Callie Hunter > Callie's Quotes

“It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

“I hate this feeling. Like I'm here, but I'm not. Like someone cares. But they don't. Like I belong somewhere else, anywhere but here, and escape lies just past that snowy window, cool and crisp as the February air.”
― Ellen Hopkins, Crank

“Love means holding on to someone just as hard as you can because if you don't, one blink and they might disappear...forever.”
― Ellen Hopkins, Impulse

“It didn’t matter what he’d said or done in life, in death he was innocent.”
― Callie Hunter, Disenchanted

“They were not a family anymore. They were strangers. Tied together by chains, but they had rusted, and there was no hope for them to reconnect. Something had disappeared, and perhaps it was their sanity.”
― Callie Hunter, Disenchanted

“In hindsight, the grand hero ideal she always thought he encompassed chipped away and all that remained was a cheap imitation. He embodied everything she’d hidden from in her adolescence. Boyfriends, relationships, and sex all led to disaster. Being alone was better than shattered and broken like mother: disenchanted with the life she’d been forced into.”
― Callie Hunter, Disenchanted

“Apologies, however late, were appreciated. The principle meant more than the timing”
― Callie Hunter, Disenchanted

“Her entire life was obeying orders. She’d left her Father behind, only to fall into the hands of another dictator. Was her life her own anymore, or was she a puppet on a string, dancing to Ryan’s tune?”
― Callie Hunter, Entwined

“Why do writers write? Why do actors act? Why do painters paint? It doesn't pay much, unless you're very successful. It's who we are.”
― Lori Ann Lesko

“If she were honest, weakness should be masked at all times. Any weakness could, and would be exploited.”
― Callie Hunter, The Artist

“Love was always conditional: anyone who thought otherwise was a fool.”
― Callie Hunter, Entwined

“Beautiful things grow to a certain height and then they fail and fade off, breathing out memories as they decay. And just as any period decays in our minds, the things of that period should decay too, and in that way they're preserved for a while in the few hearts like mine that react to them. Trying to preserve a century by keeping its relics up to date is like keeping a dying man alive by stimulants.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald

“The debris of her married life was enough to sever the tie between reality and dreams, the fine line between desire and temptation. Where did she draw the line? When did she admit defeat and surrender?”
― Callie Hunter, Still Searching: Lost and Found

“Expectations led to disappointments; in this family, expecting more than disappointment was the first mistake”
― Callie Hunter, Shattered