“The older I get, the more I realize how rare it is to meet a kindred spirit.”— Ethan Hawke, Jesse, amazon.com
“You realize that most of the people that you meet are trying to get somewhere better, they're trying to make a little bit more cash, trying to get a little more respect, have more people admire them. It's just exhausting.”— Ethan Hawke, Jesse, amazon.com
“I like people too much or not at all. I've got to go down deep, to fall into people, to really know them.”— Sylvia Plath, amazon.com
“I love people. Everybody. I love them, I think, as a stamp collector loves his collection. Every story, every incident, every bit of conversation is raw material for me.”— Sylvia Plath, amazon.com
“How can you separate those things though? The people are the place is the people.”— John Green, amazon.com
“You know your problem, Quentin? You keep expecting people not to be themselves.”— John Green, amazon.com
“Maybe its like you said before, all of us being cracked open. Like each of us starts out as a watertight vessel. And then things happen - these people leave us, or don’t love us, or don’t get us, or we don’t get them, and we lose and fail and hurt one another. And the vessel starts to crack in place…”— John Green, amazon.com
“It is easy to forget how full the world is of people, full to bursting, and each of them imaginable and consistently misimagined.”— John Green, amazon.com
“Shitty people will say and do shitty things, and the best thing you can do is ignore it.”— Maya Kachroo-Levine, thoughtcatalog.com
“We always try to interpret things in accordance with what we want and not as they are.”— Paulo Coelho, amazon.com
“Understand what is going on inside you and you will understand what is going on inside everyone else.”— Paulo Coelho, amazon.com
“Figuring out who people are takes time. And it takes twice as much time if they're trying to impress you.”— Doris Egan, Dr. Gregory House, Hugh Laurie, amazon.com
“People don't get what they deserve. They just get what they get. There's nothing any of us can do about it.”— Thomas L. Moran, Dr. Gregory House, Hugh Laurie, amazon.com
“We were the people who were not in the papers. We lived in the blank white spaces at the edges of print. It gave us more freedom. We lived in the gaps between the stories.”— Margaret Atwood, amazon.com
“People, I have discovered, are layers and layers of secrets. You believe you know them, that you understand them, but their motives are always hidden from you, buried in their own hearts. You will never know them, but sometimes you decide to trust them.”— Veronica Roth, amazon.com
“It would require constant vigilance to not replace each person with my own fictional version of them.”— Miranda July, amazon.com
“I don't believe in psychology; which says everything you do is because of yourself. That is so untrue. We are social animals, and everything we do is because of other people, because we love them, or because we don't.”— Miranda July, amazon.com