Y Quotes
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“You don’t see the light sometimes but that shouldn’t stop you from having the faith. This festival let us light up our hope too.”
“You don’t see the whole picture! You don’t know the whole story! But you keep speaking as if you see the whole picture, you keep talking as if you know the whole story! Go away, go! See the whole picture, know the whole story, and then come back and speak! Let only the people who see the whole speak!”
“You don't see us,
and so we are everywhere.
And we will rise Red as the Dawn!”
Source: Red Queen
“You don’t see you the way I do.”
Source: Harp and the Lyre: Extraction
“You don’t see yourself at all, do you? It seems to me that you’re good at everything you try,” said Ethan sincerely.
“I had a dream I could breathe underwater,” I said flippantly, “Maybe I’ll go swim with the mermaids.”
Ethan turned to look at me with shock in his eyes.
“Just kidding,” I said, alarmed at his reaction”
Source: Between the Land and the Sea
“You don't see yourself very clearly, Effy.' Preston shifted in his seat so that they were facing one another. 'Challenging me isn't pestering. I'm not always right. Sometimes I deserve to be challenged. And changing your mind isn't foolish. It just means you've learned something new. Everyone changes their mind sometimes, as they should, or else they're just, I don't know, stubborn and ignorant. Moving water is healthy; stagnant water is sickly. Tainted.”
Source: A Study in Drowning
“You don't seek power or popularity. You simply ask, is the thing right in itself? If it is, then I must do it, no matter the cost.”
Source: Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald: The Original Screenplay
“You don't seem bad... But I reckon most bad things don't think they're bad”
Source: Wake of Vultures
“You don’t seem like someone who wants to die in the slightest, but, even if you did—do you think I am a merciful enough existence to make your wish come true just like that?” (Noin)
“No, it is as you say—I don’t want to die. …I haven’t forgiven the people of this kingdom, yet.” (Dia)
“You have been deprived of your family, and also have been poisoned—what is there left to your value?” (Noin)
“No matter how little, no matter how valueless it is from the perspective of others—this is my heart I’m talking about. It’s my one and only possession—my sole treasure. Can’t I at least offer it to someone as a payment for something?” (Dia)
“If that’s the case, then even that hatred of yours is beautiful to you. If all you wanted to do is die without a fight while bearing such hatred, just throw away your heart. Keeping it will only rot you from the inside out.” (Noin)”
Source: 長い夜の国と最後の舞踏会 1 ～ひとりぼっちの公爵令嬢と真夜中の精霊～
“You don't seem to realise, that in married life three is company and two is none.”
Source: The Importance of Being Earnest
“You don't seriously suggest that thet're talking when they make that rattling noise.”
Source: The Day of the Triffids
“You don't share a language, you think, and then you realise, grief is a language. We understand each other, people with troubled pasts.”
Source: The Island of Missing Trees
“You don’t shine in the light, so why keep running from what makes you gloriously radiant? To deny darkness within you is to deny the magical sparkly intuitive rain-bow of light that lives and moves inside your essence. One does not exist without the other. Stop running from that part of your soul and start letting your star-light glitter!”
Source: Moon Gypsy
“You don’t smell like roses any more,” he said, then wanted to kick himself. He shouldn’t be noticing her scent.
“I probably smell like boat.”
No, she smelled sweet, perfect like … “Toffee?”
Her eyes slid away guiltily. “Kaz said to pack what we needed for the journey. A girl has to eat.”
She reached into her pocket and drew out a bag of toffees. “Want one?”
Yes. “No.”
She shrugged and popped one in her mouth. Her eyes rolled back, and she sighed happily. “So good.”
It was a humiliating epiphany, but he knew he could have watched her eat all day. This was one of the things he’d liked best about Nina – she savoured everything, whether it was a toffee or cold water from a stream or dried reindeer meat.”
Source: Six of Crows
“You don't smile when you're holding on. You smile when you're letting go.”
Source: Eyeshot
“You don’t sound happy, mo ghrád,” he had told her over her landlady’s telephone, about a year after she’d left. She wasn’t, not even then, though there was still the buoyant hope that one day it would slip into place like a gear in a clock. But she hadn’t gone in search of happiness. Happiness was at home, on the island, in the midnight suns of summer, the winter skies dancing with lights...”
Source: The Wild Hunt
“You don't sound like a scientist; you sound like a poet."
Rey smiled.
"Can I be both?"
"But you'd rather be a poet."
"Who wouldn't?" he said.”
Source: Lost City Radio
“you don't speak
you no longer speak to yourself
even the she in the mirror
has disappeared”
Source: The Galloping Hour: French Poems
“You don't spend your life hanging around books without learning a thing or two.”
Source: Shouldn't You Be in School?
“You don't spill your lies on the pages that I write on.”
Source: Daughterbody II: a self-reclamation through poetry
“You don't spread democracy with a barrel of a gun.”
“You don't start over things in life," he said wisely, "you just have to go on from where you stop. It not as if you born all over again. Is the same life.”
Source: Brighter Sun
“You don't stick your hand into a viper's nest until you have a plan for getting bitten.”
“You don’t stop dreaming and going after what you want when you have kids, you go harder. It is a lot easier for your kids to listen to you when your actions precede your words. When they see you moving forward and overcoming the various obstacles that come your way.”
“You don't stop laughing because you grow old. You grow old because you stop laughing.”
“You don't stop loving someone just because they hurt you" he said. "It would certainly make things easier if you did.”
“You don't stop loving someone just because they hurt you. It would certainly make things easier if you did.”
Source: Mistborn Trilogy Boxed Set
“You don't stop loving someone just because you hate them.”
Source: Intimacy
“You don’t stop the watch when you are afraid of getting old, so don’t cut off advertising when you want to save money.”
~Madi Preda”
Source: How To Promote and Market Your Book
“You don't stop when it hurts, you stop when you finish.”
Source: Daily Motivational Quotes: Inspirational & life-changing thoughts
“You don't strike me as the princess type."
"What's that suppose to mean?"
Daniel Smiled. "It means that I'd still go out of my way to rescue you, but you'd probably smack me across the head and try to slay the dragon yourself.”
Source: Dark Inside
“You don't struggle with these questions?"
"No. But I've always thought my opinion was the right one. It's a small flaw I have."
"An American flaw.”
Source: Euphoria
“You don't succeed when 2 planets cross each other but when passion and compassion cross each other”
“You don't suck another person's sucker uninvited.”
“You don’t sweat—you glisten with testosterone.”
Source: Rash & Rationality
“You don’t talk to yourself, you talk to your past with the result of no future.”
“You don't talk; you watch talk shows. You don't play games; you watch game shows.”
“You don't talk; you watch talk shows. You don't play games; you watch game shows.
Travel, relationships, risk: Every meaningful experience must be packaged and delivered to you to watch at a distance, so that you can remain ever sheltered, ever passive, ever ravenous consumers who can't bring themselves to rise from their couches, break a sweat, and participate in life.”
“You don’t tap on the Devil’s shoulder unless you’re willing to dance to his tune.”
Source: One Silent Night
“You don't think about how unnerving silence is until it's everywhere.”
Source: City of Ghosts
“You don't think about the things you have. Only when they are gone do you begin.”
Source: Manazuru
“You don't think any job's a job unless it's your job.”
“You don’t think anything that Skeeter cow — sorry, Professor,' he added quickly, looking at Dumbledore. 'I have gone temporarily deaf and haven’t any idea what you said, Harry,' said Dumbledore, twiddling his thumbs and staring at the ceiling.”
Source: Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
“You don't think girls are afraid?"
"Girls... know how to sacrifice.”
Source: Iron Widow
“You don't think he's crazy now?"
"Crazy, nah," Nicky said. "Soulless, perhaps.”
Source: The Foxhole Court
“You don’t think he’s our man?” asked Adam. It occurred to him that Ramsbottom was not exactly forthcoming with information.
“I didn’t say that,” Ramsbottom said. “In fact he is behaving very cautiously indeed, which makes me feel very suspicious.”
“He has probably figured out that you are following him,” said Adam. “One can hardly fail to notice you hanging around all the time.”
“That may be so,” said Ramsbottom.
“Can’t you get a disguise or something?” asked Adam. “So he does not recognise you.”
Source: Get Rich or Get Lucky
“You don't think I'm going to deflower you under your father's roof, do you?”
Source: Dead Perfect
“You don’t think it true? That this person loves you?”
“They don’t love me anymore, if they ever did,” I insisted. “Vai’s too smart for that.”
“You feel you aren’t worthy.”
“I know I’m not.”
“They say they love you. Why do you not believe?”
“People say things like that to console others,” I tried to explain.
“Ah. They lie. I lie! Vai is like me, you are saying.”
“No!” I said. “Vai is nothing like you.”
“But if Vai says they love you, and you believe Vai is smart and does not lie, why do you not believe? The convoluted tortures of your desires, such a twisted snail shell.”
Source: The Quicksand Theatre Company
“You don’t think monster girls and wicked boys deserve love?”
Source: How the King of Elfhame Learned to Hate Stories
“You don’t think these wars are for lucre? Yes, cultural norms and fads bring temporary progress here and there, but that’s not a change in human morality. Inside we are all exactly the same as we have ever been and will always be until we extinguish ourselves soon enough. To believe otherwise is just a story you tell yourself to sleep at night.”
Source: Heart the Lover