Michael Without Apology Quotes

“You’re better off being you. Half the people you know’ll applaud you for it and the other half’ll be pissed off. If the people applauding you are the people you like and respect, then you’ll know you got it right.”
― Catherine Ryan Hyde, Michael Without Apology

“And also because, in this life, it seems to follow almost without exception that our regrets are made up of the things we didn’t do. Almost any mistake can be lived with, because you gave it a shot. But we regret the chances we let go by.”
― Catherine Ryan Hyde, Michael Without Apology

“I think part of the point of the film,” he said, “is getting past comparing one person’s experience to another. It’s not about who has it worse. Our problems are our problems, and I think sometimes they get compared to other people’s problems in a way that makes us feel like we don’t have a right to feel the way we feel about them.”
― Catherine Ryan Hyde, Michael Without Apology

“Whenever I hear anybody tell anybody else they’re too sensitive, all I hear is ‘I want to feel free to say offensive things to you and it really inconveniences me when you mind.”
― Catherine Ryan Hyde, Michael Without Apology

“Whenever I hear anybody tell anybody else they’re too sensitive”
― Catherine Ryan Hyde, Michael Without Apology

“Live like living means something. Like you’re lucky to have the chance.” They lay together”
― Catherine Ryan Hyde, Michael Without Apology

“Being a person takes practice.”
― Catherine Ryan Hyde, Michael Without Apology

“My film professor never gave me a hundred and twenty-five dollars. That’s how I’ll remember you’re still the dad.”
― Catherine Ryan Hyde, Michael Without Apology

“It’s not amazing,” she said. “Never talk about things of that nature like they’re out of the ordinary. The universe pushes us around. All the time. In a good way, I mean. It knows which way it wants us to go, so when we turn in the right direction it puts a wind at our backs.”
― Catherine Ryan Hyde, Michael Without Apology

“It wasn’t until he spoke that last sentence that he realized the true weight of her question, and its reflection on his own situation. She had asked because she cared enough to ask. And she cared because he had made her care.”
― Catherine Ryan Hyde, Michael Without Apology

“I’m not saying the world was right then and it’s wrong now. I look back and I wince a little.”
― Catherine Ryan Hyde, Michael Without Apology

“In my experience you can never go far wrong by following the direction in which the universe is pushing you.”
― Catherine Ryan Hyde, Michael Without Apology

“Time only goes one way,”
― Catherine Ryan Hyde, Michael Without Apology

“We knew enough. We didn’t know millions would be slaughtered. We knew he wasn’t allowing Jews to vote or run their businesses, and we knew people were being rounded up and arrested. How much do you need to know before you spit in a man’s face? But I was fifteen and he was Adolf Hitler. And I just couldn’t do it. Well. Maybe I could have. I wasn’t physically incapable. But I just couldn’t bring myself to do it. I was scared. He had so much power. I felt so small compared to him. Compared to that whole moment.”
― Catherine Ryan Hyde, Michael Without Apology

“Well, if you’re asking my advice,” Dunning said, “which we all know is one of the two circumstances in which I’m supposed to give it, I’d say follow the direction in which the universe is pushing you. In my experience you can never go far wrong by following the direction in which the universe is pushing you.”
― Catherine Ryan Hyde, Michael Without Apology