Top 100 You Were My Quotes
#1. I loved you, Tim. You were my first love. It was true. My father never changed that. He just made it impossible for me to see it through.
Kindle Alexander
#2. You were my wonderfully bespoke original guide to happiness.
Cecelia Ahern
#3. We have a history," I say, "that no one can take from us. No matter what happened in the past, no matter what happens from here, it can't take away from the good thing we had. You were my first love, Demi. You only get one.
Winter Renshaw
#4. How can I be reasonable? To me our love was everything and you were my whole life. It is not very pleasant to realize that to you it was only an episode.
W. Somerset Maugham
#5. Parents and children were put on earth to give each other grief. You were my punishment for how I behaved to my own father. And I'll have my revenge when you have children of your own.
Mary Jo Putney
#6. Saw him come outta the garage at you, I knew," he muttered against my skin. "I was strugglin' with it but I knew then. I knew you were my girl.
Kristen Ashley
#7. Even through the anger of losing you - I still knew you were my angel. My light.
Harper Sloan
#8. Seth: I write of love in my novels, write of it well, if my critics and fans are to be believed, but in all of my years at that typewriter, I never found the combination of words that would convey how I felt about you. You were my everything.
Lissa Bryan
#9. Cause if you were my girlfriend and a stud like me was livin' in your house, I'd kiss you in front of the guy every chance I got as a reminder.
Simone Elkeles
#10. Because you aren't just someone I loved back then. You were my best friend, my best self, and I can't imagine giving that up again." He hesitated searching for the right words. "You might not understand, but I gave you the best of me, and after you left, nothing was ever the same.
Nicholas Sparks
#11. If you were my agent and I was making $10 million a movie and made four movies a year, that means you have a salary of $4 million.
Peter Stormare
#12. If you were my wife," he murmured in her ear, "I'd never let you sleep. I'd force you to sleep naked beside me so I could have my way with you any time I liked.
Renee Rose
#13. No matter even if you are cold, I like you better than anybody in the world. One time I said that you were my soul. And that still goes. You're all the things that I see in a sunset when I'm driving in from the country, the things that I like but can't make poetry of.
Sinclair Lewis
#14. If you were half as funny as you thought you were, my boy, you'd be twice as funny as you are.
Cassandra Clare
#15. [To the heckler who said, 'If you were my wife I'd poison you':] No, you wouldn't. I'd do it myself.
Emmeline Pankhurst
#16. You were never my problem. You were my fucking answer.
Alicia Kobishop
#17. Sunny, I can't believe you and Cole got married before me and Travis."
"Travis married us in the Motel 6 parking lot last night, remember? You were my maid of honor and everything."
"Goddamn, I'm never drinking PBR again," she says and makes a fake retching sound.
Mercy Brown
#18. You were my best friend. I was supposed to know you.
Koushun Takami
#19. I hadn't even been looking, not for you, and now you were my heart's desire.
Daniel Handler
#20. You were my first crush." She sobered, her voice strained as sincere green eyes slanted up to me . "And my only love." Her throat bobbed as she swallowed, almost painfully. "I've been waiting for you my whole life.
A.L. Jackson
#21. With kisses like that, I wish this was the Universe where you were my soulfinder.
Joss Stirling
#22. Though I worship nothing (save myself)
You were my savior - so be it
And it was
Perhaps not never more or ever after
But after all - once you were mine
Nikki Giovanni
#23. Dallas to Cordelia:
You were my dream, Dee. I just didn't know it.The part of me that I was always searching for.
Lorraine Heath
#24. You told me one time that ... I was your compass. I gave you direction when you were lost," Ty said, nearly choking on the words. He glanced up, eyes reflecting like liquid in the low light. "Well, you were my anchor. You were something solid for me to hold onto. I wanted you to remember that.
Abigail Roux
#25. You were the one who made things different, you were the one who took me in. You were the one thing I could count on, above all, you were my friend.
Tom Petty
#26. You were my home, Mother. I had no home but you
Janet Fitch
#27. I made the decision fifteen years ago that you were my life. My everything. You were with me in my dreams my dark lover my friend and confidant.
Christine Feehan
#28. Won't you be my girlfriend
I'll treat you good
I know you hear your friends when they say you should
'Cause if you were my girlfriend
I'd be your shining star
The one to show you where you are
NSYNC
#29. Beautiful," she said. I turned the page, and she smiled. It was a picture of the day when we built the human pyramid in my backyard, and I was at the top. The caption read: One day, all these Mexicans built a pyramid to the Sun. "You were my pyramid," she whispered. "All of you.
Benjamin Alire Saenz
#30. When I was a child, I sometimes wondered if you were my guardian angel. Now that I'm older I know that you are.
Tammara Webber
#31. I'll never forget you. Your husband will beat you with an extension cord and the bus will pull away leaving you standing there in tears, but you were my mother.
Denis Johnson
#32. Nancy Astor: "Sir, if you were my husband, I'd poison your tea."
Winston Churchill: "Madame,i f you were my wife, I'd drink it!"
(Exchange with Winston Churchill)
Nancy Astor The Viscountess Astor
#33. Leah," he said, his voice rough with emotion. "I could suffer through anything if you were my reward.
Priscilla Glenn
#34. Just to make your eyes sparkle, I'd do anything. I could give it all up to know you were my girl.
Abbi Glines
#35. Unholy battered old thing you were, my sunflower O my soul, I loved you then!
Allen Ginsberg
#37. The future for me is already a thing of the past -
You were my first love and you will be my last
Bob Dylan
#38. Get back to work."
"Fine way to talk to your wife."
"If you were my wife, I would've slapped your ass too."
She stared at him a beat too long. She did love the feel of his hands on her ass.
Jamie Farrell
#39. You were my tempest, my thunder cloud, my tree in the downpour. I loved all of those things, and I loved you.
Penelope Douglas
#40. I'm Beatrice. You were my first kiss, I fell asleep in your arms in your precious orchard. -Julia
Sylvain Reynard
#41. I release you, my beautiful and terrible fear. I release you. You were my beloved and hate twin, but now, I don't know you as myself
Joy Harjo
#42. I'm so happy you were my first, Theo, and you were worth all the heartache.
Adam Silvera
#43. You were my strength when I was weak; you were my voice when I couldn't speak; you were my eyes when I couldn't see; you saw the best there was in me; lifted me up when I couldn't reach, you gave me faith cuz you believed. I'm everything I am because you loved me.
Celine Dion
#44. You shouldn't have told them you were my fiance."
"I thought if I were your fiance, they would let me see you immediately."
"It just made you sound weird. Nobody my age gets married.
Allison Van Diepen
#45. If you were my girl and I proposed to you, nothing would keep me from you. I'd follow you, and I would take you back. Nothing.
Tijan
#46. If you were my child, I would staple you to your bedroom wall.
Myra McEntire
#47. You were my dream and I was just your fantasy.
Nikki Rowe
#48. I said, you and Jem were very special to me - you were my dream-children, but as Kipling said, that's another story . . . call on me tomorrow, and you'll find me a grave man.
Harper Lee
#49. Like sweet morning dew
I took one look at you
And it was plain to see
You were my destiny
Method Man
#50. I was well aware of her ghosts. I'd met them, once or twice, during her darkness nights. "I knew you were my one when you wouldn't run," she said. How could I? Of course I stayed, when her ghosts scared my own away. What others were too afraid to see, meant everything to me.
J. Raymond
#51. Was I always your option ... while you were my choice?
Mandy Hale
#52. I couldn't be fonder of you if you were my own son. But, well, if you lose a son, its possible to get another. There's only one Maltese Falcon. (Kasper Gutman)
Dashiell Hammett
#53. Chain of command knows no age restrictions," he once told Connor. "You could be six, but if you were my superior, I'd still do as I was told.
Neal Shusterman
#54. An old battleax of a woman said to Winston Churchill, "If you were my husband I would put poison in your tea." Churchill's response, "Ma'am if you were my wife I would drink it.
Winston S. Churchill
#55. You were my hope during my days of loneliness, my anxiety during moments of doubt, my certainty during moments of faith.
Paulo Coelho
#56. I will respect you like you were my sister or my mother but inspire and love you like
you were a queen.
The Prolific Penman
#57. Beatrice?" he whispered. "Yes," she said, moving so she could maintain eye contact with him until the last possible second. "I'm Beatrice. You were my first kiss. I fell asleep in your arms in your precious orchard." Gabriel sprang forward to stop the elevator door from closing. "Beatrice! Wait!" He
Sylvain Reynard
#58. Close my eyes and feel you here. Sigh and wish you were, my friend. Love you still and deeply. Come to me again.
Anonymous
#59. Are you done dressing me like I'm your own personal Barbie?"
"Bitch, if you were my Barbie, you'd be half naked.
J. Lynn
#60. I wasn't born to love you. I was born to lose you. You are my sad song. My melancholy mix. You were my past until you crashed into my present. But you will never be my future.
Katie Kacvinsky
#61. My name is Marissia Pullawr. The White was my grandmother. You were my assignment. I was never a slave.
Brent Weeks
#62. I liked to tinker with things, like Father. Make things with my hands. I liked to be alone, but not to be lonely. You were my only friend. You and Dutch.
Sharon Lynn Fisher
#63. But I thought you were home to stay," she said, exhaustion clear in her voice.
"Ellie, you were my home." He looked down at the sleeping infant. "But I can't stick around and watch you make the biggest mistake of your life.
Lindsey Brookes
#64. Lady Nancy Astor: Winston, if you were my husband, I'd poison your tea.
Churchill: Nancy, if I were your husband, I'd drink it.
Winston S. Churchill
#65. Dear citizen, if you were my love, I'd stole your money!' Admin if you were my love, I would ask you for divorce and spousal support!
Winston Churchill
#66. I've only just arrived, Kate. It may surprise you to learn that you were my top priority.
Trenton Lee Stewart
#67. Sir, if you were my husband, I would poison your drink.
Nancy Astor
#68. She grinned, a silty grin. 'You were my two dividends, yes? Don't you forget that.'
Then she sighed, took a deep breath, and said, 'But what an investment. My life.
Jerry Pinto
#69. Every breath I breathe is because of you. Even when your weren't there to save me, you were my reason to breathe. And for that I will always love you. Always.
Rebecca Donovan
#70. You remember I said last night that you were my secret?" Anna nodded. "I knew just what you meant. You're mine.
Joan G. Robinson
#71. If I was your wife Sir, I'd poison you! Madam, if you were my wife, I'd let you!
Winston Churchill
#72. I was your punishment." She sniffled. "Wrong." I tilted her chin up. "You were my gift.
Rachel Van Dyken
#73. You were my beautiful mistake and I don't regret anything. I would do it all again in a heartbeat.
Michael Faudet
#75. Gutman smiled benignly at him and said: Well, Wilmer, I'm sorry indeed to lose you, and I want you to know that I couldn't be any fonder of you if you were my own son; but - well, by Gad! - if you lose a son it's possible to get another - and there's only one Maltese falcon.
Dashiell Hammett
#76. Even when I didn't know anything else about where I was or what I was supposed to be doing. You were my Wayward, even then. Everything always brought me back to you. Everything.
Kami Garcia
#77. Every morning," he said softly, his breath caressing her cheek. "You were my only thought." He tilted closer. "Every night, you were my only thought." His lips brushed her cheekbone. "Every moment of every day, you were my only thought.
Erica Ridley
#78. Don't you understand, Jet? You were my weakness. You are my weakness.
M. Leighton
#79. What do we do now?"
"Well, we escape. I'm not sure how yet, but - "
"No," said Valkyrie. "What do we do now? We're partners. You're my best friend. I love you. You were my ... I looked up to you. What am I supposed to do now?"
He turned away. "You need to find yourself a new hero.
Derek Landy
#80. Miranda: You say you were my guardian angel. Does that mean you watched me all the time? Like when I got my period or doctored a zit or took a shower or-
Zachary: I'm an angel, not a Peeping Tom.
Cynthia Leitich Smith
#81. You were my fucking sanctuary, that's what you were to me. You were my guilty indulgence. I should've stayed away from you, but I couldn't. I still can't. Jeezus. Look at me. I'm damn near on my knees here
Tijan
#82. You gave up on me," I said a bit more loudly. "You were my friend. And you picked him - picked obeying him, even when you saw what his orders and his rules did to me. Even when you saw me wasting away day by day." "You
Sarah J. Maas
#83. Not Afraid. I knew you were a person who ... wouldn't be forced ... Well, yes, I was afraid. I was afraid of you. Not of making a mistake. I knew it wasn't a mistake. But you were-yourself. You aren't like most people, you know. I was afraid of you because I knew you were my equal.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#84. Before you were my enemy, you were my best friend.
Kresley Cole
#85. You were my polarity, and the universe held you up to me like a mirror so I'd understand the parts of me I needed to embrace. - Nicole Abbot
Jennifer DeLucy
#86. I'll never forget that for as long as I live; the way you were my strength, when I was too weak to even stand.
R.K. Lilley
#87. If you were going to die, I was going to die with you. I couldn't stop thinking it over and over as you screamed, as I tried to kill her: you were my mate, my mate, my mate.
Sarah J. Maas
#88. I never said you were my friend. I just didn't have the guts to tell you to leave.
Kris Harte
#89. So maybe it was just as well that my companion was more like Mulder. A coked-out Mulder with a lot of weapons, who knew that the monsters under the bed were real and would gut you.
Karen Chance
#90. Oh, alright. You're no fun," he sighed. "My name is Razor."
"What kind of a name is that?"
"It's a nickname."
"What kind of a nickname is that?"
"Spike, Blade, Fang - all the good, deadly objects were already taken. It was the best I could do.
Ada Adams
#91. But now what? Is this a ticket to a new understanding of my life, or a bomb that's going to blow up everything?
Consider one more possibility: that you remain essentially the same person you were, neither new nor destroyed.
Ellen Ullman
#92. In my era of wrestling, there were no guaranteed contracts, so it was inherent that you draw the crowd in to make money.
Jesse Ventura
#93. I just close my eyes and act like I'm a 3-year-old. I try to get as close to a childlike level as possible because we were all artists back then. So you just close your eyes and think back to when you were as young as you can remember and had the least barriers to your creativity.
Kanye West
#94. Perfect love casts out fear. Where there is love there are no demands, no expectations, no dependency. I do not demand that you make me happy; my happiness does not lie in you. If you were to leave me, I will not feel sorry for myself; I enjoy your company immensely, but I do not cling.
Anthony De Mello
#95. And please note," he went on, "that when I gave you that priceless piece of information, my fingers were crossed.
Kurt Vonnegut
#96. To give you an idea what it feels like to be going in with some of the best baseball players of all-time, I mean it is fantastic. I have to say this about them, there are so many of these guys up here that were my role models, people I looked up to, people I wanted to be like.
Dave Winfield
#97. As far as I was concerned men were something you had around the place, not particularly interesting, but quite harmless. I had never shown the slightest feeling for them, and apart from my never wearing a skirt, saw nothing else in common between us.
Jeanette Winterson
#98. They asked me to do a show, and I was planning on showing my figure paintings. But my friends told me I shouldn't - the paintings were good but a little old-fashioned. They said, "Why don't you show the other stuff?" I had also been making rather strange objects, more in the Freudian tradition.
Claes Oldenburg
#99. I had no idea the amount of people who even knew who I was. Suddenly, they were coming up and saying, "You're my favorite artist." Very surreal. After years of trying to get work, and then coming here and being able to meet some of the fans of Array.
Eric Wight
#100. I know we were kids at Brown. But there's no one I've met before you, or since, who even came close to completing my heart. It's always been there for you, waiting for your love to finn in the nooks and crannies. (Drew)
Eva Charles
