Like You Quotes - Page 34

• For what other reason would you have me save you? Because I like you? Better to be useful than liked.

  Karen Marie Moning

  I Like You, Reason

  Karen Marie Moning (2007). “Bloodfever: Fever Series”, p.171, Delacorte Press

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• Come work for me, and I’ll tell you.” My eyes went to his. “You are a thief, a cheat, a murderer, and a not-nice man,” I said calmly. “I don’t like you.” He shrugged, the motion making him look utterly harmless. “I’m not a thief,” he said. “And I don’t mind manipulating you into working for me when I need it.” He smiled, showing me perfect teeth. “I enjoy it, actually.

  Kim Harrison

  Nice, Eye, Men

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• She's not here," I tell him. Buttercup hisses again. "She's not here. You can hiss all you like. You won't find Prim." At her name, he perks up. Raises his flattened ears. Begins to meow hopefully. "Get out!" He dodges the pillow I throw at him. "Go away! There's nothing left for you here!" I start to shake, furious with him. "She's not coming back! She's never ever coming back here again!" I grab another pillow and get to my feet to improve my aim. Out of nowhere, the tears begin to pour down my cheeks. "She's dead, you stupid cat. She's dead.

  Suzanne Collins

  Stupid, Cat, Loss

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)”, p.386, Scholastic Inc.

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• If…if you don't feel anything for me then don't touch me! Don't act like you care!

  Arina Tanemura

  Care, Touch Me, Feels

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• He looks at you like you're someone he's never met before, much less someone he once loved with high passion. The irony is, you can hardly blame him. I mean, check yourself out. You're a pathetic mess, unrecognizable even to your own eyes.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Passion, Mean, Eye

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2009). “Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything”, p.21, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• People like you are the reason People like me need medication.

  Cheyenne McCray

  Funny, People, Needs

  Cheyenne McCray (2009). “Demons Not Included: A Night Tracker Novel”, p.71, Macmillan

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• You came back fighting and furious at me. You told me you'd been looking for mermaids, and I interrupted you. [...] I said that next time, you had to take me with you." "Was there a next time?" "Well, you tell me, you don't need water to feel like you're drowning, do you?

  Jodi Picoult

  Fighting, Water, Mermaid

  Jodi Picoult (2013). “Nineteen Minutes: A Novel”, p.505, Simon and Schuster

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• I’ve not learned the acceptable way of saying you fascinate me...I’ve not even learned how to say I like you without frightening people away-

  Nikki Giovanni

  I Like You, People, Way

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• I make bean stalks, I'm A builder, like yourself.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Work, Garden, Essentials

  Edna St Vincent, Edna St. Vincent Millay (2013). “The Edna St. Vincent Millay Collection”, p.159, eBookIt.com

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• You ever have that feeling? Like you’ve known someone your whole life but you don’t know them at all.

  Ann Aguirre

  Feelings, Whole Life, Knows

  Ann Aguirre (2009). “Blue Diablo: A Corine Solomon Novel”, p.69, Penguin

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• I'm the one who got hit by that car, not you,' I tell him. 'Don't act like you're the victim here. You made choices I didn't ask you to make. I'm not sure anyone asked you to make them.' I'm screaming the words, not caring that the entire world can probably hear me. 'You think I like limping everywhere I go? I don't. I'm the victim! Be honest with me! You didn't care about me enough to trust me. I gave you my heart, but it wasn't enough.

  Simone Elkeles

  Heart, Caring, Thinking

  Simone Elkeles (2013). “Return to Paradise”, p.77, Simon and Schuster

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• I suppose you could pass for a starlet. You do have that femme fatale air about you. Like you crush boys’ dreams in your spare time.

  Janette Rallison

  Crush, Dream, Boys

  Janette Rallison (2009). “Just One Wish”, p.28, Penguin

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• I wouldn't want to assume that all men are like you. If I did, I know I would give them up entirely

  Patricia Cornwell

  Men, Giving, Want

  Patricia Cornwell (2010). “The Body Farm: Scarpetta 5”, p.93, Simon and Schuster

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• Why do I always feel like you're trying to staple my umbilical cord to the corner of your desk?

  James Lee Burke

  Trying, Umbilical Cord, Desks

  James Lee Burke (2009). “Swan Peak: A Dave Robicheaux Novel”, p.113, Simon and Schuster

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• There was a sergeant at a desk. I knew he was a sergeant because I recognized the marks on his uniform, and I knew it was a desk because it's always a desk. There's always someone at a desk, except when it's a table that functions as a desk. You sit behind a desk, and everyone knows you're supposed to be there, and that you're doing something that involves your brain. It's an odd, special kind of importance. I think everyone should get a desk; you can sit behind it when you feel like you don't matter.

  Steven Brust

  Thinking, Brain, Special

  Steven Brust (2010). “Iorich”, p.243, Macmillan

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• You aristocratic ladies and your gold-plated twats. You always think it's such a honor for me to touch you." He surveyed her with mocking green eyes. "You think you're the first high-kick wench I've ever had? I used to have blue-blooded bitches like you pay me to do this. You've gotten it for free.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Eye, Thinking, Blue

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• She writhed between him and the door and he moved his mouth to her ear, whispering hoarsely, "Abbie, I'm going to take you to that bed and make love to you like you never imagined you'd be made love to again.

  LaVyrle Spencer

  Doors, Making Love, Bed

  LaVyrle Spencer (1991). “Three Complete Novels”, Wings

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• What I tell these young people is, the world is not as dangerous as the older generation would like you to believe. Anyone I know who has ever taken a risk and lost a job has ended up getting a better one two years later.

  Jonathan Kozol

  Jobs, Taken, Believe

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• You are beautiful, but you are empty,” he went on. “One could not die for you. To be sure, an ordinary passerby would think that my rose looked just like you--the rose that belongs to me.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Beautiful, Thinking, Rose

  Antoine De Saint-Exupery (2015). “The Little Prince: "Illustrated Edition"”, p.88, eKitap Projesi

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• ... I'm the fortieth-ugliest man in this bar. But so what! So what! What if someday she lets me kiss each one of her freckles again? She has like a million. But every one of them means something to me. Isn't this how people used to fall in love? I know we're living in Rubenstein's America, like you keep saying. But doesn't that just make us even more responsible for each other's fates? I mean, what if Eunice and I just said no to all this. To this bar. To this FACing. The two of us. What if we just went home and read books to each other?

  Gary Shteyngart

  Falling In Love, Book, Home

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• You know what you like, you know what you want. So all you have to do is find something work related to that stuff

  Novala Takemoto

  Want, Stuff, Work Related

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• Sounds like you kids have some talking to do. I'll be eavesdropping from the kitchen.

  Jill Shalvis

  Kids, Talking, Kitchen

  Jill Shalvis, Jacquie D'Alessandro, Jamie Sobrato (2008). “Heating Up the Holidays: All He Wants for Christmas...\My Grown-Up Christmas List\Up on the Housetop”, p.64, Harlequin

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• He threw his head back and sang, "'I am a centaur, yes, a centaur is what I am.' It's not like you to wax, Artemis" "Foaly is singing," said Holly. "Surely that's illegal?

  Eoin Colfer

  Hollies, Singing, Centaurs

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• Girls like you want to cut guy's nuts off and hang 'em from your rearview mirror.

  Simone Elkeles

  Girl, Cutting, Mirrors

  Simone Elkeles (2011). “Rules of Attraction”, p.41, Simon and Schuster

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• It hurts more than anything in the world because even though it might not be the case, it feels like you've chosen your child over me. 'I haven't there is no choice. She's part of me. You're part of me too. It's like...I don't know...asking me to pick between my heart and my lungs.' 'I know, but the thing is, you are my heart and my lungs. You're everything to me. And what hurts is that I know i used to be everything to you.

  Mike Gayle

  Hurt, Children, Heart

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