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“You could have the sharpest eyes, but if the eyes of your heart are clouded in darkness, you couldn’t see ... even if you tried. Only the Truth could really make you see.”
Source: The Curious Case of Doctor Maundy
“You could have the world in the palm of your hand, but it don't mean a thing 'til you change it.”
“You could have these crazy Internet valuations in the late 1990s, but they prove themselves out in the market. The next day they were selling for more than they were the day before, and people said, you know, you're crazy if you don't get in on this. So it's very human.”
“You could have told me earlier.” “You seemed so serious about the game. I didn’t want to bother you.”
Source: The Lucky One
“You could have told me yourself that you found someone else, instead I heard it through the grapevine.”
“You could have two completely different careers if you could stay healthy to 90. How fascinating that would be.”
“You could heal him?" I asked, glancing at Hal.
"Could," said the wysling, "but won't, until I get what's mine."
I pressed my lips together and took a deep breath. "You're heartless and selfish."
"I agree," he said, steepling his pale hands together and pointing them at the floor. "Any decent human being would offer to heal him anyway. However, since I'm neither decent nor a human being, I feel pretty all right about it.”
Source: Paper Crowns
“You could hear the wind in the leaves, and on that wind traveled the screams of the kids on the playground in the distance, little kids figuring out how to be alive, how to navigate a world that wasn't made for them by navigating a playground that was.”
“You could hear the wind in the leaves, and on that wind traveled the screams of the kids on the playground in the distance, the little kids figuring out how to be alive, how to navigate a world that was not built for them by navigating a playground that was. . . Who am I to say that these things might not be forever? Who is Pete Van Houten to assert as fact the conjecture that our labor is temporary? All I know of heaven and all I know of death is in this park: an elegant universe in ceaseless motion, teeming with ruined ruins and screaming children.”
“You could hear us?" Christiana asked with horror.
"I'm sure the whole house can hear you," she said dryly. "He roars like a lion, and you squeal like a stuck pig.”
Source: The Heiress
“You could hold me and I could hold you. And it would be so peaceful. Completely peaceful. Like the feeling of sleep, but awake in it together.”
Source: Will Grayson, Will Grayson
“You could hollow out a big pumpkin and wear it on your head for the entire week of your birthday. This will allow you to get in touch with your Halloween emotions.”
“You could honestly get Cassian a new knife and he'd kiss you for it. But Az would probably prefer no presents at all, just to avoid the attention while opening it.”
Source: A Court of Wings and Ruin
“You could," I say. "But if you do not, and you hear me out, you'll recieve something from me that I will never offer you again."
"Oh?" he says. "And that is?"
"My mercy Erubus," I say. "My Mercy”
“You could imagine writing about a prostitute, for instance, but if you haven't spent time with prostitutes then you're going to get all these details wrong. But if you have a lot of sex with prostitutes and you're friends with prostitutes and you interview prostitutes, then maybe after many, many years you might be able to create prostitute characters.”
“You could increase farmworker wages significantly and not change the price to the consumer at all - for instance, if you redistribute how revenue is paid out across the food chain. Labor costs, particularly farm labor, is a tiny portion of the price we pay at the supermarket.”
“You could inspire any man to do a number of things.”
Source: Dark Muse
“You could just as well say that an agnostic is a deeply religious person with at least a rudimentary knowledge of human fallibility.”
Source: Contact
“You could just do independent movies, but I like bigger kind of studio movies, at least some of them.”
“You could just do the work, you know,' I say. 'You could make better decisions, make a better life.'
'Yeah, I could,' he says. 'But I won't. We both know that.'
I do know that. I know that change is difficult, and comes slowly, and that it is the work of many days strung together in a long line until the origin of them is forgotten. He is afraid that he will not be able to put in that work, that he will squander those days, and that they will leave him worse off than he is now. And I understand that feeling - I understand being afraid of yourself.”
Source: Allegiant
“You could just fall in love with me, then.” He leaned closer. “Problem solved.”
“You first.” I huffed and moved away, pain seared through my chest—stomping out the warmth that had been so alive a moment before.”
Source: Chasing Headlines
“You could just fix the issue and be on your way, but by creatively meeting their needs in ways that go above and beyond, you’ll create customers that are committed to you and your product.”
Source: Happy Customers
“You could just tell when a person belonged somewhere. That is something you can't fake, no matter how hard you try”
Source: What Happened to Goodbye
“You could kill me, Alice, he looked at me seriously. That's how much you mean to me. As foolish and masochistic as that makes me, you are so much to me that even if it destroys me to be with you, I'll be with you!”
“You could kind of be free and expressive but you already knew when you joined the internet, you knew that you should not be a troll. You began to experience the internet through platforms that were themselves controlled by specific companies, technical instruments of those companies, like search and retrieval and ordering and classification.”
“You could knock my teeth out and break my nose, and there'd be something funny about it to me.”
“You could knock,” Trey said. Brian paused in the bedroom’s doorway holding his towel around his waist. Standing before the long dresser, Trey wrapped his arms around the thin young man in front of him and plastered his body to the guy’s back. Trey’s hand slid up under the hem of his new friend’s T-shirt. The guy’s eyes widened and he caught Trey’s hands in his. “H-hey, Master Sinclair, erm, Brian. Can I call you Brian?” Brian shrugged and the guy flushed. “This isn’t what it looks like. I don’t like guys or anything.” He shook his head vigorously. “You will,” Trey murmured, inching the guy’s shirt further up his belly. “Trey, are you molesting virgins again?” Brian grinned at his best friend’s delight with his latest conquest.”
Source: Backstage Pass
“You could know a man not by what his friends said about him, but by how he treated his servants.”
Source: Clockwork Angel
“You could know the what of something forever and never discover the why.”
Source: Acceptance: A Novel
“You could listen to Woody Guthrie songs and actually learn how to live.”
“You could live in Winnipeg a thousand years and not meet Ringo, Paul McCartney, or Bob Dylan.”
“You could live it up and be successful, but it wouldn't mean anything without love and friends. I could go broke and still be happy because love is all I need.”
“You could live with a stutter your whole life, but you just couldn't get rid of it.”
Source: Stamerenophobia
“You could live without the opera singer, but not without the services of the baker. On this ground you might say that the baker performs a greater service; but no lover of music would agree.”
Source: The Quotable Bertrand Russell
“You could live your life among the sirens and leave this all behind you.”
I smile and turn to him. “You and my mother are both missing one important thing.”
“What’s that?”
“I love being a pirate, and there’s nothing I want to be more.”
He relaxes considerably. “Thank the stars. I was trying so hard to be supportive and forget what I want most.”
“And what’s that?”
Those beautiful brown eyes glint. “You.”
“Have you decided you want to be a permanent member of the crew, then?” I tease.
“Aye, Captain.” He lifts the tricorne off my head and runs his fingers through my hair. “I’ll sail with you anywhere. I don’t care where we go or what we do as long as I’m with you.”
“Could be dangerous.”
“You’ll protect me.”
He leans in and kisses me. So slowly it’s maddening.
When he pulls back, I say, “I run a tight ship, sailor. I expect the rules to be followed.”
“What rules would those be?”
“All men are required to keep a couple days’ worth of stubble on their chins. Makes them look more fearsome. Better pirates, you see.”
He grins so widely, I can feel my heart melt. “I had no idea you liked it so much.” He brings his lips to my ear. “You needn’t make a rule and trouble the other men. I’ll do it if you ask nicely.”
His lips trail down my neck and I shiver. “Anything else?” he asks.
“I need to see you in my quarters for the rest.”
“Aye-aye.”
Source: Daughter of the Siren Queen
“You could live your whole life in one of those cities and never know how ugly it was somewhere else.”
Source: The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet
“YOU COULD LOCK the Gasman in a padded cell with some dental floss and a bowl of Jell-O, and he'd find a way to make something to explode.”
“You could look it up.”
“You could look out the window today, see the sky raining fire, and say that it has all been for nothing, everything we've ever done, because now we've lost. But folk were born and lived and knew friendship and music in this city, ugly as it is, and all across this land that we fought for. Some grew old, and others were less lucky. Many bore children and raised them, and had the pleasure of making them, too, and we gave them that for as long as we could. Who has ever done more, my friend?”
“You could lose the ones you loved in the blink of an eye—and he was willing to bet, when it happened, you weren’t thinking about all the reasons that could have kept you apart. You thought of all the reasons that kept you together.
And, no doubt, how you wished you’d had more time. Even if you’d had centuries…
When you were young, you thought time was a burden, something to be discharged as fast as possible so you could be grown-up. But it was such a bait-n-switch—when you were an adult, you came to realize that minutes and hours were the single most precious thing you had.
No one got forever. And it was a fucking crime to waste what you were given.”
Source: Lover Reborn
“You could love me or hate me
I swear it won't make me or break me.
I'm goin where ever the money takes me.”
“You could love your crazy people, even admire them, instead of resenting that they're not self-sufficient.”
“You could make a case that women addicted men to their sexuality and then withdrew their sexuality until we provided them with a source of income.”
“You could make a feature about the world of tickling. You could include female ticklers and you could find out why people are ticklish, but I don't think it would be a great documentary, when you're spending 90 minutes just finding out about the physiology and psychology of tickling.”
“You could make a film about being intoxicated only when you're riding motorcycles, but really when you're in an enclosed space safely, you can.”
“You could make a good case that the history of social life is about the history of the technology of memory. That social order and control, structure of governance, social cohesion in states or organizations larger than face-to-face society depends on the nature of the technology of memory - both how it works and what it remembers. In short, what societies value is what they memorize, and how they memorize it, and who has access to its memorized form determines the structure of power that the society represents and acts from.”
“You could make a poultice out of mud to cool a fever. You could plant seeds in mud and grow a crop to feed your children. Mud would nourish you, where fire would only consume you, but fools and children and young girls would choose fire every time.”
Source: A Dance with Dragons: A Song of Ice and Fire: Book Five
“You could make a very focused exploration game, that was about player creativity and exploration. But then it wouldn't have these very meticulous scientific kinds of puzzles in it, that Braid has. And so, it was just about picking something and understanding what it was that was chosen, and sticking to it, ruthlessly.”
“You could make an analogy to a security guard who, three weeks prior, was mowing lawns for a living. The second he puts a uniform on and that badge, he's a man. I imagine the majority of us have felt the wrath of the over-zealous security guard guy. Is there something lying dormant in the man, that's waiting to be pumped up with that kind of power? I don't know. Does it reveal him? I don't know. Does it change him? I don't know.”
“You could make any man forget his years. When I saw you arrive in your lovely dress, I was conquered. If you don’t wish to dance anymore perhaps we could chat?”
- David Walton”
Source: The Revenge of Esther Norman The Complete First Series