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“You realize how sympathy and antagonism can coexist. You are discovering how many seemingly incompatible emotions can thrive, side by side, in the same human heart.”
Source: The Only Story
“You realize I had half my guard out searching for you?” Eddard Stark said when they were alone. “Septa Mordane is beside herself with fear. She’s in the sept praying for your safe return. Arya, you know you are never to go beyond the castle gates without my leave.”
“I didn’t go out the gates,” she blurted. “Well, I didn’t mean to. I was down in the dungeons, only they turned into this tunnel. It was all dark, and I didn’t have a torch or a candle to see by, so I had to follow. I couldn’t go back the way I came on account of the monsters. Father, they were talking about killing you! Not the monsters, the two men. They didn’t see me, I was being still as stone and quiet as a shadow, but I heard them. They said you had a book and a bastard and if one Hand could die, why not a second? Is that the book? Jon’s the bastard, I bet.”
Source: A Game of Thrones
“You realize if you stand in my kitchen, I'm gonna put you to work, right?" Bunny asked after a minute.
"I'm at your service," he said.
She laughed. "My favorite words ever.”
Source: Hard as Steel
“You realize in life, not that many things matter that much, but your choice of a spouse is everything.”
“You realize just how long youve been away when you get home and start dialing 8 out of habit so you can get access to local calls.”
“You realize mortality is everywhere.”
“You realize, of course, the Omegans nearly lost this Earth. They
had everything yet let it disintegrate through their rampant carelessness.
Two hundred years past they possessed the rudimentary beginnings
of the NET to bring them together. They called it the Internet.
Yet they treated it like a toy, tribalized themselves, and thus nearly lost
the planet.
“Nationalist wars, self serving ideologies, competing religions . . .
more significant, though not to the Omegans, was climate change
itself, which mattered more than any petty dogma, but they ignored
it until too late. It has ultimately determined our lives, managed now
by the CORPORATE, using the only possible tools to survive. There
were billions of Humans then. There is now but a fraction of that:
some 300 million we know in the MEGS and, of course, the uncounted
MASSes.”
Source: Against the Machine: Evolution
“You realize people like you and Trav are going to fight, right?" America said, filing her nails as she chewed the huge wad of gum in her mouth.
I turned over on the bed. "You are officially fired. You are a terrible conscious.”
Source: Beautiful Disaster
“You realize that by summoning me here, you signed your own death warrant.” Demons were nothing to take lightly. I’d seen what they were capable of, but I also knew they were no match against the light that shone inside me. “I do,” it said, and I fought to place the language we were speaking. I knew it was ancient. Possibly the first language ever spoken in the universe. “Unless we sign yours first.” “Is that what you think will happen here?” “Dutch,” Reyes said into my ear, “stop playing with your dinner.”
Source: Seventh Grave and No Body
“You realize that constitutes going to second base, right? So as a seasoned base runner I have to tell you, stealing third should be on the table. And when I steal a base you should know I never get thrown out, I’m very fast.”
Source: Sliding
“You realize that especially when you're writing a book like this, looking back on your life, that there's just such a depth of understanding you acquire over time with the help of the people who love you that that's when you can really get down to what you really think and believe.”
“You realize that everything is a moving budget, and sometimes you've got to borrow from Peter to pay Paul, to make it happen.”
“You realize that for all the shenanigans that go on in the big circus of politics, everybody wakes up and goes to work.”
“You realize that is you allow me to court you, all your opposition to marriage is going to have to be reconsidered."
She smiled, feigning innocence."What opposition to marriage?"
"Excellent."
"But I'm thinking we should have a long courtship."
"Why?" He looked surprised.
"Because i find I've developed a taste for adventure."
"That sounds dangerous. Not at all in character for a delicate flower."
She laughed." We know I've never been good at being a delicate flower. Besides, it shan't be too dangerous."
"How can you be so sure?"
She smiled brilliantly at him, taking his breath away.
"Because, on my next adventure, I'll have you by my side.”
Source: The Season
“You realize that life is short and fragile; and when you are facing walls of water, you understand your own mortality can change and how quickly things could change.”
“You realize that our mistrust of the future makes it hard to give up the past.”
Source: Survivor: A Novel
“You realize that people take drugs because it's the only real personal adventure left to them in their time-constrained, law-and-order, property-lined world. It's only in drugs or death we'll see anything new, and death is just too controlling.”
Source: Survivor: A Novel
“You realize that suicide's a criminal offense. In less enlightened times they'd have hung you for it.”
“You realize that the first Bryan Ferry album was pretty good although at the time it seemed a bit cheesy.”
“You realize that the sleeping stadium is more beautiful at night, with the unshakable quietus rooting it to the earth. It rests like a graveyard--empty but throbbing all at once. With the pollution of light extinguished, maybe you even see the Dog Star blinking back at you.”
Source: Clubbie: A Minor League Baseball Memoir
“You realize that there's no point in doing anything if nobody's watching. You wonder, if there had been a low turnout at the crucifixion, would they have rescheduled?”
Source: Survivor: A Novel
“You realize that these accidental decisions you make about changing jobs, about moving into an apartment where you make new friends and confidants, about going to one city over another, that sometimes they're completely arbitrary decisions that you haven't put as much thought into as perhaps you should have, and yet they change the course of your whole life.”
“You realize that trying to keep your distance from me will not lessen my affection for you. All efforts to save me from you will fail.”
Source: The Fault in Our Stars
“You realize that we only have so much time, and whatever you want to do in life, you need to do it now. There's no time to wait.”
“You realize that we over-exaggerate yesterday, we over-estimate tomorrow and we underestimate today. We think, "Well, I'm going to kill time," "I'll get back to this tomorrow."”
“You realize that you aren’t leaving the battle field behind but are actually taking it with you and it will be a part of you forever”
“You realize that you don’t have to accept the versions of people who no longer align with who you are, right? People change and grow at different paces. Sometimes you outgrow them, even if you love them. Don’t get so comfortable having people in your life that you don’t know when it’s time to remove them.”
“You realize that you habitually thought of Mom when something in your life was not going well, because when you thought of her it was as though something got back on track, and you felt re-energized.”
“You realize the bad guy isn't wearing a black cape or easy to spot; he's funny, makes you laugh, and has perfect hair.”
“You realize the feeling of loss by your lies, evasions, and foolery if anyone else comes and takes your choice and goes away. It doesn't reverse the time.”
“You realize the futility of worry. You learn to hate the small and the little. Life is a pie which you cut in large slices, not grudgingly, not sparingly. You know your limitations and proceed to eliminate them; your abilities, and proceed to develop them. You are free.”
“You realize there are certain things that you'll never do that you always thought would be part of your future. It's a big relief to discover what you are best suited for, and it's a real advantage to be able then to focus.”
“You realize time isn't just a period that you tell a story within - it becomes a major character in the film. There is no beginning, middle, end because there is always stuff beginning and ending simultaneously.”
“You realize true magic of cinema when you put the right people together, at the right time, with the right kind of project, where they're not worried about their salary, they're not worried about their caravan.”
“You realize we’re looking at our future, right? Two of us in a retirement home, bitching about our catheters and heated blankets.”
Source: Crash & Burn
“You realize we're all going to go to college as virgins. They probably have special dorms for people like us.”
“You realize when you’re
plucked out of the mainstream that
it doesn’t need you or
anybody else.”
Source: The Pleasures of the Damned
“You realize who you're in love with is fading fast. You don't know what to do, but in that period time moves so slowly.”
“You realize you can actually be friends with a boy, Grandad? Just friends. You don't have to marry them. You can just meet them and chat!”
Source: My Life Uploaded
“You realize you can get good at something, even though ballet almost felt like you could never be good enough. No matter how hard you worked, it was so hard to be a great dancer.”
“You realize you have no control over how you're perceived.”
“You realize you're about to create a bunch of time traveling robots, don't you? Pretty sure that's how The Terminator started.”
Source: The Warp Clock
“You realize you've forgiven people, your past and yourself when you don't speak bad about them anymore, even if you're encouraged to do so, even if you remember you were once brutally broken because of them...
you just move on, let go, let them be and let yourself be...”
“You realize your relationship is fading when silence feels better than arguing with them.”
Source: Life Simplified: Quote - Unquote
“You realize yourself when you start reflecting - because I don't live in the past, although your past is so much a part of what you are - that you can't ignore it. But I don't look at scrapbooks.”
“You realize, of course, that everything I say is horseshit.”
“You realize, this is not just a little studio we go to make these television episodes. This thing is reaching everybody in the world! Suddenly you realize the power of television.”
“You realized that you were really in one of the sleaziest businesses there is, without actually being a gangster. It was a business where the only time people laughed was when they'd screwed someone else over.”
Source: Life
“You realized you were surrounded by love, that you were held by love, and that you’d had too small an imagination about that word, that thing. Romantic love, absolutely. Our notion of love— it just seems a very unevolved and very unenlightened notion. That it’s this one person who you will meet. Eve Ensler”
Source: Becoming Wise: An Inquiry into the Mystery and Art of Living
“You really are a badass, edgy guy who tells it like it is...about couscous.”