Catherine Ryan Hyde Quotations

I try to think of a way to get there without going past it. There are lots of ways, but they all have me walking a little farther. And that's stupid, I decide. What am I, a little kid? I can stand to see something it hurts to want. I can see it and then just keep walking. It happens to lots of people everyday. We all survive.

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.

Nobody said it was a beautiful world with no scars.

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?

A kiss, she thinks, has to be entirely balanced -- it has to have a little conflict, a little dialectic, a little revolution.

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

Things are so easy to do, so hard to undo.

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.

I think it's the things we don't talk about that make us old before out time.

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,