Tonya Hurley > Quotes

“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, Ghostgirl

“You can't have it both ways. Love is too powerful to hide for very long. Deny it and suffer the consequences. Acknowledge it and suffer the consequences. Revealing it can either be shameful or it can be liberating. It is for others to decide which it will be.”
― Tonya Hurley, Ghostgirl

“If you expect nothing, you can never be disappointed.”
― Tonya Hurley, Homecoming

“Life sucks, then you die. Then it sucks again. ”
― Tonya Hurley, Ghostgirl

“We all like to think the world ends when we do. The truth is our acquaintances, our friends, and our loved ones all live on, and through them, so do we. It's not about what you had, but what you gave. It's not about how you looked, but how you lived. And it's not just about being remembered. It's about giving people a good reason to remember you.”
― Tonya Hurley, Ghostgirl

“If you expect nothing, you can never be disappointed.
Apart from a few starry-eyed poets or monks living on a mountaintop somewhere, however, we all have expectations. We not only have them, we need them. They fuel our dreams, our hopes, and our lives like some super-caffeinated energy drink.”
― Tonya Hurley, Homecoming

“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, Ghostgirl

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

“Worry may not change the outcome, but it definately affects the outlook.”
― Tonya Hurley, Homecoming

“Regret; The saddest word in the English language.”
― Tonya Hurley, Ghostgirl

“Issues are like assholes, we've all got one," Pam snipped.”
― Tonya Hurley, Ghostgirl

“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, Lovesick

“You can only get outside yourself by looking inside.”
― Tonya Hurley, Homecoming

“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 love you, but i'm not fall in love with you”
― Tonya Hurley, Ghostgirl

“people can die , dreams cant”
― Tonya Hurley

“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, Ghostgirl

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

“Being in love with someone who doesn't even know that you exist isn't the worst thing in the world.”
― Tonya Hurley, Ghostgirl

“The only reason to live is to love and the only reason to love is to live.”
― Tonya Hurley, Ghostgirl

“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, Lovesick

“I see uncool people!”
― Tonya Hurley, Ghostgirl

“A true friend is someone who is always there for you, with no agenda other than the friendship itself. We rely on our friends to lift us up in bad times, to keep us grounded in good times, but most importantly, to be there for us when we need nothing at all.”
― Tonya Hurley, Homecoming

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

“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, Ghostgirl

“It's not the time we spend but how we spend the time that truly tells our story.”
― Tonya Hurley, Lovesick

“It was like death by a thousand paper cuts.”
― Tonya Hurley, Homecoming

“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, Homecoming

“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, Lovesick

“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, Lovesick