Catherine Ryan Hyde

“When I dreamed about the time you would actually sleep with me, I thought there'd be some sleeping involved.”

— Catherine Ryan Hyde

“But mostly I just kept reminding myself to burn every moment into my memory. I just tried to be sure I was…

— Catherine Ryan Hyde

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

“A dream has more than one owner. It belongs to everyone it may choose to touch. Whomever it concerns.”

— Catherine Ryan Hyde

“I think you can scare somebody out of doing something, but not out of feeling like they want to.”

— Catherine Ryan Hyde

I decided that not talking is like a litmus test for a real friend. You can just sit there and be. Not…

— Catherine Ryan Hyde

“Without hesitation. Without creating a gap that doubt can wedge its way into, to create an even greater hesitation.”

— Catherine Ryan Hyde

“That’s all addiction really is. It’s trading away the future so you can feel OK right now.”

— Catherine Ryan Hyde

“No happy marriage was, in his estimation, ever based on thoughtless, automatic untruths and exclusions. And the best way to make someone…

— Catherine Ryan Hyde

“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

Most people prefer to think that their resentment is entirely the fault of the person they resent, and that twisted logic seems…

— Catherine Ryan Hyde

“Even if we had to go back, I decided it was worth it to ride that bus all the way out here.…

— Catherine Ryan Hyde

“But upset is a funny thing. It looks for places to direct itself. It’s an emotion given to action, and it needs…

— Catherine Ryan Hyde

“I suppose we're built with complete free will, and as much as we're capable of depravity, to the same degree we are…

— Catherine Ryan Hyde

“Let me go!” Seth shot out. “Tell me what’s going on.” “Not with you holding me prisoner.” “I’m not holding you prisoner.…

— Catherine Ryan Hyde

“I guess if you're really a friend, you overlook certain things. Its easy to be friends with someone who only says things…

— Catherine Ryan Hyde

“Most people prefer to think that their resentment is entirely the fault of the person they resent, and that twisted logic seems…

— Catherine Ryan Hyde

“He was different. He didn’t waste his time with crap like that. He had living to do. He knew who he was…

— Catherine Ryan Hyde

“naturally. “Yes. I guess that does sound right. Does that seem like a crazy thing to say?” But of course it helped…

— Catherine Ryan Hyde

“World is full of people so troubled they don’t even understand themselves. You could offer them a thousand dollars to explain their…

— Catherine Ryan Hyde

“anybody can think the world is beautiful when it’s all going their way. That’s just like untested faith.”

— Catherine Ryan Hyde

“My job was not to exist at all. Though too much alive to play it to perfection, I feel I performed a…

— Catherine Ryan Hyde

The closer you get to heaven, the less air there is, because when you get to heaven for real, you don't need…

— Catherine Ryan Hyde

“It's really hard to know what's a good idea when you're growing and these ideas don't hold still and neither do you.”

— Catherine Ryan Hyde

“What did it mean to be friends in a world where just walking down the street together could get someone viciously beaten?…

— Catherine Ryan Hyde

“Hard work can sometimes substitute for natural ability, but natural ability almost never makes up for not being willing to do the…

— Catherine Ryan Hyde

“His grandfather probably would have said that all men feel fear, but cowardly men deny it.”

— Catherine Ryan Hyde

“He knew then why his voice had abandoned him. Because it takes courage to talk to people.”

— Catherine Ryan Hyde

“Somehow Bea knew the key would have to be an utter lack of preparation. Of anticipation. Once she allowed space for doubt,…

— Catherine Ryan Hyde

“Everyone knows, on some deep level, the conversations in which they don’t belong. Chloe”

— Catherine Ryan Hyde

A kiss, she thinks, has to be entirely balanced -- it has to have a little conflict, a little dialectic, a little…

— Catherine Ryan Hyde

“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

“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

“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

“But people can change. And sometimes they can change because of what they see in you. The way you are can inspire…

— Catherine Ryan Hyde

“It flitted through her mind without actual words that skin is an odd thing for the world to make a fuss about,…

— Catherine Ryan Hyde

“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

A genuine act of kindness makes me feel like I really am where you cut underneath anything external, and you become what…

— Catherine Ryan Hyde

“Well, child, I'd tell you to be careful, except for two things. One, it wouldn't do any good anyhow. And two, I…

— Catherine Ryan Hyde

“But Paying It Forward is about spontaneously offering favors, not needing to say yes when someone asks too much of you. And…

— Catherine Ryan Hyde