Donna Lynn Hope

"I'm impressed when men go the distance to show they give a damn. That says nothing about the woman and everything about the man."

"The only stirrups I like are on a saddle."

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

"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."

"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."

"Connecting with someone is not necessarily a bond with a significant other, or even a friend, but can be the indefinable - perhaps the rarest and most precious thing in life to find at all."

"Bravery is the ability to endure, even unto death, all types of terrible, terrifying and painful situations and we live in a time when people do all that they can to avoid hardship and pain, never realizing that strength and courage is found in both."

"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."