Persons Quotes - Page 20

• The person may have a scar, but it also means they have a story

  Jodi Picoult

  Mean, Stories, May

  Randy Susan Meyers, M. J. Rose, Ronlyn Domingue, Sarah Pekkanen, Jodi Picoult (2013). “Atria Book Club Bites: A Free Sampling of Ten Books Guaranteed to Feed Your Discussion”, p.20, Simon and Schuster

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• I had a lot of things I wanted to do... I want to be a teacher...I also want to be an astronaut...and also make my own cake shop...I want to go to the sweets bakery and say "I want one of everything", ohhhh I wish I could live life five times over...Then I'd be born in five different places, and I'd stuff myself with different food from around the world...I'd live five different lives with five different occupations...and then, for those five times...I'd fall in love with the same person.

  Tite Kubo

  Teacher, Sweet, Falling In Love

  "Bleach". Manga by Tite Kubo, 2001 - 2016.

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• When a person's last response was Saumensch or Saukerl or Arschloch, you knew you had them beaten.

  Markus Zusak

  Lasts, Response, Beaten

  Markus Zusak (2013). “The Book Thief: Enhanced Movie Tie-in Edition”, p.318, RH Childrens Books

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• If you’re the type of person who wants to associate exclusively with those who perfectly mirror your own ethical worldview, you’re reducing significantly the scope of your potential life experience.

  Chuck Klosterman

  Mirrors, Want, Life Experience

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• You're - psychotic. There's something wrong with you." "I know," Benteley agreed. "I'm a sick man. And the more I see, the sicker I get. I'm so sick I think everybody else is sick and I'm the only healthy person. That's pretty bad off, isn't it?

  Philip K. Dick

  Men, Thinking, Sick

  Philip K. Dick (2012). “Solar Lottery”, p.85, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• You couldn't be more wrong," I said. "You are buying into the cross-stitched sentiments of your parents' throw pillows. You're arguing that the fragile, rare thing is beautiful simply because it is fragile and rare. But that's a lie, and you know it." "You're a hard person to comfort," Augustus said. "Easy comfort isn't comforting," I said.

  John Green

  Beautiful, Lying, Parent

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.99, Penguin UK

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• You can blame your ugliness for keeping people at bay, when in reality you're crippled by the thought of letting another person close enough to popentially scar you even more deeply. You can tell yourself that it's safer to love someone who will never really love you back, because you can't lose someone you never had.

  Jodi Picoult

  Love You, Reality, People

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• How foolish to yearn to ask the very person who'd caused the pain to heal it

  Judith McNaught

  Pain, Foolish, Heal

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• "A name isn't a person." Ga said. "Don't ever remember someone by their name. To keep someone alive, you put them inside you, you put their face on your heart. Then, no matter where you are, they're always with you because they're a part of you."

  Adam Johnson

  Heart, Names, Alive

  "The Orphan Master's Son".

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• ...if you can think of meetings you've attended, you can probably recall a time - plenty of times - when the opinion of the most dynamic or talkative person prevailed to the detriment of all.

  Susan Cain

  Thinking, Opinion, Meetings

  Susan Cain (2012). “Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking”, p.50, Broadway Books

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• You learn a lot about a person when she saves your life, - Mecho

  David Baldacci

  David Baldacci (2012). “The Forgotten”, p.308, Pan Macmillan

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• Love transforms, Love heals. But sometimes it lays deadly traps and ends up destroying the person who decided to surrender himself completely.

  Paulo Coelho

  Sometimes, Surrender, Ends

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• Intelligence, goodness, humanity, excitement, serenity. Over time, these are the things that change the musculature of your face, as do laughter, and animation, and especially whatever peace you can broker with the person inside. It's furrow, pinch, and judgement that make us look older - our mothers were right. They said that if you made certain faces, they would stick, and they do. But our mothers forgot that faces of kindness and integrity stick as well.

  Anne Lamott

  Mother, Laughter, Kindness

  "Grace (Eventually): Thoughts on Faith". Book by Anne Lamott, 2007.

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• She moved from being a young woman into having the angular look of a queen, someone who has made her face with her desire to be a certain kind of person. He still likes that about her. Her smartness, the fact that she did not inherit that look or that beauty, but it was something searched for and that it will always reflect a present stage of her character.

  Michael Ondaatje

  Queens, Character, Desire

  Michael Ondaatje (1996). “The English Patient: A Novel”, Random House Inglaterra

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• What is more tragic than to see a person who has risen to the disciplined heights of tough-mindedness but has at the same time sunk to the passionless depths of hard-heartedness?

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Depth, Height

  Martin Luther King (Jr.) (2012). “A Gift of Love: Sermons from Strength to Love and Other Preachings”, p.6, Beacon Press

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• Jealousy has the amazing power to illuminate a single person in an intense beam of light, keeping the multitude of others in total darkness.

  Milan Kundera

  Light, Darkness, Intense

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• Today I acknowledge that I am not in position to judge what mistakes anyone is making or what lessons anyone needs to learn. I don’t know how far someone has come or when that person will have a breakthrough, I simply don’t know what other people should be doing. But when I think I do know, I clearly am not doing what I should be doing, which is taking responsibility for my own life.

  Hugh Prather

  Mistake, Responsibility, Thinking

  Hugh Prather (2001). “Love and Courage”, p.11, Conari Press

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• It was a catch-22: If you didn’t put the trauma behind you, you couldn’t move on. But if you did put the trauma behind you, you willingly gave up your claim to the person you were before it happened.

  Jodi Picoult

  Moving, Behind You, Claims

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #3: Vanishing Acts, The Tenth Circle, and Nineteen Minutes”, p.633, Simon and Schuster

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• That wasn't me. I'm not a morning person. There's another person inside of me that does all the morning things.

  N.D. Wilson

  Morning, Doe, Not A Morning Person

  N. D. Wilson (2011). “The Dragon's Tooth (Ashtown Burials #1)”, p.268, Random House Books for Young Readers

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• People want to believe that every marriage is perfect balance but it isn't. One person always loves more deeply than the other

  Nicholas Sparks

  Believe, People, Perfect

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• It is easier with the right person. A good test of a relationship is how well you both deal with challenges. If one person is more invested, it shows. If you're with the wrong person, it feels like too much work. But if you're unhappy more than you're happy, it's not the right relationship for you.

  Susane Colasanti

  Challenges, Unhappy, Tests

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• Even the most sensitive person can get used to even the most insensitive thing. Cruelty isn’t a personality trait. Cruelty is a habit.

  Rick Yancey

  Sensitive Person, Personality, Habit

  Rick Yancey (2013). “The 5th Wave”, p.132, Penguin

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• Just because a person chooses to express themselves in an extreme way doesn't mean they have an extreme personality.

  Susane Colasanti

  Mean, Personality, Way

  Susane Colasanti (2009). “Take Me There”, p.50, Penguin

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• Haven't you heard about me?" he said, with a tight smile. "I'm really a very dangerous person." And he did look dangerous until he said, "Look, could you watch Dog for me while I'm gone? I can't take him where I'm going.

  Cinda Williams Chima

  Dog, Watches, Looks

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• I try to be good but sometimes a person just has to break out and act like the wild and springy thing one used to be. It's impossible not to remember wild an want it back.

  Mary Oliver

  Trying, Break Out, Want

  Mary Oliver (2012). “A Thousand Mornings: Poems”, p.33, Penguin

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