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“You could shove it up your ass and pretend you're a corn dog."
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Source: Ready Player One
“You could sing us the phone book and we would still love you.”
“You could sit all day and think, but nothing will happen. You need to go do something instead. So what? You do something and it's a mistake. At least you tried.”
Source: Loneliness & Company
“You could sit around and feel sorry for yourself or you can go out and do things for others.”
“You could sit in there all day drinking coffee and they never asked you to leave no matter how bad you looked. They just asked the bums not to bring their wine and drink it there. Places like that gave you hope when there wasn´t much hope.”
Source: Ham On Rye
“You could sit on this couch for the rest of your life, and I could not love you any more or less.”
Source: Be Held By Him: Finding God When Life Knocks You Off Your Feet
“You could sit on top of a mountain praying for hours a day and still not make it if you had no love in your heart. You could spend your life feeding the poor and still not make it because your karma required you to bear and nurture children. The path home to God is different for every person. Only communion with your Higher Self will reveal your path to you.”
“You could sketch me,” said Emma. She flung herself down onto her seat, leaning her head on her hand.
“ ‘Draw me like one of your French girls.’ ”
Julian grinned.
“I hate that movie,” he said. “You know I do.”
Emma sat up indignantly.
“The first time we watched Titanic, you cried.”
“I had seasonal allergies,” Jules said.”
Source: Lord of Shadows
“You could slap his wrist for saying it, but then he said it with his face, and you could spank him for making faces, but then he said it with his eyes, and there were limits to correction-no way, in the end, to penetrate behind the blue irises and eradicate a boy's disgust.”
Source: The Corrections: A Novel
“You could smell my ass from mars.”
“You could sometimes see her twelfth year in her cheeks, or her ninth sparkling from her eyes; and even her fifth would flit over the curves of her mouth now and then.”
Source: Tess of the D'Urbervilles (Diversion Classics)
“You could speak on my behalf. Try to persuade him.”
His black eyes glittered. “I’m afraid I’m only a messenger.”
“Please,” I said. “I do not want them here, truly. I am not being funny.”
“No,” he said, “you are not. You are being very dull. Use your imagination, they must be good for something. Take them to your bed.”
“That is absurd,” I said. “They would run screaming.”
“Nymphs always do,” he said. “But I’ll tell you a secret: they are terrible at getting away.”
At a feast on Olympus such a jest would have been followed by a roar of laughter. Hermes waited now, grinning like a goat. But all I felt was a white, cold rage.
“I am finished with you,” I said. “I have been finished a long time. Let me not see you again.”
If anything, his grin deepened. He vanished and did not return. It was no obedience. He was finished with me too, for I had committed the unpardonable sin of being dull. I could imagine the stories he was telling of me, humorless, prickly, and smelling of pigs. From time to time, I could sense him just out of sight, finding my nymphs in the hills, sending them back flushed and laughing, giddy from the great Olympian who had shown them favor. He seemed to think I would go mad with jealousy and loneliness, and turn them into rats indeed. A hundred years he had been coming to my island, and in all that time he had never cared for more than his own entertainment.”
Source: Circe
“You could spend every waking moment online and still only experience one-trillionth of what's out there. I find that a little overwhelming.”
“You could spend the rest of your life trying to outlive the scars that are left by what you go through in your formative years.”
“You could spend your life trying to uncover all the treasures in New Orleans and not even scratch the surface. It's such an amazing place.”
“You could spend your whole life searching for love with your eyes closed.”
Source: Dearest Josephine
“You could stab a knife right through my heart and you'd be too late.”
Source: Survivor: A Novel
“You could stand here sick with ten illnesses today, and tomorrow have no evidence of any of them. Your body has the ability to replenish itself that fast. But most of you do not have the ability to change your thoughts that fast. So the amount of time that it takes between sickness and wellness is only the amount of time that it takes for me to figure out how to let it in - for me to figure out how to feel good, when I'm looking at something that makes me feel bad.”
“You could start a fire with the heat between you two.
You're mistaking bitter animosity for heartfelt affection.”
Source: The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer
“You could start a small fire... with [photo] books I hate, and use that light to look at mine.”
“You could start an argument in an empty house.”
Source: Lucky Harbor Collection 1: Simply Irresistible, The Sweetest Thing, Head Over Heels
“You could start at a path leading nowhere more fantastic than from your own front steps to the sidewalk, and from there you could go… well, anywhere at all.”
Source: It: A Novel
“You could step on a gator and the next thing you know is ouch.”
“You could still be lying,' says the Roach. He turns to Cardan. 'Try her.'
'Your pardon?' Cardan says, drawing himself up, and the Roach seems to suddenly remember whom he's speaking in such an off-handed way.
'Don't be such a prickly rose, Your Majesty,' the Roach says with a shrug and a grin. 'I'm not giving you an order. I'm suggesting that if you tried to glamour Jude, we could find out the truth.'
Cardan sighs and walks toward me. I know this is necessary. I know that he doesn't intend to hurt me. I know he can't glamour me. And yet I draw back automatically.
'Jude?' he asks.
'Go ahead,' I say.
I hear the glamour enter his voice, heady and seductive and more powerful than I expected. 'Crawl to me,' he says with a grin.
Embarrassment pinks my cheeks.
I stay where I am, looking at all their faces. 'Satisfied?'
The Bomb nods. 'You're not charmed.”
Source: The Wicked King
“You could string a hundred endless days together, My soul would find no comfort from this pain. You laugh at my tale? You may be educated But you haven’t learned to love till you’re insane”
“You could take a robin, put it in a cage, and carry it with you around the world- but if you never opened the cage door, how much of a difference would you have made to the robin's life? All it would know was the view through the bars.”
Source: The Lady's Guide to Celestial Mechanics
“You could take all the gold that's ever been mined, and it would fill a cube 67 feet in each direction. For what that's worth at current gold prices, you could buy all -- not some -- all of the farmland in the United States. Plus, you could buy 10 Exxon Mobils, plus have $1 trillion of walking-around money. Or you could have a big cube of metal. Which would you take? Which is going to produce more value?”
“You could take it for granted that the Security Police invariably made fools of themselves.
Stieg Larsson. The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest - Stieg Larsson (p. 230). (Function). Kindle Edition.”
Source: The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest
“You could take the entirety of the common sense of humans and put it in the palm of your hand and still have room for your dick.”
Source: Red Doc>
“You could take the Internet enthusiasm that was happening in 1999 and 2000 here in the U.S., and in China it was three-to-five times more ebullient.”
“You could take up the line that some of the gnostics took up - a line which I often thought was a very plausible one - that as a matter of fact this world that we know was made by the devil at a moment when God was not looking. There is a good deal to be said for that, and I am not concerned to refute it.”
Source: Bertrand Russell's Best
“You could take Vicodin, step out of the house, onto a freeway, have a truck hit you, and you'd say "My Bad!".”
“You could talk about same-sex marriage, but people who have been married (say) 'It's the same sex all the time.'”
“You could teach [George] Carlin in college. It's the construction of the word and the order of things and how they go. How all those sentences are timed perfectly.”
“You could tell 'The Handmaid's Tale' from a male point of view. People have mistakenly felt that the women are oppressed, but power tends to organise itself in a pyramid. I could pick a male narrator from somewhere in that pyramid. It would interesting.”
“You could tell a lot about a man by the books he keeps - his tastes, his interest, his habits.”
“You could tell by the way he talked, though, that he had gone to school a long time. That was probably what was wrong with him.”
Source: A Confederacy of Dunces
“You could tell from the books whether a library was meant for show or not. Books that were used had an open, interested feel to them, even if closed and neatly lined up on a shelf in strict order with their fellows. You felt as though the book took as much interest in you as you did in it and was willing to help when you reached for it.”
Source: The Scottish Prisoner: A Novel
“You could tell more about a stranger by seeing their house than you ever would by inviting them to yours.
- Cassie”
Source: The Naturals
“You could tell she was a free spirit, a gypsy, just by looking at her. A smile like that doesn't come from a sad soul.”
“You could tempt the devil into Heaven.”
“You could then use the dream to learn more about yourself, others, the world, and the nature of life. You can come awake in the matrix and realize you're the one in your own dream. People on the spiritual path can do that, thus they can avoid wasting the whole night, and use it in a developmental, nice way.”
“You could think about Vietnam and at some point in time about Nigeria. And then you head to South America: Argentina, Columbia, Peru. Probably not all of them will have an F1 race, but they are definitely considering events.”
“You could think of an ecosystem as a bunch of antagonistic arms races, almost: Everything that an animal depends upon for food is the body part of some other animal or plant who would just as soon keep that body part for itself.”
“You could think of extraordinary examples to the contrary: The Grapes of Wrath... and even into the 70s.”
“You could think of mindfulness as wise and affectionate attention.”
“You could tie my hands to my sides, I suppose, but I have to write. For my own mental health, I need to write.”
“You could time a suburban story by your watch: it lasts as long as it takes a small furry animal that's lonely to find friends, or a small furry animal that's lost to find its parents; it lasts as long as a quick avowal of love; it lasts precisely as long as the average parent is disposed on a Tuesday night to spend reading aloud to children.”
“You could touch for a couple of bucks. The window of the booth went up and you stuck out the bills. They might tell you not to pinch, but I was a stroke type anyway. Some guys, I guess they want to leave a mark. Me, I just like the feel.”
Source: Venus Drive: Stories
“You could train cats do things, a lot of people don't think cats aren't trainable. Cats can be trusted just a friend.”