Kay Hooper > Quotes

“But in real life, happily-ever-after is just the beginning. It's where life starts.”
― Kay Hooper, If There Be Dragons

“Saying that you love is easy, but living up to those simple words is the most difficult thing you'll ever do.”
― Kay Hooper, What Dreams May Come

“Maybe that's what is means to be human . . . forever questioning our certainties.”
― Kay Hooper

“Love without trust. The difference between holding a hand and chaining a soul”
― Kay Hooper, What Dreams May Come

“I know what I don't want. I don't want to live through somebody else. To do what others expect me to do, be what they think I should be. I have to make my own choices, my own decisions. I have to control my own life, at least as much as any of us can”
― Kay Hooper, What Dreams May Come

“What about free will? . . . There's that too. I never understood why people think they're mutually exclusive. Ask me, our entire lives aren't planned out for us- just some things. Specific events along the way, crossroads we're meant to come to. Tests, maybe, to measure our progress. But we always have choices, and those choices can send us along an unplanned path . . . there are some things that are meant to happen at a certain moment and in a certain way. No matter which path you choose, which decisions you make along your own particular journey, those pivotal moments appear to be set in stone. Maybe they represent the specific lessons we're meant to learn . . . Things we have to face. Things we have to learn. Responsibilities we have to fulfill. And mistakes we have to correct.”
― Kay Hooper

“There are things in the human mind that are not meant to be seen or touched, things seldom even acknowledged by our conscious selves. Fantasies, impulses, rages, hatreds, primitive instincts. They're buried deep, usually, and that's where they belong.”
― Kay Hooper, Stealing Shadows

“That would be all nice and simple, wouldn't it? Be good and go to heaven; be bad and go to hell. Black and white. Rules to live by, to keep everybody civilized. But life isn't simple, so I don't know why we expect death to be. What there is . . . is continued existence. Complex, multilayered, and unique to every individual. Just like life is.”
― Kay Hooper

“Sometimes reality is better than dreams”
― Kay Hooper, What Dreams May Come

“without understanding and respect, even love could turn into a trap all too easily”
― Kay Hooper, What Dreams May Come

“I had to learn to value myself before I could expect to be valued by others”
― Kay Hooper, What Dreams May Come

“I don't want us to be together because either of us is afraid. We have to be whole before we can share what we are with each other”
― Kay Hooper, What Dreams May Come

“I think control is an illusion we build to protect ourselves, and the larger we try to make that circle, the weaker it gets. We can't control our own destinies, much less someone else's. And even the illusion is so fragile, any change can destroy it”
― Kay Hooper, What Dreams May Come

“if I've learned anything through all this, it's that you can't build walls around the people you care about. You can't do it to keep them near or to keep them safe. Even if they could stand the prison, that kind of control is still an illusion. To fate, the walls are made of air”
― Kay Hooper, What Dreams May Come

“We should never, ever believe life- or history- holds no surprises for us. That way lies arrogance. And arrogance can blind us to the truth . . . Any truth. All truth.”
― Kay Hooper

“he'd thought of fate as something hostile, a thief moving soundlessly in the night”
― Kay Hooper, What Dreams May Come

“He said to tell you that when you’re up to your ass in alligators, it’s a little difficult to remember that your main objective was to drain the swamp.”
― Kay Hooper, Hostage

“Death takes people away from us all our lives. We have to move on. Or die ourselves.”
― Kay Hooper, Stealing Shadows

“our entire lives aren’t planned out for us—just some things. Specific events along the way, crossroads we’re meant to come to. Tests, maybe, to measure our progress. But we always have choices, and those choices can send us along an unplanned path.”
― Kay Hooper, Touching Evil

“If there is no God, there can be no magic,”
― Kay Hooper, Stealing Shadows

“I make you nervous. Admit it.”

“I’ve known you barely twenty-four hours,” Rafe retorted. “That isn’t enough time to get used to a woman’s perfume, let alone the fact that she knows without looking what kind of shorts you happen to be wearing.”

Isabel chuckled. “Okay, you win that round.”
― Kay Hooper, Sense of Evil

“you. They're just looking for a door so they can come back.” “Door?” MacBride was frowning, plainly”
― Kay Hooper, Out of the Shadows

“She was one in a million, Tyler was. A strong, intelligent woman with the beauty to launch ships and the courage to follow them into battle. Kane could recall a number of past occasions when he’d been glad to have her at his side when things had gotten sticky. Tyler never waited for the cavalry to come charging to the rescue, but instead grabbed a big stick and started swinging.
She’d very nearly brained him once or twice.”
― Kay Hooper, Enemy Mine

“You know, for someone who holds a position of legal authority as high as yours, you sure do like to throw away the rule book sometimes."

"Knowing the rules is one thing. Following them blindly all the time is something else again.”
― Kay Hooper, Hunting Fear

“He remembered those tense moments on the cliff face and kept a grin off his own face with an effort. How many women, he wondered, could have spit curses at a man while dangling from a cliff by her fingertips? With someone shooting at her?
Not many.”
― Kay Hooper, Enemy Mine

“The telepathic communication had become obvious rather quickly, and after the second or third time
one or the other of them turned to him with a comment that had clearly been the end of a conversation
rather than the beginning, Tony had strongly objected.
"Will you guys quit that? It's getting spooky. Not to mention confusing."
"He's probably right," Bishop had said, clearly amused. "Or he's just jealous that he can't do it."
Tony had made a rude response to that, even though all three of them knew it was at least half true.”
― Kay Hooper, Out of the Shadows

“So to catch a madman, we have to think like a madman?” “I wouldn’t advise it,” Cassie said very quietly. “That abyss is darker and colder than you can even imagine.”
― Kay Hooper, Stealing Shadows

“so I can vote and then bitch about it later. You can’t really not vote and then bitch about what’s happening. At least as a voter you try to make your voice and opinions heard.”
― Kay Hooper, A Deadly Web

“Metcalf came into the room and sat down with a sigh. "Did everybody go nuts all of a sudden? It's Thursday, for Christ's sake, and you'd think it was Saturday night. Fender benders, B amp;Es, domestic disputes-and some asshole just tried to rob one of our three banks."

"Unsuccessfully, I gather," Lucas said.

"Yeah, but not much credit to my people. Guy had a flare gun. A flare gun. I was ready to shoot him just on general principle. And because he fucked up my morning.”
― Kay Hooper, Hunting Fear

“You ruthless, cold-hearted bastard! You'll use anything and anyone you have to, won't you? As long as you get what you want, as long as you win, you don't give a shit what happens to anyone else!”
― Kay Hooper, Out of the Shadows