Where We Belong Quotes

“Other people always bring complications. That’s just the nature of human relationships. You can’t separate people from their complications. Uncomplicated and alone are more or less the same thing.”
― Catherine Ryan Hyde, Where We Belong

“You overheard two people telling each other your secret, out loud, and it was a secret you hadn’t even told yourself in the privacy of your own head yet.”
― Catherine Ryan Hyde, Where We Belong

“I can live through everything or I can answer for everything, but sometimes both is just too much for one day.”
― Catherine Ryan Hyde, Where We Belong

“Why? Why was it not a total disaster? How was it not?” “I really have no idea. It just wasn’t. I’m not going to look too closely at why it wasn’t. Because I’m just so glad it wasn’t. And I suggest you try it my way for now.”
― Catherine Ryan Hyde, Where We Belong

“I just feel like it’s our job to take care of them. You know? And when you take care of someone, you should love them the way they are. Not try to make them different.”
― Catherine Ryan Hyde, Where We Belong

“Everything in the world is easier to clean up after than your own actual damn life.”
― Catherine Ryan Hyde, Where We Belong

“I don’t understand that, Angie. I swear, I just don’t understand you at all.” “I know you don’t. Believe me. I know. But some of my favorite parts of me are the parts you don’t understand.”
― Catherine Ryan Hyde, Where We Belong

“And I got a chance to watch her while she wasn’t watching me watch her.”
― Catherine Ryan Hyde, Where We Belong

“Rigby wagged along beside me, whipping my butt with her lethal tail. I didn’t say ouch, because I was too busy with the inside ouches.”
― Catherine Ryan Hyde, Where We Belong

“The story of my life in two sentences: I need time to sort all this out. I’m not going to get it. It was one of those patterns that just kept cropping up. Every time it showed its ugly face, it won.”
― Catherine Ryan Hyde, Where We Belong

“I trotted down all three flights of stairs feeling weirdly happy. My sister was back. And at least I had one sort-of friend. You have to have gotten down pretty low before something as small as that starts to look like happy to you.”
― Catherine Ryan Hyde, Where We Belong

“I have no idea what to do.” Which was my mom’s way of saying, “Now you do something.” When my mom said she was out of ideas, it meant I had to step up.”
― Catherine Ryan Hyde, Where We Belong

“I have to go,” I said. “Thanks for the tents.” I ran all the way back in the rain. But… back to what? It wasn’t like this rented patch of dirt was any kind of shelter. It wasn’t really much of anything. But just at the moment, it was all we had. I had no choice but to think of it as home.”
― Catherine Ryan Hyde, Where We Belong

“Neither one is any way to grow up.”
― Catherine Ryan Hyde, Where We Belong

“But some of my favorite parts of me are the parts you don’t understand. I don’t mean to be hurtful. I’m not saying it in an angry way. I wish we fit together better, too. But I’m not going to change the best of me just because you don’t get it.”
― Catherine Ryan Hyde, Where We Belong

“It’s amazing how much time it takes to gather money, and how little time it takes for life to intervene.”
― Catherine Ryan Hyde, Where We Belong

“Why is it that years can go by, and it feels like nothing moves, and then the whole world changes three or four times in a couple of weeks?”
― Catherine Ryan Hyde, Where We Belong

“We all go around saying we don’t know where we stand with other people, because we don’t know what they’re thinking. Which is true. But we can feel where we stand with them. But then we get back into our heads and start second-guessing what we feel and get ourselves all confused and tangled up again.”
― Catherine Ryan Hyde, Where We Belong

“Why is it that years can go by, and it feels like nothing moves, and then the whole world changes three or four times in a couple of weeks? I could never figure that out.”
― Catherine Ryan Hyde, Where We Belong

“It’s always easier to take a risk when it’s your own stuff you’re risking. Nothing is harder than risking something that belongs to somebody else.”
― Catherine Ryan Hyde, Where We Belong

“just kind of poke at the bait. Or grab”
― Catherine Ryan Hyde, Where We Belong

“The door swung wide,”
― Catherine Ryan Hyde, Where We Belong

“If I was going to get hurt, or have a hard time, I wanted to do it all alone, with nobody looking.”
― Catherine Ryan Hyde, Where We Belong

“See, that’s always the thing. While you’re breathing and being all happy that the whole house didn’t come falling down, you know there’s another card drop coming right up. It’s not about gaining much. It’s just about gaining. It’s always about not losing everything in the exact moment you’re in.”
― Catherine Ryan Hyde, Where We Belong

“When something is true, it takes a lot of energy to pretend it’s not. It pretty much uses up the life energy a person’s got and doesn’t leave much energy for anything else. After years of that, you just get so exhausted. Almost everything sounds okay if it comes with a rest.”
― Catherine Ryan Hyde, Where We Belong

“Catherine Ryan Hyde is the author of 20 published and forthcoming books. Her newer novels include When I Found You, Second Hand Heart, Don’t Let Me Go, and When You Were Older. New Kindle editions of her earlier titles Funerals for Horses, Earthquake Weather and Other Stories, Electric God, and Walter’s Purple Heart are now available. Her newest ebook title is The Long Steep Path: Everyday Inspiration from the Author of PAY IT FORWARD, her first book-length creative nonfiction. Forthcoming frontlist titles are Walk Me Home and Where We Belong.”
― Catherine Ryan Hyde, Where We Belong

“can live through everything or I can answer for everything, but sometimes both is just too much for one day.”
― Catherine Ryan Hyde, Where We Belong

“supermarket she tried to bite, and the dog was”
― Catherine Ryan Hyde, Where We Belong

“It’s a lot of work for something that’s always going to fall down at the end. But then, all of life is like that. Right?”
― Catherine Ryan Hyde, Where We Belong

“gone. I figured you had some kind of secret. I”
― Catherine Ryan Hyde, Where We Belong