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“You couldn't be romantic if your life depended on it." "You know what's lucky? Most bad guys don't ask you to be romantic on command, so that probably won't matter.”
Source: The Morganville Vampires:
“You couldn't be satisfied with being an amateur asshole, could you, Jimbo! You had to go and turn pro on me!”
“You couldn't be that good and not know it, somewhere in your secret heart, however much you'd been abused into affecting public humility.”
Source: A Civil Campaign
“You couldn't beg, borrow, or steal a job in 1931, 1932... it was really tough.”
“You couldn't catch a mouse if leaped in between your paws!”
“You couldn't change a river into a sea, but you could trace a new channel for it to follow.”
“You couldn't change the past. You could only go forward”
Source: Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls
“You couldn't changed history. But you could get it right to start with. Do something differently the FIRST time around. This whole business with seeking Slytherin's secrets... seemed an awful lot like the sort of thing where, years later, you would look back and say, 'And THAT was where it all started to go wrong.' And he would wish desperately for the ability to fall back through time and make a different choice. Wish granted. Now what?”
“You couldn't do it?" Rob Lynburn sneered. "I know her," Ash said in a low voice. "I can't... hurt someone I know.”
Source: Unspoken (The Lynburn Legacy Book 1)
“You couldn't drop knowledge if you threw an Encyclopedia off a cliff.”
“You couldn't erase the past. You couldn't even change it. But sometimes life offered you the opportunity to put it right.”
Source: Girls in Pants: The Third Summer of the Sisterhood
“You couldn't even prove the White House staff sane beyond a reasonable doubt.”
“You couldn't even prove the White House staff sane beyond a reasonable doubt. When I was born I was so surprised I didn't talk for a year and a half. I am not part of the problem. I am a Republican.”
“You couldn't even write me a paper about the roles you would dream of playing in modern musical theatre.”
“You couldn't expect anyone else to share your suffering. You had to carry your pain alone.”
“You couldn't find nobody deader, not if you'd sarched for a week. Why, door nails, and Julius Caesar, and things o' that description, would ha' been lively compared with your poor ma when I see her. Lively! that's what they'd ha' been.”
“You couldn't forget Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse and Joan Miro either. And it had to be, you know, at least as good or better.”
“You couldn't get hold of the things you'd done and turn them right again. Such a power might be given to the gods, but it was not given to women and men, and that was probably a good thing. Had it been otherwise, people would probably die of old age still trying to rewrite their teens.”
“You couldn't give up you for them. But what if you wanted them more than you wanted a singular powerful you?”
Source: The Kristin Hannah Collection: Volume 1: Firefly Lane, True Colors, Fly Away
“You couldn't have a more clear choice between Donald Trump and I, who will end illegal immigration in this country, and - and Hillary Clinton, who will pursue more of the same, executive amnesty, open borders, which the American people are sick and tired of.”
“You couldn't have done this without killing an Arab prince.”
“You couldn't have fed the '50s into a computer and come out with the '60s.”
“You couldn't have human society without language.”
“You couldn't have it if you DID want it.”
Source: Through the Looking-Glass
“You couldn't have small, dying children in a movie without really bringing everyone down, but you can in comics.”
“You couldn't have strength without weakness, you couldn't have light without dark, you couldn't have love without loss”
Source: The Tenth Circle: A Novel
“You couldn't hope to make a drama and have people rewriting on the day and having the actors making suggestions, "Wouldn't it be funny if my character did this?" "No. You're the actor. I'll tell you what to do."”
“You couldn't hurt a fly." Actually I was pretty good at pinging flies right out of the air, but I tried to look appropriately harmless.”
“You couldn't just pick and choose at will when someone depended on you, or loved you. It wasn't like a light switch, easy to turn on or off. If you were in, you were in. Out, you were out.”
“You couldn't make a cheap drama. That would be too low-budget. Drama has to have good photography and well-known actors.”
“You couldn't make the fans throw up their hands if they swallowed their fingers.”
“You couldn't make yourself stop feeling a certain way, no matter what the other person did. You had to just wait. Eventually the feeling went away because others came along. Or sometimes it didn't go away but got squeezed into something tiny, and hung like a piece of tinsel in the back of your mind.”
“You couldn't not like someone who liked the guitar.”
Source: The Stand
“You couldn't pay me enough to be a law enforcement officer. Their job is a tough job. You have to solve people's problems, you have to baby-sit people, you have to always be doing this cat-and-mouse game with the bad guys. My respect for them is immense.”
“You couldn't pretend you had lost nothing... you had to begin there, not let your blood freeze over. If your heart turned away at this, it would turn away at something greater, then more and more until your heart stayed averted, immobile, your imagination redistributed away from the world and back only toward the bad maps of yourself, the sour pools of your own pulse, your own tiny, mean, and pointless wants.”
Source: Birds of America: Stories
“You couldn't put me in a social group setting. I'm probably a terrible anarchist deep down.”
“You couldn't release the single on its own, because no one wanted it.”
“You couldn't relive your life, skipping the awful parts, without losing what made it worthwhile. You had to accept it as a whole--like the world, or the person you loved.”
“You couldn't say 'I had orders.' You couldn't say 'It's not fair.' No one was listening. There were no Words. You owned yourself. [...] Not 'Thou Shalt Not'. Say 'I Will Not'.”
“You couldn't see the key around my neck: it hung too low under both collars. But if I leaned in close, I could make it out, buried deep beneath. Out of sight, hard to recognize, but still able to be found, even if I was the only one to ever look for it.”
Source: Lock and Key
“You couldn't shoot a fart out of your own ass!”
“You couldn't take two roads. And once you were on one, there was no going back.”
Source: Beautiful Creatures
“you couldn't talk yourself into love any more than you could talk yourelf out of it.”
“You couldn't tell if she was dressed for an opera or an operation.”
“You couldn't trust anyone or anything that belonged to the world of espionage.”
“You couldn't unburn the books. You could only buy new ones.”
“You couldnt erase everything that caused you pain with recollection.Every memory was valuable; even the bad ones”
“You couldnt make headlines with raised eyebrows”
“You couldn’t get rid of the past. You couldn’t ignore it, or bury it, or throw it over the balcony. You just had to learn to live beside it. It had to peacefully co exist with your present. If I could figure out how to do that, I could be okay.”
“You couldn’t keep your mouth shut? I’m calling you Glitterhair from now on. Or Talksalot.”
Source: The Exiled Queen (The Seven Realms Series, Book 2)