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I used to be the sort of boy who had sand kicked in his face, now I'm the sort of boy who watches somebody else have it kicked in their face Sue Townsend
I'm not going to tell anybody, not even Lilly. Lilly would NOT understand. NOBODY would understand. Because nobody I know has ever been in this situation before. Nobody ever went to bed one night as one person and then woke up the next morning to find out that she was somebody completely different. Meg Cabot
You know, it's quite a job starting to love somebody. You have to have energy, generosity, blindness. There is even a moment, in the very beginning, when you have to jump across a precipice: if you think about it you don't do it. Jean-Paul Sartre
To be nobody but yourself in a world that's doing its best to make you somebody else, is to fight the hardest battle you are ever going to fight. Never stop fighting. E. E. Cummings
I can’t do nothing for you either, Billy. You know that. None of us can. You got to understand that as soon as a man goes to help somebody, he leaves himself wide open. He has to be cagey, Billy, you should know that as well as anyone. What could I do? I can’t fix your stuttering. I can’t wipe the razorblade scars off your wrists or the cigarette burns off the back of your hands. I can’t give you a new mother. And as far as the nurse riding you like this, rubbing your nose in your weakness... Ken Kesey
But somebody said there was billions bet on this. You'd think they'd be lined up three deep the whole way. And that there'd be TV coverage"It's discouraged."Why?"Why ask me?"Because you know," Garraty said, exasperated."How do you know?"Jesus, you remind me of the caterpillar in Alice in Wonderland, sometimes," Garraty said. "Don't you ever just talk? Stephen King
Frances Hodgson Burnett quote: "I don't know who it is," she said; "but somebody cares for me..."
I don't know who it is," she said; "but somebody cares for me a little. I have a friend. Frances Hodgson Burnett
We're all lonely for something we don't know we're lonely for. How else to explain the curious feeling that goes around feeling like missing somebody we've never even met? David Foster Wallace
Barbara Kingsolver quote: "I thought I wouldn't live through it. But you do. You learn..."
I thought I wouldn't live through it. But you do. You learn to love the place somebody leaves behind for you. Barbara Kingsolver
John Piper quote: "We weren't meant to be somebody--we were meant to know Somebody"
We weren't meant to be somebody--we were meant to know Somebody John Piper
Georg C. Lichtenberg quote: "It is almost impossible to carry the torch of truth through a..."
It is almost impossible to carry the torch of truth through a crowd without singeing somebody's beard. Georg C. Lichtenberg
So this is where the years of maturity deliver us - to this needy, selfish, unwieldy wish to be somebody else's first and primal other. Carol Shields
Harry Crews quote: "There ought to be a law against the sun rising and setting for..."
There ought to be a law against the sun rising and setting for you in somebody else. Harry Crews
Eddie Vedder quote: "i know someday you'll have a beautiful life. I know you'll be..."
i know someday you'll have a beautiful life. I know you'll be a sun in somebody else's sky. But why can't it be mine? Eddie Vedder
To me, poetry is somebody standing up, so to speak, and saying, with as little concealment as possible, what it is for him or her to be on earth at this moment Galway Kinnell

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