Come Back to the World Quotes

“We're on this ball of a planet, spinning in space. And when we look out we're looking in to the rest of the universe. In three dimensions...But we foolishly think this little ball we're standing on is the world...We don't realize we're looking out into the vastness of space. ..how small are our silly little problems and ambitions?
When you look up as though you're looking out into the universe, which you are, you see what the world really is, and your own right size in it.”
― Catherine Ryan Hyde, Come Back to the World

“I have a low opinion of people because they earned it. People are self-serving and totally ruled by their fears. They’ll claw you to pieces to feel a tiny bit safer and they don’t even have the self-awareness to see what they’re doing. And it’s only getting worse. Societies are falling back into unenlightened tribalism. Everybody judges everybody else”
― Catherine Ryan Hyde, Come Back to the World

“People are self-serving and totally ruled by their fears. They’ll claw you to pieces to feel a tiny bit safer and they don’t even have the self-awareness to see what they’re doing. And it’s”
― Catherine Ryan Hyde, Come Back to the World

“People are self-serving and totally ruled by their fears. They’ll claw”
― Catherine Ryan Hyde, Come Back to the World