Persons Quotes - Page 13

• There come a few times in a person's life where there is a clear choice," Cadvan said. "The difference between one person and another is how they meet that choice.

  Alison Croggon

  Differences, Choices, Said

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• It is very seldom that a person loves anyone they cannot in some way envy.

  Truman Capote

  Envy, Way, Persons Love

  Truman Capote (2012). “Summer Crossing: A Novel”, p.98, Modern Library

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• The ability to hurt someone is usually in direct proportion to how much that person cares about you.

  Susan Mallery

  Hurt, Care, Proportion

  Susan Mallery (2012). “Almost Perfect”, p.53, Harlequin

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• Forgiveness means that I continually am willing to forgive the other person for not being God — for not fulfilling all my needs. I, too, must ask forgiveness for not being able to fulfill other people's needs. … The interesting thing is that when you can forgive people for not being God, then you can celebrate that they are a reflection of God.

  Henri Nouwen

  Mean, Reflection, People

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• I try to imagine keeping something like that a secret for my whole life. It would be like always wearing a mask over your face, which everyone believed was the real you. You would be the only person who knew it wasn't--and who knew that you could never take it off.

  Liz Kessler

  Real, Secret, Trying

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• Was it really so far-fetched to think that words had a way of shaping a person's whole life?

  Kami Garcia

  Thinking, Way, Whole Life

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• • People deserve a break. The stressed and unorganized person who doesn’t have the same priorities as you may be dealing with an autistic child, abusive spouse, fading parents, or cancer. Don’t judge people until you’ve walked a mile in their shoes. Give them a break instead.

  Guy Kawasaki

  Sympathy, Children, Cancer

  FaceBook post by Guy Kawasaki from Oct 30, 2015

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• Kittredge had obviously misjudged her, but he had learned that was the way with most people. The story was never the story, and it surprised you, how much another person could carry.

  Justin Cronin

  People, Stories, Way

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• Scolding must be very, very fun, otherwise children would be allowed to do it. It is not because children don’t have what it takes to scold. You need only three things, really. You need time, to think up scolding things to say. You need effort, to put these scolding things in a good order, so that the scolding can be more and more insulting to the person being scolded. And you need chutzpah, which is a word for the sort of show-offy courage it takes to stand in front of someone and give them a good scolding, particularly if they are exhausted and sore and not in the mood to hear it.

  Daniel Handler

  Children, Fun, Thinking

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• In the eulogy by the graveside, I told everyone how my sister and I used to sing to each other on our birthday. I told them that, when I thought of my sister, I could still hear her laughter, sense her optimism, and feel her faith. I told them that my sister was the kindest person I;ve ever known, and that the world was a sadder place without her in it. And finally, I told them to remember my sister with a smile, like I did, for even though she was being buried near my parents, the best parts of her would always stay alive, deep within our hearts.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Laughter, Heart, Optimism

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• I never know what to tell them. I mean, there's nothing you can say to make a person stop hurting. Half the time, I just feel like telling them the truth. I'd say that for 3 months, you're going to feel worse than you've ever felt and you cope as best you can. And that after 6 months, the pain isn't so bad, but it still hurts more than you think it will. And even after years, you still find yourself thinking about the person you lost and get sad about it. And you still miss them all the time.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Hurt, Pain, Mean

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• A person doesn't mourn forever.

  Junot Diaz

  Forever, Mourn

  Junot Diaz (2012). “This Is How You Lose Her”, p.41, Faber & Faber

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• I'm very judgmental person. It's one of my faults.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Faults, Judgmental, Judgmental Person

  Laurell K. Hamilton (2011). “Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Collection 1-5”, p.174, Penguin

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• He didn't believe in a God who sifted through prayers, answering some and ignoring others, no matter how unworthy or worthy a person might be. Instead, he preferred to believe in a God who bestowed all people with gifts and abilities and placed them in an imperfect world; only then was faith tested, only then could faith be earned.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Prayer, Believe, Imperfect World

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• A moral person is someone who accepts the consequences of their own morality, not those of others.

  Jo Nesbo

  Morality, Accepting, Consequence

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• Chrestomanci smiled and swept out of the room like a very long procession of one person.

  Diana Wynne Jones

  Long, Rooms, Procession

  Diana Wynne Jones (2013). “The Chrestomanci Series: Entire Collection”, p.32, HarperCollins UK

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• back turned, you don't have to look at what you've left behind. And the first person who turned their back on you can't watch you break down and cry.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Watches, Looks, Down And

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• Tea? Good God, no. It's mud. How the British ever built an empire drinking the filthy stuff is beyond me. And if we carry on drinking it, I've no doubt that the empire won't last much longer. No, a civilized person drinks coffee.

  Charlie Higson

  Drinking, Coffee, Doubt

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• I am not a morning person. Never have been - never want to be. As a matter of fact, I am vaguely distrustful of people who bound out of bed early like demented puppies. It's barbaric to wake up before 9:00 a.m.

  P. C. Cast

  Morning, People, Bed

  P.C. Cast (2009). “Divine by Choice”, p.75, LUNA

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• She was sad with an obscure sadness of which she had not the secret herself. There was in her whole person the stupor of a life ended but never commenced.

  Victor Hugo

  Sadness, Secret, Obscure

  Victor Hugo (1862). “Marius”, p.25

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• There is such a thing as looking through a person's eyes into the heart, and learning more of the height, and breadth, and depth of another's soul in one hour than it might take you a lifetime to discover, if he or she were not disposed to reveal it, or if you had not the sense to understand it.

  Anne Bronte

  Heart, Eye, Soul

  Anne Bronte (2016). “The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (Diversion Illustrated Classics)”, p.111, Diversion Books

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• It was so silly to try to define things by words. What did one person mean by infatuation or obsession and another mean by love. The whole thing couldn't be tidied away with neat little labels." - Lena Gray

  Maeve Binchy

  Silly, Mean, Trying

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• It's different when the person you love dies. There's an awful finality to death. But it is final. The end. And there's the funeral, family gatherings, grieving, all of those necessary rituals. And they help, believe me. When the object of your love just disappears, there's no way to deal with the grief and pain.

  Barbara Taylor Bradford

  Pain, Believe, Grief

  Barbara Taylor Bradford, Sue Monk Kidd (2001). “Of love and life: three novels selected and condensed by Reader's Digest”

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• The act of leaning in to kiss someone, or asking them, is fraught with the possibility of rejection, so the person least likely to get rejected should do the leaning in or the asking.

  John Green

  Kissing, Rejection, Asking

  John Green (2008). “An Abundance of Katherines”, p.75, Penguin

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• Like I've said before, so many times before, I'm not a good person, I'm not a hero. I'm a criminal, a liar, a cheat, a killer. It was them or me and I wanted to live.

  Alexander Gordon Smith

  Liars, Hero, Killers

  Alexander Gordon Smith (2010). “Escape from Furnace 2: Solitary”, p.132, Faber & Faber

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