Torey L. Hayden Quotes

Beauty may be only skin deep but the judgments founded on it ten to go a lot deeper, whether we wished they would or not.

Torey L. Hayden

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

My heart do be so big," she whispered. "It be so big and I do reckon I be about the happiest kid for it.

Torey L. Hayden

The chair and desk and stuff, they change in the darkness. Like people change. And I lay in my bed and I think, you know, this is the way the chair really is. The way it looks in the daytime, that's just a foolie. It looks that way to make me think it's all right. But it's an ugly thing, a chair at night is. And I know even in the day that it's ugly underneath. It will be ugly again, when I'm alone with it. When it's dark...I'm scared of chairs... I try not to be scared of things. I try to fight it. But I'm not good at it. It's everywhere at once. It's like fighting the night.

Torey L. Hayden