“Funny how we do things before there’s even time to think how it will turn out.” — Catherine Ryan Hyde Copy Share Image
“the best way to judge what a man will do is by looking at what he’s done in the past.” — 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
I think it's the things we don't talk about that make us old before out time. — Catherine Ryan Hyde Copy Share Image
“[There] was a time when a lot of people came to the door. The milkman. The iceman. The Fuller Brush man. Encyclopedia… — Catherine Ryan Hyde Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“Ethan tries not to look back on that night. At least, as much as human nature allows. But it’s a funny thing… — Catherine Ryan Hyde Copy Share Image
“want to be OK right now, so you trade that for having a good life in the long run. It’s a bad… — Catherine Ryan Hyde Copy Share Image
“Funny how a thing like that can be so damned important, but you don't know it's important until an instant later in… — Catherine Ryan Hyde Copy Share Image
“Meaning…they say the best way to judge what a man will do is by looking at what he’s done in the past.” — Catherine Ryan Hyde Copy Share Image
“When I dreamed about the time you would actually sleep with me, I thought there'd be some sleeping involved.” — Catherine Ryan Hyde Copy Share Image
“We take things on a little at a time because all at once they’d kill us.” — Catherine Ryan Hyde Copy Share Image
“In certain moments I suspect life knows exactly what it’s doing.” — Catherine Ryan Hyde Copy Share Image
“when you’re missing someone, a longer time without them doesn’t solve the problem. The longer you don’t see someone, the more you… — Catherine Ryan Hyde Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 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
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