Quotes about someone
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“Is it a shame that I can’t accept love? Am I too burned out to move towards what will keep me alive or too smart to get pulled into someone else’s world?”

Henry Rollins (1961) American singer-songwriter

Source: Solipsist

Love, World

“Just remember who you are… The world will try to change you into someone else. Don't let them. That's the best advice anyone can give you.”

Cinda Williams Chima (1952) Novelist

Variant: The world will try to change you into someone else. Don't let them. That's the best advice anyone can give you.
Source: The Warrior Heir

World, Change

“Until this moment, I had not realized that someone could break your heart twice, along the very same fault lines.”

Jodi Picoult My Sister's Keeper

Source: My Sister's Keeper

Heartbreaking, Heart

“If you loved someone, really loved them, would you let them go?”

Jodi Picoult (1966) Author

Source: Mercy

Love

“Why are terms of endearment always food? Honey, cookie, sugar, pumpkin. Its not like caring about someone is enough to actually sustain you.”

Jodi Picoult (1966) Author

Food

“Well there you go. Even a psychopath recognized your worth enough to want to kill someone else first."
I didn't know whether to laugh or cry.”

Richelle Mead Bloodlines

Source: Bloodlines

Cry

“Don’t allow your wounds to transform you into someone you are not.”

Paulo Coelho (1947) Brazilian lyricist and novelist

“If you are sending someone some Styrofoam, what do you pack it in?”

Steven Wright (1955) American actor and author

“Do you think it's possible to finally decide that you really, truly love someone but not end up marrying him?”

Robin Jones Gunn (1955) American writer

Source: As You Wish

Love, Thinking

“There are a thousand ways to hurt someone you love that have nothing to do with physical violence.”

Laurell K. Hamilton book Cerulean Sins

Source: Cerulean Sins

Love, Way, Hurt

“That, in essence, is the catastrophe of suicide for those who survive: not only the loss of someone, but the loss of the chance to persuade that person to act differently, the loss of the chance to connect.”

Andrew Solomon book The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression

Source: The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression

Suicide, Loss, Chance, Personality

“To make someone wait: the constant prerogative of all power, "age-old pastime of humanity".”

Roland Barthes book A Lover's Discourse: Fragments

Source: A Lover's Discourse: Fragments

Age, Waiting

“We were always getting away with something, which implied that someone was always watching us, which mean were are not alone in this world.”

Miranda July (1974) American performance artist, musician and writer

Source: No One Belongs Here More Than You

World

“It was like reaching for someone's hand, then missing their fingers, or even their arm, and hitting their shoulder instead. But no matter. You hang on tight anyway.”

Sarah Dessen book Along for the Ride

Source: Along for the Ride

“I am learning that a life isn't real unless someone else knows its reality. And I want my life to be real.”

David Levithan book Every Day

Source: Every Day

Life, Reality, Learning

“Maybe we've lived a thousand lives before this one and in each of them we've found each other… I know I've spent each life before this one searching for you. Not someone like you but you, for your soul and mine must always come together.”

Nicholas Sparks book The Notebook

Source: The Notebook

Life, Soul, Search

“Every time you love someone, you put not just
your faith in them, but your faith in everything
to the test.”

David Levithan The Realm of Possibility

Source: The Realm of Possibility

Love, Faith, Time

“the very fact of the death of someone close to them aroused in all who heard about it, as always, a feeling of delight that he had died and they hadn't.”

Leo Tolstoy (1828–1910) Russian writer

Source: The Death of Ivan Ilych

Death, Feeling

“So we're racing the Clare and the Courts," said Julian. "Fantastic. Maybe there's someone else we can piss off. The Spiral Labyrinth? The Scholomance? Interpol?”

Cassandra Clare book Lady Midnight

Source: Lady Midnight

“I mean it as a compliment when I say that you could almost define a philosopher as someone who won't take common sense for an answer.”

Richard Dawkins book The God Delusion

Source: The God Delusion

Sense

“In Mosca’s experience, a ‘long story’ was always a short story someone did not want to tell.”

Frances Hardinge book Fly by Night

Source: Fly by Night

“I have come to realize that destiny can hurt a person as much as it can bless them, and I find myself wondering why--out of all the people in all the world I could ever have loved--I had to fall in love with someone who was taken away from me.”

Nicholas Sparks book Message in a Bottle

Source: Message in a Bottle

Love, People, World, Hurt

“When life gives you lemons, you make lemonade. Then find someone who's life is givin' them vodka and have a party!”

Ron White (1956) American comedian

They Call Me Tater Salad
Variant: I believe that if life gives you lemons, you should make lemonade. And try to find somebody whose life has given them vodka, and have a party.
Source: I Had the Right to Remain Silent...But I Didn't Have the Ability

Life, Funny

“I've thrown enough punches in my life to know when someone is hurting.”

Ally Carter Cross My Heart and Hope to Spy

Source: Cross My Heart and Hope to Spy

Life, Hurt

“You should never make someone a priority who views you as an option.”

Maya Angelou (1928–2014) American author and poet

Variant: Never make someone a priority when all you are to them is an option.

“One day, maybe not in the next few weeks, but certainly in the conceivable future, someone will be able to refer to me without using the word 'arse' somewhere in the sentence.”

Nick Hornby book High Fidelity

Source: High Fidelity

Future

“And now I know it is perfectly natural for me not to look at someone when I talk. Those of us with Asperger's are just not comfortable doing it. In fact, I don'treally understand why it's considered normal to stare at someone's eyeballs.”

John Elder Robison (1957) American writer

Understanding, Nature

“Being around someone who accepts and supports you will remind you to accept and support yourself.”

Nicholas Sparks book The Lucky One

Source: The Lucky One

Support

“It will hurt. Because deep down, I'll know there was someone.. someone I was supposed to have met. Only I'll never meet him. I'll go through my whole life waiting for him to come along, only he never will. What kind of life is that?”

Meg Cabot book Twilight

Source: Twilight

Life, Waiting, Hurt

“When you can not find someone, it is because you've been misdirected to look elsewhere”

Jodi Picoult (1966) Author

Source: Vanishing Acts

“We forget that the simple gesture of putting a book in someone's hands can change a life. I want to remind you that it can. I want to thank you because it did. - 2010 Indies Choice Award”

Kate DiCamillo (1964) American children's writer

Life, Books, Change, Forgetting

“I sometimes longed for someone who, like me, had not adjusted perfectly with his age, and such a person was hard to find; but I soon discovered cats, in which I could imagine a condition like mine, and books, where I found it quite often.”

Julio Cortázar book Around the Day in Eighty Worlds

Source: Around the Day in Eighty Worlds

Books, Age, Imagination, Cats

“Hold on to me," Alec said, and Magnus gave him the sort of smile that made Alec feel like someone had taken an apple corer to his heart and tried to dig out the center.
“I always do, Alexander,” he said. “I always do.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Heavenly Fire

Source: City of Heavenly Fire

Smile, Feeling, Heart

“You will go on and meet someone else and I'll just be a chapter in your tale, but for me, you were, you are and you always will be, the whole story.”

Marian Keyes (1963) Irish writer

Source: The Other Side of the Story

“Sometimes a man doesn't know how badly he's hurt until someone else probes the wound.”

Robin Hobb book Assassin's Quest

Source: Assassin's Quest

Hurt

“In his wolf-skin he was as strong as any of them, but he was a gentle person in many ways. He'd feel so bad about failing he'd probably step aside for someone else without a fight.”

Annette Curtis Klause Blood and Chocolate

Source: Blood and Chocolate

Way, Feeling, Strong, Wolf

“If you can't run, you crawl. If you can't crawl-- you find someone to carry you.”

Joss Whedon (1964) American director, writer, and producer for television and film

“be you and not someone else”

Anne McCaffrey (1926–2011) American-Irish novelist

“The closest thing to being cared for is to care for someone else.”

Carson McCullers (1917–1967) American writer

Source: The Square Root of Wonderful

“She wondered if this was true of every parent: if, prior to having children, they all used to be someone else.”

Jodi Picoult book The Tenth Circle

Source: The Tenth Circle

Children, Parent

“I can't kill someone!"
"You hit your brother in the head with a fire extinguisher."
"But that was family! And I didn't kill him.”

Meg Cabot (1967) Novelist

Source: Awaken

Family

“You really get to meet people on such a personal level. There's a real bonding in someone beating the crap out of you.”

Sarah Dessen book Just Listen

Variant: There’s a real bonding in someone beating the crap out of you. - Rolly
Source: Just Listen

People, Personality

“Rachel bit her lip. "I hope you're right. I'm a little worried. What if someone asks what's on the next math test and I start spouting a prophecy in the middle of geometry class? Gods, that would be embarrassing.”

Rick Riordan book The Last Olympian

Source: The Last Olympian

God, Hope

“What you didn't tell someone was just as debilitating as what you did.”

Jodi Picoult book Handle With Care

Source: Handle with Care

“But rules only work when everyone plays by them. What happens when someone doesn't, and the fallout bleeds right into his life? Whats stronger- the need to uphold the law, or the motive to turn one's back on it?”

Jodi Picoult Perfect Match

Source: Perfect Match

Life, Law, Motivation

“It's simply human nature to have an occasional, fleeting interest in someone whom you once loved.”

Emily Giffin (1972) American writer

Source: Love the One You're With

Love, Nature

“Because if you're gonna make someone choose, then you shouldn't be surprised when they don't choose you.”

Alyson Nöel (1965) writer

“Things change when someone special comes into your life. Both sides have to give up things. The one thing you don't give up in a good relationship is you--whatever makes you most you. - Jim Olsten (Jane's Grandpa)”

Elizabeth Chandler (1954) writer

Source: I Do

Life, Change

“When I was growing up I always wanted to be someone. Now I realize I should have been more specific.”

Lily Tomlin (1939) American actress, comedian, writer, and producer

Variant: I always wanted to be something, but now I see I should have been more specific.

Funny

“Why do we electrocute men for murdering an individual and then pin a purple heart on them for mass slaughter of someone arbitrarily labeled “enemy?”

Sylvia Plath (1932–1963) American poet, novelist and short story writer

Men, Heart

“I read and walked for miles at night along the beach, writing bad blank verse and searching endlessly for someone wonderful who would step out of the darkness and change my life. It never crossed my mind that that person could be me.”

Anna Quindlen (1952) journalist, Novelist

Source: Living Out Loud

Life, Search, Change, Reading

“Someone tells me: this kind of love is not viable. But how can you evaluate viability? Why is the viable a Good Thing? Why is it better to last than to burn?”

Roland Barthes book A Lover's Discourse: Fragments

Source: A Lover's Discourse: Fragments

Love

“I was even a little glad that if it wasn’t going to be me she wanted, it was going to be someone who really deserved her.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Ashes

Source: City of Ashes

“I wondered if it was possible to take someone's pain away with a kiss. Because that was what i wanted to do, take all of his sadness and pour it out of him, comfort him, make the boy i knew come back.”

Jenny Han (1980) American writer

Source: The Summer I Turned Pretty

Pain, Sadness, Boy, Kiss

“Antonin Artaud wrote on one of his drawings, "Never real and always true," and that is how depression feels. You know that it is not real, that you are someone else, and yet you know that it is absolutely true.”

Andrew Solomon book The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression

Source: The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression

Feeling, Drawing

“Don't sulk. For someone with all the grace and coordination of a pregnant wildebeest, you did great.”

Cassandra Clare (1973) American author

“Is it really possible to tell someone else what one feels?”

Leo Tolstoy book Anna Karenina

Source: Anna Karenina

Feeling

“Writing is saying to no one and to everyone the things it is not possible to say to someone.”

Rebecca Solnit book The Faraway Nearby

Source: The Faraway Nearby

“When stuck in the river, it is best to dive and swim to the bank yourself before someone drops a large stone on your chest in an attempt to hoosh you there.”

A.A. Milne (1882–1956) British author

“All this hoping for something- or someone- that's maybe hopeless. I'm having a hard time processing what I am supposed to believe, or if I'm even supposed to. There is too much information, and I don't like a lot of it.”

David Levithan (1972) American author and editor

Source: Dash & Lily's Book of Dares

Hope, Time

“It's funny how different people are. If I'd been this kid and someone was snarling "Ordering a pizza?" at me, without even thinking, I would have snarled back "Yeah. You want pepperoni?"
-Maximum Ride”

James Patterson (1947) American author

Source: School's Out—Forever

People, Thinking

“Those touchy mediocrities who sit trembling lest someone's work prove greater than their own - they have no inkling of the loneliness that comes when you reach the top. The loneliness for an equal - for a mind to respect and an achievement to admire.”

Ayn Rand book Atlas Shrugged

Source: Atlas Shrugged

Loneliness

“I'm in love," he said hoarsely. "With someone else. That's why."

Qhuinn (Lover Unleashed)”

Jessica Bird (1969) U.S. novelist

Love, Lovers

“He's been sent by the devil to destabilize something that was already fragile. How could I fall in love so quickly with someone I don't even know?”

Paulo Coelho book Adultery

Source: Adultery

Love

“How do you fight someone smarter than yourself?' Rand Whispered. 'The answer is simple. You make her think that you are sitting down across the table from her, ready to play her game. Then you punch her in the face as hard as you can.”

Brandon Sanderson The Wheel of Time

Source: The Gathering Storm

Game, Thinking, Fight

“You've gotten so caught up in being alone that you're afraid of what might happen if you actually find someone else that can take you away from it.”

Nicholas Sparks book Message in a Bottle

Source: Message in a Bottle

“I should not have to flirt with someone while I'm trying to threaten someone else with a gun; it was too hard to do both.”

Laurell K. Hamilton book Flirt

Source: Flirt

“A winner is someone who recognizes his God-given talents, works his tail off to develop them into skills, and uses these skills to accomplish his goals.”

Larry Bird (1956) basketball player and coach

God

“I act like someone in a bomb shelter trying to raise everyone’s spirits.”

Carrie Fisher book The Princess Diarist

Source: The Princess Diarist

“You had to know someone very well to make them laugh like that. She had loved him for such a long time, she thought. How was it that she did not know him at all?”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Prince

Source: Clockwork Prince

Love, Time

“Simon’s love life was complicated, but there was a pang, just for a moment, for this woman talking graphic novels with him.
Ah, well. Tessa Gray, foxy nerd, was probably dating someone already.”

Cassandra Clare (1973) American author

Source: The Whitechapel Fiend

Love, Life

“I thought it was her wicked stepmother who poisoned her…'
'… Turned out the wicked stepmother had an alibi.'
'… Seems she was off poisoning someone else at the time. Chance in a million, really. It was just bad luck.”

John Connolly The Book of Lost Things

Source: The Book of Lost Things

Bad luck, Chance, Time

“Sometimes fear is a warning. It's like someone putting a hand on your shoulder and saying Go No Farther.”

Anne Rice book Memnoch the Devil

Source: Memnoch the Devil

Fear

“It's not enough to be American. You always have to be something else, Irish-American, German-American, and you'd wonder how they'd get along if someone hadn't invented the hyphen”

Frank McCourt book 'Tis

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'Tis (2000)
Source: ' Tis: a Memoir
Context: Why is it the minute I open my mouth the whole world is telling me they're Irish and we should all have a drink? It's not enough to be American. You always have to be something else, Irish-American, German-American, and you'd wonder how they'd get along if someone hadn't invented the hyphen.

“if you have to say “no offense” to someone, you have already offended them.”

Meg Cabot (1967) Novelist