Quotes from Catherine Ryan Hyde

She stopped herself. He wasn't a boy. A time comes in the life of a mother and son when that kind of mothering crosses the line into critical behavior. At age thirty he could eat and talk in any way he saw fit.

I wasn't into blame. Maybe because I had so much of it directed at me, you know? I guess you can go one of two ways with that. You can reflect it right back out at everybody else, or you can drop out of the whole blame paradigm. I guess I chose not to play the game anymore.

But dogs don't regret what they didn't do soon enough, or didn't do enough of. Or what you didn't do enough of. Dogs are where they are right now, in this moment, and nowhere else. Which is why I generally keep the company of dogs, she thought. Chapter Sixteen: Pete Pete eased the front door of his house open and then froze, allowing his eyes to adjust to the dim living room.

But when I was inside, I was always OK. So I just started staying inside. Like I told you before, it gets to be an addiction.

What do you think of them?" "They're fine. Why ask them to be shorter?

I don't know if war is always pointless," she said. "I know it's always tragic.

What could I possibly have done to bring this on? What can I possibly do to stop it? I thought, is there anybody besides me whose mother welcomed them into the world with a face full of joyful love? I mean, one single person besides myself?

I just blurted it out. I wasn't really thinking. I do that all the time. Talk first, think later. It's my curse. I'm really sorry.

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

Esta bien," Clara called back. They sat in silence a while longer. "You seem pretty relaxed," she said to Billy. "Pretty

But it's funny how you can take something that turns out to be fatal and classify it as not worth fixing.

But I picked it out. I didn't want you to think I had terrible taste in movies." "But you hadn't seen it. If you'd seen it nine times and really wanted me to see it the tenth time with you, and I hated it, I might think you had bad taste in movies. Which isn't the most terrible thing in the world, by the way. But you were just guessing. Anybody can guess wrong.

Maybe we've removed all the relevance from the information we teach kids so they have no idea why they should care. Maybe it's not the kids' fault.

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

He says the part that's driving us crazy is trying to fix a future that isn't even here yet. He says when it gets here, then we can figure out how to get through it. But now it's just driving us crazy because it's all unknown. So we just have to stay in the moment we're in. You know. Take things on one moment at a time.

Well, at least you worry about nice things, like whether I'll have a good time.

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.

Whether they admit it to you, whether they admit it to themselves, people know where they stand with each other. Virginia

You want to be OK right now, so you trade that for having a good life in the long run. It's a bad trade, but people do it all the time. That's all addiction really is. It's trading away the future so you can feel OK right now. That's what your mom is doing. And that's what got me. There's really quite a lot of it going around." Billy

you can't even begin to heal until it strikes you that something needs healing.

Ethan tries not to look back on that night. At least, as much as human nature allows. But it's a funny thing about your darkest moments. They have a life of their own. They come around because they've got you pinned. Because they can. The harder you try to push them back into the shadows, the stronger they grow. They draw power from your resistance.

They were not children. They had grown into people he knew little about. And they had done so without his help or influence, or even,--for the most part--his witness. It made him feel as though something precious had been taken from him.

We take things on a little at a time because all at once they'd kill

After a while you look at a picture and all it helps you remember is the picture. And then it gets kind of memorized and you hardly even see it.