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“You didn't fail. You just opted out. There's a difference.”
“You didn't get past something like that, you go through it -- and for that reason alone, I understood more about her than she ever would have guessed.”
“You didn't grow up driving...you figured it out.”
“You didn't happen to see your future mother-in-law at that meeting today, did you?" May as well milk the effort. "Yes, the hormonal carp was present." "Marshall!" "She blew me a new one, as you would say.""She ripped you a new one," I correct. "The word blow has an entirely different meaning. I suggest you remove it from your lexicon.”
“You didn't have a choice about the parents you inherited, but you do have a choice about the kind of parent you will be.”
Source: The Measure of our Success: A Letter to My Children and Yours
“You didn't have to be a huge rock star; you just had to do well enough to continue doing what you wanted to do. It wasn't about hitting the jackpot, it was about sustainability.”
“You didn't have to come after me." "Yes, I did," he said. "You're far too inexperienced to protect yourself in a hostile situation without me." "That's sweet. Maybe I'll forgive you." "Forgive me? Fro what?" "Fro telling me to shut up." His eyes narrowed. "I did not... Well, I did, But you were-" "Never mind.”
Source: City of Bones: 10th Anniversary Edition
“You didn't have to go to the fireworks with him. Or - or let him fondle you." "Fondle?" Raisa raised her eyebrows, "When did I mention fondling?”
“You didn't have to say it was gone. It was gone before it got outta here. It was going that fast.”
“You didn't have to take a punch for me, you know,' he said. 'I'm a lover, not a fighter.' 'You're a freak is what you are,' I said.”
Source: What Happened to Goodbye
“You didn't have to take a punch for me, you know,' he said. 'I'm a lover, not a fighter.' 'You're a freak is what you are,' I said. He stuck out his hand. 'Come on, slugger. Walk with me. You know you want to.' And the thing was, despite everything I knew-that it was a mistake, that he was different from the others-I did. How he knew that, I had no idea. But I got up and did it anyway.”
“You didn't have to wash it as often and it hid the blood stains better!”
“You didn't have to work to keep your fear up, your energy up, or your anxiety. It is all kind of built into the process.”
“You didn't have to worry that marauding bands would come and seize everything in your factory and hire someone to protect against this because of the work the rest of us did.”
Source: A Fighting Chance
“You didn't hear Yello until later in the night in the bondage clubs. Things would start getting crazy and that's when you'd hear Yello. It was bad.”
“You didn't just show up on planet Earth by accident.. You were handpicked by Almighty God.”
Source: It's Your Time and Become a Better You Boxed Set
“You didn't kill him. He would have killed you, but you didn't kill him." "So? He was stupid. If I killed everyone who was stupid, I wouldn't have time to sleep.”
Source: In the Hand of the Goddess
“You didn't know I could do that, did you?" he asked, conversationally. "I did not, Your Majesty," Teleus gasped. "My grandfather killed a man that way once, using the edge of the wooden sword." "I hadn't realized the Thieves of Eddis were so warlike." "They aren't, mostly. But like all men, Teleus, I have two grandfathers." Teleus rolled his eyes to look up at him, and the king said, "One of mine was Eddis." "Ah," said Teleus. "Ah, indeed," said the king.”
“You didn't know whether Chuck Berry was black or white - it was not a concern.”
“You didn't listen to me," Lan whispered. One last lesson. The hardest. Demandred struck, and Lan saw his opening. Lan lunged forward placing Demandred's sword point against his own side and ramming himself forward onto it. "I did not come here to win," Lan whispered, smiling. "I came here to kill you. Death is lighter than a feather." Demandred's eyes opened wide, and he tried to pull back. Too late. Lan's sword took him straight though the throat.”
“You didn't need a college degree to become one of the people who knew what was really going on. If you paid attention, you could pick things up on your own.”
Source: The Glass Castle: A Memoir
“You didn't plan to write a story; it just happened. Well, it could be argued that the next thing you should do is find a hole to dig. Right? So you start digging a hole and then somebody brings a body along and puts it in. That's what a story must feel like to me. It's not that you say, "I want to write a story about a gravedigger." But you're walking along and "I don't know what I'm doing here in this story,' and - boop! a shovel. "Oh, interesting. Ok, what does one do with a shovel? Digs a hole. Why? I don't know yet. Dig the hole! Oh, look a body."”
“You didn't question - kind of like, you would go to college. You would wear a tie to work. You would, you know, you would work for 40 years. And then you would play golf for three years, and then you would die. That was how I was raised.”
“You didn't quit skateboarding because you got old, you got old because you quit skateboarding.”
“You didn't realize emotion could be a weapon? Have you not read the poetry of Jewel?”
“You didn't realize what was passing you by until you slowed down a little bit to get a better look.”
Source: The Will Trent Series 7-Book Bundle: Triptych, Fractured, Undone, Broken, Fallen, Criminal, Unseen
“You didn't see him watching you dance with your dad. His eyes got all shiny. I thought he was going to cry. And on the way up here, in the elevator, he tried to play it off, but I could totally tell he was nervous.”
“You didn't see me on television, you didn't see news stories about me. The kind of role that I tried to play was to pick up pieces or put together pieces out of which I hoped organization might come. My theory is, strong people don't need strong leaders.”
“You didn't think of angels as white or black. They were angels.”
“You didn't think that when you got up this morning that this would be the day your life would change did you? But it's going to happen because the only thing that stands between you and grand success are getting started and not stopping.”
Source: Tough Times Never Last, But Tough People Do!
“You didn't understand or care to know, you get your education from your lovers.”
“You didn't wake up, your dreams just changed gear.”
“You didn't want to bring home anything but an A or a B. To my mom, a C was like an F.”
“You didn't want to die. Most mortals don't, even if they find themselves in as desolate and soul-destroying a spot as you. Almost all of those who take their own lives wish at the last moment that they hadn't. They see at the end how much they've given up, how precious life is, even when it's treated them like dirt and crushed their dreams. Many think they've passed beyond hope, but they never really have, not until they pass beyond life itself. Alas, that knowledge comes too late for most would-be-suicides and they die with regret. Very few are offered the chance that you have been handed.”
“You didn't win the game of life by losing the least. That would be one of those-what were they called again?-Pyrrhic victories. Real winning was having the most to lose, even if it meant you might lose it all. Even though it meant you would lose it all, sooner or later.”
Source: We All Looked Up
“You didn't," John said, stepping from the shadows as he clapped for me, "even hit your head this time.”
Source: The Abandon Trilogy: Abandon, Underworld and Awaken
“You didnt access love, love accessed you!”
“You didnt grow up in the shadow of John Steinbeck. He put you on his shoulders and gave you all the light you wanted.”
“You didn’t get the quest you wanted, you got the one you could do.”
Source: The Magicians Trilogy
“You didn’t hurt me, the situation did. And now that I know why I felt that way, it won’t hurt.”
Source: The Next Always
“You didn’t really hold back on Braga so Pickering could kill him, did you?” Royce asked after the two were left alone in the hallway. “Of course not. I held off because it’s death for a commoner to kill a noble.” “That’s what I thought.” Royce sounded relieved. “For a minute, I wondered if you’d gone from jumping on the good-deed wagon to leading the whole wagon train.”
Source: The Crown Conspiracy
“You didn’t tell me she was so soft on the eyes,” he said to Patch, wiping his mouth with the back of his hand. He spoke with a heavy Irish accent. “I didn’t tell her how hard you are on them either,” Patch returned, his mouth at the relaxed stage just before a grin.”
Source: The Complete Hush, Hush Saga: includes Hush, Hush; Crescendo; Silence and Finale
“You didn’t understand what he was saying, until he kissed you. It was a kiss of such complicity, of such uncomplicated sympathy, that you felt for the first time not alone in your suffering.”
Source: How to Paint a Dead Man
“You die - and this is why manmade religions don't work for so many of us. The notion that you're dead and that's the end, and they even try to contain you in coffins. They make them out of steel and stuff. But really, your journey - for all you know - is just beginning. For all I know, what you see now is just a tiny little seed. So, I may blossom into an entire - I don't know - something in the sky. Who knows where we're going?”
“You die and die and then you are beyond death.”
“You die at heart from a withdrawal of love.”
Source: The Sea, The Sea
“You die every day to live once”
“You die for a reason. You are alive for no reason at all.”
“You die for your country... I say: Let my country die for me. Up to the present it has done so. I didn’t want it to die. Damn death. Long live life.”
Source: Ulysses
“You die in the middle of your life.”
Source: The Fault in Our Stars