Quotes from Catherine Ryan Hyde

It means feelings come through loud and clear whether you express them in words or not.

If I sit inside, then nobody will know I'm in trouble. And so then nobody will help me.

Whatever you think your shortcomings are…you can't just lock yourself in the house so no one can notice or comment. We all have to take ourselves out into the world, flaws and all. And find a way to make the adjustment.

All big changes are scary. And it's scary to think of being without money. It doesn't even have to be an ego thing, but it would be pretty human and normal if there was some of that mixed in. We need money to survive, and to solve basic problems. And, you know . . . they tend to come up. It's hard to be without it, especially if you're used to having plenty. Cut yourself a little slack.

Great tragedy brings great growth, Anton. It wakes us up. It makes us into someone a little different from who we were before.

It was time for me to practice relaxing about the things I couldn't control.

This is not a sales call, Mr. Farrelly. I do people's books and taxes. I don't sell young men. Nat is a grown man. He can speak for himself. If you want to know more about him, why not ask him directly? He's sitting right over there.

It doesn't help anybody to say, "I'm overwhelmed" or "I just can't." If you have to, then you just do. She

OK. So your story sadder'n mine. OK. But my story still my story. I mean…even if somebody else got it worse. What I got was bad enough. You know?

If there's some hidden part of me that thinks like that, I'd rather not go searching for it.

I guess I feel like I've been putting up this big front to the world like I don't need anybody or anything. Like I'm happier by myself. I don't like being alone any better than anybody else does. I just got confused because it was better than being with most of the people I've known.

Suddenly I wanted to think like everyone else seemed to think. That military retaliation was honorable and just. But that's only wanting. War is always pointless.

The thing I'll always remember best about that time is not how quickly our family fell apart. The memorable bit was when I first looked back at how we'd convinced ourselves we'd ever been together in the first place.

What the hell is wrong with people?

Is this person I'm supposed to be judging our tribe, or another tribe? If she's us, mistakes can be forgiven. Hell, everybody makes mistakes. The mistake becomes an anomaly, because it's us, and we're good people. If she's them, mistakes need to be punished, because that's just how they are.

It was so familiar now, that pain. He almost welcomed it. He'd almost missed it.

If you have a bucket list, get on it. And if you don't, get on that. Get one. And then, get on it. Nobody lives forever.

I couldn't bring myself to talk like one of those corny made-for-TV movies where people say exactly what they're feeling, as though there was nothing difficult about that at all.

These places. Nature. It makes me feel different.

I looked down the endless stretch of highway and decided not to borrow trouble from too far down the road.

Joseph Campbell that says something like "We must be willing to let go of the life we planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us.

There comes an age when you answer a call that has nothing to do with the family that raised you. You grow up over their heads, beyond their reach. They'll hate you for it, but this is the natural order of things.

How'd we let so much time go by... When we swore we wouldn't?

When something is true, it takes a lot of energy to pretend it's not. It pretty much uses up the life energy a person's got and doesn't leave much energy for anything else. After years of that, you just get so exhausted. Almost everything sounds okay if it comes with a rest.