Quotes by Donna Lynn Hope

Just because you talk about it or advocate for one position doesnt mean you care more. Just because someone doesnt talk about it and advocates a different position doesnt mean they care less.

If you have to speculate if someone loves you and wants to be with you, chances are they dont. Its not that complicated. Love, in most cases, betrays the one feeling it. Dont waste moments waiting and wondering. Dont throw away your time dreaming of someone that doesnt want you. No one is that amazing, certainly not the one who would pass you up.

Youve invaded my mind and I cant get you out of it, he accused with discernible disdain. She avoided looking at him and said, Then you should forget. Forget? he thundered,EVERYTHING reminds me of you! She turned to confront him, slowing lifting her eyes to meet the disgust in his. Thats not my doing, she countered, Thats your doing and you are the only one who can control it.

“Truth and integrity must be so rare these days that it confuses people when they hear it.”

“Darling, if I take your breath away, I will give you mine.”

“We love because we can lose. If there was no threat of separation, no death to shake us to our core, we probably wouldnt love much at all.”

“I think anyone who opened their heart enough to love without restraint and subsequently were devastated by loss knows that in that moment you are forever changed; a apart of you is no longer whole. Some will never again love with that level of abandon where life is perceived as innocent and the threat of loss seems implausible. Love and loss, therefore, are linked.”

“Underneath the sky, so void of light, the rain soaked me through. I held on to the railing and felt calm, even content, and then he had to reach through the dark, raise my temperature and make my heart beat a little bit faster. Not very gallant I should say...especially so close to bedtime. Friend or not, should he rob me of sleep, Ill be sure to take his.”

“There is the purity of love, harmonious in every way, but not meant for a lifetime, and then there is the steady love of commitment - no less real but completely different. She had both.”