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“You know, considering your IQ, you're really socially retarded sometimes.”
Source: 13 to Life
“You know crazy straws - they go all over the place? These straws are sane. They never lost their mind. They say, "we're going straight to the mouth. That guy who takes a while to get there? He's crazy."”
“You know creators, composers, need a palette for life, a color for life.”
“You know criticism when you get into this business. You accept the bad with the good, the tabloids and the positive side of it.”
“You know, Dad. Mom has always done everything for me since I was a baby."
Jaret's assessment is accurate. Nancy has helped him with everything from daily living activities to his studies. She has been his chauffeur since Jaret doesn't have a driver's license. Most importantly, she has been his emotional bedrock. She has continuously showered him with the unconditional love necessary to build his self-esteem. But today, he showed the fruits of her years as a Super Mom.
" It's my turn, Dad. I need to learn how to take care of Mom. Tell me what to do.”
Source: Night Reflections: A True Story of Friendship, Love, Cancer, and Survival
“You know, Daddy, I think that the most necessary quality for any person to have is imagination. It makes people able to put themselves in other people's places. It makes them kind and sympathetic and understanding. It ought to be cultivated in children. But the John Grier Home instantly stamped out the slightest flicker that appeared. Duty was the one quality that was encouraged. I don't think children ought to know the meaning of the word; it's odious, detestable. They ought to do everything from love.”
Source: Daddy Long-Legs
“You know, Dag and Claire smile a lot, as do many people I know. But I always wondered if there is something either mechanical or malignant to their smiles, for the way they keep their outer lips propped up seems a bit, not false, but protective. A minor realization hits me as I sit with the two of them. It is the realisation that the smiles that they wear in their daily lives are the same as the smiles worn by people who have been good-naturedly fleeced, but fleeced nonetheless, in public and on a New York sidewalk by card sharks, and who are unable because of social conventions to show their anger, who don't want to look like poor sports.”
Source: Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture
“You know, darlin’, on the one hand you’re so damned feisty. And believe me; I like that in a woman. But, on the other…” he said, crossing to her and gently stroking her hair, “…you’re so damned shy.”
Source: Fated Desire
“You know daytime television? You know what it's supposed to be for? It's to keep unemployed people happy. It's supposed to stop them running to the social security demanding mad luxuries like cookers and windows.”
“You know Death will get you in the end, but if you are smart and have a sense of humor, you can thumb your nose at it for awhile”
“You know deep down something is over a long time before you face it and do something about it. In bed, as in life, we pass through endless little deaths and wake reborn from them to start again. This is what it is to be human.”
Source: Girl Trade
“You know Deets is like me - he's not one to quit on a garment just because it's got a little age - spoken by Augustus McCrae”
“You know economists; they're the sort of people who see something works in practice and wonder if it would work in theory.”
“You know, Ella, you're not the first woman who's ever been in this shower with me--"
"I'm shocked." I leaned back against him as he soaped my back.
"--but you're for damn sure the first one who's ever worried about wasting water."
"How much, would you say?"
"Ten gallons per minute, give or take."
"Oh my God. Hurry.We can't stay in here long. We'll throw the entire ecological system out of balance.”
Source: Smooth Talking Stranger
“You know enough of me to believe me when I say I am not going anywhere. Not without you. You stay, I stay. You’re not a fling, Amelia. For me, you are the reason to stop running.”
Source: The Wonder of You
“You know, Eris,' he said, a hand wrapping around the doorknob. 'I think you might be a decent male, deep down, trapped in a terrible situation.' He looked over his shoulder and found Eris's gaze blazing again. But only pity stirred in his chest, pity for a male who had been born into riches, but had been destitute in every way that truly mattered. In every way that Cassian had been blessed- blessings that were now overflowing.
So Cassian said, 'I grew up surrounded by monsters. I've spent my existence fighting then. And I see you, Eris. You're not one of them. Not even close. I think you might even be a good male.' Cassian opened the door, turning from Eris's curled lip. 'You're just too much of a coward to act like one.”
Source: A Court of Silver Flames
“You know, every bad guy was once good until he crossed a line. I don’t think they come out of the womb being assholes.”
Source: Smiley
“You know every cell in our bodies is completely renewed every seven years, so how can we talk about being the same person? We're absolutely not.”
“You know every stage of your life has an impact on you.”
“You know every story, every wound, every memory. Their whole life's happiness is wrapped up in you... every single second. Don't you get it? Look down the road to her wedding. I'm in a room alone with her, fixing her veil, fluffing her dress, telling her no woman has ever looked so beautiful. And my fear is she'll be thinking, "I wish my mom was here.”
“You know every time you change a decade, it's a problem, because you approach the end little by little. But my decision is to keep going. The problem is always to know when the head doesn't work well. Someone has to tell you. I hope my children will tell me.”
“You know everybody has something to say. I'll be worried when they say nothing.”
“You know, everybody's ignorant, just on different subjects.”
“You know everyone calls you 'nice'...but that's not the word. You're good. So good you have no idea how good you are.”
“You know, everyone here's got some little peccadillo he's hoping to hide.”
Source: Let It Come Down
“You know everyone loves to be the villain.”
“You know everyone loves to hate a happy pair of lovebirds.”
Source: The Fallen Series: 4-Book Collection
“You know, everyone needs a place they can call home! They need people and a place to go which is theirs, a safe haven. A place to feel protected, where you can be yourself and unwind. A place where you are accepted. A safe roof over your head.”
Source: Billa & Buster: The Circle Of Kindness
“You know, everyone says the duchess is such a terrible mistress, but you don't seem to be that afraid of her."
"I'm not," Cinderella admitted. "I've seen real cruelty, and the duchess is not even close. She can be difficult, but her heart is in the right place. Besides, she likes Bruno, and since adopting him, she's been kind to me."
"Maybe, but I think there's more to it than Bruno," determined Louisa. "You just seem so cheerful, Cinderella- cheerful yet sad. I don't know how to explain it, but I bet people find it difficult being angry with you. I wonder if that's why the duchess likes you so much. Even Aunt Irmina does, even if she won't admit it.”
Source: So This is Love
“You know everything and you know nothing… And in that there’s this: You will always learn something new. About him. About her. About yourself. And in learning the bad, the uncomfortable, the messy- it’s what you take away that counts. What will you do with that knowledge? Will you leave? Pull tighter? Ignore it? Use it to fall in love even deeper? That’s when you learn more about yourself.”
Source: Why Girls Are Weird: A Novel
“You know, everything's a sort of lie, and then you die.”
“You know everything you need to know about a person from the answer to the question, What is your favorite book?”
Source: The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry: A Novel
“You know exactly what I’m offering you. All of you. I’m offering the impossible. I’m giving you both of the options you deliberated over for so long. I’m offering to save this world…” I pressed my teeth together, flicking my eyes to the three figures now huddled in the corner of the room, cowering away from our tense discussion. “And I’m offering to share in the benefits,” I finally hedged. “A six-way share. A six-way partnership.”
“You can’t cram six people into a two-person carriage”
Source: A Dream of Embers
“You know exactly what I think of photography. I would like to see it make people despise painting until something else will make photography unbearable. (In a letter to Alfred Stieglitz)”
“You know exactly what you need to do when you really love someone.”
Source: A Lil' Bert Can't Hurt: Words and Wisdom for Daily Life
“you know festus means happy in Latin right? You want us to go save the world on Happy the dragon?"
-Jason to Leo in the lost hero”
Source: The Lost Hero
“You know flexibility is a good thing but it shouldn't - you shouldn't be flexible on core principles.”
“You know, for a while there we kept horses for the boys, and we had a mare that had broken down. Couldn't ride it... You could feed it and brush it and water it and all. Sometimes, I've thought that's what most marriages get to. A horse you still care a little about but cannot any longer ride.”
Source: To Be Sung Underwater
“You know for me when I promise something I want to deliver. If you don't, you have to disappear.”
“You know for years before the notion of sequels, actors were the franchise. John Wayne would rarely do sequels, but he kind of played the same guy with a different name in every movie. I have no problem with using actors as franchises. And that's what is fun to do.”
“You know frankly, going to war without France is like going deer hunting without an accordion. You just leave a lot of useless noisy baggage behind.”
“You know, "freedom of expression also comes with responsibilities, such as respecting the rights and beliefs of others.”
“You know friends don’t hold hands,” I whispered, knowing that there was no way that I was letting go first.
“Huh,” he grunted. “Me and Kier hold hands all the time”
“You know from past experiences that whenever you have been driven to the wall, or thought you were, you have extricated yourself in a way which you never would have dreamed possible had you not been put to the test. The trouble is that in your everyday life you don't go deep enough to tap the divine mind within you.”
“You know full well as I do the value of sisters' affections: There is nothing like it in this world.”
“You know," Gabe said, "Lady Penelope might actually like some of this artwork. Take a bit more care."
Ash retrieved the small, oval frame from the floor. It held a phenomenally ugly sketch of a cross-eyed, squished-face pug. "This is hideous."
"Yes," Chase agreed. "It's probably her favorite.”
Source: The Wallflower Wager
“You know gentrification is deep when a garage rock band made up of three white boys is called "Harlem".”
Source: The Truth of Right Now
“You know George M. Steinbrenner III is the center of all evil in the universe.”
“You know George W. Bush is a war-time president, he says - proudly. Guess what. War is failure! When you are at war, you have failed! When you have gone to a war of choice and lied about it, you're a double-triple, triple-quadruple failure! Or a warlord. It's called a warlord in other countries. A war time president here. One man's ceiling I guess is another man's floor. George Bush is a warlord. He's a failure!”
“You know, girls, I was wondering how the end of the world will be.”
Source: Pandemiconium: Viral Conspiracy