Top 100 Donna Lynn Hope Quotes
#1. Would it discourage a stalker from stalking if he knew that they knew?
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#2. You don't run from someone and expect them to follow unless you want a stalker," he said. "You fool. All I wanted was to play hide-n-seek!
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#3. How much pain a person detains may be proportionate to the pain they spare others when they'd rather hurt than hurt another.
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#4. One of the disadvantages to having a choice is the inevitability to hang oneself on freedoms rope.
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#5. Spiders are anti-social, keep pests under control, and mostly mind their own business, but they somehow summon fear in humans who are far more dangerous, deceitful and have hurt more people. Of the two I'm more suspicious about the latter.
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#6. I don't admire the person who does what they want to do. I admire the person who does what they're afraid to do.
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#7. For those who have learned what suffering is early on, you have prepared ahead of the pack so that you can take care of the pack.
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#8. How empty are the insincere words of people who, so easily, speak forth "love," "family" and "friendship" without meaning what they say even if their intentions are good albeit mere flattery.
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#9. He wept bitter tears over the death of his enemy. It was his enemy, after all, who knew him best and kept him up at night.
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#10. Never ignore the elephant in the room. That's rude; play with it and introduce it.
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#11. I like awkward moments. They are full of tension and suspense. Anything's possible or, at the very least, they are the source of some electric sizzle.
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#12. It's easy to be a saint when all you've known is the good.
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#13. Her scar tissue, which she seems to amass both physically and mentally, may not be pretty, but they have become tougher than if she had never been wounded at all.
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#15. If love comes to you in a way that isn't the norm then at least it came to you; not everyone is that lucky.
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#16. I'm impressed when men go the distance to show they give a damn. That says nothing about the woman and everything about the man.
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#17. If they don't walk away, we have to walk away, and sometimes we do it crying.
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#18. In our lives are special moments that live as their own, the rest is movement with the passage of time.
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#19. People like us are dead to society unless we're pretentious, tell people what they want to hear, take off our clothes, or pretend to be like them.
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#20. Dark hair on a white pillow, an ache inside, his face a reflection in her eye.
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#21. She never wants to get to the point where she looks forward to hearing from someone. Once you look forward to something, you're inevitably let down and nothing can stay the same so she'd rather expect nothing at all and just be surprised that she was thought of at all.
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#22. She didn't care about anything, or maybe she cared too much.
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#23. I shivered as the cold was all encompassing, not just from being outdoors, but from being read as well. He had a way of seeing through me. It was as unnerving as it was bonding and I couldn't figure out how the two could co-exist.
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#24. There is no need for hyperbole. I did NOT dump you. I peeled your mask off like a banana peel, did not like what was inside, and tossed it in the trash.
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#25. Obsession; when thoughts are held captive and no longer your own.
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#26. Can I be trusted? Can you? I can be trusted with some things, but not all things, just like you.
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#27. Emotions have cycles whereas love endures. Some people confuse emotions, which are ever-changing, with love's durability.
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#28. Followers, followers. Sometimes, with some things, it's best to keep your tally down.
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#29. Honor doesn't revise according to company just as integrity doesn't diminish due to circumstance.
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#32. I appreciate the beauty and balm of flowers but I have never enjoyed receiving them because then I have to watch them die, and worse ... throw them away.
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#33. I always welcomed the comforting cloak of night except for the times when I lost something in it.
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#34. The empath helps others by absorbing some of their pain, but who helps the empath?
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#35. If it's danger you seek you can go to war, blow the whistle on someone powerful, piss off someone unhinged, walk in a field during a lightning storm, tease a rattlesnake, or lose yourself in the right embrace. Some people live for it, others suffer in spite of it.
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#36. Known for leaving, she asked me who I would consider sticking around for. I said, The one who asked me to and meant it.
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#37. Love doesn't keep score," he challenged.
I shrugged my shoulders. "But people do ...
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#38. I am not one to chase my prey. It either crosses my lips or is tossed away.
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#39. When it comes to parental alienation or grandparent alienation, we walk around with the overwhelming emptiness of a child's absence while carrying the heaviness of their sweet and irreplaceable memory ...
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#40. I didn't sleep well last night because one of my ghosts came back, haunting with his presence, and when I woke up, the others weren't here, haunting with their memory.
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#41. People will sometimes find themselves attracted to others, that's just who they are. It's what they do with that attraction that defines them.
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#42. If its danger you seek, come on over. I covet tranquility but beget the tempest storm.
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#43. The easiest way to get rid of bitterness is to spit it out. The easiest way to forget something noxious is to flush it. The easiest way to move on is to erase everything, and I do mean everything.
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#44. When someone says they feel old, I always want to ask them why they feel old. Time passes for everyone. No one is exempt.
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#45. Theirs was a tug-of-war and neither could let go. Both felt the burn and still wouldn't let go. Some might call it a game for neither could admit defeat.
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#46. Three kinds of people get talked about: The fascinating, the freaks and the nefarious.
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#47. Which is worse? Loving someone and not being able to be with them or not loving someone and having to be with them.
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#48. I love men. I also hate men; I wouldn't want to be in a world without them but I have to say, it's not a compliment to know a man wants to sleep with you. It's only a compliment when he will go to great lengths for you.
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#49. Three of them have the gift of sight but two of them ignore it when what they want most is to believe "this one" will be different.
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#50. Some families are an odd melting pot of strangers with the occasional offering of obligation.
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#51. It's easy to thank God and to be happy when you live a sheltered life and have no concept of suffering; Suffer and then do all of the above.
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#52. If I blink she'll disappear," he told her. She looked at him and said,"Maybe that is the best thing for you.
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#53. Nocturnal with a love for night, I'd stay up to see sunlight ...
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#54. When he comes for her, it's only in her dreams where she has no control, no way to shut the door, and nowhere to run. That's when she listens.
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#55. Someone once said that love is the closest thing to magic that this world has, but magic enchants, deceives and casts a spell.
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#56. When people feel the need to declare that they are not basic ... that's when you know they're basic.
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#57. Weird people don't care if they're weird. They are the most entertaining to converse with because nothing is off-limits.
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#58. I am sick of old ghosts and I just want to feel safe again without the haunts of old vulnerabilities.
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#59. Don't allow someone not worth it to have the power to occupy your thoughts. If they don't find you worth the effort or the time, why should you waste yours?
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#60. There are those that wonder which is worse: Not being able to reach out or not having anyone to reach for. There are some that ponder which is the greater ache: Not being able to tell or not having anyone that cares enough to ask. Perhaps it's not one person that is to blame, but both.
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#61. It will be a welcome change for her to feel his hands on her hips and his breath in her hair; She's been forlorn, but like all emotions, even loneliness doesn't last. She has fallen in love with the man with the quiet strength, the confident humility and the hands that show the flame of the heart.
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#62. She was told it was magnetism that kept them engaged, and how do you separate magnets? You force them apart.
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#63. She doesn't give directions but there is a pot of gold at the end of her rainbow ... Find it. If you can.
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#64. People fight over parking spaces more than they do for each other; then they bemoan the fact they can't find love.
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#65. Some people live their lives being perpetual victims and finger pointers. To anyone who points a finger at someone else and lays all the blame at their feet instead of taking responsibility for their own behavior, I would say, I see that finger and you know where you can put it?
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#66. I smile when I want to cry. I laugh when I want to die.
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#67. Unless its done on purpose, crumbs and cleavage don't go together.
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#69. If they were there for you when you had nothing, they are the ones worth having now. If they only notice you because of what you have gained, are they worth having at all?
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#70. Don't concern yourself with the opinions of those who judge you. That is placing on them an importance they do not have.
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#71. Some people, who always talk about how busy they are, are really trying to claim how 'important' they are.
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#72. First bathrooms, now cars. At least people are wearing their seat belts.
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#73. Why do I speak forth the unpopular? I have a sweet tooth but not when it comes back up.
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#74. We love because we can lose. If there was no threat of separation, no death to shake us to our core, we probably wouldn't love much at all.
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#75. A burdened heart doesn't equate to a lack of faith. The God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob can heal with a simple command. The burden comes from wondering if that's His will and may it be done.
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#76. Why weren't we born in the same era?" he lamented. She eased past him neither here nor there, looked over her shoulder and whispered, "How mundane and cliche would that be?
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#78. Some men like shiny new toys. Others like the priceless antique.
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#79. Darling, if I take your breath away, I will give you mine.
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#80. At times she's thought of as an ice princess but ice, when exposed to warmth, melts.
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#81. I shall not be defined by what I have suffered but how I have endured them.
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#82. Her heart is as soft as her curves and neither are easy to access.
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#83. People don't tell others when they lose interest, just like they don't tell others when they love them. And then they wonder why they are so unhappy.
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#84. If you are without contention and still have the ability to make people think, their ego is going to take a hit and as a result they're not going to like you. They don't want to think. They want to be right, unrivaled or entertained.
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#85. What have I to prove, and to whom, and why? I'm keen enough to want nothing more than to live a simple, humble, unfettered life.
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#86. Enchantment and fulfillment were on the gold and garnet horizon - autumn's breath, a dormant dream reawakened, a yearning nearly satiated, a tender thank you with a brush of the lips, and a connection as fingers touch and go hand in hand.
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#87. If your partner means the world to you, then other people, including temptations and outside influences, shouldn't be living in it. Why invite trouble? There's enough to go around.
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#88. Some people want it all and expect it all; always looking outward, so often proclaiming what they deserve, even more saying what they want, and all thinking another should provide it for them. Do they ever bother to be the person they think someone else would love to have?
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#89. He was on her mind but she doesn't let anyone stay for too long.
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#90. I'd rather meander through a pit of vipers than love one more person, but since I'm on the subject of snakes, we all know one, or are one.
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#91. She was a surprise, and let's face it, few people are.
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#92. Am I a friend or a prospect? Imagine how much kinder life would be if people put as much effort into befriending others instead of trying to sell them something.
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#93. Affliction equips the suffering to empathize with others in anguish and not only does it strengthen them, it enables them to be consoling comforters in a world full of hurt.
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#94. I'd love to have the kind of friend who would visit me before visiting a man. Otherwise I know where I'm ranked, which is below him.
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#95. I've seen you around. You liken yourself a bad ass, and darlin', you are. Minus the bad.
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#96. Emotions enthrall, but change, and as such have the ability to disrupt and destroy.
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#97. You never know what you're made of until temptation comes knocking. The only temptation I've given in to is to have one more slice.
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#98. You will know who the enemy is intimidated by because they're the ones he targets and keeps beating down.
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#99. Where are the memories that held us together? Where are the dreams that were yet to come? I'm afraid to be happy. I shouldn't be happy. If I'm happy without you does that mean I've told you goodbye?
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#100. The more candles on my cake means I get a little more exercise in blowing them out.
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