Quotes about someone

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

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

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

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

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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.)”

“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”

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

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

“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.”

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

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

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

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

“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.”

“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”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“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."”

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

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

“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?”

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

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

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

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

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

“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.”

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

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

“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”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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”

“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.”

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

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

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

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

“… 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.”

“Where are you going?" he asked.

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

“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.”

“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?”

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

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

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

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

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

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

“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?”

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

“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.”

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

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

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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..”

“Someone ought to get Haymitch a drink.”

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

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

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