185 Quotes by Catherine Ryan Hyde

That’s the thing about days. No matter what your opinion of days, they always go by.

You don’t fall down to love, you climb up to it. There’s hard work involved. That’s why I believe you can’t love someone you don’t know. Loving someone is knowing them.

The closer you get to heaven, the less air there is, because when you get to heaven for real, you don’t need to breathe anymore.

He never liked the way he felt after eating a meal that was almost all carbs and almost no protein.

The value of your life is your own choosing,” Nathan said.

There are some things it doesn’t feel good to do, but there shouldn’t be things you can’t do. It gives the world too much power over you.

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.

Living long is a gift denied to many, and so it comes with a responsibility to make the most of it. At very least to appreciate it. People gripe about growing older – their aches and pains, how much harder everything is – as if they had forgotten that the alternative is dying young.

It makes no difference whether you believe all this or you don’t. It not only makes no difference to me, but to anything. Things don’t wait for you to believe them. They happen. God is not Tinkerbell. He does what he does whether you clap your hands or hide behind the comfort of your disbelief.