Quotes about someone

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“People make such a big deal about looks, but after a while, when you know someone, you don´t even notice anymore…”

“If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.”

“What is a friend if not someone you feel close to, someone you like being with, someone you can confide in and share pleasure with.

-Jeremy Malory”

“She wondered why they didn't understand that their true selfs were good enough, and if they weren't, then the someones they weren't good enough for, were really the ones not good enough.”

“It’s scary telling someone you care about, someone you love who you really are.”

“What good is money to you if you're going to die? It's not often that money can save someone's life.”

“I'm someone who doesn't have anything to lose.”

“I thought my heart was pure. We do like to have such good opinions of our own motives when we're about to do something harmful, to someone else.”

“You must think for yourself, what you must do. If someone tells you, then you are not trying.
-An-mei”

“She had never imagined she had the power to make someone else so happy. And not a magical power, either--a purely human one.”

“You don't need a reason to forgive… If you want to go on with someone, that is what you do.”

“I have always been accused of taking the things I love - football, of course, but also books and records - much too seriously, and I do feel a kind of anger when I hear a bad record, or when someone is lukewarm about a book that means a lot to me.”

“That sounds weird: "kill yourself." It makes it sound like you tried to murder someone, only that someone is you.”

“Someone had to be blamed. Someone had to die. (…) What you can't understand, you destroy.”

“A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself - and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine with them.”

“The universe only makes sense when we have someone to share our feelings with.”

“I don't like to feel so crazy about someone," he said. "I don't like to feel like my happiness is so tied up in another person.”

“Is this a movie?' I heard someone ask.”

“I love inscriptions on flyleaves and notes in margins, I like the comradely sense of turning pages someone else turned, and reading passages someone long gone has called my attention to.”

“The only time you seem honest is when you’re insulting someone!”
“The only honest things I can say to you are insults.”

“It's as if when you love someone, they become your reason.”

“There's the life you live and the life you leave behind. but what you share with someone else - especially someone you love - that's not just how you bury your past. It's how you write you future.”

“When someone stabs you it's not your fault that you feel pain.”

“I am nothing. I’m like someone who’s been thrown into the ocean at night, floating all alone. I reach out, but no one is there. I call out, but no one answers. I have no connection to anything.”

“A prophet is not someone with special visions, just someone blind to most of what others see”

“Identification is not the same as knowing someone through and through.”

“The barriers between reality and fiction are softer than we think; a bit like a frozen lake. Hundreds of people can walk across it, but then one evening a thin spot develops and someone falls through; the hole is frozen over by the following morning.”

“A politician is someone who promises a bridge even when there's no water”

“You gotta wonder about someone who would be dumb enough to fallo a person as crazy as him!
wait, I think I just insulted myself
- ganju”

“If you want someone to tell you what to think…"

"You will never be short of people willing to do so.”

“Everyone wants someone they can hold and love. Someone who will be there to help pick up the pieces when everything falls apart. (Acheron)”

“You don't need a search warrant to go through someone's trash. Seriously. Once it hits the curb it is totally fair game-you an look it up.”

“I always worried someone would notice me, and then when no one did, I felt lonely.”

“Create dangerously, for people who read dangerously…. Writing, knowing in part that no matter how trivial your words may seem, someday, somewhere, someone may risk his or her life to read them.”

“I was yours once 'till death if you'd cared to keep me, but I'm someone else's now - I can't hang about whining forever - and he's mine in a way that shocks you, but why don't you stop being shocked, and attend to your own happiness?”

“It was so rare to find someone who was both so young and so wise, both so fresh and so jaded.”

“He wanted to be a poet,' someone else put in while Maggie hugged Tim and patted his back. 'Said he'd only lacked the words to be one.”

“I see the difference now, between loving someone from afar and loving someone up close. When you see them up close, you see the real them, but they also get to see the real you.”

“He wanted to hit something or someone. He wanted to burn up the whole world, heal it, and burn it down again.”

“The job isn't done until you've blamed someone for the parts that went wrong.”

“yesterday someone sent a message that was signed GOD! bernard said.
really? dap said. i didn't know he was signed onto the system”

“What she mostly wanted, he learned, was the same thing many people want--someone to notice she was there.”

“Something will be offensive to someone in every book, so you've got to fight it.”

“It means thanks, it means admiration, it means good-bye to someone you love.”

“There is no sense in loving someone you can never wake up to except by chance.”

“The Subject has really blue eyes that twinkle when he looks at someone like she's maybe a little bit insane.”

“It was the kind of love you can only feel toward someone you don't actually know.”

“The healing power of even the most microscopic exchange with someone who knows in a flash precisely what you're talking about because she experienced that thing too cannot be overestimated.”

“He felt it too, the air between us, the invisible lines that something or someone had drawn to connect us. That's the way I remember it.”

“You should be kissed and often, by someone who knows how.”

“In a relationship the details are everything because they remind you - just when you need to be reminded the most - why you fell in love with someone in the first place.”

“You know, when someone prefers their own brother over you, it isn't a confidence booster.”

“It's weird to feel like you miss someone you're not even sure you know.”

“We all have this moment, when your folks first see you as someone not growing up to be them.”

“Love & Marriage are about work & Compromise. They're about seeing someone for what he is, being disappointed and deciding to stick around anyway. They're about commitment and comfort, not some kind of sudden, hysterical recognition.”

“Crying is right at hand in the smothering dark, closed inside someone else, when you see how everything you can ever accomplish will end up as trash.”

“Reading is escape, and the opposite of escape; it's a way to make contact with reality after a day of making things up, and it's a way of making contact with someone else's imagination after a day that's all too real.”

“It's always funny until someone gets hurt.

Then it's just hilarious.”

“I think we're made up of all these different pieces and every time someone goes, you're left with less of yourself.”

“The more someone assures you that everything is okay, the more you can be assured that it's not.”

“The horror of knowing someone and living with them and even thinking you're lucky and then wham and now you know that every person is really two people and how can you ever know what the other half is up to.”

“I know you don't want to hear this but someone has to say it! You are out of control! I mean they're just shoes… let it go!”

“The cream-tiled walls were spattered here and there with old dried bloodstains, deep gouges that might have been clawmarks, and all kinds of graffiti. As usual, someone had spelt Cthulhu wrongly.”

“Trusting someone was like holding a little water in your cupped hands - it was so easy to spill the water, and you could never get it back.”

“Lydia: Strange how you always remember the pain someone gave you, but seldom the hurt you caused them.”

“I'm getting really tired of bleeding. Someone stop the world, I want to get off.”

“Every time I think that it’s not worth it – that the people in it deserve the misery of their lives – I come across someone who makes me rethink that.”

“We are not created equal in talent. But the place where we are least equal is the heart. You can work at a talent, take lessons, but love, love either works or it doesn't. You love someone or you don't. You can't change it. You can't undo it.”

“This is love, she thought, isn't it? When you notice someone's absence and hate that absence more than anything? More, even, than you love his presence?”

“I would have, had someone not detonated their charges prematurely. (Nykyrian)
Yeah, Cruel. You have to watch that premature detonation problem of yours. (Hauk)”

“This is what those who haven’t crossed the tropic of grief often fail to understand: the fact that someone is dead may mean that they are not alive, but doesn’t mean that they do not exist.”

“All my life I've thought I needed someone to complete me, now I know I need to belong to myself.”

“It's always very pure, that last moment before an ugly, unsettling truth hits someone. The most stark of before-and-afters.”

“I think it's possible to realize you love someone as deeply as you know how to love and not end up spending the rest of your life with him.”

“I just don't know," I said, my voice sounding bumby, not like mine, "how do you help someone who doesn't want your help. What do you do when you can't do anything?”

“I had to decide what I was going to do, and what I was going to be.
I was standing there, waiting for someone to do something, till I realised the person I was waiting for was myself.”

“She warned me about Mr. Herondale, though, said he’d likely be rude to me, and familiar. She said I could be rude right back, that nobody would mind.”

“Someone ought to be rude to him. He’s rude enough to everyone else.”

“Apparently unaffected, she rose. "Yeah, you're probably right. I should be going." She feigned a yawn. "You've gotta head back to work and I've gotta head to jail. Big night for me. I'm planning to shiv someone for a bar of soap. --”

“Don't wait for someone to green light your project, build your own intersection.”

“If someone like you showed up to abduct me, I'd let you.”

“A socialist is just someone who is unable to get over his or her astonishment that most people who have lived and died have spent lives of wretched, fruitless, unremitting toil.”

“Suddenly it was too hard to be in his presence, too painful to know that he would belong to someone else.”

“How could you love someone and not want them to be happy?”

“Long before you knew what death was you were wishing it on someone else.”

“So plant your own gardens and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.”

“Okay, if this is what falling in love feels like, someone please kill me now. (Not literally, overzealous
readers.) But it was all too much—too much emotion, too much happiness, too much longing, perhaps
too much ice cream…”

“That is like throwing two virgins into a bed. Enthusiasm, passion, and ignorance are not a good combination. Someone is likely to get hurt.”

“We’re going jogging.”
“I don’t run for recreation. I run when someone’s after me with a weapon.”
“That can be arranged”

“The greatest thing is to have someone who loves you and—and to love in return.”

“Despereaux," she whispered.
And then she shouted it, "Despereaux!"
Reader, nothing is sweeter in this sad world than the sound of someone you love calling your name.
Nothing.”

“And try to remember what we discussed, Susannah. A mediator is someone who helps others resolve conflicts. Not someone who, er, kicks them in the face.”

“What would you give someone who likes to play the piano?”
“A piano.”
“Simon.”
“A really huge metronome that could also double as a weapon?”

“Even mocking people helped their face stats. In the reputation economy, the only real way to hurt anyone was to ignore them completely. And it was pretty hard to ignore someone who made your blood boil.”

“I've learned that if you wait long enough, you might get a second chance at something you gave up on. And sometimes you'll be the one to give the second chance to someone else.”

“I wonder if the conversations you've never had with someone count, if you've been over them a thousand times in your mind.”

“In medieval times, if someone displayed the symptoms we now identify as boredom, that person was thought to be committing something called, a 'dangerous form of spiritual alienation' -- a devaluing of the world and its creator.”

“Withhold a smile only when the smile can hurt someone. Otherwise, let it bloom forth in a riot.”

“Only a weak person needed someone else around all the time.”

“There’s no use saying anything in the schoolyard because there’s always someone with an answer and there’s nothing you can do but punch them in the nose and if you were to punch everyone who has an answer you’d be punching morning noon and night.”