Persons Quotes - Page 18

• But at least this got Mouth thinking about how his loneliness wasn't unique. We all suffered. And I guess we all had good times too. Man - if every person who ever felt lonely killed himself, the world would be littered with corpses. And far lonelier.

  David Lubar

  Lonely, Loneliness, Unique

  David Lubar (2005). “Sleeping Freshmen Never Lie”, Dutton Childrens Books

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• I didn’t want the person standing there, beside the bed, to have the same face I’d found so attractive at the airport. But you were there all right: the blue eyes, blondish hair, and tiny scar. Only you didn’t look beautiful this time. Just evil.

  Lucy Christopher

  Beautiful, Eye, Airports

  Lucy Christopher (2014). “Stolen”, p.15, Scholastic Inc.

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• Somehow it seems wrong to photograph a blind person. It’s like stealing something valuable they don’t even know they own.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Blind, Stealing, Photograph

  Chuck Palahniuk (2015). “Make Something Up: Stories You Can't Unread”, p.99, Anchor

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• Long ago I realized that no other person would be to me what you are.

  Virginia Woolf

  Long Ago, Would Be, I Realized

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• The sand stretched out gray and ghostlike and illuminated, a column of light leading forward. It was like something a dead person would see, a tunnel leading toward heaven.

  Lucy Christopher

  Tunnels, Light, Heaven

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• Art is a person's private vision expressed in aesthetic forms.

  Chaim Potok

  Art, Vision, Form

  Chaim Potok (2009). “My Name Is Asher Lev”, p.316, Anchor

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• ...But the problem is, people tend to assign you the role of the person you are at your worst, you know?

  Jill Shalvis

  People, Roles, Problem

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• An infinite question is often destroyed by finite answers. To define everything is to annihilate much that gives us laughter and joy... If I try self-consciously to become a person, I will never be one. The most real people, those who are able to forget their selfish selves, who have true compassion, are usually the most distinct individuals

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Laughter, Selfish, Real

  "A Circle of Quiet (Crosswicks Journals, Book 1)". Book by Madeleine L'Engle (Section 1.10), 1972.

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• 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

  Self, World, Down And

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• It reminds me of how grandmother always had the right costume for me to wear. You wear the right outfit and you feel like the person you're pretending to be.

  John Boyne

  Grandmother, Costumes, Pretending

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• Nothing before you counts," he said. "And I can't even imagine an after." She shook her head. "Don't." "What?" "Don't talk about after." "I just meant that... I want to be the last person who ever kisses you, too.... That sounds bad, like a death threat or something. What I'm trying to say is, you're it. This is it for me.

  Rainbow Rowell

  Kissing, Trying, Sound

  Rainbow Rowell (2016). “The Rainbow Rowell Collection: Eleanor & Park, Fangirl, Landline, and Carry On”, p.213, St. Martin's Griffin

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• Even after all this time, I keep forgetting that heroes can be found in unlikely places and persons -- like mechanics who can turn into coyotes.

  Patricia Briggs

  Hero, Coyotes, Forget

  Patricia Briggs (2011). “The Mercy Thompson Collection”, p.436, Penguin

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• Maybe hope isn't the most dangerous thing a person can have. Maybe love is.

  Lauren DeStefano

  Love Is, Dangerous, Maybe Love

  Lauren DeStefano (2013). “Sever”, p.221, Simon and Schuster

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• I could have kisses like that for the rest of my life. Kisses that don't know who I am. Kisses that make me feel more and less than what I am. But my finger tap tap taps on my leg and reminds me that I am not who Adam thinks I am, and it makes me want to cry. It's not that I don't deserve his kiss. It's that the person I am can never really share a life, a soul, with the person he is.

  Kiersten White

  Kissing, Thinking, Who I Am

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• The nerves of the skin send pain signals to the brain to warn us of the danger from and impending injury. In the case of self-inflicted wounding, this pain acts as the body's own defense mechanism to stop one from proceeding in the effort at physical injury. If a person proceeds despite the pain, that means that he or she is motivated by something stronger than the pain, something that makes him or her capable of ignoring or enduring it.

  Steven Levenkron

  Pain, Mean, Self

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• I think of my life as a series of moments and I've found that the great moments often don't have too much to them. They're not huge, complicated events; they're just magical wee moments when somebody says 'I love you' or 'You're a really good at what you do' or simply 'You're a good person'.

  Billy Connolly

  Love You, Thinking, Simply You

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• Why would a person prefer the accusations of guilt, unworthiness, ineptitude — even dishonor and betrayal — to real possibility? This may not seem to be the choice, but it is: complete self-effacement, surrender to the “others,” disavowal of any personal dignity or freedom — on the one hand; and freedom and independence, movement away from the others, extrication of oneself from the binding links of family and social duties-on the other hand. This is the choice that the depressed person actually faces.

  Ernest Becker

  Betrayal, Real, Depressed Person

  "The Denial of Death".

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• criticism is dangerous, because it wounds a person's precious pride, hurt his sense of importace and arouse resentment.

  Dale Carnegie

  Hurt, Pride, Criticism

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• I don’t think anyone who falls in love has a choice. You’re just pulled to that person like true north, whether it’s good for you or bound to break your heart.

  Jodi Picoult

  Falling In Love, Heart, Thinking

  Jodi Picoult (2011). “Sing You Home: A Novel”, p.237, Simon and Schuster

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• I’m a screwed-up person who no longer knows how to communicate with the people I love. But I meant everything I told you in my letter. If I were your Nikki, I would have come back to you on Christmas Day, but I’m not Nikki. I know. And I’m sorry.

  Matthew Quick

  Sorry, People, Letters

  Matthew Quick (2010). “The Silver Linings Playbook: A Novel”, p.285, Macmillan

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• If you can't say something nice about a person, go ahead

  George Carlin

  Nice, Ifs

  George Carlin (2004). “When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops?”, Hyperion

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• There is no normal. I've never met a normal person. The concept is flawed. It implies that there is only one way people are supposed to be, and that can't possible be true. Human experience is far too varied.

  Maureen Johnson

  People, Way, Normal

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• Tessa is gone, and every moment she is gone is a knife ripping me apart from the inside. She is gone, and they cannot track her, and I have no idea where to go or what to do next, and the only person I can imagine speaking my agony to is the one person who cannot know.

  Cassandra Clare

  Knives, Agony, Ideas

  Cassandra Clare (2013). “The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess”, p.1128, Simon and Schuster

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• You’re the only person who really knows me. The only person I feel I truly know myself.” “Knowledge isn’t love,” I contradicted.

  Kiera Cass

  Feels, Know Me, Knows

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• But we can also ask for something we are much more likely to get, and that is to find a person or two, somewhere in our travels, who will tell us that we are noble enough, whether it is true or not. We can ask for someone who will say, “You are noble enough,” and remind us of our good qualities when we have forgotten them, or cast them into doubt.

  Daniel Handler

  Two, Doubt, Quality

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