“Being in love with someone who doesn't even know you exist isn't the worst thing in the world. In fact, it's quite the oppostie. Almost like passing in a term paper that you know sucked, but having that period of time where you haven't gotten your grade back yet -- that kind of exhale where you haven't been rejected, although you pretty much know how it's going to turn out.”
― Tonya Hurley, quote from Ghostgirl
“You can't have it both ways. Love is too powerful to hide for very long. Deny it and suffer the consequences. Acknowledge it and suffer the consequences. Revealing it can either be shameful or it can be liberating. It is for others to decide which it will be.”
― Tonya Hurley, quote from Ghostgirl
“Life sucks, then you die. Then it sucks again. ”
― Tonya Hurley, quote from Ghostgirl
“We all like to think the world ends when we do. The truth is our acquaintances, our friends, and our loved ones all live on, and through them, so do we. It's not about what you had, but what you gave. It's not about how you looked, but how you lived. And it's not just about being remembered. It's about giving people a good reason to remember you.”
― Tonya Hurley, quote from Ghostgirl
“We all want to be stars. The idea of being revered and envied must be encoded somewhere deep in our DNA. So must the desire to revere and envy others we imagine to be better, more accepted, and more popular than we are. The only problem is that the most necessary qualities required to be a celebrity -- self-absorption, egomania, shamelessness -- are the least attractive in a friend.”
― Tonya Hurley, quote from Ghostgirl
“Regret; The saddest word in the English language.”
― Tonya Hurley, quote from Ghostgirl
“Issues are like assholes, we've all got one," Pam snipped.”
― Tonya Hurley, quote from Ghostgirl
“I love you, but i'm not fall in love with you”
― Tonya Hurley, quote from Ghostgirl
“I never understood why you tried so hard to fit in, when you were obviously meant to stand out.”
― Tonya Hurley, quote from Ghostgirl
“She was a dead girl having the worst panic attack shed ever had. Not because she was afraid of dying, but because she knew that she would never live again.”
― Tonya Hurley, quote from Ghostgirl
“The only reason to live is to love and the only reason to love is to live.”
― Tonya Hurley, quote from Ghostgirl
“You never think it will happen to you. You think about what it would be like. You go through it over and over in your mind, changing the scenario slightly each time, but deep down, you don't really believe it would ever happen, because it's something that happens to someone else, not to you.”
― Tonya Hurley, quote from Ghostgirl
“Being in love with someone who doesn't even know that you exist isn't the worst thing in the world.”
― Tonya Hurley, quote from Ghostgirl
“friends are like stars. You do not see all the time, but you know they are there”
― Tonya Hurley, quote from Ghostgirl
“Talk is cheap. If it wasn't, people might not toss around 'I love you' like a marked-down phrase in a sales bin.”
― Tonya Hurley, quote from Ghostgirl
“En el mundo yo era sólo una persona más, pero anhelaba ser el mundo para una persona.”
― Tonya Hurley, quote from Ghostgirl
“You'd kill yourself for recognition
kill yourself to never, ever stop
You broke another mirror
you're turning into something you are not.”
― Tonya Hurley, quote from Ghostgirl
“Penyesalan. Kata paling sedih dalam bahasa manusia.”
― Tonya Hurley, quote from Ghostgirl
“El peor lugar para perderse está en tu propia cabeza.”
― Tonya Hurley, quote from Ghostgirl
“Merelakan sesuatu, bagi siapa pun, bisa menjadi hal terberat untuk dilakukan.”
― Tonya Hurley, quote from Ghostgirl
“The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about. —Oscar Wilde”
― Tonya Hurley, quote from Ghostgirl
“But our love it was stronger by far than the love Of those who were older than we— Of many far wiser than we— And neither the angels in Heaven above, Nor the demons down under the sea, Can ever dissever my soul from the soul Of the beautiful Annabel Lee.”
― Tonya Hurley, quote from Ghostgirl
“She would never, she thought, be allowed to enjoy a moments pleasure without an eternity of pain.”
― Tonya Hurley, quote from Ghostgirl
“She had penetrated his dream, but not in the way he penetrated hers.”
― Tonya Hurley, quote from Ghostgirl
“She had nothing left to lose and she needed him to herself, for just a little while.”
― Tonya Hurley, quote from Ghostgirl
“I don't know what I'm doing...I'm failing at everything that matters to me.”
― Tonya Hurley, quote from Ghostgirl
“Her chest felt like it was a hollow cavity encasing a cold, hard rock.”
― Tonya Hurley, quote from Ghostgirl
“There was no escape for her. No relief. She had exhausted all possibilities and all her hope was gone, washed away...”
― Tonya Hurley, quote from Ghostgirl
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“But blasting the drummer into the river, though it would have been easy at this range, was not a good way to be inconspicuous.”
― Neal Stephenson, quote from The System of the World
“Mature love is union under the condition of preserving one's integrity, one's individuality; a power which breaks through the walls which separate man from his fellow men, which unites him with others; love makes him overcome the sense of isolation and separateness, yet it permits him to be himself, to retain his integrity.”
― Erich Fromm, quote from The Art of Loving
“I don't understand how I can know so little about love and how it works. How I can be so bad at it when it's all I've ever wanted.
All I've ever known is about leaving or being left.”
― Carrie Ryan, quote from The Dark and Hollow Places
“ALONE
One of my new housemates, Stacy, wants to write a story about an astronaut. In his story the astronaut is wearing a suit that keeps him alive by recycling his fluids. In the story the astronaut is working on a space station when an accident takes place, and he is cast into space to orbit the earth, to spend the rest of his life circling the globe. Stacy says this story is how he imagines hell, a place where a person is completely alone, without others and without God. After Stacy told me about his story, I kept seeing it in my mind. I thought about it before I went to sleep at night. I imagined myself looking out my little bubble helmet at blue earth, reaching toward it, closing it between my puffy white space-suit fingers, wondering if my friends were still there. In my imagination I would call to them, yell for them, but the sound would only come back loud within my helmet. Through the years my hair would grow long in my helmet and gather around my forehead and fall across my eyes. Because of my helmet I would not be able to touch my face with my hands to move my hair out of my eyes, so my view of earth, slowly, over the first two years, would dim to only a thin light through a curtain of thatch and beard.
I would lay there in bed thinking about Stacy's story, putting myself out there in the black. And there came a time, in space, when I could not tell whether I was awake or asleep. All my thoughts mingled together because I had no people to remind me what was real and what was not real. I would punch myself in the side to feel pain, and this way I could be relatively sure I was not dreaming. Within ten years I was beginning to breathe heavy through my hair and my beard as they were pressing tough against my face and had begun to curl into my mouth and up my nose. In space, I forgot that I was human. I did not know whether I was a ghost or an apparition or a demon thing.
After I thought about Stacy's story, I lay there in bed and wanted to be touched, wanted to be talked to. I had the terrifying thought that something like that might happen to me. I thought it was just a terrible story, a painful and ugly story. Stacy had delivered as accurate a description of a hell as could be calculated. And what is sad, what is very sad, is that we are proud people, and because we have sensitive egos and so many of us live our lives in front of our televisions, not having to deal with real people who might hurt us or offend us, we float along on our couches like astronauts moving aimlessly through the Milky Way, hardly interacting with other human beings at all.”
― Donald Miller, quote from Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality
“People belong to each other only as long as they both believe. He stopped believing.”
― Paula McLain, quote from The Paris Wife
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