There is no question that the objects that surround us impact our experience of the world. — Katherine Center Experience Copy Share Image
“But I wasn't like most of humanity. I didn't like being helped.” — Katherine Center Accepting-help Copy Share Image
“I guess who you are always seems normal to you because you don’t know what it feels like to be anyone else.” — Katherine Center Feels Copy Share Image
The human condition is imperfection. And that's how it's supposed to be. — Katherine Center Beauty Copy Share Image
We are only as great as our struggles. We only become who we are in the face of them. — Katherine Center Adversity Copy Share Image
In fiction, you can be as true as you want. Real life is a different story. — Katherine Center Different Copy Share Image
Sometimes there is no way to hold your life together. Sometimes things just have to fall apart. — Katherine Center Apart Copy Share Image
We build our lives in moments, and even the ones we can't remember become the story of who we are. — Katherine Center Life Copy Share Image
I have an affection for tangible objects, like books and pages, but people sure do seem to love their Kindles! We're definitely… — Katherine Center Affection Copy Share Image
I guess that's the upside of not being young anymore... You know from experience that the struggle always leads, in some way,… — Katherine Center Knows Copy Share Image
“However, the trouble with getting what you've always wanted is that once you have it, you have to worry that you'll lose… — Katherine Center Lose Copy Share Image
Something good was happening. My life was rising from the ashes, and the sight of it left me feeling something like hopeful. — Katherine Center Ashes Copy Share Image
“And I was grateful. For all the things that had brought me to this moment, and for every single thing that would… — Katherine Center Blessed Copy Share Image
The best things about womanhood might possibly even be the conversations. The chatting. The gabbing. The whispering. The hands-on-hips eye-rolling. The yukking-it… — Katherine Center Best things Copy Share Image
Nothing that doesn’t push you past your limits can change your life. It’s true of work, it’s true of parenting, and it’s… — Katherine Center Change Copy Share Image
I felt like I had never really heard of a story that reflected the stuff I was going through as a mom.… — Katherine Center About Copy Share Image
All my main characters are people I'd love to sit around having coffee with. They are people who will tell you honestly… — Katherine Center Being honest Copy Share Image
“It had not occured to me to mourn losing those things until now. I had done each of those things, somewhere along… — Katherine Center Children Copy Share Image
And despite everything I know now, I still believe, as I did when I was little, that there is an entire universe… — Katherine Center Believe Copy Share Image
We're looking for stories that speak to us. We're looking for stories that connect us with something true. But, instead, a lot… — Katherine Center Bounds Copy Share Image
I believe women are too hard on themselves. I believe that when you love someone, she becomes beautiful to you. I believe… — Katherine Center Beautiful Copy Share Image
We are big composters. We compost everything - bread, tea bags, coffee grounds. I even dump out my old coffee in the… — Katherine Center Along Copy Share Image
I like to write about people who are real and likeable. I like to write about people who tell their stories in… — Katherine Center Best friend Copy Share Image
“Anything was possible. Everything was uncertain. But I knew one thing for sure: I'd bounced back before, and I would do it… — Katherine Center Possible Copy Share Image
“And here, after all that, is what I have come to believe about beauty: Laughter is beautiful. Kindness is beautiful. Cellulite is… — Katherine Center Beauty Copy Share Image
“Because the truth was, there was a dark underbelly of terror to motherhood. You loved your children with such an overwhelming fierceness… — Katherine Center Children Copy Share Image
There on the sofa, as I nursed Maxie and her eyes slid closed, I said to the girls, 'I think nursing is… — Katherine Center Adults Copy Share Image
“There is no better people-watching than at the airport: the whole world packed into such a tight space, moving fast with all… — Katherine Center Crooked teeth Copy Share Image
“And in the end, do you ever truly know for sure if you’re lovable? What a question. You don’t. You can’t. Of… — Katherine Center Answer Copy Share Image
“And the way I loved her was like nothing else. This, I decided, was the love all other loves were measured against.… — Katherine Center Background music Copy Share Image