“There is no wrong way to perform an act of kindness.”
― Catherine Ryan Hyde, quote from Pay It Forward
“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, quote from Pay It Forward
“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, quote from Pay It Forward
“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, quote from Pay It Forward
“It's really hard to know what's a good idea when you're growing and these ideas don't hold still and neither do you.”
― Catherine Ryan Hyde, quote from Pay It Forward
“What's weird is when you mean a lot more to somebody else than they ever meant to you. I mean, a whole lot more. Like life on two whole different planets.”
― Catherine Ryan Hyde, quote from Pay It Forward
“I no longer think I lack judgment about men. I will never again say my instincts are poor, no sir, because how do I keep finding this same guy over and over? I am beginning to think I have a very keen sense of judgment, only it would seem that it is on somebody else’s side.”
― Catherine Ryan Hyde, quote from Pay It Forward
“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 ingredients. You can start with the world you’ve got.”
― Catherine Ryan Hyde, quote from Pay It Forward
“Well, you’re seeing what ain’t there.” Or what you wanted for yourself and never got. What we don’t get, we see everywhere we look. What we won’t let ourselves do, be, we refuse to tolerate in any other living soul. Arlene was beginning to notice this.”
― Catherine Ryan Hyde, quote from Pay It Forward
“But you can’t change the world on the honor system. Shoot, anybody knows that. Leave people on the honor system, they don’t do it. As soon as you look away, they just don’t. I mean, look what happened.”
― Catherine Ryan Hyde, quote from Pay It Forward
“She learned so much from these little talks with her son. He always swore he’d learned it from her and was only mirroring it back, but somehow the wisdom of her own advice surprised her as it came out of his mouth, and left her wondering if she was wise enough to heed it.”
― Catherine Ryan Hyde, quote from Pay It Forward
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“Still, that didn’t give him the right to chastise her, did it? I have the right because you belong to me and I can do no other than to see to your safety and happiness. The voice was calm and very masculine, holding a dark promise she didn’t want to think about.”
― Christine Feehan, quote from Dark Fire
“The days will always be brighter because he existed.
The nights will always be darker because he's gone.”
― Tiffanie DeBartolo, quote from God-Shaped Hole
“I know of no place where the wind can be as icy and the damp so penetrating as in Oxford round about Easter time.”
― Vera Brittain, quote from Testament of Youth
“We are friends, Brin, and friends do for each other what they see needs to be done,” the girl had explained in the late hours of the previous night when all talk had drifted into weary whispers. “Friendship is a thing sensed inwardly as much as a thing pledged openly. One feels friendship and becomes bound by it. It was this that drew Whisper to me and gained me his loyalty. I loved him as he loved me, and each of us sensed that in the other. I have sensed it with you as well. We are to be friends, all of us, and if we are to be friends, then we must share both good and bad in our friendship. Your needs become mine.”
― Terry Brooks, quote from The Sword of Shannara Trilogy
“That's what you got for being a servant of no ambition: a shrunken life, hung up like a gibbet as a warning to others.”
― Emma Donoghue, quote from Slammerkin
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