“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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“They're not going to arrest you,' Skulduggery said as they walked through the door. 'They might glare at you and say angry words, but they won't arrest you. Well, they might arrest you. There's a good chance they will. But the important thing is that I've done nothing wrong.'
'For once.”
― Derek Landy, quote from Dark Days
“The Hero of Ages shall be not a man, but a force. No nation may claim him, no woman shall keep him, and no king may slay him. He shall belong to none, not even himself.”
― Brandon Sanderson, quote from Mistborn Trilogy Boxed Set
“The cashier – a bubble popping juvenile delinquent – asks me, “Will that be all?” I look at the bags of diapers that are now bagged in my cart and then at the empty belt. He is staring at me with his watery marijuana eyes, waiting for my answer.
“Um, no, I’d like all this invisible shit too.” I wave a hand at the conveyer and he is actually dumb enough to look.”
― Tarryn Fisher, quote from Dirty Red
“I had the urge to examine my life in another culture and move beyond what I knew.”
― Frances Mayes, quote from Under the Tuscan Sun
“King looked back at Roland. "As The Man With No Name--a fantasy version of Clint Eastwood--you were okay. A lot of fun to partner up with."
"Is that how you think of it?"
"Yes. But then you changed. Right under my hand. It got so I couldn't tell if you were the hero, the antihero, or no hero at all. When you let the kid drop, that was the capper."
"You said you made me do that."
Looking Roland straight in the eyes--blue meeting blue amid the endless choir of voices--King said, "I lied, brother.”
― Stephen King, quote from Song of Susannah
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