Dreaming of Flight Quotes

“Sometimes the people around you will have problems, and you’ll wish they didn’t, but there won’t be anything you can do. You just have to trust them to get by as best they can.”
― Catherine Ryan Hyde, Dreaming of Flight

“You can be just a regular, real person and still be the magic somebody else needs in her life. We do it for each other all the time. It’s that everyday sort of magic. We’re all capable of it, I do believe, but still you don’t always see people living up to that potential.”
― Catherine Ryan Hyde, Dreaming of Flight

“The reason people are unhappy is because they’re so sure they know what they want. And then it makes them unhappy when they don’t get it. I personally think people would be happier if they weren’t so sure they knew the difference between a good thing and a bad thing.”
― Catherine Ryan Hyde, Dreaming of Flight

“the reason happiness is happy is because we’re not always happy.”
― Catherine Ryan Hyde, Dreaming of Flight

“First of all, because if we were happy all the time, it wouldn’t even be happiness. It would just be the way we were all the time, and we would fail to even notice it after a while.”
― Catherine Ryan Hyde, Dreaming of Flight

“I know all about grief. I know it takes longer than most people want to believe. I know you’ll still be feeling it after everybody else has decided it’s time to move on. It’s not a straight line.”
― Catherine Ryan Hyde, Dreaming of Flight

“I think anger is a normal human emotion. And I think people getting in touch with their emotions is good. I think people tend to bury their emotions because they don’t want to feel them. And I think we can’t heal those emotions until we let them come out into the light.” “So”
― Catherine Ryan Hyde, Dreaming of Flight

“In his head, Stewie began a litany. Stop talking to me. Stop talking to me. Stop talking to me.”
― Catherine Ryan Hyde, Dreaming of Flight

“It’s a trust thing. When people trust me, I’d just about die before I let them down. You can tell me anything.”
― Catherine Ryan Hyde, Dreaming of Flight

“Really? Are you sure?” “I have sad. But that’s not the same as problems. Problems are something you have to figure out a way to solve. You can’t solve sad.”
― Catherine Ryan Hyde, Dreaming of Flight

“You can only hold back tears for just so long.”
― Catherine Ryan Hyde, Dreaming of Flight

“But it made him feel ashamed to say it, because it wasn’t entirely true. He felt it shouldn’t have mattered. But it did. He had wanted everyone to see his talented hen. He had wanted to fill to bursting with pride while everyone watched.”
― Catherine Ryan Hyde, Dreaming of Flight

“I know a man," he said, "A man who taught me that the reason people aren't happy is because they have these ideas about what the world should be. And the world is never just what they think it ought to be. If the world has to be a certain way for you to be happy, then you'll never be happy. Heck, I'm only twelve and even I know that.”
― Catherine Ryan Hyde, Dreaming of Flight

“No good deed goes unpunished, she thought as she stepped into the outer office. Somehow it had fallen to her not only to teach the boy to read, but to heal his traumatic life. And all she had wanted was to buy a few cartons of unusually fresh eggs.”
― Catherine Ryan Hyde, Dreaming of Flight

“But there was no way to slice it that did not feel like a loss. He would simply have to file it away with all the other things—both small and large—that should not have been asking too much from life, but which life had taken from him all the same.”
― Catherine Ryan Hyde, Dreaming of Flight

“I have sad. But that’s not the same as problems. Problems are something you have to figure out a way to solve. You can’t solve sad.”
― Catherine Ryan Hyde, Dreaming of Flight

“It’s always ‘something is lost, but something else is gained.”
― Catherine Ryan Hyde, Dreaming of Flight