Quotes about someone
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“When you love someone - when you create a child with him - you don't just suddenly lose that bond. Like any other energy, it can't be destroyed, just channeled into something else.”

Jodi Picoult book Handle With Care

Source: Handle with Care

Love

“To be good or bad doesn't count: life out in this world doesn't depend on that. It depends on a relation of forces based on violence. And survival is violence. You'll wear leather shoes because someone has killed a cow and skinned it to make leather.”

Oriana Fallaci book Letter to a Child Never Born

Source: Letter to a Child Never Born

Life, World, Shoe, Dependency

“Have you ever felt really close to someone? So close that you can't understand why you and the other person have two separate bodies, two separate skins?”

Nancy Garden book Annie on My Mind

Source: Annie on My Mind

Understanding, Personality

“The ability to hurt someone is usually in direct proportion to how much that person cares about you.”

Susan Mallery (1950) American author

Source: Almost Perfect

Hurt, Personality

“It was nice to see someone who appreciated her for her character, no matter how disgusted Christian was by the idea of ANYONE dating his aunt. And I actually kind of liked seeing Christian so obviously tormented. It was good for him.”

Richelle Mead book Last Sacrifice

Source: Last Sacrifice

Idea

“It'd be nice to have someone who understood some of the things that went on in my head.”

Richelle Mead book The Golden Lily

Source: The Golden Lily

“Finally, you had to measure yourself by other people - there really was nothing else. every now and then, quite unintentionally, someone taught you something about yourself.”

Ian McEwan (1948) British author

People

“How wonderful to know someone who was bad and dishonorable and a cheat and a liar, when all the world was filled with people who would not lie to save their souls and who would rather starve than do a dishonorable deed!”

Margaret Mitchell book Vom Winde verweht (1937 German edition)

Source: Gone with the Wind

People, Lie, World, Soul

“Life is hard enough as it is without choosing someone difficult to share it with”

Greg Behrendt (1963) American comedian

Source: He's Just Not That Into You: The No-Excuses Truth to Understanding Guys

Life

“What does a bigot do when he meets someone who challenges his opinions? He doesn’t give. He stays rigid. Doesn’t even try to listen, just lashes out.”

Harper Lee book Go Set a Watchman

Source: Go Set a Watchman

“Someday you'll find someone special again. People who've been in love once usually do. It's in their nature.”

Nicholas Sparks book Message in a Bottle

Source: Message in a Bottle

Love, People, Nature

“Well, it's simple to love someone," she said. "But it's hard to know when you need to say it out loud.”

Rebecca Stead book When You Reach Me

Source: When You Reach Me

Love

“If it's a penny for your thoughts and you put in your two cents worth, then someone, somewhere is making a penny.”

Steven Wright (1955) American actor and author

“I lay in bed at night crying to myself. The only one who loved me and watched over me was someone I couldn't see or hear or touch.”

Marilyn Monroe (1926–1962) American actress, model, and singer

Source: My Story

Love, Cry, Night

“Maybe everyone is just waiting for someone else to save them.”

Margaret Peterson Haddix Among the Brave

Source: Among the Brave

Waiting

“I wouldn't cut you out of my life Clary, any more than I would cut off my right hand and give it to someone as a Valentine's Day gift."
Gross," said Clary. "Must you?"
Simon grinned. "I must.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Glass

Source: City of Glass

Life

“It's like when someone dies, the initial stages of grief seem to be the worst. But in some ways, it's sadder as time goes by and you consider how much they've missed in your life. In the world.”

Emily Giffin Something Borrowed

Variant: Someday being with Dex will be a distant memory. This fact makes me sad too. Its the initial stages of grief that seem to be worst but in some ways, Its sadder as time goes by and you consider how much they're missed in your life.
Source: Something Borrowed

Life, World, Way, Time

“Maybe someone will know I didn't weave crowns to draw blood; that I faught against mockery;
that I did fill the high tide of my soul with truth.
I repaid vileness with doves.”

Pablo Neruda (1904–1973) Chilean poet

Truth, Soul, Drawing

“To find out your real opinion of someone, judge the impression you have when you first see a letter from them.”

Arthur Schopenhauer (1788–1860) German philosopher

“It's love this and love that but of couse it's so easy to love someone you don't know, whether it's George Clooney or Monkey. Staying civil to someone with whom you've ever shared Christmas turkey- now there's a miracle.”

Nick Hornby book How to Be Good

Source: How to Be Good

Love, Christmas

“I wish you'd fall in love with me," she said.
"Why?"
"Because you're really someone worth falling in love with. And if we were in love, I wouldn't be drifting. I wouldn't be nobody. At least not while I was with you.”

Anne Rice Belinda

Source: Belinda

Love

“When you love someone, it doesn't really matter if they love you back or not. Having love in your heart for someone is its own reward. or punishment, depending on the circumstances.”

Lisa Unger book Beautiful Lies

Source: Beautiful Lies

Love, Heart, Dependency

“…he who seeks to deceive will always find someone who will allow himself to be deceived.”

Niccolo Machiavelli book The Prince

Source: The Prince

“When you love someone, you don't have a choice. Love takes your choices away.”

Cassandra Clare (1973) American author

Source: City of Ashes; Clary Fray

Love

“Sure I loved him - too much. And he loved me, only not enough. I just want someone who thinks I'm number one in his life. I'm not willing to accept emotional scraps anymore.”

Amy Tan The Hundred Secret Senses

Source: The Hundred Secret Senses

Love, Life, Thinking

“You can't stay mad at someone who makes you laugh.”

Jay Leno (1950) American comedian, actor, writer, producer, voice actor and television host

Madness

“How do you make yourself not like someone?”

Louise Rennison book Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging

Source: Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging

“Someone can break your heart, leave you dead on the lawn, and still you never learn what to say to stop it all over again.”

Daniel Handler book Adverbs

Source: Adverbs

Learning, Heart, Dead, Sad

“We’re meant to protect each other, but not from everything. Not from
the truth. That’s what it means to love someone but let them be themselves.
-Jace Wayland”

Cassandra Clare The City of Lost Souls

Source: City of Lost Souls

Love, Truth

“Never make fun of someone who speaks broken English. It means they know another language.”

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

“Fine," he repeated, and I wondered why it was I kept coming back to this, again and again, a word that you said when someone asked how you were but didn't really care to know the truth.”

Sarah Dessen book The Truth About Forever

Source: The Truth About Forever

Truth

“Phryne was getting out of the car. Dot closed her eyes. Miss Fisher was about to happen to someone again.”

Kerry Greenwood (1954) Australian crime writer

Source: Dead Man's Chest

Cars

“Who said that every wish would be heard and answered when wished on an evening star? Somebody thought of it and someone believed it, and look what its done so far.”

Jim Henson (1936–1990) American puppeteer

Star

“It's funny how you can think you know someone pretty well, and then something happens or they do something that makes you understand that you didn't really know them at all.”

Wendelin Van Draanen (1965) American writer

Source: Sammy Keyes And the Dead Giveaway

Understanding, Thinking

“you can tell how much someone respects you by how much he respects your opinion. If he does't respect your opinion, he won't respect you.”

Sherry Argov (1977) American writer

Variant: Relationship Principle 10
You can tell how much someone respects you by how much he respects your opinion. If he doesn't respect your opinion, he won't respect you.
Source: Why Men Marry Bitches: A Woman's Guide to Winning Her Man's Heart

“It felt as though the whole globe was dressed in snow. Like it has pulled it on, the way you pull on a sweater. Next to the train line, footprints were sunken to their shins. Trees wore blankets of ice.
As you may expect, someone has died.”

Markus Zusak book The Book Thief

Source: The Book Thief

Way, Tree, Training

“There is no better way to thank God for your sight than by giving a helping hand to someone in the dark.”

Helen Keller (1880–1968) American author and political activist

Source: Light in my Darkness

God, Way, Help

“When I thought of Eric with someone else, I wanted to rip out all his beautiful blonde hair. By the roots. In clumps.”

Charlaine Harris book Dead Reckoning

Source: Dead Reckoning

Beauty

“Death doesn't just take someone, it misses someone else, and in the small distance between being taken and being missed, lives are changed.”

Mitch Albom (1958) American author

The Five People You Meet in Heaven (2003)
Variant: It is because the spirit knows deep down that all lives intersect. That death doesn't just take someone, it misses someone else. And in that small distance, lives are changed.
Source: The Five People You Meet in Heaven - Meniti Bianglala

Death, Change

“You can't hate someone until you know what it might be like to love them.”

Jodi Picoult (1966) Author

Source: Vanishing Acts

Love, Hate

“… An average of seventy-four species become extinct every day, which was one good reason but not the only one to hold someone's hand…”

Nicole Krauss The History of Love

Source: The History of Love

“An alcoholic is someone you don't like, who drinks as much as you do.”

Dylan Thomas (1914–1953) Welsh poet and writer

Alcohol, Drink, Funny

“There's a difference between really loving someone and loving the idea of her.”

Gillian Flynn book Gone Girl

Source: Gone Girl

Love, Idea

“You can love someone you mistrust.”

Emily Giffin (1972) American writer

Baby Proof

Love

“Loving someone and having them love you back is the most precious thing in the world. It's what made it possible for me to go on…”

Nicholas Sparks book The Rescue

Judy McAden, Chapter 26, p. 314
Source: 2000s, The Rescue (2000)

Love, World

“Edward knew what it was like to say over and over again the names of those you had left behind. He knew what it was like to miss someone. And so he listened. And in his listening, his heart opened wide and then wider still. (page 103)”

Kate DiCamillo book The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane

Source: The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane

Heart

“Jane Austen easily used half a page describing someone else's eyes; she would not appreciate summarizing her reading tastes in ten titles.”

Tracy Chevalier (1962) American writer

Reading

“That was the thing. You never got used to it, the idea of someone being gone. Just when you think it's reconciled, accepted, someone points it out to you, and it just hits you all over again, that shocking.”

Sarah Dessen book The Truth About Forever

Source: The Truth About Forever

Idea, Thinking

“Man" Rhage muttered, "someone hit this place with the Hallmark stick."

Until it broke.”

Jessica Bird book Lover Revealed

Source: Lover Revealed

“A friend is someone whose face you can see in the dark.”

Frances O'Roark Dowell (1964) American writer

Source: The Secret Language of Girls

“You fell in love with someone because of the tilt of his smile, or because he could make you laugh, or in this case, because he made you believe that you were the only one who could save him.”

Jodi Picoult book Picture Perfect

Source: Picture Perfect

Love, Smile

“You never really hate anyone as much as someone you cared about once.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Glass

Variant: Unfortunately, you never really hate anyone as much as someone you cared about once.
Source: City of Glass

Hate

“It was an act of devotion. A little like writing or loving someone — it doesn’t always feel worthwhile, but not giving up somehow creates unexpected meaning over time.”

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

Source: It Chooses You

Love, Feeling, Time

“But I also meant that loving someone really opening your heart to them is just asking to have your heart smashed and handed back to you in little pieces.”

Cate Tiernan (1961) American novelist

Source: The Calling

Love, Heart

“They had, finally, the only thing anyone really wants in life: someone to hold your hand when you die.”

Lorrie Moore (1957) American writer

Source: Anagrams

Life

“Someone told me much later that you always know the people who are going to make a difference in your life, from the very first time you set eyes on them, even if you do not like them at all. And I had noticed him, as he had me. God help us.”

Sarah Dunant book The Birth of Venus

Source: The Birth of Venus

Life, God, People, Time

“I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom.”

Bob Dylan (1941) American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and artist

Interview published with the Biograph album set (1985)

Understanding, Thinking, Freedom

“That's what happens when you love someone… you notice and notice and notice.”

Cinda Williams Chima (1952) Novelist

Source: The Crimson Crown

Love

“Letting go doesn't mean that you don't care about someone anymore. It's just realizing that the only person you really have control over is yourself.”

Deborah Reber American writer

Source: Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul: 101 Stories of Life, Love and Learning

Moving On, Personality

“The major problem of life is learning how to handle the costly interruptions. The door that slams shut, the plan that got sidetracked, the marriage that failed. Or that lovely poem that didn't get written because someone knocked on the door.”

Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–1968) American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement

Love, Life, Marriage, Problem

“Don't knock masturbation. It's sex with someone you love.”

Woody Allen (1935) American screenwriter, director, actor, comedian, author, playwright, and musician

Source: Standup Comic

Love, Sex

“You can't understand where someone's going unless you understand where they've been.”

Jerry B. Jenkins (1949) novelist, biographer

Understanding

“Don't hurt someone who cares about you like that. You're not the only person in the world who's ever been hurt. Don't be cruel. Don't go breaking someone else's heart in the hope that you'll feel better. Becaues you won't.”

Alison McGhee (1960) American novelist

Source: All Rivers Flow To The Sea

World, Hope, Feeling, Heart

“Lacuna peered at my shirt. "Aer-O-Smith. Arrowsmith. Does the shirt belong to your weapon dealer?"

"No."

"Then why do you wear the shirt of someone else's weapon dealer?”

Jim Butcher book Cold Days

Source: Cold Days

“If there is any possible consolation in the tragedy of losing someone we love very much, it's the necessary hope that perhaps it was for the best.”

Paulo Coelho (1947) Brazilian lyricist and novelist

Source: The Witch Of Portobello

Love, Hope

“Turgenev was a very serious fellow but he could make me laugh because a truth first encountered can be very funny. When someone else's truth is the same as your truth, and he seems to be saying it just for you, that's great.”

Charles Bukowski book Ham on Rye

Source: Ham on Rye

Truth

“Maybe a friend is someone who wants your updates. Even if they're boring. Or sad. Or annoyingly cutesy. A friend says "Sign me up for your boring crap, yes indeed"--because he likes you anyways. He'll tolerate your junk”

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

Sadness

“If someone is really close with you, your getting upset or them getting upset is okay, and they don’t change because of it. It’s just part of the relationship. It happens. You deal with it.”

Sarah Dessen book Just Listen

Variant: If someone is really close with you, your getting upset or them getting upset is okay, and they don't change because of it. It's just part of the relationship. It happens. You deal with it.
Source: Just Listen

Change, Parting

“There's really nothing quite like someone's wanting you dead to make you want to go on living.”

Roger Zelazny book This Immortal

Source: This Immortal

Dead

“Now you know how badly someone wanted you, Charley. Children forget that sometimes. They think of themselves as a burden instead of a wish granted.”

Mitch Albom For One More Day

Source: For One More Day

Children, Thinking, Forgetting

“she wanted to dance with someone who would embrace her in the way she dreamed of since adolescence.”

Paulo Coelho book The Pilgrimage

Source: The Pilgrimage

Dreams, Way, Dance

“As if when someone close to us dies, we momentarily trade places with them, in the moment right before. And as we get over it, we’re really living their life in reverse, from death to life, from sickness to health.”

David Levithan book Every Day

Source: Every Day

Life, Death, Health

“Someone asked us later, "Didn't you wonder why no one came across you sooner?"
Did I wonder?
When you see your parents zipped up in black body bags on the Jellicoe Road like they're some kind of garbage, don't you know?
Wonder dies.”

Melina Marchetta book On the Jellicoe Road

Source: On the Jellicoe Road

Parent

“You fight so hard, so long, to cut someone out of your heart, but it’s not always your heart that betrays you.”

Laurell K. Hamilton book Incubus Dreams

Source: Incubus Dreams

Heart, Fight

“If someone says " I love you " it would be foolish to say " I love you too " So you say " I knoe " tht is trulie wht love is. <3”

Melissa de la Cruz (1971) American writer

Love

“I didn’t want to tell the story of myself, but someone I called myself. If you read yourself as fiction, it’s rather more liberating than reading yourself as fact.”

Jeanette Winterson book Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

Source: Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

Reading

“To be known so well by someone is an unimaginable gift. But to be imagined so well by someone is even better.”

Ali Smith (1962) Scottish writer

Source: Artful

Imagination

“Someone has to ask you a question," George continues meaningly, "before you can answer it. But it's so seldom you find anyone who'll ask the right questions. Most people aren't that much interested….”

Christopher Isherwood book A Single Man

Source: A Single Man

People, Question

“Clary sat back. "You don't just get to say no."
"This plan involves me! I get to say no! No."
"Simon -"
Simon patted the seat beside him as if someone were sitting there. "Let me introduce you to my good friend No.”

Cassandra Clare The City of Lost Souls

Source: City of Lost Souls

“He loved her, as you can only love someone who is an echo of yourself at your time of deepest sorrow.”

Orson Scott Card book Speaker for the Dead

Source: Speaker for the Dead

Love, Time

“It is," I said. "And it's not even difficult. But I need your promise on the River Styx." "What?" Dionysus cried. "You don't trust us?" "Someone once told me," I said, looking at Hades, "you should always get a solemn oath." Hades shrugged. "Guilty.”

Rick Riordan (1964) American writer

“It is not time that changes man nor knowledge the only thing that can change someone's mind is love.”

Paulo Coelho book Eleven Minutes

Source: Eleven Minutes

Love, Knowledge, Change, Time

“May you walk a lighted path. May you fight for truth - your truth, not someone else's - and may you understand, above all things, that you are the most important concept, theory, and philosophy I have ever known.”

Marisha Pessl Special Topics in Calamity Physics

Source: Special Topics in Calamity Physics

Truth, Understanding, Light, Fight

“Hemingway has his classic moment in "The Sun Also Rises" when someone asks Mike Campbell how he went bankrupt. All he can say is, "Gradually, then suddenly." That's how depression hits. You wake up one morning, afraid that you're gonna live.”

Elizabeth Wurtzel book Prozac Nation

Variant: There is a classic moment in ‘The Sun Also Rises’ when someone asks Mike Campbell how he went bankrupt, and all he can say in response is, “Gradually and then suddenly.” When someone asks how I lost my mind, that’s all I can say too.
Source: Prozac Nation

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