“If you expect nothing, you can never be disappointed.”
― Tonya Hurley, quote from Homecoming
“If you expect nothing, you can never be disappointed.
Apart from a few starry-eyed poets or monks living on a mountaintop somewhere, however, we all have expectations. We not only have them, we need them. They fuel our dreams, our hopes, and our lives like some super-caffeinated energy drink.”
― Tonya Hurley, quote from Homecoming
“You did what your heart told you to do,' Brain complimented. 'It is what leaders, not followers, do.”
― Tonya Hurley, quote from Homecoming
“Worry may not change the outcome, but it definately affects the outlook.”
― Tonya Hurley, quote from Homecoming
“You can only get outside yourself by looking inside.”
― Tonya Hurley, quote from Homecoming
“A true friend is someone who is always there for you, with no agenda other than the friendship itself. We rely on our friends to lift us up in bad times, to keep us grounded in good times, but most importantly, to be there for us when we need nothing at all.”
― Tonya Hurley, quote from Homecoming
“Talk is cheap. If it wasn't, people might not toss around "I love you" like a
marked-down phrase in a sale bin.”
― Tonya Hurley, quote from Homecoming
“It was like death by a thousand paper cuts.”
― Tonya Hurley, quote from Homecoming
“Someone can have the best intentions,' Markov said, 'but offering the wrong advice, the wrong help at the wrong time, can be worse than not helping at all.”
― Tonya Hurley, quote from Homecoming
“Quienes de verdad te quieren no pretenderán jamás que cambies por ellos.”
― Tonya Hurley, quote from Homecoming
“What doesn't kill you, makes you paranoid.”
― Tonya Hurley, quote from Homecoming
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“Generally speaking, people tend not to question what they’ve been told was true. Scientists are no different; they’ve just been told a lot more things.”
― Sylvain Neuvel, quote from Sleeping Giants
“His suspicion that he was not going in the right direction tortmented him more and more. At last he had the conviction that he would never go anywhere but in the wrong direction, to the very end of the handful of days that was left to him, unhappy moonstruck pilgrim, whose April was to be cut off short.”
― Ismail Kadare, quote from Broken April
“إذا كان هذا الصباح وهذا اللقاء حلمين، فعلى كلينا أن يظن أنه الحالم.وربما توقفنا عن الحلم،وربما واصلناه. وواجبناالجلي، في الوقت نفسه،هو أن نقبل بالحلم تماماًكما نقبل وبأننا نولد ونرى ونتنفس "
قال الآخر بجزع: وإذا استمر الحلم ؟”
― Jorge Luis Borges, quote from The Book of Sand and Shakespeare's Memory
“I can think of few better ways to introduce a child to books than to let her stack them, upend them, rearrange them, and get her fingerprints all over them.”
― Anne Fadiman, quote from Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader
“A plant similar to sorrel. The leaf can be chewed up and applied”
― Erin Hunter, quote from Secrets of the Clans
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