“Everyone’s path to here is unique, Anne. It’s what you do from here that counts.” — Catherine McKenzie Anne Copy Share Image
“The taste might remain on her brain, but the substance would be gone,” — Catherine McKenzie Taste Copy Share Image
“everyone has regrets. Loose ends. Things they could do if they had more time.” — Catherine McKenzie Loose ends Copy Share Image
“In a sense you could say I’ve already been to my own funeral.” — Catherine McKenzie Funeral Copy Share Image
“His mouth tastes like Scotch, and feels familiar, like somewhere I've been before.” — Catherine McKenzie Copy Share Image
“it’s too quiet up there in my head, and this has let the noise in.” — Catherine McKenzie Noise Copy Share Image
“Suppose I say summer, write the word “hummingbird,” put it in an envelope, take it down the hill to the box. When… — Catherine McKenzie Summer Copy Share Image
“Maybe it was magical thinking, but I couldn’t help believing that if you were prepared for the worst, you might make it… — Catherine McKenzie Believing Copy Share Image
“I read somewhere that many adults with advanced IQs are often less happy than those who test average.” — Catherine McKenzie Adults Copy Share Image
“But how are you supposed to feel, really, when all your worst fears, things you’d never even imagined could happen, actually do… — Catherine McKenzie Fear Copy Share Image
“If I felt something, then it made it true. It was the other person’s problem if they didn’t agree.” — Catherine McKenzie Copy Share Image
“And why do the main characters always have to hate each other at the beginning of the movie? Like, hello, red flag.… — Catherine McKenzie Hate Copy Share Image
“Love isn't simple, Katie, and neither is life. Things that are worth having are sometimes complicated, and they evoke complicated emotions. You… — Catherine McKenzie Complicated Copy Share Image
“When we get home from the funeral, the house is already thick with people. It feels like the whole town’s here, though… — Catherine McKenzie Funeral Copy Share Image
“Suppose I say summer, write the word “hummingbird,” put it in an envelope, take it down the hill to the box. When… — Catherine McKenzie Summer Copy Share Image
“Ah, the Serenity Prayer. “God grant me the serenity To accept the things I cannot change; Courage to change the things I… — Catherine McKenzie Courage to change Copy Share Image
“Is there a panic button I can hit? Or better yet, a button that will pause this whole scene while I figure… — Catherine McKenzie Life Copy Share Image
“Hummingbird Suppose I say summer, write the word “hummingbird,” put it in an envelope, take it down the hill to the box.… — Catherine McKenzie Hummingbird Copy Share Image
“Stupid Facebook. Some people are meant to disappear from your life, to remain a memory, a faded possibility. A curiosity. I ought… — Catherine McKenzie Disappear Copy Share Image
“I tell myself I got sucked into the happiness, the surge of the drug we seemed to make together. But was it… — Catherine McKenzie Happiness Copy Share Image
“It’s just how love gets described in the movies. Like in Sleepless in Seattle . . .” This is the movie they… — Catherine McKenzie Last night Copy Share Image
“I don’t need my heart anymore, you can have it. Cut it out, put it in a box, bury it in the… — Catherine McKenzie Blind Copy Share Image
“Her departure was a gradual thing, like a watercolor left in the sun, every day fainter until one day the canvas was… — Catherine McKenzie Departure Copy Share Image
“Her office is oddly decorated with all things dog. There's a dog calendar, a dog clock, a couple of framed photographs of… — Catherine McKenzie Animal Copy Share Image
“So, I know what messy is, and it isn’t love. No, love is supposed to be simple. It’s supposed to be about… — Catherine McKenzie Love Copy Share Image
“Too many things had happened in too short a time span. Did people’s lives really change this quickly? Years of sameness, and… — Catherine McKenzie Time Copy Share Image
“In my experience, intention doesn’t often have much to do with result.” — Catherine McKenzie Copy Share Image
“You don't want to work to fall in love, you want to be in love. Like in a fairy tale.” — Catherine McKenzie Fairy tale Copy Share Image
“It seemed like almost nothing had happened, but that almost nothing changed everything for me.” — Catherine McKenzie Changed Copy Share Image
“All I knew was I had to talk to someone. I had to try to steal someone’s rationality.” — Catherine McKenzie Steal Copy Share Image
“if you were prepared for the worst, you might make it come true.” — Catherine McKenzie Come Copy Share Image
“If someone figured out a way to bottle woman-been-wronged, they’d make a fortune.” — Catherine McKenzie Copy Share Image
“It’s hard to find someone you’d rather spend time with than not.” — Catherine McKenzie End time Copy Share Image
