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“You’d think I’d be used to this agony by now , but it always catches me off guard. Anyone who says grief fades over time is a fucking liar. It never goes away. It just gets better at hiding. You never know when it’s going to spring out of the shadows and sucker punch you in the gut.
Grief is a real asshole.”
Source: As You Wish
“You'd think I wouldn't even have to say that, but seeing as you two were halfway to Babytown when I walked in here-"
"Just shut up and go pack," Tristan said.
"Ooh, feisty." Nate shook his head at Scarlet. "Tristan doesn't like it when I talk about you guys having sex."
"Neither do I. Geez." Scarelt was blushing as she shooed Nate from the room.
Nate exited and Tristan and Scarlet spent the next half hour lacing arrowed in blood and not making eye contact.”
Source: Avow
“You'd think (losing his job and degree for having made false claims as a researcher) would be a lesson to him," said Miss Hillyard. "It didn't pay, did it? Say he sacrificed his professional honour for the women and children we hear so much about -- but in the end it left him worse of."
But that," said Peter, "was only because he committed the extra sin of being found out.”
Source: Gaudy Night
“You’d think, past sixty or so, the unconscious
would give you some respite. But here, it says,
is the little engine of dread and sorrow that runs your story.
And here, almost symmetrically, is the unspeakable cruelty
of the world.”
Source: Summer Snow: New Poems
“You'd think that a redheaded boy with glasses who was named Howard and had an up-down walk would have a lot more to wish for than being friends with me. But I admit I felt a smile on my face and hope in my heart, 'cause maybe wishes really do come true. Maybe some wishes just take longer than others.”
Source: Wish
“You’d think that after weeks of traveling, I’d be used to using a latrine dug in the ground to relieve myself. But nope. There’s something about having to lift your skirts and squat in the snow that really drags a girl down.”
Source: Glint
“You'd think that being on planes 150 days a year would free up lots of time for writing, but instead it freed up time for listening to Reinhold Niebuhr audiobooks, watching leftist YouTube videos, and going through every single episode of Star Trek, from the original series through Discovery.”
Source: A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor
“You'd think that it would make them all the more credible to be free of any obvious agenda or emotional bias, motivated only by objective logic. But there's something off-putting about these hyperrational types; they're immune to any appeals to common sense or humor, the for fuck's sake defense. [...] As Kim Stanley Robinson writes, "An excess of reason is in itself a form of madness".”
Source: We Learn Nothing
“You'd think that the forest is at the mercy of the flame, but that's not it. The flame's greatest fear is the forest: being out of control, consumed from the inside out, burning with no end in sight. It is the flame which is at the mercy of the forest; but the forest doesn't care, she promises no end, she never says it stops or that it gets better! Flames never asked to be born as flames: so volatile, so vital, so uncontained. You are a flame, this world is a forest. Do you see it now? It was never the other way around.”
“You’d think the earth
would long ago surrender
but instead she flowers,
rising from her meager dirt
to fill the sky with color.”
Source: Something Will Change Me: Poems of Soul and Spirit
“You'd think they would train these SOE girls better, it's just sloppy.' Hans sipped his cognac. 'She looked the wrong way crossing the road, silly girl.”
Source: The Beauty Chorus
“You'd think with all that time on my hands, I'd spend some of it thinking about Melly and Rusty. You'd assume I'd take some time to process everything that happened with James But it was like a brick wall went up, and every time I tried to bring forward the chaos of the previous week, some protective instinct would kick in and I'd literally fall asleep.”
Source: The Honey-Don't List
“You’d worry less about what they thought if you knew how little they did.”
“You'd yell at the top of your lungs, but nobody would hear you, and you couldn't expect anyone to find you.”
Source: Norwegian Wood
“You da boss”
Source: The Maze Runner
“You dad gives what you desire, but destiny gives what you deserve.”
Source: Wealth of Words
“You damage your energy by being around negative people.”
“You damn well better believe that you’re involved in this tragedy and that it’s your tragedy too. Because you’re turned into little soldier boys from the day that you are born and everything that you learn about how to avoid the humanity of women becomes part of the militarism of the country in which you live and the world in which you live.”
Source: Last Days at Hot Slit: The Radical Feminism of Andrea Dworkin
“You damned spirits! You can only do what the hand of God allows you to do.”
“You dance because you have to. Dance is an essential part of life that has always been with me.”
“You dance differently when you know you won't live forever.”
Source: Wonder Woman: Warbringer
“You dance how you live. Show me how you move on the dance floor and I'll show you an area of your life where you live the same way. So dance big and live loud because life is too short to do anything else."
-Marquita Burke-De Jesus, TEDX Speaker”
“You dance inside my chest,
where no one sees you,
but sometimes I do, and that
sight becomes this art.”
“You dance inside my chest, where no one sees you.”
“You dance love, and you dance joy, and you dance dreams.”
“You dance love, and you dance joy, and you dance dreams. And I know if I can make you smile by jumping over a couple of couches or running through a rainstorm, then I'll be very glad to be a song and dance man.”
“You dance with the person you went to the party with.”
Source: Anxious People
“You dance your lobster quadrille, and I’ll juggle some clams, and we’ll both pretend to be hidden away in a secret sea cave, where we don’t have to think about courtships or royal missions or anything but ourselves.”
Source: Heartless
“You dare glamour me?" he growled, his violet eyes burning as they bore into my own. Lucien just pressed me harder into the wall.”
Source: A Court of Thorns and Roses
“You dare offend us when you need our help?” It was Louana again, her gaze turned bitter.
“You aren’t offended,” Margeaux replied. “You’re putting on a show in hopes of tricking me into submission.” She gave them a well-practiced smile, flashing her teeth wide, letting the delight touch every corner of her face except her eyes. Never her eyes. “And I don’t need your help.”
Source: A Vision in Smoke
“You dare quarrel with me Doerwyne?
She wrinkled her nose. "It's not quarreling to express an opinion'"
"Women don't have opinions."
"Then I must be a man, because I have plenty.”
Source: The Virgin Proxy
“You dare to stand with my enemy? (Stryker) Against you, Father, I’d stand with Mickey Mouse. (Urian)”
“You dare travel on sacred road, although you may not know the end.”
Source: Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
“You dare travel on the sacred road, although you may not know the end.”
Source: Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
“You dare your Yes - and experience a meaning...You repeat your Yes - and all things acquire a meaning...When everything has a meaning, how can you live anything but a YES.”
“You daren't think, so you live in a dream.”
Source: The Sacred and Profane Love Machine
“You darkness, that I come from, I love you more than all the fires that fence in the world, for the fire makes a circle of light for everyone, and then no one outside learns of you. But the darkness pulls in everything: shapes and fires, animals and myself, how easily it gathers them! - powers and people - and it is possible a great energy is moving near me. I have faith in nights.”
Source: Selected poems
“You darkness, that I come from, I love you more than all the fires that fence in the world.”
Source: Selected poems
“You darling is my semicolon.”
“You dazzle me so much I find it very difficult to think clearly when we're together.”
“You, dead, are so much better than anyone else alive.”
“You deal with doubt all the time. You have to choose to believe God in every situation. I remind myself all the time, get out of fear. Get out of doubt. Get back in faith.”
“You deal with failure - strike, strike, strike - all the time. Acting is like that. You have to have a very thick skin in a way - your hair is too dark, you're too ugly for the part, your audition wasn't good.”
“You deal with mythological stuff for a few years, you learn that paradises are usually places where you get killed.”
“You deal. You survive. You grow up and you build a career. And you remember these big/little hardships. They make you human.”
“You, dear sister, may be the last bastion of sanity in a culture gone mad. In a world so toxic it cannot function, so numb it cannot even cry out for help, so disconnected it cannot heal. Except through the cells of our bodies.
Our sisters are dying right now to tell you,
Enough suffering, it is time to heal.”
Source: Medicine Woman: Reclaiming the Soul of Healing
“You deceive as easily as you breathe and with as little thought.”
Source: The Prisoner’s Throne
“You decent?” I pulled the towel up a little higher. “Yes, if my wrinkled toes don’t offend.” Marco’s swarthy head popped around the doorjamb. “Naw, they’re cute.”
Source: Hunt the Moon: A Cassie Palmer Novel
“You decide every day who you will and will not be. Be bold in your decision but remember, choose wisely.”
“You decide for yourself when it will hurt.”
Source: Out Stealing Horses