Torey L. Hayden Quotes

#1. Beauty may be only skin deep but the judgments founded on it ten to go a lot deeper, whether we wished they would or not.

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#2. Peter, you're not crazy," William said. "Nobody's really crazy. That's just a word. Isn't it, Torey? Just a word. And nobody's a word.

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#3. Everybody's life looks better when you're standing outside it, looking in, but that's never how it really is. We all got good things and bad things...

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#4. Safety is the most basic task of all. Without sense of safety, no growth can take place. Without safety, all energy goes to defense

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#5. The thing you got to understand about foxes,' Dixie said, 'is that they're innocent of what they're doing. They got no idea they're destroying what they love most.

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#6. Did he know that undoubtedly the time would come occasionally when the ghosts of Kevin's past would loom up and haunt him again?
"Yes," he said, "Don't they for all of us?

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#7. This here be my class.-Sheila "One Child

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#8. Yeah, it's hard. It's really, really hard. But 'hard' is not 'impossible'.

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#9. Perhaps the greatest magic of the human spirit is the ability to laugh, at ourselves, at each other, and at our sometimes hopeless situation. Laughter normalized our lives

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#10. In the process of trying to understand others' difficult behaviour, I've found it is very helpful to realise that no one chooses to be unhappy. If someone is unhappy, they will be so because they genuinely cannot see how to do otherwise.

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#11. She had a keen sense of revenge, that knew no limits. When crossed she retaliated with devastating force. Her intelligence made it all the more frightening, because she could quickly perceive what was most valuable to a person and that is what she abused.

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#12. My heart do be so big," she whispered. "It be so big and I do reckon I be about the happiest kid for it.

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#13. It's a funny place, this world. Hate has rights. Love has none.

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#14. Once I had a boy in here whose name was Liam. One of the first things he told me was that I couldn't make him do anything he didn't want. He wasn't going to do any work for me. He wasn't going to listen to a single thing I said.

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