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Don't Let Me Go QUOTES

1 " 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. "

― Catherine Ryan Hyde , Don't Let Me Go

2 " [Grace talking to Billy.] "It's like people who want to feel only happy but not sad," she said. "It never works. You either feel things or you don't. You don't get to pick and choose. At least, I don't think so. "

― Catherine Ryan Hyde , Don't Let Me Go

3 " The people with the least to give always give the most. Haven’t you noticed that? "

― Catherine Ryan Hyde , Don't Let Me Go

4 " You want to be OK right now, so you trade that for having a good life in the long run. It’s a bad trade, but people do it all the time. That’s all addiction really is. It’s trading away the future so you can feel OK right now. "

― Catherine Ryan Hyde , Don't Let Me Go

5 " That’s all addiction really is. It’s trading away the future so you can feel OK right now. "

― Catherine Ryan Hyde , Don't Let Me Go

6 " See, this is why I was by myself all those years. Because as soon as you let people in, they start depending on you. And then, if you can’t be everything they think you should be, you’ve let them down. It’s easier not to have anybody around at all. "

― Catherine Ryan Hyde , Don't Let Me Go

7 " Accepting things. That’s what the talk was about. About how insane it is to try to pretend something isn’t a certain way, or that you can make it another way, just because you don’t like it. "

― Catherine Ryan Hyde , Don't Let Me Go

8 " it gets to be an addiction. You want to be OK right now, so you trade that for having a good life in the long run. It’s a bad trade, but people do it all the time. That’s all addiction really is. It’s trading away the future so you can feel OK right now. "

― Catherine Ryan Hyde , Don't Let Me Go

9 " Hard work can sometimes substitute for natural ability, but natural ability almost never makes up for not being willing to do the work. "

― Catherine Ryan Hyde , Don't Let Me Go

10 " [Rayleen talking to Billy.] "Grace is thriving here, and I dare anybody to challenge that. Anybody who has a problem with that can come take it up with me."
"Thank God," Billy said, "because I really hate it when people come take things up with ME. "

― Catherine Ryan Hyde , Don't Let Me Go

11 " Addict logic,” Yolanda said, not missing a beat. “Life viewed through resentment. "

― Catherine Ryan Hyde , Don't Let Me Go

12 " Like I told you before, it gets to be an addiction. You want to be OK right now, so you trade that for having a good life in the long run. It’s a bad trade, but people do it all the time. That’s all addiction really is. It’s trading away the future so you can feel OK right now. "

― Catherine Ryan Hyde , Don't Let Me Go

13 " 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. "

― Catherine Ryan Hyde , Don't Let Me Go

14 " It’s like people who want to feel only happy but not sad,” she said. “It never works. You either feel things or you don’t. You don’t get to pick and choose. At least, I don’t think so. "

― Catherine Ryan Hyde , Don't Let Me Go

15 " I told you before, it gets to be an addiction. You want to be OK right now, so you trade that for having a good life in the long run. It’s a bad trade, but people do it all the time. That’s all addiction really is. It’s trading away the future so you can feel OK right now. That’s what your mom is doing. And that’s what got me. There’s really quite a lot of it going around. "

― Catherine Ryan Hyde , Don't Let Me Go

16 " Hmm,” he said. “Like the world is big again. No. Not again. Like I only thought it had gotten small while I was inside, but now I see it was big the whole time, just waiting out there. Waiting for me to come back. "

― Catherine Ryan Hyde , Don't Let Me Go

17 " This was the other thing Grace had noticed about grown-ups. In addition to being afraid of each other, it was hard to wring any information out of them. At least, if it was information about them. If it was about what kids ought to do, then they were nothing but words. "

― Catherine Ryan Hyde , Don't Let Me Go

18 " 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. "

― Catherine Ryan Hyde , Don't Let Me Go

19 " Just because I don’t think normally doesn’t mean I don’t know normal thinking when I hear it. "

― Catherine Ryan Hyde , Don't Let Me Go

20 " Don’t waste any energy on anything but what’s in front of you. "

― Catherine Ryan Hyde , Don't Let Me Go