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Allie and Bea QUOTES

Allie and Bea QUOTES

1 " That’s how most of the last fifty years of my life disappeared, even though I didn’t know it before now. And believe me, that’s all it takes. One little kiss and then you’ve thrown your lot in with someone, and your whole life has to be built around him. And all the parts of you that don’t fit with him have to go into hiding, and all the ones that do have to come to the surface and act like they’re the whole of you. The "

― Catherine Ryan Hyde , Allie and Bea

2 " They reminded her what it meant to allow someone into your life. You see something you like in a man, so you ask him in, but what comes in is all of him. Not only the parts you took a liking to, but the many parts that don’t fit with you at all. That’s always the way it worked. "

― Catherine Ryan Hyde , Allie and Bea

3 " I’ve had a lot of worries in my life, most of which never happened. "

― Catherine Ryan Hyde , Allie and Bea

4 " They had shopping carts full of food and toys, but they looked bored and unhappy. How could a person go to the store, buy everything she needed—and wanted, from the look of some of those carts—and still seem dissatisfied? What more did they need to be happy, then? If all this wouldn’t do it? "

― Catherine Ryan Hyde , Allie and Bea

5 " Her body felt like a giant bag of lack. Lack of motivation. Lack of strength. Lack of rigidity. Lack of caring. "

― Catherine Ryan Hyde , Allie and Bea

6 " They reminded her what it meant to allow someone into your life. You see something you like in a man, so you ask him in, but what comes in is all of him. Not only the parts you took a liking to, but the many parts that don’t fit with you at all. That’s always the way it worked "

― Catherine Ryan Hyde , Allie and Bea

7 " Bea was careful to stare down at her beer bottle as she spoke. When she was done the silence reigned again. Bea did not dare look up to see how her admission had been received. She saw one of the men get up from his barstool, but she didn’t look over. She could hear someone moving about the room, but did not turn her head to investigate "

― Catherine Ryan Hyde , Allie and Bea

8 " Debt is a terrible, terrible thing. Somehow they’ve got us all primed to accept it. They’ve taught us it’s part of the American dream or some such nonsense. But it keeps you in chains. The deeper in you get, the more money they make off your misfortune, and the deeper in you get. "

― Catherine Ryan Hyde , Allie and Bea

9 " How could a person go to the store, buy everything she needed—and wanted, from the look of some of those carts—and still seem dissatisfied? What more did they need to be happy, then? If all this wouldn’t do it? "

― Catherine Ryan Hyde , Allie and Bea

10 " You see something you like in a man, so you ask him in, but what comes in is all of him. Not only the parts you took a liking to, but the many parts that don’t fit with you at all. That’s always the way it worked. "

― Catherine Ryan Hyde , Allie and Bea

11 " She thought about the rifles and the dead animals in the living room, and the vote of no confidence in cats. They reminded her what it meant to allow someone into your life. You see something you like in a man, so you ask him in, but what comes in is all of him. Not only the parts you took a liking to, but the many parts that don’t fit with you at all. That’s always the way it worked. "

― Catherine Ryan Hyde , Allie and Bea

12 " Finance seems pretty real.”

“Well, it’s not. Let me tell you. It’s not. It’s just a value we agree to put on things. It used to be numbers on a piece of paper. Now it’s numbers in digital memory.”

“But the numbers represent real money. Right?”

“There is no real money. Not anymore. The banks just make it up. We just create these numbers, more and more with every year that goes by. We use the numbers to keep some people up and other people down. Used to be there was a gold standard, but you’re too young to remember that. The government used to own gold, and paper money represented it. But what does it represent now? "

― Catherine Ryan Hyde , Allie and Bea

13 " Let’s say you were starving. You were going to die any day of starvation. Would you go into a supermarket and steal a can of tuna?” “I’m a vegan.” “Nobody’s a vegan when they’re starving. "

― Catherine Ryan Hyde , Allie and Bea

14 " After all, you can’t know what’s happening inside a person while they stare. You can only imagine. And imagination can be a highly fear-based phenomenon. "

― Catherine Ryan Hyde , Allie and Bea

15 " That’s how most of the last fifty years of my life disappeared, even though I didn’t know it before now. And believe me, that’s all it takes. One little kiss and then you’ve thrown your lot in with someone, and your whole life has to be built around him. And all the parts of you that don’t fit with him have to go into hiding, and all the ones that do have to come to the surface and act like they’re the whole of you. The entire reason I did what I did is because we both knew I’d be gone in a few hours. It’s the first time in my life I ever got to do a thing like that and not stay around to pay the price. You’ll understand when you get older. "

― Catherine Ryan Hyde , Allie and Bea

16 " It’s just communication with other humans, and I don’t know why everyone is so afraid of it. "

― Catherine Ryan Hyde , Allie and Bea

17 " It might be an age thing. I think we get to a certain age where enough of people and their ugly trappings is enough. "

― Catherine Ryan Hyde , Allie and Bea

18 " I had all these hours that added up to all these days, and I look back and it seems my goal was mostly to make them go away. But that’s not a proper life. That’s not really living. "

― Catherine Ryan Hyde , Allie and Bea

19 " Somehow Bea knew the key would have to be an utter lack of preparation. Of anticipation. Once she allowed space for doubt, she would never overcome it. "

― Catherine Ryan Hyde , Allie and Bea

20 " Maybe because if we cared that much about everything, all the time, all at the same time like that, we’d die of exhaustion. We’d have no time or energy left to run our own lives. "

― Catherine Ryan Hyde , Allie and Bea