Torey J Quotes & Sayings

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. — Torey L. Hayden

But not hurting people and knowing how to get along with people, ... they're different. — Carol Plum-Ucci

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 — Torey L. Hayden

It's a funny place, this world. Hate has rights. Love has none. — Torey L. Hayden

It's better being crazy because if you don't like the way it is here then you can have dreams. And if you don't like the dreams, then they come and give you shots and you don't feel anything anyway and you just drift around. Dead. Half-dead. Alive but like you're dead. You just drift around alive, but dead. And it all seems the same after a while. — Torey L. Hayden

People only see as far as they are able and the rest of the truth is lost on them. — Carol Plum-Ucci

This here be my class.-Sheila "One Child — Torey L. Hayden

She suggested we 'crouch' buck nekkid on the bed or a dresser and leap out at him from the shadows.
Now, my husband can't see all that well in the dark. I think if he comes into a darkened bedroom and finds 140 pounds of cellulite hurtling through space at him, he's going to run like the devil. — Celia Rivenbark

Deep down behind those hostile eyes was a very little girl who had already learned that life really isn't much fun for anybody; and the best way to avoid further rejection was to made herself as objectionable as possible. Then it would never come as a surprise to find herself unloved. Only a simple fact. — Torey L. Hayden

My heart do be so big," she whispered. "It be so big and I do reckon I be about the happiest kid for it. — Torey L. Hayden

It's a good thing that columnists don't make homosexuality their last taboo anymore. But I wish the columnists themselves would come out too. — Michael Musto

You're making it sound like it's more dangerous to have a slightly weird family, than a totally weird family. — Carol Plum-Ucci

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. — Torey L. Hayden

Schooling ain't life."
"Ain't it?" she says, her eyebrows raising in mock surprise. — Patrick Ness

In response to those who say to stop dreaming and face reality, I say keep dreaming and make reality. — Kristian Kan

She looked up. "What I can't figure out is why the good things always end." "Everything ends." "Not some things. Not the bad things. They never go away." "Yes, they do. If you let them, they go away. Not as fast as we'd like sometimes, but they end too. What doesn't end is the way we feel about each other. Even when you're all grown up and somewhere else, you can remember what a good time we had together. Even when you're in the middle of bad things and they never seem to be changing, you can remember me. And I'll remember you. — Torey L. Hayden

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. — Torey L. Hayden

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. — Torey L. Hayden

Safety is the most basic task of all. Without sense of safety, no growth can take place. Without safety, all energy goes to defense — Torey L. Hayden

In any case, the leading edge of our "on purpose" radio signals is 30 light-years away and, if intercepted, may mend the aliens' image of us based on the radio bubble of our television shows. But this will happen only if the aliens can somehow determine which type of signal comes closer to the truth of who we are, and what our cosmic identity deserves to be. — Neil DeGrasse Tyson

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. — Torey L. Hayden

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? — Torey L. Hayden

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. — Torey L. Hayden

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... — Torey L. Hayden

I don't need to be enlightned. I have a killfile. — Rob Campbell

Yeah, it's hard. It's really, really hard. But 'hard' is not 'impossible'. — Torey L. Hayden

The chair and desk and stuff, they change in the darkness. Like people change. And I lay in my bed and I think, you know, this is the way the chair really is. The way it looks in the daytime, that's just a foolie. It looks that way to make me think it's all right. But it's an ugly thing, a chair at night is. And I know even in the day that it's ugly underneath. It will be ugly again, when I'm alone with it. When it's dark...I'm scared of chairs... I try not to be scared of things. I try to fight it. But I'm not good at it. It's everywhere at once. It's like fighting the night. — Torey L. Hayden