Dianna Hardy Quotes

The thought of talking about it made Pueblo's gut ache, but then he thought of everything that Amy had been through – not that she'd told him her version yet. She had balls of steel, he thought with a smile. And what did he have? Three pairs of loin cloths going crisp on the radiator. ~ Dianna Hardy

I don't know what we're doing here – you and me … I don't know what we are or what we can be, but this doesn't have to be about that. This can just be about … a chance. Taking a chance. ~ Dianna Hardy

And they said females were the moody ones. Yeah – right. No one did moods like Alpha male werewolves. ~ Dianna Hardy

You'd be amazed at the grand tales the human brain will throw up to make sense of something nonsensical. ~ Dianna Hardy

He never knew a single second could be expanded into something timeless and so archaic. It shook him to his core – there were no words for it. ~ Dianna Hardy

A female who spoke her mind and called it like it was, was considered trouble. When a male did it, he was considered a leader and desirable. ~ Dianna Hardy

Pieces of your heart broke every day when you were a mother. ~ Dianna Hardy

And then there was Lydia.

Lydia who had hurtled into his life – into their lives – with hair like fire, eyes like amethysts and a fuck-me scent so palpable that he'd betrayed the only woman he'd ever loved. ~ Dianna Hardy

He took the pen and book from her and faltered.
"Just write anything – anything trivial that won't matter if it comes to pass."
"Erm..." God, he was useless at this.

Elena's hair turned blue.

"Hey!"
"What?"
"I don't want blue hair! What the hell did you write that for?"
"It seemed trivial."
"Blue hair – blue? That's trivial? What if I can't undo it?"
Karl stared at her blankly. His throat went dry. He felt like a total dickhead, but writing really wasn't his strong point, so he went for humour instead and flashed her a grin.
"I was going to write that all your clothes fall off, but figured you may have a problem with that. This was the second thing that came to mind."

(Karl and Elena) ~ Dianna Hardy

Death is my redemption," she whispered, her tears falling on his chest before rolling into the lapping ocean.

He stilled for a moment, and she felt something warm and wet slide down her right temple and past her ear. His tear.

His nose brushed against her forehead, before his lips pressed a kiss to it. "It seems we're at a bit of an impasse, then. Because your survival is mine. ~ Dianna Hardy

You want to be beaten, pummelled and driven away, so you have a reason to shut everyone out, and say 'I told you so' when it all goes to shit. The thing is, we all fuck up. All of us. Regularly. And living is painful because of it. Because we all fuck up. What makes us stronger is getting back on our feet – irony intended – and doing it all over again until we get it right. And Lydia's going to make you strong, Lawrence. She's going to make you a fucking superhero. ~ Dianna Hardy

Til death do us part....

The words wrap around my mind like soft, silk binds, and I cherish the imagery. Eternity can only be with this man – there will never be another who knows me so well. ~ Dianna Hardy

We were immortal, did you know that? Did you feel it like me? We had the world at our feet and we were going to live forever. Then came life – growing inside you – and I became mortal. ~ Dianna Hardy

I'll never let go of you again," she whispered. "I swear it. ~ Dianna Hardy

...today, I'm writing about the extraordinary; those 'moments' in life that reach us, and change us. Those moments take place all the time, really – it's just that we're taught not to notice. We're taught that whims are for the foolish; that instinct and passion are more akin to fairy tales than reality; that they won't get us very far, and everyone would laugh at us if they knew what we really held close to our hearts.

It's a lie we allow ourselves, and it's understandable.

But it's simply not true. ~ Dianna Hardy

You are old and grey," she teased.
"And you're never too immortal for a spanking," he shot back ... ~ Dianna Hardy

...we're not eighteen anymore. We've lived. We've created things that last – things of joy, and things of burden. ~ Dianna Hardy

We all have a sea inside us; can you hear it? Can you hear the ocean roaring? ~ Dianna Hardy

She smiled into his mouth. "That was ... wow."
"It's always wow. You're wow. I'll never get enough of you, Lydia. Not after ten years in dreams; not after forever in real life. ~ Dianna Hardy

How can you lose me? You've owned me from the first moment I saw you. ~ Dianna Hardy

Let me strip you piece by piece, exactly how you like it. Let me watch you shine through your brutal revelation. ~ Dianna Hardy

So much ice.
She thumbed a drying tear away.
How much water can the weight of ice carry? ~ Dianna Hardy

She looked at him for an age, and he read nothing short of love on her face. It warmed him to the core he'd thought dead, and scared the crap out of him. ~ Dianna Hardy

How we take it for granted – those trivial conversations; those mundane moments that we think hold no meaning. We never realise how much we rely on the ordinariness of everyday life. When love is gone – when our entire world is gone – only then do we understand those moments are what we live for. ~ Dianna Hardy

As if reading her mind, he leaned into her again, pupils dark, irises glowing like a forest caught in the last rays of sun before dusk ... "Do you want me to make you come?"
"Is that a trick question? ~ Dianna Hardy

It may be our actions that define us, but it is our reaction that changes the course of things. ~ Dianna Hardy

It only takes one voice, at the right pitch, to start an avalanche. ~ Dianna Hardy

Where monsters lurked, love also waited.
Bigger than any monster could be. ~ Dianna Hardy

The thought of being whoever I want is a terrifying thing, because I have only ever been who everyone has wanted me to be. ~ Dianna Hardy

Endings bring new beginnings. Love has many truths. And knights come in all colours. ~ Dianna Hardy

I was a coward. I've been a coward. So have you. We've both got blood on our hands. We're not the heroes who saved the world, we're the villains who survived it. I've made my peace with that. You should, too, because guilt is a weight you'll never swim away from. ~ Dianna Hardy

The universe is made up of courses of action we have no say in, but we have a say in who we are, and in those choices we make inside, even if outside, those choices seem impossible. ~ Dianna Hardy

When mortality is the equation, we are but pawns in a game. ~ Dianna Hardy

Then if we make it to tomorrow, we'll be here to pick up the pieces, and help him carry his load. That's what we do when we love someone: we don't stop them from breaking, we help put them back together. ~ Dianna Hardy

He pulled out a dagger from ... she wasn't sure where. Did he have that in his loin cloth? What else does he have in there?
(Amy's thoughts, The Witching Pen) ~ Dianna Hardy

It's only through the degradation of the soul that you can know who you really are; when all else is stripped away, leaving you bare." Somehow, his black eyes darkened, the venom in his words more deadly than a viper's bite. "Let me degrade you, Katherine. ~ Dianna Hardy

Elena glanced up at him, taking in his words. "If you get rid of your fear? You know, I never look at you as someone who's afraid."

"That's because every time you look at me, I'm looking right back, and the only time I'm not afraid, is when I see you. And I do see you, Elena. I see everything you've been through, from so young – how you struggled through it; how you never let it destroy your hope and faith – and I'm afraid of nothing."

(Karl and Elena) ~ Dianna Hardy

If you're waiting for me to declare my undying love for you, I can't do that yet, blood-bond or no blood-bond. If you think I'm the swoony type of heroine you find in romance novels, who'll fall into your arms just because you saved me from an alternate reality or whatever, get ready to leave empty handed, because I don't want to be caught. ~ Dianna Hardy

A bond between souls is ancient - older than the planet. ~ Dianna Hardy

Whether man or beast, the secrets you kept in the fathoms of your heart always held you to ransom. ~ Dianna Hardy

The hugest changes were the ones that could not be seen – that's where the real apocalypse lay: in people's hearts, their souls, their beings. ~ Dianna Hardy

Sometimes soul bonds are stronger than blood bonds. Have faith in that. ~ Dianna Hardy

One thing I've learnt about humans: you can't judge their strength by the size of their actions, but by the devotion of an act, no matter how small. ~ Dianna Hardy

They never got you, don't you know that? You irritating, charming, stubborn, evolved, intolerable, sweet, complex, caring, melodramatic bastard with your heart of gold. They never got you. You're wholly you, and you're perfect. ~ Dianna Hardy

Real choices – the ones that changed you and shaped you – were never made with the head, but on the beat of a heart that saw a future it couldn't live without. ~ Dianna Hardy

Storms were created when love was bound; set it free, and it could break barriers, and pave new paths. ~ Dianna Hardy

Hope – or perhaps delusion – was a flame that had stayed lit, even though its scorching light would hurt. It had refused to go out. ~ Dianna Hardy

She wasn't really aware of the song as she sang it. Rather, she slipped through song's tunnel, down its corridor of reality, until she landed in the seat of the music. It was strangely healing; addictively powerful. She hadn't expected to become so engulfed by the notes. ~ Dianna Hardy

To submit isn't to be forced. It's to yield to a force greater than your own, in order to become part of the whole. ~ Dianna Hardy

The only thing I need is for you to be happy. I'll wait right here, until my last breath, for you to be happy. ~ Dianna Hardy

Even after it all, would you dance with me again in the eye of the storm?"

"I'd dance with you until the end of forever. ~ Dianna Hardy

God, no. I don't want to tame her, I want to watch her. I just want to watch her be herself – it turns me on like nothing else. ~ Dianna Hardy

None of us are ordinary – we just settle into ordinary lives. ~ Dianna Hardy

Time flies when you grow fangs and fur. ~ Dianna Hardy

At the sound of my name, those two worlds on either side of me collide, and my lips meet his. Time ceases to exist, and so, apparently does any logic that my mind is hanging on to. Logic would say that this is insane; every other fibre of my being says it's right. ~ Dianna Hardy

Love. It seemed impossible that she could love him, but she was so deep in him there was really nowhere to go but further in. So this is what love was. Uncontrollable. Consuming. But so irresistible you wanted to be consumed. ~ Dianna Hardy

He called to her primal side; the ancient aspect of her animal self that wanted to submit. It wanted to submit to him; to sacrifice all of who she was at the altar of his maleness and lay herself bare for his taking. ~ Dianna Hardy

Tis because we be on a blighted star, and not a sound one, isn't it Tess? ~ Thomas Hardy

My heart is hardy, for I have suffered much on the seas and the battlefield: this will be only something more. But a ravenous belly cannot be hid, damn the thing. It gives a world of trouble to men, makes them fit out fleets of ships and scour the barren sea, to bring misery on their enemies. ~ W.H.D. Rouse

He's spent all his life in good-natured rebellion against the tyranny of the unimportant. ~ Robin Hardy

Hardy thinks they're cheering for him. I'm not going to tell him differently. ~ Terry Hoeppner

If I'm traveling, I'll take a film camera and a digital camera because sometimes there are moments where, if you've lost it, or if coming back and it accidentally goes through the X-ray machine and it gets overexposed, you might have had a really important moment to you and you would be really upset that you didn't have a back-up. ~ Dianna Agron

But time is short, and science is infinite... ~ Thomas Hardy

My goal has always been not to look forward to the next thing, but to relish and celebrate the successes I have at the moment. Whether it's landing a part in a student film or having a good day in acting class, I never discredit anything. ~ Dianna Agron

And as long as you're making choices unconsciously, you can't consciously choose to change that ineffective behavior and turn it into productive habits. ~ Darren Hardy

She suddenly thought one afternoon, when looking in the glass at her fairness, that there was yet another date, of greater importance to her than those; that of her own death, when all these charms would have disappeared; a day which lay sly and unseen and among all the other days of the year, giving no sign or sound when she annually passed over it; but not the less surely there. When was it? Why did she not feel the chill of each yearly encounter with such a cold relation? ~ Thomas Hardy

You are the one who takes care of you, I tell myself. ~ Nicole Hardy

Because nobody could love 'ee more than Tess did! ... She would have laid down her life for 'ee. I could do no more. ~ Thomas Hardy

Most people can do nothing at all well ~ G.H. Hardy

I love Jesus but I drink alittle- Gladis Hardy from the Ellen Show ~ Ellen DeGeneres

I shall be up before you are awake; I shall be afield before you are up; and I shall have breakfasted before you are afield. In short, I shall astonish you all. ~ Thomas Hardy

I was on the yearbook staff, so I would take out film cameras and Nikons and take photos around school and at sporting events and things like that. We had a darkroom as well. I just loved it. I also saved up for a video camera to video my friends and cut and paste the videos together and I gave them to all of my friends for graduation. ~ Dianna Agron

Ah, fool," he went on to himself, "to clip your own wings when you were free to soar! . . . But I could not rest till I had done it. Why do I never recognise an opportunity till I have missed it, nor the good or ill of a step till it is irrevocable? . . . I fell in love! ~ Thomas Hardy

Exposition, criticism, appreciation, is work for second-rate minds. I ~ G.H. Hardy

Seek out positive people who have achieved the success you want to create in your own life. Remember the adage: Never ask advice of someone with whom you wouldn't want to trade places. ~ Darren Hardy

That accounts for his crying so. Poor creature!"

"Well--you must do the sticking--there's no help for it. I'll showyou how. Or I'll do it myself--I think I could. Though as it issuch a big pig I had rather Challow had done it. However, his basketo' knives and things have been already sent on here, and we can use'em."

"Of course you shan't do it," said Jude. "I'll do it, since it mustbe done."

He went out to the sty, shovelled away the snow for the space of acouple of yards or more, and placed the stool in front, with theknives and ropes at hand. A robin peered down at the preparationsfrom the nearest tree, and, not liking the sinister look of thescene, flew away, though hungry. By this time Arabella had joinedher husband, and Jude, rope in hand, got into the sty, and noosed theaffrighted animal, who, beginning with a squeak of surprise, rose torepeated cries of rage. Arabella opened the sty-door, and togetherthey hoisted the victim on to the stool, legs upward, and while Judeheld him Arabella bound him down, looping the cord over his legs tokeep him from struggling.

The animal's note changed its quality. It was not now rage, but thecry of despair; long-drawn, slow and hopeless.

"Upon my soul I would sooner have gone without the pig than have hadthis to do!" said Jude. "A creature I have fed with my own hands."

"Don't be such a tender-hearted fool! There's the sticking-knife--the one with the point. Now whatever ~ Thomas Hardy

The Compound Effect is the principle of reaping huge rewards from a series of small, smart choices ~ Darren Hardy

No discovery of mine has made, or is likely to make, directly or indirectly, for good or ill, the least difference to the amenity of the world. ~ G.H. Hardy

I look into my glass,
And view my wasting skin,
And say, 'Would God it came to pass
My heart had shrunk as thin! ~ Thomas Hardy

The lad stood before Durbeyfield, and contemplated his length from crown to toe. ~ Thomas Hardy

If she had not been imprudence incarnate, she would not have acted as she did when she met Henchard by accident a day or two later. ~ Thomas Hardy

Commitment is doing the thing you said you were going to do long after the mood you said it in has left you. ~ Darren Hardy

I have seen your mother; and I will never see her again! ~ Thomas Hardy

Discomforts are only discomforting when they're an unexpected inconvenience, an unusual annoyance, an unplanned-for irritant. Discomforts are only discomforting when we aren't used to them. But when we deal with the same discomforts every day, they become expected and part of the routine, and we are no longer afflicted with them the way we were. We forget to think about them like the daily disturbances of going to the bathroom, or brushing our teeth, or listening to noisy street traffic. Give your body the chance to harden, your blood to thicken, and your skin to toughen, and you'll find that the human body carries with it a weightless wardrobe. When we're hardy in mind and body, we can select from an array of outfits to comfortably bear most any climate. ~ Ken Ilgunas

She was in the mood for sounds of every kind now, and strained her ears to catch the faintest, in wayward enmity to her quiet of mind. ~ Thomas Hardy

For me, ancestry is just one thing that connects us to people, and feeling connected to other people is generally a good thing, as long as one kind of connection does not have primacy over all the others. Heredity, race and nationhood are not the best criteria by which to judge our fellow humans. ~ Jeremy Hardy

And they will pause just for an instant, and give a sigh to me, and think, "Poor girl!" believing they do great justice to my memory by this. But they will never, never realize that it was my single opportunity of existence, as well as of doing my duty, which they are regarding; they will not feel that what to them is but a thought, easily held in those two words of pity, "Poor girl!" was a whole life to me, as full of hours, minutes, and peculiar minutes, of hopes and dreads, smiles, whisperings, tears, as theirs: that it was my world, what is to them their world, and that in that life of mine, however much I cared for them, only as the thought I seem to them to be. Nobody can enter into another's nature truly, that's what is so grievous. ~ Thomas Hardy

Did you say the stars were worlds, Tess?"
"Yes."
"All like ours?"
"I don't know, but I think so. They sometimes seem to be like the apples on our stubbard-tree. Most of them splendid and sound - a few blighted."
"Which do we live on - a splendid one or a blighted one?"
"A blighted one. ~ Thomas Hardy

She remained mute, not knowing that he was smothering his affection for her. She hardly observed that a tear descended slowly upon his cheek, a tear so large that it magnified the pores of the skin over which it rolled, like the object lens of a microscope. ~ Thomas Hardy

Well, because it is provokingly wrong. I am a sort of negation of it." "You are very philosophical. 'A negation' is profound talking. ~ Thomas Hardy

To see persons looking with children's eyes at any ordinary scenery, is a proof that they possess the charming faculty of drawing new sensations from an old experience ... ~ Thomas Hardy

One thing he certainly was - sincere. ~ Thomas Hardy