“That I’d been letting life act itself out on me when I should have been directing it.” — Catherine McKenzie Copy Share Image
“money can’t buy happiness, or it does, but it costs less than you imagined it would.” — Catherine McKenzie Happiness Copy Share Image
“If I felt something, then it made it true. It was the other person’s problem if they didn’t agree.” — Catherine McKenzie Copy Share Image
“And why do the main characters always have to hate each other at the beginning of the movie? Like, hello, red flag.… — Catherine McKenzie Hate Copy Share Image
“Hummingbird Suppose I say summer, write the word “hummingbird,” put it in an envelope, take it down the hill to the box.… — Catherine McKenzie Hummingbird Copy Share Image
“Is there a panic button I can hit? Or better yet, a button that will pause this whole scene while I figure… — Catherine McKenzie Life Copy Share Image
“She told me, years later, that it was the lack of adult interaction that was really driving her nuts. All those hours… — Catherine McKenzie Heart Copy Share Image
“Stupid Facebook. Some people are meant to disappear from your life, to remain a memory, a faded possibility. A curiosity. I ought… — Catherine McKenzie Copy Share Image
“I tell myself I got sucked into the happiness, the surge of the drug we seemed to make together. But was it… — Catherine McKenzie Happiness Copy Share Image
“Her departure was a gradual thing, like a watercolor left in the sun, every day fainter until one day the canvas was… — Catherine McKenzie Departure Copy Share Image
“It’s all because of the video cameras. Standard issue in daycares these days: twelve cameras (six in the baby room, six in… — Catherine McKenzie Parenting Copy Share Image
“I stare off into space for a minute. "I just wish my life would go back to the way it was." "Why?"… — Catherine McKenzie Copy Share Image
“You can quit if you want. If you hate it. If it isn't fun anymore. I'll back you with Dad. But you… — Catherine McKenzie Copy Share Image
“Her office is oddly decorated with all things dog. There's a dog calendar, a dog clock, a couple of framed photographs of… — Catherine McKenzie Animal Copy Share Image
“Too many things had happened in too short a time span. Did people’s lives really change this quickly? Years of sameness, and… — Catherine McKenzie Time Copy Share Image
“So, I know what messy is, and it isn’t love. No, love is supposed to be simple. It’s supposed to be about… — Catherine McKenzie Love Copy Share Image
