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Catherine Ryan Hyde

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    Catherine Ryan Hyde

    A genuine act of kindness makes me feel like I really am where you cut underneath anything external, and you become what a human being can really be. It’s like coming home when you give kindness. Kindness changes us, as human beings.

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    Catherine Ryan Hyde

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

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    Catherine Ryan Hyde

    ... even though it was beautiful and comfortable, and even though it was the world, it was also a little bit boring. No, wait. Maybe boring isn’t the right word. What’s the word I’m wanting here? Lonely. That’s it. It was a little bit lonely.

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    Catherine Ryan Hyde

    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

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

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    Catherine Ryan Hyde

    If you want to see a man come to his senses, try something like, Do you happen to carry a rubber in your wallet? Did I mention I'm not on the pill?

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    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.

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    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.

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    Catherine Ryan Hyde

    I try to think of a way to get there without going past it. There are lots of ways, but they all have me walking a little farther. And that's stupid, I decide. What am I, a little kid? I can stand to see something it hurts to want. I can see it and then just keep walking. It happens to lots of people everyday. We all survive.

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    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.

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    Most people prefer to think that their resentment is entirely the fault of the person they resent, and that twisted logic seems to make sense in their minds. But it makes no sense to me at all... But it's a popular point of view. Probably because it's so much easier. It relieves you of the burden of any and all self-examination. (Nathan to Nat)

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    Nobody said it was a beautiful world with no scars.

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    Catherine Ryan Hyde

    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.

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    Catherine Ryan Hyde

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

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    Catherine Ryan Hyde

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

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    Catherine Ryan Hyde

    A birthday is a very big thing. It should be big from the minute you wake up. It should be such a big thing—all day long—that you fall down into sleep that night all worn out from so much bigness. You get a present with paper on it, you can open that in just a minute. And then, depending on what's inside, a birthday can sort of lose its shine. And then what do you got? No birthday. No big thing. So what I wanted for my sweet little boy was a birthday that would be big and last all day long. Nobody should be able to mess with that, or make it not safe.

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    Catherine Ryan Hyde

    Ah, yes. That. The sin of being happy or excited. According to my father, we must guard carefully against such things. According to my father, these emotions are the equivalent of dancing on out fifth-floor window ledge. Clearly inviting a nasty fall.

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    Catherine Ryan Hyde

    And then, every time I didn't see her, there was a fall involved. I thought about dancing on the fifth-floor ledge outside out apartment. Every train she wasn't on felt something like hitting the pavement from five floors up. So maybe my father was right about that. Maybe happiness and excitement really are dangerous things.

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    Catherine Ryan Hyde

    Don't you dare give up on me.

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    Catherine Ryan Hyde

    [Grace talking to Billy.] "It's like people who want to feel only happy but not sad," she said. "It never works. You either feel things or you don't. You don't get to pick and choose. At least, I don't think so.

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    Catherine Ryan Hyde

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

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    Catherine Ryan Hyde

    I felt the kiss still there on my forehead. Literally. It was frozen there. I could still feel it. I wanted to bronze it, like people do with baby shoes. I wanted to mount it and hang it over my mantelpiece.

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    Catherine Ryan Hyde

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

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    Catherine Ryan Hyde

    Is that really love? When it happens so fast? She sighed. Paused the movie. Sighed again. Some would say it's only love after you've been together long enough to work out who takes out the trash. And there's something to that. That part of love where you have to work at it. Learn to live together. But when you set eyes on that person, it's something. Call it what you want. If it turns into love, then maybe it's just love in all its stages. It's still real

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    Catherine Ryan Hyde

    It’s just words. How can words be dangerous?” “You have a lot to learn about the world, baby girl. Nothing is more dangerous than words.” “That’s stupid. What about a gun? A gun can kill you dead.” “Only your body,” Billy said. “It can’t kill your soul. Words can kill your soul.

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    Catherine Ryan Hyde

    Raymond expected them to ask why he wanted to know, or who this Luis Velez was to him. Something that showed an interest, or a connection. Then, a moment later, he wondered why he had expected it. After all these years.

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    Catherine Ryan Hyde

    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?

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    The most important thing I can add from my own observations is this: Knowing it started from unremarkable circumstances should be a comfort to us all. Because it proves that you don't need much to change the entire world for the better. You can start with the most ordinary ingridients. You can start with the world you've got.

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    Catherine Ryan Hyde

    [There] was a time when a lot of people came to the door. The milkman. The iceman. The Fuller Brush man. Encyclopedia salesmen. There was a sense of interaction with the world that started right at your own front doorstep.

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    Catherine Ryan Hyde

    This is what we do. We do crazy shit because we're broken. That's who we are. That's what we do.

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    Catherine Ryan Hyde

    Unlike Ed, she listened. But then she forgot.

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    Catherine Ryan Hyde

    We do crazy shit because we're broken.

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    Catherine Ryan Hyde

    Whatever you think your shortcomings are...you can't just lock yourself in the house so no one can notice or comment. We all have to take ourselves out into the world, flaws and all. And find a way to make the adjustment.