185 Quotes by Catherine Ryan Hyde

I loved pain, followed it, thought it would cleanse me, right my wrongs.

I think it’s the things we don’t talk about that make us old before out time.

Luis comes along and decides that his definition of a man is someone who is not afraid to be kind. That takes courage.

Addict logic,” Yolanda said, not missing a beat. “Life viewed through resentment.

The world is a tough place, my friend. I’m not ready to change my mind about that. And yet we’re called upon to be grateful that we’re in it. That seems to be our challenge.

Accepting things. That’s what the talk was about. About how insane it is to try to pretend something isn’t a certain way, or that you can make it another way, just because you don’t like it.

We should all be much more careful with each other’s hearts.

They reminded her what it meant to allow someone into your life. You see something you like in a man, so you ask him in, but what comes in is all of him. Not only the parts you took a liking to, but the many parts that don’t fit with you at all. That’s always the way it worked.

They just want to kill the pain. Everybody just wants to kill the pain.