Y Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with Y. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“You're not pretty. Goddamn it, Dani. You're beautiful.”
Source: Feversong
“You’re not procrastinating. You’re protecting yourself from burnout.”
Source: Overcoming Mediocrity: Limitless Women
“You’re not protecting me when you keep stuff from me, you’re just worrying me.”
Source: The Burning Girls
“You're not quite human, are you?”
Source: Do Not Be Afraid: A Whimsical Urban Fantasy About a Stranded Angel, a Hellhound Puppy, and a Second Chance on Earth
“You’re not ready, Skayld. You say you aren’t damaged, but you are. You’re terrified of forming emotional attachments. You might be ready to sleep with Helki, because his idea of an emotional connection is two people … I don’t know … setting something on fire together, or making something bleed together.”
Source: A Castle of Ash
“You're not really famous if anybody still likes you.”
Source: The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
“You’re not really grown until you’ve lost your heroes.”
Source: Robogenesis
“You’re not really mad that I’m not having children.
In fact, I would probably love to one day.
You’re mad that I’m expressing autonomy of choice.
You’re mad that I’m considering other options.
You’re mad that I don’t view that as my ultimate potential.
You’re mad that I dare be selfish enough to make choices based on my best interest, something women are not supposed to do.
You’re mad that I consider it a choice, and that I, a woman, am exercising choice.
You’re not mad that I’m not having babies.
You’re mad because I’m acting like a man.”
“You’re not resisting enough, darling. If you wanted to go, you would. Unsurprisingly, you’re giving up. You’re still as weak as you were and you will always be if you continue looking at yourself this way. The cycle will never end. I can’t help you forever. You have to make a change now. Separate yourself from yourself. Time won’t wait for anyone, even you.”
Source: Rhythm of Missing Pieces
“You’re not responsible for everything. Your brother is an adult. So are Winnifred and Poppy. They agreed with your decision, didn’t they?”
“Yes, but Leo wasn’t in his right mind. He still isn’t. And Win is frail, and—”
“You like to blame yourself, don’t you? Come walk with me.”
She set her empty wine cup at the corner of the stall, feeling light-headed. The second cup of wine had been a mistake. And going anywhere with Rohan, with night deepening and revelry all around them, would be yet another. But as she looked into his hazel eyes, she felt absurdly reckless. Just a few stolen minutes … she couldn’t resist the lawless mischief of his smile. “My family will worry if I don’t rejoin them soon.”
“They know you’re with me.”
“That’s why they’ll worry,” she said, making him laugh.”
Source: Mine Till Midnight
“You're not responsible for the way others react to what you need to do to get better.”
Source: June First
“You're not saving lives, Dad. You can't save lives when no one's living anymore. (Maddie)”
Source: Awaken
“You're not scared. You're just grieving. No one tells you humans that your sorrow feels like fear.”
Source: The Deal of a Lifetime
“You're not seriously going?" Troy asks.
"Of course I'm going," I say. "What other choice do I have?"
"Um...not going.”
Source: Goddess Boot Camp
“You’re not showing Jackson the jock, you’re showing Jackson your best friend, the guy that’s in love with you, the one who wants to know all of you, everything that makes you who you are”
Source: Torn
“You’re not somebody’s maybe. You're someone’s absofuckinglutely”
Source: The Saturn Diaries: A Modern Day Grimoire
“You're not something static. You are the mobile consciousness. You can be at 4 levels: (1) body (2) mind (3) soul or (4) supreme-soul (Nothingness)
If you're stuck at mind level, come down to body level. Do physical things with all your five senses open. Once you realize that you are mobile, you can move upwards also.”
“You're not special, they're lonely!”
“You're Not Special, You're just a
Dust of Space Which got Lucky.
So Live your life At it's Fullest,
Cause You're Not Gonna Exist Ever Again.”
“You're not standing on your head! Have a cookie. - Grimspite in Jinx on the Divide”
Source: Jinx on the Divide
“You're not strong until you don't breakdown for your loved ones.”
“You’re not stuck—you’re fluid, a traveler with a thousand paths underfoot.”
Source: 9 Analogies of Consciousness
“You’re not stuck. You’re just stuck believing the lies about money that were designed to keep you that way.”
Source: Money's Dirty Little Secrets: How to Break the Rules, Get Filthy Rich, and Laugh All the Way to the Bank
“You’re not stupid if you don’t know something; you’re stupid if you don’t find out what it means, because you’ve missed an opportunity to learn something.”
Source: The Sporty One: My Life as a Spice Girl
“You're not stupid, you're just special! You have morons in your head instead of neurons!”
“You’re not such tough guys,” she said, “you Corleones.”
Tom Hagen touched the brim of his cap, straightening it on his head. He watched Kelly where she stood brazenly just outside her door. He said, “I’m not sure I’m entirely representative of my family.”
Source: The Family Corleone
“You’re not supposed to agree with everything I say. It’s okay to disagree. It doesn’t make you right and me wrong, and it certainly doesn’t make me right and you wrong. It’s just opinion. So it’s not whether you agree with my opinions or not that matter. What matters is that you respect them. And conversely that I respect your opinions. You can disagree with me, you can argue with me, and you can be different from me, but don’t ever try and shut me up.”
Source: 100 Common Sense Policies to make BRITAIN GREAT again
“You're not supposed to be here," Lillian told Westcliff when the contraction was over. She clung to his hand as if it were a lifeline. "You're supposed to be downstairs pacing and drinking."
"Good God, woman," Westcliff muttered, blotting her sweaty face with a dry cloth, "I did this to you. I'm hardly going to let you face the consequences alone."
That produced a faint smile on Lillian's dry lips.”
Source: Scandal in Spring
“You’re not supposed to be in a relationship because it’s comfortable, it’s supposed to be because they make you a better person.”
“You're not supposed to have to be rich or lucky to have a chance to do great things. Opportunity is supposed to be for everyone. And that's why I'm a Democrat.”
Source: Al Franken, Giant of the Senate
“You're not supposed to laugh at your own father. Ever.”
Source: The Glass Castle
“You're not talking to her, Maggie Jones said. You and Raymond don't talk like you should to that girl. Women want to hear some conversation in the evening. We don't think that's too much to ask. We're willing to put up with a lot from you men, but in the evening we want to hear some talking. We want to have a little conversation in the house.”
Source: Plainsong
“You're not tall, but you walk like you are.”
Source: Come Tumbling Down
“You're not teachable if you're not humble. The greatest attribute of a human being is humility because every other good qualities comes from being humble.”
“You're not that good a fuck, and really, what else do you have?'
Nothing. The answer was nothing. That was why the idea of Carnac targeting Warrick terrified him so much, because Carnac, bastard though he was, had so much more that Warrick might want. So much more than him.”
Source: First Against the Wall
“You’re not the boss of me,” I say peevishly, and he grins suddenly. “No one is the boss of you, Milo. You’re gloriously intractable.”
Source: Milo
“You're not the boy they knew; you're a man they don't recognize. Something marks you as separate, and they won't ever understand it."
"Because I was cursed." It wasn't a question, and Belle knew she had to tread carefully.
"It's more than that. The curse forced you to change, but the transformation was yours alone."
"Not just mine." He stepped to her and brought her hands to his chest.
Heat rose to her cheeks, but she leaned into the warmth. Lio tilted her chin up and kissed her, sending a shiver down her spine despite the summer heat. She pulled her hands from his and wrapped them around his neck, twining her fingers in his hair, trying to close any distance between them. Every kiss was like their first- capable of wrecking her and healing her in equal measure. A soft growl escaped his lips. She pulled away and looked up, watching as his blue eyes softened.
"I was in that darkness for ten years before you gave me a reason to seek the light," he whispered.”
Source: Rebel Rose
“You're not the butcher, selling sausages. You're the cow, pre-sausage.”
Source: The Ugly Truth About Self-Publishing: Not another cookie-cutter contemporary romance
“You’re not the first mistake I’ve made.”
“Good.” Ella gently nudged him down, urging him to follow his hand. “I’ll be the best mistake you ever made, promise.”
Source: Ford's Edge: An Opposites Attract Ranch Romance
“You’re not the funny one. Just try and stick in your snarky, bitchy lane, yeah? It suits you better.”
I opened my mouth to protest that, but Darius turned and punched him in the arm before I could. “Don’t tell her she can’t be funny, dickhead,” he warned like my own personal dark knight.
“Well tell me this, Darius,” Seth said seriously, looking him square in the eye. “Did. You. Laugh?”
Source: Heartless Sky
“You're not the kind of girl who'd be in a place like this at a time like this. Not the kind of girl who'd sit next to a guy who's the kind of guy who'd be in Bright Lights, Big City II and be so [spaced out/coked up/polypharmaceutically prepositioned/ (Add/delete as appropriate)] that he thinks he's the kind of guy who'd be in a pastiche of Calvino's If on a winter's night a traveler. It was pre-assigned seating.”
Source: Your Name Here
“you're not the kind of woman that gets one night. you're worth a lifetime.”
Source: Claimed
“You're not the one Teach!!
The man roger was waiting for,at the very least,it's not you teach
Just as there are people who inherited roger's will...
Someday one will carry ace's will...
You may eradicate their bloodline ,but their flame never dies...
For many ages , it has been passed down through the generations...
And someday,bearing the weight of all these generations,a man will appear to challenge this world...
Sengoku,you people of the World Government are living in fear of that great battle that will someday engulf the entire world...
Though it has nothing to do with me... When somebody finds that treasure... The world will be turned upside down!!...
OH yes!it will be found!That day will come!!!!
ONE PIECE!IS OUT THERE!!!!!!”
“You,re not the only man I've ever thought about this way, you know,[...]. You are just the only one I wanted badly enough to complicate my life this much for.”
Source: Drawn Together
“You’re not the only one,” he says through gritted teeth. “My twelve-year-old sister died in my arms. She choked to death on her own blood. And there was nothing I could do. It makes me sick, the way you act as if the worst disaster in human history somehow revolves around you. You’re not the only one who’s lost everything—not the only one who thinks they’ve found the one thing that makes any of this shit make sense. You have your promise to Sammy, and I have you.”
Source: The 5th Wave
“You’re not the only one in this relationship who loves a
challenge,” he says. “And just so you know for the future, I like my double-chocolate chip
cookies warm and soft in the middle . . . and without magnets glued to them.”
Source: Rules of Attraction
“You're not the person you were when you started, and you'll never be again. You're like a tree... you've grown. There are a few more rings inside of your heart.”
Source: Lumberjanes: End of Summer #1
“You’re not the same as you were a few days ago,” he murmured. “You’re no longer a wallflower, nor a virgin, nor the helpless child who had to endure life with the Maybricks. You’re a viscountess with a sizable fortune, and a scoundrel of a husband. Whose rules will you adhere to now?”
Evie shook her head in weary confusion. She discovered that as Sebastian worked the tension out of her back, her control over her emotions seemed to dissolve at an equal rate. She was afraid that if she tried to speak, she might cry. Instead she remained silent, squeezing her eyes shut and fighting to keep her breathing even.
“So far you’ve spent your life striving to please others,” she heard him say. “With a rather poor rate of success. Why don’t you try pleasing yourself for a change? Why not live by your own rules? What has obeying the conventions ever gotten you?”
Evie pondered the questions, and her breath hissed in pleasure as he found a particularly sore spot.
“I like the conventions,” she said after a moment. “There is nothing wrong with being an ordinary person, is there?”
“No. But you’re not ordinary.”
Source: Devil in Winter
“You're not the ugly one... you're just the Clark Kent.”
Source: Fangirl
“You’re not the villain in my story.”
“I am,” he says without remorse, his sharp jaw tight with tension. “But I’ll be the villain for you. Not to you.”
Source: Gleam