12e quote: “If narcissus wants someone back…”

“He wanted to be a poet,' someone else put in while Maggie hugged Tim and patted his back. 'Said he'd only lacked the words to be one.”

Nora Roberts (1950) American romance writer

Source: Born in Fire

“If you love someone, you're not supposed to want them to come back. Better a peaceful sleep in the earth than the life of a zombie--not really dead but not really alive, either.”

Cassandra Clare (1973) American author

Source: Zombies Vs. Unicorns

“If you kiss someone on the back of the neck, it spreads.”

H. Jackson Brown, Jr. (1940) American writer

“I felt as if I had blundered into someone else's life by chance, discovered I wanted to stay, then blundered back into my own, without a clue, a hint, or a way of finishing the story.”

Jeanette Winterson (1959) English writer

The Powerbook (2000)

“I didn't call you because I'm tired of you only wanting me around when you need something. I'm tired of watching you be in love with someone else - someone, incidentally, who will never love you back. Not the way I do.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Glass

Variant: No." Magnus strode toward him. "I didn't call you because I'm tired of you only wanting me around when you need something. I'm tired of watching you be in love with someone else-someone, incidentally, who will never love you back. Not the way I do.
Source: City of Glass

“I want someone to love me, for who I am;
I want someone to need me, is that so bad?”

Nick Jonas (1992) American singer

Song Who I Am

“If there's someone you like and they like you back…It's close to a miracle…”

Natsumi Ando (1970) Manga artist

Source: Kitchen Princess, Vol. 04

“Someone in the back of the room started singing "God Bless America."”

David Sedaris (1956) American author

The thing about "God Bless America" is that, after a certain point, nobody really knows the words. There's always a weird mumbling that follows "Stand beside her and guide her," and lasts until "From the mountains to the prairies."

12.09.2001 - p.455
Theft by Finding: Diaries, Volume 1 (1977-2002) (2017)

“Do not try to rescue someone who does not want to be rescued, and be very careful about rescuing someone who does want to be rescued.”

Jordan Peterson (1962) Canadian clinical psychologist, cultural critic, and professor of psychology

Other

“I'm tired of watching you be in love with someone else someone who will never love you back, not the way I do.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Glass

Source: City of Glass

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