Y Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with Y. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“You're like someone from a fairy story written in a language I don't even know."
"The prince, I hope."
"No, you're the dragon, a beautiful wicked dragon.”
Source: Mine Till Midnight
“You’re like the moon waxing into sight.”
Source: A Song Beyond Walls
“You’re like the perfect man conjured from my nerdiest fantasies.”
Source: Wolf Gone Wild
“You’re like the tide, you keep coming back to me. And each time you do you bring fresh salt spilling and gurgling into my wounds and you take away the ground that I stand on, leaving me to wonder when I’ll fall again.”
Source: The Infinite-Infinite
“You’re like this frosting.” She swiped another swirl of it on her finger, stood and leaned forward to touch it to his bottom lip. “Pretty, momentarily pleasurable, but with no real substance or sustenance.”
Source: Melting into You
“You're like water. Your beauty is soft and quiet.”
Source: Braised Pork
“You’re lit up like someone bought indulgences for all your sins and gave you your ticket to heaven.”
Source: Bad Things
“You’re living a dream. The question is, whose is it?”
“You're living with a bunch of hot guys, and instead of finding Cole and experiencing some real-life anatomy, you're shacking up with a textbook like a pariah.”
Source: My Life with the Walter Boys
“You're locked up here in your castle thinking we are all damned. But we're the lucky ones."
"Lucky how?"
"Lucky because the world has tried to destroy me in every kind of way, but I am still here. So are you. So are a lot of good people. Ain't no other people in the history of the world ever had so little of a serving of living as us. And now, we got all of it.”
Source: Sky Full of Elephants
“You’re lonely,” they say,
but it doesn’t scare me
anymore
for it teaches me,
and maybe that’s the biggest win from these years:
I don’t need anyone else to distract me from myself anymore,
like I always thought I would.
I don’t break mirrors anymore,
like I always thought I would.
I can finally stand myself,
and I never thought I would.”
Source: You're Doing Just Fine
“You're looking at me like I'm nuts, honey, and you're right. I am. I am out of my mind when it comes to you." I said, shrugging because it was a fact. "When I'm near you, the way I feel steals the breath from my body. It's like I breathe for you. like I exists to exist alongside of you. I know those feelings are probably too big and too scary and put way too much pressure on you, and I'm sorry for that. Truly. But it's the way I feel. The way I've always felt.”
Source: Nothing Like the Movies
“You’re looking at this choice like it’s right versus wrong. It’s not right versus wrong. It’s right versus left. You’re at a crossroads. You can go left or right…both are good options. That’s why it’s so hard to decide. If this was a choice between right and wrong, it would be easy.”
Source: Her Halloween Treat
“You’re looking for a Mother’s love in a Father. . . . Mothers are soft and yielding. Fathers are hard and rough, and to teach us the way of the world, which is rough, which is mean, which is selfish and prejudiced.”
Source: I Never Sang For My Father.
“You're looking for a reason," she said. "And that doesn't help. It doesn't change the present.”
Source: The Mermaid Chair
“You’re looking for real love in a ‘right now’ culture. And, many people might mistake you for just a ‘right now’ person. But, don’t let that fool you. You deserve the real love, the forever love. It might not be ‘right now’, but it’ll be the right love. And, it’ll be worth the wait.”
“You’re looking for sexual tidbits as a female child, and the only ones that present themselves depict child rape or other violations (all my favorite books in my preteen years: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Clan of the Cave Bear, The World According to Garp, as well as the few R-rated movies I was allowed to see—Fame, most notably, with its indelible scene of Irene Cara being asked to take her shirt off and suck her thumb by a skeezy photographer who promises to make her a star), then your sexuality will form around that fact. There is no control group. I don’t even want to talk about “female sexuality” until there is a control group. And there never will be.”
Source: The Argonauts
“You're looking for the same thing as everyone else. You want me to blame her, or for her to blame me. You want someone to be wrong and the other person to be right, and marriage... my marriage, at least, it wasn't like that. We just fell apart, and then we had to pick up the pieces and move on.”
Source: Much Ado about Nada
“You're looking...good enough to eat. Figuratively speaking, I'm strictly vegan.”
Source: Suicide Squad: The Official Movie Novelization
“You’re looking up and seeing the vastness of the universe, rather than the ground that tries to convince you that it is all that is and ever will be.”
Source: The Jealousy of Jalice
“You're lucky I didn't put you in the ground too.”
“You're lucky I'm drawn to things that are sick and weird. Makes it so I can actually still like you.”
Source: Relatively Honest
“You're lucky I was on that roof all day. That old man... he was trying to sell you a Sega product.”
Source: Nightlight: A Parody
“You’re lucky lad, many a dead man has wished he had a ghost guardin’ his back.”
Source: The Twins of Strathnaver
“you’re lucky that you find life so easy, Felix. You’re lucky that you’re happy, that you know how to be happy, that you’re a good person- and you want everyone to be happy and good because you are, and to find things easy because you do. Do it ever occur to you some people might not find life as easy to live as you do?”
Source: NW
“You're lucky the method of your death is not my choice (Shadows of the Crown)”
Source: Shadows of the Crown
“You're lucky to get your heart broke. That just means you have a heart.”
Source: You Love Me
“You’re lucky to have that face. But it doesn’t make you happy.”
Source: Feeling Lucky
“You’re lucky Vale didn’t make you strip completely. You can choose that option, if you prefer. It wouldn’t be the first time.” I grew still, searching his face. He was focussing on his task, his fingers making quick work of my laces. He was talking about my bath with Vale.
“How do you know that wasn’t a completely organic moment of genuine friendship?” I uttered dryly. “Just two people, bonding over hygiene”
Source: A City of Whispers
“You’re lucky you didn’t know him back in his tech phase. There was this time in our second year when we were living in the same house. Kitchen table kept wobbling so Landis shoved this metal saucer under one of the legs. Wasn’t until two weeks later we found out it was a land mine.”
Source: Veiled
“You're lying to me half the time, and I'm lying to you all the time.”
“You’re lying to yourself. You’re holding this up as a way to keep me locked out. But it’s too late. I’m in. You love me.” I smiled softly as he closed his eyes and gritted his teeth against my words. “You love me,” I repeated, “and you’ll never hurt me. And I will never hurt you. I will never use you like they did, like they all did. Because I want you. Just you.”
Source: Hero
“You're Ma's own blood son, but did she take on that time Tony Fontaine shot you in the leg? No, she just sent for old Doc Fontaine to dress it and asked the doctor what ailed Tony's aim. Said she guessed the licker was spoiling his marksmanship.”
Source: Gone with the wind
“You're Mac," he says. "And I'm Jericho. And nothing else matters. Never will. You exsist in a place that is beyond all rules for me. Do you understand that?"
"I do.”
Source: Shadowfever
“You’re mad, bonkers, completely off your head. But I’ll tell you a secret. All the best people are.”
“You’re mad,” he said in a low voice, “if you think I would leave you now. I’ll see you safe and well no matter what it takes.”
Source: Seduce Me at Sunrise
“You're making a list of all my bad ideas?" I ask.
[...]
Micah nods. "It's a long damn list.”
Source: Princess of Souls
“You’re making it very difficult for me to trust you to not get yourself killed,” she informs him.
“That seems unfair. In all the time you’ve known me, I have never died. I’ve got a great track record”
Source: Small Gods of Calamity
“You're making tarte à la bouille as an angel food cake?"
Ah. He got it. And, if I wasn't mistaken, he was impressed. Or maybe he was just confused. I felt pretty gratified, either way.
I flipped my wrist to remove his hand and then went about my business. "Have you read To Kill a Mockingbird, Chef Cavanagh?"
"Yes. Of course I have."
"So you remember when Heck Tate told Atticus that they should keep the secret, about Boo Radley saving the kids. He told him that if the people of the town found out, they'd all use their appreciation as an excuse to meddle in Boo's life." I finished pouring my mix into the pan and then looked at him- probably a little more pleased with myself than good manners allowed for. "They'd all be showing up at Boo's door with angel food cake.”
Source: Hadley Beckett's Next Dish
“You're making this really hard for me," he said quietly, holding my face in his hands.
"So maybe you should give in."
"I don't want you to think that's all I want from you."
"What else do you want from me?"
"Everything," he whispered and brushed his lips against mine.”
Source: Accidentally on Purpose
“You're maybe eighteen. Your mother didn't love you enough so you decided to pierce your lip and brand your body to piss her off. You hang around this band because they make you feel like you belong. And most days you wish you were in a band of your own, but you know that probably will never happen." I met his eyes waiting.
I'm twenty. my mother has an assload of tattoos herself, she thinks its art. I have a lip ring because it turns girls on when I do this." He licked his lip, lingering on the metal for a couple intense seconds. My eyes fluttered with nervousness.”
Source: Ink
“You’re meant for greatness. I don't care how many times you've tried to go for it and failed. Or how many times you’ve attempted to unleash the fire within you. Or how many times you've tried to become a badass and fallen short. You’re meant for greatness.”
Source: How to be a Success Champion: Business Strategy for Badasses
“You’re meant to be here in these times. Actually, you signed up for this. You cannot fix the world, but you’re here to do your small but essential part.”
Source: We Need You: A Call to an Imaginal Reality
“you're meant to be kissed like wildfire by someone who sees you as art”
“You’re meant to have control over yourself to make your decisions only to live a good life.”
Source: When Roses are Crushed
“You’re mine and I’ll bring the world to its knees to protect what’s mine.”
Source: Misted
“You're mine and I'm yours. It's written in the stars.”
Source: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes
“You’re mine and in some ways, you belong to me forever. No matter what happens when we grow old, no matter where life takes us, no matter if you and I end up together. You’re in my heart. You’ll always be in my heart. You’re mine and in some ways, you’ll belong to me forever.”
Source: IF TOMORROW COMES
“You’re mine, Ellie. We belong together. I love you. Doesn’t that mean anything to you?”
My cheeks heat up and I meet his passionate stare. “Of course it means something! Why do you think I came here today? It’s because I love you! I’ve only ever loved you!”
Adam yanks me to him, slanting his mouth down on mine roughly until we have to stop and catch our breath. He glides a hand down my cheek in a loving caress. “Don’t leave me again, El. I can’t take it.”
“You’re mine.” His hand slid up the plane of my torso while he lowered himself over me, his hips nestling against mine.
Yes, I thought. I had been his since Colombia, and he had been mine from the start. I gasped a little at the touch, as his body fit across mine. My breathing was ragged and savage as he leaned down to kiss me, waiting for me to respond. “I love you. I’m yours,” I said.”
Source: Fated to Love You