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you can't change anybody's mind. The sooner I learned that, the happier my life would be, and now I felt like a happy life was a goal again for the first time in a long time. -- Catherine Ryan Hyde
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You want to be OK right now, so you trade that for having a good life in the long run. It's a bad trade, but people do it all the time. That's all addiction really is. It's trading away the future so you can feel OK right now. -- Catherine Ryan Hyde
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Don't you wonder sometimes why so much gets heaped on certain people?" I almost told the truth. That truth being, "I wouldn't dare." I wouldn't dare dwell on a thing like that. I try to look forward in my life. Because what's behind me is a little hard to take. -- Catherine Ryan Hyde
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But I bet more than half the people in the world right now are worrying about something that really is going to be okay. -- Catherine Ryan Hyde
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I just feel like it's our job to take care of them. You know? And when you take care of someone, you should love them the way they are. Not try to make them different. -- Catherine Ryan Hyde
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Anything that lifts responsibility for our actions is addictive, I've found. So really, looking back, I'd have to say that was not the hard moment. The tough bit is always later, when you're held responsible for yourself again, and your life is expected to go on. -- Catherine Ryan Hyde
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I have always felt," Nathan said, "that the truth is simply the truth. And perhaps does not exist for us to bend and revise. Or even filter to suit the feelings of those we love and want to protect. -- Catherine Ryan Hyde
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There is no wrong way to perform an act of kindness. -- Catherine Ryan Hyde
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It's one thing to know the right path and another thing to take it. -- Catherine Ryan Hyde
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But I've learned in my life that not everything that happens needs to be talked about. Some things are better left alone. -- Catherine Ryan Hyde
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I really only have been seriously writing, finishing things and publishing things since January '91. -- Catherine Ryan Hyde
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I decided that not talking is like a litmus test for a real friend. You can just sit there and be. Not always be filling up the air with words -- Catherine Ryan Hyde
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You know, you think about who you might meet and when they might come. You always know that someday a door will open and in will come the one you've waited for. And then the waiting is done. And the rest of your life can begin. And the minute I looked up and saw you there, I thought, There he is. -- Catherine Ryan Hyde
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Nearly everything is easier to get into than it is to get out of. -- Catherine Ryan Hyde
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Accepting things. That's what the talk was about. About how insane it is to try to pretend something isn't a certain way, or that you can make it another way, just because you don't like it. -- Catherine Ryan Hyde
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knew I was being too talky. I could hear it. I felt around for the off switch but never found it. Not that I think he cared. I was being too talky for me. -- Catherine Ryan Hyde
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[Grace talking to Billy.] "It's like people who want to feel only happy but not sad," she said. "It never works. You either feel things or you don't. You don't get to pick and choose. At least, I don't think so. -- Catherine Ryan Hyde
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I know this is going to come as a shock to me, but I am leaving me. Perhaps I'll say I could not have seen this coming, but truthfully things have been wrong between me for some time. Time heals and I'm sure in time I'll build a new life without me -- Catherine Ryan Hyde
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Once you throw down that gauntlet of ultimatum, the "one more thing" will happen. Nat figured it probably wouldn't even matter much what it was. It would be the straw that broke her. And it had been defined. Prepared for. So it would happen. It was only a matter of time. -- Catherine Ryan Hyde
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Not everybody who marries in the church and has a family the old-fashioned way is unhappy." "No, but some are. And even if it's just hit-and-miss . . . even if anybody can fall through the cracks, it's still not what I thought I was buying into at all. It still all feels like it makes no sense. -- Catherine Ryan Hyde
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I guess it's hard for people who are so used to things the way they are - even if they're bad - to change. 'Cause they kind of give up. And when they do, everybody kind of loses. -- Catherine Ryan Hyde
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Everything in the world is easier to clean up after than your own actual damn life. -- Catherine Ryan Hyde
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It's like a sheet of blue-lined paper, the kind you write on at school, but with the lines suddenly missing. No structure. Nothing is predictable. Everything that might happen now is new. Sometimes disasters make me feel that way. -- Catherine Ryan Hyde
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took her hands away from her face. It was hard to do. She knew she looked a wreck. But if you can't trust a man to look at your real face and not run screaming, what good is it to have him around in the first place? -- Catherine Ryan Hyde
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Pete's voice. "You -- Catherine Ryan Hyde
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Nathan had never liked anger. It seemed a barbaric and undignified emotion. He knew it always masked fear or hurt, and had often wished everyone could simply be sensible enough to cut out the middleman. -- Catherine Ryan Hyde
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But when nobody punishes you, you have to do it yourself, and there's no release date on that. We're always harder on ourselves than any governing body could ever get away with being. -- Catherine Ryan Hyde
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Do you know what forever love is? Pearl taught me. It's when you love somebody so much that no matter what happens that'll never change. Like even if you're gone. It's still the same. Even if you die. You die, but not the love. Not forever love. Know what I mean? -- Catherine Ryan Hyde
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I no longer think I lack judgment about men. I will never again say my instincts are poor, no sir, because how do I keep finding this same guy over and over? I am beginning to think I have a very keen sense of judgment, only it would seem that it is on somebody else's side. -- Catherine Ryan Hyde
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We do crazy shit because we're broken. -- Catherine Ryan Hyde
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I wasn't into blame. Maybe because I had so much of it directed at me, you know? I guess you can go one of two ways with that. You can reflect it right back out at everybody else, or you can drop out of the whole blame paradigm. I guess I chose not to play the game anymore. -- Catherine Ryan Hyde
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You can only wrestle with something for just so long. Then you have to break in one direction or another. Just to end the wrestling. Something has to give. -- Catherine Ryan Hyde
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He said it was because Christopher was willing to share the day with Daniel, but Daniel wasn't willing to share the day with Christopher. - Nathan's Grandfather -- Catherine Ryan Hyde
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Even if we had to go back, I decided it was worth it to ride that bus all the way out here. It was worth it just for Natalie to see the windmills. Even if she never saw anything like this again. Maybe at least she could hang on to the idea that there's something better out there, somewhere. -- Catherine Ryan Hyde
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Holding his own in this difficult environment. That perhaps he was learning he was not as tough as he'd previously thought. And that the situation was making him sullen. But Nat didn't seem to care to discuss the matter. And Nathan remained unwilling to pry. -- Catherine Ryan Hyde
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watching TV and playing solitaire is not a proper life. It's not living. It's killing time, and that's hardly the same. You start asking yourself too many questions when your day is reduced to these rote activities that accomplish nothing. You start to wonder -- Catherine Ryan Hyde
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I think I have something that belongs to you'. I held out my open hand, the stone resting in my palm. I expected her to take it. Instead she took the whole hand, and held it. -- Catherine Ryan Hyde
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She still didn't like the idea. But she wouldn't question me again. She placed the judgment of her humans ahead of her own, as a matter of courtesy and pride, even if she was always right and we were always wrong. Good dogs are like that. -- Catherine Ryan Hyde
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Esta bien," Clara called back. They sat in silence a while longer. "You seem pretty relaxed," she said to Billy. "Pretty -- Catherine Ryan Hyde
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It's just words. How can words be dangerous?"
"You have a lot to learn about the world, baby girl. Nothing is more dangerous than words."
"That's stupid. What about a gun? A gun can kill you dead."
"Only your body," Billy said. "It can't kill your soul. Words can kill your soul. -- Catherine Ryan Hyde
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Blood family, that's something we get dealt. Sometimes we get a bad hand. Not much way around it. You just have to grow up and get more family. The kind you get to pick out yourself. -- Catherine Ryan Hyde
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I learned a valuable lesson from that editorial experience, and it's served me well in just about every dealing I've had with editors since. If they say there's a problem, they're probably right. Believe them. -- Catherine Ryan Hyde
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If you can't pay it back, pay it forward. -- Catherine Ryan Hyde
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One of the nice things about publishing with Amazon is that the window for marketing is much longer than with a traditional publisher because these titles are not coming off of shelves. -- Catherine Ryan Hyde
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I'm certainly glad to be getting him back. Which was true, but it didn't feel anything like being happy. In fact, the more I thought about it - well, I didn't think about it, I felt it. You can think about happiness all you want, but it won't get you far. It's not a thinking sort of proposition. -- Catherine Ryan Hyde
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My threshold for human contact had worn painfully thin. I felt like a car that had been running its lights too long on battery alone. I felt fresh out of charge, and as though I needed to plug in for days before I could have one more conversation with one more human being. -- Catherine Ryan Hyde
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World is full of people so troubled they don't even understand themselves. You could offer them a thousand dollars to explain their motivations, but they can't tell you what they don't know. -- Catherine Ryan Hyde
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August remembered Harvey's words, and when he said good-bye he silently let them go. Released them into their own lives. He wished for their father to stay out of trouble, even if it meant he'd never see the boys again. Because that's just what you do. You let go. -- Catherine Ryan Hyde
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On the way up the walk I took in the weedless border gardens, the two floors of smudgeless windows, and I wondered, when a person does all this, do they have time left over for other things? -- Catherine Ryan Hyde
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The divisions of time had gone on vacation, leaving just a crush of constant moments. -- Catherine Ryan Hyde
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Maybe the Zion and Bryce Canyon area. Sedona's like that. Grand Canyon, of course. Glen Canyon. Maybe Escalante and Capitol Reef. Or Arches or Canyonlands. -- Catherine Ryan Hyde
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You could do worse than to be amazed. -- Catherine Ryan Hyde
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If you want to see a man come to his senses, try something like, Do you happen to carry a rubber in your wallet? Did I mention I'm not on the pill? -- Catherine Ryan Hyde
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But Paying It Forward is about spontaneously offering favors, not needing to say yes when someone asks too much of you. And also, it's about kindness rather than niceness. There's a difference. Kindness is spontaneous and real. Niceness just mostly wants to be liked. -- Catherine Ryan Hyde
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The more I research the bodymind, the more I get that the only workable path to workable health is to forgive the unforgivable in spite of its unforgivability. Otherwise we just destroy our own cells with the byproducts of all that hate. We -- Catherine Ryan Hyde
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People remember what they want to remember and forget what they want to forget. If you told him something was important to you and he forgot to do it, he blew you off. -- Catherine Ryan Hyde
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Feelings are a funny thing, he realized. They're always more tangled and contradictory and complex than we want them to be. Than we care to admit. -- Catherine Ryan Hyde
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After a while you look at a picture and all it helps you remember is the picture. And then it gets kind of memorized and you hardly even see it. -- Catherine Ryan Hyde
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Pete sat half up, -- Catherine Ryan Hyde
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Immediately he felt a pushback against sharing. These other people were at home. He was not. They'd had time to adjust to the energy of the room and the people, which were familiar to begin with. He had not. He pushed the feeling away again and did it anyway. "My -- Catherine Ryan Hyde
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Not that Bella wasn't pretty. Grace thought she was. But she wasn't thin. -- Catherine Ryan Hyde
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Everybody is a good person and a bad person at the same time. The only real variation is in the balance. How much good to how much bad. When a person has a bigger good side, we call him a good person. But it's never absolute. -- Catherine Ryan Hyde
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Some things, like innocence, only go one way. -- Catherine Ryan Hyde
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Here's the problem with unforgivable. The more I research the bodymind, the more I get that the only workable path to workable health is to forgive the unforgivable in spite of its unforgivability. Otherwise we just destroy our own cells with the byproducts of all that hate. -- Catherine Ryan Hyde
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I seem to remember that Gandhi once said his commitment was to truth, not consistency. - Nathan -- Catherine Ryan Hyde
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I feel that the truth is simply the truth. And that to shield someone from it is only a manner of treating that person with a lack of respect. -- Catherine Ryan Hyde
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Feel that the truth is simply the truth. And that to shield someone from it is only a manner of treating that person with a lack of respect. I'm sure she didn't mean it that way, though. I'm sure she was doing what she thought best. -- Catherine Ryan Hyde
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Every life matters. Even if it's "them. -- Catherine Ryan Hyde
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I've practiced "alone" a lot, and I'm good at it. -- Catherine Ryan Hyde
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But the moon doesn't say what it knows. -- Catherine Ryan Hyde
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I felt the kiss still there on my forehead. Literally. It was frozen there. I could still feel it. I wanted to bronze it, like people do with baby shoes. I wanted to mount it and hang it over my mantelpiece. -- Catherine Ryan Hyde
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Situations are like that. They take up all the time you used to use for working and eating and sleeping. They soak up your whole life like a black hole in space soaks up the sunlight. And then, where you used to have a life, all you have left is a situation. -- Catherine Ryan Hyde
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I keep telling you the future isn't set in stone. It's not all decided yet. The future is just what's down the road we decided to walk on today. You can change roads anytime. And that changes where you end up. -- Catherine Ryan Hyde
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Nobody said it was a beautiful world with no scars. -- Catherine Ryan Hyde
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The shorter your range of vision, the fewer options and changes to trouble you. -- Catherine Ryan Hyde
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I can live through everything or I can answer for everything, but sometimes both is just too much for one day. -- Catherine Ryan Hyde
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[Rayleen talking to Billy.] "Grace is thriving here, and I dare anybody to challenge that. Anybody who has a problem with that can come take it up with me."
"Thank God," Billy said, "because I really hate it when people come take things up with ME. -- Catherine Ryan Hyde
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You are what you do. That's what I'm trying to tell you. What we do defines us. However we behave, conduct our lives ... that's real. The rest is a story for publication. -- Catherine Ryan Hyde
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Not a bad life's work. -- Catherine Ryan Hyde
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I don't know if war is always pointless," she said. "I know it's always tragic. -- Catherine Ryan Hyde
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His grandfather probably would have said that all men feel fear, but cowardly men deny it. -- Catherine Ryan Hyde
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You can do anything you want, so long as you're willing to pay the bill when it comes in. -- Catherine Ryan Hyde
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Don't you dare give up on me. -- Catherine Ryan Hyde
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Most big life events are like that. You think they'll be emotionally one-sided, but when you actually get into them, it's always more complex. - Nathan -- Catherine Ryan Hyde
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Even though it was beautiful and comfortable, and even though it was the world, it was also a little bit boring.
No, wait. Maybe boring isn't the right word. What's the word I'm wanting here? Lonely. That's it. It was a little bit lonely. -- Catherine Ryan Hyde
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Whatever you think your shortcomings are ... you can't just lock yourself in the house so no one can notice or comment. We all have to take ourselves out into the world, flaws and all. And find a way to make the adjustment. -- Catherine Ryan Hyde
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Look for strength in unexpected places. -- Catherine Ryan Hyde
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August briefly tried that on for size. Wondered if he longed for summer because summer made it so much easier to breathe. -- Catherine Ryan Hyde
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So you're saying you don't feed something in a situation where it would be a big disaster for it to grow. -- Catherine Ryan Hyde
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We take things on a little at a time because all at once they'd kill -- Catherine Ryan Hyde
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You have to dance especially at a time like this. That's the whole point. The dancing will bring you back into the moment. It's the dance that will save you. -- Catherine Ryan Hyde
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If I was to kill everybody who didn't love me and never would, wouldn't be nobody left on the planet? -- Catherine Ryan Hyde
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He knew then why his voice had abandoned him. Because it takes courage to talk to people. -- Catherine Ryan Hyde
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I guess if you're really a friend, you overlook certain things. Its easy to be friends with someone who only says things you want to hear. I guess if you're really a friend, you have to cut a friend some slack. -- Catherine Ryan Hyde
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But it's funny how you can take something that turns out to be fatal and classify it as not worth fixing. -- Catherine Ryan Hyde
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A genuine act of kindness makes me feel like I really am where you cut underneath anything external, and you become what a human being can really be. It's like coming home when you give kindness. Kindness changes us, as human beings, -- Catherine Ryan Hyde
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Ah, yes. That. The sin of being happy or excited. According to my father, we must guard carefully against such things. According to my father, these emotions are the equivalent of dancing on out fifth-floor window ledge. Clearly inviting a nasty fall. -- Catherine Ryan Hyde
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If it takes you apart, that's not love. Love puts you back together. -- Catherine Ryan Hyde
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Sex is what you make it, and we have always made do. To assume sex must take place within touching distance seems, to me, limited thinking. -- Catherine Ryan Hyde
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Sometime around 2006, I decided I had missed my true calling as a young adult author. -- Catherine Ryan Hyde
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A kiss, she thinks, has to be entirely balanced
it has to have a little conflict, a little dialectic, a little revolution. -- Catherine Ryan Hyde
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I wondered if a white person could ever comment on the minority experience and get it right. -- Catherine Ryan Hyde
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I am the way I am. We all are the way we are and I'm not sure any of us really knows why. -- Catherine Ryan Hyde
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But that never did any good anyway. People learned by what they experienced. It mattered little what anyone said to anyone. The small -- Catherine Ryan Hyde
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It's really hard to know what's a good idea when you're growing and these ideas don't hold still and neither do you. -- Catherine Ryan Hyde
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Gandhi once said his commitment was to truth, not consistency. -- Catherine Ryan Hyde
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[There] was a time when a lot of people came to the door. The milkman. The iceman. The Fuller Brush man. Encyclopedia salesmen. There was a sense of interaction with the world that started right at your own front doorstep. -- Catherine Ryan Hyde
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What's weird is when you mean a lot more to somebody else than they ever meant to you. I mean, a whole lot more. Like life on two whole different planets. -- Catherine Ryan Hyde
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A dream has more than one owner. It belongs to everyone it may choose to touch. Whomever it concerns. -- Catherine Ryan Hyde
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I don't think you feel much of anything anymore. -- Catherine Ryan Hyde
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anymore. Maybe he was even with someone else after all this time. "You really look worried," Pete said. "Relax. Something came up that he -- Catherine Ryan Hyde
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Good to get the truth out into the air," Ham said. "Everything grows best in oxygen and sunlight except secrets and guilt and regrets. They like the dank spaces. Drag them out into the light and they fail to thrive." We -- Catherine Ryan Hyde
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You can't even begin to heal until it strikes you that something needs healing. -- Catherine Ryan Hyde
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When I dreamed about the time you would actually sleep with me, I thought there'd be some sleeping involved. -- Catherine Ryan Hyde
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If you meet someone you don't like, or who doesn't treat you right, try to reserve judgment, because you don't know what that person's going through, and it's probably not so much about you at all. -- Catherine Ryan Hyde
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It means feelings come through loud and clear whether you express them in words or not. - Nathan -- Catherine Ryan Hyde
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We should all be much more careful with each other's hearts. -- Catherine Ryan Hyde
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The drinks were so perfect, so visually artistic. Virginia could honestly believe she would find her salvation in one. -- Catherine Ryan Hyde
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Sorry doesn't mean shit. Not if you don't plan to stop doing the thing you're so sorry about. There has to be more to amends than just a word. Anybody can say a damn word. -- Catherine Ryan Hyde
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Love always looks nice. I don't really know anyone who doesn't enjoy it when they see it. Anyone who doesn't, I don't really want to know them. -- Catherine Ryan Hyde
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Whether they admit it to you, whether they admit it to themselves, people know where they stand with each other. Virginia -- Catherine Ryan Hyde
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I loved pain, followed it, thought it would cleanse me, right my wrongs. -- Catherine Ryan Hyde
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I didn't sleep well that night. I lost most of the night thinking about it. What does it mean when someone loses the use of most of his brain, and it makes him more kind? -- Catherine Ryan Hyde
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Maybe she doesn't want to understand things she doesn't think she can change anyway. Maybe sometimes you just have a couple of rotten choices. Like you can fail to comprehend the world you've got, or you can see it as this ugly, evil, dangerous place and not be able to do a damn thing about it. -- Catherine Ryan Hyde
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It shouldn't matter whether you understand it or not, August. Or whether it would be enough of a challenge for you or not. It's Seth's dream. Not yours. -- Catherine Ryan Hyde
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Oh. I didn't know that." "So, you're naming your dog Feathers because ... -- Catherine Ryan Hyde
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Everybody is careful these days to maintain just the right attitude toward the war effort. -- Catherine Ryan Hyde
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And I knew that my only way through this mass of simultaneous future outcomes was to hold tight to the idea that it was possible to get to OK from where we were now. Not assured. Just possible. -- Catherine Ryan Hyde
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Hmm," he said. "Like the world is big again. No. Not again. Like I only thought it had gotten small while I was inside, but now I see it was big the whole time, just waiting out there. Waiting for me to come back. -- Catherine Ryan Hyde
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There's something about standing on the top of a mountain you personally climbed at great sacrifice. -- Catherine Ryan Hyde
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We take all these little calculated risks. All the time. Nine hundred and ninety-nine times out of a thousand nothing goes wrong. And the one time it does, we blame the person who took the risk, tell them they should have known better than to ever do such a thing. Which -- Catherine Ryan Hyde
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All I know is that you can't force yourself to feel something you don't. -- Catherine Ryan Hyde
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The closer you get to heaven, the less air there is, because when you get to heaven for real, you don't need to breathe anymore. -- Catherine Ryan Hyde
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Since we all know for a fact that we're all going to die, why don't we all treat each other like we could lose each other at any minute? -- Catherine Ryan Hyde
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No happy marriage was, in his estimation, ever based on thoughtless, automatic untruths and exclusions. And the best way to make someone unhappy, if not downright unbalanced, is to tell her that what she sees with her own eyes is not there at all. -- Catherine Ryan Hyde
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Everyone, everywhere was having a life. -- Catherine Ryan Hyde
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Why be given hours and days if all you want to do is make them go away again? -- Catherine Ryan Hyde
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Of course it landed in my gut to a total panic response, because I wasn't expecting anyone, and didn't seem able to anticipate anything but more trouble. I try not to think that way, but it's more a feeling than a thought, and besides, it's an involuntary response. -- Catherine Ryan Hyde
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I've always been ambidextrous, writing short stories and novels, and I pretty much have been writing a novel and a handful of short stories every year since '91. -- Catherine Ryan Hyde
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You can only save face for just so long before you wake up and realize you have nothing left worth saving. -- Catherine Ryan Hyde
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I have a number of questions. If I had half as many answers, I'd be in great shape. -- Catherine Ryan Hyde
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I think you can scare somebody out of doing something, but not out of feeling like they want to. -- Catherine Ryan Hyde
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I suppose we're built with complete free will, and as much as we're capable of depravity, to the same degree we are wired for greatness. Everyone gets to choose, I think. And my challenge is to decide where I'll place the bulk of my attention. What I'll most believe in. -- Catherine Ryan Hyde
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Because it proves that you don't need much to change the entire world for the better. You can start with the most ordinary ingredients. You can start with the world you've got. -- Catherine Ryan Hyde
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Maybe we've removed all the relevance from the information we teach kids so they have no idea why they should care. -- Catherine Ryan Hyde
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Of course, Nathan -- Catherine Ryan Hyde
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I've been known to write 10 pages a day for 10 days running before I take a breath. I am not a disciplined writer. I'm one of those people who laughingly call themselves inspirational writers, which basically means someone who has no control over their own creative process. -- Catherine Ryan Hyde
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He listened to the occasional creak of Flora's squeaky board, and noticed it sounded lonely. Or maybe that was just him. -- Catherine Ryan Hyde
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That's the thing about this other side we're on. There is no landscape. If you want to see things in any kind of context, you have to pick a context. You have to take one from home. -- Catherine Ryan Hyde
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I think it's the things we don't talk about that make us old before out time. -- Catherine Ryan Hyde
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They were not children. They had grown into people he knew little about. And they had done so without his help or influence, or even,--for the most part--his witness. It made him feel as though something precious had been taken from him.
pg. 239-40 -- Catherine Ryan Hyde
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an easy smile, which he gives away for free. -- Catherine Ryan Hyde
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Nothing's more dangerous than a girl, -- Catherine Ryan Hyde
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If there's some hidden part of me that thinks like that, I'd rather not go searching for it. - Nathan -- Catherine Ryan Hyde
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What a man eats, he should be willing to kill. -- Catherine Ryan Hyde
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Grownups have a tendency to talk themselves out of things, saying it will never work, but kids are fabulously optimistic. -- Catherine Ryan Hyde
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Man - I think his name was Frank - hauled me out of there and asked who I belonged to, but by then I'd forgotten. By then I thought I belonged to the earth and the sky, and the sharp, pushing blades of grass that grew for me. Simon came and found me in time, and from -- Catherine Ryan Hyde
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It depends how important it is to them to see things differently. -- Catherine Ryan Hyde
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The world I live in is not all white people, not all straight people, and it's not all people who have their acts together, either. -- Catherine Ryan Hyde
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Then, yes. It's civilized. What a man eats, he should be willing to kill. It's not absolutely necessary that he do so, but he should at least be willing to face the reality of it. To eat a chicken only if it comes from the market is the height of cowardice and denial. Someone still had to kill it. -- Catherine Ryan Hyde
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This is what we do. We do crazy shit because we're broken. That's who we are. That's what we do. -- Catherine Ryan Hyde
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You can't tell someone to pursue their dream only if it's a good match for your own. You can't dictate what dream he should pursue. -- Catherine Ryan Hyde
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He'd be proud of me for crying, and I cry harder. How do you stop crying, Simon? -- Catherine Ryan Hyde
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Things are so easy to do, so hard to undo. -- Catherine Ryan Hyde
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But when I was inside, I was always OK. So I just started staying inside. Like I told you before, it gets to be an addiction. -- Catherine Ryan Hyde
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It struck me that this was the second time in a couple of days that just yelling someone's name on the street could have spelled disaster. Then it struck me how wrong that was. To have to keep your life sectioned off like that. A signal that you'd fallen into a bad way to live. -- Catherine Ryan Hyde
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Hard work can sometimes substitute for natural ability, but natural ability almost never makes up for not being willing to do the work. -- Catherine Ryan Hyde
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There was something peaceful about an untouched fall of snow. Like being in another world, where nothing can go wrong. Because nothing can find you. -- Catherine Ryan Hyde
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people is that we forget that something unexpected can happen at any time. -- Catherine Ryan Hyde
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Where isn't really the problem. The where isn't to blame for the what. -- Catherine Ryan Hyde
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higher and kicked him. -- Catherine Ryan Hyde
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But when you're already swimming in a sea of humiliation deep enough to drown you, it doesn't matter much if somebody throws in another bucketful. It's not worth it to stop and pay attention to that when you need to keep paddling. -- Catherine Ryan Hyde
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Was something contagious. I'm not sure what you're -- Catherine Ryan Hyde
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People learned by what they experienced. It mattered little what anyone said to anyone. -- Catherine Ryan Hyde
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The fact that you don't grasp the meaning of something doesn't mean it has none. -- Catherine Ryan Hyde
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Supermarket she tried to bite, and the dog was -- Catherine Ryan Hyde
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The value of your life is your own choosing, Nathan -- Catherine Ryan Hyde
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They just want to kill the pain. Everybody just wants to kill the pain. -- Catherine Ryan Hyde
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It would be easier if people were just good or bad and that was that.
pg. 313 -- Catherine Ryan Hyde
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As authors, we all have to learn not to be reactive to public statements about our books. It's really not our business what each reader thinks of them. -- Catherine Ryan Hyde
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The people with the least to give always give the most. -- Catherine Ryan Hyde