Y Quotes
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“Yes. I'm not unhappy about becoming old. I'm not unhappy about what must be. It makes me cry only when I see my friends go before me and life is emptied. I don't believe in an afterlife, but I still fully expect to see my brother again. And it's like a dream life. I am reading a biography of Samuel Palmer, which is written by a woman in England. I can't remember her name. And it's sort of how I feel now, when he was just beginning to gain his strength as a creative man and beginning to see nature. But he believed in God, you see, and in heaven, and he believed in hell. Goodness gracious, that must have made life much easier. It's harder for us nonbelievers.
But, you know, there's something I'm finding out as I'm aging that I am in love with the world. And I look right now, as we speak together, out my window in my studio and I see my trees and my beautiful, beautiful maples that are hundreds of years old, they're beautiful. And you see I can see how beautiful they are. I can take time to see how beautiful they are. It is a blessing to get old. It is a blessing to find the time to do the things, to read the books, to listen to the music. You know, I don't think I'm rationalizing anything. I really don't. This is all inevitable and I have no control over it.”
“Yes, I’m plus size, and it took me many years to learn to love my body. It was instant for him.”
Source: One Night Love
“Yes I'm seeking for someone, to help me. So that some day I will be the someone to help some other one.”
“Yes, I'm sure [the princess] thinks daily of a delinquent midget apprentice growing up to claim her hand ahead of all the nobles and princes of the realm. What could any of them possibly give that you don't have, except titles, land, wealth and all that.”
Source: Dawn of Wonder
“Yes, I’m sure the universe connected us and may do so again when it deems the time is right. Until then, in only a few short hours combined with a set of lovely messages, I have enjoyed something rarely found, a gemstone in the sands of time.”
Source: A Decade of Desire: Erotic Memoirs from The Office Diaries
“Yes, I’m the monster who kills your kin. But you’re a monster too, aren’t you? A liar, just like the rest.”
Source: Ashen Embrace (Divine Destinies
“Yes, I made enough mistakes to last a lifetime, but I’m not a bad parent, and that’s just about the worst thing you can be.”
Source: Conclave
“Yes, I made mistakes. Yes, I hurt people. Yes, I was wrong. But I never wished bad for anyone. I gave people the benefit of the doubt. I cared for others. I went out of my way to make them happy. I was there when people needed me. Yes, I was not perfect, but I was not bad either.”
“Yes, I make mistakes, but that's not the only part of me. I have good in me too, but you never see it.”
“Yes, I may be a loser, but I'm the best dam loser you'll ever meet”
“Yes, I might be different, but I'm DEFIANTLY DIFFERENT - and I'm not going to hide away. I'm going to write what I like and dress how I like and love, or not love, who I like. And I'm going to dream sensational dreams. And let them lead me to live sensational adventures.”
Source: Tell it to the Moon
“Yes, I might have been quiet and shy, the kind of person who did my best to keep my head down just to get through the day. But even then, I had never let people walk all over me. Even in the days when I didn't know a left hook from a karate chop, I'd still always found my own ways of fighting for the things I believed in.”
“Yes, I miss you, I miss you.”
“Yes, I miss you, I miss you. I dare not expatiate, because you will say I am not stark, and cannot feel the things dumb people feel. You know that is rather rotten rot, my dear Vita. After all, what is a lovely phrase? One that has mopped up as much Truth as it can hold.”
“Yes, I never expected to see you!”
Source: Counter Identity
“Yes I never go to the gym otherwise because I think it's a waste of time and the most boring thing on earth.”
“Yes I now feel that it was then on that evening of sweet dreams- that the very first dawn of human love burst upon the icy night of my spirit. Since that period I have never seen nor heard your name without a shiver half of delight half of anxiety.”
Source: Letters
“Yes I pay taxes... There are no ethics in the face of coercion, that is blaming the victim. Focus on the man with the gun, not the man in the crosshairs trying to survive.”
“Yes!' I press my knuckles against the tunnel wall. 'Fist-bump!'
'What, question?'
I rap the tunnel again. 'This. Do this.'
He emulates my gesture against the wall opposite my hand.
'Celebration!' I say.
'Celebration!”
Source: Project Hail Mary
“Yes I remember my sixteenth." Vitellius said "Wonderful omen! Happily chicken in my underpants." "Excuse me.”
“Yes, I represent for her a tidy little capital and, if I should ever happen to die, I am convinced she would be genuinely annoyed. (This should help me to live.) I like to fancy that when the fatal hour of reckoning comes (if it ever does), and my debt to nature is paid at last, she will do her best to prevent the removal, from where it now stands, of the old vase in which I shall have accomplished my vicissitudes. And perhaps in the place now occupied by my head she will set a melon, or a vegetable-marrow, or a big pineapple with its little tuft (or better still, I don't know why, a swede), in memory of me. Then I shall vanish quite (as is so often the way with people when they are buried).”
Source: The Unnamable
“Yes, I said “love”, although I don’t fully understand what this is that I feel for you. That’s something I need to figure out. It’s different than what I felt for Noah, but it’s stronger somehow. I do know that you are so very important to me, and I will relive over and over in my mind our too few moments of being as close as two people can be. They were beautiful, perfect moments. What I wouldn’t give to be that close to you again, right now, in your arms, skin to skin. With you, I lose all inhibition. I feel safe enough to open myself up to you, knowing you will accept me and not judge me.”
Source: Looking for Katie
“Yes," I said softly to him, 'that is the crowning evil, that we can even go so far as to love each other, you and I. And who else would show us a particle of love, a particle of compassion or mercy? Who else, knowing us as we knows each other, could do anything but destroy us? Yet we can love each other.”
Source: Interview with the Vampire
“Yes," I said, staring at the way the sunshine glinted, quite prettily, on the broken fragments. Odd that something so wrecked could be so beautiful.”
Source: The Player
“Yes,' I say, but my voice fails me. It comes out all breath. 'Yes.'
He leans forward in the chair, eyebrows raised, but he doesn't wear his usual arrogant mien. I cannot read his expression. 'To what are you agreeing?'
'Okay,' I say. 'I'll do it. I'll marry you.'
He gives me a wicked grin. 'I had no idea it would be such a sacrifice.'
Frustrated, I flop over on the couch. 'That's not what I mean.'
'Marriage to the High King of Elfhame is largely thought to be a prize, an honour of which few are worthy.'
I suppose his sincerity could last but only so long. I roll my eyes, grateful that he's acting like himself again, so I can better pretend not to be overawed by what's about to happen.”
Source: The Wicked King
“Yes,’ I say. ‘It’s my first actual day of high school ever. I moved from the country. I was home-schooled via distance ed before now.’
‘Incredible.’ He shakes my free hand, while lying in that peculiar position. ‘You’ve managed to evade formal education for a signifcant period of your life. Congratulations and well done.’
‘Are you taking the piss?’
‘Good God, no.”
Source: Begin, End, Begin: A #LoveOzYA Anthology
“Yes I say that I am enlightened. What does that mean? It means I live in a condition of light...There really is no primary self anymore.”
“Yes, I see it.
It is falling to the ground
Scarred with burn holes and marks,
yet still it floats.
It whispers gently in the wind like Fleur with all her hope.”
Source: Fleur of Yesterday
“Yes, I see,’ said Frodo. ‘For one thing, I see that you’re behind the times and the news here. Much has happened since you left the South. Your day is over, and all other ruffians’. The Dark Tower has fallen, and there is a King in Gondor. And Isengard has been destroyed, and your precious master is a beggar in the wilderness. I passed him on the road. The King’s messengers will ride up the Greenway now not bullies from Isengard.’
The man stared at him and smiled. ‘A beggar in the wilderness!’ he mocked. ‘Oh, is he indeed? Swagger it, swagger it, my little cock-a-whoop. But that won’t stop us living in this fat little country where you have lazed long enough. And’ - he snapped his fingers in Frodo’s face - ‘King’s messengers! That for them! When I see one, I’ll take notice, perhaps.’
This was too much for Pippin. His thoughts went back to the Field of Cormallen, and here was a squint-eyed rascal calling the Ring-bearer ‘little cock-a-whoop’. He cast back his cloak, flashed out his sword, and the silver and sable of Gondor gleamed on him as he rode forward.
‘I am a messenger of the King,’ he said. ‘You are speaking to the King’s friend, and one of the most renowned in all the lands of the West. You are a ruffian and a fool. Down on your knees in the road and ask pardon, or I will set this troll’s bane in you!”
Source: The Return of the King
“Yes, I see you. I recognize that you’re a thinking, feeling person, and I’m here to listen.” That’s the essence and magic of meditation—the gift of telling yourself that you matter and that you’re worth time and attention. No pomp. No circumstance. No rules. Just showing up for yourself with compassion and without judgment. When this is your practice, meditation can serve as a mirror and the lighthouse that leads you home.”
Source: You Have 4 Minutes to Change Your Life: Simple 4-Minute Meditations for Inspiration, Transformation, and True Bliss
“Yes. I sometimes feel like that when I read the stories you write for the club magazine. You're always so lively and bright in your own stories.'
'Because that's a made-up world.' Orczy turned away from Agatha's gaze and smiled awkwardly. 'I'm not so good with reality. I'm not really very keen on my real self.”
Source: The Decagon House Murders
“Yes, I still believe a topsy-turvy posture boosts the absorption of literature.”
Source: Dearest Josephine
“Yes. I think I'll name my next horse Charlotte. She had tits a man could die between."
Teta like to name his horses after special women in his life. I'd noticed how he never mentioned naming a horse after his wife.”
Source: Hell Hole
“Yes I think I'm okay, walked into the door again.”
“Yes, I think-" Lillian paused only briefly as she saw someone come into the room. A very tall and piratical-looking someone who could only be Simon Hunt, Annabelle's husband. Although Hunt had begun his career working in his father's butcher shop, he had eventually become one of the wealthiest men in England, owning locomotive foundries and a large portion of the railway business. He was Lord Westcliff's closest friend, a man's man who appreciated good liquor and fine horses and demanding sports. But it was no secret that what Simon Hunt loved most in the world was Annabelle.
"I think," Lillian continued as Hunt walked quietly up behind Annabelle, "the tree is perfect. And I think someone had very good timing in arriving so late that he didn't have to decorate even one bloody branch of it."
"Who?" Annabelle asked, and started a little as Simon Hunt put his hands lightly over her eyes. Smiling, he bent to murmur something private into her ear.
Color swept over the portion of Annabelle's face that was still exposed. Realizing who was behind her, she reached up to pull his hands down to her lips, and she kissed each of his palms in turn. Wordlessly she turned in his arms, laying her head against his chest.
Hunt gathered her close. "I'm still covered in travel dust," he said gruffly. "But I couldn't wait another damned second to see you."
Annabelle nodded, her arms clutching around his neck. The moment was so spontaneously tender and passionate that it cast a vaguely embarrassed silence through the room.”
Source: A Wallflower Christmas
“Yes. I think then, as I have so many times, she is the person I have always wanted to be. I am a shape cut out of the universe, tinged with ever-dying stars- and that she is the creature to fill the gap I leave in the world.”
Source: Sisters
“Yes, I thought, this is what I wanted, this is what I had truly imagined; to be desirable, to be beautiful and seductive, and at the same time to be completely powerful, in control, able to give glimpses of myself to strangers that would haunt them for a long time afterwards, when I wanted, when I chose, and to conceal myself or cut those glimpses short equally as I chose.”
Source: The Erotic Notebooks
“Yes I try to do everything I can not to fail hideously.”
“Yes I try to kill myself in small amounts, an innocuous occupation. Actually I'm hung up on it.”
“Yes, I understand why things had to happen this way. I understand his reason for causing me pain. But mere understanding does not chase away the hurt. It does not call upon the sun when dark clouds have loomed over me. Let the rain come then if it must come! And let it wash away the dust that hurt my eyes!”
Source: Mend My Broken Heart
“Yes I usually make my kids eat their veggie chops and watch my concerts in dead silence. If they ask to watch spongebob squarepants I usually do something volatile like make them eat a yellow sponge with googly eyes on it. I hit them quite a bit, but then again I blame the condom manufacturing government for forcing me to birth them.”
“Yes, I value emotions deeply.
Call me sensitive, call me weak, call me outdated, call me anything you may, but tell me the truth, can you deny emotions give life to life.
If Emotions are an integral part of Being Human,
Why do people suppress feeling them ?
Does the bruising scare them ? Than I wonder who is weak ?”
“Yes, I've endured so much, and you seem to think this means I will endure anything. It does not.”
Source: The Message To The Planet
“Yes, I've got all kinds of misery.
I've got it and it's got me.
But I've been growing the language
to cast it out.
And the feet to dance it
gone.
And the bravery to let something
kinder take its place.”
“yes. I’ve grown to find peace and acceptance in not fighting what I can’t control.”
Source: A Cuban Girl's Guide to Tea and Tomorrow
“Yes. I’ve never met another Aspie girl before.… I mean, that I know of. I guess I probably have, just not another girl who knew she was on the spectrum.” I’m rambling, so I stop myself. “Does that make sense?” Josie giggles a little. “Yes, it makes perfect sense.” She stands up and steps closer to the table. “I actually just spoke about this on the Diversity in Media panel. When did you realize you’re on the spectrum?”
“At first, I hated it. I felt like there was no hope, that no matter how hard I try, I’ll never fit in and everything would always be hard for me.”
“Yes, I want to convert the world,
I want to convert all cussing into hugging.
Yes, I want to convert the people, all of them,
I want to convert mindless mocking into mending.”
Source: Divane Dynamite: Only truth in the cosmos is love
“Yes, I wanted epic love. Weak-in-the-knees, movie-kiss-in-the-rain epic love. What I never realized, not up until this very moment, is that I got it--everything I'd been asking for. My life has been filled with magical moments, I was just so busy waiting I didn't see them when they were here.”
Source: Expiration Dates
“Yes, I wanted to remain here in Faerie, with Wendell. Yes, I knew it went against reason and common sense--- ordinarily two of my strengths. My arguments with Rose had been nonsense all along, because the truth was that I agreed with him. Of course it wasn't a sane decision to befriend a monarch of the Folk, let alone marry one, particularly if he reigned over the Silva Lupi. Nor did I think Wendell was different from other Folk, particularly--- kinder, less enigmatic, or somehow more human. I simply didn't care. I loved him, and I suspected that I would grow to love this beautiful, horrifying place if given the chance. I wanted the chance. I wanted Faerie, its every secret and its every door.
If there was danger in my decision--- and I knew there was--- then so be it. I would accept danger, if it meant I could have this.”
Source: Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands
“Yes, I was a queen of Faerie--- and I wished to appear so. To match. For where had I ever matched before? At Cambridge, yes--- I matched with the old stones, and the dusty libraries. I suppose that, in Faerie, I had wished to match with the Folk. A foolish aim indeed! I wondered at myself now. Yet I suppose that one cannot spend one's life half in love with Faerie without wishing to be part of it, to wonder if it might feel like home in a way no mortal place ever had.”
Source: Emily Wilde's Compendium of Lost Tales