Teri Terry Quotes & Sayings

No. I remember. So long as I don't think about it too much, my hands and feet take over; some memory locked into muscle that my brain has nothing to do with.
I know how to drive. And I'm better at it than he is. — Teri Terry

Like Aiden said: how can you truly love somebody when you don't know who they really are? — Teri Terry

Never forget who you are. — Teri Terry

You, my dear, are getting curiouser and curiouser. Like Alice down the rabbit hole, nothing is as it appears. — Teri Terry

Caring for someone is never a bad thing, even if it doesn't work out — Teri Terry

I was told very sternly at the hospital to avoid boys at all costs. Mess up your levels."
"Oh, they do that!" Amy laughs. "Probably best to leave them alone for a while. The secret, though, is to start with one you're not that bothered about."
What is the point in that? — Teri Terry

Truth is freedom. Freedom is truth. — Teri Terry

What if everyone in this car had said, together: no you can't take them. Could we have stopped it?
The answer might have been yes, for a few minutes. But they'd have reinforcements at the next station; we'd all have been arrested and taken away. We'd face the same fate she will. Is that a good enough reason to say nothing? — Teri Terry

Use the fear; feed the anger. — Teri Terry

And think about things, I do: late that night. All through school the next day, wandering to classes, unaware of my surroundings. — Teri Terry

To form something greater than the sum of its parts. — Teri Terry

Failure is not an option. — Teri Terry

Pain can kill, all on its own: the body goes into shock and shuts down. — Teri Terry

Past ties twist loyalties. — Teri Terry

I almost gasp out loud when I realise: Who I am is what I choose to do. Just like Mum. Who she is, at her core, is made up of all the decisions she makes. — Teri Terry

As the sun shines down to melt the ice of another winter, to summon spring wildflowers from the earth; as the sky darkens with sudden, drenching showers before the sun returns, I know that both pain and joy are needed for life to grow. — Teri Terry

And wait for the bus in grey drizzle, arms folded tight around myself, shivering against cold that falls from the sky and sinks deep in my bones. — Teri Terry

I have both been given and taken so many identities, but at last I am beginning to grow into my one true name.
This was the gift my mother gave to me: Hope. — Teri Terry

It is one thing to ask questions; what do you do with the answers? — Teri Terry

Turn around? No. Keep going, it's the only way to make sure I don't end up going back and forth. — Teri Terry

Seeing what scares you for what it is does not lessen the terror. It still has the power to break your heart, over and over again. — Teri Terry

But soon I forget all they are being and doing and saying, and stare out the window. — Teri Terry

He finds a tissue in his pocket and holds it out. I press it against my lip. Pull it away and look at it. Bright red, though not much of it.
I've had worse.
Have I? — Teri Terry

It doesn't look much from the outside. But what you get outside is often like that. People, especially, can be so different from what you can see that you'd never guess what goes on in their secret places. What they are capable of. — Teri Terry

His closeness makes my heart beat faster, my skin tingle, my body want things it doesn't even know. — Teri Terry

Simple is hard enough. Who needs complicated? — Teri Terry