“money can’t buy happiness, or it does, but it costs less than you imagined it would.” — Catherine McKenzie Happiness Copy Share Image
“I don’t think that bad actions erase good ones. Not really.” — Catherine McKenzie Bad actions Copy Share Image
“My brain was playing tricks on me, sucking me inward, away from my life, my family, myself.” — Catherine McKenzie Family 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
“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
“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
“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 Drift 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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“I stare off into space for a minute. "I just wish my life would go back to the way it was." "Why?"… — Catherine McKenzie 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
“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 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
