Y Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with Y. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“You lied to me.”
“I had no choice.”
“You always have a choice. You just never choose me.”
“You lied to me,” she said.
“I omitted information.” He paused. “Which may be just as deplorable.”
Source: Once: Six Historically Inspired Fairytales
“You lied to us. You gave us false hope. You told us that the future was something to look forward to. And the saddest thing is that most children are not even aware of the fate that awaits us. We will not understand it until it’s too late. And yet we are the lucky ones. Those who will be affected the hardest are already suffering the consequences. But their voices are not heard.
Is my microphone on? Can you hear me?”
Source: No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference
“You Life is a progress, and not a station.”
“You life matters. You are here for a reason. Your job is to determine why.”
Source: Living Forward: A Proven Plan to Stop Drifting and Get the Life You Want
“You lift your head, you’re on your way, but really just to be walking, to be out of doors. That’s it, that’s all, and you’re there. Outdoors is our element: the exact sensation of living there.”
Source: A Philosophy of Walking
“You lift your spirits by moving away from what upsets you. If the stove is hot, you can't ask how to touch it but be happy about it.”
“You light a fire early in your girlhood. You stoke it and tend it. You protect it at all costs. You don't let it rage into a mountain of light, because that's not becoming of a girl. You keep it secret. You let it burn. You look into the eyes of other girls and see their fires flickering there, offer conspiratorial nods, never speak aloud a near-unbearable heat, a growing conflagration.
You tend the flame because if you don't you're stuck, in the cold, on your own, doomed to 'seasonal layers', doomed to 'practicality', doomed to 'this is just the way things are', doomed to 'settling' and 'understanding' and 'reasoning' and 'agreeing' and 'seeing it another way' and 'seeing it his way' and 'seeing it from all the other ways but your own'.”
Source: Nightbitch
“You light up my life, Loren Calla.”
Source: City of Gods and Monsters
“YOU LIGHT UP MY LIFE
SO PLEASE NEVER STOP
SHINING!”
Source: Friend In Your Pocket
“You like a woman, she's got kids, it's a package. You can't just go in one-sided.”
“You like all the junk pop cultural stuff. That's how you know who you are and what to wear and what you're like. But there's another MTV viewer who says you don't need to tell me what's cool. Just put it in front of me.”
“you like babies, don't you? he asked...
I have a marginally higher opinion of them than Herod, she said.”
Source: Murder at the Old Vicarage
“You like being fucked by a killer?” he whispered in her ear.
She glanced at him, meeting his eyes, unafraid now.
“Only if the killer is you.”
Source: A Beauty So Cruel
“You like being vague, don't you? (Amanda) It was a choice of being a Dark-Hunter or a prophet. Personally I like the slash-and-kill stuff much more than prayers and the lotus position. (Acheron)”
Source: Night Pleasures
“You like blue eyes, huh?" "Yes. I do. I like blue eyes.”
Source: Eve and Adam
“You like every one; that is to say, you are indifferent to every one.”
Source: The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: The picture of Dorian Gray : the 1890 and 1891 texts
“You, like everyone else in the world, cannot distinguish illusion from reality, and since nearly everything is illusion, we have come to regard illusion as reality.”
Source: The Mad Metropolis / Space Captain
“You like games,' I tell him. 'How about we play one?'
'What's the wager?'
'If I win,' I say, 'You answer my question. Without evasion.'
Nothing about the way he looks at me suggests that he does not consider these to be large stakes. Still, he nods. 'And what is the game?'
'You have the piece. Just as when we were children, let's see which of us throws better.'
He nods again, taking it from his pocket. The peridot eyes glimmer. 'And if I win?'
'What do you want?' I ask.
He studies me and I study him in return. No smile now can disguise the steel underneath. 'You promise to dance with me so that our practice back in the Court of Moths won't be for nothing.'
'Those are absurd stakes,' I tell him, my cheeks hot.
'And yet they are mine,' he says.”
Source: The Stolen Heir
“You like him because he's a lost boy. Believe me, I've seen it happen before. But do you know what happens to girls who love lost boys? They become lost themselves. Without fail.”
Source: Another Day
“You like it. I probably wouldn't. I'm really only interested in my own behavior.”
Source: In the Cut
“You like it in jail?'
'It's not too bad. You don't meet the best people, but who the hell wants to?”
Source: The Long Goodbye
“You like it under the trees in autumn, because everything is half dead. The wind moves like a cripple among the leaves and repeats words without menaing.”
Source: The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens
“You like it, that's all, whether it's a landscape or abstract. You like it. It hits you. You don't have to read it. The work of art-sculpture or painting-forces your eye.”
“You like legs?" she asked.
"On you, yes. On a chicken, I prefer wings and breasts."
She picked up both legs with her fingers. "Then we are going to get along just fine.”
Source: Hot Cowboy Nights
“You like me?” He smiled wide and wild. “I fucking knew it.”
“You all,” I finished, rolling my eyes heavenward. “I like all five of you.” I expelled a rapid breath, staring at the floor as I talked to the rug instead of them. “I like when Andel teaches me things. I like when Fjor’s power wraps around me. Worlds … I even like when Vidrol forgets that he isn’t surrounded by servants and starts ordering imaginary people to do things.”
“My thing wasn’t personal.” Vidrol frowned, interrupting before I could finish. “Everyone else got a personal thing.”
“I didn’t get anything”
Source: A World of Lost Words
“You like me," I blurt out.
"No. I tolerate you more than most people. That's why I want to date you,”
Source: The Fine Print
“You like me?” I repeat, because, well, I want to be really, really sure that I heard him right. This is not the sort of thing you want to get wrong.
He nods and says, “Very much.”
“You like me very much?”
He lets go of my hands and touches my check. “Too much.”
“Too much?” Trying to keep my voice calm, I say, “No such thing.”
Source: Need
“You like me needing you, girl? You like knowing you’re the only woman in the whole fucking world I can imagine ever touching again?”
Source: Losing It All
“You like me not because I like you. I like you just because I like me.”
“You like me, Josie Moraine. You just don't know it yet.”
Source: Out of The Easy
“You like me, you don't like me, you love me, you hate me. I'm gonna be me, but one thing I have to back it up is skills.”
“You like my forearms?
No, not yours in particular. I mean, they're fine. Just, it's a sexy body part.
I totally agree. I just didn't know girls liked them too.
Oh, yes, Daniel. All girls like forearms. Every single one. No really, I've asked all of us and we all agree. We don't even agree about whether or not the long arm of the law should be able to reach into our vaginas, but we agree about forearms.”
Source: In the Middle of Somewhere
“You like orchids?... Nasty things. Their flesh is too much like the flesh of men, their perfume has the rotten sweetness of corruption.”
“You like pie? I like pie.”
“You like pink?" Cole touched her again though the damp material. "Yes, Rachel, especially your sweet pink pussy.”
Source: Edible
“You like reading?' she asked him brightly.
Ove shook his head with some insecurity, but it didn't seem to concern her very much. She just smiled, said that she loved books more than anything, and started telling him excitedly what each of the ones in her lap was about. And Ove realized that he wanted to hear her talking about the things she loved for the rest of his life.”
Source: A Man Called Ove
“You like rock? Little boy, I’m not your friend. I’m not your Dark-Hunter and I’m not your friggin’ date. You only speak to me when I ask you a question. Otherwise you keep your mouth shut, your eyes off me, and you might live long enough to get me to the French Quarter. (Zarek)”
Source: Night Embrace
“You like science? You enjoy science? Always use it for good, never for evil. Can you promise me that?”
“You like? she asked Slade. He gave her a head nod and she vanished behind the curtain.
That's my sister, he said, pointing at the closed curtain.
I shrugged. "I'm glad you guys are so close.”
Source: Ink
“You like some things, you don't like others. It doesn't mean there's anything wrong with the others, it just means you have an opinion.”
“You like someone who can't like you back because unrequited love can be survived in a way that once-requited love cannot.”
Source: Will Grayson, Will Grayson
“You like that analogy? That was pretty good?”
“You like the comfort, don't ya?
You wanna be there... wanna and gonna aren't nigga words so far... you are very bad at judging so far all people will be in prison because of you.... No matter...>!~”
“You like the Earth, Man, and you - pawing the ground - think of God, the little nursling will recognize you, and will think of you with love, because God lives even in it also. Give nourishment to the developing little creatures, either to plant or to animal, and it will develop for your sweet amazement. Give food for the wild animal starving, and it will slick to you.”
“You like the girl," Alasdair offered. Nassar leveled a heavy gaze at him. "Lillian said you tried to be funny in the car. I told her it couldn't possibly be true. The moment you try to make a joke, the sky shall split and the Four Horsemen will ride out, heralding Apocalypse.”
“You like the party?" "Is it in honor of anything?" "My cat's birthday." "Oh." She glanced around. "Where's your cat?" "I dont know. He ran away." -Magnus & Clary, pg.221-”
“You like the taste of sin. I like the taste of ecstasy. That’s not the same babe.”
“You like the way I dress The way I wear my hair Show me off to all your friends Baby, I don't care Just as long as you tell them who I am Tell them I'm the one that made you give a damn”
“You like the wind? There is no wind? Start running! Create your own wind!”