When Someone Quotes
1299 quotes by 827 authors
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When someone needs help, you help. Right?
— Sarah Addison Allen
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it is a sad truth in life that when someone has lost a loved one, friends sometimes avoid the person, just when the presence of…
— Daniel Handler
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Fine...a word that you said when someone asked how you were but didn't really care to know the truth.
— Sarah Dessen
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In the time since the Baudelaire parents' death, most of the Baudelaire orphans' friends had fallen by the wayside, an expression wich here means "they…
— Daniel Handler
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Hey! Guy with scary eyes?" Madison called out. "You know what a moose does when someone insults her family?" Ivan raised his eyebrows. "She does…
— Rick Riordan
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When someone tells you something big, it's like you're taking money from them, and there's no way it will ever go back to being the…
— Banana Yoshimoto
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There's a cliff at the end point of a person's life; most us of peer over the edge of it, hanging on. That's why, when…
— Jodi Picoult
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when someone speaks he looks at a mouth, not eyes and their colors, which, it seems to him, will always alter depending on the light…
— Michael Ondaatje
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When someone breaks up with you, their beauty-- which you took such satisfaction in-- suddenly becomes unfair.
— David Levithan
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To hear people talk, you would think no one ever did anything but love each other. But when you look for it, when you search…
— Paul Murray
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I didn't expect a knife, though. Is it the one missing from the kitchen?" "Did Rand report it?" I felt betrayed. Why hadn't he just…
— Maria V. Snyder
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It is amazing that when someone else spouts the nonsense you yourself believe you can readily perceive it as nonsense
— Philip K. Dick
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When someone starts to change, and it’s obvious, it's sort of natural to wonder why. Right?
— Sarah Dessen
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They separate us into groups. The Ringleaders and the Others. I belong to the Ringleaders because my weak, pathetic, traitorous, fundamentally base peers point to…
— Melina Marchetta
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Tragedy is when someone ends up dead. Everything else is just a bump in the road. For the record, that was something Daddy used to…
— Gabrielle Zevin
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We had no one else to learn this from- none of our parents were shining examples of relationship success- so we learned this from each…
— Tana French
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When someone is trying very hard to get something, they don't. And when they're running away from something as hard as they can, it usually…
— Haruki Murakami
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Love is when someone puts you on a pedestal and yet when you fall, they're there to catch you anyway.' - Tara Daniels
— Jill Shalvis
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Because beyond their practical function, all gestures have a meaning that exceeds the intention of those who make them; when people in bathing suits fling…
— Milan Kundera
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But I always worked harder when I was up against something, or when someone assumed I couldn't succeed. That's what drove me, all those nights…
— Sarah Dessen
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