Hope Whitley > Hope's Quotes

“Ever since the rape, Maggie had been able to compartmentalize feelings that were just too much for her to handle. She could push them down, push them back, make them wait for another time. Intellectually, she knew that it was considered unhealthy, a symptom of damage.  She considered it a bonus, some kind of recompense for the occasional nightmares and flashbacks, this ability to protect herself.”
― Dawn Lee McKenna, Riptide

“Go ’head mouth off to me some mo’. I buzz you with my buzzer.” Bennett lowered the paper to the table. “For the last time, it’s not a ‘buzzer.’ It’s not like one of those party tricks that gives somebody a little zap. It’s a Taser. It’s for self-defense, not for smacking someone you can’t reach, and not for frying the brains out of the neighbor’s dog.”
― Dawn Lee McKenna, Riptide

“Betray a friend, and you'll often find you have ruined yourself.”
― Aesop, Aesop's Fables

“Attitude is a choice. Happiness is a choice. Optimism is a choice. Kindness is a choice. Giving is a choice. Respect is a choice. Whatever choice you make makes you. Choose wisely.”
― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart