Donna Lynn Hope

People like us are dead to society unless we__e pretentious, tell people what they want to hear, take off our clothes, or pretend to be like them.

Joy _ in the fall, winter, and always in the mountains where people are few, wildlife is abundant and there is peace in the quiet.

You're flattered because he wants to sleep with you? Who doesn't he want to sleep with?

I love men. I also hate men; I wouldn't want to be in a world without them but I have to say, it's not a compliment to know a man wants to sleep with you. It's only a compliment when he will go to great lengths for you.

Truth and integrity must be so rare these days that it confuses people when they hear it.

Grab tightly to the reigns of passion and ride into glory for without it life would be stagnant and you would be a spirit without cause.

If its danger you seek, come on over. I covet tranquility but beget the tempest storm.

Some people confuse intensity for passion and challenge for attraction.

Have you seen what wolves do to their prey? But they do mate for life.

We deny more than we confess. We hide more than we reveal. We assume because it makes us feel exposed if we have to ask. It's easier to say "I feel nothing" than to admit "I feel something." It takes no courage to say, "I hate you" but it takes a great deal of moxie to declare its opposite. Masks are elaborate and everyone has one. It takes a while to get to know people. This doesn't make them special, it makes them like everyone else. Sometimes our hearts scream yes while our heads say run; and only one can be obeyed.

I have a deep appreciation for anything that challenges my morality. I tend to wonder which thing or person might overpower my beliefs and would I avoid it altogether in order to say, "It didn't conquer me," or would I accept the challenge head-on in an attempt to prevail? Which requires greater courage?

Power, a paycheck and control do sick things to those who have the illusion of possessing it.

I can't help it. You bring it out in me," he accused. "No," I said. "You're choosing to let me get to you. Don't. It's all in the mind.

You don't build a family by tearing down another one.

Some families are an odd melting pot of strangers with the occasional offering of obligation.

You can't be in my world...You live in this one.

How much pain a person detains may be proportionate to the pain they spare others when they'd rather hurt than hurt another.

Affliction equips the suffering to empathize with others in anguish and not only does it strengthen them, it enables them to be consoling comforters in a world full of hurt.