Quotes about someone

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“It really kind of sucked to be close to someone for so long and then suddenly not be anything anymore.”

“It was finally becoming clear to her that love wasn't about finding someone perfect to marry. Love was about seeing through to the truth of a person, and accepting all their shades of light and dark. Love was an ability.”

“but fact is, it’s been years since I even really liked
someone. So how likely is it I’ll meet someone I love, much less someone I love enough to marry? I’m tired of not knowing who I’ll be with, or if I’ll be
with anyone.”

“A child of five could understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five.”

“I wished she’d never stop squeezing me. I wished I could spend the rest of my life as a child, being slightly crushed by someone who loved me.”

“One word can give someone the strengththey needed at the moment or it can shred them down to nothing. A single smile can turn a bad moment good. And one wrong outburstcould be that tiny push that causes someone to slip over the edge of destruction.”

“Just because someone does not love you as you want, it does not mean that you do not love with all his being.”

“I was going to have to come up with a rank for myself besides Alpha's mate. In the pack, I was just Mercy- but if ten more people called me the Alpha's mate, I was going to hit someone. It sounded like a chess move.”

“If you kiss someone on the back of the neck, it spreads.”

“I think when you become a parent you go from being a star in the movie of your own life to the supporting player in the movie of someone else's.”

“We always see the worst in our selves. Our most volnerable selves. We need someone to get close enough to tell us that we're wrong. Someone we trust.”

“They never discussed it, but both came to understand it as a promise: he would always make sure there was a place for her. She would always be able to say, Someone is coming. I am not alone.”

“The paper, the stapler, the staples, the tape. It makes me sick. Physical things. Forty years of loving someone becomes staples and tape.”

“If you stare at someone long enough, they'll eventually look back at you.”

“Only someone who had experienced such bitter despair would be able to recognize it in another.”

“The first duty of the novelist is to entertain. It is a moral duty. People who read your books are sick, sad, traveling, in the hospital waiting room while someone is dying. Books are written by the alone for the alone.”

“The function of freedom is to free someone else.”

“A hero is someone who simply got too frightened to use his good sense and run away, then somehow lived through it all.”

“Aimee-"If someone's possessed by a demon, how do you get the demon out?"
Xedrix-"Call a priest.”

“How much can you change and get away with it, before you turn into someone else, before it's some kind of murder?”

“Once thing goes wrong, then the whole house of cards collapses. And there's no way you can extricate yourself. Until someone comes along to drag you out.”

“Never stop smiling not even when you're sad, someone might fall in love with your smile.”

“Haiku sounds like I'm
Saying hi to someone named
Ku. Hi, Ku. Hello.”

“The times I have tried to get close to someone resulted in me feeling threatened and weak.”

“The very existence of flamethrowers proves that sometime, somewhere, someone said to themselves, 'You know, I want to set those people over there on fire, but I’m just not close enough to get the job done.”

“Doing the right thing for someone else occasionally means doing something that feels wrong to you.”

“Real love amounts to withholding the truth, even when you're offered the perfect opportunity to hurt someone's feelings”

“I think you'll have to marry me, Miss Fielding."

"To save your reputation?"

Derek grinned, bending to kiss the flash of pale throat revealed by the robe. "Someone has to make a respectable man of me.”

“Because every time someone finds a new animal, or a new amazing thing on earth, it means we haven't broken everything yet.”

“If there was one thing worse than being cheated, it was being cheated by someone who referred to themselves in the third person.”

“But this…this kid wasn’t dead yet. Makes no sense to me. (Bubba)
Maybe someone spiked his Wheaties? (Nick)”

“And life goes on, which seems kind of strange and cruel when you're watching someone die. But there's a joy and an abundance of everything, like information and laughter and summer weather and so many stories.”

“I’ve heard people say that the more you like someone, the more you think they are beautiful even if you didn’t think so in the beginning.”

“i wish i were someone else, even though i know i'll never, ever be able to get away from what i've done and what's been done to me.”

“I don't think she realized how much she cared for him, or he for her, until the end. Hasn't someone said a woman may be known by the men who love her enough to die for her? (If they haven't, I claim the credit myself.)”

“Maybe that's what love is. Having someone who guides you through different experiences, coaxes you to try news things but still makes you feel safe.”

“When you kill a man, you steal a life," Baba said. "You steal his wife's right to a husband, rob his children of a father. When you tell a lie, you steal someone's right to the truth. When you cheat, you steal the right to fairness. Do you see?”

“How do you fight someone smarter than yourself?" Rand whispered. "The anser is simple. You make her think that you are sitting down across the table from her, ready to play her game. Then you punch her in the face as hard as you can.”

“Heroes were ordinary people who knew that even if their own lives were impossibly knotted, they could untangle someone else's. And maybe that one act could lead someone to rescue you right back.”

“Move or die. (Quills)
Never give someone a choice that doesn’t leave them with any way out except to hurt you. (Devyn)”

“Something still exists as long as there's someone around to remember it.”

“Do not deride someone's faith simply because you do not share it, Lord Cladent," Sazed said quietly.”

“Sometimes you fight what you are, and sometimes you give in to it. And some nights you just don’t want to fight yourself anymore, so you pick someone else to fight.”

“Sometimes people say terrible things when they're scared. They don't mean to, but they can't help it. They lash out because if they can see that their words hurt someone else, it makes them feel as if they aren't completely powerless.”

“But the question that everyone wanted answered was whether I would have the nerve and the strength to start the whole process from scratch. I said yes; otherwise I would be someone who had no dream left, and without dreams I would not want to live.”

“Perhaps watching someone you love suffer can teach you even more than suffering yourself can.”

“Remember, for every shot you fire, someone, somewhere, is making money.”

“For those who've never experienced a sunrise in the rural midwest, it's roughly as soft and romantic as someone's abruptly hitting the lights in a dark room.”

“Mario, what do you get when you cross an insomniac, an unwilling agnostic and a dyslexic?"

"I give."

"You get someone who stays up all night torturing himself mentally over the question of whether or not there's a dog.”

“I'm a reading addict. I can't live without it, like someone who is addicted to drugs.”

“It is better than going on loving someone who cannot love me back. Better wasting all that feelings"
-Tessa gray”

“There is nothing in your budget for joy. No books, no flowers, no music, not even a cold beer. And there is nothing in your budget to give away to someone else. We don’t help people who don’t have better values than you do.”

“Well, because sometimes you love someone but they might not be the right
person for you. That takes some time to figure out”

“It's something everybody wants-for someone to see the hurt done to them and set it down like it matters.”

“Closure isn't closure until someone's ready to close the door.”

“I hog the covers, and my second toe is longer than my big one. My hair has its own zip code… You don't love someone because they're perfect… You love them in spite of the fact that they're not.”

“There’s nothing wrong with wanting to be with someone,” I said diplomatically. Unless that person turns your world upside down and makes you lose all self-control.”

“This is a 911? You know you only text that when someone is dead or dying. You scared the crap out of me.”

“Holding anger is a poison… It eats you from inside… We think that by hating someone we hurt them… But hatred is a curved blade… and the harm we do to others… we also do to ourselves.”

“People always wanted someone to blame, didn't they?”

“You gotta know someone cares about you, or you just give up.”

“Whenever you hear the phrase zero tolerance, remember, someone is bullshitting you.”

“If I must be faithful to someone or something, I have, first of all, have to be faithful to myself.”

“It is so tiring to hate someone you love.”

“I told you. You don't love someone because of their looks or their clothes or their car. You love them because they sing a song only your heart can understand.”

“I wish that I could love someone so much that I would die from it.”

“In this totally dark world, you can't live unless you're needed by someone.”

“It was funny that you know someone for years but still discover something you never noticed before.”

“What can an eternity of damnation matter to someone who has felt, if only for a second, the infinity of delight?”

“All children mythologise their birth. It is a universal trait. You want to know someone? Heart, mind and soul? Ask him to tell you about when he was born. What you get won’t be the truth: it will be a story. And nothing is more telling than a story.”

“no matter how big you think your problems are, someone else's problems could always be bigger, which makes yours relatively small!”

“If friends disappoint you over and over, that's in large part your own fault. Once someone has shown a tendency to be self-centered, you need to recognize that and take care of yourself; people aren't going to change simply because you want them to.”

“Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.”

“The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.”

“There's a difference between living and just surviving. Do something you love, and find someone to love who loves that you love what you do.
It is really that simple.
And that hard.”

“We never know the quality of someone else's life, though we seldom resist the temptation to assume and pass judgement.”

“The power you have over someone who loves you is greater than any other power you'll ever have.”

“I realized that despite how entertaining certain stories were, at the bottom of every item of gossip there was someone getting hurt.”

“Figure out what is real for you. No use leaning on someone else's story all your life.”

“When I took the pills, I wanted to kill someone I hated. I didn't know that other Veronikas existed inside me, Veronikas that I could love.”

“But there is a different between mending someone who's broken and finding someone who makes you complete.”

“You’d drain someone dry for me?”

“Even if one is neither vain nor self-obsessed, it is so extraordinary to be oneself - exactly oneself and no one else - and so unique, that it seems natural that one should also be unique for someone else.”

“… the pain that comes from loving someone who's in trouble can be profound.”

“A flower may be beautiful all on its own, but a person is never truly beautiful unless someone's eyes show him that he is beautiful.”

“How I'd love to get away from here and be someone else for a while in a place where no one knows or expects certain things from me.”

“If someone can enjoy marching to music in rank and file, I can feel only contempt for him; he has received his large brain by mistake, a spinal cord would have been enough.”

“Terrorist', noun: 1. Someone my government tells me is a terrorist; 2. Someone my President decides to kill.”

“It's funny how someone's perception of you can be formed without you even knowing it.”

“You should be more careful. You could have broken your neck or as big as you are landed on someone and killed them. (Tory)”

“When you've never gotten love from someone, you don't know what it might look like if it ever does appear. You look for it in everything: any bright light overhead could be a star.”

“I was a fool! Loving someone who doesn't love you is hell! Don't ever let anyone convince you that you can be happy with someone who doesn't love you.”

“The good guys and bad guys aren’t as easy to tell apart as I used to think they were. You can’t look at someone with your eyes and take their measure.
You have to look with the heart.”

“When someone changes your world, that's when you know he's important to you.”

“Rosie: Marrying someone you don't love is not right.”

“It used to be about trying to do something. Now it's about trying to be someone.”

“Nefret had always had an uncanny ability to read his thoughts. 'Did she cry?' she asked sweetly. 'And then you kissed her? You shouldn't have done that. I'm sure you meant well, but kissing someone out of pity is always a mistake.”

“Just because someone isn’t willing or able to love us, it doesn’t mean that we are unlovable.”

“How wonderful it is to be able to write someone a letter! To feel like conveying your thoughts to a person, to sit at your desk and pick up a pen, to put your thoughts into words like this is truly marvelous.”