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“You run, I chase.”
Source: A JOURNEY THROUGH TIME: Book Two: The Rabbit, The Fox and The Monster
“You run into a party and [a] woman comes up to you. She's the most beautiful creature you ever saw - Ava Gardner - and says, "I like you and why don't we get together?" What are you going to say, "No"? You'd have to be an idiot. She was an incredible creature.”
“You run into people who want to write poetry who don't want to read anything in the tradition. That's like wanting to be a builder but not finding out what different kinds of wood you use.”
Source: The Real Work: Interviews & Talks, 1964-1979
“You run into stereotypes so that the stereotype filters who you are and what you do, and having to deal with that was the most frustrating thing for me.”
“You run on the treadmill. But you need to stop watching The Food Network when you're doing it. That is how you torture yourself.”
“You run out of new ideas? Then you run out of your progression!”
“You run risks. That's the plain truth. You run risks and, even in the most unlikely places, you are subject to destiny's whims.”
“You run the football for toughness. You run the ball to tell your opponent that you're as tough as they are. But you throw the ball to ring the bell.”
“You run the race to win, that's for sure.”
“You run the risk of falling on your face, but, again, music is an individual pursuit - it is made to please yourself first.”
“You run the romantic gauntlet for decades without knowing who exactly it is you're giving and taking such a battering in order to reach. You run the gauntlet without knowing whether the person whose favour you seek will even be there once you somehow put that path strewn with sensory confetti and emotional gore behind you. And then, by some stroke of fortune, the gauntlet concludes, the person does exist after all, and you become that perpetually astonished lover from so many of the songs you used to find endlessly disingenuous.
[Otto Shin]”
Source: Peaces
“You run your plays, you know your plays, you study your plays, you study the other team, you do as much as you can, you go to practice, you get in shape, you do what you need to do, and then by the time you get to the game, you know your plays, but they have to feel like they're in your bones. That has to be an unconscious thing, it cannot be conscious. That is everything to me.”
“you ruptured
the love lakes
of my longing
and scattered
the continents
of my heart.”
Source: The Chaos of Longing
“You rush a miracle worker, you get lousy miracles!”
Source: Small Favor: A Novel of the Dresden Files
“You rush to smell the jasmines and see the falling dew of heaven. A divine scent, you sense in the breeze. Verses fall out of your soul. You know, this poetry has to begin. A new thirst awakens you. Every word turns into a prayer.”
“You Russians like to think you're poets but perhaps you're just touchy.”
“You’s always at da place you is always post to be." Smokes”
Source: Zombie Lake
“You sabotage any chance at arriving at “equity” if you compromise or debase the bedrock concept of “equality before the law.”
“You sacrificed both of us once to bring me back to life, but what sort of a life is this without you.”
Source: The End of the Affair
“You sacrificed for us - you're the real MVP.”
“You sadistic pansycake.”
“You sadly besotted souls, know and remember while you have a day before the golden thread of life is cut that, if you are found without Christ, faith, repentance, holiness but a moment after death, you are undone to eternity. After death, all means and hopes fail. There is no work nor device in the grace (Eccl. 9:10). God will then be irreconcilable; sin, unpardonable; heaven, not attainable; and your souls, lost irrevocably.”
Source: Time and the End of Time: Discourses on Redeeming the Time and Considering Our Latter End
“You said 'God is cruel' the way a person who's lived his whole life on Tahiti might say 'Snow is cold'. You knew, but you didn't understand." He stepped close to David and put his palms on the boy's cold cheeks. "Do you know how cruel your God can be, David. How fantastically cruel?”
“You said a bad driver was only safe until she met another bad driver? Well, I met another bad driver, didn't I? I mean it was careless of me to makes such a wrong guess. I thought you were rather an honest, straightforward person I thought it was your secret pride." "I'm thirty," I said. "I'm five years too old to lie to myself and call it honor." She didn't answer. Angry, and half in love with her, and tremendously sorry, I turned away.”
Source: The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works
“You said a curse is only a curse if I allowed myself to me cursed by it. You said... I had it in my power to free myself of any curse - that curses were preludes to blessings.”
Source: The Fallen Series: 4-Book Collection
“You said every day we make a million little choices, and we should try to make the right ones as much as we can. And you said rarely in life do the big choices present themselves, so when they do, we have to take advantage of the opportunity. We have to do the right thing.”
Source: Two Girls Down
“You said everything I needed to hear. I'm hooked now. You have me. What are you going to do with me?”
Source: The Rosemary Beach Collection: Rush and Blaire: Fallen Too Far, Never Too Far, and Forever Too Far
“You said go to her, and I let pride stand in my way. You said she needed me, and I didn't believe. You said love her, and I thought it would be easy.”
Source: Redeeming Love
“You said happiness comes in many forms. Mine is shaped like you.”
Source: At the End There Was You
“You said he was a perfectly adequate lover."
"Perfectly adequate? I dont suppose I ever said that about you?" She only had to look and Logan and those rough hands to know he'd be a thoroughly, mind-blowingly, head-bangingly, DIRTY lover."
"I bloody hope not.”
Source: Hot Mess
“You said he was a soldier. You don't suppose...?" "Oh, Gods." Ignata blinked. "You think something could be wrong down there?" All of them looked at William, who chose this precise moment to slide the wet shirt back on his back, which required him to flex, raising his arms. "That would be a shame," Cerise murmured.”
“You said "Hi", I to be polite will say "Bye"!”
“You said how strange it was that people were prepared to buy expensive material objects, but when it came to making an investment in their souls they refused to do so, considering it a monstrous indulgence and a waste of money! (58)”
“You said I am a good man," he said. "But I am not that good a man. And I am--I am catastrophically in love with you.”
Source: The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess
“You said i could call you when i wanted but that you wouldn’t call me. you have to decide where and when, you said. if you leave it up to me i’ll want to see you every day. At least you were honest, which is more than i can say for me.”
Source: This Is How You Lose Her
“You said I could pet you as long as I liked.”
“Didn't say I wouldn't try to fuck you in the middle of the petting.”
Her eyes snapped up to meet his. “That's feline logic. You're a wolf.”
“I'm learning from the best.”
Source: Branded by Fire
“You said I looked "okay," which is petty much the same thing as saying, "Well, at least your nipples are covered.”
Source: Furiously Happy: A Funny Book About Horrible Things
“You said, 'I love you.' Why is it that the most unoriginal thing we can say to one another is still the thing we long to hear? 'I love you' is always a quotation. You did not say it first and neither did I, yet when you say it and when I say it we speak like savages who have found three words and worship them.”
Source: Written On The Body
“You said I told you I was in love with someone else, but I’m not. That’s not what I meant. Cassandra was a part of my past, but our time together ended. The only person I want, the only person I love, is you.”
Source: Eternal Starling
“You said I was in love. You were right. But that never happened, either.”
Source: Dermaphoria
“You said I was the girl who couldn't decide
between the ocean and the shore.
Said the only way to make me fall in love
with the present was to turn it into my past.”
Source: Sea of Strangers
“You said I was weak. You said I couldn't do it. Thank you. You gave me everything I needed to prove you wrong.”
“You said I was your number-one pick." "And you are. In our hearts. Alphabetically, though, Dusk comes before you.”
“You said I'm a god. Bring me down from heaven. I...I want you to see me as a man.”
“You said imagination is good," protested Iggy, tumbling off the mattress in alarm. "You said it can take us places we've never been before!"
"Well, the only place you're going now is your own bunk, and you've certainly been there before," Jozef retorted. "Now march!”
Source: Treasures of Darkness
“You said in your book that at the end of the day, every politician is human. What about during the day?”
“you said Is there anything which is dead or alive more beautiful than my body,to have in your fingers (trembling ever so little)? Looking into your eyes Nothing,i said,except the air of spring smelling of never and forever. ....and through the lattice which moved as if a hand is touched by a hand(which moved as though fingers touch a girl's breast, lightly) Do you believe in always,the wind said to the rain I am too busy with my flowers to believe,the rain answered”
Source: Like a perhaps hand: Poems. Gedichte
“You said it earlier, life is so easy nowadays, everything comes ready, there is no need to struggle. So, it is good to struggle by creating,” Kathy said with a wet voice.”
Source: Human
“You said it was a sacrifice. Coming from me, it's a gift.”
Source: Bound by Blood and Sand
“You said it was colorful. What changed?"
"I don't know. Maybe nothing. I just— I don't actually remember the dreams when I wake up any more."
"So how do you know you still have them?" Pag asked.
Fuck it I thought, and tipped back the last of my pint in a single gulp. "I know."
"How?"
I frowned, taken aback. I had to think for a few moments before I remembered.
"I wake up smiling," I said.”
Source: Blindsight