“In my experience, intention doesn’t often have much to do with result.” — Catherine McKenzie Experience Copy Share Image
“Everyone’s path to here is unique, Anne. It’s what you do from here that counts.” — Catherine McKenzie Copy Share Image
“You don't want to work to fall in love, you want to be in love. Like in a fairy tale.” — Catherine McKenzie Fairy tale Copy Share Image
“The taste might remain on her brain, but the substance would be gone,” — Catherine McKenzie Copy Share Image
“All I knew was I had to talk to someone. I had to try to steal someone’s rationality.” — Catherine McKenzie Copy Share Image
“everyone has regrets. Loose ends. Things they could do if they had more time.” — Catherine McKenzie Copy Share Image
“if you were prepared for the worst, you might make it come true.” — Catherine McKenzie Copy Share Image
“If someone figured out a way to bottle woman-been-wronged, they’d make a fortune.” — Catherine McKenzie Copy Share Image
“we were concentrating on the bright blooming things and not the choking weeds that were getting bigger by the day.” — Catherine McKenzie Copy Share Image
“It seemed like almost nothing had happened, but that almost nothing changed everything for me.” — Catherine McKenzie Copy Share Image
“Maybe it was magical thinking, but I couldn’t help believing that if you were prepared for the worst, you might make it… — Catherine McKenzie Copy Share Image
“Suppose I say summer, write the word “hummingbird,” put it in an envelope, take it down the hill to the box. When… — Catherine McKenzie Summer Copy Share Image
“I read somewhere that many adults with advanced IQs are often less happy than those who test average.” — Catherine McKenzie Adults Copy Share Image
“But, of course, everyone has regrets. Loose ends. Things they could do if they had more time.” — Catherine McKenzie Copy Share Image
“But how are you supposed to feel, really, when all your worst fears, things you’d never even imagined could happen, actually do… — Catherine McKenzie Fear Copy Share Image
“My brain was playing tricks on me, sucking me inward, away from my life, my family, myself.” — Catherine McKenzie Family Copy Share Image
“Like how there’s this optimal money/happiness equation. Once you pass a certain amount of household income, life isn’t any better. Apparently, money… — Catherine McKenzie Family Copy Share Image
“Love isn't simple, Katie, and neither is life. Things that are worth having are sometimes complicated, and they evoke complicated emotions. You… — Catherine McKenzie Copy Share Image
“When we get home from the funeral, the house is already thick with people. It feels like the whole town’s here, though… — Catherine McKenzie Funeral Copy Share Image
“When the stories petered out, Tim said how much it sucked that Rob wasn’t there. That he couldn’t hear how much he… — Catherine McKenzie Left behind Copy Share Image
“And while I got that about him, he never seemed to understand or believe it when I told him I wasn't like… — Catherine McKenzie Drift Copy Share Image
“Some people are meant to disappear from your life, to remain a memory, a faded possibility. A curiosity. I ought to know.… — Catherine McKenzie Curiosity Copy Share Image
“Suppose I say summer, write the word “hummingbird,” put it in an envelope, take it down the hill to the box. When… — Catherine McKenzie Summer Copy Share Image
“Ah, the Serenity Prayer. “God grant me the serenity To accept the things I cannot change; Courage to change the things I… — Catherine McKenzie Courage to change Copy Share Image
“It’s just how love gets described in the movies. Like in Sleepless in Seattle . . .” This is the movie they… — Catherine McKenzie Copy Share Image
“I don’t need my heart anymore, you can have it. Cut it out, put it in a box, bury it in the… — Catherine McKenzie Blind Copy Share Image
“In a sense you could say I’ve already been to my own funeral.” — Catherine McKenzie Funeral Copy Share Image
“His mouth tastes like Scotch, and feels familiar, like somewhere I've been before.” — Catherine McKenzie Copy Share Image
“Once you pass a certain amount of household income, life isn’t any better.” — Catherine McKenzie Family Copy Share Image
“It’s hard to find someone you’d rather spend time with than not.” — Catherine McKenzie Copy Share Image
“it’s too quiet up there in my head, and this has let the noise in.” — Catherine McKenzie Copy Share Image
“I don’t think that bad actions erase good ones. Not really.” — Catherine McKenzie Bad actions Copy Share Image
