"Things are so easy to do, so hard to undo."

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Source : Catherine Ryan Hyde (2008). “The Day I Killed James”, p.66, Knopf Books for Young Readers

Catherine Ryan Hyde

“There are elements of Piglet that are me: the shyness and the anxieties and fears. Even after all these years. The more you know, the higher your standards are and the more you have to lose.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Just remember enough never to be vulnerable again: total forgetting could be as self-destructive as complete remembering.”
“Being a graduate student is no fun and is hard, but I'm sticking with it. I love making art.”
“Lots of people there seemed to be in denial, in absolute denial, of death - everybody's pretending that death doesn't happen in L.A.; if you do enough exercise and take enough wheatgrass and have your pill every day, you might not die.”
“I think a lot of what is going on with kids who get pushed too far and attempt either murder or suicide is that they are trying to deal with their own non-existence for the people who are supposed to care most for them.”
“My opponent called me a cream puff. Well, I rushed out and got the baker's union to endorse me.”
“One may have a right to be unconventional and even eccentric, so long as one is fully competent and a decent person; but one's ideal as a professor should be to conduct oneself as an admirable human being: just, kind, tolerant, competent, committed, and good-humored.”
“Never trust a skinny cook.”

Source : "Never Trust a Skinny Cook: Huey's Culinary Travelogue". Book by Iain Hewitson, 2005.

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