"... 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 isnâ€™t the right word. Whatâ€™s the word Iâ€™m wanting here? Lonely. Thatâ€™s it. It was a little bit lonely."

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Source : Catherine Ryan Hyde (2010). “Second Hand Heart”, p.172, Random House

Catherine Ryan Hyde

#Beautiful Quotes #Lonely Quotes #Waiting Quotes

“Goldfish and hamsters and white mice and even the little seed in the Styrofoam cup-they all die. So do we.”
“This organization is created to prevent you from going to hell. It isn't created to take you to heaven.”
“Among the millions of nerve cells that clothe parts of the brain there runs a thread. It is the thread of time, the thread that has run through each succeeding wakeful hour of the individual.”
“Observe what is with undivided awareness.”
“Human beings grew up in forests; we have a natural affinity for them. How lovely a tree is, straining toward the sky.”
“When I was first starting out, I drove myself around the country in my Honda Civic, playing anywhere that would have me. This is a chance to strip the songs down to their roots and let the audience hear them the way I write them.”
“T is the will that makes the action good or ill.”
“Both optimists and pessimists contribute to society. The optimist invents the aeroplane, the pessimist the parachute.”

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