What is a staircase, but a corridor improved by elevation? — Catherine Gilbert Murdock Staircases Copy Share Image
I hate it when people make fun of me and it turns out they're right. — Catherine Gilbert Murdock Fun Copy Share Image
“Reasonableness is the byproduct of a scientific mind.” — Catherine Gilbert Murdock Psychology Copy Share Image
“Hell is paved with good intentions. Heaven is paved with Oreos.” — Catherine Gilbert Murdock Good intentions Copy Share Image
When you don't talk, there's a lot of stuff that ends up not getting said. — Catherine Gilbert Murdock Ends Copy Share Image
“I hurled the slipper at him, not caring if I caused his decapitation. (I did not.)” — Catherine Gilbert Murdock Hurled Copy Share Image
Oh. Listen, this is really hard for me . . . " "What is?" "You know. Being liked." I started to cry. I couldn't help it. — Catherine Gilbert Murdock Communication Copy Share Image
“I saw something I wanted to do and I decided to do it. The feeling of freedom it gave me- I can't… — Catherine Gilbert Murdock Decision making Copy Share Image
I milked, of course, and did some work around the barn, and tried not to think about Brian, which was like trying… — Catherine Gilbert Murdock Barns Copy Share Image
“It's the asking that's so painful. It takes real courage, real strength, to say you're not strong enough to do it alone.” — Catherine Gilbert Murdock Asking Copy Share Image
But it turns out that even if I don’t talk a lot, when it’s something that matters I still have a lot… — Catherine Gilbert Murdock Matter Copy Share Image
Sometimes,well,all the time,I can't think of what to say because I'm so dumb and stuff,and then maybe I think of it like… — Catherine Gilbert Murdock Dumb Copy Share Image
“You watch pro ball and those guys spend so much time with their hands on each other's rear ends, you'd think they… — Catherine Gilbert Murdock Butts Copy Share Image
It was like he was in a contest to see who could do the least work, only he was the only contestant. — Catherine Gilbert Murdock Contest Copy Share Image
I ultimately decided to hold my tongue and settle instead for the comfort of ignorance. Not knowing the truth, I retained hope,… — Catherine Gilbert Murdock Comfort Copy Share Image
“And it occurred to me that the reason she makes it work, probably, is because she's so comfortable with herself. And you… — Catherine Gilbert Murdock Life lesson Copy Share Image
I could not but wonder at the queen's unprecedented civility, until I realized with a flush of shame that it was my… — Catherine Gilbert Murdock Behavior Copy Share Image
I swear, every person I know gets far more satisfaction from doing good deeds than receiving them. Maybe that’s the whole point… — Catherine Gilbert Murdock Counting Copy Share Image
And that's where our conversation went from there, than God, both of us laughing our butts off at the thought of a… — Catherine Gilbert Murdock Communication Copy Share Image
You can’t think about how much you have left to do because that’s just one thought, one sad thought, that’ll make you… — Catherine Gilbert Murdock Bummed out Copy Share Image
So what if Brian made me feel like fireworks were going off inside me. He could also make me feel like a… — Catherine Gilbert Murdock Awful Copy Share Image
Every fairy tale, it seems, concludes with the bland phrase "happily ever after." Yet every couple I have ever known would agree… — Catherine Gilbert Murdock Agree Copy Share Image
“But you know, even worrying about haircuts couldn't depress me. Because every time I started sinking low, I'd just remember about football.… — Catherine Gilbert Murdock Choice Copy Share Image
Despite all my public misconduct, in the past year, I had learned the Elemental spells, the Doppelschläferin, and the preparation and flying… — Catherine Gilbert Murdock Art Copy Share Image
“Still, I couldn't get over Dad calling those farmers. People might think helping is hard, but really that's the easy part; just… — Catherine Gilbert Murdock Helping Copy Share Image
“With that, I hurled the slipper at him, not caring if I caused his decapitation. (I did not.) Marshaling what little dignity… — Catherine Gilbert Murdock Around the corner Copy Share Image
Everyone's scared. So scared they can't sleep sometimes. Or eat. Or keep their weight on." "Then why bother playing?" I asked. It… — Catherine Gilbert Murdock Bother Copy Share Image
And if I didn’t, I’d spend the rest of my life wondering who I could have turned into if only I’d had… — Catherine Gilbert Murdock Guts Copy Share Image
“Talk Back? That's really what it's called? You're supposed to walk into some church basement and say, 'I'm here to learn how… — Catherine Gilbert Murdock Humor Copy Share Image
And have your mother put my head on a stake? Do you have any notion what that would do to my handsome… — Catherine Gilbert Murdock Handsome Copy Share Image
Everyone I looked at, their whole lives, did exactly what they were supposed to do without even questioning it, without even wondering… — Catherine Gilbert Murdock Different Copy Share Image
How could I pretend to be someone else when I was already failing at being the person I already was? — Catherine Gilbert Murdock Failing Copy Share Image
She says you're not truly human until you've had your heart broken and you've broken someone's heart. — Catherine Gilbert Murdock Broken Copy Share Image
I’d promised myself that I’d really work on talking more, talking about uncomfortable things, because I could see from Brian how well… — Catherine Gilbert Murdock Brian Copy Share Image
