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“You got a job?" "Ignatius hasta help me at home," Mrs. Reilly said. Her initial courage was failing a little, and she began to twist the lute string with the cord on the cake boxes. "I got terrible arthuritis." "I dust a bit," Ignatius told the policeman. "In addition, I am at the moment writing a lengthy indictment against our century. When my brain begins to reel from my literary labors, I make an occasional cheese dip.”
“You got a little bit of an attitude, Mr. English, if you don't mind my saying so. I don't mind.”
“You got a lot but you just waste all yourself. They'll forget your name soon and won't nobody be to blame but yourself.”
“You got a lot of ladies to get through. You’re still young. First love’s the sweetest, but it doesn’t last.” “Not ever?” I ask. Grandad looks at me with a seriousness he reserves for moments when he wants me to really pay attention. “When we fall that first time, we’re not really in love with the girl. We’re in love with being in love. We’ve got no idea what she’s really about—or what she’s capable of. We’re in love with our idea of her and of who we become around her. We’re idiots.”
Source: Black Heart
“You got a man? That's somethin we will talk about.
He's smart enough to have ya, but dumb enough to let ya out.”
“You got a million drug laws now because the bosses figured there was more money in putting people in jail than taxing something anyone can grow on a window sill.”
“You got a minute, God? I'm not really complaining but it says that a man has 613 mitzvahs to do but a woman has only 3. So how come I am busy from the minute I wake up in the morning until I go to bed at night, and Mr. Goldberg, who has 613 mitzvahs to do, has enough time to go upstairs at four o'clock every afternoon and take a nap?”
Source: The Smartest Woman I Know
“You got a name for it? All the best ones have names I hear.”
“Sword.”
“Creative.”
Source: Zekel
“You got a plan?” Raziel said, his heart hammering his chest like it wanted to push its way out and take its chances on its own.
“Don’t get eaten.”
Raziel bared his teeth and laughed.”
Source: Fate's Pawn
“You got a problem?" "Aside from the fact that we are about to die? No. But I want to say thank you before it is too late.”
Source: Bitter Night: A Horngate Witches Book
“You got a problem?" he drawled, obviously expecting me to pee my pants before falling to the ground and groveling like an unworthy subject of the Emperor. And that was all it took. A new, screw-you attitude took precedence, trampling my fear under its boots. A highly dangerous approach, I still found it much easier to bear. "Well it all goes back to my childhood...." I began.”
Source: Once Bitten, Twice Shy: Book One of the Jaz Parks Series
“you got a sad story, ruth,' mimba said. 'but not sad-sad. you here with me and cato and all us together now. you have a happy-sad story. best you can get in this life is happy-sad. but you always gotta remember your own mama that birthed you. even though you only got a crumb of her story, you still got to say her name out loud. you always honor your dead, else you get trouble from them, sure.”
Source: The Last Days of Dogtown
“You got a vicious animal inside you. It wants to snap, it wants to attack, but it's harmless because some woman fitted a muzzle on it. Now, how do you imagine it feels about that muzzle? How do you think it will regard the woman the moment that muzzle is off, and she is within biting distance?”
Source: Danse Macabre
“You got a way with words, you keep me smiling, even when it hurts.”
“You got all your friends, I got a TV set.”
“You got amphetamine eyes.”
“You got an all-out prize fight, you wait 'til the fight's over, one guy's left standing and that's how you know who's won.”
“You got barn cats and you want to make them tamed, you need to get them as kittens.”
“You got betrayed because love turned you blind.”
“You got black people in an all-white country and they don't know nothing about themselves.”
“You got blood on your face, you big disgrace, waving your banner all over the place.”
“You got dealt some crappy cards. But you're the one who has to decide how to play them.”
Source: The Secret Life of CeeCee Wilkes
“You got folks like Brenda, who think they need them to survive, and then you got the Khalils, who think they need to see them to survive. The Brendas can't get jobs unless they're clean, and they can't pay for rehab unless they got jobs. When the Khalils get arrested for selling drugs, they either spend most of their life in prison, another billion-dollar industry, or they have a hard time getting a real job and probably start selling drugs again. That's the hate they're giving us, baby, a system designed against us. That's Thug Life' (170)”
Source: The Hate U Give
“You got good and bad people everywhere.”
“You got guts taking that tone with me. (Nykyrian) What you gonna do, oh great wounded one? I’m the one with the injector. (Syn)”
Source: Born of Night
“You got guys now declaring they're ready to play pro ball in their second or third year of high school. It's crazy! They're missing so much.”
“You got guys that are so old, you see them eating lunch, the drool's just coming from their mouth, and they're sending around memos about 10 percent crosscuts. If I had one tenth of their money, I would be free. They don't know what freedom is. It's a disease. You're one of the rare people that is given freedom, and what do you do with it? You don't live. You choose to be dead in life. Money buys freedom. I mean why is this guy with the slobber worried about taking food off other people's tables? His $19 billion won't get him from where he is to the grave comfortably? That to me is a disease.”
“You got infinite channels and limitless rhymes, but the riddles of livin' stay undefined?”
Source: Professor Brown Shoes Teaches the Blues
“You got into these small towns in Pennsylvania and, like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, the jobs have been gone now for 25 years and nothing's replaced them. And they fell through the Clinton Administration, and the Bush Administration, and each successive administration has said that somehow these communities are gonna regenerate and they have not. And it's not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.”
“You got it all wrong in your way of thinking.”
“You got it, Chrissie.”
“Don’t f***ing call me that. I’m the acting secretary-general of the United Nations, not your favorite stripper.”
Source: Nemesis Games
“You got married recently to a rapper. It doesn't take them long to impregnate women.”
“You got me, Rory girl. You'll always have me. I love you so damn much - I ain't ever gonna leave you,”
Source: Normal
“You got me sitting on the shelf, while you're out bewitching someone else.”
“You got me stranded on the bungee tower of love.”
“You got me wrong, that's what gives me in the night chills.”
“You got men who can't hold peace and women who can't control their tongues. The rich seduce the poor, and the old seduce the young.”
“You got my butter." This feels significant, worthy of pointing out. This is why it's so hard to keep myself in check around Felix. He's not just handsome; he's good.”
Source: This Summer Will Be Different
“You got my heart beating in Fibonacci sequence. ♡ φ”
“You got no idea, do you? You got no idea how beautiful you are.”
Source: Blood Red Road
“You got nothin' to lose but your self-respect.”
“You got nothing to lose. You don't lose when you lose fake friends.”
“You got off on the wrong foot. I merely watched you shove it into your mouth.”
Source: What the Duke Desires
“You got one big heart, honey. And a kind soul, too. It’s just your mind, baby. Your mind, hon... it’s simply corrupt.”
Source: Counting Stars
“You got one choice at the beginning but if you didn't choose right, things got narrow real quick.”
Source: Serena
“You got one guy going boom, one guy going whack, and one guy not getting in the endzone.”
“You got one life, one chance , don't screw up. Put your fears behind your determination. Take the first step. Go for it my friend.”
“You got one life, never use it just to breathe.”
“You got responsibilities when you’re a leader. You got a responsibility not to kill too many of your men. Or who’re you going to lead?”
Source: Prince of Thorns
“You got rid of them. Yes, that’s just like you. Getting rid of everything unpleasant instead of learning to put up with it. Whether ‘tis better in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, or to take arms against a sea of troubles and by opposing end them… But you don’t do either. Neither suffer nor oppose. You just abolish the slings and arrows. It’s too easy.”
Source: Retrospect: an omnibus of Aldous Huxley's books