Quotes about someone

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“God does watch over us and does notice us, but it usually through someone else that he meets our needs.”

“We’re Nephilim. Every one of our life’s passages has some mystical component — our births, our deaths, our, marriages, everything has a ceremony and a rune. There is one as well if you wish to become someone’s parabatai. It’s no small commitment.”

“No matter how honestly you open up to someone, there are still things you cannot reveal.”

“Sometimes the only thing to do is to take the thing that you must have. Even if someone gets hurt.”

“When someone less capable is ahead of me, I am not pleased. It makes me insane.”

“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.”

“Only one way to win when you're being chased by someone bigger and tougher than you. Turn straight around, punch their teeth out, and hope the gods are fond of you.”

“I don't recognize myself. I don't know who I am anymore."
And it's all fun and games until someone loses an I.”

“A story doesn't live until it is imagined in someone's mind.”

“…there is no nakedness that compares to being naked in front of someone for the first time.”

“It's disappointing to know that someone can see right through you.”

“The fact that I can plant a seed and it becomes a flower, share a bit of knowledge and it becomes another's, smile at someone and receive a smile in return, are to me continual spiritual exercises.”

“What's crazy is living your life according to some book written by someone who couldn't imagine what your life would be like.”

“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.”

“Hanajima: To truly love someone is to always put thier feelings before your own… No matter what.”

“A sister can be seen as someone who is both ourselves and very much not ourselves - a special kind of double.”

“Everyone is happier if they have someone else to look down on, as well as someone to look up to, especially if they resent both.”

“If you gave someone your heart and they died, did they take it with them? Did you spend the rest of forever with a hole inside you that couldn't be filled?”

“But you cant shut everyone out. I mean you have to have someone to love… someone to hold on to… someone”

“Perhaps it's because it's incredible to meet someone and say: with this person, I'm happy.”

“You cannot, you cannot use someone else's fire. You can only use your own. And in order to do that, you must first be willing to believe that you have it.”

“The problem in our society and in our schools is to inclulcate, without overdoing it, the notion of education, as in the Latin educere--to lead, to bring out what is in someone rather than merely to indoctrinate him/her from the outside. (89)”

“And Max, the king of all wild things, was lonely and wanted to be where someone loved him best of all.”

“Love is when you give someone else the power to destroy you, and you trust them not to do it.”

“If someone's ungrateful and you tell him he's ungrateful, okay, you've called him a name. You haven't solved anything.”

“People are screwed up in this world. I'd rather be with someone screwed up and open about it than somebody perfect and ready to explode.”

“What you dream, you can grow. Someone told me that, but I didn't believe it. I said I had nothing and that people with nothing are unable to dream. But I was wrong.”

“Fenworth!'
Yes?'
You bore me with your prattle.'
Oh, regrettable that. Why don't you seek the company of someone who doesn't prattle? Seems like a good solution to your problem.”

“Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone’s got to take care of all your details.”

“Now I understand. When you love someone, you have to try things even if they don't make sense to anyone else.”

“When a girl is beautiful, she gets to pick - she never has to wait for someone to choose her.”

“She didn't need to understand the meaning of life; it was enough to find someone who did, and then fall asleep in his arms and sleep as a child sleeps, knowing that someone stronger than you is protecting you from all evil and all danger”

“I love the solitude of reading. I love the deep dive into someone else's story, the delicious ache of a last page.”

“Magnus glared at him out of gold-green eyes. “If I wanted to lie on a couch and
complain to someone about my parents, I’d hire a psychiatrist.”
“Ah,” said Jace. “But my services are free.”
“I heard that about you.”

“So much of the language of love was like that: you devoured someone with your eyes, you drank in the sight of him, you swallowed him whole. Love was substance, broken down and beating through your bloodstream.”

“But maybe you never really had someone, she thought now. Maybe, no matter how much you loved them, they could slip through your fingers like water, and there was nothing you could do about it.”

“The mere suggestion of fame and fortune casts a glamour all its own. It is rather alarming how quickly people will turn someone else's fiction into fact in order to support their own fictions of themselves.”

“A lot of bad stuff in the world wasn’t really that bad until someone tried to change it.”

“I wonder if it's possible to start a new relationship without hurting someone else.”

“When you know you love someone, when you know it's finally the right time, you don't just wait around for the right words, you just say the sentences even if they're all mixed up and imperfect.”

“Anna looked at Brother Wolf. ‘I’d like to see someone try to put a radio control collar on Charles. It might be fun to watch on YouTube.”

“Will: Have you ever seen what happens to someone with demon pox? First it lies dormant. One begins to turn yellow and green. Then the swelling sets in -
Jem: THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS DEMON POX.”

“Sometimes when we are generous in small, barely detectable ways it can change someone's life forever.”

“When I write I pretend I'm telling a story to someone in the room and I don't want them to get up until I'm finished.”

“If someone isn't what others want them to be, the others become angry. Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own.”

“there's nothing in the human heart or mind, no place no matter how twisted or secret, that can't be endured - if you have someone to share it with.”

“What was it to love someone, what was love exactly, and why did it end or not end? Those were the real questions, and who could answer them?”

“Be authentic. Don't try to be someone you aren't. You'll hate yourself for it & the effort to maintain the facade will exhaust you. BE REAL! Many won't like the real you but that's better than having people adore the person that isn't you at all”

“I wanted only a familiar voice, someone who knew me. Not some earlier, larval version of myself…”

“I can't believe you know someone named Freaky Pete," said Simon.
"I know alot of people," said Luke. "Not that Freaky Pete is strictly people, but I'm hardly one to talk.”

“When you lose someone and it still hurts, that's when you know the love was real.”

“What’s the best part of being in Hermes cabin?
Connor: You are never lonely. I mean seriously, new kids are always coming in. So you always have someone to talk to.
Travis: Or prank.
Connor: Or pickpocket. One big happy family.”

“So, what are you?"
"What I am is someone who doesn't want you to jump out of the window. The rest are details.”

“When someone loves you it's like having a blanket all round your heart…”

“I may not feel significant until someone expresses love to me.”

“So many things I had thought forgotten
Return to my mind with stranger pain:
Like letters that arrive addressed to someone
Who left the house so many years ago.”

“We could all be lucky. We could all be what we want to be, instead of who someone else told us to be.”

“Maybe it was just part of growing up with someone. Once you have a rhythm and stay with it long enough, it's not hard to find again.”

“… show the other side, the one that gets people out of bed the next morning, makes them scratch and scrape and fight for their lives because someone is telling them that they're going to be okay.”

“I just want someone to hear what I have to say. And maybe if I talk long enough, it’ll make sense.”

“When your children are teenagers, it's important to have a dog so that someone in the house is happy to see you.”

“Tell, rather than write, because I have nothing to write with and writing is in any case forbidden. But if it’s a story, even in my head, I must be telling it to someone. You don’t tell a story only to yourself. There’s always someone else.
Even when there is no one.”

“One should never fall in the belief that you can find someone to pick you up.”

“Somewhere, someone isn’t impressed by your looks. Not all men jump through the hoops of your fire. You’re unbelievably boring to more people than you’ll ever know.”

“Freedom begins the moment you realize someone else has been writing your story and it's time you took the pen from his hand and started writing it yourself.”

“He had found my worst weakness: I was one of those people who was desperate to be needed, to matter to someone.”

“I have a family full of quirky people. Someone has to be sensible so all of you can enjoy being reckless weirdos.”

“We all have one idea of what the color blue is, but pressed to describe it specifically, there are so many ways: the ocean, lapis lazuli, the sky, someone's eyes. Our definitions are as different as we are ourselves.”

“It is much harder to lie to someone's face.
But.
It is also much harder to tell the truth to someone's face.”

“So if the punks come here, they’re going to dance with the devil and get the short end of the horn. (Zarek)
No one better than my Zarek to rip someone’s head off. You two should get along famously. (Astrid)”

“Recycling and speed limits are bullshit. They're like someone who quits smoking on his deathbed.”

“[…] falling in love with someone beautiful and intelligent and the rest of it, then feeling like a blank twit put you at something of a disadvantage.”

“I screwed her over. I didn't want to see her screwed over by someone else.”

“I don't know. Just because someone's pretty doesn't mean she's decent. Or vice versa. I'm not into appearances. I like flaws, I think they make things interesting.”

“How she still thought of Max every day and it was like someone had emptied her lungs of air, and she would catch at her heart, afraid she was dying.”

“maybe he's falling in love with the idea of falling in love with me. Maybe he wants to be in love with someone and I've ended up in the right place at the right time.”

“When you peered into the windows of someone else's life, you could only guess what was going on.”

“Dullard: Someone who looks up a thing in the encyclopedia, turns directly to the entry, reads it, and then closes the book.”

“My goal in life is to live my life in such a way that when I die, someone can say, she cared”

“I don't think you tell someone you love them because you expect something. I think you tell them because you have something to give.”

“I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it has fulfilled its purpose.”

“It's so much easier to convince yourself you're madly in love with someone when you know nothing about him.”

“They never told you that stranger might be someone you knew.”

“Tracy, the leader of the CDH group, looks at me with eyes that seem to belong to someone three times her age. It's something beyond wisdom, all the way to insanity and back. It's like her eyes are scarred from all the things she's seen.”

“How could I choose someone who would force me to give up my own small reach for meaning? I chose myself, and without consolation.”

“To see the beauty of the world is to put your hands on lines that run uninterrupted through life and through death. Touching them is an act of hope, for perhaps someone on the other side, if there is another side, is touching them, too.”

“Being a teenager isn't all that different from being part of someone else's story. There's always someone who thinks they know better than you do”

“He reminded me of someone who put your fingers in the door and smiled and talked to you while he smashed them.”

“Endeavoring to purchase something we think beautiful may in fact be the most unimaginative way of dealing with the longing it excites in us, just as trying to sleep with someone may be the bluntest response to a feeling of love.”

“Thwart," I said. "To prevent someone from accomplishing something by means of visiting gratuitous violence upon his smarmy person."

"I'm pretty sure that isn't the definition." Sarissa said.

"It is today.”

“I'll have that someday, thought Peter. Someone who'll kiss me good-bye at the door. Or maybe just someone to put a blindfold over my head before they shoot me. Depending on how things turn out.”

“What are you supposed to do with all the love you have for somebody if that person is no longer there? What happens to all that leftover love? Do you suppress it? Do you ignore it? Are you supposed to give it to someone else?”

“Fatherhood is great because you can ruin someone from scratch.”

“homesickness is just a state of mind for me. i'm always missing someone or someplace or something, i'm always trying to get back to some imaginary somewhere. my life has been one long longing.”

“Young people are moving away from feeling guilty about sleeping with somebody to feeling guilty if they are *not* sleeping with someone.”

“Soon we will be strangers. No, we can never be that. Hurting someone is an act of reluctant intimacy. We will be dangerous acquaintances with a history.”

“But you can't marry someone to fix him, even if you love them.”

“It is part of the human nature always to judge others very severely and, when the wind turns against us, always to find an excuse for our own misdeeds, or to blame someone else for our mistakes.”

“Annoyed?” said Sophie. “Why should I be annoyed? Someone only filled the castle with rotten aspic, and deafened everyone in Porthaven, and scared Calcifer to a cinder, and broke a few hundred hearts. Why should that annoy me?”