pant. I almost hyperventilate. My eyes well up. 'Oh my God...'
'No understand.'
I wipe away tears.
'You are okay, question?'
'Yes!' I sob. 'Yes, I'm okay. Thank you! Thank you thank you!'
'I am happy. You no die. Let's save planets!'
I break down, crying tears of joy. I'm going to live!”
Source: Project Hail Mary
“Yes I have smoked crack cocaine. But no - do I? am I an addict? - No. Yes, I've made mistakes. All I can do now is apologize and move on.”
“Yes, I have the Maiden, and I'm not giving her back.”
Source: A Kingdom of Flesh and Fire
“Yes, I keep the flower,” Kelsier said. “I’m not really sure why. But…do you stop loving someone just because they betray you? I don’t think so. That’s what makes the betrayal hurt so much—pain, frustration, anger…and I still loved her. I still do.
How?” Vin asked. “How can you? And, how can you possibly trust people? Didn’t you learn from what she did to you?” Kelsier shrugged. “I think...I think given the choice between loving Mare—betrayal included—and never knowing her, I’d choose love. I risked, and I lost, but the risk was still worth it. It’s the same with my friends. Suspicion is healthy in our profession—but only to an extent. I’d rather trust my men than worry about what will happen if they turn on me.”
Source: Mistborn: The Final Empire
“Yes, I know, because schools are cruel, illogical, and unfair. But the thing is, life is cruel, illogical, and unfair. That is why the education system works so well. If schools and teachers did a good job and inspired children and made them enthusiastic about every subject, they would only be sadly disappointed when they got out into the real world. Better to disappoint them when they're young. It is more important to learn to cope with disappointment than learn how to do long division." - Nanny Piggins”
Source: Nanny Piggins and the Wicked Plan
“Yes, I know doctors like me are supposed to believe in reason. I believe in reason! That doesn’t mean I have to believe in it to the exclusion of everything else! Lots of Chinese people believe in more than one thing. I’m no different from the rest of my people”
Source: The Lost Century
“Yes, I know everything can disappear in a flash of light. That doesn’t make anything less valuable.”
Source: Burnt Shadows
“Yes, I know I am not perfect. I make mistakes, I overthink, and I overreact, too, but at least I am not like you. At least I don’t use people and then throw them out of my life when I am done. I don’t pretend to care just to fill my empty moments. When I give my time, I mean it. When I care, I genuinely do. I don’t treat people like options or memories that can be erased when they no longer serve me. Maybe I would have hurt you, but who doesn't hurt? Have you not hurt me ever?”
Source: Life Simplified: Quote - Unquote
“Yes, I know," Isadora said, and then read her poem, leaning forward so Carmelita Spats would not overhear:
"I would rather eat a bowl of vampire bats
than spend an hour with Carmelita Spats."
The Baudelaires giggled and then covered their mouths so nobody would know they were laughing at Carmelita.
"That was great," Klaus said. "I like the part about the bowl of bats.”
Source: The Austere Academy
“Yes, I know it.
In the darkness of my dark-beating heart, I know. He’d have loved it, all right.
You see?
Even death has a heart.”
Source: The Book Thief
“Yes I know my enemies. They're the teachers who taught me to fight me, compromise, conformity, assimilation, submission, ignorance, hypocrisy, brutality, the elite, all of which are American dreams.”
“Yes I know sorrow. Know it far too well. My life is a tunnel choked by the sweepings of dread.”
Source: Electra
“Yes I know: the thread you have to keep finding, over again, to follow it back to life; I know. Impossible, sometimes.”
Source: Door in the Mountain: New and Collected Poems, 1965-2003
“Yes, I know there is a fashion nowadays for these Hitler's-valet type memoirs, and many people are against, they say we should not humanise the inhuman. But the point is they are not inhuman, these Mainduck-style little Hitlers, and it is in their humanity that we must locate our collective guilt, humanity's guilt for human beings' misdeeds; for if they are just monsters - if it is just a question of King Kong and Godzilla wreaking havoc until the aeroplanes bring them down - then the rest of us are excused.”
Source: The Moor's last sigh
“Yes, I know. You don't understand—I love you because of what you did, not despite it.”
Source: Mary Wept Over the Feet of Jesus: Prostitution and Religious Obedience in the Bible
“Yes, I know, you often desperately look for a saviour! Then, dear brother, look at the mirror, you will see your saviour there! Each one of us is the only saviour of our own selves!”
“yes, i know your loneliness—
the kind that hums in the pause
between a message sent at ten
and read at seven.”
Source: the void and the feed
“Yes, I lay in my grave. But if you lie in a grave long enough, you get accustomed to it and you don't want to part from it. He had given me a pill of cyanide, He and his wife and their son also carried such pills. We all lived with death, and I want you to know that one can fall in love with death. Whoever has loved death cannot love anything else any more. When the liberation came and they told me to leave, I didn't want to go. I clung to the threshold like an ox being dragged to the slaughter. ("Hanka")”
Source: American Fantastic Tales: Terror and the Uncanny from the 1940s to Now
“Yes, I learned to hate, Peter, and that is worse than being sick, or starved, or thirsty, or in pain.”
Source: Jennie
“Yes I'll come get you, and I will bring you home.
I'll come get you, and I will bring you home.
I'll come get you, and I'll say: Welcome home.”
“Yes, I'll follow you, even to death - but I won't live with you any more.”
Source: Carmen
“Yes, I'll marry you."
And then his hands were in her hair, scattering her hairpins, and his lips were on hers, stealing her breath, and she was touching him- this remarkable man whom she'd loved for so long and who was finally, finally hers.
Callie sighed into Ralston's mouth- noting that he tasted of scotch and something more exotic, more male- and a feeling of complete and utter elation coursed through her. This was Ralston, her future husband, and he was making her feel so warm and wonderful and alive. And then he was kissing down the column of her neck, whispering her name like a litany as he lifted her arms over his shoulders and set his lips to the expanse of white skin above the neck of her gown. Callie gasped as his strong hands spread wide across her torso, stealing up to cup her breasts in a gesture of complete and utter possession.
"This gown," he said, the words coming thick and liquid, "is sinful."
Callie couldn't help her smile as he leaned back to watch her breasts lift against the satin edge of the dress. "Do you think so?"
"Indeed. It is made to drive men crazy... to reveal all your luscious curves"- he ran a finger beneath the satin lazily, just far enough to graze the edge of a nipple- "without showing off anything. It's a torturous viewing experience," he added, wickedly, as he pulled the edge of the gown lower, exposing the straining tip of one breast to the cool air and his hot mouth. He suckled briefly, until Callie was writhing against him, then, releasing her, he said, "When we are married, I shall buy you one in every color.”
Source: Nine Rules to Break When Romancing a Rake
“Yes, I loved you… and in loving you, I destroyed myself.”
Source: Life Simplified: Quote - Unquote
“Yes, I loved you. Keyword: LOVED. Get the fuck away from me.”
“Yes, I'm a man and everyone knows men are great hairy beasts scarcely tamed by civilization
-Jermyn, Duke of Northcliff to Amy, Princess Beaumontaigne”
Source: The Barefoot Princess
“Yes, I'm a materialist. I'm willing to be shown wrong, but that has not happened — yet. And I admit that the reason I'm unable to accept the claims of psychic, occult, and/or supernatural wonders is because I'm locked into a world-view that demands evidence rather than blind faith, a view that insists upon the replication of all experiments — particularly those that appear to show violations of a rational world — and a view which requires open examination of the methods used to carry out those experiments.”
“Yes, I'm a murderer. I enjoy hurting people. I like blood. I like pain. I am a monster, but whether you remember it or not, I'm your monster, Evangeline.”
Source: A Curse for True Love
“Yes, I’m Daniel Tahi." I know what your lips taste like.I know you roll your eyes when you think someone is an idiot. I know that you wish you were six inches shorter because you hate being taller than most of the boys you've ever met. Your name is tattooed across my chest and written on my heart.You are a fire daughter of earth, fanua afi and I am vasa loloa,son of the ocean. I am yours...And you can’t even remember who I am.”
Source: When Water Burns
“Yes. I'm doing okay." I finally tore my gaze from his and stared at the floor. He put his hand on my right shoulder and pulled me closer to him. My head leaned on his right shoulder.
And suddenly, I was tempted to sob, to let all my emotions out on his shoulder.
But I didn't. I wasn't going to let the boy I liked see me like that. Ever.”
Source: Itchikan: 'til death do us part'
“Yes, I'm fine; yes, I'm always fine.
No, I'm not just saying that so
you'll leave me alone.”
Source: I'll Fly Away
“Yes. I'm going to take a holiday. More than that; I'm going to take a walk. More than that; I'm going to ask you to take a walk with me.”
Source: Great Expectations
“Yes. I'm going to talk to her. Maybe." Kristoff huffed. "You, Bulda, Grand Pabbie... you act like this is so easy! They may be so-called love experts, but they've never left the valley."
Sven snorted.
"Hi," Anna interrupted, feeling funny. She was suddenly very aware of how she looked, and how he did, too. Kristoff had on a bright blue dress shirt and clean pants. She was wearing a green dress under a flour-and-icing-covered apron. Her braids, which she'd had in for two days, needed refreshing. "Were you looking for me? I mean, not actually looking, but you're here, so maybe... you're hungry?"
He immediately blushed. "What? Yes. I mean, no. I..." He pressed a bunch of carrots into her hands. "I just wanted to give you what I owed you."
"Oh." Anna looked down. "You didn't have to bring me back- oof!"
Sven had bumped into Anna, sending her flying into Kristoff's arms. The two tumbled backward, falling onto several stacks of flour Anna's parents hadn't had a chance to bring into the shop yet.
"This is awkward," Anna said, struggling to get up. 'Not because you're awkward. Because we're... I'm... awkward." She stood up. "You're gorgeous. Wait, what?”
Source: Conceal, Don't Feel
“Yes, I'm hungry. Horny, too! The thought of feeding from you is a most delectable idea and it's playing havoc with my brain as well as other parts of my body."
He sat up and scooted closer to me...”
Source: Scent of a White Rose
“yes, i'm leaving. It's bad for my emotional well-being to be around people who are angry, especially when they're angry with me. I don't want to get stomach ulcers or hardened arteries, so I'm leaving while I'm still healthy.”
Source: Miracle on 5th Avenue