Catherine Ryan Hyde Quotes

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

  Catherine Ryan Hyde

  Kindness, Way, Acts Of Kindness

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• 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.

  Catherine Ryan Hyde

  Ordinary, Needs, World

  Catherine Ryan Hyde (2014). “Pay It Forward: Young Readers Edition”, p.11, Simon and Schuster

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• 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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  Kindness, Home, Cutting

  "Pay It Forward". Book by Catherine Ryan Hyde, www.huffingtonpost.com. 1999.

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

  Catherine Ryan Hyde

  Together, Back Together, Ifs

  "Love In The Present Tense". Book by Catherine Ryan Hyde, January 14, 2007.

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

  Catherine Ryan Hyde

  Pensar

  Catherine Ryan Hyde (2008). “The Day I Killed James”, p.204, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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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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  Stones, Today, Ends

  Catherine Ryan Hyde (2008). “Chasing Windmills”, Flying Dolphin Press

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

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  Heart, Should, Careful

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• 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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  Real, Air, Filling Up

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

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  Fácil, Difícil

  Catherine Ryan Hyde (2008). “The Day I Killed James”, p.66, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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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.

  Catherine Ryan Hyde

  Giving Up, People, Pay It Forward

  "Pay It Forward". 2000.

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• Nobody said it was a beautiful world with no scars.

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  Beautiful, World, Scar

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• 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.

  Catherine Ryan Hyde

  Hurt, Stupid, Kids

  Catherine Ryan Hyde (2008). “Becoming Chloe”, p.39, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• ... 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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  Beautiful, Lonely, Waiting

  Catherine Ryan Hyde (2010). “Second Hand Heart”, p.172, Random House

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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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  Nice, Looks, Want

  Catherine Ryan Hyde (2010). “Jumpstart the World”, p.77, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• 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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  Kissing, Thinking, Littles

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• 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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  Real, Air, Heaven

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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)

  Catherine Ryan Hyde

  Thinking, Self, Views

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• 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?

  Catherine Ryan Hyde

  Sex, Men, Trying

  Catherine Ryan Hyde (2012). “Pay It Forward”, p.27, Simon and Schuster

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