Top 27 Hilary Thayer Hamann Quotes
#1. I was an American girl; I possessed what our culture valued most-independance and blind courage.
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#2. People with motorcycles always assume that everyone without one wants a ride. I didn't want to offend him, so I said sure.
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#3. The sea slapped ominously, confessing its strategic impartiality. The sea is an international sea, and the sky a universal sky. Often we forget that. Often we think that what is verging upon us is ours alone. We forget that there are other sides entirely.
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#6. Someone who knows she is beautiful, who is always told that she is beautiful, but who, deep down, does not feel very beautiful.
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#8. Sometimes a day is a symbolic day, and you behave symbolically. Sometimes you search inside for a feeling, and, finding none, you remember that no feeling is frequently the most possible feeling.
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#9. Optimism is when you're not sure where life is going to take you, so naturally you anticipate the best possible outcome
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#10. I wondered what the value was, in the Darwinian sense, of making fast friends like that. There must be some scientific significance to being a follower, to allowing yourself to be persuaded by personality
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#11. If she could no longer be called beautiful, she possessed something better-a knowledge of beauty; it's inflated value, it's inevitable loss.
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#12. When you lose your parents as a child, you are indoctrinated into a club, you re taken into life's severest confidence. You are undeceived.
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#13. Nothing is an easy thing to feel but a difficult thing to express (pg 20).
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#14. I could never settle for anything less than a renegade and a runaway, a descendant of greatness capable of voluntary disinheritance.
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#15. It's better to keep grief inside. Grief inside works like bees or ants, building curious and perfect structures, complicating you. Grief outside means you want something from someone, and chances are good you won't get it.
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#16. The first time I saw you," I say, "I had a premonition. I had the feeling I'd found the thing I'd always been waiting for. The next time I saw you, it was the same. And every time after it's been the same.
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#17. She acknowledged each person's nearness to the dead and helped the group in its struggle for order-who grieved most, whose pain was most real-because in life there is always hierarchy, and it is frankly not profitable to remain modest and anonymous, not even at a funeral.
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#19. Boys will be boys, that's what everyone always says. But no one ever mentions how girls have to be something other than themselves altogether.
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#20. Sometimes life is irreverent, and you accidentally discover you are a party to irreverence, and it's hard to know what to do.
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#21. Kindness is everything ... When you receive it and express it, it becomes the whole meaning of things. It's life, demystified. A place out of self. Not a waltz, the the whirls within a waltz.
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#22. Mine is not a smiling face. Strangers on the street always say, Smile! But my muscles do not naturally go there.
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#23. The most awful hunger is the type that is satisfied too soon, before it moves you, before you are moved by it, before it becomes protracted and superior, a motivating business, making you honorable, graceful, clever - a hunter.
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#24. My mother refuses to go into the ocean. She respects it, she says, which is basically the same as saying she's afraid. I go in because it scares me ...
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#25. But in fact there are infinite subtleties to identity-that is to say, there is the way that you are, which is the sum of the way you are becoming and the way you have been, which does not take into account the way you secretly wish to be.
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