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.”

Source: Reckless

“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.”

Lisa Kleypas (1964) American writer

Source: Tempt Me at Twilight

Love, Truth, Light, Personality

“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.”

Gillian Flynn book Gone Girl

Source: Gone Girl

Love

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

Groucho Marx (1890–1977) American comedian

Understanding

“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.”

Gail Carson Levine Ella Enchanted

Source: Ella Enchanted

Love, Life

“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.”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Infamous

Smile

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

Gabriel García Márquez (1927–2014) Colombian writer

Love

“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.”

Patricia Briggs book Frost Burned

Source: Frost Burned

People

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

H. Jackson Brown, Jr. (1940) American writer

Kiss

“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.”

Craig Ferguson (1962) Scottish-born American television host, stand-up comedian, writer, actor, director, author, producer and voice a…

Source: American on Purpose: The Improbable Adventures of an Unlikely Patriot

Life, Star, Support, Thinking

“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.”

Rachel Cohn (1968) American writer

Source: Naomi and Ely's No Kiss List

“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.”

Celeste Ng book Everything I Never Told You: A Novel

Source: Everything I Never Told You

Understanding

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

Jonathan Safran Foer book Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Love

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

Cory Doctorow Little Brother

Source: Little Brother

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

Lisa Kleypas (1964) American writer

Source: Then Came You

Despair

“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.”

Donna Tartt (1963) American writer

People, Books, Sadness, Travel

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

Toni Morrison (1931–2019) American writer

Freedom

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

Raymond E. Feist book Silverthorn

Source: Silverthorn

Sense

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

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Bad Moon Rising

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

Richard Siken (1967) American poet

Source: War of the Foxes

Change

“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.”

Haruki Murakami book South of the Border, West of the Sun

Source: South of the Border, West of the Sun

Way, Housing

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

Gabriel García Márquez (1927–2014) Colombian writer

Love, Sadness, Smile

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

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

Source: Seriously... I'm Kidding

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

Henry Rollins (1961) American singer-songwriter

Source: Solipsist

Feeling, Time

“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.”

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

People

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

Jodi Picoult book Handle With Care

Source: Handle with Care

Feeling

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

David Sedaris book Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim

Source: Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim

love, Love, Truth, Feeling

“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.”

Lisa Kleypas book Dreaming of You

Source: Dreaming of You

Kiss, Thinking

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

Maria Dahvana Headley (1977) American writer

Source: Magonia

Time, Animals

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

Chris Wooding (1977) British children's writer

Source: The Iron Jackal

Cheating, Personality

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

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Infinity

Sense, Dead

“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.”

Melina Marchetta book On the Jellicoe Road

Source: On the Jellicoe Road

Life, Laughter, Joy, Summer

“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.”

Jenny Han book P.S. I Still Love You

Source: P.S. I Still Love You

People, Beauty, Thinking

“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.”

David Levithan book Will Grayson, Will Grayson

Source: Will Grayson, Will Grayson

“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.)”

Elizabeth Peters The Ape Who Guards the Balance

Source: The Ape Who Guards the Balance

Love, Men, Thinking

“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.”

Wally Lamb (1950) american novelist

Source: We Are Water

Love, Feeling

“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?”

Khaled Hosseini book The Kite Runner

Variant: When you kill a man, you steal a life. 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.
Source: The Kite Runner (2003)
Context: There is only one sin, only one. And that is theft. Every other sin is a variation of theft.... When you kill a man, you steal a life. 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.

Life, Children, Truth, Lie

“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.”

Robert Jordan The Wheel of Time

Source: The Gathering Storm

Game, Thinking, Fight

“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.”

Jodi Picoult book Second Glance

Source: Second Glance

People

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

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Born of Ice

Way, Hurt

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

Jodi Picoult book Nineteen Minutes

Source: Nineteen Minutes

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

Brandon Sanderson (1975) American fantasy writer

Source: The Well of Ascension

Faith

“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.”

Laurell K. Hamilton book Incubus Dreams

Source: Incubus Dreams

Fight, Night

“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.”

Jonathan Maberry book Dust & Decay

Source: Dust & Decay

People, Feeling, Help, Hurt

“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.”

Werner Herzog (1942) German film director, producer, screenwriter, actor and opera director

Source: Conquest of the Useless: Reflections from the Making of Fitzcarraldo

Dreams, Question

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

Dodie Smith book I Capture the Castle

Source: I Capture the Castle

Love, Suffering

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

Tom Clancy (1947–2013) American author

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.”

David Foster Wallace book The Pale King

Source: The Pale King

Light

“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.”

David Foster Wallace book Infinite Jest

Source: Infinite Jest

Dogs, Question, Night

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

Hugo Chávez (1954–2013) 48th President of Venezuela

Reading

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

Cassandra Clare (1973) American author

Source: The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel

Love, Feeling

“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.”

Robert Fulghum book All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten

Source: All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten

People, Books, Music, Flowers

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

Emily Giffin (1972) American writer

Source: Baby Proof

Love, Time, Personality

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

Sue Monk Kidd book The Secret Life of Bees

Source: The Secret Life of Bees

Hurt

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

Jonathan Maberry book Rot & Ruin

Source: Rot & Ruin

“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.”

Jodi Picoult My Sister's Keeper

Source: My Sister's Keeper

Love, Perfection

“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.”

Richelle Mead book The Indigo Spell

Source: The Indigo Spell

World, Personality

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

Sarah Dessen book Along for the Ride

Source: Along for the Ride

Dead

“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.”

Mitch Albom book The Five People You Meet in Heaven

Variant: Holding anger is a poison. It eats you from inside. We think that hating is a weapon that attacks the person who harmed us. But hatred is a curved blade. And the harm we do, we do to ourselves.
Source: The Five People You Meet in Heaven (2003)

Hate, Thinking, Hurt, Anger

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

Eileen Wilks (1952) fiction writer

Source: On the Prowl

People

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

Katherine Paterson book The Same Stuff as Stars

Source: The Same Stuff as Stars

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

George Carlin When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops?

Source: When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops?

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

Paulo Coelho book Eleven Minutes

Source: Eleven Minutes

Faith

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

Simone de Beauvoir (1908–1986) French writer, intellectual, existentialist philosopher, political activist, feminist, and social theorist

Source: The Woman Destroyed

Love, Hate

“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.”

L.J. Smith (1965) American author

Love, Cars, Understanding, Singing

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

Jamaica Kincaid Lucy

Source: Lucy

Love

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

Hotaru Odagiri Japanese mangaka and illustrator

World

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

Nicholas Sparks book The Guardian

Source: The Guardian

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

Charles Baudelaire book Le Spleen de Paris

IX: "Le Mauvais Vitrier" http://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Petits_Po%C3%A8mes_en_prose_-_IX._Le_Mauvais_Vitrier (fr) Mais qu'importe l'éternité de la damnation à qui a trouvé dans une seconde l'infini de la jouissance? Le spleen de Paris (1862) Variant: What matters an eternity of damnation to someone who has found in one second the infinity of joy? Source: Paris Spleen

“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.”

Diane Setterfield book The Thirteenth Tale

Source: The Thirteenth Tale

Children, Truth, Soul, Birth

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

Brenda Jackson (1953) American writer

Source: Perfect Timing

Problem, Thinking