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Second Hand Heart QUOTES

Second Hand Heart QUOTES

1 " ... 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. "

― Catherine Ryan Hyde , Second Hand Heart

2 " My threshold for human contact had worn painfully thin. I felt like a car that had been running its lights too long on battery alone. I felt fresh out of charge, and as though I needed to plug in for days before I could have one more conversation with one more human being. "

― Catherine Ryan Hyde , Second Hand Heart

3 " You don’t fall down to love, you climb up to it. There’s hard work involved. That’s why I believe you can’t love someone you don’t know. Loving someone is knowing them. "

― Catherine Ryan Hyde , Second Hand Heart

4 " But I’ve learned in my life that not everything that happens needs to be talked about. Some things are better left alone. "

― Catherine Ryan Hyde , Second Hand Heart

5 " Not that I don’t get where she’s coming from. But when you’re nervous and somebody else is nervous, too, you feel like you want them to help you stay calm. Maybe it’s not a reasonable request, but you do. Otherwise their nervous kind of stands on the shoulders of your nervous, and then the whole nervous thing is so big and tall that it gets to be too much nervous for anybody to bear. "

― Catherine Ryan Hyde , Second Hand Heart

6 " Here’s what I think about dying: I think it’s not so much about being and then not being. I think it’s more about where you are. Not whether you are. "

― Catherine Ryan Hyde , Second Hand Heart

7 " corneas? Why arent you off somewhere gazing "

― Catherine Ryan Hyde , Second Hand Heart

8 " Loving someone is knowing them. "

― Catherine Ryan Hyde , Second Hand Heart

9 " Somebody should put a warning label on everything in life that’s about fear. Being afraid to die, being afraid your daughter will die, being afraid of getting hurt in love. It should all have a warning label to let people know it can be habit-forming. "

― Catherine Ryan Hyde , Second Hand Heart

10 " Once you decide to put all your energy into being scared of something, you might wake up one day and find out you have no idea how to stop. It happens to people. More often than anybody seems willing to admit. "

― Catherine Ryan Hyde , Second Hand Heart

11 " maybe that’s redundant. Maybe that’s the only kind of attorney there is. "

― Catherine Ryan Hyde , Second Hand Heart

12 " I watched webs of lightning crackle in the dark air, framed by their black-cloud background, touching down on the rim forty or fifty miles to the east. Then, just as quickly as it had come, it blew through again. "

― Catherine Ryan Hyde , Second Hand Heart

13 " We take things on a little at a time because all at once they’d kill "

― Catherine Ryan Hyde , Second Hand Heart

14 " The more I research the bodymind, the more I get that the only workable path to workable health is to forgive the unforgivable in spite of its unforgivability. Otherwise we just destroy our own cells with the byproducts of all that hate. We "

― Catherine Ryan Hyde , Second Hand Heart

15 " the problem with unforgivable. The more I research the bodymind, the more I get that the only workable path to workable health is to forgive the unforgivable in spite of its unforgivability. "

― Catherine Ryan Hyde , Second Hand Heart

16 " Here’s the problem with unforgivable. The more I research the bodymind, the more I get that the only workable path to workable health is to forgive the unforgivable in spite of its unforgivability. Otherwise we just destroy our own cells with the byproducts of all that hate. "

― Catherine Ryan Hyde , Second Hand Heart

17 " We take things on a little at a time because all at once they’d kill us. "

― Catherine Ryan Hyde , Second Hand Heart

18 " It made me wonder if always telling the truth was a thing only for people who are about to die. And who know it. That would explain why it’s not such a common thing. "

― Catherine Ryan Hyde , Second Hand Heart

19 " Maybe the Zion and Bryce Canyon area. Sedona’s like that. Grand Canyon, of course. Glen Canyon. Maybe Escalante and Capitol Reef. Or Arches or Canyonlands. "

― Catherine Ryan Hyde , Second Hand Heart

20 " Somebody should put a warning label on everything in life that’s about fear. Being afraid to die, being afraid your daughter will die, being afraid of getting hurt in love. It should all have a warning label to let people know it can be habit-forming. Once you decide to put all your energy into being scared of something, you might wake up one day and find out you have no idea how to stop. It happens to people. More often than anybody seems willing to admit. "

― Catherine Ryan Hyde , Second Hand Heart