Top 100 It Was You Quotes
#1. Then it was you who wounded Aravis?"
"It was I."
"But what for?"
"Child," said the Voice, "I am telling you your story, not hers. I tell no one any story but his own.
C.S. Lewis
#2. I'm not so mean. I wouldn't ever go out to hurt anybody deliberately - unless it was, you know, important, like a league game or something.
Dick Butkus
#3. I've had a lot of crappy jobs, but one of my favorites was working as a commercial fisherman in Alaska. What I loved about it was, you got paid for what you caught.
Jon Krakauer
#4. Jesus H. Christ!" I exclaimed. I felt it again, unbelieving, but there it was. "You always said your head was solid bone, and I'll be damned if you weren't right. She shot you point-blank, and the bloody ball bounced off your skull!" Jamie,
Diana Gabaldon
#5. It was you readers who really came through, proving once again that when the American people decide to "get involved" in a problem, it is best not to let them have any sharp implements.
Dave Barry
#6. It was you that led me to the musical that's everything to me. You held my hands so that I can enter the world that I could only watch. When I fell, you helped me stand up. When the path was closed, you opened it up. You're that kind of person to me.
Cheon Eunbi
#7. No, it was you losing the little golden sun killed me, Shadow, killed me dead as sure as water's wet and days are long and a friend will always disappoint you in the end." Shadow
Neil Gaiman
#8. It was you who ended it, Chace. You that dug me out. You that pulled me free. You had help but you did it. That's my last memory of that nightmare. You pulling me free.
Kristen Ashley
#9. '21' was the place, and you went down, and they opened the door. They had a little slit they'd look through, and then you'd murmur the password or whatever it was you had, showed a little ticket, and if they remembered who you were, you went in.
Brooke Astor
#10. I still dream that it was you. No matter how many times I've looked, in my dreams it's always been you who were meant to be my queen.
Melissa Marr
#11. I'll be a story in your head. That's okay. We're all stories in the end. Just make it a good one, eh? 'Cause it was, you know. It was the best. The daft old man who stole a magic box and ran away. Did I ever tell you that I stole it? Well I borrowed it. I was always going to take it back.
Steven Moffat
#12. I love you, only you; no one but you. It was you who awoke me last summer out of a life-long, stupid dream.
Kate Chopin
#13. I'd never even seen orange cheese. I mean, who decided to make that orange? And so there was something different about me that they wanted to crush. I don't think it had anything to do with my physicality, but every single day in school it was, "You're the ugliest thing I've ever seen."
Rose McGowan
#14. You had me believing that I was crazy. Every time I broke down over what seemed like nothing, it was you.' Bade ran an anxious hand through his hair.
'Well, that's love isn't it?' Davina took his restless hand. 'Love is crazy and irrational, and anything less would be boring.
Moryah DeMott
#15. Some old traits never die, isn't that right Kurt?"
"And some are easily fixed with death. It was you who always taught me that," Kurt said ruthlessly.
Kia Carrington-Russell
#16. There was an art to living, and sometimes it required the inexorable, relentless resolve just to keep plowing forward, one step at a time, no matter what the hell it was you were doing.
Marjorie M. Liu
#17. I felt need. It was you. I can never allow myself to need you. So, my only choice is to make you need me, because ridding myself of you is no longer an option.
Renea Mason
#18. Cheating's not easy. You probably think it is, but it ain't. I bet you'd suck more at cheating than whatever it was you were trying to do legitimately.
Justin Halpern
#19. It was, you know, probably 80 degrees out in L.A., and my dad took me outside and there was snow. At the time, I thought, 'Every kid doesn't have snow in their backyard on Christmas?'
Tori Spelling
#20. It wasn't me?" I snap. "That's got to be the goddamn dumbest thing you've ever said to me. You're way too smart to say something like that. Don't be such an asshole."
"Okay, yes. It was you."
"Awesome. That's great to hear.
Jessica Park
#21. You can do one thing or you can do another, kill a man or take a tire off his car, because sooner or later you're going to forget what it was you done and just be punished for it.
Flannery O'Connor
#22. I am off to Paris by the midnight train, and I wanted particularly to see you before I left. I thought it was you, or rather your fur coat, as you passed me. But I wasn't quite sure.
Oscar Wilde
#23. Crying adds something: crying is you, plus tears. But the feeling Colin had was some horrible opposite of crying. It was you, minus something. He kept thinking about one word - forever - and felt the burning ache just beneath his rib cage.
John Green
#24. Don't blame others for stepping on you on their way up. It was you who gave them the chance to step on you.
Try not to step on anyone on your way up, but try even harder not to let anyone step on you.
Swetha Dhanagari
#25. Jealous is just a wish that it was you doing that thing.
Andrew Sikaja
#26. When you looked at me with those limitless, deliquescent eyes of yours, I used to wonder what it was you could possibly see in me. Now I know that is a foolish view of love. You and I could no more not love each other than the earth could stop circling the sun.
Jojo Moyes
#27. I started out really making music in my dorm room, and it wasn't really producing or anything like that; it was you making something.
Danger Mouse
#28. Adam looked up at Ronan. "I know it was you," he said. "I figured it out. The rent."
He held Ronan's gaze for just a moment longer, until something inside Ronan unwound and he almost said something.
Maggie Stiefvater
#29. Dear Sweetheart, do you ever think of me? Just the other day I was thinking of you. I'm pretty sure it was you.
Charles M. Schulz
#30. We had had several mine disasters where workers, some of the workers were rescued. It was, you know, who was lucky and who weren't. Some would find the air pockets But, in this one, bam, it was just, everybody was gone and it greatly depressed the state.
Richard Grimes
#31. You are normal, even if it was you in that video. Normal human beings do crazy shit sometimes. One time I let this guy dress up as SpongeBob SquarePants while we had sex.
Taylor Bell
#32. In the morning, that moment, when I knew it was you. When I could feel you breathing and we opened our eyes at the exact same time.
Kate Chisman
#33. I loved you before I even knew the name for it. Everyday I'd sit beside you, inhaling your scent, looking at your beautiful face. Every night, dreaming about you. You eclipsed everything else. It was you. Always you.
Heather Anastasiu
#34. You're the only woman for me. I've known that my whole life. And I'm not the kind of guy who's content to pretend with another. It was you or no one. You're the only woman I've been with. I'm the only man you have.
Nicole Williams
#35. Just know it was you all along who had a hold on my heart but the demon and me were the best friends from the start.
Kings Of Leon
#36. Correct me if I'm wrong. But it was you stuck the head on the policehorse?
It deserved it didn't it. Standin' there whinnying at me in that bloody Kelvinside accent.
Ian Pattison
#37. You were not much afraid when I went after you," he said with a little smile. "Oh, I was afraid," she confessed, picking up some pine knots. "But then I saw that it was you ...
Laura Frantz
#38. I'll be a story in your head. But that's OK. We're all stories, in the end. Just make it a good one, eh? Because it was, you know; it was the best.
Steven Moffat
#39. It was you and me, Tom. We did this to them. To us.
James Dashner
#40. A lie was something you told because you were mean or a coward.
A story was something you made up out of something that might have happened. Only you didn't tell it like it was, you told it like you thought it should have been.
Betty Smith
#41. If you only stopped to ask why it was you lost your answer, you might find you asked the question wrong.
Russell Eric Dobda
#42. I heard the gallop of a horse at a distance on the road; I was sure it was you; and you were departing for many years and for a distant country.
Charlotte Bronte
#43. Before I fell
in love with words,
with setting skies
and singing birds
it was you I fell
in love with first.
Lang Leav
#44. It was you that chose your due,
You built a maze you can't get through.
I tried to help you all I can,
Now I can't do nuttin' for you, man!
Flavor Flav
#45. When I was younger it was - you know, my dad dressed up in drag on 'Bosom Buddies.' And that was what I was having to deal with at the time. And then around the time that I was into college was when he became statue-worthy I guess you could say.
Colin Hanks
#46. The point, dear Davis, is that sometimes what you want is nothing more than to put your name beside someone else's, someone whom you love. Stretch your name out alongside theirs as though it was you, lying next to them.
Helen Humphreys
#47. I saw my first angel.
And it was you.
Tegan Quin
#48. I wanted to be an oceanographer, actually. It's a way of going underwater. I've always been interested in how deep it was, you know.
Joan Didion
#49. Maybe I didn't always know what I was missing, but it was you. Always you.
Maya Banks
#50. I love you, Ava. I should've started this whole crazy thing by saying that. I love you and I missed you like mad. It wasn't a spell. It was you. I found home.
Kelly Moran
#51. A hand landed on Cress's head. She
gasped and recoiled, but Thorne was
already wrapping his arm around her
shoulders and squeezing her against him.
"Just checking it was you," he whispered.
Marissa Meyer
#52. It was you
Who opened me
Looked into my soul
To study me
You revealed you
To uncover me.
David Somorai
#53. Levi: I thought I heard dirt moving around in the shape of an idiot. So it was you?
Hajime Isayama
#54. I had no idea 'Big Green Tractor' was going to be as big a hit as it was. You just can't predict those things.
Jason Aldean
#55. It's like picking up a piece of writing from years ago. You feel the tiniest stab of recollection when you discover it, but mostly you are in awe of how it was you who wrote down these words and felt something so creative in that moment.
Rakesh Satyal
#56. If God told you exactly what it was you were to do, you would be happy doing it no matter what it was. What you're doing is what God wants you to do. Be happy.
Werner Erhard
#57. I lived for the night, because I could go over to your house. It was the only thing that kept me going. You were the only thing, actually. It was ... you.
J.R. Ward
#58. Because you were the only girl I'd ever met that was as deeply caring and as fucking lonely as me. If anyone was going to fill my heart, it was you. Only you.
Krista Ritchie
#59. He was my best friend, and I'd always have a spot for him in my heart, but ... it was you, Ash. I didn't really have a choice. It's always been you.
Julie Kagawa
#60. While it was understandable to be afraid, and no one would expect you not to be, the worst thing you could do was to run from the trouble you had caused. No matter how accidental it was, you didn't try to deny it. You didn't run. You did what you must to right it.
Terry Goodkind
#61. We simulated the predator with livestock and the perennial grassland returned. Just put the whole back, and there it was. You'll find the scientific method never discovers anything. Observant, creative people make discoveries. But the scientific method protects us from cranks like me.
Allan Savory
#62. Oftentimes what happens actually is people say to me, 'I didn't know if it was you or not, and then I heard you laugh, and then obviously I could tell it was you.'
Seth Rogen
#63. I never forgot you for one day, one hour, on moment. It was you, always you. Everything I did, was for you. No one else.
Sabrina Jeffries
#64. The brittle bones beneath my chest cracked, piercing my heart. It was you who breathed new life into my lungs and it was you who would later syphon the life you had given so as to feed your selfish desires
Sonya Watson
#65. Some things are meant to be and if it was, you will know it.
Alex Rodriguez
#66. I think that, for me, Superman just seemed to make a lot of sense to me. After doing 'Watchmen,' it was - you know that thing, you've got to know the rules before you can break them? There was something about that in making 'Watchmen.'
Zack Snyder
#67. It was you, you who brought me the pardon. Pee on me, won't you. It would be like benediction. O, what a sleepwalker I have been!
Henry Miller
#68. We had six years of happiness. And it was you who had to spoil it. With you, when something is right, it's never enough. You don't value happiness. You don't even realize. Because you always want more. (She
David Hare
#69. Your reaction makes me deliciously curious. Will you be kept awake tonight wondering if I knew it was you? Imagining yourself under me?"
-Madison Thorne Grey, Sustenance
Madison Thorne Grey
#70. I didn't want to fall for anybody. It's so messy. I'm so happy it was you. I'm so happy to love you, Gulliver.
Nora Roberts
#71. It's stupid, I know. I have this thing, this idea. This bullshit 'Mr. Darcy' idea, about the one that changes his mind. That comes back for me. And I'll look up some night, and he'll be there in front of me. And he'll stare at me and say, It was you. It was always you.
Chloe Neill
#72. The fantastic thing about the memorial to the Newfoundland Regiment at Beaumont-Hamel is that it's one of the rare examples where they've preserved a battlefield more or less as it was. You can see all the trenches, where the British were, where the Germans lined up.
Michael Winter
#73. After all, when our egoism lets us go for a while, when it comes time to throw it off, the only women whose memory you cherish in your hearts are the ones who really loved men a little, not just one man, even if it was you, but the whole lot. When
Louis-Ferdinand Celine
#75. That was a heroic deed." Embarrassed, Eragon scuffed his boots against the ground. "I wouldn't have survived if not for Arya." "You are too modest, Argetlam," she admonished. "It was you who struck the final blow.
Christopher Paolini
#76. When he spoke, the roughness was gone from his voice. I could tell you I did it. That's what you wanna hear. I could tell you she did it to herself, but both ways I'd be lying. It was you who did it, Lily. You didn't mean it, but it was you.
Sue Monk Kidd
#77. Umm - it was - you know - umm - a good game. You know.
Patrick Ewing
#78. Stalkers lips curled into a sneer. "You won't make a move without him, huh? That's embarrassing."
"No," I said softly. "It just hurts because you wish it was you.
Ann Aguirre
#79. If you are going to be a winner, you have to acknowledge the truth - it is you who took the actions, thought the thoughts, created the feelings, and made the choices that got you to where you now are. It was you!
Jack Canfield
#80. With a rasping cough, the vampire shakes its head. It was you who called us. All of you, with your war. The roar of your cannons shook us from our quiet graves ...
Mike Mignola
#81. First and foremost one, I was never planning on doing this as a long term, so Spooky, I was in college ... It was a fun name. I thought it was you know just a fun thing
DJ Spooky
#82. how cruel i was to myself. giving you credit for my warmth simply because you had felt it. thinking it was you who gave me strength. wit. beauty. simply because you recognized it. as if i was already not those things before i met you. as if i did not remain all these once you left.
Rupi Kaur
#83. Love didn't end all at once, no matter how much you needed it to or how inconvenient it was. You couldn't command love to stop any more than a marriage document could order it to appear. Maybe love had to bleed away a drop at a time until your heart was numb and cold and mostly dead.
Mary E. Pearson
#84. Make no mistake about it, my friends - Republicans, the American people are never going to forget that it was you who shut down the government of the people.
David Scott
#85. If not for that party, I never would have met the real you. But for some reason, and I am extremely grateful, you gave me that chance. However brief it was, you gave me a chance. And I liked the Hannah I met that night. Maybe I could've even loved her. But
Jay Asher
#86. You should have been here, Will, I told him silently. It was you she really needed.
Jojo Moyes
#87. It seems that I have been held in some dreaming state
A tourist in the waking world world, never quite awake.
No kiss, no gentle word could wake me from this slumber,
Until I realised that it was you who held me under.
Florence + The Machine
#88. So the universe is not quite as you thought it was. You'd better rearrange your beliefs, then. Because you certainly can't rearrange the universe.
Isaac Asimov
#89. I'm a lot smarter and thoughtful of a comedian. This market is different than it was. You don't have to have cable to hear this comedy. It comes on a basic channel, and that's one of the biggest differences between now than when I first started.
Joe Torry
#91. As a horn player, the greatest compliment one can get is when a person comes to you and says, 'I heard this saxophone on the radio the other day and I knew it was you. I don't know the song, but I know it was you on sax.'
Clarence Clemons
#92. When AIDS first appeared, people didn't know what it was. You'll remember that it affected mostly young gay men - it was actually called GRID for a short period of time: Gay-Related Immunodeficiency Syndrome - and people thought it actually might be recreational drugs or other types of toxins.
Seth Berkley
#93. I love you," he said, and as Logan looked at him, he reached for his hands. "I had no idea when you first sat down across from me that night - no idea what I'd been missing," Tate whispered. "It was you.
Ella Frank
#94. When I saw the women ranged in the windows, when I saw their calculating looks, assessing my purse ... and other things, I realized I didn't want any of them in my bed."
... "That's why I left, princess," he rasped. "Because I realized it was you I wanted in my bed. Only you.
Sabrina Jeffries
#95. You're probably wondering: why were Medusa's kids a golden warrior and a winged horse? And how had they been stuck in Medusa's body all those years?Heck, I dunno. I'm just telling you how it was. You want stuff to make sense, you're in the wrong universe
Rick Riordan
#96. Love is ... what I gave you, Noona. That is love. After you lost it, you realized how precious it was. You're regretting it to the degree you could vomit blood. No matter what price you have to pay, you want to find it again. That is love, right, Noona?
Ma-Roo
#97. But tell me, Mays, why is it that all I can fucking think about is you? Why am I so eager to take another guy's head off for touching you? Why is it when I lay in bed at night I wish it was you there beside me?
A Meredith Walters
#98. If you read on and unlock the secrets of time travel, you could be responsible for the dissolution of every puppy that ever exists - past, present and future. And we'll tell everyone it was you.
Phil Hornshaw
#99. Many have been led astray by the Qur'an: by clinging to that rope many have fallen into the well. There is no fault in the rope, O perverse man, for it was you who had no desire to reach the top.
Rumi
#100. it was you and i that night
by the sea,
two bottles of wine and
a bowl deep,
we kissed and made love
as the moon and waves
talked business.
Christopher Poindexter
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