everyone Quotes

“When I first discovered the moon, he said, I gave it a different name. But everyone kept calling it the moon. The real name never caught on.”

“From now on, it is our task to suspect each and every one amongst us.”

″‘We all have fears,’ he said. ‘We all have fears.‘”

“Almost everybody in the world gets married,—you know what I mean? In our town there aren’t hardly any exceptions. Most everybody in the world climbs into their graves married.”

“‘We all bear scars, Dorian. Mine just happen to be more visible than most.’”

“I wanted what everyone wants. To be me, full-time.”

“She looks sad. She looks angry. She looks different from everyone else I know—she cannot put on that happy face others wear when they know they are being watched. She doesn’t put on a face for me, which makes me trust her somehow.”

“Everyone’s equal. Same chances of getting hit. Equal in the eyes of the rocket.”

“There was no real up-and-down structure, but merely a figure at the top and then everyone else scrambling for his attention. It wasn’t task-based so much as response-oriented—whatever captured the boss’s attention focused everybody’s attention.”

“Everyone wants happiness. No one wants pain. But you can have a rainbow without a little rain.”

″ In a culture of domination everyone is socialized to see violence as an acceptable means of social control. ”

“Everybody is identical in their secret unspoken belief that way deep down they are different from everyone else.”

“Everyone wanted to believe that endless love was possible. She’d believed in it once too, back when she was eighteen. But she knew that love was messy, just like life”

“The only thing worse than being hurt is everyone knowing that you’re hurt.”

“The urge to escape from selfhood and the environment is in almost everyone almost all the time.”

“Everyone has a story to tell. Everyone is a writer, some are written in the books and some are confined to hearts.”

“I am a drifter, and as lonely as that can be, it is also remarkably freeing. I will never define myself in terms of anyone else. I will never feel the pressure of peers or the burden of parental expectation. I can view everyone as pieces of a whole, and focus on the whole, not the pieces.”

When J.J.’s mother reveals that she wants more time for her birthday, J.J. decides to go and find some. A task, at first, that seems like an impossible undertaking for a fifteen-year-old. That is until a neighbor shows J.J. an unlikely place to look for everyone’s lost time.

Honor Brown hates, absolutely hates school. It’s horrible--there are monsters and petrifying teachers. The students are crooks and pirates and everyone is so mean! They throw them out of windows and make them walk on glass. It’s so, so horrible, but what happens when it’s over?

“But the next thing that I knew, I was following a Nowhere Hunch, a real dumb thing to do! Everybody sometimes does it. Even me. And even you. I followed him in circles till we wore the rug right through. ”

“At lunchtime in the school yard, to his friends he was still plain and ordinary, ‘Max’... Well, not quite ordinary. But then as Aaron said, ‘Everyone’s different in some way, aren’t they?’ ”

“Do you know what everyone calls me now? Bed and Breakfast. That’s what all the kids yell after me in the playground. Even the teachers do it.

Henry always felt out of step with the world around him. When everyone looked up, he looked down. If he thought it was going to be a sunny day, it usually rained.

“Everyone says Miss Nancy has lost her memory, and despite the fact that Wilfrid doesn’t even know what a memory is, by accident he helps her find it.”

“Now is the time to make justice a reality to all of God’s children.”

“Plum Pie in the sun, I spy... EVERYONE!”

Halinka’s attempts to stay strong and find some joy in her Spartan existence ring true. At first she stays aloof from everyone, keeping her thoughts and inside her head and sharing them only with her secret book and a beloved aunt whom she occasionally visits.

“Yet I could not help worrying. The thought of losing either of them was unbearable. If something bad happened on the cay, I wanted it to happen to all of us.”

“Everyone and everything moved much faster now than before. ”

“Nothing we do is ever done entirely alone. There is a part of us in everyone else—you, of all people, should know that.”

“She’ll be out there, right along of all the rest of us, a-lookin’ and a-watchin’.”

“Everyone is scared, some even leave the forest. Only one decides to take the approaching Monsoon Army head on.”

“Every one belongs to every one else, after all.”