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“You seem hard to hold, I guess. Your attention."
He took a moment to reply. "That might be true, usually. But you hold mine.”
Source: The Midnight Lie
“You seem in England to be entirely ignorant of the temper of our people.”
“You seem irrelevant because your relevance seems latent. You seem irrelevant because your relevance is not speaking the language they understand. You seem irrelevant because you have not yet proven the evidence that is relevant. You seem irrelevant because you are still holding your relevance. People are more interested in works that work than mere works. People are much more interested in the relevance of actions than mere actions. People are more interested in your whole self in action and the relevance of the action than your mere action. There is something to be done. There is a footprint to leave. We must do something relevant. A proven relevance is relevant for our relevance in all matters of life.”
“You seem like a strong-minded young woman. You’re very beautiful, too. I would have been proud to call you my daughter.”
Source: Altered
“You seem lost in thought,” Magnus remarked. “Are you considering how glamorous and romantic your boyfriend is?” “I’m considering,” said Alec, “how to protect you if we crash the balloon into a chimney.”
Source: The Red Scrolls of Magic
“You seem more an orphan than our real orphans do.”
Source: The Secret History
“You seem more...optimistic than usual," I observed. "I haven't seen you like this before."
"Isn't it supposed to be like this?" He smiled. "The glory of first love, and all that. It's incredible, isn't it, the difference between reading about something, seeing it in pictures, and experiencing it?”
Source: Twilight
“You seem preoccupied," she said. He shrugged. "It is nothing. "Oh," she said, working at her leather. "I thought it might be Daia."
"Well, it is not," he said too quickly. Moussa tried to escape his mother's gaze, but he had never been able to do that successfully. Now he saw no need to pretend. "She is Mahdi's woman. They are to be married. She has said it, and Mahdi has said it." Serena put down her knife.
"And what have you said?"
"That I will not interfere."
"I am not asking of your head, Moussa. I am asking of your heart.".
"It is the same thing."
She smiled at that. "I don't know how you can be so quick to show a camel your feeling for it, Moussa, and so slow to show a woman.”
Source: Empires of Sand by David Ball
“You seem rather obsessed with Magnus. Perhaps next time I should try to arrange a meeting between the two of you instead.”
Source: Gathering Darkness
“You seem sad, Coriel.”
I nodded. “The world makes me sad these days. Things I would not have noticed a year ago seem dreadful to me now. Is that a function of growing older? And will everything seem more dreadful every year, from now until I die?”
Source: Summers at Castle Auburn
“You seem so calm, like the sea before a storm. But then a memory crosses your mind—a friendly gesture from someone sitting in a café long ago, a yellow tulip you once tucked into her hair, or an old slip of paper with her phone number—and everything falls apart.”
“You seem so clear about who you are. So certain that you are just right as you are, that for all your intelligence and maybe in spite of it, you never seem to need a second opinion.”
Source: The Chicken Chronicles: Sitting with the Angels Who Have Returned with My Memories: Glorious, Rufus, Gertrude Stein, Splendo
“You seem to be attracted to trouble," he said. "Yeah, she's real pretty," I replied. "Your tongue is sharper than mine ever was." I stuck out my tongue and tried to look at the tip of it.”
“You seem to be clean," Terminus decided. "Do you have anything to declare?" "Yes," Percy said. "I declare this is stupid.”
Source: The Son of Neptune (Heroes of Olympus Book 2)
“You seem to be drowning twice," said Hermione. "Oh, am I?" said Ron peering down at his predictions. "I'd better change one of them to getting trampled by a rampaging Hippogriff.”
“You seem to be going in for sincerity today. It isn't becoming to you, really — except as an obvious pose. Be as artificial as you are, I advise. There's a sort of sincerity in that, you know. And, after all, you must confess you like that better.”
Source: The Hairy Ape
“You seem to be in a state of such absolute contradiction that I would not be surprised if your face tore in half.”
Source: Aizai the Forgotten
“You seem to be running a relay race all by yourself and
keeping the baton while your team member
is waiting for you to pass it. You don’t need to go it
alone; neither do you need to prove yourself to anyone.
Including your father.”
Source: Last Seen in Lapaz
“You seem to be someone who always wants a little more.”
Source: We Wish You Luck
“You seem to define yourself quite a lot by what you
are not.”
Source: On Wings of Devotion
“You seem to forget that I'm Evie's legal guardian." "And you seem to forget that there's absolutely nothing legal about your guardianship, considering all the documents were forged.”
Source: Supernaturally
“You seem to forget that you wished to purchase the moon for me!’
‘Nay, I don’t forget that! The thing is I can’t purchase it, so there was no harm in saying it. Now, if I’d said I’d like to give you a diamond necklace, or some such thing, you might have taken me up on it. I remembered that just in time to stop myself,’ he explained, apparently priding himself on his forethought.
‘I should like very much to have a diamond necklace,’ said Anthea pensively.
‘Wouldn’t a paste one do as well?’ he asked, in a voice of great uneasiness. She had been so sure that he would fall into the trap that she was taken, for an instant, off her guard, and looked up at him with such a startled expression on her face that his deep chuckle escaped him, and he lifted her quite off her feet, and kissed her.”
Source: The Unknown Ajax
“You seem to forget, Miss Flinn, that this is an institution for the insane.”
Source: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
“you seem to grieve for what is not so ... and there is no need to let your heart run ahead into evils that may never come.”
Source: The Mother: A Novel
“You seem to have no fear of heights, Miss Miller," he commented.
"I'm not afraid of anything," she said confidently.
"Everyone is afraid of something."
"Oh?" She sent him a provocative glance. "What could a man like you possibly fear?"
To her surprise, he answered seriously. "I'm not fond of enclosed places."
The gravity in his tone made her heart thump heavily. What a voice he had, deep with a tantalizing raspiness, as if he had just awakened from a heavy sleep. The sound seemed to gather at the top of her spine and slide downward like heated honey. "Neither am I," she admitted.”
Source: Worth Any Price
“You seem to have no real purpose in life and won't realize at the age of twenty-two that for a man life means work, and hard work if you mean to succeed.”
“You seem to have quite a taste for discussing these horrible subjects," she said, rather scornfully; "you ought to have been a detective police officer."
"I sometimes think I should have been a good one."
"Why?"
"Because I am patient.”
Source: Lady Audley's Secret
“You seem to have quite a taste for discussing these horrible subjects," she said, rather scornfully; "you ought to have been a detective police officer.”
Source: Lady Audley's Secret
“You seem to know a lot about it," she said. "And you do subtleties." "Yeah. Like I've always wanted to destroy the Nine Worlds while committing suicide." "Well, there's no need to be rude," protested Sif.”
“You seem to make different concessions with yourself about what you want to focus on or not, and what you want to pay attention to.”
“You seem to me to be a pretty lucky young man; keep your eyes open to your mercies. That part of piety is eternal; and the man who forgets to be grateful has fallen asleep in life.”
“You seem to take things so personally, hating people and worshipping them--always thinking people are so important--especially yourselves. You just ask to be kicked around. I like people and I like them to like me, but I wear my heart where God put it--on the inside.”
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 seem to think peace is a natural state, Siward, and conflict its interruption, but the truth is the exact opposite. Peace is what the sea looks like in a dead calm - a rare and beautiful moment - something impossible - a glimpse of perfection before the wind comes back again.
You can no more force peace into existence than you can wander across the surface of the sea stamping the waves flat.”
Source: Dunsinane
“You seem to think that everyone can save money if they have the character to do it. As a matter of fact, there are innumerable people who have a wide choice between saving and giving their children the best possible opportunities. The decision is usually in favor of the children.”
“You seem to think that the only genuine existence evil can have is conscious existence - that no one is evil unless he admits it to himself. I disagree.”
“You seem to think the past is unreal, a pit full of ghosts. But to me the past is in some ways the most real thing of all, and loyalty to it the most important thing of all.”
Source: The Sea, The Sea
“You seem to think this is a democracy, Logan. It's not. It's Alaska.”
Source: Not If I Save You First
“You seem to think you have a choice," Cam said. "But you have it backwards. Love chooses you. The shadow moves as the sun commands.”
Source: Married by Morning
“You seem to think you’re insignificant, but the truth is you’re so intelligent, beautiful, kind and decent, adorable. I can’t be the first person to have fallen in love with you, and I won’t be the last. But I do believe I will love you the most.”
Source: Under the Hawthorn Tree
“You seemed nice
Everyone liked you
But the more I learnt
The more I discovered
I don't like you at all
Your cruelty to others
Your gestures
It taught me alot about you
And now
Instead of liking you
I despise you”
“You seemed so desperate, like you might drown if someone didn't save you.”
“You seemed so far away," Miss Honey whispered, awestruck. "Oh, I was. I was flying past the stars on silver wings," Matilda said. "It was wonderful.”
Source: Matilda
“You seen it, was it as pretty as me?”
“You seen my shows; I bring the 'hood out.”
“You seeyou can beat a dog and it's going to do one of two things..it's gonna roll over and die or it's going to bite you and attack you. And I'm the kind of person..uh..whose the type of dog that will bite back..I wasn't going to roll over and die”
“You seize your freedom in a spirit of rebelliousness, exuberance, defiant joy. But to live that choice -- over the weeks and months and years to come -- requires different qualities. It requires that you turn hard, turn rigid. Because it isn't a choice that the world encourages, you have to wear a suit of armor to defend it.”
Source: Starting Out in the Evening
“You seldom come across anything more enjoyable than a happy person.”
“You seldom get a censorship attempt from a 14-year-old boy. It's the adults who get upset.”
“You seldom get that in film where you're lucky if you get any say at all in the final cut.”
“You seldom hear any young artists in country music.”