Quotes about someone page 13
“No matter how honestly you open up to someone, there are still things you cannot reveal.”
Haruki Murakami book Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage
Source: Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage
“When someone less capable is ahead of me, I am not pleased. It makes me insane.”
Steve Martin (1945) American actor, comedian, musician, author, playwright, and producer
Source: An Object of Beauty
Jonathan Safran Foer book Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
Oskar's grandmother
"My Feelings" (p. 314)
Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2005)
Context: I said, I want to tell you something She said, you can tell me tomorrow I had never told her how much I loved her. She was my sister. We slept in the same bed. There was never a right time to say it. It was always unnecessary. I thought about waking her. But it was unnecessary. There would be other nights. And how can you say I love you to someone you love? I rolled onto my side and fell asleep next to her. Here is the point of everything I have been trying to tell you, Oskar. It's always necessary. I love you. Grandma.
“A story doesn't live until it is imagined in someone's mind.”
Brandon Sanderson (1975) American fantasy writer
Source: The Way of Kings, Part 1
“…there is no nakedness that compares to being naked in front of someone for the first time.”
John Irving book A Widow for One Year
Source: A Widow for One Year
Dorothy Parker (1893–1967) American poet, short story writer, critic and satirist
Variant: A Very Short Song
Once, when I was young and true,
Someone left me sad-
Broke my brittle heart in two;
And that is very bad.
Love is for unlucky folk,
Love is but a curse.
Once there was a heart I broke;
And that, I think, is worse.
Source: Enough Rope
“Perhaps it's because it's incredible to meet someone and say: with this person, I'm happy.”
Anna Gavalda (1970) French writer
Source: Someone I Loved
Joseph Campbell (1904–1987) American mythologist, writer and lecturer
Source: Thou Art That: Transforming Religious Metaphor
Maurice Sendak book Where the Wild Things Are
Source: Where the Wild Things Are
“Love is when you give someone else the power to destroy you, and you trust them not to do it.”
E. Lockhart (1967) American writer of novels as E. Lockhart (mainly for teenage girls) and of picture books under real name Emily J…
Source: Real Live Boyfriends: Yes. Boyfriends, Plural. If My Life Weren't Complicated, I Wouldn't Be Ruby Oliver
Robert M. Pirsig book Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Source: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values
“When a girl is beautiful, she gets to pick - she never has to wait for someone to choose her.”
Adriana Trigiani (1970) American film director
“I wonder if it's possible to start a new relationship without hurting someone else.”
Variant: I wonder if it's possible to have happiness without it being at someone else's expense.
Source: Boy Meets Boy
Larry Winget (1952) American motivational speaker
“I wanted only a familiar voice, someone who knew me. Not some earlier, larval version of myself…”
Jennifer Haigh (1968) Novelist
Source: Faith
“When you lose someone and it still hurts, that's when you know the love was real.”
Jenny Han book P.S. I Still Love You
Source: P.S. I Still Love You
“When someone loves you it's like having a blanket all round your heart…”
Helen Fielding book Bridget Jones's Diary
Source: Bridget Jones's Diary
“I may not feel significant until someone expresses love to me.”
The Five Love Languages: How to Express Heartfelt Commitment to Your Mate
Nora Ephron (1941–2012) Film director, author screenwriter
Source: I Feel Bad about My Neck: And Other Thoughts on Being a Woman
Margaret Atwood book The Handmaid's Tale
Source: The Handmaid’s Tale (1985), Chapter 7 (pp. 39-40)
Source: The Handmaid's Tale
“One should never fall in the belief that you can find someone to pick you up.”
Niccolo Machiavelli (1469–1527) Italian politician, Writer and Author
Lisa Kleypas (1964) American writer
Source: Blue-Eyed Devil
Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo
Source: Burn for Me
“I screwed her over. I didn't want to see her screwed over by someone else.”
Cassandra Clare book City of Fallen Angels
Source: City of Fallen Angels
“When you peered into the windows of someone else's life, you could only guess what was going on.”
Elin Hilderbrand (1969) American writer
Source: Barefoot
Megan McCafferty (1973) American novelist
Source: Second Helpings
“They never told you that stranger might be someone you knew.”
Deb Caletti (1963) American writer
Source: Stay
“Fatherhood is great because you can ruin someone from scratch.”
Jon Stewart (1962) American political satirist, writer, television host, actor, media critic and stand-up comedian
"Late Night with Conan O'Brien," January 29, 2009
Hanif Kureishi (1954) English playwright, screenwriter, novelist
Source: Intimacy: das Buch zum Film von Patrice Chéreau
“But you can't marry someone to fix him, even if you love them.”
Patricia Briggs book Bone Crossed
Source: Bone Crossed
Diana Wynne Jones book Howl's Moving Castle
Source: Howl's Moving Castle