“If I was to kill everybody who didn't love me and never would, wouldn't be nobody left on the planet?” — Catherine Ryan Hyde Copy Share Image
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… — Catherine Ryan Hyde Copy Share Image
“What could I possibly have done to bring this on? What can I possibly do to stop it? I thought, is there… — Catherine Ryan Hyde Copy Share Image
“And then, every time I didn't see her, there was a fall involved. I thought about dancing on the fifth-floor ledge outside… — 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
“My older relatives grabbed me and latched onto me, and I felt like they wanted something from me. Their love felt like… — Catherine Ryan Hyde Copy Share Image
“Ah, yes. That. The sin of being happy or excited. According to my father, we must guard carefully against such things. According… — 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
“Is that really love? When it happens so fast? She sighed. Paused the movie. Sighed again. Some would say it's only love… — 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
