185 Quotes by Catherine Ryan Hyde

I can live through everything or I can answer for everything, but sometimes both is just too much for one day.

That’s the lovely thing about having an animal. You might not want to get up for your own sake, but you will bring yourself to do it for them.

Don’t you dare give up on me.

Why the remarkable commitment?” “Why not?” Nathan asked. “What else have I done with my life that’s remarkable?

Not a bad life’s work.

People learned by what they experienced. It mattered little what anyone said to anyone.

It flitted through her mind without actual words that skin is an odd thing for the world to make a fuss about, especially when, with your eyes closed, it all feels more or less the same.

And you never have to change the water, because the horse does it for you, by drinking it down and triggering the valve to refill. So there’s always fresh oxygen for the fish. And you never have to feed the fish, because they eat the algae. And so long as no hawks or eagles come by to go fishing, you’re golden.” “And they don’t scare the horse?” “Never met a horse who cared.

There’s no beginning, middle and end to that experience. The split second it happens, it’s happened. In its entirety. The only time that really elapses is the time it takes you to catch up. To absorb what just happened to you. And nobody ever thinks it’s going to unhappen. Do they?