Quotes from Catherine Ryan Hyde

I seem to remember that Gandhi once said his commitment was to truth, not consistency." - Nathan

But when you're already swimming in a sea of humiliation deep enough to drown you, it doesn't matter much if somebody throws in another bucketful. It's not worth it to stop and pay attention to that when you need to keep paddling.

It's not hard to fall in love," Hayden said. "The hard part is to love somebody who might actually do you some good.

He knew then why his voice had abandoned him. Because it takes courage to talk to people.

lot of roads. Some not so happy. And it makes them what they are. So if you run around putting a pillow under people to cushion their fall . . . well, I'm just not sure it's quite the favor we think it is.

I find it touching, almost enviable, that a person with so little feels she has all she needs.

The most important thing I can add from my own observations is this: Knowing it started from unremarkable circumstances should be a comfort to us all. Because it proves that you don't need much to change the entire world for the better. You can start with the most ordinary ingridients. You can start with the world you've got.

Maybe the school was the problem, August thought. Maybe everybody wants a science lesson if they're sitting in the middle of one of the greatest geothermal wonders of the world. 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. Maybe we made the first mistake.

I had this wonderful feeling inside as I ran. Like I'd gotten a sneak peek into love, and it was okay in there.

It would be easier if people were just good or bad and that was that.

It's just communication with other humans, and I don't know why everyone is so afraid of it.

It's impossible to not be happy with seven puppies climbing all over you. It literally can't be done.

I warm up from the inside. I'm moving, working, and that creates its own heat.

I can go to this love place and I can be okay.

Life is something I'm just not cut out for.

I decided to leave my bags there at the hotel. It was a risky move, because I knew if I didn't get back to fetch them by noon, I could be on the hook for another day's two-dollar charge.

just kind of poke at the bait. Or grab

I felt quite uncentered enough on my own, with no outside assistance.

stepped outside my comfort level and experienced a morning of joy. In my humble and exhausted opinion, joy beats comfort every time.

ever do such a thing. Which I'm not saying is wrong, but we know we take risks, too. Maybe we even blame them more because we want to pretend it never could have happened to us. But of course it could have. We make life-and-death decisions every day. The odds are just really good on most of them. But if something goes wrong, we're still responsible. And we don't get to do it over, either.

vaguely hear him talking in the background, but not a

After a moment August felt Henry's arms wrap around his chest, and the little guy's face pressed up hard on his shoulder. "Don't be sad, August," the little mouse voice said.

when a person is rude and abusive to me, it's not about me at all. They can say something terrible to me or about me, but they're revealing themselves, not me. It has nothing to do with me. They're just showing me the landscape on the inside of themselves as they project it out onto somebody else.

We take all these little calculated risks. All the time. Nine hundred and ninety-nine times out of a thousand nothing goes wrong. And the one time it does, we blame the person who took the risk, tell them they should have known better than to ever do such a thing. Which