Persons Quotes - Page 24

• The minute we decide that one person doesn´t matter anymore, they´ve won.

  Rick Yancey

  That One Person, Matter, Minutes

  Rick Yancey (2013). “The 5th Wave”, p.386, Penguin

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• There were worse things to be than sexist. For example, you could be the sort of person who pinched your fingers together while using the words “teeny weeny.

  Liane Moriarty

  Together, Example, Sexist

  Liane Moriarty (2013). “The Husband's Secret”, p.13, Penguin UK

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• Most people prefer to think that their resentment is entirely the fault of the person they resent, and that twisted logic seems to make sense in their minds. But it makes no sense to me at all... But it's a popular point of view. Probably because it's so much easier. It relieves you of the burden of any and all self-examination. (Nathan to Nat)

  Catherine Ryan Hyde

  Thinking, Self, Views

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• But when you flee someone, no matter how far you roam, that person will follow you as doggedly as the stars.

  Marisha Pessl

  Stars, Matter

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• No innocent person ever has an alibi.

  Agatha Christie

  Innocent Person, Innocent

  Agatha Christie (1985). “Agatha Christie, five Miss Marple mysteries”

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• Yes, we could talk to you for days on end about all the bad first dates. Those are stories. Funny stories. Awkward stories. Stories we love to share, because by sharing them, we get something out of the hour or two we wasted on the wrong person. But that's all bad first dates are: short stories. Good first dates are more than short stories. They are first chapters. On a good first date, everything is springtime. And when a good first date becomes a relationship, the springtime lingers. Even after it's over, there can be springtime.

  David Levithan

  Two, Awkward, Stories

  David Levithan (2014). “Two Boys Kissing”, p.21, Egmont UK

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• Gene told me the next day that I got it wrong. But he was not in a taxi, after an evening of total sensory overload, with the most beautiful woman in the world. I believed I did well. I detected the trick question. I wanted Rosie to like me, and I remembered her passionate statement about men treating women as objects. She was testing to see if I saw her as an object or as a person. Obviously the correct answer was the latter. ‘I haven’t really noticed,’ I told the most beautiful woman in the world.

  Graeme Simsion

  Beautiful, Men, Next Day

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• The only path by which another person can upset you is through your own thought.

  Joseph Murphy

  Upset, Path, Subconscious Mind

  Joseph Murphy, General Press (2016). “The Power of Your Subconscious Mind”, p.122, GENERAL PRESS

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• Life has a way of taking its toll on the person you thought you were.

  A.S.A. Harrison

  Life, Tolls, Way

  A. S. A. Harrison (2013). “The Silent Wife: A Novel”, p.18, Penguin

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• But when we find that one person who completes us, we don't give up. No matter how bad we screw up. We make it right.

  Abbi Glines

  Giving Up, Don't Give Up, Screw Ups

  Abbi Glines (2016). “Sea Breeze Volume 2: Just for Now; Sometimes It Lasts; Misbehaving”, p.171, Simon and Schuster

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• As a child, Kate hat once asked her mother how she would know she was in love. Her mother had said she would know she was in love when she would be willing to give up chocolate forever to be with that person for even an hour. Kate, a dedicated and hopeless chocoholic, had decided right then that she would never fall in love. She had been sure that no male was worth such privation.

  Lynsay Sands

  Mother, Falling In Love, Children

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• It's not often real that you encounter the real person behind a good-natured mask, the darkest part of someone. It's not comfortable what you do.

  Veronica Roth

  Real, Encounters, Mask

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• Whenever you appreciate a certain thing you become conscious of its real quality, and whenever you become conscious of the quality of anything, you begin to develop that quality in yourself. When we appreciate the worth of a person, we tend to impress the idea of that worth in our own minds, and thereby cause the same effect to be produced, in a measure, in ourselves.

  Christian D. Larson

  Real, Ideas, Appreciate

  Christian D. Larson (2012). “The Optimist Creed”, p.416, Penguin

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• This book had two authors, and they were both the same person.

  Terry Pratchett

  Book, Two, Comical

  Terry Pratchett (2009). “The Carpet People”, p.11, Random House

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• You swore to stay with me,” he said. “When we made our oath, as parabatai. Our souls are knit. We are one person, James.” “We are two people,” said Jem. “Two people with a covenant between us.” Will knew he sounded like a child, but he could not help it. “A covenant that says you must not go where I cannot come with you.” “Until death,” Jem replied gently. “Those are the words of the oath. ‘Until aught but death part thee and me.’ Someday, Will, I will go where none can follow me, and I think it will be sooner rather than later.

  Cassandra Clare

  Children, Thinking, Two

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• It could kill you," Maura said. Then there was the awkward moment that arrives when two thirds of the people in the room know that the other third is supposed to die in fewer than nine months, and the person who is meant to die is not one of the ones in the know.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Two, People, Awkward

  Maggie Stiefvater (2013). “The Dream Thieves (The Raven Cycle, Book 2)”, p.93, Scholastic Inc.

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• I thought society would do the right thing. Now I look around and I think -- society never does the right thing. Sometimes people do the right thing. Sometimes one person makes a difference. But civilization has rules, and I've learned them well -- never be helpless, never be sick, never be poor.

  Christina Dodd

  Thinking, Civilization, Differences

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• I'm a good person," I said, "because I know what good people are supposed to act like, and I copy them.

  Dan Wells

  People, Good Person, Said

  Dan Wells (2010). “I Am Not A Serial Killer”, p.37, Macmillan

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• It would be easy to abuse a person when they never recognized it as abuse.

  Marissa Meyer

  Abuse, Would Be, Easy

  Marissa Meyer (2013). “Scarlet (The Lunar Chronicles Book 2)”, p.142, Penguin UK

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• By that point, it’ll have been more than year since I met Lulu. Any sane person would say it’s too late. It already felt too late that first day, when I woke up in the hospital. But even so, I’ve kept looking. I’m still looking.

  Gayle Forman

  Years, Too Late, Firsts

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• You must never believe everything they say about a person. Generally speaking, most of it will be lies, half-truths at best.

  Kate Atkinson

  Lying, Believe, Half

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• There was rarely an obvious branching point in a person's life. People changed slowly, over time. You didn't take on step, then find yourself in a completely new location. You first took a little step off a path to avoid some rocks. For a while, you walked alongside the path, but then you wandered out a little way to step on softer soil. Then you stopped paying attention as you drifted farther and farther away. Finally, you found yourself in the wrong city, wondering why the signs on the roadway hadn't led you better.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Rocks, Cities, People

  Brandon Sanderson (2016). “Arcanum Unbounded: The Cosmere Collection”, p.75, Macmillan

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• Lure him out. Send in a 'customer' with a message from me needing to meet him. I'm not the kind of person he can ignore-well, that he used to not-never mind. Once he's out, we can get him to a place we choose." I nodded. "I can do that." "No," said Dimitri. "You can't." "Why not?" I asked, wondering if he thought it was too dangerous for me. "Because they'll know you're a dhampir the instant they see you. They'll probably smell it first. No Strigoi would have a dhampir working for him-only humans." There was an uncomfortable silence in the car. "No!" said Sydney. "I am not doing that!

  Richelle Mead

  Smell, Car, Silence

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• You’d be surprised what a person can live with,” Dan said.

  Stephen King

  Said

  Stephen King (2014). “Doctor Sleep”, p.310, Simon and Schuster

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• This person had arrived, he had illuminated her, he had ensorcelled her with notions of miracle and beauty, he had both understood and misunderstood her, he had married her, he had broken her heart, he had looked upon her with those sad and hopeless eyes, he had accepted his banishment, and now he was gone. What a stark and stunning thing was life- that such a cataclysm can enter and depart so quickly, and leave such wreckage behind!

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Heart, Eye, Broken

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2013). “The Signature of All Things”, p.325, A&C Black

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