“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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“Maybe sadness was a kind of hunger, she thought. Maybe the two went together.”
― Margaret Atwood, quote from The Year of the Flood
“Höderer: You don't love men, Hugo. You love only principles.
Hugo: Men? Why should I love them? Do they love me?
Höderer: Then why did you come to us? If you don't love men, you can't fight for them.
Hugo: I joined the party because its cause is just, and I shall leave it when that cause ceases to be just. As for men, it's not what they are that interests me, but what they can become.
Höderer: And I, I love them for what they are. With all their filth and and all their vices. I love their voices and their warm grasping hands, and their skin, the nudest skin of all, and their uneasy glances, and the desperate struggle each has to pursue against anguish and against death. For me, one man more or less in the world is something that counts. It's something precious. You, I know you now, you are a destroyer. You detest men because you detest yourself. Your purity resembles death. The revolution you dream of is not ours. You don't want to change the world, you want to blow it up.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre, quote from No Exit and Three Other Plays
“someone's sent
a loving note
in lines of returning geese
and as the moon fills
my western chamber
as petals dance
over the flowing stream
again I think of you
the two of us
living a sadness
apart
a hurt that can't be removed
yet when my gaze comes down
my heart stays up”
― Orson Scott Card, quote from Xenocide
“Like all men who look this good, Frank has no interest in women.”
― Dennis Sharpe, quote from Blood & Spirits
“Precautionary measure. With those words any deaths could be justified. Better to destroy your own people than there be a chance a German soldier might find a loaf of bread.”
― Tom Rob Smith, quote from Child 44
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