Top 120 Donna Lynn Hope Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “You see it everywhere and everyone seems to be doing it but you. You could have had it as well, and you know it, and that’s what bothers you. Your worst enemy is yourself, and sadly, you know that what you did wasn’t worth what you lost.”

— Donna Lynn Hope

52. “Good or bad, if you’re not “normal,” you can’t have a normal relationship. If you are different, people will relate to you differently.”

— Donna Lynn Hope

53. “Some people live their lives being perpetual victims and finger pointers. To anyone who points a finger at someone else and lays all the blame at their feet instead of taking responsibility for their own behavior, I would say, “I see that finger and you know where you can put it?”

— Donna Lynn Hope

54. “How empty are the insincere words of people who, so easily, speak forth “love,” “family” and “friendship” without meaning what they say even if their intentions are good albeit mere flattery.”

— Donna Lynn Hope

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

— Donna Lynn Hope

56. “I shall not be defined by what I have suffered but how I have endured them.”

— Donna Lynn Hope

57. “He was on her mind but she doesn’t let anyone stay for too long.”

— Donna Lynn Hope

58. “She is playing a game that she doesn’t want to play, but can’t seem to quit. As a player she wishes to see how the game concludes, but she also wishes the other player would retreat. She wants to win after-all and she makes for a sore loser, but her combatant uses his moves to keep her off-guard and primed for his advance. Should she block him, outmaneuver him, or just play dead until his back is turned? Isn’t the last the way of the female?”

— Donna Lynn Hope

59. “In a fit of anger he had said to her, “You’ll always be miserable,” to which she thoughtfully replied, “Is that so? It’s impossible to be miserable when you’ve known tragedy and hardship. Both strengthen and refine a person to the point where they may have moments of grief and sadness, but misery is known only to those who have a sense of entitlement... you know, people like you.”

— Donna Lynn Hope

60. “I think part of your attraction to him is the draw of the unknown, of being different, even special. He is so out of the ordinary that you feel pulled to that because you yourself are not so ordinary. You’re alone. And sometimes the pain of so much loss is written across your face. You wear it like an adornment and that causes other people to wonder about you; they can’t relate to you and what you’ve been through, but you can relate to him in his dark state.”

— Donna Lynn Hope

61. “There is enchantment in wondering... in seeing a beautiful portrait every now and then rather than an overabundance of the overexposed; I wanted the figure before me to remain a magnificent mystery, like any alluring woman is as the rarity of a thing is what makes it valuable, even an enigma, and when something or someone is that, they become captivating.”

— Donna Lynn Hope

62. “If you have to boast about what you do for a living to attract attention, attraction or approval, then you’re seeking the wrong kind of people for it has nothing to do with who you are and everything to do with what you do. Is that the kind of people you want? The ones who are more attracted to your status than you?”

— Donna Lynn Hope

63. “Why weren’t we born in the same era?” he lamented. She eased past him neither here nor there, looked over her shoulder and whispered, “How mundane and cliche would that be?”

— Donna Lynn Hope

64. “Which is worse? Loving someone and not being able to be with them or not loving someone and having to be with them.”

— Donna Lynn Hope

65. “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

66. “I used to be a wanderess without roots – discontent and bereft of belonging and then he took me to The Last Best Place where I was touched and warmed through. Never before have I felt the breath-taking spirit of the frontier as distinctly as I do here and never before have I felt so at home where all things magnificent are made more so by inspired calm of earthy humility.”

— Donna Lynn Hope

67. “It will be a welcome change for her to feel his hands on her hips and his breath in her hair; She’s been forlorn, but like all emotions, even loneliness doesn’t last. She has fallen in love with the man with the quiet strength, the confident humility and the hands that show the flame of the heart.”

— Donna Lynn Hope

68. “Theirs was a tug-of-war and neither could let go. Both felt the burn and still wouldn’t let go. Some might call it a game for neither could admit defeat.”

— Donna Lynn Hope

69. “When people feel the need to declare that they are not basic... that’s when you know they’re basic.”

— Donna Lynn Hope

70. “Hatred may keep a body warm, but it takes a lot to keep the fire stoked, so unless a person is extraordinary in some way, some people are not worth hating, just like they’re not worth loving.”

— Donna Lynn Hope

71. “Some things you sentence yourself to life for.”

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72. “His ghost comes back to be remembered. If he can’t be in this life, he procures a way to stay in orbit, and in that way, is never forgotten.”

— Donna Lynn Hope

73. “Why do people assume? If I hate you, I’ll tell you. In this case, it’s not hate. It’s hurt. I’ll lick my wounds, which only oozed because I gave a damn, and be over it before the sun rises.”

— Donna Lynn Hope

74. “She never wants to get to the point where she looks forward to hearing from someone. Once you look forward to something, you’re inevitably let down and nothing can stay the same so she’d rather expect nothing at all and just be surprised that she was thought of at all.”

— Donna Lynn Hope

75. “People will sometimes find themselves attracted to others, that’s just who they are. It’s what they do with that attraction that defines them.”

— Donna Lynn Hope

76. “There are those that wonder which is worse: Not being able to reach out or not having anyone to reach for. There are some that ponder which is the greater ache: Not being able to tell or not having anyone that cares enough to ask. Perhaps it’s not one person that is to blame, but both.”

— Donna Lynn Hope

77. “Enchantment and fulfillment were on the gold and garnet horizon – autumn’s breath, a dormant dream reawakened, a yearning nearly satiated, a tender thank you with a brush of the lips, and a connection as fingers touch and go hand in hand.”

— Donna Lynn Hope

78. “Why is it you tell me the truth only when you’ve fallen asleep? It’s then that you visit me.”

— Donna Lynn Hope

79. “Who hasn’t been told “love you?” I don’t put much stock in such words because it’s the “I” that gives “love you” its true essence and intimate meaning, so unless someone can bring themselves to say “I love you,” don’t subtract from the significance by saying something less.”

— Donna Lynn Hope

80. “People, most especially those who have known ease in this life, care more about being prospered than refined. It’s always about what they can get from God, not what they can do for others, unless they can call attention to it for others to see.”

— Donna Lynn Hope

81. “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

82. “Why do you need worldly things to define you? Why do you need a rank or a status to tell others who you are? Why concern yourself with the capricious opinions of others who are less impressed with who you really are and more impressed by the carefully crafted image you present to them – an image that is entirely surface with no inherent value? Take away the things and the status and see who notices you.”

— Donna Lynn Hope

83. “Apathy. What’s hard to understand? They don’t care. Not until it affects them.”

— Donna Lynn Hope

84. “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

85. “I have to crack a nut in order to enjoy it.”

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86. “Just following orders’ is no excuse unless you’re in the bedroom.”

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87. “Where are the memories that held us together? Where are the dreams that were yet to come? I’m afraid to be happy. I shouldn’t be happy. If I’m happy without you does that mean I’ve told you goodbye?”

— Donna Lynn Hope

88. “She doesn’t give directions but there is a pot of gold at the end of her rainbow... Find it. If you can.”

— Donna Lynn Hope

89. “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

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

— Donna Lynn Hope

91. “While struggling with all the loss in her life, she mournfully thought, “If only I could forget... ” But that would be too easy, wouldn’t it? However, she did with most; she never got too close and she never stayed too long, but there she was... struggling with all the loss in her life.”

— Donna Lynn Hope

92. “Regret is her companion and the one who whispers to her often. She has even let hope die and that brings about despair.”

— Donna Lynn Hope

93. “Seasons of the heart. To get through what I must I’m often encased in ice and for months he chips away until he can see my face and after a while, I begin to thaw. As warmth and feeling returns, my emotions continue to build until my personality is set on fire. When he leaves, the fire dwindles until there is but a flicker. Then there is stillness and winter returns.”

— Donna Lynn Hope

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

— Donna Lynn Hope

95. “She used to wander through the past as often as it beckoned her, bemoaning the loss of nostalgia. Then, for a while, she turned from it, blissfully free of its noxious clutch, and now it’s back, taunting her with what she left behind, knowing she can never recapture what’s gone.”

— Donna Lynn Hope

96. “Suffer” he commanded seductively. “With me... or because of me.”

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97. “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.”

— Donna Lynn Hope

98. “Evil spawns mayhem while benevolence repairs; doing good comforts the living while prayers are extended to the one who attends to the dead.”

— Donna Lynn Hope

99. “When they want you in secret they don’t really want you. They want the adventure. Give them one by telling them where they can go.”

— Donna Lynn Hope

100. “Spiders are anti-social, keep pests under control, and mostly mind their own business, but they somehow summon fear in humans who are far more dangerous, deceitful and have hurt more people. Of the two I’m more suspicious about the latter.”

— Donna Lynn Hope