My Name Is Anton Quotes

“But I think it might be fair to say that all the reasons intersect and have one thing in common: too many people can’t believe they deserve someone wonderful.”
― Catherine Ryan Hyde, My Name Is Anton

“young. Love is when you can make the following statement, and mean it: ‘What’s best for her, even if it doesn’t include me.’ Otherwise you just love the way you feel when she’s around, and you want to be selfish with that—hang on to it at all costs, even if it harms her.”
― Catherine Ryan Hyde, My Name Is Anton

“There is one thing in this life you can never hide, and that’s love. When you’re in love, you can’t disguise that. No one I’ve known can conceal it, so far as I could tell. It’s like that old saying about trying to hide your light under a bushel basket, except in this case all that happens is you get this very shiny basket that glows with a light people can see from miles away.”
― Catherine Ryan Hyde, My Name Is Anton

“Nothing hurts like romance.”
― Catherine Ryan Hyde, My Name Is Anton

“Everybody’s on their best behavior during courting. That’s just how the world works. It’s how people work. Then, when they figure they’ve got you for keeps, that’s when you find out what you’ve really gotten yourself into.”
― Catherine Ryan Hyde, My Name Is Anton

“But sometimes the hard parts of our lives come with something valuable attached.”
― Catherine Ryan Hyde, My Name Is Anton

“Great tragedy brings great growth, Anton. It wakes us up. It makes us into someone a little different from who we were before.”
― Catherine Ryan Hyde, My Name Is Anton

“Changing one’s whole modus operandi of communication wasn’t as easy as just hearing a piece of advice and then starting over.”
― Catherine Ryan Hyde, My Name Is Anton

“A human life is a very different place when you can tell people what you need.”
― Catherine Ryan Hyde, My Name Is Anton

“I never know what to make of relationships. Part of me feels like they’re not right, but then another part of me doesn’t know how right it’s reasonable to expect them to be.”
― Catherine Ryan Hyde, My Name Is Anton

“voice”
― Catherine Ryan Hyde, My Name Is Anton

“He was not accustomed to crying in front of others, and he could not have said more without crying. More accurately, he was not accustomed to crying, period. He had not indulged that release because of a deep fear that, having allowed the tears to start, he would never find the end of them, or would find they had no end at all.”
― Catherine Ryan Hyde, My Name Is Anton