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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

~ Catherine Ryan Hyde

Catherine Ryan Hyde Friendship

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 Better Change Change The World Inspirational Life World

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

Catherine Ryan Hyde Gender Responsibility Sex

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 Dangerous Gun Killing The Soul Soul Words

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

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Catherine Ryan Hyde Depression Feelings Sadness Teenage Angst

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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Catherine Ryan Hyde Loss Love

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 Doubt Grief Lost Mystery

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 Kiss Love Memory

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

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Catherine Ryan Hyde Kindness Payitforward

We do crazy shit because we're broken.

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Catherine Ryan Hyde Broken Depressed Life Love Sad

... 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 Beautiful Boring Comfortable Lonely

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.

~ Catherine Ryan Hyde

Catherine Ryan Hyde Drama Emotions Excited Fall Happy Love Sin

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.

~ Catherine Ryan Hyde

Catherine Ryan Hyde Danger Dangerous Excited Excitement Fall Happiness Happy Love Sin Subway Train

People die of love. I’m one of the few who’ll admit it. That doesn’t mean it isn’t true.Take all the people who died yesterday, or last week, or last year. Subtract all the suicides and the so-called accidents of the brokenhearted. Take away the men who got blown away for being in the wrong bed at the wrong moment, the women in abusive marriages who died of cancer because they couldn’t find any other exit from their lives. All the AIDS deaths except from the needles and the transfusions, the ones they call the innocent victims. Like if you have sex, you’re guilty. Deserved just what you got.Now tell me who all you’ve got left.Without love the world would be overpopulated, except that without love it wouldn’t be populated at all. Love giveth and love taketh away and all that crap. You’ll probably say all those people died from the lack of love, but I say it’s two sides of the same coin. So it’s the same coin.

~ Catherine Ryan Hyde

Catherine Ryan Hyde Death Giving Life Love Taking

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

~ Catherine Ryan Hyde

Catherine Ryan Hyde Broken Heart Crazy Teenage Angst

[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.

~ Catherine Ryan Hyde

Catherine Ryan Hyde Diversity

I've been known to write 10 pages a day for 10 days running before I take a breath. I am not a disciplined writer. I'm one of those people who laughingly call themselves inspirational writers, which basically means someone who has no control over their own creative process.

~ Catherine Ryan Hyde

Catherine Ryan Hyde Day I Am Creative
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