197 Quotes by Katherine Center

If you think of human emotions as music, then mine were like an orchestra with no conductor.

That’s just the human condition, sweetheart. We’re always doomed to waste our time.

She knew that joy and sorrow walked side by side. She knew that being alive meant risking one for the other. And she also knew, as I was starting to understand in a whole new way, that it was always better to dance than to refuse.

It just seems to me there’s enough pain in the world – and not nearly enough pleasure. I guess once you’ve had enough kidney stones, hot candle wax on the nipples seems less appealing.

I just wanted to be good at this. And competent. And tough. And, ultimately, just: anybody but me. I was tired of being a disaster. I was tired of being a trampled-on flower. I wanted to be awesome. That wasn’t too much, was it?

That’s the thing I always love best about the human race: How we pick ourselves back up over and over and just keep on going.

It’s amazing how brave you can be when you feel safe.

Because that’s all we can do: carry the sorrow when we have to, and absolutely savor the joy when we can. Life is always, always both.

We didn’t fix everything for each other – but we didn’t have to. We just made a choice to be there. Which counted for a lot.