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“Yes, people of both genders pop up at events to hold forth on irrelevant things and conspiracy theories, but the out-and-out confrontational confidence of the totally ignorant is, in my experience, gendered. Men explain things to me, and other women, whether or not they know what they're talking about.”
“Yes, physical reality is virtual. Yes, this is a synthetically generated environment to exist within, but not in spite of the truer, primal reality. It's nothing personal. These are what physical realities are. Your first (1st) clue was that every law of physics is mathematical.”
Source: Mercy Ai: Age of Discovery
“Yes, purple is different, but different's not bad!”
Source: Tyler's Purple Arm
“Yes, questions continue, since the notions I used only represented the what’s instead of the how’s, the why’s, the when’s, etc. Like what happened in the lectures, the facts were enforced, but nothing was done to dive deeper into them.
Finally, I was eventually able to solve one side of the rubik’s cube, now realizing that I had inadvertently taught myself the same way I had been lectured. I realized how even the Rubik’s cube can generate rudimentary and superficial knowledge in a user.”
Source: For the Intellect
“Yes, quite a blue sky, it looks like a child’s coloring book. Or an answered prayer.”
Source: The Meursault Investigation
“Yes. Railrunner, we need to activate your ride form.”
Source: Twisted!
“Yes, rain makes everyone wet and if your reaction to getting wet is happiness then you are definitely not 'everyone'!”
“Yes, Reader, life can be very annoying and challenging. We
ordinary people (ordinary according to the boy) who do
ordinary things cannot forget these tough memories easily,
as much as we try. Ordinary people find that almost everything is related to the bad moments in our lives.
Some of us may overlook these moments, while others may not forget at all. It all depends on how much that wound is bleeding. However, time is the best cure. These bad times may leave marks, but with time, the pain can
lessen.”
Source: The bright side of pain : The story of a boy who wished he could be ordinary.
“Yes, Remy, I think I do mind,” Daniel hissed. He didn’t sound like himself. He sounded evil, feral-like. An instant chill fell over Remy.”
Source: Shifting Moon: Shifting Moon Saga, Book 1
“Yes," replied Dick Short.”
Source: Snarleyyow or the Dog Fiend
“Yes. Reyn is our resident horse master. He has an excellent seat."
I grinned. "I've noticed."
Reyn's face tightened and Nell flushed, looking embarrassed. "It's an equestrian term."
"Really? I thought you were talking about his ass.”
Source: Immortal Beloved
“Yes, ridicule, ascription, controversy will be part of this. That will occur. It will be our goal to truthfully explain, reveal every step of the way. However, because K represents something new, a first, people will be challenged to learn, grow and evolve.”
Source: Adventures With A.I.: Age of Discovery
“Yes Rosalie, we all know how proficient of an assassin you are.”
“Yes," said Cook. That is soup that you are smelling. The princess, not that you would know or care, is missing, bless her goodhearted self. and times are terrible. and when times are terrible, soup is the answer. Don't it smell like the answer?”
“Yes" Said Gandalf; "for it will be better to ride back three together than one alone. Well, here at last, dear friends, on the shores of the Sea comes the end of out fellowship in Middle-earth. Go in peace! I will not say: do not weep; for not all tears are an evil.”
Source: The Return of the King
“Yes," said Locke."Yes, Master Ibelius. I'm going to put that fucker in the dirt as deeply as any man who's ever been murdered, ever since the world began.”
Source: The Lies of Locke Lamora
“Yes," said Margaret, smiling. "You don't have three dead cats on your mantlepiece."
Dane stopped short. "DEAD CATS?" he repeated incredulously, taken aback. "Whose were they?"
"Old Mrs. Holloway's."
"How long had they been...DEAD?"
"Oh, years and years," Margaret assured him. "They were stuffed, you see. Taxidermy."
"Right," he said dryly. "Taxidermy.”
Source: The House on Harmony Street
“Yes,' said Nora, aloud now. 'Maybe I got stuck. Maybe in every life I am stuck. I mean, maybe that's just who I am. A starfish in every life is still a starfish. There isn't a life where a starfish is a professor of aerospace engineering. And maybe there isn't a life where I'm not stuck.”
Source: The Midnight Library
“Yes, September, We have all of us got it jumbled up. You never feel so grown up as when you are eleven, and never so young and unsure as when you are forty. That is why time is a rotten jokester and no one aught to let him in to dinner.”
Source: The Girl Who Raced Fairyland All the Way Home
“Yes Serge has killed a lot of people , but let's not overlook all of his other accomplishments.”
“Yes, sex is troublesome and beautiful. And only when we drop our expectations, and know that we'll have moments of great sex and moments when our sexuality confounds, pains, or infuriates us, will we be liberated to enjoy it in a way that's true to ourselves.”
Source: Mirror of Intimacy: Daily Reflections on Emotional and Erotic Intelligence
“Yes, she believed God loved her. But if this whole fiasco was His idea of love . . .”
Source: Valley of Dreams
“Yes, she fears the cuffs, the cross and the whip, but she will get past this. Such problems, even with time, do not go away on their own. They must be addressed.
André Chevalier”
“Yes, she had abused her title and station before, but for minor stuff, not to steal a warship.”
Source: Galacticide
“Yes, she had been right to come back to Guernsey and hopefully this cottage would be the haven she had been seeking since…”
Source: The Ghost of Seagull Cottage: Inspired by The Ghost and Mrs Muir
“Yes, she had changed her mind after sixty years and she would like to see George. I want you to find George. Find him and be sure to tell him I forgot him. I want him to know I had my husband just the same and my children and my house like any other woman. A good house too and a good husband that I loved and fine children out of him. Better than I had hoped for even. Tell him I was given back everything he took away and more. Oh, no, oh, God, no, there was something else besides the house and the man and the children. Oh, surely they were not all? What was it? Something not given back... Her breath crowded down under her ribs and grew into a monstrous frightening shape with cutting edges; it bored up into her head, and the agony was unbelievable: Yes, John, get the Doctor now, no more talk, the time has come.”
Source: The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter
“Yes she lied to you but she didn't lie to most important person i.e. herself”
Source: Raavan: Enemy of Aryavarta
“Yes, she lied to you but she didn,t lied to the most important person i.e. Herself - Raavan”
Source: Raavan: Enemy of Aryavarta
“Yes, she’s coming home for a visit. No, I will not give you a free pass. You put one finger on her, I’ll beat you to a pulp.”
Tai snarled low in his throat, his wide shoulders going stiff as he fisted his hands. “Yeah, well, maybe I’ll beat you back.” Face thunderous, he stalked off as she fought her smile. Hmm, perhaps Judd’s young protégé had potential. None of the others had dared stand up to her.”
Source: Play of Passion
“Yes, she's rather good-looking; I think she's good-looking. After all, she drives other men out of their mind. She's tall and svelte. Only she's very thin. I think you could tie her in a knot or bend her double.”
Source: The Gambler and A Nasty Business
“Yes," she said, but she seemed confused. "I never thought you did it. I know who I married."
"Georgia," I said. "I know who I married, too. You're in me. When I touch you, your flesh communicates with my bones. You think I can't feel how sad you are?"
"I'm scared," she said, her fingers transmitting a miserable willingness. "It's hard to start over.”
Source: An American Marriage
“Yes," she said simply, waiting for him. And she held out her hands to him. They trembled slightly; she couldn't help it. He could turn his back on her, walk away, and there'd be nothing she could do. All she could do was offer herself, and wait.
The mask closed down over his face once more, and she felt despair and sorrow fill her. The pain, the need, were gone. Instead he looked at her from unreadable eyes, and his thin mouth curved in a mocking smile. "So be it," he murmured. "Far be it from me to deny a lady pleasure."
She dropped her hands , as if they burned but it was too late. He caught them, his long, strong white fingers wrapping around them. "It will be pleasure, you know," he continued, his voice low and mesmerizing.”
Source: To Love a Dark Lord
“Yes.' she said, trying to sound natural despite the fundamental bizarreness of the circumstances. 'I think they have. They were pretty on top of things.”
Source: The Midnight Library
“Yes, she wanted answers, and Val promised them—at a price, of course. With Val there was always a price.”
Source: Heart of Flames
“Yes, she was a mess, but she wasn’t fragile. She would not be broken.
So many times in her life, she’d felt powerless, but once she grabbed hold of her power, she realized it had been there all along, waiting for her to find it. And Jerome seemed to know that. He was her safe harbor. He defined, at long last, who she belonged to, who was there for her, who saw her and cherished her.”
Source: Sugar and Salt
“Yes, she was an orphan, a sister, a pirate, a girl, and also a boy. But more importantly, she was a person who sought power to protect those she loved. Including herself. Or himself. Both were equally true to her. Neither told the whole story.”
Source: The Mermaid, the Witch, and the Sea
“Yes, she was different now. She was stronger. She had untapped things inside her. Things she might never have known about if she'd never sung in an arena or fought off a polar bear or felt so much love and fear and courage.”
Source: The Midnight Library
“Yes, she was lonely, but she missed no one in particular. Whom could she miss? Her days were full of life and pleasure, but they passed so quickly.”
Source: Ronia, the Robber's Daughter
“Yes, she was lovely. But more than that, she was warm and funny and loving. Hot-tempered one moment, and laughing the next. And she could make a home anywhere. She carried a sort of security about with her. I can't think of a single person who didn't love her. I still think about her every day of my life. Sometimes she seems very dead. And other times, I can't believe that she isn't somewhere in the house and that a door won't open and she'll be there.”
Source: The Shell Seekers
“Yes, she was the girl playing basketball with all the boys in the park, collecting cans by the side of the road, keeping secret pet kittens in an empty boxcar in the woods, walking alone at night through the rail yards, teaching her little sister how to kiss, reading out loud to herself, so absorbed by the story, singing sadly in the tub, building a fort from the junked cars out in the meadow, by herself in the front row at the black-and-white movies or in the alley, gazing at an eddy of cigarette stubs and trash and fall leaves, smoking her first cigarette at dusk by a pile of dead brush in the desert, then wishing at the stars--she was all of them, and she was so much more that just just her that I still didn't know.”
Source: The Lone Surfer of Montana, Kansas: Stories
“Yes, silence can be an opinion," said Mishka. Silence can be a form of protest. It can be a means of survival. But it can also be a school of poetry—one with its own meter, tropes, and conventions. One that needn’t be written with pencils or pens; but that can be written in the soul with a revolver to the chest.”
Source: 2 Book Set ~ A Gentleman in Moscow & Rules of Civility
“Yes, silence is painful, but if you endure it, you will hear the cadence of the entire universe.”
“Yes' Simon nodded. 'This would suggest that these patterns grow inside the batteries until a critical point is reached, when the shapes develop no further, and the phone ceases to function.”
Source: Connected Infection
“Yes, sir!” And Crevay, too, departed, filled with the energy that comes to every man when treated like a man and given a man’s work to do.”
Source: Cursed
“Yes sir boss. Like the drink, only not spelled the same.”
“Yes, sir. But unless Caleb gets frisky with the stove, I'm not anticipating any problems." Nick”
Source: Invision
“Yes, sir, I will,” there was a nervous edge in her voice, but now it was too late. Her session had begun.”
Source: A Decade of Desire: Erotic Memoirs from The Office Diaries
“Yes, sir," said Despereaux. He raised his voice. "But...I broke the rules for good reasons. Because of music. And because of love.”
Source: The Tale of Despereaux
“Yes sir, the fish was left in place of the crystal ball. It's been bagged and tagged for analysis.”
Great. Now we have another red herring on our hands.”
Source: Fairy Tale Fusion
“Yes, sir, there are things to see and do on the French Riviera without spending money.”
Source: Glory Road