Quotes about someone
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“Sometimes you deal with the devil not because you want to, but because if you don't, someone else will.”

Source: Cerulean Sins

“I shouldn't have to be a liar to make someone love me. I shouldn't be so afraid of losing someone that I'll do anything to make them stay.”

Deb Caletti (1963) American writer

Source: The Six Rules of Maybe

Love

“They have gone. And the tunnel is about to close. So, boys, I am looking for someone to blame.”

Eoin Colfer (1965) Irish author of children's books

Source: The Time Paradox

Boy

“There's always someone asking you to underline one piece of yourself - whether it's Black, woman, mother, dyke, teacher, etc. - because that's the piece that they need to key in to. They want to dismiss everything else.”

Audre Lorde (1934–1992) writer and activist

Teachers

“A lady I will be, but a man's accessory, his handbag, no thank you. I will not be someone's ornament. I will not just be someone's honey, baby, sweetheart.”

Deb Caletti (1963) American writer

Source: Honey, Baby, Sweetheart

Baby

“I walked away exhilarated by my success, because there's nothing like making a difference in someone's life, even if that difference is a lifetime of nightmares and a fortune in therapy bills.”

Marilyn Manson (1969) American rock musician and actor

Variant: There's nothing like the feeling of knowing that you've made a difference in someone's life, even if that difference is a lifetime of nightmares and a fortune in therapy bills.
Source: The Long Hard Road Out of Hell

Life, Success

“We are friends for life. When we’re together the years fall away. Isn’t that what matters? To have someone who can remember with you? To have someone who remembers how far you’ve come?”

Judy Blume (1938) American children's writer

Life

“Well, you have to find that rare someone for whom you’re not putting on a show. Someone who shines a spotlight in your direction—not because you’re who they need you to be, or who they want you to be…just because you’re you.”

Jodi Picoult (1966) Author

Source: Off the Page

“How many times could you give up on someone you loved?”

Ann Brashares book My Name is Memory

Source: My Name Is Memory

Love, Time

“To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.”

Susan Sontag Regarding the Pain of Others

Source: Regarding the Pain of Others

Thinking, Time

“… it was better to answer, no matter how ineptly, thank to withhold a reply. Because sometimes silence could wound someone nearly as badly as a bullet.”

Lisa Kleypas (1964) American writer

Source: Love in the Afternoon

Silence

“I get it the whole idea of willingly going to hell for someone. Living there insane if you have to because you’d rather be insane with them than endure life without them.”

Karen Marie Moning (1964) author

Source: Shadowfever

Life, Idea, Hell

“Sometimes there would be someone else out there, someone she didn't know, but when they saw each other each would nod, as if making a secret pact. No question, no small talk.. agreed”

Nicholas Sparks book Nights in Rodanthe

Source: Nights in Rodanthe

Secret, Question

“There are moments in your life when you see yourself through someone else’s eyes, when your only hope of believing you’re capable of doing something is because someone else believes it for you.”

Marc Acito (1966) American novelist, humorist, screenwriter

Source: How I Paid for College: A Novel of Sex, Theft, Friendship & Musical Theater

Life, Hope

“It was one thing to accept I couldn't have Dimitri. It was something entirely different to realize someone else could.”

Richelle Mead book Frostbite

Source: Frostbite

“She knew what it was to wait for someone who would never come home. She knew that grief, like a scar, faded but never really went away.”

Libba Bray book The Diviners

Source: The Diviners

Home, Waiting

“You enter the forest
at the darkest point,
where there is no path.

Where there is a way or path,
it is someone else's path.

You are not on your own path.

If you follow someone else's way,
you are not going to realize
your potential.”

Joseph Campbell (1904–1987) American mythologist, writer and lecturer

Source: The Hero's Journey: Joseph Campbell on His Life & Work

Way

“Great. Lookout. I'm a lookout. Another thing to put on my college applications. What do I do if I see someone?"
Val looked back. "I'm not sure, actually.”

Holly Black (1971) American children's fiction writer

Source: Valiant

“If you meet someone whose soul is not aligned with yours, send them love and move along.”

Wayne W. Dyer (1940–2015) American writer

Love, Soul

“She might be a great person, but life's so much bigger than just loving someone.”

Kazuo Ishiguro (1954) Japanese-born British author

Source: Nocturnes: Five Stories of Music and Nightfall

Love, Life, Personality

“I once heard someone say that the concept of moderation seems a little extreme, and tonight… I agree.”

Koren Zailckas (1980) American writer

Source: Smashed: Story of a Drunken Girlhood

“It's lovely. If only you could frost someone to death."

"Don't be so superior. You can never tell what you will find in the arena. Say it's a gigantic cake-”

Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games

Source: The Hunger Games

Love, Death

“I don't know exactly what covetous is, but in my experience it is not so much desiring someone else's virtue or happiness as rejecting it, taking offense at the beauty of it.”

Marilynne Robinson Gilead

Source: Gilead

Beauty, Happiness

“If you complain to someone, you assume that it's someone who really cares about you.”

Scott Hahn (1957) American theologian

Source: Hope for Hard Times

“Someone else has to be disseminating it. (Mark)
Dis-a what? (Nick)
Disseminating. It means distributing it. (Mark)
Then why didn’t you say that? (Nick)
Remind me to get him a word-of-the-day calendar. (Mark)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Infinity

“What kills a person at twenty-five? Leukemia. An accident. But George knows the better odds are that someone who passes at that age dies of unhappiness. Drug overdose. Suicide. Reckless behavior.”

Scott Turow book Limitations

Source: Limitations

Age, Behavior, Suicide, Personality

“Some people fall apart when they get hurt. Puddle into apathy and despair and never recover. They wait all their lives for someone to come along and rescue them.”

Karen Marie Moning (1964) author

Source: Iced

People, Waiting, Hurt, Despair

“You can knock down kingdoms on a whim. What you need is someone to make sure you don't get hit by a carriage when you cross the street.”

Scott Lynch book The Republic of Thieves

Source: The Republic of Thieves

“Using your own time to make someone else’s life better is, like, the nicest thing you can do for anybody.”

Karen Marie Moning (1964) author

Source: Iced

Life, Time

“How foolish it is to run away with a man who's already run away with someone else…”

Jodi Picoult (1966) Author

Source: Mercy

“She knows what it's like to love someone who cannot love you back. Someone who needs you, holds you, yes, but someone who will never know that love is the knife in your heart.”

John Dufresne (1948) Novelist, short story writer, screenwriter, playwright

Source: Love Warps the Mind a Little

Love, Heart

“They say when you are missing someone that they are probably feeling the same, but I don't think it's possible for you to miss me as much as I'm missing you right now”

Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892–1950) American poet

Sad, Feeling, Thinking

“It's always possible to wake someone from sleep, but no amount of noise will wake someone who is pretending to be asleep.”

Jonathan Safran Foer book Eating Animals

Variant: While it is always possible to wake a person who's sleeping, no amount of noise will wake a person who is pretending to be asleep.
Source: Eating Animals

Sleep

“You are someone who is different, but who wants to be the same as everyone else. And that in my view is a serious illness. God chose you to be different. Why are you disappointing God with this kind of attitude?”

Paulo Coelho (1947) Brazilian lyricist and novelist

Source: Veronika Decides to Die (1998)

God, Disappointment

“We were given: Two hands to hold. Two legs to walk. Two eyes to see. Two ears to listen. But why only one heart? Because the other was given to someone else. For us to find.”

Lauren Child (1965) author and illustrator especially known for Charlie and Lola, Clarice Bean, and My Uncle is a Hunkle

For Him, For Boyfriend, Heart

“A girl who is willing to give every ounce of herself to someone, who could never betray her lover, who never suspects maliciousness of anyone, and whose sexuality sleeps in her, waiting to be stirred.”

Steve Martin book Shopgirl

Source: Shopgirl

Girl, Lovers, Sleep, Waiting

“When someone dies, it feels like the hole in your gum when a tooth falls out. You can chew, you can eat, you
have plenty of other teeth, but your tongue keeps going back to that empty place, where all the nerves are still a little raw.”

Jodi Picoult book House Rules

Variant: when you [lose someone], it feels like the hole in your gum when a tooth falls out. You can chew, you can eat, you have plenty of other teeth, but your tongue keeps going back to that empty place, where all nerves are still a little raw
Source: House Rules

Feeling

“How are you feeling?"
"Like someone massaged me with a cheese grater."
-Clary & Simon, pg.297-”

Cassandra Clare book City of Bones

Source: City of Bones

Feeling

“The moment someone keeps an eye on what we do, we involuntarily make allowances for that eye, and nothing we do is truthful. Having a public, keeping a public in mind, means living in lies…”

Milan Kundera book The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Source: The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Truth

“Funny the only two times we use the phrase "seeing someone" are when we are referring to being in a a relationship or getting psychological help.”

Deb Caletti (1963) American writer

Source: Stay

Time, Help

“WHEN SOMEONE SAYS, It’s the Squirrel, you don’t ask questions.”

Rick Riordan book The Sword of Summer

Source: The Sword of Summer

Question

“I wanted to talk to someone. But who? It’s moments like this, when you need someone the most, that your world seems smallest.”

Rachel Cohn (1968) American writer

Source: Dash & Lily's Book of Dares

World

“That was all part of giving someone a piece of your heart; they ended up taking a whole chunk of your mind and reserving it all for themselves.”

Cecelia Ahern book If You Could See Me Now

Source: If You Could See Me Now

Heart, Parting

“I deserve better than that, you know? I deserve… I deserve to be someone's number one girl."

"You are."

"No, I'm not. She is. You're still protecting her, her secret, whatever that is. From what, though? From me? What have I ever done to her?”

Jenny Han book P.S. I Still Love You

Source: P.S. I Still Love You

Secret, Girl

“Because isn’t that the point of every relationship: to be known by someone else, to be understood? He gets me. She gets me. Isn’t that the simple magic phrase?”

Gillian Flynn book Gone Girl

Source: Gone Girl

“She was forced to consider the startling fact that the love of her life might not actually be someone with whom she could spend a lifetime.”

Jodi Picoult book The Tenth Circle

Source: The Tenth Circle

Love, Life

“Find the goddess inside yourself instead of looking for the god in someone else.”

Francesca Lia Block (1962) American children's writer

Source: Necklace of Kisses

God

“It's the hardest thing in the world to go on being aware of someone else's pain.”

Pat Barker (1943) British writer

Pain, World

“Did someone just call me the?” he asked in a lazy drawl. “It’s Bacchus, please. Or Mr. Bacchus. Or Lord Bacchus. Or, sometimes, Oh-My-Gods-Please-Don’t-Kill-Me, Lord Bacchus.”

Rick Riordan The Mark of Athena

Source: The Mark of Athena

God

“Do you remember how you felt at seventeen? I do and I don't (…) Imagine you came from outer space and someone showed you a butterfly and a caterpillar. Would you ever put the two of them together? That's me and my memories.”

Douglas Coupland The Gum Thief

Source: The Gum Thief

Imagination, Memory

“Someone with an obsession for arranging things in alphabetical order was an abcedist, whereas someone with an obsession for arranging them in reverse alphabetical order was a zyxedist.”

Walter Moers book The City of Dreaming Books

Source: The City of Dreaming Books

“You hardly know me. Why do you want me to come with you?"

"Who knows? Perhaps you remind me just a bit of—"

"Someone you used to know?" Alec interjected skeptically.

"Someone I used to.”

Lynn Flewelling Luck in the Shadows

Source: Luck in the Shadows

“A well-known principle of human behavior says that when we ask someone to do us a favor we will be more successful if we provide a reason. People simply like to have reasons for what they do.”

Robert B. Cialdini (1945) American social psychologist

Source: Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion

People, Behavior, Success

“If you think about someone you've loved and lost, you are already with them. The rest is just details.”

Jodi Picoult (1966) Author

Source: Leaving Time

Love, Thinking

“Perhaps a hero is someone who doesn’t register his own vulnerability. Is it courage, then, if you’re too daft to know you’re mortal?”

David Benioff book City of Thieves

Source: City of Thieves

Courage

“Already, though, she understood the difference between being a child and being an adult. The difference is when someone says he can keep the bad things away, a child believes him.”

Joe Hill (1879–1915) Swedish-American labor activist, songwriter, and member of the Industrial Workers of the World

Source: NOS4A2

“It was easier to be brave when you were someone else.”

Stephen King book It

Source: It

“Beyond the window, some kind of small, black thing shot across the sky. A bird, possibly. Or it might have been someone's soul being blown to the far side of the world.”

Haruki Murakami book 1Q84

Source: 1Q84

World, Soul, Bird

“Telling someone about what a symbol means is like telling someone how music should make them feel.”

Dan Brown book The Da Vinci Code

Source: The Da Vinci Code

Music, Feeling

“Far too many people opened their hearts and lives at the drop of a hat. Why give someone that power over you? Why endow them with the ability to hurt you that much? Let someone in and you were asking for an emotional kicking some day.”

Dorothy Koomson book My Best Friend's Girl

Source: My Best Friend's Girl

People, Heart, Hurt

“Remorse is a terrible thing to bear, Pam, one of the worst of all punishments in this life. To wish undone something you have done, to wish you could look back on kindness to someone you love, instead of on unkindness - that is a very terrible thing.”

Enid Blyton (1897–1968) author

Source: House at the Corner

Love, Life

“You can never escape me. Bullets don't harm me. Nothing harms me. But I know pain. I KNOW pain. Sometimes I share it. With someone like you.”

Frank Miller book Batman: Year One

Source: Batman: Year One

Pain

“It feels strange to have spen much time wishing for something, for someone and then one day, suddenly, to just stop”

Jenny Han book To All the Boys I've Loved Before

Source: To All the Boys I've Loved Before

Feeling, Time

“What I mean by an educated taste is someone who has the same tastes that I have.”

Edward Albee (1928–2016) American playwright

Education

“Most people underestimate eyes. They're infinite. You look someone straight in the eye and your whole soul can be sucked out in a nanosecond. Other people's eyes are limitless and that's what scares me.”

Sophie Kinsella book Finding Audrey

Source: Finding Audrey

People, Soul

“You can't control everything. You can't control how someone feels about you. Or what makes them tick. You can only control how you react, how you act, how you think and feel.”

Maya Banks (1964) Author

Source: Rush

Thinking, Feeling

“What I need is someone who will make me do what I can.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet

“Sasori, your strength came because of your soul, not in spite of it… You were supposed to be a a top-class ninja puppeteer, not a worthless nobody who lets someone else pull the strings.
- Kankurou (Naruto Ch 518)”

Masashi Kishimoto book Naruto

Soul

“The worst thing you can do if you miss or need someone is let them know it.”

Sarah Dessen Lock and Key

Source: Lock and Key

Missing You

“From my own experience, when someone is trying very hard to get something, they don't. And when they're running away from something as hard as they can, it usually catches up with them. I'm generalizing, of course.”

Haruki Murakami book Kafka on the Shore

Variant: When someone is trying very hard to get something, they don't. And when they're running away from something as hard as they can, it usually catches up with them.
Source: Kafka on the Shore

“What do you do when you know you are breaking someone's heart, but to do anything else would break your own?”

Laurell K. Hamilton book A Lick of Frost

Source: A Lick of Frost

Heart

“I'm in love with someone good and kind and gentle, and he's seen the darkness too, but somehow we've become each other's light.”

Emma Forrest (1976) British journalist, novelist and screenwriter

Source: Your Voice in My Head

Love, Light

“I’ve had a tense couple of days. And I’ve got to tell you, burning someone’s face off sounds like a great way to relax.”

Jim Butcher book Small Favor

Source: Small Favor

Way

“I need someone to protect me from all the measures they take in order to protect me.”

Banksy pseudonymous England-based graffiti artist, political activist, and painter

Wall and Piece (2007)

“I knew a girl, once, immortal like me-"

"And she was with someone mortal?" said Alec. "What happened?"

"He died," Magnus said. There was a finality to the way he said it that spoke of a deeper grief than words could paint.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Heavenly Fire

Source: City of Heavenly Fire

Way, Girl, Painting

“When you showed someone how you felt, it was fresh and honest. When you told someone how you felt, there might be nothing behind the words but habit or expectation.”

Jodi Picoult book Handle With Care

Variant: When you showed someone how you felt, it was fesh and honest. Whe you told someone how you felt, there might be nothing behind the words but habit or expectation.
Source: Handle with Care