Quotes by : Hilary Thayer Hamann

It's better to keep grief inside. Grief inside works like bees or ants, building curious and perfect....

We are spontaneous when we are at our genuine best.

I was an American girl I possessed what our culture valued most-independance and blind courage.

Kate lost a mother," I said, "but I lost a nothing."Kate doesn't feel that way," Jack assured me.But....

Mr. O'Donnell was at the library counter, performing the sort of grim rituals librarians perform with....

It was frankly sort of confusing, the way everyone stared at our bodies exactly as they tried to erase....

Lying is a full time occupation, even if you tell just one, because once you tell it, you're stuck with....

They were sorting, or classifying. It's easy-anyone dressed funny is the enemy, especially if they reject....

And loneliness. I should say something of loneliness. The panic, the sweeping hysteria that comes not....

...someone who knows she is beautiful, who is always told that she is beautiful, but who, deep down,....