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“You had a package. It was torn, so I looked in.” She lifted one of a stack of firefighter calendars, with his own mug and half-naked body on the cover. “Nice,” she said, a ghost of a smile crossing her lips. “Mr. 2008.” He bit back a sigh. “It’s for charity.” “And you definitely contributed.”
Source: One-Click Buy: August Harlequin Blaze: Secret Seduction\The Hell-Raiser\Lie with Me\Pleasure to the Max!\Whispers in the Dark\Flashback
“You had a peaceful day during the day and a peaceful sleep at night, that's what real wealth is!”
“You had a socialist get 47 percent of the votes in the Democratic primary: Bernie Sanders. You have an outright white nationalist populist [Donald Trump] who is now in the White House with an authoritarian strongman who has no regard for facts, no regard for tradition, and no regard for the Constitution. That is what you get when you import third world conditions. You get third world politics, and that's where we are now.”
“You had a spirit in you also,” the healer goes on. “It was a strong spirit. Greedy. Selfish. It took your energy, took up too much space everywhere inside you. You had to feed it, always. It was hungry. But recently the spirit left you, and now you’re weak. It was holding you up. Now you have to hold yourself up. Your body must learn again, to live without it.”
Source: My Heart Underwater
“You had actors that came from live theatre and it felt like you're doing a play. Every time we did a three or four minute walk-and-talk in the West Wing, the exhilaration of going on stage would be a part of it.”
“You had bands like D.O.A., or Black Flag, and a whole network opened up to trailblazer a counter culture movement. I'm more interested in the less sensational type of stories.”
“You had been a paper boy to me all these years - two dimensions as a character on the page and two different, but still flat, dimensions as a person. But that night you turned out to be real.”
Source: Paper Towns
“You had best never return," he said.
"You have it wrong," Maria told him. "You had best stay away from me.”
Source: Magic Lessons
“You had better be a round peg in a square hole than a square peg in a square hole. The latter is in for life, while the first is only an indeterminate sentence.”
“You had better run from me. My words are fire.”
“You had censorship. If you brought a manuscript to the publisher, you knew he would suggest changes. If you wanted to write and speak what you thought had to be written and spoken, you had to act against all these suppressive rules.”
“You had every right to be. He raised his eyes to look at her and she was suddenly and strangely reminded of being four years old at the beach, crying when the wind came up and blew away the castle she had made. Her mother had told her she could make another one if she liked, but it hadn't stopped her crying because what she had thought was permanent was not permanent after all, but only made out of sand that vanished at the touch of wind and water.”
Source: Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (4 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels
“You had evil inside you, and you indulged it. Men will always indulge it.”
Source: The Book of Lost Things: A Novel
“You had flaws, but they didn’t bother me because love doesn’t follow definition.”
“You had hoped in love. You had believed in its existence. Its goodness. The richness of a life bathed in it. You went in search of it. Hoping. Longing. Risking. Trusting. And at some point you found love, or what you thought was love. And you gladly immersed yourself in it. Freely. Joyfully. With the whole of your being. And then at some point, it turned. Violently. Wickedly. It did what loves doesn’t do, or least what it’s not supposed to do. It used you. Betrayed you. Wounded you. And then it cast you off to some cold isolated place to somehow bear your pain in the worst kind of loneliness imaginable. And in those places we are left with the bitter feeling that love was a grand hoax. A childish hope. An antiquated myth set on wounding those who fall prey to its seductive promises. But I would tell you to never let those who abuse love define it through their abuse of it. To the contrary, there is something pristine and untouchable about love. Something transformational. Life-altering. Life-giving. Yes, people abuse it. But when a single human being sets the whole of themselves aside in order to freely love another, magic is set in motion. And it is my prayer that the hope of the love that you have always longed for will never be crushed by those who have crushed you. Rather, may you believe, may you wait, may you hold hope close, and may you be blessed when the love that you thought not to exist unexpectedly seizes your heart, rubs your soul warm, and ignites your life. This is what I wish for you.”
“You had hoped that smarter creatures would be wiser ones.”
Source: Blindsight
“You had it all wrong It isn’t for the world but yourself that you must showing. Go ahead.. get
Going. Your potential is a big as the sky with limitless possibilities which will allow you to fly high. So off you go to achieve your goals. This is your journey to the deepest parts of your soul. When you share it with the world - oh how you will grow and grow and grow!”
“You had journalist saying during the campaign that Donald Trump compels them to suspend all objective standards of journalism.”
“You had life by the tail and didn't know it.”
“You had lost your way. And I—who knew every turn and twist in your journey, every step you must and would take—was your compass.”
Source: The Everlasting
“You had lots of visitors, but they were all quiet." "Oh real funny. Tease the blind man." ~Trella to Logan, pg. 114-115”
“You had many jazz musicians who lived in the United States, who had a hard time being accepted over here and had to play in sort of these inferior type dives.”
“You had me at 'blood allergy.”
Source: Posthumous
“You had me at fruit pies”
“You had me at my eyes, I said...walking anent my personal space, propitiously invading my comfort zone, carrying on with your encomium. I am obliged. Hello, I said.”
Source: Love, Lust and Regrets: While the lights were off
“You had me believing that I was crazy. Every time I broke down over what seemed like nothing, it was you.’ Bade ran an anxious hand through his hair.
‘Well, that’s love isn’t it?’ Davina took his restless hand. ‘Love is crazy and irrational, and anything less would be boring.”
Source: Timeless: A Novel
“You had me tied in knots. You saved Belen's life, and I wanted to kill and thank you all at the same time. And during those nights when we didn't know if you'd live or die, I went from being angry, to worried to frustrated to scared all within a single heartbeat. If you had die, I would have killed you.”
“You had measured how long a fool you were upon the ground.”
Source: The New Oxford Shakespeare: Modern Critical Edition: The Complete Works
“You had my heart inside of your hand but you played it to the beat”
“You had my heart once, but I’ve found the strength to take it back.”
“You had my heart, and I yours; a heart for a heart, good fortune for good fortune.”
“You had no faith to lose and you know it.”
“You had no right." Oh, yes, he did. He suggested,
"Why don't you write that down. Put it in my handwriting. Perhaps I'll chance to read it, think I wrote it: Maybe then I'll believe you.”
Source: Untie My Heart
“You had no right to be born; for you make no use of life. Instead of living for, in, and with yourself, as a reasonable being ought, you seek only to fasten your feebleness on some other person's strength.”
Source: The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
“You had nothing but time to live when you were born”
Source: No One Is Better Than You
“you had nothing to say about it and yet made the nothing up into words.”
Source: Perelandra
“You had once asked me if I was afraid of death.
I said I was afraid of not living.
I don’t want to eke out my life like a resource in short supply. The only selfish life is a timid one. To hold back, to withdraw, to keep the best in reserve, both overvalues the self, and undervalues what the self is.”
Source: The Powerbook
“You had only one chance for a signature in life, but most people left no impression.”
Source: The Interestings
“You had so much life left to live, so many more sunrises to wake up to, so many more memories to make, so much more love to receive.. it will forever break my heart that you didn't get that time.”
“You had -- so much love, and so much forgiveness, and so much faith. So I started to think that maybe I was worth that faith. That I didn't have to be perfect; I had to try, and that was good enough.”
“You had some gall, to call me back - that call, it turned my bile black - it's probably a kind of folly - making me so melan chole -”
Source: Monsters in a Mirror: Strange Tales from the Chapel Perilous
“You had some unexpected help. You had help from God! Essentially, it became a handicap match! Me vs you and God!”
“You had that action and counteraction which, in the natural and in the political world, from the reciprocal struggle of discordant powers draws out the harmony of the universe.”
Source: Maxims and opinions, moral, political and economical, with characters, from the works of ... Edmund Burke
“You had the
advantage of me twice, and twice you gave it away. Good luck getting it again.”
Source: The Cruel Prince
“You had the morning together. He painted your half-naked body, the lucky sod. Had that been my job, your pretty clothes would ne’er have been crafted.”
Source: Ensnared
“You had the physical bullies and the emotional bullies and they both revelled in destroying lives.
No, she had no time for them. But there were others whose strength was of a much rarer kind. Not easy to find, because they revealed nothing. They were quiet. They often believed themselves to be much weaker than they were. But when pushed too hard, they surprised themselves, finding they would not back away another step, that a wall had risen in their souls, unyielding, a barrier that could not be passed. To find one such as this was the most precious of discoveries.”
Source: Toll the Hounds
“You had the privilege of carrying the prince a ways, and that's that. Whatever we see fit to give you in recompense, be it a coin or a kick in the teeth, you'll take it and be grateful.”
Source: The Stolen Heir
“You had this all planned, didn’t you?' I accused. 'Thought you could come in here and seduce me like you do everyone else?' It wasn’t as if I could be angry, lying atop him as I was, but I tried.”
“You had this expression on your face, like you weren’t quite sure you were supposed to be on Earth.”
Source: I Wrote This For You
“You had this young man with you for... what, six years?" Halt shrugged. "Near enough," he replied. "And did you ever understand a word he was saying?" "Not a lot of the time, no," Halt said. Crowley shook his head in wonder. "It's just as well he didn't go into the Diplomatic Service. We'd be at war with half a dozen countries by now if he was on the loose." Will drew a deep breath to begin talking. He noticed that both men took an involuntary half step backward and he decided he'd better try to keep it as simple as possible.”