Third Person Quotes

“So,” sneered Fudge, recovering himself, “you intend to take on Dawlish, Shacklebolt, Dolores, and myself single-handed, do you, Dumbledore?”
“Merlin’s beard, no,” said Dumbledore, smiling. “Not unless you are foolish enough to force me to.”
“He will not be single-handed!” said Professor McGonagall loudly, plunging her hand inside her robes.
“Oh yes he will, Minerva!” said Dumbledore sharply. “Hogwarts needs you!”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

“Jenny: But surely Lord Blakely could not abandon his estates for so long.
Gareth: No. Lord Blakely could not. Not unless he had someone he could trust to run his estates in his absence. And Lord Blakely...Well, Lord Blakely did not trust anyone.
Jenny: Lord Blakely is talking about himself in the third person, past tense. Its disturbing.”
― Courtney Milan, Proof by Seduction

“People shouldn't just talk about you, they should tell your tales.”
― Amit Kalantri

“(On choosing to write the book in third person, and using his name Norman as the nom de plume)

NOW, OUR MAN of wisdom had a vice. He wrote about himself. Not only would he describe the events he saw, but his own small effect on events. This irritated critics. They spoke of ego trips and the unattractive dimensions of his narcissism. Such criticism did not hurt too much. He had already had a love affair with himself, and it used up a good deal of love. He was no longer so pleased with his presence. His daily reactions bored him. They were becoming like everyone else’s. His mind, he noticed, was beginning to spin its wheels, sometimes seeming to repeat itself for the sheer slavishness of supporting mediocre habits. If he was now wondering what name he ought to use for his piece about the fight, it was out of no excess of literary ego. More, indeed, from concern for the reader’s attention. It would hardly be congenial to follow a long piece of prose if the narrator appeared only as an abstraction: The Writer, The Traveler, The Interviewer. That is unhappy in much the way one would not wish to live with a woman for years and think of her as The Wife.

Nonetheless, Norman was certainly feeling modest on his return to New York and thought he might as well use his first name — everybody in the fight game did. Indeed, his head was so determinedly empty that the alternative was to do a piece without a name. Never had his wisdom appeared more invisible to him and that is a fair condition for acquiring an anonymous voice.”
― Norman Mailer, The Fight

“Don't tell me the babysitter is at home looking after our six kids for nothing."
"Six kids?" One of the bouncers reached over Layla and shook Sam's hand. "Respect, man. She doesn't look a day over twenty-eight."
"Twenty-eight?" Layla gave an affronted sniff. "I've only just turned twenty-six."
Married her at seventeen and didn't waste time." Sam patted her tummy. "Good thing I'm not a fan of 'roids. Tonight we're going for seven."
"Guess whose nuts are next if you don't get your hand off me?" Layla muttered under her breath.
The bouncer laughed. "I can't say I envy you going back to a house full of kids, but you're clearly having fun making them.”
― Sara Desai, The Marriage Game

“He also said that leaving you when he did is one of the hardest things he's ever done. He placed special emphasis on the word hardest, but out of concern for my own sanity, I refuse to analyze why that might be."
My cheeks flamed at the double entendre.”
― Jenna Levine, My Vampire Plus-One

“The madness of an autumn prairie cold front coming through...ringing throughout the house was an alarm bell that no one but Alfred and Enid could hear directly.”
― Jonathan Franzen

“Growing up, her definition of peril was that of a dictionary definition - serious and immediate danger”
― Kaylie Fowler

“Growing up, her definition of peril was that of a dictionary - serious and immediate danger.”
― Kaylie Fowler, Perilous | Exclusive Cover Edition + The First Four Chapters

“In these THREE years, I realized THREE things

time is some how related to distance.
distance changes everything and time teaches everything.
people trust THIRD person more than themselves.”
― Satish Sambhoje