#per

There are times to stay put, and what you want will come to you, and there are times to go out into the world and find such a thing for yourself. ↗

— Lemony Snicket

#patience #perseverance #seeking #truth #life

It always shocked me when I realized that I wasn’t the only person in the world who thought and felt such strange and awful things. ↗

— John Green

#looking-for-alaska #person

But I didn't understand then. That I could hurt somebody so badly she would never recover. That a person can, just by living, damage another human being beyond repair. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#person

The best moments in reading are when you come across something - a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things - which you had thought special and particular to you. And now, here it is, set down by someone else, a person you have never met, someone even who is long dead. And it is as if a hand has come out, and taken yours ↗

— Alan Bennett

#history #reading #person

God alert!" Blackjack yelled. "It's the wine dude! Mr. D sighed in exasperation. "The next person, or horse, who calls me the 'wine dude' will end up in a bottle of Merlot! ↗

— Rick Riordan

#dionysus #percy-jackson #person

Speaking personally, you can have my gun, but you'll take my book when you pry my cold, dead fingers off of the binding. ↗

— Stephen King

#guns #person

I feel too much. That's what's going on.' 'Do you think one can feel too much? Or just feel in the wrong ways?' 'My insides don't match up with my outsides.' 'Do anyone's insides and outsides match up?' 'I don't know. I'm only me.' 'Maybe that's what a person's personality is: the difference between the inside and outside.' 'But it's worse for me.' 'I wonder if everyone thinks it's worse for him.' 'Probably. But it really is worse for me. ↗

— Jonathan Safran Foer

#differences #emotions #loneliness #people #personality

People think that a liar gains a victory over his victim. What I’ve learned is that a lie is an act of self-abdication, because one surrenders one’s reality to the person to whom one lies, making that person one’s master, condemning oneself from then on to faking the sort of reality that person’s view requires to be faked…The man who lies to the world, is the world’s slave from then on…There are no white lies, there is only the blackest of destruction, and a white lie is the blackest of all. ↗

— Ayn Rand

#rearden #slave #truth #victim #person

Some old wounds never truly heal, and bleed again at the slightest word. ↗

— George R.R. Martin

#pain #perfect #truthful #words

The reason it hurts so much to separate is because our souls are connected. ↗

— Nicholas Sparks

#sad #seperate #soul #sad