Torey L. Hayden > Quotes

“Perhaps the greatest magic of the human spirit is the ability to laugh, at ourselves, at each other, and at our sometimes hopeless situation. Laughter normalized our lives”
― Torey Hayden

“Safety is the most basic task of all. Without sense of safety, no growth can take place. Without safety, all energy goes to defense”
― Torey Hayden

“She looked up. "What I can't figure out is why the good things always end."
"Everything ends."
"Not some things. Not the bad things. They never go away."
"Yes, they do. If you let them, they go away. Not as fast as we'd like sometimes, but they end too. What doesn't end is the way we feel about each other. Even when you're all grown up and somewhere else, you can remember what a good time we had together. Even when you're in the middle of bad things and they never seem to be changing, you can remember me. And I'll remember you.”
― Torey Hayden, Torpedo Run / Banners Of Silk / My Left Foot / Trojan Treasure

“It's a funny place, this world. Hate has rights. Love has none.”
― Torey Hayden, Murphy's Boy

“Deep down behind those hostile eyes was a very little girl who had already learned that life really isn't much fun for anybody; and the best way to avoid further rejection was to made herself as objectionable as possible. Then it would never come as a surprise to find herself unloved. Only a simple fact.”
― Torey Hayden, One Child

“Memang sangat sulit mengubah pribadi yang sudah terbentuk oleh lingkungan selama ini, tapi sekalipun sedikit bukanlah sesuatu yang tidak mungkin”
― torey hayden

“Yeah, it's hard. It's really, really hard. But 'hard' is not 'impossible'.”
― Torey Hayden

“She had a keen sense of revenge, that knew no limits. When crossed she retaliated with devastating force. Her intelligence made it all the more frightening, because she could quickly perceive what was most valuable to a person and that is what she abused.”
― Torey L. Hayden, Les enfants des autres

“Deep down behind those hostile eyes was a very little girl who had already learned that life really isn't much fun for anybody; and the best way to avoid further rejection was to make herself as objectionable as possible. Then it would never come as a surprise to find herself unloved. Only a simple fact.”
― Torey Hayden, One Child

“Peter, you're not crazy," William said. "Nobody's really crazy. That's just a word. Isn't it, Torey? Just a word. And nobody's a word.”
― Torey L. Hayden

“It's better being crazy because if you don't like the way it is here then you can have dreams. And if you don't like the dreams, then they come and give you shots and you don't feel anything anyway and you just drift around. Dead. Half-dead. Alive but like you're dead. You just drift around alive, but dead. And it all seems the same after a while.”
― Torey Hayden

“This here be my class.-Sheila "One Child”
― Torey Hayden

“In the process of trying to understand others' difficult behaviour, I've found it is very helpful to realise that no one chooses to be unhappy. If someone is unhappy, they will be so because they genuinely cannot see how to do otherwise.”
― Torey L. Hayden, Twilight Children: Three Voices No One Heard Until a Therapist Listened

“Everybody's life looks better when you're standing outside it, looking in, but that's never how it really is. We all got good things and bad things...”
― Torey Hayden

“The thing you got to understand about foxes,’ Dixie said, ‘is that they’re innocent of what they’re doing. They got no idea they’re destroying what they love most.”
― Torey Hayden

“Desejei poder fazer o tempo andar para trás, regressar para apreciar durante mais algum tempo aquilo que fora meu, antes de o perder”
― Torey Hayden

“We're just different, that's all. That's all a freak is. someone who's different."

The Very Worst Thing”
― Torey Hayden

“A man shows he's a man by how he lives up to the trust of those who's innocent.”
― Torey L. Hayden, Innocent Foxes

“She could trust me now, knowing what I was like even when I was upset with her.”
― Torey L. Hayden, One Child

“Kasih itu menyembuhkan, bagi yang memberi dan yang meneriima.`` - Dr. Karl Menninger.”
― Torey Hayden

“Once I had a boy in here whose name was Liam. One of the first things he told me was that I couldn’t make him do anything he didn’t want. He wasn’t going to do any work for me. He wasn’t going to listen to a single thing I said.”
― Torey L. Hayden, Twilight Children: Three Voices No One Heard Until a Therapist Listened – Special Education Stories of Selective Mutism, Trauma, and Stroke Recovery

“As pessoas não se sentem sempre bem. Por vezes ficamos aborrecidas ou irritadas, ou cansadas ou até enervadas. E isso tudo faz parte de nós e, embora seja importante controlas essas emoções para não magoar ninguém não é o mesmo que comportar-mo-nos como se não existissem E o facto de existirem não é errado. Quando agimos como se nos sentíssemos assim, mentimos emocionalmente.”
― Torey Hayden

“Oh, Tuhan," Sheila bergumam pelan, saat dia mengamati pemandangan itu, "mengapa hal-hal yang begitu indah membuatku begitu sedih?”
― Torey L. Hayden, Sheila: Luka Hati Seorang Gadis Kecil

“I missed not having said goodbye to them. We waited.”
― Torey L. Hayden, Somebody Else’s Kids: Somebody Else’s Kids: They were problem children no one wanted … until one teacher took them to her heart

“-Somos uma espécie de fantasmas, autênticas visões. Em vez de espíritos sem corpos, somos corpos sem espíritos. Conchas vazias, com as pessoas erradas encurraladas lá dentro. Ou mesmo sem qualquer pessoa lá dentro.Espíritos. Meio milhão, um milhão, provavelmente metade do mundo está povoado por fantasmas. Meros corpos que ocupam um espaço, caminhando em torno do vazio.”
― Torey Hayden

“Next was Tyler, who startled me being a girl. She slunk in behind her mother, her dark curly hair down. Tyler was also 8 and had already tried to kill herself twice. The last time, the drain cleaner she had drunk had eaten away part of her esophagus. Now her throat bore an artificial tube and numerous red-rimmed surgical scars in ghoulish testimony to her skill.”
― Torey L. Hayden, One Child

“The kid’s 6 years old,” I said in surprise. “They’re scared of a 6-year-old?”
― Torey L. Hayden, One Child

“I taught what was affectionately referred to in our school district as the “garbage class.” It was the last year before the effort to mainstream special children would begin; it was the last year to pigeonhole all the odd children into special classes.”
― Torey L. Hayden, One Child

“She never cried. I stopped and reread that statement. She never cried? I could not conceive of a 6-year-old who did not cry. He must have meant seldom cried. That must have been a mistake.”
― Torey L. Hayden, One Child

“COME AND PLAY with me,” proposed the little prince. “I am so unhappy.” “I cannot play with you,” the fox said. “I am not tamed.” “Ah! Please excuse me,” said the little prince. But, after some thought, he added: “What does that mean—‘tame’?” “IT IS AN act too often neglected,” said the fox. “It means to establish ties.” “‘To establish ties’?” “Just that,” said the fox. “To me, you are still nothing more than a little boy who is just like a hundred thousand other little boys. And I have no need of you. And you, on your part, have no need of me. To you, I am nothing more than a fox like a hundred thousand other foxes. But if you tame me, then we shall need each other. To me, you will be unique in all the world. To you, I shall be unique in all the world . . .”
― Torey L. Hayden, One Child: The True Story of a Tormented Six-Year-Old and the Brilliant Teacher Who Reached Out