Catherine Ryan Hyde Quotes

There is no wrong way to perform an act of kindness.

Because it proves that you don't need much to change the entire world for the better. You can start with the most ordinary ingredients. You can start with the world you've got.

If it takes you apart, that's not love. Love puts you back together.

I guess it's hard for people who are so used to things the way they are - even if they're bad - to change. 'Cause they kind of give up. And when they do, everybody kind of loses.

I decided that not talking is like a litmus test for a real friend. You can just sit there and be. Not always be filling up the air with words

Things are so easy to do, so hard to undo.

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

Nobody said it was a beautiful world with no scars.

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

Love always looks nice. I don't really know anyone who doesn't enjoy it when they see it. Anyone who doesn't, I don't really want to know them.

A kiss, she thinks, has to be entirely balanced -- it has to have a little conflict, a little dialectic, a little revolution.

The closer you get to heaven, the less air there is, because when you get to heaven for real, you don't need to breathe anymore.

I don't think you feel much of anything anymore.

Since we all know for a fact that we're all going to die, why don't we all treat each other like we could lose each other at any minute?

I have a number of questions. If I had half as many answers, I’d be in great shape.