Rolling Toward Clear Skies Quotes

“What I’m saying is that you couldn’t skate by on your good looks. You had to learn how to be likable. You had no choice. The world wouldn’t just roll over for you because you were beautiful. And in a lot of ways I think that’s a good thing. Beauty fades. Knowing how to treat people lasts forever.”
― Catherine Ryan Hyde, Rolling Toward Clear Skies

“Besides, I’m grieving. Even those who aren’t normally afraid of me are afraid of that emotion. Other people’s grief is not so much fun for anybody. They don’t know what to say.”
― Catherine Ryan Hyde, Rolling Toward Clear Skies

“thought it was simple. I thought you just give your children everything they want and they’ll be happy. But now I think getting everything you want doesn’t make a person happy at all. Because things don’t mean as much if you’ve never done without them. And”
― Catherine Ryan Hyde, Rolling Toward Clear Skies

“In fact, the only parents I know who never once worry they might be terrible parents are terrible parents.”
― Catherine Ryan Hyde, Rolling Toward Clear Skies

“People don’t change when everything is going along fine. People change when the roof falls in.”
― Catherine Ryan Hyde, Rolling Toward Clear Skies

“We tend to end up where we’re putting all our attention. A good lesson for life as well as driving.”
― Catherine Ryan Hyde, Rolling Toward Clear Skies

“Let’s say a person is happy and confident and sure of who they are. Say they’re sure they’re a good person, pretty much just the person they want to be. Why would they want to make anybody else feel small?”
― Catherine Ryan Hyde, Rolling Toward Clear Skies

“Most of the time when somebody acts like they’re better than you it’s because they’re afraid they’re not as good. Or maybe all the time.”
― Catherine Ryan Hyde, Rolling Toward Clear Skies

“If you’re not doing good yourself you’re going to want to take shots at the people who are. It’s easier to make them wrong than to change yourself.”
― Catherine Ryan Hyde, Rolling Toward Clear Skies

“Adversity makes us strong. Which makes me wonder why we’re always trying to make sure that the people we love won’t have any.”
― Catherine Ryan Hyde, Rolling Toward Clear Skies

“Sometimes you have to do what you have to do and other people have to be in charge of their own feelings about it.”
― Catherine Ryan Hyde, Rolling Toward Clear Skies

“We all act like we’ll live forever and so will the people we love, and we think we have plenty of time to do all the things we plan to do someday, but we don’t really know. It’s days like this that you know how much you don’t really know.”
― Catherine Ryan Hyde, Rolling Toward Clear Skies

“We’re lucky you’re brave,” Jean said. “I don’t think I’m any braver than anybody else.” “I think you are.” “I just push myself a little harder than most people do.” “That’s the brave part,” Rose said.”
― Catherine Ryan Hyde, Rolling Toward Clear Skies

“In that moment Maggie was overwhelmed with a strange sensation. As though this were some kind of science-fiction movie and these two girls were her own two girls, but in a parallel universe. Like the world had divided up the fates of two pairs of girls, and now she had seen both extremes of what life could shape a pair of sisters to become.”
― Catherine Ryan Hyde, Rolling Toward Clear Skies