5 Quotes & Sayings By Torey L Hayden

Torey Hayden is an author of fiction and nonfiction. Her work has appeared in numerous magazines, including the "New England Review, The Iowa Review, Estudio, Black Warrior Review, Salmagundi, American Literary History" and "The Journal of American History". She has taught creative writing at the University of Texas at Dallas and worked as an editor for the "Encyclopedia of Religion and Nature." Currently she is completing her first full-length novel.

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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
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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
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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
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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