Quotes from Donna Lynn Hope

Someone once said that love is the closest thing to magic that this world has, but magic enchants, deceives and casts a spell.

When other girls were dreaming about love, she dreamt of love too, but in an entirely different context - the ones they took for granted.

Known for leaving, she asked me who I would consider sticking around for. I said, "The one who asked me to and meant it.

Emotions have cycles whereas love endures. Some people confuse emotions, which are ever-changing, with love's durability.

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

If I blink she'll disappear, " he told her. She looked at him and said, "Maybe that is the best thing for you.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

Don't start a fight if you can't duke it out. Either win or concede but whatever you do, don't have others fight for you.

Some men like shiny new toys. Others like the priceless antique.

Never go to another woman about your woman. Not unless you want an insidious form of advice.

I'm impressed when men go the distance to show they give a damn. That says nothing about the woman and everything about the man.

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.

Thank God for men who manage to hold from afar, wipe tears away with tender words and dish out the life force that is hope. She has never felt so alone but out there, across an ocean, and in a foreign land, there is a man who loves her and would lay down his life just so she could feel the light once again.

"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?"

Fighting is easier than loving, just as giving in to anger is easier than self-control.

When someone attempts to insult you know that they are inadvertently giving away what would insult them.

Is it me you're describing, or yourself?

So what if you're plain? Anyone can like a beautiful woman or a handsome man. That's easy. But power is the ability to inspire attraction without the obvious.

In addition to unfinished business, some ghosts haunt so that they will be remembered.

He passed through her with his soul caressing hers goodbye. And in that final hour he was with her one last time.