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“If you want to control someone, all you have to do is to make them feel afraid.”

Paulo Coelho book The Devil and Miss Prym

Variant: Fear again. If you want to control someone, all you have to do is to make them feel afraid.
Source: The Devil and Miss Prym

Feeling

“Being a teenager and figuring out who you are is hard enough without someone attacking you”

Ellen DeGeneres (1958) American stand-up comedian, television host, and actress

“My idea of an interesting person is someone who is quite proud of their seemingly abnormal life and turns their disadvantage into a career.”

John Waters (1946) American filmmaker, actor, comedian and writer

Source: Shock Value: A Tasteful Book About Bad Taste

Life, Idea, Personality

“Someone has to stand still for you to love them. My choices are always on the run.”

Carrie Fisher book The Princess Diarist

Source: The Princess Diarist

Love

“That time we separated was my idea. I thought, well, I'm fifty years old and there might be someone else out there. People waste their happiness - that's what makes me sad. Everyone's so scared to be happy.”

Wally Lamb book She's Come Undone

Source: She's Come Undone

People, Sadness, Idea, Time

“If no one is home, then someone is missing. So you grieve.”

Wally Lamb (1950) american novelist

Home

“With my mom, when someone was gone, they were gone. She didn't waste another minute thinking about them, and neither should you.”

Sarah Dessen Lock and Key

Source: Lock and Key

Moms, Thinking

“All right, then, her first rule for the rest of her days: no more looking outside for definitions. She might not have any clue who she was, but better to be lost and searching than shoved into a social box by someone else.”

Jessica Bird book Lover Revealed

Source: Lover Revealed

Search, Box

“The truth is that I hate to think about other people reading my books," Miranda said. "It's like watching someone go through the box of private stuff that I keep under my bed.”

Madeleine L'Engle book A Wrinkle in Time

Source: A Wrinkle in Time

Hate, People, Truth, Books

“Unusual financial activity: none, unless you count the fact that someone in the family is way too into Civil War biographies. (Can this be a possible indication of Confederate insurgents still living and working in Virginia? Must research further.)”

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

War, Family, Way

“I would rather have had someone shoot me in the head with a nail gun, repeatedly, than have to watch the two of them cuddling on the couch together all night. --Conrad”

Jenny Han (1980) American writer

Source: We'll Always Have Summer

Night

“… nothing in the world is harder than convincing someone of an unfamiliar truth.”

Patrick Rothfuss book The Wise Man's Fear

Source: The Wise Man's Fear

Truth, World

“sometimes you have to get to know someone really well to realize you're really strangers”

Mary Tyler Moore (1936–2017) American actress, television producer

“See, records have helped me to fall in love, no question. I hear something new, with a chord change that melts my guts, and before I know it I’m looking for someone, and before I know it I’ve
found her.”

Nick Hornby book High Fidelity

Source: High Fidelity

Love, Question, Change, Help

“That someone can want something out of another person who gives absolutely nothing in return astounds me.”

Melina Marchetta book On the Jellicoe Road

Source: On the Jellicoe Road

Personality

“There is no better audience for someone in love than someone in love.”

Emily Giffin Something Borrowed

Source: Something Borrowed

Love

“A galaxy is composed of gas and dust and stars - billions upon billions of stars. Every star may be a sun to someone.”

Carl Sagan book Cosmos

Source: Cosmos

Star, Sun

“I would rather have someone read my diary than look at my iPod playlists.”

Mindy Kaling book Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?

Source: Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?

Reading

“We learn to make a shell for ourselves when we are young and then spend the rest of our lives hoping for someone to reach inside and touch us. Just touch us—anything more than that would be too much for us to bear.”

Bill Russell (1934) American professional basketball player and coach

Hope, Learning

“Alone-sex didn't count. It's like the difference between thinking to yourself or having a good conversation with someone----the pleasure is in the exchange."

-Liberty Jones”

Lisa Kleypas (1964) American writer

Source: Sugar Daddy

Pleasure, Sex, Thinking

“Bullshit is unavoidable whenever circumstance require someone to talk without knowing what he is talking about.”

Harry G. Frankfurt book On Bullshit

Source: On Bullshit

“But when you started dating someone, you could never be sure what you were getting into. You had to give someone a chance to show you who he really was… and believe him when he did.”

Lisa Kleypas (1964) American writer

Source: Blue-Eyed Devil

Chance

“Six hundred and forty fish later, the only thing I know is everything you love will die. The first time you meet someone special, you can count on them one day being dead and in the ground.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Survivor

Source: Survivor

Love, Fish, Time, Dead

“Storms, woman,” [Kaladin] said. “I don’t know what to make of you.”
“Preferably not a corpse.”
“I’m surprised someone hasn't already done that.”

Brandon Sanderson book Words of Radiance

Source: Words of Radiance

“The contents of someone's bookcase are part of his history, like an ancestral portrait.”

Anatole Broyard (1920–1990) American literary critic

‘About Books, Recoiling, Rereading, Retelling’, New York Times, February 22, 1987.

History, Parting

“Who are you, anyway?
-Just someone who knows, from personal experience, how attractive it can be to think you can save somebody else by loving them.”

Jeffrey Eugenides book The Marriage Plot

Source: The Marriage Plot

Love, Thinking, Personality

“After all, you’re only an immortal until someone manages to kill you. After that, you were just long-lived.”

Simon R. Green (1955) British writer

Source: The Bride Wore Black Leather

“It's terrible to have to depend on someone else.”

Jeff Lindsay book Dearly Devoted Dexter

Source: Dearly Devoted Dexter

Dependency

“I told them," he said in a clear, carrying voice, "that they should not give someone as old and powerful as I a daughter to love. That it would end badly.”

Patricia Briggs book Fair Game

Source: Fair Game

Love, Daughters

“All any of us wanted, really, was to know that we counted. That someone else's life would not have been as rich without us here.”

Jodi Picoult book Handle With Care

Source: Handle with Care

Life

“If you're going to hold someone down you're going to have to hold on by the other end of the chain. You are confined by your own repression.”

Toni Morrison (1931–2019) American writer

“I just wish that God or my parents or Sam or my sister or someone would just tell me what's wrong with me. Just tell me how to be different in a way that makes sense. To make this all go away.”

Stephen Chbosky book The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Source: The Perks of Being a Wallflower

God, Way, Parent, Sense

“Every day you're alive and someone loves you is a miracle.”

Rita Mae Brown (1944) Novelist, poet, screenwriter, activist

Love

“In the beginning, I was put off by the harshness of German. Someone would order a piece of cake, and it sounded as if it were an actual order, like, "Cut the cake and lie facedown in that ditch between the cobbler and the little girl."”

David Sedaris book Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls

I'm guessing this comes from having watched too many Second World War movies.

Essay, "Easy, tiger". p.80
Source: Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls (2013)

Lie, Girl

“I decided not to answer on the grounds that I might piss someone off.”

Laurell K. Hamilton book The Laughing Corpse

Source: The Laughing Corpse

“When someone asks you, A penny for your thoughts, and you put your two cents in, what happens to the other penny?”

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

“If you zoom close-if you get really close to someone, if you really get close to yourself-then you lose the other person, you lose yourself entirely. You get so close you can't see anything anymore.”

David Levithan book Every You, Every Me

Source: Every You, Every Me

Personality

“You can no more make someone tell the truth than you can force someone to love you.”

Philip Roth book Portnoy's Complaint

Source: Portnoy's Complaint

Love, Truth

“Maybe instead of stalking her, you should go out with someone else."

He sighed. "You don't think I've tried? How can anyone compare? You might not believe this, but there is no one like Ageline at this school.”

Richelle Mead book The Fiery Heart

Source: The Fiery Heart

School, Thinking

“As my father always used to tell me, 'You see, son, there's always someone in the world worse off than you.' And I always used to think, 'So?”

Bill Bryson (1951) American author

Source: The Lost Continent: Travels in Small Town America

World, Thinking

“The most basic way to get someone's attention is this: Break a pattern.”

Chip Heath (1963) American writer

Source: Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die

Way

“To not do what you can to protect someone, that's cowardly.”

Jodi Lynn Anderson American children's writer

Source: Tiger Lily

“Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else's.”

Billy Wilder (1906–2002) American filmmaker

“Your heart, the compassionate part of you, knows that it’s impossible to feel better at the expense of someone else.”

Richard Carlson (1961–2006) Author, psychotherapist and motivational speaker

Source: Don't Sweat the Small Stuff ... and it's all small stuff: Simple Ways to Keep the Little Things from Taking Over Your Life

Feeling, Heart, Parting

“Really-nothing is unforgivable if you truly love someone.”

Emily Giffin book Where We Belong

Source: Where We Belong

Love

“Here stands a girl clutching a knife. There is grease on the stove, blood in the air, and angry words piled in the corners. We are trained not to see it, not to see any of it…. Someone just ripped off my eyelids.”

Laurie Halse Anderson Wintergirls

Source: Wintergirls

Girl, Training

“Show me someone without an ego, and I'll show you a loser.”

Donald J. Trump (1946) 45th President of the United States of America

“Look!" said Foaly, pointing with some urgency into the vast steel-gray gloom, "Someone who cares!”

Eoin Colfer (1965) Irish author of children's books

Source: The Atlantis Complex

“Surface beauty: blond hair, blue eyes" - she was looking at me - "is always easy to recognize. But if someone is braver, stronger, smarter, that's harder to see." - Kendra Hilferty”

Alex Flinn book Beastly

Source: Beastly

Beauty

“Every instinct in me wants to text someone OMG, I've lost my phone! but how can I do that without a bloody phone?”

Sophie Kinsella book I've Got Your Number

Source: I've Got Your Number

“I thought you needed to be tougher. But I've been thinking that protecting somebody by hurting them before someone else gets the chance isn't the kind of protecting that anybody wants.”

Holly Black book Doll Bones

Source: Doll Bones

Thinking, Chance, Hurt

“One day, tens of millions of years from now, someone will find me rusted into the mud of a world they have never seen, and when they crumble me between their fingers, it will be you they find.”

Jeanette Winterson (1959) English writer

World

“This is love, to sit with someone you've known forever in a place you've been meaning to go, and watching as their life happens to them until you stand up and it's time to go.”

Daniel Handler book Adverbs

Source: Adverbs

Love, Life, Time

“I want someone to pinch me so I can feel something, anything. I'm sick of this numbness, of feeling so alone and outside of everything, but I know it's too dangerous to wake up."

—Ruth Mendenberg”

Carol Matas book After the War

Source: After the War

Feeling

“If you don't want to be in an argument with someone, it is probably best to try to solve the problem, rather than lying around hoping the other person will do it for you.”

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 Boy Book: A Study of Habits and Behaviors, Plus Techniques for Taming Them

Hope, Lying, Problem, Personality

“When someone breaks up with you, their beauty-- which you took such satisfaction in-- suddenly becomes unfair.”

David Levithan (1972) American author and editor

Source: Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist

Beauty

“When I meet someone I like being with more than I like being alone, I'll marry her.”

Emily Giffin (1972) American writer

“An artist is someone who can hold two opposing viewpoints and still remain fully functional.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940) American novelist and screenwriter

“The bottom line is, insults only hurt when they come from someone I respect.”

Kresley Cole American writer

Hurt

“More than anything, all I have ever wanted is to be close to someone. More than anything, all I have ever wanted is to feel as if I wasn't alone.”

James Frey book A Million Little Pieces

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Source: A Million Little Pieces (2003)

Feeling

“Trust. It is like placing a blade in someone's hand and setting the very point to your heart.”

Cassandra Clare The Bane Chronicles

Source: The Bane Chronicles

Heart

“I could make him mine. But I don't want him. I want someone else. It feels strange to have spent so much time wishing for something, for someone, and then one day, suddenly, to just stop.”

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

Source: To All the Boys I've Loved Before

Feeling, Time

“A writer once said that it is not time that changes man, nor knowledge; the only thing that can change someone's mind is love. What nonsense! The person who wrote that clearly knew only one side of the coin.”

Paulo Coelho (1947) Brazilian lyricist and novelist

Love, Knowledge, Change, Time

“… as if someone had thrown a hand grenade into the middle of a teddy bear orgy and the only survivors had had their fur blown off.”

Christopher Moore (1957) American writer of comic fantasy

Source: You Suck

“Where are you going?" he asked.

"To break someone's heart," I replied.”

Richelle Mead book Frostbite

Source: Frostbite

Heart

“And pity--people who inspire it in you are actually very powerful people. To get someone else to take care of you, to feel sorry for you--that takes a lot of strength, smarts, manipulation. Very powerful people.”

Deb Caletti (1963) American writer

Source: The Secret Life of Prince Charming

People, Feeling

“I wanted to know what happened when two people felt it. Would it divide the hurt in two, make it lighter to bear, the way feeling someone's joy seemed to double it?”

Sue Monk Kidd book The Secret Life of Bees

Source: The Secret Life of Bees

People, Way, Feeling, Joy

“Once you lose someone it is never exactly
the same person who comes back.”

Sharon Olds Satan Says

Source: Satan Says

Personality

“There are so many beautiful girls around that after a while you start looking for someone who can make you laugh”

Candace Bushnell book Sex and the City

Source: Sex and the City

Beauty, Girl

“You don't get to decide," she said, "where I go, or when."
"I know." His voice was ragged. "I've always known that about you. I don't know why I had to fall in love with someone who's more stubborn than I am.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Fallen Angels

Source: City of Fallen Angels

Love

“Hassan couldn't read a first-grade textbook but he'd read me plenty. That was a little unsettling but also sort of comfortable to have someone who always knew what you needed.”

Khaled Hosseini book The Kite Runner

Source: The Kite Runner

Reading

“Live by your own rules Move to your rhythm, instead of dancing to the beat of someone else’s drum Decide how you want to be treated Choose what you will or will not tolerate Leave if you don’t get what you want.”

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

Dance

“Imagine having a mother who worries that you read too much. The question is, what is it that's supposed to happen to people who read too much? How can you tell when someone's crossed the line.”

Helen Oyeyemi book Boy, Snow, Bird

Source: Boy, Snow, Bird

People, Imagination, Question, Reading

“My heart might be bruised, but it will recover and become capable of seeing beauty of life once more. It's happened before, it will happen again, I'm sure. When someone leaves, it's because someone else is about to arrive--I'll find love again.”

Paulo Coelho book The Zahir

Source: The Zahir

Love, Life, Beauty, Heart

“You never know when you might be seeing someone for the last time.”

Marilynne Robinson book Housekeeping

Source: Housekeeping

Time

“In the end, you have to choose whether or not to trust someone.”

Sophie Kinsella (1969) British writer

Source: Shopaholic & Baby

“A gentleman is someone who can play the accordion, but doesn't.”

Tom Waits (1949) American singer-songwriter and actor

“One of the most beautiful gifts in the world is the gift of encouragement. When someone encourages you, that person helps you over a threshold you might otherwise never have crossed on your own.”

John O'Donohue (1956–2008) Irish writer, priest and philosopher

Source: Eternal Echoes: Celtic Reflections on Our Yearning to Belong

World, Beauty, Help, Personality

“The scariest thing in the world is thinking someone you love is going to die.”

Jodi Picoult book Lone Wolf

Source: Lone Wolf

Love, World, Thinking

“It's hard to believe how much light you cand find in the darkness, when you have someone who loves you.”

Cassandra Clare (1973) American author

Source: Pale Kings and Princes

Love, Light

“Your tears do not wash away your sorrows. They feed someone else's joy. And that is why you must learn to swallow your own tears.”

Amy Tan The Joy Luck Club

Source: The Joy Luck Club

Tear, Learning, Joy

“Forgiveness is unlocking the door to set someone free and realising you were the prisoner!”

Max Lucado (1955) American clergyman and writer

Forgiveness

“Now I'd like someone to tell me there is no drama in real life!”

Alexandre Dumas book The Count of Monte Cristo

Source: The Count of Monte Cristo

Life

“And I am pretty sure that's the point of reading fiction -- so someone else can say in a way you never would have something you recognize immediately.”

Curtis Sittenfeld (1975) Novelist, short story writer

Way, Reading

“Observing someone without context amplifies the experience. The more we know, the less we are able to feel.”

Chuck Klosterman Eating the Dinosaur

Source: Eating the Dinosaur

Feeling

“It is the obvious which is so difficult to see most of the time. People say 'It's as plain as the nose on your face.' But how much of the nose on your face can you see, unless someone holds a mirror up to you?”

Isaac Asimov book I, Robot

Source: I, Robot

People, Time

“I'm looking for someone
to quench my thirst-for all eternity"
-Luna Maxwell”

Ellen Schreiber (1967) American writer

Source: Vampireville

“I wish there was someone I could have written to after that, someone I could have written to explain how awful it was to have someone touch you, then look at you properly and change his mind.”

Helen Oyeyemi (1984) British author

Source: Mr. Fox

Change

“You love someone, you've got to let something go.”

Mark Haddon book A Spot of Bother

Source: A Spot of Bother

Love

“She wanted nothing more than someone to miss, to touch, with whom to speak like a child, with whom to be a child.”

Jonathan Safran Foer book Everything Is Illuminated

Source: Everything Is Illuminated

“But the thing about a cry for help is that someone else needs to be around to hear it.”

David Levithan book Every Day

Source: Every Day

Help, Cry

“underneath all that denial, you're someone who's deeply, deeply nice.”

David Levithan book Will Grayson, Will Grayson

Source: Will Grayson, Will Grayson

“There are times when it will go so wrong that you will barely be alive, and times when you realise that being barely alive, on your own terms, is better than living a bloated half-life on someone else's terms.”

Jeanette Winterson (1959) English writer

Source: Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?

Life, Time

“And I could see his internal struggle become an all out war. "It wouldn't have made a difference. Not with Adrian involved," he said….. "I meant it. I won't be that guy Rose. I won't be that man that takes someone else's girlfriend.”

Richelle Mead book Last Sacrifice

Source: Last Sacrifice

War, Guy

“You can never really know someone completely. That’s why it’s the most terrifying thing in the world, really—taking someone on faith, hoping they’ll take you on faith too. It’s such a precarious balance, It’s a wonder we do it at all. And yet..”

Libba Bray (1964) American teen writer

World, Faith, Hope

“Someone ought to get Haymitch a drink.”

Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games

Source: The Hunger Games

Drink

“The surest way to keep a secret is to make someone think they already know the answer.”

Frank Herbert book Heretics of Dune

Source: Heretics of Dune

Secret, Way, Thinking

“When you truly start to care about someone you become vulnerable to all sorts of things.”

Neal Shusterman (1962) American novelist

Source: Bruiser

“Whatever you want, at any moment, someone else is getting it. Whatever you have, someone else is longing for.”

Laura Lippman (1959) Detective fiction writer

Source: The Most Dangerous Thing

“The idea that two is the ideal, and that one is only good as half of two. You are not a half, and you should never treat someone else like a half.”

David Levithan (1972) American author and editor

Source: Hold Me Closer: The Tiny Cooper Story

Idea

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