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“You saved the parts of me that didn't matter!”
Source: Poison Ivy (2022-) #1
“You saved the world," annabeth said.
"We saved the world."
"And Rachel is the new Oracle, which means she won't be dating anybody."
"You don't sound disappointed," I noticed.
Annabeth shrugged. "Oh, I don't care."
"Uh-huh."
She raised an eyebrow. "You got something to say to me, Seaweed Brain?"
"You'd probably kick my butt."
"You know I'd kick your butt."
I brushed the cake off my hands. "When I was at the River Styx, turning invulnerable . . . Nico said I had to concentrate on one thing that kept me anchored to the world, that made me want to stay mortal."
Annabeth kept her eyes on the horizon. "Yeah?"
"Then up on Olympus," I said, "when they wanted to make me a god and stuff, I kept thinking—"
"Oh, you so wanted to."
"Well, maybe a little. But I didn't, because I thought—I didn't want things to stay the same for eternity, because
things could always get better. And I was thinking . . ." My throat felt really dry.
"Anyone in particular?" Annabeth asked, her voice soft.
I looked over and saw that she was trying not to smile.
"You're laughing at me," I complained.
"I am not!"
"You are so not making this easy."
Then she laughed for real, and she put her hands around my neck. "I am never, ever going to make things easy for
you, Seaweed Brain. Get used to it."
When she kissed me, I had the feeling my brain was melting right through my body. I could've stayed that way forever, except a voice behind us growled, "Well, it's about time!"
Suddenly the pavilion was filled with torchlight and campers. Clarisse led the way as the eavesdroppers charged and hoisted us both onto their shoulders.
"Oh, come on!" I complained. "Is there no privacy?"
"The lovebirds need to cool off!" Clarisse said with glee.
"The canoe lake!" Connor Stoll shouted. and they dumped us in the water.”
Source: The Last Olympian
“You saved us in the nick of time."
"Have I saved you?" asked the Hemulen in surprise. "I didn't mean to. I was looking for the caterpillars that were making such a noise down there." (Hemulens are generally a bit slow in grasping an idea, but they are very pleasant if you don't annoy them.)”
Source: Comet in Moominland
“You savored each story they told you,
and remembered
the way the stars entered your blood
at birth.”
Source: She Had Some Horses
“You saw a lot of guys, especially in the early '90s, whose acts were a pitch for a sitcom. A lot of them were very funny, but there's nothing worse than watching comedians or musicians who are up there and are doing something they're not interested in.”
“You saw Britain back in the early days of sailing ships. They were the sea power, the controlled the seas and they had colonies all over the world and then you can look at history and watch the way that their empire kind of crumbled. I certainly don't want that to happen to the United States in space technology.”
“you saw her fair, none else being by,
Herself pois'd with herself in either eye;
But in that crystal scales let there be weigh'd
Your lady's love against some other maid
That I will show you shining at this feast,
And she shall scant show well that now seems best.”
Source: King Lear ; Romeo and Juliet
“You saw him as disapproving of you. I thought him disapproving of me. Funny, isn't it?"
Not only funny, but a strange relief. Why hadn't she seen it? Rhys felt like an impostor here, too. [...]
Tilting her head to the twilight sky, she mused, "Do you know what I think? I have a feeling that dour look on Lord Corning's face had nothing to do with either of us. Perhaps he'd just tasted something unpleasant.”
Source: Twice Tempted by a Rogue
“You saw him standing out there, and you knew you had a pretty damn good chance to win the baseball game.”
“You saw his weakness, and he will never forgive you.”
“You saw in your interview with Speaker [Paul] Ryan, though, an echo of what the White House and the president [Donald Trump] have started to say, which is, well, we`re not going to get a check from Mexico to pay for the wall on the front end. We`re going to find some way to get the money back, but initially will be paid for by the U.S.”
“You saw me before I saw you. In the airport, that day in August, you had that look in your eyes, as though you wanted something from me, as though you’d wanted it for a long time. No one had ever looked at me like that before, with that kind of intensity. It unsettled me, surprised me, I guess. Those blue, blue eyes, icy blue, looking back at me as if I could warm them up. They’re pretty powerful, you know, those eyes, pretty beautiful, too.”
Source: Stolen
“You saw me before I saw you. You had that look in your eyes, as if you wanted something. Wanted it for a long time.”
“You saw me bludgeoned by circumstance.
Lost, injured, hurt by chance.
I screamed to the heavens....loudly screamed....
Trying to change our nightmares into dreams...”
Source: Poems
“You saw me but didn't say hello? I'm wounded, Miss Antonius.'
Synton's voice was like a deep rumble of thunder in her ear as he finally dropped his hands but didn't step back.
'Perhaps I was getting the lay of the land. A lady must know where it's safe to step,' she quipped.
'Yet you're stepping all over my ego.'
'Forgive me, my lord. I had no idea you'd be so easily damaged.”
Source: Throne of the Fallen
“You saw me do it, so you have to show me you doing it! It's not fair otherwise!!”
Source: Prison School, Vol. 6: 5706
“You saw me lie to Kieran,” he said. “Yes, but that was to save lives,” she said. “Unless you’re telling me that you not wanting to have sex with me has something to do with saving lives, which I find hard to believe—”
Source: Queen of Air and Darkness
“You saw me vacillating between error and truth, loving them equally because unable to distinguish the one from the other; the hour marked out by God for my enlightenment has come: He has shown me the powerlessness of reason, and the necessity of faith.”
“You saw my heart bleeding out and just turned your head away.”
Source: I Took a Plane to Die in Denver
“You saw my leg?" "How can a man help what he sees?" he said. "And, if I could add, you possess a very fine leg.”
Source: The Goose Girl
“You saw on your TV what happened in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. The Reserves or National Guard are usually the people we use for those national emergencies. They weren't here, they were over in Iraq, and so we were less protected.”
“You saw the exodus of many people on the business council, who resigned, who said those are not my personal values, those are not our corporate values, and those - we don't believe - are the values of our country.”
“You saw the president yesterday. I thought he was very forward-leaning, as they say in diplomatic nuanced circles.”
“You saw the stars out in front of you
Too tempting not to touch”
Source: Useless Magic: Lyrics and Poetry
“You saw the traumas that people lived through, and wondered what it will take to move us as a human community, as humanity, to help in these dangerous situations.”
“You saw the way everyone looked at him? And when I asked for nominations, his was the first name mentioned. I don’t like it, his being Nurse Temple’s son. That’s a bad coincidence. Get a read on him. If he has the power, we may not be able to wait to deal with him.”
“You saw we could lose our lives for this child. I would consider that the greatest honor that could come to my family.”
Source: The Hiding Place
“You saw what I’ve done, Mom!!” bragged the child. “What was that creature anyway?!”
“It was a snake, a venomous one, the Arabian-horned viper,” replied the mother, shaking in fear from what just happened. “You were lucky it was a young one,”
“A snake, huh?!! Well, he got what he deserved,” said the fawn. “You called me brave and hero, so will you name me Shuja’ or Batal ?”
“Neither,” said the mother, pulling her son into a hug, “I’ll call you Nader,”
Nader means rare, one of a kind.”
Source: The Desert Heroes
“You say 'believe in your dreams', I say that I believe in YOU.”
“You say 'erbs, and we say Herbs because there's a f*****g H in it!”
“You say 'I' and you are proud of this word. But greater than this- although you will not believe in it - is your body and its great intelligence, which does not say 'I' but performs 'I'.”
“You say a good cause justifies any war; but I say a good war justifies any cause.”
“You say a line and you wait for them to laugh, then you say another line and you wait... It felt weird to me. But it's interesting and the energy is almost like theatre, I suppose, with all the people there”
“You say a new era in art is preparing; you sensed it coming; continue your studies without weakening. God will do the rest.”
“You say a prayer, Virginia. A prayer cleans the air the way water cleans the dirt.”
Source: The Clean House
“You say appreciation-before-criticism isn’t your style — yet you do it with clients all the time. Maybe it’s more your style than you realize. So let your loved one benefit from the same grace.”
“You say be honest, but honestly you don't want honesty”
“You say “bless you” when someone sneezes, but what do you say when they cough? I acknowledge your cough?”
“You say fate is almost indispensable to literature - I think it's completely indispensable, at least in a novel, because a novel always has a plot. Even if nothing happens, even if someone just spends a day walking around Dublin, or whatever, there's still something going on.”
“You say freak, I say unique.”
“You say glory, necessity, pride; I say barbarity, greed, arrogance. War is a search for glory, for that particular sense of joy and satisfaction that comes from staking one's life on the outcome of a gamble. The search for a cheap thrill, with a cost too dear for Midas, and on a pretext that, more or less, amounts to 'My neighbour has a thing. I want it.”
Source: Art of War
“You say good-bye, and you think you'll be free. But I'll be awaiting you, in your final destiny.”
Source: SG - Suicide Game
“You say grace before meals. All right. But I say grace before the concert and the opera, and grace before the play and pantomime, and grace before I open a book, and grace before sketching, painting, swimming, fencing, boxing, walking, playing, dancing and grace before I dip the pen in the ink.”
“You say "How do I know it was suppose to happen that way ? " Bryon Katie would say "Because it did”
“You say how you feel, and songs don't lie. Songs are the most honest form of human expression there is--there's nothing that lies about a song.”
“You say, I am not free. But I have lifted my head and let it fall." It was as if, in choosing that passage, he were transmitting a signal of defiance to both the services. The last word of the message, when it was decoded by Boris or another, would read "goodbye".”
Source: The Human Factor
“You say I have a light about me, but you are my light."
Zayne reclaimed the space between us, kissing me. "You're never getting rid of me now."
"I wouldn't want to.”
Source: Rage and Ruin
“You say I have a track record of errors. Perhaps that is true. Time and again I’ve been tested, along with all of us, and my victories have been few.
But I have survived. I have come back from every failure.”
Source: The Mask of Fear
“You say I have no power? Perhaps you speak truly... But — you say that dreams have no power here? Tell me, Lucifer Morningstar... Ask yourselves, all of you... What power would hell have if those imprisoned were not able to dream of heaven?”
Source: The Sandman, Vol. 1: Preludes & Nocturnes
“You say I have the most wicked face of any woman. You say my hair is like the serpent locks of Medusa, that my eyes have the cruel cunning of Borgia, that my mouth is the mouth of the sinister scheming Delilah, that my hands are like the talons of a Circe or the blood-bathing Elizabeth Bathory. And then you ask me of my soul—you wish to know if it is reflected in my face.”