Ann Aguirre People Quotations

Maybe I was just one of those people who couldn't rest easy unless things went catastrophically wrong.

Yet sometimes being a friend meant letting people do things that hurt, like putting distance between you, just because it made them happy.

The people I write are real to me, and basically, they tell me about their environments on a need-to-know basis.

People are capable of incredible gallantry and terrible cruelty in situations of extreme duress. I tried to showcase that range in 'Enclave.'

People need to believe they can make a difference - that one person standing strong can turn the tide.

Most people weren’t aware enough to fear the things that could really hurt them.

Is that love? It seems like a pale word, too easily tossed about by people who don’t know the meaning of it, who twist it for their own ends. I’m afraid of it now, right up there with clowns, close spaces, and open flames.

After people have gone, you forget their faults, and you recall the ideal more than the person.

People grew lazy. They knew too many blessings, and so lost the ability to appreciate what they had

I so enjoy it when people assume I'm stupid." "Not that, just very focused on killing.

I found it curious that people kept animals for companionship and not food. When I'd asked Mama Oaks when she planned to cook the fat creature that slept in a basket in the kitchen, her eyes almost popped out of her head. Since then, she'd kept her pet away from me, like she suspected I meant to turn it into stew. Clearly, I had a lot to learn.

He's earned a lifetime of peace and happiness, but some people never get what they deserve. That's why there are saints in gutters and sadists in palaces.

I think people can be trusted to know what makes them unhappy. Maybe we don't always know what we want exactly, but we can usually say what we don't with a fair amount of specificity.

People stay together and stay true only as long as they both want to. And all the promises in the world don’t change the length of time. Nothing comes with a guarantee.

People try to make sense of things, and if they don’t know the answers, they make them up,because for some, a wrong answer is better than none.

Most people can’t stomach silence; it provides too much opportunity to think about things they prefer to avoid.

I’ve lost so many people. Some I left on purpose and never looked back. Some were taken from me, and I never said good-bye.