Hello Stranger Quotes

“The more good things you look for, the more you find.”
― Katherine Center, Hello Stranger

“But I find the antidote to that is just keeping a sense of humor. And staying humble. And laughing a lot. And doubling down on smiling. We’re all just muddling through, after all. We’re all just doing the best we can. We’re all struggling with our struggles. Nobody has the answers. And everybody, deep down, is a little bit lost.”
― Katherine Center, Hello Stranger

“Our thoughts create our emotions. So if you fixate on your worst-case scenario, you’ll make things harder for yourself.”
― Katherine Center, Hello Stranger

“Light matters just as much as darkness. Play matters as much as work, and kindness matters as much as cruelty, and hope matters as much as despair. More so, even. Because tragedy is a given, but joy is a choice.”
― Katherine Center, Hello Stranger

“We’re all just doing the best we can. We’re all struggling with our struggles. Nobody has the answers. And everybody, deep down, is a little bit lost.”
― Katherine Center, Hello Stranger

“Isn’t it lucky when we’re drawn to people who can teach us things we need to learn?”
― Katherine Center, Hello Stranger

“But I guess that’s the great thing about life—it gives you chance after chance to rethink it all. Who you want to be. How you want to live. What really matters.”
― Katherine Center, Hello Stranger

“You want me not to fixate on the worst-case scenario?"
"I want you to start practicing the art of self-encouragement."
"So when I catch myself worrying, I should try to convince myself that things are going to be fine?"
"That's one way to do it."
"But what if I don't believe it?"
"Then keep arguing.”
― Katherine Center, Hello Stranger

“The fact that you don't want me to help you really makes me want to help you."
"That sounds like a you problem.”
― Katherine Center, Hello Stranger

“Romance novels, rom-coms, nontragic love stories—they all run on a blissful sense that we’re moving toward something better. Percentage-wise, the majority of clues writers drop in romance novels don’t give you things to dread. They give you things to look forward to.”
― Katherine Center, Hello Stranger

“And the idea that anything could just disappear at any moment is something you suddenly understand in a whole new way.”
― Katherine Center, Hello Stranger

“This love story really created a fantastic feeling of anticipation.”
― Katherine Center, Hello Stranger

“face blindness as a “superpower,” saying she treated every person she interacted with like a dear friend—just in case those people turned out to actually be dear friends. When people talked to her in the grocery store as if they knew her, she pretended she knew them right back, and asked them question after question until she could solve the mystery for herself. She learned a lot about people that way, she said—but more than that, it meant that almost every interaction she had with other people was infused with warmth and affection. In a way, there were no strangers.”
― Katherine Center, Hello Stranger

“We could have let it all go long before now. We could have tried less hard. We could have given up in the face of all our misunderstandings. But we didn't. It takes a certain kind of courage to be brave in love. A courage you can only get better at through practice.”
― Katherine Center, Hello Stranger

“Then something became very clear to me: As terrible as Parker made my life, she made her own even worse. Nothing she could do to me was as soul-crushing as what she did to herself. In turning away from kindness, she’d chosen a life of torment.”
― Katherine Center, Hello Stranger

“We see what we’re looking for.”
― Katherine Center, Hello Stranger

“Every real human interaction is made up of a million tiny moving pieces. Not a simple one-note situation: a symphony of cues to read and decipher and evaluate and pay attention.”
― Katherine Center, Hello Stranger

“Plus, don't we all, deep down, carry an inextinguishable longing for our parents to be proud of us? Even long after we've given up?”
― Katherine Center, Hello Stranger

“It’s nice to have a reason to do something nice.”
― Katherine Center, Hello Stranger

“We’re all so limited and disappointing and so, so wrong. Much of the time. Maybe even most of the time. We’re all so steeped in our own confirmation bias. We’re all so busy seeing what we expect to see. But we have our moments, too. Moments when we see that tire blowout and stop to help. Moments when we pay for the person behind us in the drive-through. Or offer up our seat to a stranger. Or compliment someone’s earrings. Or realize we were wrong. Or apologize. Sometimes we really are the best versions of ourselves. I see that about us. And I’m determined to keep seeing that about us. Because that really might be the truest thing I’ll ever know: The more good things you look for, the more you find.”
― Katherine Center, Hello Stranger

“It’s the structure—that “predictable” structure—that does it. Anticipating that you’re heading toward a happy ending lets you relax and look forward to better things ahead. And there’s a name for what you’re feeling when you do that. Hope.”
― Katherine Center, Hello Stranger

“DID THE GREAT Dr. Oliver Addison, veterinarian sex god, work a miracle and restore my geriatric bestie to perfect canine health?”
― Katherine Center, Hello Stranger

“Did you just call me chunks?” I asked. What on earth could that mean? “Choonks,” she corrected. “It means sweetheart in Trinidad.”
― Katherine Center, Hello Stranger

“There is nothing—nothing—more socially awkward than standing alone in a crowd waiting for someone, anyone, to come and join you.”
― Katherine Center, Hello Stranger

“What’s confirmation bias?” Dr. Nicole paused for a good definition. “It means that we tend to think what we think we’re going to think.” I added all those words up. “So … if you expect to think a thing is true, you’re more likely to think it’s true?”
― Katherine Center, Hello Stranger

“Maybe the best way to keep her with me was to embrace her spirit. To emulate her courage. To bring warmth and love the world that she always fearlessly had.”
― Katherine Center, Hello Stranger

“Humans seem to find certain elements universally appealing, and if you emphasize those, the person looks that much better. This is a scientific thing. It’s been studied. The theory is that certain features and proportions elicit feelings of “aww, that’s adorable” in us, which prompts caregiving behaviors, affection, and an urge to move closer. In theory, we evolved this reaction in response to baby faces, so we’d feel compelled to take care of our young, but when those same features and patterns crop up in other places, on other faces, we like them there, too.”
― Katherine Center, Hello Stranger

“Basically we tend to decide on what the world is and who people are and how things are—and then we look for evidence that supports what we’ve already decided. And we ignore everything that doesn’t fit.” “That”
― Katherine Center, Hello Stranger

“She just painted me exactly as I was. But glowing. As I really looked—but bathed in sunlight and warmth and a lovable mischievousness.”
― Katherine Center, Hello Stranger

“Was he flirting with me or being a pain? Had he already won me over, or did I still have a choice?”
― Katherine Center, Hello Stranger