“Everything in the world is easier to clean up after than your own actual damn life.” — Catherine Ryan Hyde Copy Share Image
“In certain moments I suspect life knows exactly what it’s doing.” — Catherine Ryan Hyde Copy Share Image
“Even if this was the only thing I ever did in my whole life, it would be worth having a life just… — Catherine Ryan Hyde Copy Share Image
“want to be OK right now, so you trade that for having a good life in the long run. It’s a bad… — Catherine Ryan Hyde Copy Share Image
“It struck me that this was the second time in a couple of days that just yelling someone's name on the street… — Catherine Ryan Hyde Copy Share Image
“The most important thing I can add from my own observations is this: Knowing it started from unremarkable circumstances should be a… — Catherine Ryan Hyde Copy Share Image
“But if two people meet and fall in love, and try to make a life together, and fail, does that mean they… — Catherine Ryan Hyde Copy Share Image
“She was looking at her life. It was the same array of property and belongings she looked at every day. Except you… — Catherine Ryan Hyde Copy Share Image
“You want to be OK right now, so you trade that for having a good life in the long run. It’s a… — Catherine Ryan Hyde Copy Share Image
“Somebody should put a warning label on everything in life that’s about fear. Being afraid to die, being afraid your daughter will… — Catherine Ryan Hyde Copy Share Image
“You know, you think about who you might meet and when they might come. You always know that someday a door will… — Catherine Ryan Hyde Copy Share Image
“There’s two things you can do with a kid like that. Way I see it. You can burst his bubble. Or you… — Catherine Ryan Hyde Copy Share Image
“That’s how most of the last fifty years of my life disappeared, even though I didn’t know it before now. And believe… — Catherine Ryan Hyde Copy Share Image
“That’s how most of the last fifty years of my life disappeared, even though I didn’t know it before now. And believe… — Catherine Ryan Hyde Copy Share Image
“See now why I hate to go outside so much?” “Yeah. I guess I do. But you gotta do it anyway, right?… — Catherine Ryan Hyde Copy Share Image
“I know this is going to come as a shock to me, but I am leaving me. Perhaps I'll say I could… — Catherine Ryan Hyde Copy Share Image
“They reminded her what it meant to allow someone into your life. You see something you like in a man, so you… — Catherine Ryan Hyde Copy Share Image
“That’s all addiction really is. It’s trading away the future so you can feel OK right now.” — Catherine Ryan Hyde Copy Share
“He knew then why his voice had abandoned him. Because it takes courage to talk to people.” — Catherine Ryan Hyde Copy Share
“Besides, they looked like brothers. They looked like two examples of the same theme.” — Catherine Ryan Hyde Copy Share
“he was upset. Though hopefully not at her. But upset is a funny thing. It looks for places to direct itself. It’s an emotion… — Catherine Ryan Hyde Copy Share
“I see the sun, high overhead, and then I know. This darkness doesn’t belong to the night. It belongs to me.” — Catherine Ryan Hyde Copy Share
“No. It’s not your job to convince him. It’s his job to believe it. This is his shortcoming, not yours. He needs to think… — Catherine Ryan Hyde Copy Share
“When are you going to learn to act in your own best interests? In spite of what your emotions tell you to do?” — Catherine Ryan Hyde Copy Share
“Until you get it that’s he’s only what his experience has shaped him to be, you’re seeing him as subhuman. As ‘other’ somehow. And… — Catherine Ryan Hyde Copy Share
“I find it touching, almost enviable, that a person with so little feels she has all she needs.” — Catherine Ryan Hyde Copy Share
Because it proves that you don't need much to change the entire world for the better. You can start with the most ordinary ingredients.… — Catherine Ryan Hyde Copy Share
“Other people always bring complications. That’s just the nature of human relationships. You can’t separate people from their complications. Uncomplicated and alone are more… — Catherine Ryan Hyde Copy Share
“Everything grows best in oxygen and sunlight except secrets and guilt and regrets. They” — Catherine Ryan Hyde Copy Share
“No happy marriage was, in his estimation, ever based on thoughtless, automatic untruths and exclusions. And the best way to make someone unhappy, if… — Catherine Ryan Hyde Copy Share
“But mostly I just kept reminding myself to burn every moment into my memory. I just tried to be sure I was always there.… — Catherine Ryan Hyde Copy Share
“So, I guess people figure it's not as hard to lose your mother when you never got along anyway. But they're wrong. They're dead… — Catherine Ryan Hyde Copy Share
