“What did it mean to be friends in a world where just walking down the street together could get someone viciously beaten? In what ways could that friendship be expressed?” — 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 Image
“He knew then why his voice had abandoned him. Because it takes courage to talk to people.” — Catherine Ryan Hyde Copy Share Image
“Besides, they looked like brothers. They looked like two examples of the same theme.” — Catherine Ryan Hyde Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“I find it touching, almost enviable, that a person with so little feels she has all she needs.” — Catherine Ryan Hyde Copy Share Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“Everything grows best in oxygen and sunlight except secrets and guilt and regrets. They” — Catherine Ryan Hyde Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
