185 Quotes by Catherine Ryan Hyde

I really only have been seriously writing, finishing things and publishing things since January '91.

I’d been focusing strongly on green since my days in pasture seeing through the eyes of a horse.

Maybe when you put tears away uncried, everything you cry about from that day on contains a little of those tears.

I keep telling you the future isn’t set in stone. It’s not all decided yet. The future is just what’s down the road we decided to walk on today. You can change roads anytime. And that changes where you end up.

It’s a good summer. A full one. With lots of good firsts. Which is good. Since it’s the last.

Because it’s everything a person needs to live a decent life. It has a stove for heat. A fridge to keep your food cold and a stove to cook it when you’re ready to eat it. It has a bathtub and a shower to get you clean after your chores and a bed to lie down in at the end of the day. And that’s all a person really needs. And I think the whole trouble with us is that we think we need so much more.

I’ve had a lot of worries in my life, most of which never happened.

What does it mean when someone loses the use of most of his brain, and it makes him more kind?

Of course it landed in my gut to a total panic response, because I wasn’t expecting anyone, and didn’t seem able to anticipate anything but more trouble. I try not to think that way, but it’s more a feeling than a thought, and besides, it’s an involuntary response.