Just After Midnight Quotes

“pretend that the world could not—would not—strike with no notice, offering up a loss that could take a person’s breath away. Of course it can, she thought, and you know it better than just about anybody. We only pretend it can’t, a minute or two at a time, to help us get up and out of the house in the morning.”
― Catherine Ryan Hyde, Just After Midnight

“People make mistakes all the time. That’s more or less the definition of a person: we’re a bunch of walking, talking mistake-holders. When I make a mistake, if I was doing my best, I let myself off the hook.”
― Catherine Ryan Hyde, Just After Midnight

“If you don’t mind my saying so, I think you spend too much of your life being sorry.”
― Catherine Ryan Hyde, Just After Midnight

“Sometimes people are scared of a thing that won’t hurt them. But they’re not scared for no reason. They’re just not scared for the reason they think they are.”
― Catherine Ryan Hyde, Just After Midnight

“I think very often in life we do something important for someone else for no better reason than that they need us to. And really, when you think about it . . . what more reason is needed?”
― Catherine Ryan Hyde, Just After Midnight

“Sometimes people are scared of a thing that won’t hurt them. But they’re not scared for no reason. They’re just not scared for the reason they think they are. Like when I was a kid. I liked to watch scary movies, so then I could be scared and tell myself it was about the werewolf or the vampire. But I was already scared. I was just looking for something to feel it about.”
― Catherine Ryan Hyde, Just After Midnight

“tea. “I think very often in life we do something important for someone else for no better reason than that they need us to. And really, when you think about it . . . what more reason is needed?”
― Catherine Ryan Hyde, Just After Midnight

“Just for a brief moment she pictured leaving this place. Wondered how long they would be allowed to stay here and where she would go when this odd segment of her life was over. She had just left a life when she met Sarah and her grandmother—a life that was now completely in the past—and had not yet built a new one on her own. So the idea of returning to her own life felt nebulous at best, meaningless at worst. How could she go back to a life that did not yet exist”
― Catherine Ryan Hyde, Just After Midnight

“People make mistakes all the time. That’s more or less the definition of a person: we’re a bunch of walking, talking mistake holders. When I make a mistake, if I was doing my best, I let myself off the hook.”
― Catherine Ryan Hyde, Just After Midnight

“Because when you really love someone, you want them to be happy. Even if it can’t be with you.”
― Catherine Ryan Hyde, Just After Midnight

“Sometimes people are scared of a thing that won’t hurt them. But they’re not scared for no reason.”
― Catherine Ryan Hyde, Just After Midnight

“Bag in hand, she cut across what might have been green lawn if this hadn’t been the Central California Valley. If it hadn’t been more or less one hundred degrees all summer, including now. Instead her boots crunched over a sea of wood chips on the way to Barn C. She had to take a “long cut” to avoid a watering truck that was spraying down the path to keep the dust to a minimum”
― Catherine Ryan Hyde, Just After Midnight

“at a time, to help us get up and out of the house in the morning.”
― Catherine Ryan Hyde, Just After Midnight

“get it. How did you not know?”
― Catherine Ryan Hyde, Just After Midnight