Persons Quotes - Page 17

• 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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• Somehow the killing of the giant spider, all alone by himself in the dark without the help of the wizard or the dwarves or of anyone else, made a great difference to Mr. Baggins. He felt a different person, and much fiercer and bolder in spite of an empty stomach, as he wiped his sword on the grass and put it back into its sheath.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Dark, Dwarves, Differences

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Hobbit”, p.63, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• My mom once told me that a good relationship isn't where the other person makes you feel better, but where they make *you* better.

  Brian K. Vaughan

  Mom, Feel Better, Good Relationship

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• Loneliness and solitude are two different things. When you are lonely, it is easy to delude yourself into believing that you are on the right path. Solitude is better for us, as it means being alone without feeling lonely. But eventually it is best to find a person, the person who will be your mirror. Remember, only in another person's heart can you truly see yourself and the presence of God within you.

  Elif Safak

  Lonely, Loneliness, Believe

  "The Forty Rules of Love". Book by Elif Safak, March 2009.

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• Some of the freckles I once loved are now closer to liver spots. But it’s still the eyes we look at, isn’t it? That’s where we found the other person, and find them still.

  Julian Barnes

  Eye, Bored, Looks

  Julian Barnes (2011). “The Sense of an Ending”, p.74, Random House

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• If I had been a different sort of person, maybe less impressionable, less intense, less fearful, less utterly dependent upon the perceptions of others - maybe then I would not have bought the cultural party line that thinness is the be-all and end-all of goals. Maybe if my family had not been in utter chaos most of the time, maybe if my parents were a little better at dealing with their own lives maybe if I'd gotten help sooner, or if I'd gotten different help, maybe if I didn't so fiercely cherish my secret, or if I were not such a good liar, or were not quite so empty inside... maybe.

  Marya Hornbacher

  Liars, Party, Goal

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• The private experience that you perceive forms your world, period. But which world do you inhabit? For if you altered your private sensations of reality, then that world, seemingly the only one, would also change. You do go through transformations of beliefs all the time, and your perception of the world is different. You seem to be, no longer, the person you that you were. You are quite correct — you are not the person that you were, and your world has changed, and not just symbolically.

  Jane Roberts

  Reality, Perception, World

  Jane Roberts (2011). “The Nature of Personal Reality (A Seth Book): Specific, Practical Techniques for Solving Everyday Problems and Enriching the Life You Know”, p.350, Amber-Allen Publishing

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• There were two kinds of students who liked the library: those who devoured one book after another and those who savored the same book repeatedly. Now she understood those rereaders differently ... she realized it was not the rereading that led to fresh insights. It was the rereader-- because when a person is changing inside, there are inevitably new things to see.

  Rachel Simon

  Book, Two, Library

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• I think that most people go to bookshops and have no idea what they want to buy. Somehow the books sit there, almost magically willing people to pick them up. The right person for the right book. Its as though they know whose life they need to be a part of, how they can make a difference, how they can teach a lesson, put a smile on a face at just the right time.

  Cecelia Ahern

  Book, Thinking, Ideas

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• For the eternity that Lux Lisbon looked at him, Trip Fontaine looked back, and the love he felt at that moment, truer than all subsequent loves because it never had to survive real life, still plagued him, even now in the desert, with his looks and health wasted. 'You never know what'll set the memory off,' he told us. 'A baby's face. A bell on a cat's collar. Anything.' They didn't exchange a single word. But in the weeks that followed, Trip spent his days wandering the halls, hoping for Lux to appear, the most naked person with clothes on he had ever seen.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Baby, Memories, Real

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• Neither a person entirely broken nor one entirely whole can speak. In sorrow, pretend to be fearless. In happiness, tremble.

  Jane Hirshfield

  Broken, Fearless, Sorrow

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• As long as you remember the person who loved you, and whom you still love, then you're making love endure.

  Guillaume Musso

  Long, Making Love, Remember

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• There is a blessing in losing the one we love. It's the blessing of self-transformation. You don't have to who you were anymore. You've struggled. And now you can change. It doesn't mean that bits of that person won't cling to you, they will throughout your life, but they are now subsumed into something greater. That person has given you, in fact, the most important blessing, which is they gave you the blessing of transforming your soul into something better, something more beautiful.

  Emma Forrest

  Beautiful, Mean, Blessing

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• It's often said that a traumatic experience early in life marks a person forever, pulls her out of line, saying, "Stay there. Don't move.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Moving, Forever, Lines

  Jeffrey Eugenides (2003). “Middlesex”, p.424, A&C Black

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• It's important to be aware of how we treat others. Even though someone appears to shrug off a sideways comment or to not be affected by a rumor, it's impossible to know everything else going on in that person's life, how we might be adding to his/her pain. People do have an impact on the lives of others; that's undeniable.

  Jay Asher

  Pain, Impact, People

  Jay Asher (2011). “Thirteen Reasons Why”, p.298, Penguin

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• There are several kinds of love. One is a selfish, mean, grasping, egotistical thing which uses love for self-importance. This is the ugly and crippling kind. The other is an outpouring of everything good in you — of kindness and consideration and respect — not only the social respect of manners but the greater respect which is recognition of another person as unique and valuable. The first kind can make you sick and small and weak but the second can release in you strength, and courage and goodness and even wisdom you didn’t know you had.

  John Steinbeck

  Kindness, Selfish, Mean

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• I know I'm bitter and a little jaded, and mildly enjoy it, but am I a sad person? Am I happy? I plan on being happy in the future for sure, but it isn't here yet. So what does that make me, exactly?

  Chris Colfer

  Doe, Sad Person, Littles

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• You were one person, and you changed the world.

  Mitch Albom

  World, You Changed, Changed

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• Every driven person comes from a mountain of pain they wish to keep hidden.

  Chris Colfer

  Pain, Wish, Mountain

  Chris Colfer (2012). “The Land of Stories: The Wishing Spell”, p.180, Hachette UK

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• Cheerfulness is a sign of a generous and mortified person who forgetting all things, even herself, tries to please her God in all she does for souls. Cheerfulness is often a cloak which hides a life of sacrifice and a continual union with God.

  Mother Teresa

  Sacrifice, Soul, Trying

  Brian Kolodiejchuk, Mother Teresa (2012). “Mother Teresa: Come Be My Light: The revealing private writings of the Nobel Peace Prize winner”, p.33, Random House

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• I'm remembering how this works. How life doesn't have to be only anxiety about what's gone wrong or could go worng, and complaints about the world around you. How a person you're excited about can remind you there's stuff going on beyond... routine oil changes and homework. Stuff that matters. Stuff to look forward to.

  Sara Zarr

  Oil, Anxiety, Routine

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• A person's looking for a simple truth to live by, there it is. CHOICE. To refuse to passively accept what we've been handed by nature or society, but to choose for ourselves. CHOICE. That's the difference between emptiness and substance, between a life actually lived and a wimpy shadow cast on an office wall.

  Tom Robbins

  Wall, Simple, Differences

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Still Life with Woodpecker”, p.241, Bantam

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• You can tell a lot about a person not just by their successes, but by how they deal with their setbacks

  Sarah Mlynowski

  Deals, Setback

  Sarah Mlynowski (2011). “Ten Things We Did (and Probably Shouldn't Have)”, p.25, Harper Collins

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• You are inexperienced. So was I, once. So is every man. The measure of a person is not how much they have lived. . . It's in how they make us of what life has shown them.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Men, Every Man

  Brandon Sanderson (2011). “The Alloy of Law: A Mistborn Novel”, p.246, Macmillan

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• Marie clasped her hands together and looked vulnerable. Payne flinched. “The only time you don’t tell me something is when you think it’s dangerous, because being a fragile, sheltered noblewoman, I might faint at the thought of experiencing physical harm like a common person.” She sighed, and seemingly from nowhere, produced an enormous cast-iron frying pan easily one hundred centimeters in diameter. “And then,” she said sadly, “I have to damage one of the good pans by smacking it against your thick, common skull until you tell me—

  Phil Foglio

  Thinking, Hands, Iron

  Phil Foglio, Kaja Foglio (2012). “Agatha H. and the Clockwork Princess: A Girl Genius Novel”, p.218, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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