46 Quotes by Tami Hoag

The past overshadows the present foreshadows the future.

Most violence committed against women is perpetuated by men. I once read a quote that the thing a man fears most from a woman is that she’ll laugh at him, and the thing a woman most fears from a man is that he’ll kill her.

You don’t have to access the physical details to address the emotional damage within yourself. You can’t escape your own experience.

She felt stupid, though she knew she wasn’t. She was intelligent, had always been an A student and an overachiever. The fact that her short-term memory came and went didn’t make her less intelligent. It just made her feel that way – which made her think other people would feel the same way about her. They would think of her as brain-damaged.

Man enters into the ethical world through fear and not through love.” – Paul Ricoeur, The Symbolism of Evil.

From the dawn of time to the end of time, the world would never run short of cold, cold hearts.

I love everything about you. Don’t you ever think I don’t. Even when you make me mad, I love you so much I can hardly stand it.

Her immediate, instinctive response was to distract herself with physical pain. She wanted to go to the kitchen and get a knife and cut herself to relieve the pressure and clear her mind.

We all change. The causes are different; that’s all. Some people change because they want to, some because they have to. Sometimes it’s a choice and sometimes it’s not. You didn’t get to pick.