Catherine Ryan Hyde

I decided that not talking is like a litmus test for a real friend. You can just sit there and be. Not…

— Catherine Ryan Hyde

“When I dreamed about the time you would actually sleep with me, I thought there'd be some sleeping involved.”

— Catherine Ryan Hyde

“Almost everything is easier to get into than it is to get out of.”

— Catherine Ryan Hyde

“His grandfather probably would have said that all men feel fear, but cowardly men deny it.”

— Catherine Ryan Hyde

The closer you get to heaven, the less air there is, because when you get to heaven for real, you don't need…

— Catherine Ryan Hyde

“winter. Chloe throws them bits of trail mix to avoid”

— Catherine Ryan Hyde

Nobody said it was a beautiful world with no scars.

— Catherine Ryan Hyde

“Who knows why people are scared of things, right? If”

— Catherine Ryan Hyde

“Whatever big hole people got in their heart, they want something to fill it up. That's what he wants from you. But…

— Catherine Ryan Hyde

“Love explains a lot.”

— Catherine Ryan Hyde

“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

“Nature is not what you might call predictable. And it’s not forgiving. It doesn’t care about us. The lightning is gonna go…

— Catherine Ryan Hyde

“It's like if someone had a loaded gun in your face. I don't know how else to describe how it felt to…

— Catherine Ryan Hyde

“arm around behind her back, turned her toward the house again, and marched her to the front door. He knocked loudly. Pounded,…

— Catherine Ryan Hyde

“Without hesitation. Without creating a gap that doubt can wedge its way into, to create an even greater hesitation.”

— Catherine Ryan Hyde

“But upset is a funny thing. It looks for places to direct itself. It’s an emotion given to action, and it needs…

— Catherine Ryan Hyde

“There’s two things you can do with a kid like that. Way I see it. You can burst his bubble. Or you…

— Catherine Ryan Hyde

“What could I possibly have done to bring this on? What can I possibly do to stop it? I thought, is there…

— Catherine Ryan Hyde

“Even if we had to go back, I decided it was worth it to ride that bus all the way out here.…

— Catherine Ryan Hyde

“Not that Bella wasn’t pretty. Grace thought she was. But she wasn’t thin.”

— Catherine Ryan Hyde

“You have a decent brain, you just keep it in mothballs all the time.” “You”

— Catherine Ryan Hyde

“In certain moments I suspect life knows exactly what it’s doing.”

— Catherine Ryan Hyde

“We shouldn’t have stayed so long.” “Water under the bridge, Buddy Boy.” Buddy wondered why his father would bring up anything as…

— Catherine Ryan Hyde

“Everyone knows, on some deep level, the conversations in which they don’t belong. Chloe”

— Catherine Ryan Hyde

“See now why I hate to go outside so much?” “Yeah. I guess I do. But you gotta do it anyway, right?…

— Catherine Ryan Hyde