Quotes about someone
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“That’s why girls have boyfriends. So you have someone to take you to boring functions.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Fallen Angels

Source: City of Fallen Angels

“Magnus, remember what happened the last time you tried to tango. Your shoe flew off and nearly killed someone."

"It was a metaphor. He's a Shadowhunter, he's a Lightwood, and he's into blonds. He's a dating hazard.”

Cassandra Clare (1973) American author

Source: The Course of True Love [and First Dates]

Shoe, Time

“With so much chaos, someone will do something stupid. And when they do, things will turn nasty”

Alan Moore V for Vendetta

Source: V for Vendetta

Stupidity

“Everyone performs bad actions… A bad person is someone who does not lament his bad actions.”

Jonathan Safran Foer book Everything Is Illuminated

Source: Everything Is Illuminated

Personality

“But every once in a while, from out of the blue, someone reaches the quiet place where you spend your private time and changes the way you see yourself”

Jessica Bird (1969) U.S. novelist

Source: Lover Avenged

Way, Change, Time

“There is nothing harder, at moments, than talking to someone who has all the power of silence.”

Elizabeth Kostova (1964) American writer

Silence

“I never thought… that someone liked me… not like a demon… not like a half-demon… not even like human… just like… just like me!" -Inuyasha”

Rumiko Takahashi (1957) manga artist

“Despite serious reservations, I had to forgive Finnick for his role in the conspiracy that landed me here. He, at least has some idea of what I'm going through. And it takes too much energy to stay angry with someone who cries so much.”

Suzanne Collins book Mockingjay

Source: Mockingjay

Idea, Forgiveness

“I wonder if it's possible to start a new relationship without hurting someone else. I wonder if it's possible to have happiness without it being at someone else's expense”

David Levithan Boy Meets Boy

Source: Boy Meets Boy

Hurt, Happiness

“That's how you know you really trust someone, I think; when you don't have to talk all the time to make sure they still like you or prove that you have interesting stuff to say.”

Sara Zarr book Story of a Girl

Source: Story of a Girl

Thinking, Time

“Who's that little brunette?" Suzanne asked. "I hate little petite types. Gregory doesn't look right with someone petite. Little face, little hands, little dainty feet."
"Big boobs," Beth said, glancing up.”

Elizabeth Chandler (1954) writer

Source: Kissed by an Angel/The Power of Love/Soulmates

Hate

“I wonder: If you think of someone you love, do you become a little more like them? I would like to think so.”

Gloria Steinem (1934) American feminist and journalist

Source: My Life on the Road

Love, Thinking

“Because if you stay true to yourself and live your life boldly, someday you might be able to meet someone who will want to eat takoyaki with you more than anyone else.”

Natsuki Takaya (1973) Manga artist

Source: Fruits Basket, Vol. 8

Life

“Someone once told me that explaining is an admission of failure.
I'm sure you remember, I was on the phone with you, sweetheart.”

Richard Siken (1967) American poet

Source: Crush

Failure

“They walked back into the world together, wearing the gift that had been given them: just life. Pity was not love, Barbie reflected… but if you were a child, giving clothes to someone who was naked had to be a step in the right direction.”

Stephen King book Under the Dome

Source: Under the Dome

Love, Life, World, Clothes

“If you love someone, you're not supposed to want them to come back. Better a peaceful sleep in the earth than the life of a zombie--not really dead but not really alive, either.”

Cassandra Clare (1973) American author

Source: Zombies Vs. Unicorns

Love, Life, Peace, Sleep

“ʺWe need someone to get the roomʹs attention,ʺ I said. ʺSomeone not afraid to make a spectacle—I mean, besides me, of course.ʺ”

Richelle Mead book Last Sacrifice

Source: Last Sacrifice

“When you meet someone who is truly great, he makes you believe you can be great, too. This is the kind of relationship you want, and it's the only kind of relationship worth having.”

Sherry Argov (1977) American writer

Source: Why Men Love Bitches: From Doormat to Dreamgirl—A Woman's Guide to Holding Her Own in a Relationship

“Shame is the lie someone told you about yourself.”

Anaïs Nin (1903–1977) writer of novels, short stories, and erotica

As quoted in Why Men Fall Out of Love : The Secrets They Don't Tell (2005) by Michael French, p. 142
Disputed

Lie

“Do not take the agenda that someone else has mapped out for your life.”

John C. Maxwell (1947) American author, speaker and pastor

Life

“It's fairly easy to break hearts, Miss Duvall. The more interesting challenge is how to keep someone's love, not to lose it.”

Lisa Kleypas (1964) American writer

Source: Someone to Watch Over Me

Love, Heart

“Never regret trusting someone. It proves you have a heart. But if he turns out to be a lying worm… I'm not going to waste my time crying. Because I am way too fabulous for that.”

Jude Watson book Beyond the Grave

Source: Beyond the Grave

Way, Lying, Time, Heart

“Because photos are testimony that someone did live. A reminder of past we may have loved or hated. A piece of our lives.”

Melina Marchetta book Looking for Alibrandi

Source: Looking for Alibrandi

Love, Hate, Photo, Past

“Sexy means loving someone you do not know.”

Jhumpa Lahiri book Interpreter of Maladies

Source: Interpreter of Maladies

Love

“I thought helping someone else might take me out of my own head for a while.”

Cammie McGovern

Source: Say What You Will

Help

“To belong to someone—I didn’t know it, but now that I think about, it seems like that’s all I’ve ever wanted. To really be somebody’s, and to have them be mine.”

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

Source: To All the Boys I've Loved Before

Thinking

“Long after you’ve forgotten someone’s voice, you can still remember the sound of their happiness or their sadness. You can feel it in your body.”

Anne Michaels (1958) Poet and novelist

Sadness, Feeling, Happiness

“I sometimes think the stronger you feel about someone, the harder it is to picture their face when you are away from them.”

Ann Brashares book Girls in Pants: The Third Summer of the Sisterhood

Source: Girls in Pants: The Third Summer of the Sisterhood

Feeling, Thinking

“You have someone in your life whom you honor and revere so much that every hurt on them is inflicted on you as well. And the closer they are to you, the greater the pain.”

Masashi Kishimoto (1974) Japanese manga artist

Life, Pain, Hurt

“I’d heard he had started a fistfight in one of the seedier local taverns because someone had insisted on saying the word “utilize” instead of “use.”

Patrick Rothfuss book The Wise Man's Fear

Source: The Wise Man's Fear

“Maybe they didn't want you to realize that every civilization has its weakness. There's always one thing we depend on. And if someone takes it away all that's left is some story in a history class.”

Scott Westerfeld book Uglies

Source: Uglies

History, Dependency

“Sarcasm is when you tell someone the truth by lying on purpose.”

Chuck Klosterman book Downtown Owl

Source: Downtown Owl

Truth, Lying

“Bright star,” Magnus said, and his eyes were thoughtful, as if he were remembering something, or someone. “Those of you who are mortal, you burn so fiercely. And you fiercer than most, Will. I will not ever forget you.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Princess

Source: Clockwork Princess

Star, Forgetting

“And this is my life, getting dumped with no warning. Or liking people who don't like me back, or who don't like me enough, or not as much as they like someone else.”

E. Lockhart (1967) American writer of novels as E. Lockhart (mainly for teenage girls) and of picture books under real name Emily J…

Source: The Boyfriend List: 15 Guys, 11 Shrink Appointments, 4 Ceramic Frogs and Me, Ruby Oliver

Life, People

“Because I cursed him to it. (Acheron)
Be glad I’m not physically there or I’d slap you upside the head. You know how free will works, so stop the whining and get off the cross. Someone needs the wood. (Savitar)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: One Silent Night

“To love someone was not what she had expected. It was like falling from somewhere high up and breaking in half, and only one person having the secret to the puzzle of putting her back together.”

Jodi Lynn Anderson American children's writer

Source: Tiger Lily

Love, Secret, Personality

“It was easier to be brave when someone needed your protection.”

Robert Jordan book The Eye of the World

Source: The Eye of the World

“I want to be first. I know that’s selfish, and maybe unattainable, and maybe shallow. But I just want to come first with someone. If that’s wrong of me, so be it. I’ll be wrong. But that’s the way I feel.” (Sookie Stackhouse)”

Charlaine Harris book From Dead to Worse

Source: From Dead to Worse

Way, Feeling, Selfishness

“No Last Meal for you guys, either. Guess we have that in common.” Someone bust out the pom-poms and cheer for the team. Yay.”

Jessica Bird (1969) U.S. novelist

Source: Lover Reborn

Guy

“I don't see how you can write anything of value if you don't offend someone.”

Marvin Harris (1927–2001) American anthropologist

“Someone please tell me that we’re not seriously having a friggin’ debate over the genius of ‘Karma Chameleon’ at seven o’clock in the morning? (Xypher)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Dream Chaser

“Rule of life. If you bother to ask someone’s advice, then bother to listen to it.”

Sophie Kinsella book The Secret Dreamworld of a Shopaholic

Source: Confessions of a Shopaholic

Life

“If, instead, you find yourself often pitying someone who consistently hurts you or other people, and who actively campaigns for your sympathy, the chances are close to 100 percent that you are dealing with a sociopath.”

Martha Stout (1953) American psychologist

Source: The Sociopath Next Door

People, Chance, Hurt

“Sometimes you cry, Susie, even when someone you love has been gone a long time.”

Alice Sebold book The Lovely Bones

Source: The Lovely Bones

Love, Time, Cry

“I am a time being. Do you know what a time being is? Well, if you give me a moment, I will tell you. A time being is someone who lives in time, and that means you, and me, and every one of us who is, or was, or ever will be.”

Ruth Ozeki book A Tale for the Time Being

Source: A Tale for the Time Being

Time

“It's much easier to get over someone if you can delude yourself into thinking you never really cared that much.”

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

Source: I Feel Bad about My Neck: And Other Thoughts on Being a Woman

Thinking

“What's the point in wasting a perfectly good brick wall when you have someone to throw against it, that's what I always say.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Fallen Angels

Source: City of Fallen Angels

“there was not much distinction between losing a friend and a lover: it was all about intimacy. One moment, you had someone to share your biggest triumph, and fatal flaws with; the next minute, you had to keep them bottled inside.”

Jodi Picoult book Handle With Care

Source: Handle with Care

Lovers

“Until we have seen someone's darkness, we don't really know who they are. Until we have forgiven someone's darkness, we don't really know what love is.”

Marianne Williamson (1952) American writer

Love

“Maybe there is hope in the fragments, that what is lost can always be filled in by someone who knows.”

David Levithan The Realm of Possibility

Source: The Realm of Possibility

Hope

“To whom could I put this question (with any hope of an answer)? Does being able to live without someone you loved mean you loved her less than you thought…?”

Roland Barthes (1915–1980) French philosopher, critic and literary theorist

Love, Hope, Question

“199. For to wish to forget how much you loved someone—and then, to actually forget—can feel, at times, like the slaughter of a beautiful bird who chose, by nothing short of grace, to make a habitat of your heart.”

Maggie Nelson (1973) American writer

Source: Bluets

Love, Beauty, Feeling, Bird

“But Paris was a very old city and we were young and nothing was simple there, not even poverty, nor sudden money, nor the moonlight, nor right and wrong nor the breathing of someone who lay beside you in the moonlight.”

Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961) American author and journalist

Source: A Moveable Feast: The Restored Edition

Money

“Share too much and someone can hurt you.”

Dorothy Koomson book My Best Friend's Girl

Source: My Best Friend's Girl

Hurt

“I think now that being free is not being powerful or rich or well regarded or without obligation but being able to love. To love someone else enough to forget about yourself even for one moment is to be free.”

Jeanette Winterson book The Passion

Source: The Passion

Love, Thinking, Forgetting

“Is it a crime when you love someone so much that you can't stand the thought of them changing? Is it a crime when you love someone so much that you can't see clearly?”

Jodi Picoult (1966) Author

Source: Vanishing Acts

Love, Change

“I keep warning and warning, and nobody seems willing to listen. One of these days someone is going to wake up to the fact that I'm serious when I say never to attack my sister without looking over your shoulder for me. (Rhoan)”

Keri Arthur Australian writer

Sister

“she told me she'd be a phoenix." The image of the mythical creature rising from the ashes glitters in my mind. "They don't really exist." "She said that depends on whether or not there's someone who can see them.”

Jodi Picoult My Sister's Keeper

Source: My Sister's Keeper

Dependency

“Sometimes I'm not nice for a reason. It's a way to find out what someone's made of.”

Lisa Kleypas (1964) American writer

Source: Blue-Eyed Devil

Way

“You can't find someone who doesn't want to be found.”

Isabel Allende book The House of the Spirits

Source: The House of the Spirits

“And he saw it in her eyes. Still. The belief that there could be someone other than herself. You, he wanted to shout. You. No one but you.”

Melina Marchetta (1965) Australian teen writer

Source: Froi of the Exiles

“I don't know why I had to fall in love with someone who's more stubborn than I am.”

Cassandra Clare (1973) American author

Love

“When life gives you lemons, squirt someone in the eye.”

Cathy Guisewite (1950) Cartoonist

Funny, Life

“When you insist someone submit to your will, it is accomplished most easily if you give them a small victory so they can retain their dignity while they do as you insist. ~ Kahlan Mother Confessor”

Terry Goodkind book Soul of the Fire

Source: Soul of the Fire

Victory

“I’ve been thinking I’d like to be Daisy; I’d like to have someone like Gatsby stare at my house for whole years and never stop dreaming of me”

Koren Zailckas (1980) American writer

Source: Smashed: Story of a Drunken Girlhood

Dreams, Thinking, Housing

“Liking someone doesn't make you weak.”

Sarah Mlynowski (1977) Novelist

Source: Ten Things We Did

“When your fear touches someone’s pain, it becomes pity, when your love touches someone’s pain, it become compassion.”

Stephen Levine (1937–2016) American poet and author

Love, Pain, Fear

“She didn't know how to love, to give herself to someone, to out herself in someone else's keeping and take him into hers. She didn't trust anyone with her heart - or the darker places of her soul.”

Christine Feehan American writer

Source: Turbulent Sea

Love, Soul, Heart

“I don't see any reason why I should look for someone who never took the trouble to love me.”

Paulo Coelho (1947) Brazilian lyricist and novelist

Love

“It's easier to floss with barbed wire than admit you like someone in middle school.”

Laurie Halse Anderson Speak

Source: Speak

School

“It is said that each time we embrace someone warmly, we gain an extra day of life. So please embrace me now.”

Paulo Coelho book Aleph

Variant: Each time we embrace someone warmly, we gain an extra day of life.
Source: Aleph

Life, Time

“And as ridiculous as it may sound, sometimes all any of us needs in life is for someone to hold our hand and walk next to us.”

James Frey book The Final Testament of the Holy Bible

Source: The Final Testament of the Holy Bible

Life

“Love is when someone puts you on a pedestal and yet when you fall, they're there to catch you anyway.' - Tara Daniels”

Jill Shalvis (1963) American writer

Source: The Sweetest Thing

Love

“When we meet someone and fall in love, we have a sense that the whole universe is on our side. And yet if something goes wrong, there is nothing left!”

Paulo Coelho book Eleven Minutes

Source: Eleven Minutes (2003), p. 9.
Context: When we meet someone and fall in love, we have a sense that the whole universe is on our side. And yet if something goes wrong, there is nothing left! How is it possible for the beauty that was there only minutes before to vanish so quickly? Life moves very fast. It rushes from heaven to hell in a matter of seconds.

Love, Sense, Universe

“Someone once told the Catholic writer Flannery O’Connor that it is more open-minded to think that the Blessed Sacrament of the Altar is a great, wonderful, powerful symbol.

Her response was, “If it’s only a symbol, to hell with it.”

Flannery O’Connor (1925–1964) American novelist, short story writer

Hell, Thinking

“Someone must have been telling lies about Joseph K., for without having done anything wrong he was arrested one fine morning.”

Franz Kafka book The Trial

First lines, Ch. 1
Variant translation: Somebody must have slandered Joseph K., for without having done anything wrong he was arrested one fine morning.
Source: The Trial (1920)
Context: Someone must have been telling lies about Joseph K., for without having done anything wrong he was arrested one fine morning. His landlady's cook, who always brought him his breakfast at eight o'clock, failed to appear on this occasion. That had never happened before.

“She shrugged. "You can be happy for someone else's good fortune, but that doesn't mean you forget your own bad luck.”

Jodi Picoult Plain Truth

Source: Plain Truth

Bad luck, Forgetting, Happiness

“I swear I've never met a man who has your knack for lack of social grace. If you weren't naturally charming, someone would have stabbed you by now.”

Patrick Rothfuss book The Wise Man's Fear

Source: The Wise Man's Fear

Nature

“a poet is someone who is abnormally fond of that precision which creates movement. Which is to say the highest form of concentration possible: fascination; to report on the electrifying experience of being”

E.E. Cummings (1894–1962) American poet

“My one regret in life is that I am not someone else.”

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

Life

“I've learned that every day you should reach out and touch someone.
People love a warm hug, or just a friendly pat on the back.”

Maya Angelou (1928–2014) American author and poet

Love, People, Learning

“The sweetest part of being a couple is sharing your life with someone else.
But my life, evidently, had not been good enough to share.”

Charlaine Harris book Club Dead

Source: Club Dead

Sad, Heartbreaking, Life, Parting

“When someone tells you a piece of their life, they’re giving you a gift, not granting you your due.”

Patrick Rothfuss book The Wise Man's Fear

Source: The Wise Man's Fear

Life

“Everything matters. Everything you do touches someone in some way, even though you might not understand that.”

Jennifer Ashley (1974) American author

Source: The Duke's Perfect Wife

Way, Understanding

“Maybe you expected marriage to be perfect - I guess that's where you and I are different. See, I thought it would be all about making mistakes, but doing it with someone who's there to remind you what you learned along the way.”

Jodi Picoult book Handle With Care

Source: Handle with Care

Marriage, Way, Learning, Perfection

“But people need lift, too. People don't get moving, they don't soar, they don't achieve great heights, without someone buoying them up.”

Elizabeth Wein book Rose Under Fire

Source: Rose Under Fire

People

“I once heard someone on a bus say that this guy had gotten under her skin. And it struck me as a remarkable thought - that someone would affect you so deeply they'd always be a part of you.”

Jodi Picoult (1966) Author

Source: Mercy

Guy, Parting

“I heard your song the moment we were born. And years later, it dragged me back from the lake of the half-dead when all I wanted to do was die. Each time someone tried to kill me, it sang its tune and gave me hope.”

Melina Marchetta (1965) Australian teen writer

Source: Froi of the Exiles

Hope, Time, Dead

“If someone's different from you and it scares you or makes you mad, that's God telling you to take a closer look. If you're scared or mad, that's about you, not about the person who scares you or angers you.”

Chris Crutcher book Deadline

Source: Deadline

God, Personality, Madness, Anger

“I often warn people: "Somewhere along the way, someone is going to tell you, 'There is no "I" in team.' What you should tell them is, 'Maybe not. But there is an "I" in independence, individuality and integrity.”

George Carlin (1937–2008) American stand-up comedian

People, Way

“Funny, that no matter where you are in the world, there's always someone eager to help you destroy yourself.”

James St. James (1966) American writer

Source: Party Monster: A Fabulous But True Tale of Murder in Clubland

World, Help

“When someone has been mean to you, why would you want to be good to them?' 'You wouldn't want to. That's what makes it hard. You do it anyway. Being good is hard. Much harder than being bad.”

Jeanne DuPrau The People of Sparks

Source: The People of Sparks

“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

Variant: Reader, nothing is sweeter in this sad world than the sound of someone you love calling your name. Nothing.
Source: The Tale of Despereaux (2004)

Love, World, Sadness