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…”

Source: Beastly

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

Booker T. Washington (1856–1915) African-American educator, author, orator, and advisor

Inspirational, For Team, Motivational, Deep

“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”

Johanna Lindsey (1952–2019) American writer

Source: A Loving Scoundrel

Pleasure, Feeling, Confidence

“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.”

Lynsay Sands Canadian writer

Understanding

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

Eric Jerome Dickey (1961) American author

Source: Genevieve

Love

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

Paulo Coelho book The Alchemist

Variant: Your money saved us for three days. It's not often that money saves a person's life.
Source: The Alchemist (1988), p. 167

Life, Money

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

Ally Carter book Don't Judge a Girl by Her Cover

Source: Don't Judge a Girl by Her Cover

“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.”

Margaret Atwood book The Blind Assassin

Source: The Blind Assassin

Motivation, Heart

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

Amy Tan The Joy Luck Club

Source: The Joy Luck Club

Thinking

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

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Prince

Source: Clockwork Prince

Imagination, Happiness

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

Melissa Bank (1961) American writer

Forgiveness

“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.”

Nick Hornby Fever Pitch

Source: Fever Pitch

Love, Books, Feeling, Football

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

Michael Thomas Ford (1968) American writer

Source: Suicide Notes

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

Melina Marchetta Finnikin of the Rock

Source: Finnikin of the Rock

Understanding

“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.”

Jim Morrison (1943–1971) lead singer of The Doors

Feeling, Freedom

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

Paulo Coelho book Eleven Minutes

Source: Eleven Minutes

Feeling, Sense, Universe

“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.”

Gabrielle Zevin book Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac

Source: Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac

Feeling, Personality, Happiness

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

James Patterson (1947) American author

Source: Maximum Ride The Angel Experiment

“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.”

Helene Hanff book 84, Charing Cross Road

Source: 84, Charing Cross Road

Love, Sense, Reading

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

Brandon Sanderson book Words of Radiance

Source: Words of Radiance

Time

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

David Levithan book Every Day

Source: Every Day

Love

“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.”

Brad Meltzer book The Book of Lies

Source: The Book of Lies

Love, Life, Past, Future

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

Louise Penny book A Fatal Grace

Source: A Fatal Grace

Hurtful, Pain, Feeling

“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.”

Haruki Murakami book 1Q84

Source: 1Q84 (2009-2010)

Night

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

Nassim Nicholas Taleb book The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms

Source: The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms

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

Jodi Picoult book Handle With Care

Source: Handle with Care

“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.”

Jasper Fforde book The Eyre Affair

Source: The Eyre Affair

People, Thinking, Reality

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

Gregory David Roberts book Shantaram

Source: Shantaram

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”

Tite Kubo (1977) Japanese manga artist

Thinking, Waiting, Personality

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

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

Frances Hardinge book Fly by Night

Source: Fly by Night

People, Thinking

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

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Love, Help

“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.”

Ally Carter Cross My Heart and Hope to Spy

Source: Cross My Heart and Hope to Spy

Search, Game

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

Curtis Sittenfeld book Prep

Source: Prep

“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.”

Edwidge Danticat (1969) Novelist, short story writer, memoirist

Life, People, Reading, Parting

“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?”

E.M. Forster book Maurice

Source: Maurice

Death, Way, Happiness

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

Ally Carter book Heist Society

Source: Heist Society

“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.”

Nora Roberts (1950) American romance writer

Source: Born in Fire

“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.”

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

Source: To All the Boys I've Loved Before

Love

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

Libba Bray book The Diviners

Source: The Diviners

World

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

Scott Adams (1957) cartoonist, writer

Source: Dilbert's Guide to the Rest of Your Life: Dispatches from Cubicleland

Parting

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

Orson Scott Card book Ender's Game

Source: Ender's Game

God

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

Mitch Albom Tuesdays with Morrie

Source: Tuesdays with Morrie

People, Learning

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

Judy Blume (1938) American children's writer

Books, Fight

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

Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games

Source: The Hunger Games

Love

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

Jeanette Winterson book The Passion

Source: The Passion

Love, Sense, Chance

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

Ally Carter I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You

Source: I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You

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

Chuck Klosterman book Downtown Owl

Source: Downtown Owl

Love, Feeling

“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.”

Cheryl Strayed book Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar

Source: Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar

“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.”

Sara Zarr (1970) American children's writer

Source: How to Save a Life

Way

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

Margaret Mitchell book Vom Winde verweht (1937 German edition)

Variant: You should be kissed and by someone who knows how.
Source: Gone with the Wind

love, Relationship, Good Night, Cute

“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.”

Mike Gayle (1970) British author

Source: His 'N' Hers

Love

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

Cassandra Clare book City of Fallen Angels

Source: City of Fallen Angels

Confidence

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

David Foster Wallace book Infinite Jest

Source: Infinite Jest

Feeling

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

Chuck Palahniuk book Rant

Source: Rant

“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.”

Ayelet Waldman book Love and Other Impossible Pursuits

Source: Love and Other Impossible Pursuits

Love, Marriage, Disappointment

“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.”

Chuck Palahniuk Fight Club

Source: Fight Club

Cry

“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.”

Nora Ephron (1941–2012) Film director, author screenwriter

Way, Imagination, Reality, Reading

“It's always funny until someone gets hurt.

Then it's just hilarious.”

Bill Hicks (1961–1994) American comedian

Funny, Hurtful, Hurt

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

Melina Marchetta (1965) Australian teen writer

Source: Saving Francesca

Thinking, Time

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

Richard Paul Evans (1962) American writer

Source: The Walk

“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.”

Michelle Tea (1971) American writer

Source: The Passionate Mistakes and Intricate Corruption of One Girl in America

People, Thinking, Personality

“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!”

Gregory Maguire book Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

Source: Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

Shoe

“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.”

Simon R. Green (1955) British writer

Source: Something from the Nightside

“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.”

Ken Follett (1949) British novelist

Water

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

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: The Guardian

Pain, Hurt

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

Lilith Saintcrow (1976) American writer

Source: Night Shift

World

“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.”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Invincible

People, Thinking, Time

“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.”

Laurell K. Hamilton book A Lick of Frost

Source: A Lick of Frost

Love, Change, Heart

“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?”

Jonathan Safran Foer book Everything Is Illuminated

Source: Everything Is Illuminated

Love, Hate

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

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Born of the Night

Problem

“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.”

Julian Barnes (1946) English writer

Source: Levels of Life

Understanding, Dead

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

Sue Monk Kidd book The Mermaid Chair

Source: The Mermaid Chair

Life

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

Sarah Dessen book The Moon and More

Source: The Moon and More

Truth

“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.”

Robin Jones Gunn (1955) American writer

Source: As You Wish

Love, Life, Thinking

“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?”

Sarah Dessen Lock and Key

Source: Lock and Key

Help

“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.”

Markus Zusak (1975) Australian author

Source: Underdog

Waiting, Personality

“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.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Angel

Source: Clockwork Angel

“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. --”

Kresley Cole American writer

Source: Dreams of a Dark Warrior

Night

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

Tyler Perry (1966) American actor, director, screenwriter, playwright, producer, author, and songwriter

Light, Waiting

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

Richelle Mead book The Indigo Spell

Source: The Indigo Spell

“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.”

Terry Eagleton (1943) British writer, academic and educator

Source: Ideology: An Introduction

People

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

Julia Quinn (1970) American novelist

Source: The Viscount Who Loved Me

Pain

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

Laurell K. Hamilton book Danse Macabre

Source: Danse Macabre

Love, Happiness

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

Ray Bradbury book The Illustrated Man

Source: The Illustrated Man

Death

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

Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986) Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator, and a key figure in Spanish language literature

Soul, Flowers, Waiting

“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…”

James Patterson book Maximum Ride

Source: Max

Love, Feeling, Happiness

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

Patrick Rothfuss book The Wise Man's Fear

Source: The Wise Man's Fear

Passion, 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”

Karen Chance American writer

Source: Embrace the Night

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

Winston Graham (1908–2003) British writer

Source: Ross Poldark

Love

“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.”

Kate DiCamillo book The Tale of Despereaux

Source: The Tale of Despereaux

Love, World, Sadness

“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.”

Meg Cabot book Shadowland

Source: Shadowland

Help

“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?”

Cassandra Clare book City of Heavenly Fire

Source: City of Heavenly Fire

“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.”

Scott Westerfeld book Extras

Source: Extras

People, Way, Help, Hurt

“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.”

Wendy Mass (1967) American children's writer

Source: 13 Gifts

Learning, Chance, Waiting

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

Jodi Picoult book Lone Wolf

Source: Lone Wolf

Time

“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.”

Richard Louv (1949) American journalist

World, Time, Personality

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

Vera Nazarian (1966) American writer

Source: The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration

Hurtful, Cute, Smile, Hurt

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

Sarah Dessen Lock and Key

Source: Lock and Key

Time, Personality

“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.”

Frank McCourt book Angela's Ashes

Source: Angela's Ashes (1996)

Night

“To love someone means that you sometimes are fulfilled the most by putting thier deepest desires above your own.”

Terry Goodkind book Confessor

Source: Confessor

Love

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Quotes about someone
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