Y Quotes
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“You cut yourself off from all sorts of experience because you tell yourself you re not 'that sort of person”
Source: Me Before You
“You cutting the lawn, fixing the machines,
all this leprous day and then more vodka,
more soda and the pond forgiving our bodies,
the pond sucking out the throb.”
Source: The death notebooks
“You'd be a fool to think that everyone likes you, but you'd also be a fool to think that everyone hates you.”
“You'd be amazed...at how few men have any women they can call upon to speak up for them, no matter how grave the consequences of remaining silent.”
Source: Just Wanna Testify
“You'd be better at it than me' he told Nettle when he visited her. 'This sort of Unravelling doesn't feel like I'm using a magical gift. Sometimes it's like I'm a ghost walking alongside somebody on a difficult journely. I can point out things they've missed, but I can't walk for them. I can't stop the briars tearing them, or their feet aching. I've never done anything so hard.”
Source: Unraveller
“You'd be cute if you weren't such a little humping freak." Carter flattened the fur on the top of the dog's head. "Humperdinck." He met Faith's eyes. "I think I've just named your dog.”
Source: So I Married a Werewolf
“You’d be destroying what makes it special’ she said, ‘It’s the Joshua tree’s struggle that gives it its beauty’.”
“You’d be hard-pressed to find an old person who would trade in a true friend for any amount of popularity or fame. You'd also be hard-pressed to find a young person who wouldn't.”
Source: Single Dad Laughing: The Best of Year One
“You’d be safe if it wasn’t for me.”
“I’d be lonely and sad if it weren’t for you,” I tell her. “Do you think you are not worth a little risk?” At her silence, I continue. “I do.”
Source: Barbarian Lover
“You'd be shocked how few people want what you want.”
Source: Everything Sad Is Untrue
“You'd be smart to start quoting my poetry before I'm dead.”
“You'd be surprised at how far you can get in life, just by being kind.”
“You'd be surprised at how many of us want justice in this case," says Uncle Carlos. "But of course, classic Maverick. Every cop is automatically a bad cop.”
Source: The Hate U Give
“You'd be surprised at how powerful hope can be”
Source: Exile
“You'd be surprised how easy it is to talk an anxiously attached person down from their spiral if you don't leave them in silence to imagine the worst.”
Source: Perfect on Paper
“You'd be surprised how good writing matters when you're going after money.”
Source: The Color Purple
“You'd be surprised how many childhoods each of us has.”
Source: Wise Poison
“You'd be surprised, Theo." she said, leaning back in her shawl-shaped chair, "what small, everyday things can lift us out of despair. But nobody can do it for you. You're the one who has to watch for the open door.”
Source: The Goldfinch
“You’d be surprised what an eleven-year-old can get away with.” —Tuppence”
Source: Idiot Genius: Willa Snap and the Clockwerk Boy
“You'd be surprised what poison is often hidden in the most beautiful camouflage.”
Source: Ghost Soldier
“You'd be teary, too, yes you would be," he said, "if a girl and her bed had crashed into your head.”
Source: Frieda B. Meets the Man in the Moon
“You'd been dying so long nothing looked like itself:”
Source: Incarnadine: Poems
“You'd been in Sunday school long enough to know how the story goes: the voice of God comes down from the sky and asks you to go where you don't want to go, to do what you don't want to do. And you have to do it anyway.”
Source: When We Were on Fire: A Memoir of Consuming Faith, Tangled Love, and Starting Over
“You’d best teach me how to raise hell because we’re going to need it.”
Source: Beyond the Veil
“You’d better be sure about this because this,” he pointed at Nora, then at Tony, “will start a war.”
“You'd better close those lips before I'm tempted to kiss them and really give you something to be all hot and bothered about.”
Source: Down to You
“You’d better not be messing with me. I like you, but if you’re feeding me a load of shit just to get some action, I’m going to plug a big silver stake right through your heart.(Cat)”
Source: Halfway to the Grave
“You'd better pray your ass off before you climb in bed tonight. You better pray the Lord finds you some other line of business, cuz the folks you're working for right now is goddamn devils. Swindling, thieving, crooked goddamn devils.”
Source: Husk
“You'd choose him over me?"
"He ain't the one making me choose.”
“You'd corner me in your conformity but even in dormancy i'm sleeping with enormity, stretching the belly of the earth & everything i was born to be.”
“You'd do much better to employ a man who doesn't hate, Boris. Hate's liable to make mistakes. It is as dangerous as love. I'm doubly dangerous, Boris, because I love too. Love's a fault in both our services.”
Source: The Human Factor
“You'd end it like this?" whispered Baran, gesturing to the clearing. But all Gwylim could see was Wrenna.
"Why not?" said Gwylim. "I've known better heroes to die in worse ways.”
Source: I Want That Twink Obliterated!
“You’d have a list of notes of things that the player did and they’d want you to do it that way in practice. So they’d say, ‘He’s a guy who bites really hard on play action, so every time you see this play, do it that way. You want to give the quarterback a good look. You’re not reading it as you, you’re reading it as them. Play how they play and not how you play.’ Now, you’ve got to learn all your stuff, too, because you want to be on the team. So you’re watching film of you being him and you being you.”
- Matt Chatham”
Source: Belichick and Brady: Two Men, the Patriots, and How They Revolutionized Football
“You'd have thought that after twenty years editing murder mysteries I'd have noticed when I found myself in the middle of one.”
Source: Magpie Murders
“You'd have to ask Leyla if you want to know more. She's a psychologist. One of a dozen on board. We don't just want our passengers to survive—we want them to be OK. We're dealing with a lot of trauma. So if you ever need to talk..."
"I'll pass."
"Bad experiences?"
"Sort of."
"What happened?"
I shrug. "It took a long time to diagnose me."
"From what I understand, autistic girls often don't run into trouble until a later age."
I bark out a laugh. Oh, I ran into trouble, all right. I barely said a word between the ages of four and six. I hit three of my preschool and grade school teachers. In a class photo taken when I was seven, my face is covered in scratches from when I latched onto a particularly bad stim. Therapists and teachers labelled me as bipolar, as psychotic, as having oppositional defiant disorder, as intellectually disabled, and as just straight-up difficult, the same way Els did. One said all I needed was structure and a gluten-free diet.
When I was nine, a therapist suggested I might be autistic, at which point I had already started to learn what set me off and how to mimic people; within two years, I was coping well enough to almost-but-not-quite blend in with my classmates. It's funny when people like Els have no idea anything is off about me, given that my parents spend half my childhood worrying I'd end up institutionalized.
At the time, I thought the diagnosis was delayed because I was bad at being autistic, just like I was bad at everything else; it took me years to realize that since I wasn't only Black, but a Black girl, it's like the DSM shrank to a handful of options, and many psychologists were loath to even consider them.”
Source: On the Edge of Gone
“You’d have to take the good with the awesome to make tong-mates outta us.”
Source: Rise of the Tong: A LitRPG
“You'd kill yourself for recognition
kill yourself to never, ever stop
You broke another mirror
you're turning into something you are not.”
Source: Ghostgirl
“You’d kiss me back right now if I kissed you,” he said, and I tried to decide whether to even attempt denial. “But then you’d remember him and you’d feel bad for it.”
Source: Cold Blood
“You'd like Freedom, Truth, and Justice, wouldn't you, Comrade Sergeant?' said Reg encouragingly.
'I'd like a hard-boiled egg,' said Vimes, shaking the match out.
There was some nervous laughter, but Reg looked offended.
'In the circumstances, Sergeant, I think we should set our sights a little higher--'
'Well, yes, we could,' said Vimes, coming down the steps. He glanced at the sheets of papers in front of Reg. The man cared. He really did. And he was serious. He really was. 'But...well, Reg, tomorrow the sun will come up again, and I'm pretty sure that whatever happens we won't have found Freedom, and there won't be a whole lot of Justice, and I'm damn sure we won't have found Truth. But it's just possible that I might get a hard-boiled egg.”
Source: Night Watch
“You'd like him back, too, wouldn't you?"
It was difficult for her to turn her eyes away from Farid's face. "He'll never come back," she whispered, and look at Dustfinger. She didn't have the strength to speak any louder. All her strength was gone, as if Farid had taken it away with him. He had taken everything away from him.”
“You’d probably rather have a milk shake than a quart of blood, too, so we’ll have to agree to disagree.”
Source: The Lesser Dead
“You’d probably start laughing because you’d realize that your fears had been the result of a gigantic cosmic joke that had persisted throughout all of your previous reincarnations.”
Source: When Panic Attacks: The New, Drug-Free Anxiety Therapy That Can Change Your Life
“You'd rather go to the opera than to a bowling alley," I said honestly. "You're someone who prefers Shakespeare to a romance novel. The sort who watches a period drama, not Friends." I winked at him. "You listen to Morrissey, not the Spice Girls.”
Source: Road Trip With a Vampire
“You'd rather not say. You humans like to think that evil is something outside of you, don't you? But evil is right... Here..." she pointed.
"In my stomach?" Said Jinx
She flickered blue in annoyance. "In your heart".
"That's my stomach.”
Source: Jinx's Fire
“You’d sacrifice everything you’ve worked for your entire life just for me.”
“Yes, gladly.” He cups my face. “And there should be no ‘just’ when you refer to yourself. Because you’re everything.”
Source: If the Ring Fits
“You’d see me become the truth of me. You’d see that I had nothing left, and everything I just told you about how I felt was a lie. But, I wanted that lie so badly to be true. I wanted everything I spoke of to be true for me, but it wasn’t because within myself I was slowly and painfully dying from depression.”
“you'd take one look at me and whole pieces of the earth would break off and fall away finally leaving me alone with you.”
“You'd think a dead man would feel lighter, the spirit gone and all. But no. A dead man is heavier, like the world clings to him in one last desperate hold.”
Source: When Matches Burn
“You'd think God would come right out and tell us what to do in the Bible, but He doesn't. He mostly tells stories, and He rarely stops the story to say what the point is. He just lets the characters and conflict hang in the air like smoke.”
Source: A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life
“You'd think holding joy right up against sadness would shatter a body. But it don't. Joy...it sneaks in all around where things is broke, sticks it all together and finds a way to make you whole. It's where things is broke that joy shows through.”
Source: Shadows in the Mind's Eye