Hilary Thayer Hamann Quotes

When you lose your parents as a child, you are indoctrinated into a club, you re taken into life's severest confidence. You are undeceived.

Optimism is when you're not sure where life is going to take you, so naturally you anticipate the best possible outcome

Boys will be boys, that's what everyone always says. But no one ever mentions how girls have to be something other than themselves altogether.

Sometimes all you’ve accomplished by the end of the day is to have maneuvered your body through space without grave incident.

Sometimes a day is a symbolic day, and you behave symbolically. Sometimes you search inside for a feeling, and, finding none, you remember that no feeling is frequently the most possible feeling.

Mine is not a smiling face. Strangers on the street always say, Smile! But my muscles do not naturally go there.

...someone who knows she is beautiful, who is always told that she is beautiful, but who, deep down, does not feel very beautiful.

We are spontaneous when we are at our genuine best.