185 Quotes by Catherine Ryan Hyde

Thank you. I’m honored. Most people pay very little attention. People are funny, don’t you think? I used to play for the philharmonic, and people would pay good money for those tickets. Big money. But I sit out here and play the same music, and most people won’t even flip me a quarter as they walk by. Same music. Just a different sense of how much they should value it.

Life gives us nothing outright. It only lends. Nothing is ours to keep.

But you have to let people go through whatever it is they have to go through. Just be there for your friends. That’s all we can really do for each other sometimes.

Living long is a gift denied to many, and so it comes with a responsibility to make the most of it.

But I bet more than half the people in the world right now are worrying about something that really is going to be okay.