Tonya Quotes & Sayings

If you want sympathy, look for a friend, but if you want honesty, an enemy might be the best friend you ever had. — Tonya Hurley

If you expect nothing, you can never be disappointed. — Tonya Hurley

Christ, she was like his own personal drug, and he'd been jonesing for more of her since November. And now that he'd had her again, he didn't know if he'd ever be able to quit her. Yeah. He was in trouble. — Tonya Burrows

Darla never kept any keepsakes. She said that the memories I needed to keep were the ones in my head. — Tonya Kappes

She might be frightened out of her wits and confused as hell, but she was a Southern girl, born and bred. Mama would fly down from heaven and tan her hide good if she wasn't polite. — Tonya Burrows

She hits me and she beats me and she drinks. My mom is an alcoholic. — Tonya Harding

We all want to be stars. The idea of being revered and envied must be encoded somewhere deep in our DNA. So must the desire to revere and envy others we imagine to be better, more accepted, and more popular than we are. The only problem is that the most necessary qualities required to be a celebrity
self-absorption, egomania, shamelessness
are the least attractive in a friend. — Tonya Hurley

My makeup artist, Tonya Brewer, taught me the importance of moisturizing daily. Hydration is a must if you want pretty, dewy skin - which I love. — Bella Thorne

One shot, one kill. Anything more is a waste." He ejected the fired cartridge, chambered a fresh round. "Find the others." The corner of Ian's mouth kicked up in a sardonic half smile and he lifted the scope again. "This doesn't mean we're friends. I still think you're window-licking insane, Hero." "And I still think you're an evil motherfucker, so we're even. Now find me another target. — Tonya Burrows

The sun woke Tino early this beautiful morning in his small Italian village. — Tonya Russo Hamilton

How can you have so much compassion? Isn't it exhausting caring so much?" "Not as exhausting as pretending not to care about anything. — Tonya Burrows

Sometimes divulging your vulnerabilities without any kind of filter can make you more human, but then again, it can also provide material that can be used against you. — Tonya Hurley

It's not the time we spend but how we spend the time that truly tells our story. — Tonya Hurley

Skating was put on the map, supposedly from me Everybody made a life and a livelihood, um, except me. — Tonya Harding

Talk is cheap. If it wasn't, people might not toss around "I love you" like a
marked-down phrase in a sale bin. — Tonya Hurley

But if you fell in love with him as he is now, why do you want to fix him? — Tonya Burrows

Does it make sense to lose out on love because you're trying to protect yourself from something that might never happen? It's called risk, and you can't have a full life without it. — Tonya Lampley

She was a dead girl having the worst panic attack shed ever had. Not because she was afraid of dying, but because she knew that she would never live again. — Tonya Hurley

I'm concentrating on singing so much. I don't think of anything else. — Tonya Mitchell

Men like him, the kind of guys who left the womb fighting? They didn't get fairy-tale endings. They burned bright until they burned out - and he was burning out. — Tonya Burrows

I'd much rather hear someone's unique interpretation of their own experience. Those who negate or override someone else's experience in order to one-up them or to show off their own knowledge or perceived abilities are in truth showing off their lack of listening skills and wisdom. — Tonya Sheridan

One thing I like about boxing is that I will not have to deal with the same kind of politics that I had to in skating. In boxing, it is not about your appearance, or how your costume looks, what color it is, or how much it costs. — Tonya Harding

I love you, but i'm not fall in love with you — Tonya Hurley

I was told my whole life, you're fat, you're ugly, you're never going to amount to be anything. — Tonya Harding

Nerds don't know they're nerds. I know I'm a... well, I prefer to be called a dork, thank you. — Tonya Kuper

Chile, you'd better slow your role before your thirsty ass ends up in a morgue!" "Well if I do I'll be the flyest bitch there! — La'Tonya West

If you don't listen to that gentle, yet persistent voice within, you betray yourself. — Tonya Sheridan

Truthfully I don't remember much about anything after the Olympics 'cause I, I lost everything. — Tonya Harding

I want to write, produce, act, and get into fashion design. — Tonya Mitchell

Your beliefs set your limits. — Tonya Sheridan

Always be yourself and speak your truth. Better to allow others to walk away than betray your own soul. — Tonya Sheridan

It has to be in a man's heart to love you, be faithful to you, respect you, and treat you like a queen. If it isn't in his heart, it doesn't matter how good you look, how much you do, how long you've been holding him down, or what your title is. He will view you on the same level as every other woman... ~facts — La'Tonya West

All powerful and lasting change, whether in your personal life or your business, comes from the heart, not the mind. — Tonya Sheridan

You have to face the very thing you fear.--tdf — Tonya D. Floyd

There are so many ugly places and people in this world, I've learned you have to grab hold of the places like this, the moments like this, and cherish them. — Tonya Burrows

Being in love with someone who doesn't even know you exist isn't the worst thing in the world. In fact, it's quite the oppostie. Almost like passing in a term paper that you know sucked, but having that period of time where you haven't gotten your grade back yet
that kind of exhale where you haven't been rejected, although you pretty much know how it's going to turn out. — Tonya Hurley

When every woman goes within, nurtures her true self and lives her passion, the whole world shifts. — Tonya Sheridan

Be advised, your objective is to raise a child from birth to adulthood so that she is a productive member of society. Minimum casualties. — Tonya Burrows

It's an image that the media has given me as a bad girl, and the only reason they gave me that image is just because of the few things that have gone wrong in my life, and also because I grew up living in a trailer. — Tonya Harding

Life sucks, then you die. Then it sucks again. — Tonya Hurley

He was ragged around the edges, a walking open wound with psych issues galore. But he still had a beating heart. Thoughts, feelings, fears. He was still human, and someone should prove it to him. — Tonya Burrows

She had penetrated his dream, but not in the way he penetrated hers. — Tonya Hurley

We have the whole concept of popularity backward. We imagine it as a small and exclusive club of people we idolize or envy. But most popular people are hated by the majority. So, if you are despised by everyone outside your little clique, and liked only by those inside it, you are vastly unpopular by any objective measure. The key to ultimate popularity is not to be loved or envied by as many people as possible but to be loved or envied by the right people. — Tonya Hurley

But the thought we try to deny
Take a toll upon our lives
We struggle on in depths of pride
Tangled up in single minds. — Tonya Hurley

Women often wonder, "How do I know if I am on the right track?" The answer is simple. If you are being true to yourself, you are on the right track. — Tonya Sheridan

In her own special, provocative language, Tonya Bolden gives a voice to the voiceless, a name to the nameless. Revelations abound in Strong Men Keep Coming, her singular take on the endless parade of black men who have fought, sung, cajoled, tricked, worked, wrote, or roped their way into the American experience . She has assembled a most rewarding cast, a phenomenal coterie of role models and phantoms, and she has done a splendid job of telling their stories. — Herb Boyd

I have a heart but it's dark, so very verily dark... — Tonya R. Moore

I don't do gentle, Mara," he felt compelled to warn even as he worked his way down from her lips, over her chin, to the tender spot where her neck met her shoulder. He scraped his teeth over the frantic beat of her pulse and reveled in the delicate shudder that shook her body. "So if that's how you think this is going to go, back out now. — Tonya Burrows

And though the symptons of lovesickness may be many, they all share a single cause and single cure: you. — Tonya Hurley

You can only get outside yourself by looking inside. — Tonya Hurley

Sometimes it's the things that are all around us that are hardest to see, especially love. — Tonya Hurley

Cup check, she heard Bradley Grayson, an arrogant freshman lacrosse player, yell as he slammed his forearm, without warning, into Sam Wolfe's groin.
Sam, naked, bent over and clutched himself, thrusting his large, pale, Sasquatch-like hairy, pimply ass right in her face.
This was every girl's greatest fear come to life. The Gates of Hell had opened. She would never, she thought, be allowed to enjoy a moment's pleasure without an eternity of pain in exchange. For little Damen, she'd have to endure a LOT of Sam. The metaphor was not lost of Charlotte.
And it got worse. As Same clenched, a tiny involuntary puff of sulfurous gas escaped. For the first time ever, she was glad to be dead, for no other reason than his butt smelled as bad as it looked ... Was it even possible to die twice? — Tonya Hurley

There were two things Southerners hated to see knocking on their door. Jehovah Witnesses, because the majority of us were Baptist, and the undertaker. It was understandable that when Terk Rhinehammer opened the door, his face turned white as all the blood was drained from it after he looked past me and saw my hearse.
"What's wrong?" He used his hands to pat down his chest. "I'm not dead, am I? — Tonya Kappes

You're so full of shit. You think you don't deserve a woman like Libby Pruitt when you're obviously head over heels for her. You think you don't deserve to be happy - all because of something I said out of grief twenty years ago. How is that not ruined? — Tonya Burrows

You'd kill yourself for recognition
kill yourself to never, ever stop
You broke another mirror
you're turning into something you are not. — Tonya Hurley

Haley paused. "Occupation?" "Psychiatrist at Universal Hospital." Haley stopped typing and stared. Dr. Tonya Preston stared right back. "You're looking at me like I said I was a hooker in the French Quarter. — K.D. Williamson

Truth is not negative. Truth helps us see things from a fresh perspective. Truth educates, creates awareness, and is the first step to initiating any real and lasting change. — Tonya Sheridan

Myron shook his head. "This is too weird," he said. "I saw Carl heading out," Esperanza said. "What did he want?" "He came by with a maid from the Court Manor. Guess who Jack Coldren was linking up with for a little afternoon delight?" "Tonya Harding?" "Close. Norm Zuckerman." Esperanza tilted her head back and forth, as though sizing up an abstract work at the Met. "I'm not surprised. About Norm anyway. Think about it. Never married. No family. In public, he always surrounds himself with young, beautiful women. — Harlan Coben

Someone can have the best intentions,' Markov said, 'but offering the wrong advice, the wrong help at the wrong time, can be worse than not helping at all. — Tonya Hurley

I see uncool people! — Tonya Hurley

The importance of solitude is to help you to differentiate your own thoughts from those you have studied, read, heard, or unintentionally absorbed. — Tonya Sheridan

Let go of seeking and align yourself with source. — Tonya Sheridan

In life we all go through things, but its how you come out of it that matters — Tonya Wilson

But our love it was stronger by far than the love Of those who were older than we - Of many far wiser than we - And neither the angels in Heaven above, Nor the demons down under the sea, Can ever dissever my soul from the soul Of the beautiful Annabel Lee. — Tonya Hurley

Listen for the inner call and follow it wherever it may lead. — Tonya Sheridan

We don't miss what we never had, but we miss terribly things we almost had. And we miss things we used to have most of all. Through we hope and pray for our relationships, our looks, and our lives to improve, having more also means having more to lose. — Tonya Hurley

Issues are like assholes, we've all got one, Pam snipped. — Tonya Hurley

Closed minds close doors. — Tonya Sheridan

Friends are like stars. You do not see all the time, but you know they are there — Tonya Hurley

The only reason to live is to love and the only reason to love is to live. — Tonya Hurley

Jephus Hardy?"
Stunned. My jaw dropped when I saw Cephus Hardy walk up to me in the magazine aisle of Artie's Meat and Deli. I was admiring the cover of Cock and Feathers, where my last client at Eternal Slumber Funeral Home, Chicken Teater, graced the cover with his prize Orloff Hen, Lady Cluckington. — Tonya Kappes

She would never, she thought, be allowed to enjoy a moments pleasure without an eternity of pain. — Tonya Hurley

Now I lay me down to sleep,
I pray the Lord my soul to keep.
And if I should die before I awake,
I pray the popular attend my wake. — Tonya Hurley

I moved around 13 different times before I was in fifth grade, not having money, not having a lot of friends. — Tonya Harding

Regret; The saddest word in the English language. — Tonya Hurley

You never think it will happen to you. You think about what it would be like. You go through it over and over in your mind, changing the scenario slightly each time, but deep down, you don't really believe it would ever happen, because it's something that happens to someone else, not to you. — Tonya Hurley

My biological mother made my clothes or bought my clothes from Salvation Army or Goodwill. — Tonya Harding

I never understood why you tried so hard to fit in, when you were obviously meant to stand out. — Tonya Hurley

You did what your heart told you to do,' Brain complimented. 'It is what leaders, not followers, do. — Tonya Hurley

There are many ways to be haunted, not all of them supernatural. From photo album to love letters, the memory of bad choices, broken promises, lost loves, and scattered dreams can often longer far longer than the glow if satisfaction from our greatest accomplishments. Indeed, the most frightening ways to be haunted may be in the many ways we haunt ourselves. — Tonya Hurley

Teddy did a muscle pose with his arms before he did the whole bouncing pectoral move with his boobs. "I'm a wrestling champ. International."
It was hard for me not to stare at each boob taking its turn bouncing up and down.
"Oh." My brows lifted along with my mouth. "Impressive. — Tonya Kappes

You suck." "Only when asked, babe. — Tonya Burrows

Oh, my poor, sweet cousin from Oklahoma," Tonya said, shaking her head. "You, my dear, are in big trouble." "I am?" Kylie asked, turning to her friend, wearing her panic all over her face. "You're in love. And as I've said before, this shit ain't for amateurs. — Caisey Quinn

He's more family to Gabe than you are," Raffi said, all calm and reason. "And, as I told Audrey, you have no rights in this situation. At all. She has power of attorney. And, so you know, I called security on you about three minutes ago, told them you were causing a scene in a coma patient's room. Might want to leave before they get here. Don't want to publicly tarnish those shiny halos of yours. — Tonya Burrows

How do you know about Leotta?"
It wasn't like I could tell him that Cephus Hardy was dead and right there about to give him the smackdown, nor could I tell him that I had seen his old Buick parked in front of Higher Ground when I acted like I had no idea he had a car and offered him a ride.
"Isn't she still married to Cephus Hardy?" My eyes zeroed in on his facial expression.
Cephus jumped around me and grabbed Terk by the neck. "Yeah, you sonofabitch!"
"Stop!" I yelled, but it was too late. — Tonya Kappes

I believe in magic. I believe our destiny is not carved in stone and that one thought is the seed to a new life or a different path.
I believe in the power of the cards to illuminate what you already know and to awaken the wisdom inside of you.
I believe how we think and experience life matters and I believe in the power of the cards to shift our thoughts and therefore create more positive experiences.
I believe in the magic of the cards to inspire us to let go of old ideas and restrictions. — Tonya Sheridan

We are often so distracted by the internal war between what we want to do and what we have to do that we overlook what we need to do. — Tonya Hurley

I won't tell if you don't." I winked.
Granny laughed.
In the South, a wink speaks louder than words. — Tonya Kappes

One of Lyle's best assets was also his biggest downfall--he was a big dick. — Tonya D. Floyd

He's just going to see a gorgeous woman, because she's exactly the type he goes for. Curvy, smart, sweet, a little bit shy - I hate to tell you, but if you had asked — Tonya Burrows

I like fighting, but I hate hurting people. — Tonya Harding

They came out of the vault intoxicated, not by the mere thought of food, but by the consciousness that they too were of use in the world and did not live in vain, and had deserved the praise and thanks which Tonya would shower on them at home. — Boris Pasternak

I always find that I'm at my best,' Eric said leadingly, 'when I'm at my worst. — Tonya Hurley

It was like death by a thousand paper cuts. — Tonya Hurley

Worry may not change the outcome, but it definately affects the outlook. — Tonya Hurley

The truth is, those people we feel drawn to most might not be intended as love interests, but rather as life-changing, life-altering presences that come into our lives for reasons we can't yet understand. — Tonya Hurley

The Universe has a great sense of humor and will often use it as a way to get our attention and reconnect us to our Divine Self. — Tonya Sheridan

Tonya had done a little lurking on social media. She knew that Courtney, Greg's real love, had killed herself. Truth of the matter was, ever since then, Greg had never been the same. — Nako

Breaking free, or not, is usually determined by whether you want to get somewhere slowly or nowhere fast. — Tonya Hurley

I grew up only singing country. I did listen to like Debbie Gibson and other pop music, but I would only sing country music. — Tonya Mitchell