Top 40 Tonya Hurley Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “If you expect nothing, you can never be disappointed.”

— Tonya Hurley

2. “A true friend is someone who is always there for you, with no agenda other than the friendship itself. We rely on our friends to lift us up in bad times, to keep us grounded in good times, but most importantly, to be there for us when we need nothing at all.”

— Tonya Hurley

3. “It was like death by a thousand paper cuts.”

— Tonya Hurley

4. “Life sucks, then you die. Then it sucks again.”

— Tonya Hurley

5. “You never think it will happen to you. You think about what it would be like. You go through it over and over in your mind, changing the scenario slightly each time, but deep down, you don’t really believe it would ever happen, because it’s something that happens to someone else, not to you.”

— Tonya Hurley

6. “I never understood why you tried so hard to fit in, when you were obviously meant to stand out.”

— Tonya Hurley

7. “If you expect nothing, you can never be disappointed. Apart from a few starry-eyed poets or monks living on a mountaintop somewhere, however, we all have expectations. We not only have them, we need them. They fuel our dreams, our hopes, and our lives like some super-caffeinated energy drink.”

— Tonya Hurley

8. “I love you, but i’m not fall in love with you.”

— Tonya Hurley

9. “We don’t miss what we never had, but we miss terribly things we almost had. And we miss things we used to have most of all. Through we hope and pray for our relationships, our looks, and our lives to improve, having more also means having more to lose.”

— Tonya Hurley

10. “Now I lay me down to sleep, I pray the Lord my soul to keep. And if I should die before I awake, I pray the popular attend my wake.”

— Tonya Hurley

11. “The success or failure of any relationship depends not just on how we feel about each other, but on how we make each other feel about ourselves.”

— Tonya Hurley

12. “We are often so distracted by the internal war between what we want to do and what we have to do that we overlook what we need to do.”

— Tonya Hurley

13. “Being in love with someone who doesn’t even know that you exist isn’t the worst thing in the world.”

— Tonya Hurley

14. “Breaking free, or not, is usually determined by whether you want to get somewhere slowly or nowhere fast.”

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15. “Sometimes divulging your vulnerabilities without any kind of filter can make you more human, but then again, it can also provide material that can be used against you.”

— Tonya Hurley

16. “She was a dead girl having the worst panic attack shed ever had. Not because she was afraid of dying, but because she knew that she would never live again.”

— Tonya Hurley

17. “The only reason to live is to love and the only reason to love is to live.”

— Tonya Hurley

18. “Regret; The saddest word in the English language.”

— Tonya Hurley

19. “It’s not the time we spend but how we spend the time that truly tells our story.”

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20. “You can’t have it both ways. Love is too powerful to hide for very long. Deny it and suffer the consequences. Acknowledge it and suffer the consequences. Revealing it can either be shameful or it can be liberating. It is for others to decide which it will be.”

— Tonya Hurley

21. “And though the symptons of lovesickness may be many, they all share a single cause and single cure: you.”

— Tonya Hurley

22. “Just as love blinds us to imperfections in others, it magnifies those we see in ourselves. But if this is true, then the opposite must also be the case. We can take comfort in the fact that our faults will be invisible to those who love us. The success or failure of any relationship depends not just on how we feel about each other, but on how we make each other feel about ourselves.”

— Tonya Hurley

23. “The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about. – Oscar Wilde.”

— Tonya Hurley

24. “Talk is cheap. If it wasn’t, people might not toss around ‘I love you’ like a marked-down phrase in a sales bin.”

— Tonya Hurley

25. “What doesn’t kill you, makes you paranoid.”

— Tonya Hurley

26. “If you want sympathy, look for a friend, but if you want honesty, an enemy might be the best friend you ever had.”

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27. “Worry may not change the outcome, but it definately affects the outlook.”

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28. “You can only get outside yourself by looking inside.”

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29. “The truth is, those people we feel drawn to most might not be intended as love interests, but rather as life-changing, life-altering presences that come into our lives for reasons we can’t yet understand.”

— Tonya Hurley

30. “There was no escape for her. No relief. She had exhausted all possibilities and all her hope was gone, washed away...”

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31. “We all want to be stars. The idea of being revered and envied must be encoded somewhere deep in our DNA. So must the desire to revere and envy others we imagine to be better, more accepted, and more popular than we are. The only problem is that the most necessary qualities required to be a celebrity – self-absorption, egomania, shamelessness – are the least attractive in a friend.”

— Tonya Hurley

32. “I see uncool people!”

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33. “She had penetrated his dream, but not in the way he penetrated hers.”

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34. “I don’t know what I’m doing... I’m failing at everything that matters to me.”

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35. “But our love it was stronger by far than the love Of those who were older than we – Of many far wiser than we – And neither the angels in Heaven above, Nor the demons down under the sea, Can ever dissever my soul from the soul Of the beautiful Annabel Lee.”

— Tonya Hurley

36. “She would never, she thought, be allowed to enjoy a moments pleasure without an eternity of pain.”

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37. “Sometimes it’s the things that are all around us that are hardest to see, especially love.”

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38. “Maybe, just like her, he needed to drown out all that was wrong, all that was thrown at him, and to check out for a while.”

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39. “There are many ways to be haunted, not all of them supernatural. From photo albums to love letters, the memory of bad choices, broken promises, lost loves and shattered dreams can often linger far longer than the glow of satisfaction from our greatest accomplishments. Indeed, the most frightening ways to be haunted may be in the many ways we haunt ourselves.”

— Tonya Hurley

40. “Her chest felt like it was a hollow cavity encasing a cold, hard rock.”

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41. “She had nothing left to lose and she needed him to herself, for just a little while.”

— Tonya Hurley