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“You mean when you called Khalil a drug dealer?"
He nods. "Even if he was, I knew that boy. Watched him grow up with you. He was more than any bad decision he made," he says. "I hate that I let myself fall into that mind-set of trying to rationalize his death. And at the end of the day, you don't kill someone for opening a car door. If you do, you shouldn't be a cop.”
Source: The Hate U Give
“You mean you are now my slave without illusions, and for that reason you shall feel the weight of my foot without mercy.”
Source: Venus in Furs
“You mean you don’t know? (Wulf) No. In fact, I’m thinking right now that one, if not both of us, needs to put down the crack pipe and start this night over. (Cassandra)”
Source: Kiss of the Night
“You mean you have to be epic already, for it to make you more epic?”
Source: The Fever Series 7-Book Bundle: Darkfever, Bloodfever, Faefever, Dreamfever, Shadowfever, Iced, Burned
“You mean you haven’t been going on romantic dates with Sebastian while you’ve been away from me?” “I tried,” Jace said, “but no matter how liquored up you get him, he just won’t put out.”
Source: Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls
“You mean you let him talk to you like that and you aren't even getting any Man what a rip-off.”
Source: Embrace the Night
“You mean you live down here?' Matilda asked. 'I do', Miss Honey replied, but she said no more. Matilda had never once stopped to think about where Miss Honey might be living. She had always regarded her purely as a teacher, a person who turned up out of nowhere and taught at school and then went away again.”
“You mean you'll forgive me completely for saving your life if I completely forgive you for saving mine?
You're my friend, my only one.
Pathetic, that's what we are, Inigo said.
Athletic.”
Source: The Princess Bride
“You mean you prostituted yourself out to the masses? To draw them away? That was sweet.”
Source: Suddenly Royal
“You mean you're the late Charlemagne; you must be six or seven hundred years old, at the very least."
"Trouble has done it, Bilgewater, trouble has done it; trouble has brung these gray hairs and this premature balditude.”
“You mean you’ve done this before?”
She frowned. “Done what?”
“Put in expired contacts.”
“Of course. Contacts are not cheap.”
“Neither are eyes.”
Humph. Good point.”
Source: The Love Hypothesis
“You mean…you were eating those things…raw?’
‘Well not eating, exactly. More like drinking”
Source: What Awaits?
“you mean you would've never let me dribble your basketballs”
Source: Only Mostly Devastated
“You mean you're comparing our lives to a sonnet? A strict form, but freedom within it? Yes. Mrs. Whatsit said. You're given the form, but you have to write the sonnet yourself. What you say is completely up to you.”
Source: The Wrinkle in Time Quintet
“You mean, like a book?”
“You measure a church's strength, not by its seating capacity but by its sending capacity.”
“You measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists.”
“You measure a government by how few people need help.”
“You measure a person by what it
takes to discourage them.”
“You measure a player from the head up.”
“You measure peace with guns, progress in megatons. Who's left when the war is won?”
“You measure success by how much good you do for others.”
“You measure the size of the accomplishment by the obstacles you have to overcome to reach your goals.”
“You measure your people and you take action on those that don't measure up.”
“You measure yourself against yourself and nobody else.”
“You measure yourself by the people who measure themselves by you.”
“You meditate and then you can put on your pajamas, or you can imagine you're wearing your pajamas, and you talk about your piece of writing in the language you would use if you were wearing your pajamas and you were seated at a table with your very good friend. And you wouldn't have to get all dressed up or clean up the table.”
“You meet a better class of person in pubs.”
“You meet a friend - your face brightens. You have struck gold.”
“You meet a lot of people [in Dubai] coming from a lot of different places. Even me, I'm always in transit. I don't stay anywhere too long. I like the energy that I found when I came here the first time. I start knowing people, and people start knowing me as well.”
“You meet a lot of people and have a lot of experiences, and they color you and stay with you - but I'm not the grieving widow. Life is much more complicated and interesting and full of zigs and zags than that.”
“You meet a lot of people in New York who are different than you, and have different stories, so I see everyone as super individual.”
“You meet a new guy, analyze him, not good for marriage, not good for a relationship, not good for fucking, maybe excepting the very drunk mood, so, conclusion: this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship.”
“You meet a new person, you go with him and suddenly you get a whole new city...you go down new streets, you see houses you never saw before, pass places you didn't even know were there. Everything changes.”
“You meet all kinds of people that help put life in perspective and turn the horror into some kind of lesson or avenue of awakening that lives with you all your days.”
“You meet grief without introductions”
Source: The Fine Art of Grieving
“You meet me after school right here", I said.
"Why?" he asked.
I couldn't believe he was so stupid.
"Because we're going to finish this fight."
"You're crazy," Roger said.
He got to his feet and walked away. His gang stared at me like I was a serail killer, and they followed their leader.
I was absolutely confused.
I had followed the rules of fighting. i had behaved exactly the way I was supposed to behave. But these white boys had ignored the rules. In fact, they followed a whole other set of mysterious rules where people apparently DID NOT GET INTO FISTFIGHTS.
(65)”
Source: The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
“You meet new people. We just spent two hours with people we didn't know before, just talking about the Badgers.”
“You meet not so much to sing as to pray, or, better yet, to pray in and through your song. Gregorian chant is for you a privileged form of prayer. You are drawn to it because you perceive the link between music and the sacred, between beauty and truth.”
Source: Entretiens sur la spiritualité du chant grégorien
“You meet people in Hollywood that are famous, and you're not sure what they got famous for.”
“You meet people who are great to hang with, and you just want to make stuff. So, you just make stuff. I never would have seen that coming. I guess at this point, I can't say that I'm really picky about it. If someone wants to work with me, I'm psyched. As far as who I might call, I don't know. I've never thought about it. Maybe I don't feel like I'm able to ask. That hasn't crossed my mind. I'm that girl who waits to be invited to the dance. I'm not doing any inviting myself, if that makes any sense.”
“You meet people who are in pain in life and love and you forgive them for behaving the way they do.”
“You meet people who forget you. You forget people you meet. But sometimes you meet those people you can't forget. Those are your 'friends”
“You meet people who say, "Oh, I'd like to do such-and-such, but I don't have the time." But it always seemed to me like you make the time. And if you have a wife or a job, if you have kids or whatever, you find a way. If you really want to do it, you make the time.”
“You meet people, you form these bonds that tighten around you, and some of the people you love die. All of them go away, one way or another. You don't carry them around with you over there, you can't. There isn't time, and the memories are too heavy. You'll always have the piece of them that was yours and your time together. And you can pray for him. One way or another, Frank, he's gone for you, and you know that. As you said, he was never your guy, no matter how much you loved him.”
“You meet people, you part ways, sometimes you cross paths again. Mostly, you don't.”
Source: Just One Year
“You meet rich people and you hang around with them, and one night they've had a few drinks and they say 'I'll buy it!' Then they tell their friends, 'You must have this person's work, darling,' and that's all you need. That's all it takes. Get it?”
“You meet saints everywhere. They can be anywhere. They are people behaving decently in an indecent society.”
“You meet someone accidentally, but then you realize that you have a deeper connection with them.”
“You meet someone and it’s so much more than meeting them. It’s so much bigger and it’s like you’re enchanted by them.”