185 Quotes by Catherine Ryan Hyde

Since we all know for a fact that we’re all going to die, why don’t we all treat each other like we could lose each other at any minute?

Not a one of us can be everything somebody else wants us to be. Trouble comes when we try to pretend we can. Or when people see it like a betrayal. You know. That somebody won’t meet all their needs. My mom used to say it’s because we weren’t put here on earth to take care of each other. And that it’s silly to get mad at someone for letting you down when they’re just being who they are. She said it’s like getting mad at your dog for not being a cat.

This darkness doesn’t belong to the night. It belongs to me.

We just made the mistake of putting it off. We thought we would lose nothing by putting it off. We thought we had plenty of time. I guess that was our key mistake, right? We thought there would always be more time. Why do we do that? I mean, not just Luis and me. Everybody. Why does everybody do that? Think we’ll have more time?

We always say we’ll never get used to change, but then the change happens and we do.

Almost everything is easier to get into than it is to get out of.

That’s all addiction really is. It’s trading away the future so you can feel OK right now.

My brain was not right. I told it to perform, and it wouldn’t listen. Then, suddenly, just as I gave up on remembering, it was there. Fully formed in my brain.

But when nobody punishes you, you have to do it yourself, and there’s no release date on that. We’re always harder on ourselves than any governing body could ever get away with being.