Quotes by Donna Lynn Hope

So what if youre plain? Anyone can like a beautiful woman or a handsome man. Thats easy. But power is the ability to inspire attraction without the obvious.

At least with zombies I know my enemy and I know what to do: Aim and shoot. Its not so easy with people.

Youre not interesting in the least, she spat. I dont need to be, I smiled. Thats what you need...And youre welcome to it.

Sometimes you grow to love the shadow that follows.

Why werent 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?

Which is worse? Loving someone and not being able to be with them or not loving someone and having to be with them.

The most interesting people are the unusual. No one writes about or discusses the average, the ordinary, or the common; they write about and discuss the weird, the mad and the different, so if you are one, even though the opinions of others are of no importance, you are, in their eyes, significant enough to notice and remember.

Good or bad, if you’re not “normal,” you can’t have a normal relationship. If you are different, people will relate to you differently.

She doesnt want your dark embrace. Shell let you hold her for a short time but she won’t submit to that kind of weakness and shell only let you get so close. In the past it was easier pushing you into the arms of another rather than face what was or what could be. She doesnt want to love; not now, so shell close the door and toss the key.

I dont envy busy. Busy means having a schedule, not living life. What I really covet is leisure and peace of mind. Those who have both, have it all.

Only cowards cave. The brave get assassinated.

Tolerance. In all my years of debating politics and religion no mind was changed with derision and no thought convicted by way of harshness. You have no right to demand tolerance while deriding others and their beliefs in the process. Want tolerance? Extend it. You’ll be surprised because given it, people will actually listen.

Do we really need a study on why people lie? They lie because its easy, and cowards are good at easy. Telling the truth takes moxie, and few have it.

Soul mates may be linked, but fight to separate, causing wounds and confusion. They teach what no one else can.

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.

Steam rising underneath a canopy of whispering, changing aspens; starlight in the clear, dark night, and wondrous beauty in every direction. If only all could feel this way, to be so captured and enthralled with autumn.

Enchantment and fulfillment were on the gold and garnet horizon - autumns 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.

My fear is that hell forget me, she bemoaned with crystalline sadness. I took her hand, limp with loss and held it. Id rather not be remembered by any man as it saves me the embarrassment.

I didnt intend to go in that direction but strange things happen when the lights go out.

Weird people dont care if theyre weird. They are the most entertaining to converse with because nothing is off-limits.