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“You have calluses,” he says. “You shouldn’t have to work.” “Why?” I frown. He cocks his head. “You’re too pretty to be anything but a plaything.”
Source: Sovereign
“You have Cameron Crowe write an incredible monologue for you just based on the things that you're talking about. It just became this opportunity that was too exciting a process to pass up.”
“You have cancer."
Three words. The heaviest, darkest words I'd ever heard in my life.
"What are my options?" I asked. Numb. That's what I felt. Cold. Numb. Empty. All adjectives to describe this feeling racing through me after hearing those three words.
"We could begin chemo followed by radiation. It would prolong life by at least a year."
A year. One year filled with hospital visits, pain, and frequent visits to the porcelain throne. Do I want that?
"A year with treatment? How long if I choose nothing?"
A cold stare was my response before she replied.
"Honestly?"
I nodded. "Shoot it to me straight."
"With no treatment, you'd be lucky to see another year."
It was early spring in the United States. So, nine months? I'd have just under a year to prepare my husband and children, family and friends, to live without me. Could I? Should I? With treatment I'd gain maybe one more year. But, what would be the quality?
"So with or without treatment, the best I'm looking at is a year and a half?"
She learned forward before replying, "Yes. Best case scenario, with aggressive treatment, a year and a half."
I nodded.
How am I supposed to act when given a death sentence?
(Will They Remember Me - by Ashlee Shades, coming soon)”
“You have captured me utterly, and you hold my heart in your hands. Be gentle with it. It's more fragile than you might think.”
Source: Claim Me
“You have captured my soul in a cocoon of love. My heart will be forever yours.”
“You have carjacking back in old England?”
“Carjacking?”
“People walk up to you, steal your car.”
“No, but thanks for asking. We have people who clean your windscreen against your will, but, er...”
Joe barked with contempt.
“The thing is,” explained Dirk, “in London you could certainly walk up to someone and steal their car, but you wouldn't be able to drive it away.”
“Some kinda fancy device?”
“No, just traffic,” said Dirk.”
Source: The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time
“You have carried a branch of tomorrow into the room-its frangrance awakened me.”
“You have cast out the wonder of creation - man and woman - and you have put money in its place. This is a basic terrorism against all of humanity! Think about it!”
“You have ceded the concept of your own rights. You've converted them into something you get as a revocable privilege from the government, something that can be abrogated at its convenience. And that has diminished the measure of liberty within a society.”
“You have celebrities who are pushed to the brink of a public meltdown, and so the public thinks that every person in the public eye has dirty secrets that they're keeping, or isn't what they seem, or is masking it and faking sincerity, faking authenticity, faking being surprised at award shows when you win a Grammy.”
“You have certain ideas about what should happen... expectations. And if life is not moving that way, something is wrong. Nothing is going wrong! Life is going on its own, on,!y you have some fixed ideas. So drop those fixed ideas. Life is never going to follow you... you have to follow life. So if it is muddled, be muddled. What can you do?”
Source: Beloved of my heart: A Darshan diary
“You have certain writing tools but generally creating something from nothing makes one quite mad and Cynthia and I are quite mad you know.”
“You have certainly observed the curious fact that a given word which is perfectly clear when you hear it or use it in everyday language, and which does not give rise to any difficulty when it is engaged in the rapid movement of an ordinary sentence becomes magically embarrassing, introduces a strange resistance, frustrates any effort at definition as soon as you take it out of circulation to examine it separately and look for its meaning after taking away its instantaneous function.”
“You have changed but that is okay. Life is not static, why should you be?”
Source: Limitless
“You have chaos in your soul and lightning in your veins. You, my dear, were made for wild, magical things”
Source: Worth It: Poetry
“You have children," he said. "And you want to be able to protect them. I want you to go home and protect them. But I believe what my colleagues are saying is this - that we should not stop at our desire to protect our own children in their immediate world. We want the streets to be safe, and the walls around them to be sound, and we want to be able to put food in their bellies. These are natural desires." He paused. "But if we want them to be safe and well, we must make the greater world a safer place.”
Source: The Apothecary
“You have choice. You can select joy over despair. You can select happiness over tears. You can select action over apathy. You can select growth over stagnation. You can select you. And you can select life. And it's time that people tell you you're not at the mercy of forces greater than yourself. You are, indeed, the greatest force for you.”
“You have choices and you do have some control. The IRS is not always correct! Even if you owe more than you can pay, there are other options.”
Source: Now What? I Got a Tax Notice from the IRS. Help!: Defining and deconstructing the scary and confusing letters that land in your mailbox.
“You have chosen a big goal for yourself and now you are thinking about which day or which month or which year you will choose to walk towards this goal? Wrong! Big goals do not wait for time, the moment a decision is made, you start the journey immediately, at midnight or at the crack of dawn or at any time of the day, but definitely at the moment the decision is made!”
“You have chosen the pathway to your present destination. The responsibility for your situation is yours.”
Source: The Traveler's Gift: Seven Decisions that Determine Personal Success
“You have chosen the roughest road, but it leads straight to the hilltops.”
“You have chosen the wrong path if it's not fun. And you are probably not taking enough risk if it's not hard and rocky sometimes.”
“You have chosen to give yourself to me, Miss Chadwick." The words were low and clear. "I do not take it lightly, this gift you've bestowed. But as I said, it will take far more than one night to make you mine."
Lily released her breath on a soft sigh.
Something flickered in his impenetrable stare, and he added in a murmur, "There will be no going back."
The sentiment echoed her own from earlier, and Lily experienced a sense of rightness in that moment that overcame any lingering question or concern. They would be lovers.
As they stood facing each other in silence, barely an inch separating them yet not touching at all, she wanted so badly to lift her hand and press it to the side of his face. She wanted to feel the hard angle of his jaw against her palm and the roughness of his skin where the shadowed start of a beard darkened his cheeks.
Something held her back.
She touched him with her studied gaze instead, observing the harsh lines of his face as a frown hardened his visage. She slid her attention briefly to the pulse beating at his temple, then across his oppressive eyebrows, down the slope of his strong nose. His mouth was pressed into a stern, unforgiving line, but it could not disguise the elegant upper arches or the generous lower curve of his bottom lip.
His mouth was beautiful, she thought.
Lifting her gaze again to meet his eyes, she was struck by the raw need she saw there.”
Source: The Untouchable Earl
“You have chosen to risk your lives for the defense of this country. I will not insult you by saying that you are dedicated to selfless service--it is not a virtue in my morality. In my morality, the defense of one's country means that a man is personally unwilling to live as the conquered slave of any enemy, foreign or domestic. This is an enormous virtue.”
Source: Philosophy: Who Needs It
“You have citizens who don't understand how government works and they're kind of soured on it. All they do is criticize. They have no idea that they can make things happen.”
“You have city centre pubs where men go to meet girls, not realising that all girls in city centre pubs have thighs like tug boats and morals that would surprise a zoo animal.”
“You have climate change and antibiotic resistance which are two of the biggest horses of the apocalypse, and they're basically breathing on our necks, and there's no political will or effort being expended to deal with them.”
“You have cocktails for 250,000 people when millions upon millions are sick.”
“You have come a long way and have won many battles. Whenever you’re faced with a difficult or challenging situation, you’ll overcome it. Yes, you can.”
Source: The Light in the Heart
“You have come from God, you are a spark of His Glory; you are a wave of that Ocean of Bliss; you will get peace only when you again merge in Him.”
“You have come from the shadow of the heroin and the shadow of your brother, my friend. Come from the shadow of yourself, if you dare.”
Source: The Waste Lands
“You have come nearer to mastering a good many aspects of cooking than anyone except a handful of great chefs, and some day it will pay off. I know it will. You will just have to go on working, and teaching, and getting around, and spreading the gospel until it does. (Avis DeVoto to Julia Child)”
Source: As Always, Julia: The Letters of Julia Child and Avis DeVoto: Food, Friendship, and the Making of a Masterpiece
“You have come out of the darkness into the light, you are ecstatically happy, but that is only part of the story, because you will go back into the darkness, you will be sad, you will be afraid, but that is only part of the story! The light will shine on you again, but now you will not be ecstatically happy, because now you know that stories often change, they will change!”
“You have come to a stage where you almost have to work on yourself. You know, on finding some tranquility with which to respond to these things, because I realize that the biggest risk that many of us run is beginning to get inured to the horrors.”
“You have come to earth to entertain and to be entertained.”
“You have come to the shore. There are no instructions.”
Source: A Door in the Hive
“You have come too far to quit.
It is not over yet until it is over.
Rise to your feet and finish the race.
you can do it ONLY IF you believe.”
“You have comfort. You don't have luxury. And don't tell me that money plays a part. The luxury I advocate has nothing to do with money. It cannot be bought. It is the reward of those who have NO Fear or Discomfort.”
“You have competition every day because you set such high standards for yourself that you have to go out every day and live up to that.”
“You have completely changed me. Altered the physical, logical, and chemical makeup of who I am."
"So, tell me Demi, does that sound crazy enough for you?”
Source: Where Does it End?
“You have confidence in yourself, which is valuable, if not an indispensable quality.”
Source: Abraham Lincoln: Speeches & Writings Part 2: 1859-1865: Library of America #46
“You have considerable power to construct self-helping thoughts, feelings and actions as well as to construct self-defeating behaviors. You have the ability, if you use it, to choose healthy instead of unhealthy thinking, feeling and acting.”
Source: Overcoming Destructive Beliefs, Feelings, and Behaviors: New Directions for Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy
“You have constellations
growing under your skin.
starlight in the blood spilled
when they stole your feathers”
Source: Broken Body Fragile Heart
“You have consumed my thoughts since the moment I met you," he said to her. "I feel now, in your presence, entirely strange. I think I might fetch you the moon if only to spare your tears again.”
Source: This Woven Kingdom
“You have control over three things - what you think, what you say, and how you behave. To make a change in your life, you must recognize that these gifts are the most powerful tools you possess in shaping the form of your life.”
“You have convictions that are bigger than your own family and your own circumstances. You have imagination; you are able to see the larger picture. Sometimes the price you have to pay is the anger of people who can’t understand why you are taking the stand you are.”
Source: The Rebel's Return
“You have corrupted my imagination and inflamed my blood.”
Source: Venus in Furs
“You have countries like India that have tried to help untouchables, with essentially affirmative-action programs, but it hasn't fundamentally changed the structure of their societies.”
“You have countries that have lived beyond their means, with bloated governments, huge trade deficits, and people living off the government. Then you have others where poor people are working hard and underconsuming and their governments are buying all this debt and propping up the extravagant countries. All of this has to change. There's a tremendous moral hazard involved with this system.”
“You have created your fears. And you can choose to lay them to rest. You have created your dreams. And you can choose to bring them fully to life.”