Top 100 You Said Quotes
#1. The journey was thrilling. Inspiring. Exalting. And, in the end, it did not change a thing. "You would never have believed me if I'd told you," said Sheikh al-Khammas. "You had to learn the truth for yourself: the real Holy City is within.
Michael Golding
#2. He took off," Bilbo said. "Like you said he would. Caught a cab outside the lobby." "You get the cab number?" "And the license," Bilbo said, and told him both.
Joe Hill
#3. That's right. I'm scared to death. You said it's your first time, feeling chest pain, and nausea. Well it's not mine. I've felt that before, and I know how crazy hot it boils, and how dangerous it is. And I know myself. I'm a Yang Eun-nem-bi, so I boil faster, and hotter, than everyone else.
Cheon Eunbi
#4. I think especially older people, and I count myself one, in the business - people get to know who you really are. So there comes a time when you can't just go in and audition without everybody knowing exactly how you've brought up your kids, what you said at the meeting, what kind of food you cook.
Mimi Kennedy
#5. Wonderful!" said the Duke. "We progress!"
"We ... ? Progress? You said we? Progress?"
"It seems I erred," Avon sighed. "We remain at the same place.
Georgette Heyer
#6. And i am ... looking, i mean. you said look at you and i just want to tell you, i am. - tegan
Nyrae Dawn
#7. If you weren't pretty, it wouldn't matter what you said or didn't say. That's why you're getting this attention.
Miesha Tate
#8. I was surprised to see you in Government this morning. I thought you said you were a junior.
Kasie West
#9. I already told you," said Adam. "There is no need to swear."
"Sorry, it just fucking slipped out," said Zeb.
Margaret Atwood
#10. I don't see the point, in making the point that you will never say or do something by doing what you said you would never do ... ????
Emma Paul
#11. Jesus, Shep. I told you ... "
"I know what you said. You have eighteen missed calls."
"All Trent?"
"One is from Panty Wearers Anonymous.
Jamie McGuire
#12. The writer I feel the most affinity with - you said you felt my books are 19th century novels, I think they're 18th century novels - is Fielding, Henry Fielding, he's the guy who does it for me.
Jonathan Coe
#13. If you knew how to cook, maybe I would eat," Jace muttered.
Isabelle froze, her spoon poised dangerously. "What did you say?"
Jace edged toward the fridge. "I said I'm going to look for a snack to eat."
That's what I thought you said." Isabelle turned her attention to the soup.
Cassandra Clare
#14. I watched you try on suits in Hugo Boss.'For the big job,' you said. And I laughed, because I knew I would never see it. I'd never get up and watch you put it on and walk out of the door. I would never be the one that you came home to.
Kate Chisman
#15. Smartass Disciple: But, you said that it's the truth??
Master of Stupidity: O Yes. That is yesterday's truth.
Toba Beta
#16. You said you wanted me to stay, so here I am.
E.L. James
#17. Miss Bennet, I am quite aware of your superior talent for cutting down the Lord's forsaken flock. I merely mean to spare your gown.'
Thank you,' said Elizabeth, composing herself, 'but I should rather my gown be soiled than my honor.
Seth Grahame-Smith
#18. That's not true. People are more affected by true stories than they are fiction. You said so yourself." "What I said was that people have a tendency to call whatever moves them 'the truth.
Hiroshi Yamamoto
#19. You said you wanted my story? Well, I was swallowed by a hippopotamus. Except I didn't go into the hippo, I ended up in a tree. Then I sort of wandered here.
Brandon Mull
#20. Perchance, I would listen. Have you said anything?
Joan Bauer
#22. We're your friends," said Bridget.
"And we're worried about you,"said Pepe.
"I'm fine." Then I mean to laugh a silly, carefree kind of laugh, but it came out more maniacal than intended. "HAH-hee-hee-hah-hah-HAH!"
Bridget and Pepe exchanged terrified looks.
Megan McCafferty
#23. His gaze brushed over her, abstract and hungry. "You burn so very brightly, you know"
"Yeah," she muttered. "You said.
Rachel Caine
#24. When you said you were a terrible singer, I thought you were being humble. But you weren't.
Paul McCartney
#25. You said I was your number-one pick."
"And you are. In our hearts. Alphabetically, though, Dusk comes before you.
Derek Landy
#26. You said you didn't have experience with girls, but you sure seemed to know what you were doing up there." Jaime
Claire Thompson
#27. ANNE: You said you'd keep me in my room until I confessed. I just thought up a good confession and made it as interesting as I could.
MARILLA: But it was still a lie.
ANNE: You wouldn't believe the truth.
L.M. Montgomery
#28. You said there's been another murder?"
"At the Dwarf Bread Museum. Someone killed Mr. Hopkinson with his own bread!"
"Made him eat it?"
"Hit him with it, sir," said Carrot reproachfully. "Battle Bread, sir.
Terry Pratchett
#29. You were in my arms for the first time, and you said my name, 'Tristan.'
I answered you: 'Isolde.'
Isolde. The world became a word.
Jeanette Winterson
#30. Seriously though, why am I naked?" I ask her one last time.
"You said-and I quote, I want to feel the breeze of the house-air on my skin as I walk up three flights of stairs. I've never done that before. Bucket list! Unquote.
Amy Daws
#31. God, You said Your favor is not for a season but for a lifetime.
Joel Osteen
#32. You might as well say,' added the Dormouse, who seemed to be talking in his sleep, 'that "I breathe when I sleep" is the same thing as "I sleep when I breathe"!'
'It is the same thing with you,' said the Hatter[ ... ].
Lewis Carroll
#33. You said you'd kiss me if I lost Tank."
"You want me to kiss you?" Oh boy. "You were happy I'd lost your puppy?" He was looking like he was still thinking about smiling as he glanced down at Tank, tucked under his arm. "No. That would make me an asshole." Right ...
Jill Shalvis
#34. I hated you," said Laurent. "I hated you so badly I thought I'd choke on it. If my uncle hadn't stopped me, I would have killed you. And then you saved my life, and every time I needed you, you were there, and I hated you for that, too.
C.S. Pacat
#35. I love you' would have to suffice. 'I love you' said it all.
Molly Looby
#36. Wars are won with quills and ravens, wasn't that what you said?
George R R Martin
#37. You said pain is necessary, because in order for a person to succeed, they must first learn to conquer adversity.
Colleen Hoover
#38. But I'll do anything in my power to stop them from taking you away."
She took a shuddering breath, then let her eyes fall closed. "Promise?"
"Anything. As you said in Tokyo, we're meant to be together.
Scott Westerfeld
#39. If we are still discussing its merits tomorrow, I will agree with you," said Diagoras.
"Cheer up, laddie. Nobody lives forever."
"Oh I expect you will, Druss, Old Horse. It's the mortals around you who always seem to kiss the granite.
David Gemmell
#40. I just remembered something you said when we first talked. That your pain only went away when you started thinking about others." "Not just that," Ayub said. "But when I found God."
Karan Mahajan
#41. If a stranger called and interrupted you, you said with your hearty tongue, "I'm glad to see you," and said with your heartier soul, "I wish you were with the cannibals and it was dinner-time." When
Mark Twain
#42. Do you remember the last thing you said to me? The last thing you did to me? And what was the last thing I said to you? Because trust me when I said it I knew it was the last thing I'd ever say.
Jay Asher
#43. You said you would never hurt me."
His eyes are frigid. "That was before you fucked with my daughter.
Tarryn Fisher
#44. You have food?" Winter scolded. "I thought you said you were hungry."
I'm hungry for other things besides what I have," [Clover] argued.
Obert Skye
#45. All the things that you said when you thought I wasn't there,
I just tell them to my corner, 'cause no one else would care.
That way, when I'm with you, I can keep a cheerful face,
But for the moment, I really just need some space.
Margo T. Rose
#46. God will bless you,' said he, 'you are an angel since you take care of the flowers.'
'No,' she replied. 'I am the devil, but that's all the same to me.
Victor Hugo
#47. If you said to me, 'Lie down on that concrete floor and fall asleep,' I could do it. I can sleep anywhere at any time of day on any surface.
Kevin McCloud
#48. Yeah, well, that's what you said the last time it did this, and it was doing it that time too,' Tiercel said waspishly.
Clear as mud,' Harrier muttered.
Mercedes Lackey
#49. I didn't say yes. I can say no to anything I say vile, and I don't have to count the cost. But because you said yes, all that you can do, for all your crown and your trappings, and your guards - all that your can do is to have me killed.
Sophocles
#50. You lied to me."
"I never lied. I just didn't tell you the whole truth."
"You said you were alone."
"I am alone."
"There's hundreds of you. Maybe thousands. You and your 'family' are everywhere."
"Just because you're standing in a crowd doesn't mean you belong there." -Yukiko and Kin
Jay Kristoff
#51. She wanted to know all about me, what I was like, who I was. I worried, there wasn't really much to tell. I had no preferences. I ate anything, wore anything, sat where you told me, slept where you said. I was infinitely adaptable.
Janet Fitch
#52. Trust me, true?"
Butch barked a laugh. "Last time you said that i ended up with a vampire cocktail, remember?
J.R. Ward
#53. I love you," said Bekka.
"I know," I said.
"I know you know," she said. "But I didn't know that you knew I knew you knew. And now I do.
Scott Alexander
#54. There was once a child whose mother fell asleep. The end.
Is that it? I said
What else do you need to know? you said.
Can't you tell me a little more about them? I said. (I was beginning to despair of your storytelling technique.)
Ali Smith
#55. Never work for a company that says people are its most important asset. If you wanted to get a mortgage and you said that your only asset was people you would end up living in a tent.
Guy Browning
#56. You said something slightly off-color about her shoes and she brought up the fact that you had a slow eye and danced like a goat with a rock stuck in its ass. Ouch. You would just be playing and homegirl would be coming down on you off the top rope.
Junot Diaz
#57. You glided over to me and, as I was struggling to think of something intelligent to say, you said "There you are". I often think of that, Sue. Here I am. No matter where I am in the world, "Here I am".
Jessica Brockmole
#58. He was a nice guy. That was the sort of thing you said about somebody you had nothing against and nothing in common with; you called him a nice guy. That was what Lowell was, even to himself
L.J. Davis
#59. You said I was in love. You were right. But that never happened, either.
Craig Clevenger
#60. Nah, Dad, I'm good. Please leave me in this hotel bedroom with my handsome boyfriend. And several of his relatives, and a very sharp weapon."
"Clearly I went badly wrong somewhere when raising you," said Dad. "Well, best to do down before Tomo gets into the vodka.
Sarah Rees Brennan
#61. I'm not gong to kill you, said Locke
I'm going to play a little game I like to call 'Scream in pain until you answer my fucking questions.
Scott Lynch
#62. Once I catch you in one lie, it makes me question everything you said.
Frank Ocean
#63. Take me home, he said silently to Graff. In my dream you said you loved me. Take me home
Orson Scott Card
#64. I gave my word," Crispen said stubbornly.
"You said a McCabe never breaks his word."
Ewan shook his head wearily. "I'm beginning
to regret telling you of things a McCabe
doesn't do. Come, let's sit in the hall so you
can tell me of these adventures of yours.
Maya Banks
#65. You have an impeccable argument if you said that Singapore, Hong Kong, and Tokyo are food capitals. They have a maximum amount of great stuff to eat in the smallest areas.
Anthony Bourdain
#66. With the suggestion of a compromise Gawaine mustered up enough courage to speak.
"What will you do if I surrender?" he asked.
"Why, I'll eat you," said the dragon.
"And if I don't surrender?"
"I'll eat you just the same.
Heywood Broun
#67. You said something to me" ...
"I know" ...
"Don't say it again ... Because I won't say it back" ...
"I know that too
Kitty French
#68. I could point out that that's not a dress, that's underwear, but I doubt it would be in my best interest." "Need I remind you," said Sebastian, "That that is my sister?" "Most brother's would be delighted to see such a clean-cut gentleman as myself squiring their sister's about town.
Cassandra Clare
#69. You said: "Wait for the moon with me."
I stayed. I waited. The moon never came.
Danabelle Gutierrez
#70. Christ in you," said the apostle Paul, is "the hope of glory" (Col. 1:27).
Ravi Zacharias
#71. If you said to me, "I do not love, I have never loved," then you would sound incomplete. Equally, if you say "I do not hate, I have never hated," then you sound like half a man.
Matthew De Abaitua
#72. You said please," I whispered, smiling when his relief flooded my emotions with the force of a thousand dams breaking. "I'm never going to let you live that down.
Jeaniene Frost
#73. I hate it when you call me, Melody," she said softly. "It hurts. It hurts when you pull away from me. Everything you said before, it hurt me. I hate you for saying them, and I hate myself for caring. I hate more than anything that I ... that it's so hard for me to say how much I love you.
J.J. McAvoy
#74. "Lord bless you!" said Mr. Omer, resuming his pipe, "a man must take the fat with the lean; that's what he must make up his mind to, in this life. "
Charles Dickens
#75. And you, America, that passion made you. You were not born to
prosperity, you were born to love freedom.
You did not say "en masse," you said "independence." But we
cannot have all the luxuries and freedom also.
Robinson Jeffers
#76. You broke my heart when you said I didn't know about foreplay.'
Her lips twitched. 'Yes, you're terrible at sex. Terrible.' That was why she was lying here with melted bones and an inner wolf who was so dozy, she was sprawled out in complete abandon.
Nalini Singh
#77. I run my hand over my eyes again and move it to my open mouth then my chin, laughing into my palm. "She has me so completely, and the only thing I can compare it to is the way you said Alyssa hit your heart. Like there's nothing too crazy, too far, too much...
Ginger Scott
#78. MAIA. - all the glory of the world? Yes, you did. And all that glory should be mine, you said.
Henrik Ibsen
#79. At the end of the day people won't remember what you said or did, they will remember how you made them feel.
Maya Angelou
#80. You are soft person you said. But you're soft as shit: it is very soft but stinking!
Ilze Falb
#81. What's that?" said Ron, pointing at a large dish of some sort of shellfish stew that stood beside a large steak-and-kidney pudding.
"Bouillabaisse," said Hermione.
"Bless you," said Ron.
"It's French," said Hermione.
J.K. Rowling
#82. Your letters got sadder. your lovers betrayed you. kid, I wrote back, all lovers betray. it didn't help. you said you had a crying bench and it was by a bridge and the bridge was over the river and you sat on the crying bench every night and wept for the lovers who had hurt and forgotten you.
Charles Bukowski
#83. It makes me smile because you said it best
I would clearly feel blessed if the sun rose up from the west.
Owl City
#84. Success is doing what you said you would do, consistantly, with clarity, focus, ease and grace.
Maria Nemeth
#85. He still loves you," said Brother Zachariah, and his voice was surprisingly gentle. "You are the central point about which his world spins. That has not changed.
Cassandra Clare
#86. You said you want to leave a mark on my heart. You did; a burning pain that won't leave me wherever I turn.
Katja Michael
#87. You're right, he's a killer," you said. "A rooster with some serious issues.
Lucy Christopher
#88. I've been saying it so long to you, you just wouldn't listen. Every time you said 'Farm Boy do this' you thought I was answering 'As you wish' but that's only because you were hearing wrong. 'I love you' was what it was, but you never heard.
William Goldman
#89. You said that it was because almost held failed potential. That it represented our ability to be just not good enough, that we had come to the brink of something beautiful but fell short so many times we crafted a word for it.
Bianca Phipps
#90. You said you envied your uncritical, unthinking sisters.
That's not quite the same as wishing to be one
David Mitchell
#91. You said it was a sacrifice. Coming from me, it's a gift.
Becky Allen
#92. Last time you said that, you meant for me to stick my hand down your pants." "Yeah, that's what I mean now.
Bella Love
#93. Detective John Tallow, 1st Precinct."
"You," said Scarly. "I hate you so much my dick is hard.
Warren Ellis
#94. My honourable barbarian. I wouldn't have picked that as your type.' 'Type?' 'A pretty face, a devious mind and a ruthless nature.' 'No. That isn't - I didn't know she was . . . I didn't know what she was.' 'Didn't you?' said Laurent. 'Perhaps I . . . I knew she was ruled by her mind, not her heart.
C.S. Pacat
#95. [Y]ou were too alert to the figurative possibilities of words not to see the phrase [angle of repose] as descriptive of human as well as detrital rest. As you said, it was too good for mere dirt; you tried to apply it to your own wandering and uneasy life ... I wonder if you ever reached it.
Wallace Stegner
#97. Most changes in music, most exciting things that happen in music, occur through a miscommunication between people "I thought you said this." Poetry comes out of that too.
Tom Waits
#98. You said sloppy! Look, I didn't even use my sword; I hit him with my head, like a moron.
Ilona Andrews
#99. you to stay, you said no, so now you go. Capiche?" "You're such a nerd." He stood and crossed to the door. Before he left, he turned back to her. "April. This day has been hell. I'm happy you were around to make it better.
Mallory Crowe
#100. I can't believe you said that about fire ants and thunderstorms! You are such a Houstonist!
Wil Wheaton
