185 Quotes by Catherine Ryan Hyde

We’re all just doing our best.’ I left out the second part. ‘Even if it doesn’t look so good from the outside.

You think passion is enough. That it’s all you really need. You think if something’s just really, really important to you, it’ll magically appear. Well, passion is all well and good. You won’t get nowhere without it. But it’s not the whole enchilada. You still gotta go step-by-step like everybody else.

It’s one thing to know the right path and another thing to take it.

I don’t mean that I remember hearing about it. I remember the caul, and then the sudden absence of it.

So I guess the theme of this novel is, “Look for strength in unexpected places.” Not only might you find it there, but it might be more beautiful and more hopeful than strength found anywhere else. Here’s to strength and healing.

That’s stupid. What about a gun? A gun can kill you dead.” “Only your body,” Billy said. “It can’t kill your soul. Words can kill your soul.

It depends how important it is to them to see things differently.

Every now and then my love for that child hit me so hard I felt bowled over. Like a turtle knocked upside down onto its shell, unable to right itself. This was one of those moments.

I realized I’d been on pins and needles waiting to see how he’d react to being penned up again. I’ll never understand that. How can I be on pins and needles and not even know it? It sounds like a thing that shouldn’t exist in the world at all, but there it is. It’s discouraging to be in the middle of a life that’s impossible to explain.