“it’s too quiet up there in my head, and this has let the noise in.” — Catherine McKenzie 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
“Some people are meant to disappear from your life, to remain a memory, a faded possibility. A curiosity. I ought to know.… — Catherine McKenzie Curiosity 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
“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
“Everyone’s path to here is unique, Anne. It’s what you do from here that counts.” — Catherine McKenzie Journey 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
“When the stories petered out, Tim said how much it sucked that Rob wasn’t there. That he couldn’t hear how much he… — Catherine McKenzie Left behind Copy Share Image
“It seemed like almost nothing had happened, but that almost nothing changed everything for me.” — Catherine McKenzie Copy Share Image
“You can quit if you want. If you hate it. If it isn't fun anymore. I'll back you with Dad. But you… — Catherine McKenzie Difficult Copy Share Image
“Once you pass a certain amount of household income, life isn’t any better.” — Catherine McKenzie Family Copy Share Image
“if you were prepared for the worst, you might make it come true.” — Catherine McKenzie Prepared For The Worst Copy Share Image
“Like how there’s this optimal money/happiness equation. Once you pass a certain amount of household income, life isn’t any better. Apparently, money… — Catherine McKenzie Family Copy Share Image
“I stare off into space for a minute. "I just wish my life would go back to the way it was." "Why?"… — Catherine McKenzie Feeling lost Copy Share Image
“we were concentrating on the bright blooming things and not the choking weeds that were getting bigger by the day.” — Catherine McKenzie Flowers 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
“And while I got that about him, he never seemed to understand or believe it when I told him I wasn't like… — Catherine McKenzie Copy Share Image
“She told me, years later, that it was the lack of adult interaction that was really driving her nuts. All those hours… — Catherine McKenzie 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 all because of the video cameras. Standard issue in daycares these days: twelve cameras (six in the baby room, six in… — Catherine McKenzie Parenting Copy Share Image
“That I’d been letting life act itself out on me when I should have been directing it.” — Catherine McKenzie Life Copy Share Image
