Hidden Quotes

“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

“One minute doesn’t erase a thousand.”
― 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

“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

“I don’t think that bad actions erase good ones. Not really.”
― Catherine McKenzie, Hidden

“Her departure was a gradual thing, like a watercolor left in the sun, every day fainter until one day the canvas was bare and you had to rely on memory to recapture the image.”
― 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

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

“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

“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

“Like how there’s this optimal money/happiness equation. Once you pass a certain amount of household income, life isn’t any better. Apparently, money can’t buy happiness, or it does, but it costs less than you imagined it would.”
― Catherine McKenzie, Hidden

“Suppose I say summer, write the word “hummingbird,” put it in an envelope, take it down the hill to the box. When you open my letter you will recall those days and how much, just how much, I love you.”
― Catherine McKenzie, Hidden

“All I knew was I had to talk to someone. I had to try to steal someone’s rationality.”
― Catherine McKenzie, Hidden

“My brain was playing tricks on me, sucking me inward, away from my life, my family, myself.”
― Catherine McKenzie, Hidden

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

“First, heal thyself.”
― Catherine McKenzie, Hidden

“Too many things had happened in too short a time span. Did people’s lives really change this quickly? Years of sameness, and then a few hours, a few moments, and everything’s different? But, yes, of course they can. It happens all the time.”
― Catherine McKenzie, Hidden

“Stupid Facebook. 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

“money can’t buy happiness, or it does, but it costs less than you imagined it would.”
― Catherine McKenzie, Hidden

“it’s too quiet up there in my head, and this has let the noise in.”
― Catherine McKenzie, Hidden

“Hummingbird Suppose I say summer, write the word “hummingbird,” put it in an envelope, take it down the hill to the box. When you open my letter you will recall those days and how much, just how much, I love you. —RAYMOND CARVER”
― Catherine McKenzie, Hidden

“Once you pass a certain amount of household income, life isn’t any better.”
― Catherine McKenzie, Hidden

“You’re better than that. You’re better than me. 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

“Maybe it was magical thinking, but I couldn’t help believing that if you were prepared for the worst, you might make it come true.”
― Catherine McKenzie, Hidden

“we were concentrating on the bright blooming things and not the choking weeds that were getting bigger by the day.”
― Catherine McKenzie, Hidden

“But how are you supposed to feel, really, when all your worst fears, things you’d never even imagined could happen, actually do happen, actually do come true?”
― Catherine McKenzie, Hidden

“if you were prepared for the worst, you might make it come true.”
― Catherine McKenzie, Hidden

“The taste might remain on her brain, but the substance would be gone,”
― Catherine McKenzie, Hidden

“you can’t quit just because it’s hard. Things are hard for most people. Life is hard.”
― Catherine McKenzie, Hidden