60 Quotes by Catherine Gilbert Murdock

I swear, every person I know gets far more satisfaction from doing good deeds than receiving them. Maybe that’s the whole point in the end, all of us putting up with good deeds, tolerating them as best we can, counting the minutes until we have the opportunity to reciprocate.

And if I didn’t, I’d spend the rest of my life wondering who I could have turned into if only I’d had the guts to try.

Everyone I looked at, their whole lives, did exactly what they were supposed to do without even questioning it, without even wondering if they could do something different.

I could not but wonder at the queen’s unprecedented civility, until I realized with a flush of shame that it was my own improved behavior that motivated hers. So it is that we in life determine our own treatment.

And that’s where our conversation went from there, than God, both of us laughing our butts off at the thought of a hoops game between two teams on intravenous fluids. Which makes absolutely no sense at all; I know that. But that’s why it cheered me up, because it was so absolutely stupid. It cheered me up more than I’d ever thought I’d be cheered up again.

It was like he was in a contest to see who could do the least work, only he was the only contestant.

I milked, of course, and did some work around the barn, and tried not to think about Brian, which was like trying not to breathe.

But it turns out that even if I don’t talk a lot, when it’s something that matters I still have a lot to say.

That which is priceless has no cost.