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“You really ought to read more books - you know, those things that look like blocks but come apart on one side.”
“You really romanticize the white-trash period of your life,' Rain once said to me, which I thought was a little hurtful but perhaps true.”
Source: Stay Awake
“You really saw some?" Liz said an hour later. Sure, we had the stereo blaring and the shower running, but Liz still whispered, "They really...exist?" "Liz," I whispered back, "they're not unicorns." "No," Bex said flatly, "they're boys. And they're...good.”
“You really see life around the principals to be as important as the main, principal actors. That's what cinéma vérité taught me - that it's not a question of having a main character, a great actor, and the rest is unimportant. Every detail, every face in the crowd is important.”
“You really see that the art world bends over for Hollywood sometimes, in this way that is really grotesque, and the other way around doesn't happen, which is too bad, especially if you consider yourself an artist, and that's what you care about, to see the people you admire and think about the most acting weird.”
“You really should be able to feel the higher power of music and be moved by it, rather than listening to me waffle on and having to explain it.”
“You really should do some research for a change instead of just listening to the voices in your head.”
Source: There Will be Dragons, Second Edition
“You really should play with someone your own size, you know.”
Source: Entasy
“You really should stay away from me.”
“You really shouldn't say 'I love you' unless you mean it. But if you mean it, you should say it a lot. People forget.”
“You really shouldn’t do that to people," I criticized. "It’s hardly fair." "Do what?" "Dazzle them like that – she’s probably hyperventilating in the kitchen right now." He seemed confused. "Oh come on," I said dubiously. "You have to know the effect you have on people." He tilted his head to one side, and his eyes were curious. "I dazzle people?" "You haven’t noticed? Do you think everybody gets their way so easily?" He ignored my questions. "Do I dazzle you?" "Frequently," I admitted.”
“You really struggle to be a successful empire if you are also the world's biggest debtor.”
“You really suck at this, y’know?” Reyna laughed. “What kind of demon can’t even hit someone with a fireball?”
“Insulant girl! I am the Guardian of —!”
“Awful cliches?”
“Hell!”
“Sure you are!”
Source: City Of The Slain
“You really think all of those indie music dorks go to SXSW every year to check out music? They go there to wear their laminates and act important and try to get laid.”
“You really think I’m pretty enough for a man to love?”
“You’re more than pretty enough.” He sounded embarrassed.
“Chris, remember when Momma told us that it was money that made the world go around and not love? Well, I think she’s wrong.”
“Yeah? Give that a bit more thought. Why can’t you have both?”
I gave it thought. Plenty of thought. I lay and stared up at the ceiling that was my dancing floor, and I mulled life and love over and over. And from every book I’d ever read, I took one wise bead of philosophy and strung them all into a rosary to believe in for the rest of my life.
Love, when it came and knocked on my door, was going to be enough.
And that unknown author who’d written that if you had fame, it was not enough, and if you had wealth as well, it was still not enough, and if you had fame, wealth, and also love . . . still it was not enough—boy, did I feel sorry for him.”
“You really think I should be able to do that to you, Garrett?" Ty asked.
"Why the hell would I be on alert in my own bedroom with no pants on when the only threat is my husband stomping around in a shitty mood?”
“You really think joy is easier to come by than pain? What have you had more of?”
“You really think love needs to have a future?”
“Absolutely.”
“Good,” Lily said. “So do I.”
“Good,” I echoed, leaning in. “So do you.”
“Don’t repeat what I say,” she told me, swatting at my arm.
“Don’t repeat what I say,” I murmured, smiling.
“You’re being silly,” she said, but the silliness was falling out of her voice.
“You’re being silly,” I assured her.
“Lily is the greatest girl who ever was.”
I drew closer. “Lily is the greatest girl who ever was.”
For a moment, I think we’d forgotten where we were.
And then the officers returned, and we were reminded once again.”
Source: Dash & Lily's Book of Dares
“You really think that on my films people tell me what to do? I don't think so. On my films I decide.”
“You really think that would be it? Honestly? You're afraid of killing someone and, what, never getting over it?"
"No. I'm afraid of killing someone and not feeling a thing.”
Source: Surviving to the End
“You really think you can beat me in hand-to-hand combat?'
Blood flowed from her mouth, her nose. But Nesta smiled anyway, its tang coating her tongue. 'I do.'
Bellius threw his first punch, putting the entire force of his powerful body into it. Nesta blocked it, driving her fist into his nose. Bone crunched. Bellius howled, falling back a step.
And Nesta hissed, 'Because my mate taught me well.”
Source: A Court of Silver Flames
“You really try to work the character out and spend time in the headspace of the character. That's what I did.”
“You really turning mercenary on your favorite older brother? (Dev) No. I would never do that to Alain. (Aimee) Ouch! Bearswan got ‘tude. (Dev)”
“You really wanna up your game when you're around Donald Trump and do your best for him.”
“You really want my honest opinion?” I ask.
Anton gestures for me to go on. “Please, this is why I hired you, devochka.”
I detect a little hint of sarcasm, but I go ahead and say, “I hate restaurants like this.”
“Why?” He seems genuinely curious to know why.
“Because—because they’re expensive.”
“What is the problem? I’m paying for everything.”
I shake my head. “It’s not that—you see,” I lower my voice, “ this is where famous people eat.”
“Famous?” Anton pretends to look around. “Where?”
“I think that’s the guy from that prank show. And there’s that guy from those vampire movies. And Maya Findlay.”
“Yeah? I don’t know who they are.”
“Really?” I ask dubiously.
“I’m not into the famous people thing too.”
“Really.”
“Yes.”
“Which is why you only date models who want to become actresses.” I notice him giving me a look. “Sorry,” I say sheepishly.”
Source: Hello, Privet! #1 : Hello/Привет
“You really want to do something for me?” Eris said suddenly, her lovely face turned up to the sun. She closed her eyes. Her lashes fell in thick brushstrokes across her cheeks. “Live, Avery. With or without Atlas, here in New York or on the damned moon, I don’t care. Just live, and be happy, since I can’t. Promise me that.”
Source: The Dazzling Heights
“You really want to get a headache? Try to understand Internet advertising.”
“You really want to have a back-up plan, so when you don't feel like acting, or you're getting older and settling down, you can produce your own stuff. So that's when I set about forming my own company and getting creative control.”
“You really want to know?”
Beatrice nodded. Catherine simply waited. If he wanted to tell them, he would. Clarence was not the sort of man you could persuade or plead with.
“All right. It was the year I graduated from law school. Like the other black men in my class, I was inspired by Judge Ruffin, the first black man to graduate from Harvard Law and the first to become a judge in Massachusetts. I thought I was going to be just like him. Me, a poor boy raised by a widowed mother who used to clean other people’s houses to pay the rent. Well, I went through Howard on scholarship, then Harvard on scholarship, and my first year out I worked for an organization offering legal aid to other poor folk—black, Irish, Italian, all sorts. I was sent to one of the counties in the western part of the state, to defend a black man accused of raping a white woman. That was the first time a judge called me ‘boy.’ I got my client off all right—the woman herself stood in the witness stand to say it wasn’t rape. They wanted to get married. That was legal in Massachusetts, and she was of age, but her father didn’t want her to marry a black man, so he told the sheriff that my client had raped her. She was visibly pregnant.
“My client walked out of that courthouse a free man, but there was a crowd waiting for him outside, and suddenly her brother stepped out of that crowd. He was the sheriff’s deputy. He had a gun, and he said he was going to shoot that damn . . . his language isn’t fit to repeat. He was determined to kill my client. Without thinking, I jumped on him and wrestled with him for the gun. It went off. . . . He bled to death in my arms. So I was tried for manslaughter in that courthouse, in front of that judge. Despite his jury instructions, I was acquitted—you could almost see him frothing at the mouth with fury and tearing his hair out, the day I walked out of that courtroom, a free man. Everyone in that crowd had seen it was an accident, but who was going to give me a job after that? It didn’t matter that I was innocent. My face had been on the cover of the Boston Globe as the black man who’d killed a white policeman.”
Source: European Travel for the Monstrous Gentlewoman
“You really want to know?” He drags out the suspense.
“Yes.” I grow restless. “Spill.”
“Well, for starters… most guys our age aren’t looking to date.” He elaborates. “They just want to fuck around. And those who do want to date are only looking for a girl to make them feel good about themselves.”
“Meaning?”
“Meaning they want her to laugh at their jokes, stroke their egos, give good head and… that’s pretty much it.” He draws a small smile out of me. “So, when guys like that see a girl like you, a girl who doesn’t look easy or desperate, they get intimidated. Label her high-maintenance and run like hell. You’re beauty and brains, Vee. You’re an immature high school boy’s worst nightmare.”
Source: Dear Love, I Hate You
“You really want to know what being an X-Man feels like? Just be a smart bookish boy of color in a contemporary U.S. ghetto. Mamma mia! Like having bat wings or a pair of tentacles growing out of your chest.”
“You really want to know what else it was my mom said about you?" he asked. She shook her head. He didn't seem to notice. "She said you'd break my heart," he told her, and left.”
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 really want to know your cofounders for a while, ideally years.”
“You really want to live in another world when you could be a king in this one?” Arlen asked me skeptically, crossing powerful arms over his chest.
“This world doesn’t have Maddie in it,” I said.
Raura said to Arlen, “I love him. He’s so cute. Why can’t you be more like him?”
Source: Unstoppable
“You really want to make sure that you have fun, at the end of the day. If its not fun, whats the point.”
“You really weren't there, were you? It's unfortunate that I only noticed this now. That in actual reality, your existence was merely a hallucination. A figment of an imagination that was slowly eating itself alive. My imagination...”
Source: It's Just The Two Of Us Now: An Emir’s Oasis play by Emir Darlov
“You really won't know where your home is until you meet your own kind and realize you're both playing the same game.”
“You really work in those conditions?”
She, irritated by the contact, pulled her arm away, protesting: “And how do you work, the two of you, how do you work?”
They didn’t answer. They worked hard, that was obvious. And at least Enzo in front of him, in the factory, women worn out by the work, by humiliations, by domestic obligations no less than Lila was. Yet now they were both angry because of the conditions _she_ worked in; they couldn’t tolerate it. You had to hide everything from men. They preferred not to know, they preferred to pretend that what happened at the hands of the boss miraculously didn’t happen to the women important to them and that—this was the idea they had grown up with—they had to protect her even at the risk of being killed. In the face of that silence Lila got even angrier. "Fuck off," she said, "you and the working class.”
Source: Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay
“You really write the books you want to write. You can't take into consideration anything that anybody has said about you in the past, or what they'll say about you in the future.”
“You really, really feel like you have no control [participating in franchise] . I mean, it's a huge juggernaut, especially when something becomes part of the cultural landscape in a way as well. It's really scary because you get trapped and you get scared of changing, which is the worst thing that can happen if you want to be any kind of artist.”
“You really, really have to care about animals to want to kill one. You have to learn all this stuff about them and start thinking like them.”
“You reap that which you speak to be so.”
“You reap what you sow; if the field yields thorns, sow again with better seed.”
Source: The Light in the Heart
“You reap what you sow. Plant the right seeds.”
Source: WELCOME TO YOUR MARRIED FOR A PURPOSE REBOOT FACILITATOR’S GUIDE: A handbook to assist Married for a Purpose Certified Coaches in leading personal one-on-one Reboot Retreats for Married Couples.
“You reap what you sow — not something else, but that. An act of love makes the soul more loving. A deed of humbleness deepens humbleness. The thing reaped is the very thing sown, multiplied a hundred fold. You have sown a seed of life, you reap life everlasting.”
Source: Sermons Preached at Brighton
“You reason colour more than you reason drawing Colour has a logic as severe as form.”
“You reason like the king, who, being sent across the frontier, called out, 'What will become of my poor subjects without me?'”
Source: Anarchism: A Collection of Revolutionary Writings
“You reason too much. Why should one ever reason about love?”
Source: The Baron in the Trees
“You rebel against your parents until you become them. One day you look in the mirror and you see your father's face.”
“You recalled the 1956 declaration, and this declaration established the rules that should be followed by both sides and that should be put into the foundation of a peace treaty. If you carefully read the text of this document, you will see that the declaration will take effect after we sign a peace treaty and the two islands [Kunashir and Shikotan] are transferred to Japan. It does not say on what terms they should be transferred and what side will exercise sovereignty over them.”