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“First bathrooms, now cars. At least people are wearing their seat belts.”

Social Media Selfies Selfie

Author:Donna Lynn Hope

“I don't admire the person who hides from the world and claims enlightenment. To be purified you have to be tested and there is no better test of strength than dealing with other people.”

People Strength Tested

Author:Donna Lynn Hope

“When it comes to parental alienation or grandparent alienation, we walk around with the overwhelming emptiness of a child's absence while carrying the heaviness of their sweet and irreplaceable memory...”

Alienation Estrangement Parental Alienation Estranged Grandparent Alienation Grandparents Alienation

Author:Donna Lynn Hope

“I never imagined a love so pure, nor a hate that could be so cruel.”

Estrangement Parental Alienation Estranged Grandparent Alienation Alienated Grandparents

Author:Donna Lynn Hope

“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?”

Romance Ghost Unrequited Love Haunted Unconventional Love

Author:Donna Lynn Hope

“Tolerance. In all my years of debating politics and religion no mind was changed with derision and no thought convicted by way of harshness. You have no right to demand tolerance while deriding others and their beliefs in the process. Want tolerance? Extend it. You’ll be surprised because given it, people will actually listen.”

Politics Debate Tolerance Debating Tolerating

Author:Donna Lynn Hope

“You may wish to capture a wild thing as you covet their unbreakable spirit, but as much as you may wish to tame a wild thing, a wild thing, who may grow to love you, will always resist and will do anything, at any cost, even if it means hurting you, to break free. Be careful when playing with a wild thing.”

Relationships Wild Spirited Wild Thing

Author:Donna Lynn Hope

“If it’s danger you seek you can go to war, blow the whistle on someone powerful, piss off someone unhinged, walk in a field during a lightning storm, tease a rattlesnake, or lose yourself in the right embrace. Some people live for it, others suffer in spite of it.”

Dangerous Danger Lightning Rattlesnake

Author:Donna Lynn Hope

“The worst feeling when speaking with someone or receiving a gift from them is knowing they feel obligated to.”

Feelings Obligation Obligated

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

Power Illusion Control Power Trip

Author:Donna Lynn Hope

“The black widow, who had dispatched a lover or two, was sought out for her wisdom. The young spider asked her, "Did you keep his harmful secret under the threat of danger, or did you spin a web so confusing that he didn't know if you were friend or foe? Did you release him from the web and your presence or will you give another the venom in which to finish him?" The black widow was quiet and then said, "All of the above.”

Revenge Deception Manipulation Mind Control Mind Games Black Widow

Author:Donna Lynn Hope

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

Anxiety Awkward Awkwardness Social Anxiety Elephant In The Room

Author:Donna Lynn Hope

“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.”

Hate Hurt Assuming Offense Assumptions

Author:Donna Lynn Hope

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

Hurt Numb Cared

Book:Willow

Source: Willow

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

Reality Fantasy

Author:Donna Lynn Hope

“I’m awake and I can’t sleep. The more I’m awake, the more I see, and the harder to sleep.”

Sleep Insomnia Sleeping Insomniac

Author:Donna Lynn Hope

“Nocturnal with a love for night, I'd stay up to see sunlight...”

Night Dark Darkness Sunlight Sunrise Nocturnal

Author:Donna Lynn Hope

“Hate. The word is thrown around as uselessly and as often as love is, and is used as a means in which to accuse and inflict damage; the weak-in-argument (weak in general) use it to discredit those with whom they disagree rather than dissect the issues for what they really are. I liken it to the predictable ad hominem attack, which is about as transparent as those who so ridiculously claim to know what’s in the heart of another.”

Hate Politics Debate Arguments Hating

Author:Donna Lynn Hope

“Anger met with anger only increases enmity rather than diffusing a tense situation. Anger, in turn, gives birth to hate. In such cases the wisest thing to do is not to engage through emotion. Emotions are self-centered and denying them spares animosity.”

Hate Anger Angry Enmity Animosity

Author:Donna Lynn Hope

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

People Apathy Apathetic

Author:Donna Lynn Hope