Catherine Ryan Hyde

“Maybe she doesn't want to understand things she doesn't think she can change anyway. Maybe sometimes you just have a couple of…

— Catherine Ryan Hyde

“Blood family, that’s something we get dealt. Sometimes we get a bad hand. Not much way around it. You just have to…

— Catherine Ryan Hyde

“Nathan had never liked anger. It seemed a barbaric and undignified emotion. He knew it always masked fear or hurt, and had…

— Catherine Ryan Hyde

“Other people always bring complications. That’s just the nature of human relationships. You can’t separate people from their complications. Uncomplicated and alone…

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“I guess I feel like I’ve been putting up this big front to the world like I don’t need anybody or anything.…

— Catherine Ryan Hyde

“But when you’re already swimming in a sea of humiliation deep enough to drown you, it doesn’t matter much if somebody throws…

— Catherine Ryan Hyde

“I think I have something that belongs to you'. I held out my open hand, the stone resting in my palm. I…

— Catherine Ryan Hyde

“I watched webs of lightning crackle in the dark air, framed by their black-cloud background, touching down on the rim forty or…

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“Smart is overrated. Most of the harm done in this world is done by people who fancy themselves smart. And they are—book…

— Catherine Ryan Hyde

“he wouldn’t meet August’s eyes. “Um . . .” he said after a time. “We’ll be too far away.” “I’ve got my camera with…

— Catherine Ryan Hyde

“No. It’s not your job to convince him. It’s his job to believe it. This is his shortcoming, not yours. He needs…

— Catherine Ryan Hyde

“[Rayleen talking to Billy.] "Grace is thriving here, and I dare anybody to challenge that. Anybody who has a problem with that…

— Catherine Ryan Hyde

“But if two people meet and fall in love, and try to make a life together, and fail, does that mean they…

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“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

“My threshold for human contact had worn painfully thin. I felt like a car that had been running its lights too long…

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I try to think of a way to get there without going past it. There are lots of ways, but they all…

— Catherine Ryan Hyde

“he was upset. Though hopefully not at her. But upset is a funny thing. It looks for places to direct itself. It’s…

— Catherine Ryan Hyde

“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

I keep telling you the future isn't set in stone. It's not all decided yet. The future is just what's down the…

— Catherine Ryan Hyde

“Full of wonder and fear warring with each other. August knew the wonder would win. He wished he could communicate what he…

— Catherine Ryan Hyde

“In the beginnings of that silence, he knew something. Clearly. Once you throw down that gauntlet of ultimatum, the “one more thing”…

— Catherine Ryan Hyde

“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

“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’…

— Catherine Ryan Hyde

... even though it was beautiful and comfortable, and even though it was the world, it was also a little bit boring.…

— Catherine Ryan Hyde

I guess it's hard for people who are so used to things the way they are - even if they're bad -…

— Catherine Ryan Hyde

“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

“While I was in bed, I thought about journals. I’d never kept one. I’d never given them much thought. Was there a…

— Catherine Ryan Hyde

“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

“This idea opened a door to my seeing that the rigors and trials of a task that big are not brick walls…

— Catherine Ryan Hyde

“Ah, yes. That. The sin of being happy or excited. According to my father, we must guard carefully against such things. According…

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“Once you throw down that gauntlet of ultimatum, the “one more thing” will happen. Nat figured it probably wouldn’t even matter much…

— Catherine Ryan Hyde

“But what you don’t realize, until you have to live it, is that it’s the absence of the person that’s the trouble.…

— Catherine Ryan Hyde

“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

“It’s just words. How can words be dangerous?” “You have a lot to learn about the world, baby girl. Nothing is more…

— Catherine Ryan Hyde