Catherine Ryan Hyde Quotes
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Catherine Ryan Hyde Famous Quotes & Sayings
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Since we all know for a fact that we're all going to die, why don't we all treat each other like we could lose each other at any minute?
Love always looks nice. I don't really know anyone who doesn't enjoy it when they see it. Anyone who doesn't, I don't really want to know them.
But it's funny how you can take something that turns out to be fatal and classify it as not worth fixing.
Maybe we've removed all the relevance from the information we teach kids so they have no idea why they should care.
But that never did any good anyway. People learned by what they experienced. It mattered little what anyone said to anyone. The small
I really only have been seriously writing, finishing things and publishing things since January '91.
You can only save face for just so long before you wake up and realize you have nothing left worth saving.
Esta bien," Clara called back. They sat in silence a while longer. "You seem pretty relaxed," she said to Billy. "Pretty
I can live through everything or I can answer for everything, but sometimes both is just too much for one day.
Grownups have a tendency to talk themselves out of things, saying it will never work, but kids are fabulously optimistic.
The closer you get to heaven, the less air there is, because when you get to heaven for real, you don't need to breathe anymore.
If you want to see a man come to his senses, try something like, Do you happen to carry a rubber in your wallet? Did I mention I'm not on the pill?
When I dreamed about the time you would actually sleep with me, I thought there'd be some sleeping involved.
The drinks were so perfect, so visually artistic. Virginia could honestly believe she would find her salvation in one.
I decided that not talking is like a litmus test for a real friend. You can just sit there and be. Not always be filling up the air with words
If I was to kill everybody who didn't love me and never would, wouldn't be nobody left on the planet?
But when I was inside, I was always OK. So I just started staying inside. Like I told you before, it gets to be an addiction.
anymore. Maybe he was even with someone else after all this time. "You really look worried," Pete said. "Relax. Something came up that he
Whether they admit it to you, whether they admit it to themselves, people know where they stand with each other. Virginia
But I bet more than half the people in the world right now are worrying about something that really is going to be okay.
The world I live in is not all white people, not all straight people, and it's not all people who have their acts together, either.
August briefly tried that on for size. Wondered if he longed for summer because summer made it so much easier to breathe.
But I've learned in my life that not everything that happens needs to be talked about. Some things are better left alone.
Hard work can sometimes substitute for natural ability, but natural ability almost never makes up for not being willing to do the work.
There's something about standing on the top of a mountain you personally climbed at great sacrifice.
A kiss, she thinks, has to be entirely balanced
it has to have a little conflict, a little dialectic, a little revolution.
it has to have a little conflict, a little dialectic, a little revolution.
After a while you look at a picture and all it helps you remember is the picture. And then it gets kind of memorized and you hardly even see it.
He listened to the occasional creak of Flora's squeaky board, and noticed it sounded lonely. Or maybe that was just him.
I feel that the truth is simply the truth. And that to shield someone from it is only a manner of treating that person with a lack of respect.
So you're saying you don't feed something in a situation where it would be a big disaster for it to grow.
You can't tell someone to pursue their dream only if it's a good match for your own. You can't dictate what dream he should pursue.
A dream has more than one owner. It belongs to everyone it may choose to touch. Whomever it concerns.
There was something peaceful about an untouched fall of snow. Like being in another world, where nothing can go wrong. Because nothing can find you.
If there's some hidden part of me that thinks like that, I'd rather not go searching for it. - Nathan
Feelings are a funny thing, he realized. They're always more tangled and contradictory and complex than we want them to be. Than we care to admit.