Donna Lynn Hope Quotes

Fortuitous, unexpected beauty is the best beauty because it is unique, and what is unique is remembered.

~ Donna Lynn Hope

When you stand next to beauty and know you’re not, you either feel inferior or you’re thankful for the ones who saw you and loved you anyway.

~ Donna Lynn Hope

Straightforwardness intimidates people. They prefer the veneer, despite what they claim.

~ Donna Lynn Hope

Can I be trusted? Can you? I can be trusted with some things, but not all things, just like you.

~ Donna Lynn Hope

Reassuring a jealous woman that you don't want her man creates the bigger beast of resentment because that tells her that what she has isn't desirable and to her, where the opinions of others correlates to her self-worth, is unforgivable.

~ Donna Lynn Hope

I don't make people comfortable but that's what couches are for.

~ Donna Lynn Hope

Lovers are easy to find and easy to forget but finding an authentic connection is exceptional and limited. It rarely happens, which is why there are so many unhappy people out there.

~ Donna Lynn Hope

Don't allow someone not worth it to have the power to occupy your thoughts. If they don't find you worth the effort or the time, why should you waste yours?

~ Donna Lynn Hope

Oh yes, even I cry. Just not over you. Who is you? The one who has to ask or the one who doesn't?

~ Donna Lynn Hope

I'd rather meander through a pit of vipers than love one more person, but since I'm on the subject of snakes, we all know one, or are one.

~ Donna Lynn Hope

Has it tortured you as much as it's tortured me? He asked. Don't call it torture when it's self-inflicted. You always have a choice.

~ Donna Lynn Hope

What was I to you? he asked. She didn't answer but turned and walked away. That's when he knew: Nothing or everything.

~ Donna Lynn Hope

Why do you think you deserve happily ever after? You were offered it before and tossed it away.

~ Donna Lynn Hope

She had hope in her heart but after a while, with each step forward, hope stepped back. And for the first time in months, the first time ever, she began to weep, and as she did she knew that with the retreat of hope her heart had finally caught up with her head. And as each tear spilled over she let them go, she was letting go.

~ Donna Lynn Hope

Just following orders' is no excuse unless you're in the bedroom.

~ Donna Lynn Hope

I’m thinking of the protector who wants to be protected and a fighter who loves the right battle but will lay down her arms to go on a quest.

~ Donna Lynn Hope

Some things you sentence yourself to life for.

~ Donna Lynn Hope

Be careful how you live. Someone is always watching and will look to you as an example, an excuse, or a warning. The message some choices send is why struggle to do the right thing when you can do the wrong thing and be happy. Should we be happy or should we be right?

~ Donna Lynn Hope

You can never let your compassion stand in the way of justice because when you do, other people get hurt.

~ Donna Lynn Hope

It's easy to be a saint when all you've known is the good.

~ Donna Lynn Hope

She didn't care about anything, or maybe she cared too much.

~ Donna Lynn Hope

If you're nice, decent, attractive, get good grades and are talented, no one wants to read about that...They want to read what's out-of-the-ordinary, the scandalous, the shocking and the tragic. They want a story; they want to be captivated and what's typical does not give them that...unless, of course, that person ends up a victim, commits a crime or loses their minds via a love affair.

~ Donna Lynn Hope

Heart thoughts are profound, hindsight aches and hope is obscure. I'm craving a great adventure -- one that leads me back home.

~ Donna Lynn Hope

If you are without contention and still have the ability to make people think, their ego is going to take a hit and as a result they're not going to like you. They don't want to think. They want to be right, unrivaled or entertained.

~ Donna Lynn Hope

Instead of being proud that you led someone to God, be more concerned with the person you pushed away from Him.

~ Donna Lynn Hope

I must be out of my mind if I loved you in spite of everything you've done, and anyone else would condemn you for it, but I can't condemn you at all. In my own troubled mind, I loved you for it.

~ Donna Lynn Hope

The writer in her went silent and hid when her revealing words were wide-spread read.

~ Donna Lynn Hope

Their love story: It’s when logic fell in love with paranoia and paranoia learned to love logic; logic grounded paranoia and paranoia turned up the heat because logic never knew where that heat would come from. Logic needs to be stimulated and paranoia needs to be soothed and therefore they need each other, which resulted in the birth of combustion. The end.

~ Donna Lynn Hope

You love the word love but you don’t really love and you don’t want to love because love, which is really sacrifice, would prevent you from doing what you want to do.

~ Donna Lynn Hope

All the bruised lives, searching hearts...Everyone wants a love story but few will risk what it takes to live one.

~ Donna Lynn Hope

The earth is grounding while the mountains, curvaceous and sweeping, offer a blanket of refuge. Their woods are abounding in camouflage as their leaves sway about in continuous, florid dance. There is an air of invulnerability that is exclusive to the woods, which is why she’s most happy among them. She doesn’t mind beasts as they are preferable to humans and much less threatening; beasts, you see, although dangerous, are incapable of the enmity that permeates beyond the shade of the woods.

~ Donna Lynn Hope

What an ambiance, and such a pity I'm alone: Candles giving off their glow, gusts of wind and the light tapping of rain on the windowpane - a massage for the mind. And a comforting one, too.

~ Donna Lynn Hope

Speaking of happiness, those distinctive moments are found outdoors – in the fall, in the winter and always in the mountains where people are few, wildlife is abundant and there is peace in the quiet.

~ Donna Lynn Hope

The spider's web: She finds an innocuous corner in which to spin her web. The longer the web takes, the more fabulous its construction. She has no need to chase. She sits quietly, her patience a consummate force; she waits for her prey to come to her on their own, and then she ensnares them, injects them with venom, rendering them unable to escape. Spiders – so needed and yet so misunderstood.

~ Donna Lynn Hope

They say love inspires. Guess what inspires more? An enemy.

~ Donna Lynn Hope

Who are we to think we deserve anything? What makes us so great? No one is lucky to have us. We are all full of it.

~ Donna Lynn Hope

If I never shed a tear or wondered what happened to someone I actually loved, what makes you believe I'd think twice about you, someone I never even cared for?

~ Donna Lynn Hope

Never ignore the elephant in the room. That’s rude, play with it and introduce it.

~ Donna Lynn Hope

You may not like what I see but I don't like what you do.

~ Donna Lynn Hope

People don't want words, as seductive, pleasant and warming as they can be. People want to see that they're worth some sacrifice or some great deed. And it's not that people are always worth it, it's that love is.

~ Donna Lynn Hope