Persons Quotes - Page 19

• the demons that make a person afraid are the hardest to cast out.

  Elizabeth George Speare

  Demon, Casts, Hardest

  Elizabeth George Speare (1961). “The bronze bow”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)

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• This feeling is not unlike the sinking in one's stomach when one is in an elevator that suddenly goes down, or when you are snug in your bed and your closet door suddenly creaks open to reveal the person who has been hiding there.

  Daniel Handler

  Doors, Feelings, Bed

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• On his face was an expression of absolute love. Melting, soul-touching, raw, unbridled love, the kind of person dies for, sacrifices and suffers for. It was the kind of love that a person would wait two hundred years to see fulfilled. It was True Love in its purest form.

  Jude Deveraux

  Sacrifice, Expression, Years

  Jude Deveraux (2013). “True Love”, p.354, Ballantine Books

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• Any decent person who knows what warfare is can never go into battle with a whole heart.

  Orson Scott Card

  Heart, Battle, Warfare

  Orson Scott Card (2010). “Ender's Game”, p.184, Macmillan

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• Annis had never been a people person, unless ‘people person’ was defined as a person who ate people.

  Derek Landy

  People, Defined

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• You seek a false comfort when you demand that I define myself for you with words. Words do not contain or define any person. A heart can, if it is willing.

  Robin Hobb

  Heart, Comfort, Demand

  Robin Hobb (2014). “The Tawny Man Trilogy 3-Book Bundle: Fool's Errand, Golden Fool, Fool's Fate”, p.1574, Del Rey

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• Each period had required me to be a slightly different person, and that was exhausting. I wondered if school had always felt this way and whether it was like this for everone.

  Gabrielle Zevin

  School, Different, Way

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• Fiction is like that, once it is released into the world: contagious, persistent. Like the contents of Pandora's box, a story that's freely given can't be contained anymore. It becomes infectious, spreading from the person who created it to the person who listens, and passes it on.

  Jodi Picoult

  Fiction, Stories, World

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• Boys do tell you how they really feel. I think you just have to be in the right place at the right time or maybe be the right person

  Kate Brian

  Boys, Thinking, Right Time

  Kate Brian (2008). “Megan Meade's Guide to the McGowan Boys”, p.156, Simon and Schuster

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• To put it kindly, I am a very talkative, social person. To put it less kindly, I’m a flibbertigibbet, which is what my frenemy Rainn Wilson calls me.

  Mindy Kaling

  Social, Wilson, Call Me

  Mindy Kaling (2011). “Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns)(Enhanced Edition)”, p.142, Crown/Archetype

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• What he did was wrong. He doesn't deserve your love. But he does deserve your forgiveness, because otherwise he will grow like a weed in your heart until it's choked and overrun. The only person who suffers, when you squirrel away all that hate, is you.

  Jodi Picoult

  Weed, Hate, Heart

  Jodi Picoult (2013). “The Storyteller”, p.451, Simon and Schuster

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• You must never forget it if that's an important memory to you. Especially when a person dies, he can only live in the memories of others.

  Gosho Aoyama

  Memories, Important, Never Forget

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• Deep down, she's a good person, Diana is," Caine said, and sighed. "Deep down, I'm not. But she is.

  Michael Grant

  Good Person, Diana, Said

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• It's not the easy things that let you get to know a person.

  David Levithan

  Easy, Easy Things, Knows

  David Levithan (2014). “How They Met and Other Stories”, p.45, Egmont UK

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• They say a man doesn't know himself until he faces death for the first time. . . I don't know about that. It seems to me that the person you are when you're about to die isn't as important as the person you are during the rest of your life. Why should a few moments matter more than an entire lifetime?

  Brandon Sanderson

  Men, Important, Rest Of Your Life

  Brandon Sanderson (2011). “Warbreaker”, p.238, Hachette UK

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• People are wonderful. I love individuals. I hate groups of people. I hate a group of people with a 'common purpose'. 'Cause pretty soon they have little hats. And armbands. And fight songs. And a list of people they're going to visit at 3am. So, I dislike and despise groups of people but I love individuals. Every person you look at; you can see the universe in their eyes, if you're really looking.

  George Carlin

  Song, Hate, Eye

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• I love you so much, so incredibly much," he went on, "and I forget when you're close to me, I forget who you are. I forget that you're Jem's. I'd have to be the worst sort of person to think what I'm thinking right now. But I am thinking it.

  Cassandra Clare

  Princess, Love You, Thinking

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• Don't judge from the outside. Like any beautiful rose has thorns... the more a person appears nice on the outside, the more you should doubt the inside.

  Gosho Aoyama

  Beautiful, Nice, Judging

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• I usually take a walk after breakfast, write for three hours, have lunch and read in the afternoon. Demons don’t like fresh air - they prefer it if you stay in bed with cold feet; for a person who is as chaotic as me, who struggles to be in control, it is an absolute necessity to follow these rules and routines. If I let myself go, nothing will get done.

  Ingmar Bergman

  Struggle, Writing, Air

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• Have you fallen in love with wrong person yet?

  Cassandra Clare

  Wrong Person, Fallen

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• If you've been fat, you will always feel and see the world as a fat person; you know how difficult it is... It's the same coming from a working-class background... it never leaves you.

  Caitlin Moran

  Class, World, Fats

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• A respectable person is invariably unrespectable within.

  Rajneesh

  Respectable

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• Bubba was the one person who wouldn’t even bat an eyelash that Nick was talking to an “imaginary” friend. Heck, he’d probably bring one of his own out to play, too. ~Nick

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Eyelashes, Talking, Play

  FaceBook post by Sherrilyn Kenyon from Apr 10, 2013

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• Every person is a possibility. The hopeless romantics feel it most acutely, but even for others, the only way to keep going is to see every person as a possibility.

  David Levithan

  Hopeless Romantic, Way, Possibility

  David Levithan (2013). “Every Day”, p.186, Egmont UK

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• I forgive you, but only because you said 'please.'" Smartass, I thought. Then I groaned at the instant chorus of "Please!" mixed with cries for release from Vlad's prisoners. No wonder he got so sick of the word. "I'm only merciful to one person a day," he threw over his shoulder. "As the saying goes, today isn't your day and tomorrow doesn't look good, either.

  Jeaniene Frost

  Sick, Forgiving, Looks

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