Best gift Quote by Hilary Thayer Hamann

“Hell is only loneliness, a place without play for the soul, a place without God. How could there be God in loneliness when God…

— Hilary Thayer Hamann

“Having to talk to people was the one thing, but soliciting conversation was something else. If I acted squirmy or didn't make eye contact,…

— Hilary Thayer Hamann

“I shook my head. I couldn't remember the time before, or the way it used to be. There were things we used to do,…

— Hilary Thayer Hamann

“Why remain polite but powerless, in love but a beggar?”

— Hilary Thayer Hamann

“They were sorting, or classifying. It's easy-anyone dressed funny is the enemy, especially if they reject your supremacy or do not acknowledge school as…

— Hilary Thayer Hamann

“The families of graduating seniors emptied out of cars, sheepish in uncommon splendor, like milling clans at the origin of a parade. There is…

— Hilary Thayer Hamann

And loneliness. I should say something of loneliness. The panic, the sweeping hysteria that comes not when you are without others, but when you…

— Hilary Thayer Hamann

“My mother refuses to go into the ocean. She respects it, she says, which is basically the same as saying she's afraid. I go…

— Hilary Thayer Hamann

“The unusual thing about quiet is that when you seek it, it is almost impossible to achieve. When you strive for quiet, you become…

— Hilary Thayer Hamann

“I liked the idea of marking the place where a life ends as opposed to the place a corpse is buried. And also the…

— Hilary Thayer Hamann

“My hand reaches for his eye. He does not pull away but breathes into my touch. His normal lid drifts closed, and beneath my…

— Hilary Thayer Hamann

“Envy is awful. Unlike jealousy, which comes from the threat of losing what you cherish, envy is a dark desire for things over which…

— Hilary Thayer Hamann