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“Tell me, what is it you plan to do
with your one wild and precious life?”
― Mary Oliver

“The weariest nights, the longest days, sooner or later must perforce come to an end.”
― Baroness Emmuska Orczy

“Live, travel, adventure, bless, and don't be sorry.”
― Jack Kerouac

“There is a wilderness we walk alone
However well-companioned”
― Stephen Vincent Benét, Western Star

“The greatest danger to our future is apathy.”
― Jane Goodall

“I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light.”
― Helen Keller

“It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, or There and Back Again

“The human heart is a strange vessel. Love and hatred can exist side by side.”
― Scott Westerfield

“What you do, the way you think, makes you beautiful.”
― Scott Westerfeld, Uglies

“Let me ask you one question
Is your money that good
Will it buy you forgiveness
Do you think that it could
I think you will find
When your death takes its toll
All the money you made
Will never buy back your soul”
― Bob Dylan, The Bob Dylan Scrapbook: 1956-1966

“You don’t realize how big somebody was in your life, until you measure the space of their absence.”
― Christina L. Rozelle, The Treemakers

“You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep Spring from coming.”
― Pablo Neruda

“Love isn't simple, Katie, and neither is life. Things that are worth having are sometimes complicated, and they evoke complicated emotions. You know, one of the reasons people often turn to alcohol or drugs is that they can't deal with complications.”
― Catherine McKenzie, Spin

“I stare off into space for a minute. "I just wish my life would go back to the way it was."
"Why?"
"Because I was happy then. Things weren't perfect, but still, I knew where I fit. I knew where I was going."
"And you don't feel that way anymore?"
"No. I feel kind of...lost in the middle of my own life, if that makes any sense.”
― Catherine McKenzie, Forgotten

“You don't want to work to fall in love, you want to be in love. Like in a fairy tale.”
― Catherine McKenzie

“It seemed like almost nothing had happened, but that almost nothing changed everything for me.”
― Catherine McKenzie, Forgotten

“Everyone’s path to here is unique, Anne. It’s what you do from here that counts.”
― Catherine McKenzie, Arranged

“If someone figured out a way to bottle woman-been-wronged, they’d make a fortune.”
― Catherine McKenzie, Arranged

“I don’t need my heart anymore, you can have it. Cut it out, put it in a box, bury it in the hard ground, next to you. My eyes are useless too. They only show me a world without you. Color blind, color absent, colorless. And my mind screams, Not fair! Not right. Not what I was promised on the swing set as you pushed me toward the sun. None of the stories you read me schooled me for this. I didn’t learn this lesson in the moon, or on the train, or as a thing to be curious about. So I don’t need my heart anymore, you can have it. Let it be buried, in the hard ground, next to you.”
― Catherine McKenzie, Hidden

“Is there a panic button I can hit? Or better yet, a button that will pause this whole scene while I figure out how I want to play it?
But no. That's not how it works in real life.”
― Catherine McKenzie, Forgotten

“One minute doesn’t erase a thousand.”
― Catherine McKenzie, Hidden

“It’s hard to find someone you’d rather spend time with than not.”
― Catherine McKenzie, Hidden

“That I’d been letting life act itself out on me when I should have been directing it.”
― Catherine McKenzie, Hidden

“Some people are meant to disappear from your life, to remain a memory, a faded possibility. A curiosity. I ought to know. But when curiosity is so easily fulfilled, how do you avoid fulfilling it? A button is pressed and you’re friends again.”
― Catherine McKenzie, Hidden

“You can quit if you want. If you hate it. If it isn't fun anymore. I'll back you with Dad. But you can't quit just because it's hard. Things are hard for most people. Life is hard.”
― Catherine McKenzie, Hidden

“But, of course, everyone has regrets. Loose ends. Things they could do if they had more time.”
― Catherine McKenzie, Hidden

“It’s just how love gets described in the movies. Like in Sleepless in Seattle . . .” This is the movie they showed us last night. “Tom Hanks’s character is musing about why he fell in love with his dead wife, and he says that it was because she could peel an apple in one long strip, or something like that. And I was reading something similar in a book recently, only that was about peeling an orange . . . anyway . . . I’ve just never felt like the way someone peels fruit would be a reason to spend the rest of your life with them.”
― Catherine McKenzie, Spin

“And while I got that about him, he never seemed to understand or believe it when I told him I wasn't like that. That I was happy to coast. To drift and summersault like a dried-out leaf in the late fall, hoping to avoid the rake, the collecting pile, the compost heap.”
― Catherine McKenzie, Hidden

“His mouth tastes like Scotch, and feels familiar, like somewhere I've been before.”
― Catherine McKenzie, Forgotten

“And why do the main characters always have to hate each other at the beginning of the movie? Like, hello, red flag. It’s so obvious they’re going to get together.”
― Catherine McKenzie, Hidden