Cara > Cara's Quotes

“So, I guess people figure it's not as hard to lose your mother when you never got along anyway. But they're wrong. They're dead wrong. It's always hard to lose your mother. Always. If you loved her, if you hated her. If she smothered you, if she ignored you. It doesn't matter. She's your mother. Your mother. That's just a very tough bond to break.”
― Catherine Ryan Hyde

“The people with the least to give always give the most. Haven’t you noticed that?”
― Catherine Ryan Hyde, Don't Let Me Go

“Don't you dare give up on me.”
― Catherine Ryan Hyde, The Year of My Miraculous Reappearance

“Let children read whatever they want and then talk about it with them. If parents and kids can talk together, we won't have as much censorship because we won't have as much fear.”
― Judy Blume

“There is no wrong way to perform an act of kindness.”
― Catherine Ryan Hyde, Pay It Forward

“If it takes you apart, that's not love. Love puts you back together.”
― Catherine Ryan Hyde (Love In The Present Tense)

“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, Pay It Forward

“Nobody said it was a beautiful world with no scars.”
― Catherine Ryan Hyde, Becoming Chloe

“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, Pay It Forward

“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, Pay It Forward

“Things are so easy to do, so hard to undo.”
― Catherine Ryan Hyde, The Day I Killed James

“... 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, Second Hand Heart

“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, Jumpstart the World

“Most people prefer to think that their resentment is entirely the fault of the person they resent, and that twisted logic seems to make sense in their minds. But it makes no sense to me at all... But it's a popular point of view. Probably because it's so much easier. It relieves you of the burden of any and all self-examination.
(Nathan to Nat)”
― Catherine Ryan Hyde, When I Found You

“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, Becoming Chloe

“Because if you take something you're a thief.' She nursed the silence a moment. Downed the balance of her drink and silently signaled for another. 'Sounds simple, but you'd be amazed how many people don't get it. They steal but they call themselves honest. They cheat on their spouses and lovers but they think they're good people. They lie but they'd never call themselves liars. Well, let me tell you something, Todd. . . ." She pointed toward him with her right hand, with her lit cigarette. He leaned away slightly. She looked into the mirror of his eyes and saw herself going too far. '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 just a story for publication.”
― Catherine Ryan Hyde, The Day I Killed James

“[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, Don't Let Me Go

“I think it's the things we don't talk about that make us old before out time.”
― Catherine Ryan Hyde, The Day I Killed James

“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, The Day I Killed James

“The fact that you don’t grasp the meaning of something doesn’t mean it has none.”
― Catherine Ryan Hyde, When I Found You

“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, Chasing Windmills

“When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, "Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping.”
― Fred Rogers

“I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“Fate is like a strange, unpopular restaurant filled with odd little waiters who bring you things you never asked for and don't always like.”
― Lemony Snicket

“I love lying here with you, under the books.”
― Cath Crowley, Words in Deep Blue

“Sometimes science isn't enough. Sometimes you need the poets.”
― Cath Crowley, Words in Deep Blue

“It's true - we never say what we mean. But for once, I want to.”
― Sarvenaz Tash, The Geek's Guide to Unrequited Love

“So please, oh please, we beg, we pray, go throw your TV set away, and in its place you can install, a lovely bookshelf on the wall.”
― Roald Dahl

“There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people.”
― Howard Zinn

“And if you've ever grown up with dreams in your head about life, and how one of these days you would pirate your own ship and have your own crew and that all of the mermaids

would love

only

you?

Well, you would realize...

Like I eventually realized...

That all the good things about her?

All the beautiful?

It's not real.

It's fake.

So you keep your ocean,

I'll take the Lake.”
― Colleen Hoover, Slammed