Becoming Chloe Quotes

“Nobody said it was a beautiful world with no scars.”
― Catherine Ryan Hyde, Becoming Chloe

“The closer you get to heaven, the less air there is, because when you get to heaven for real, you don't need to breathe anymore.”
― Catherine Ryan Hyde, Becoming Chloe

“Maybe she doesn't want to understand things she doesn't think she can change anyway. Maybe sometimes you just have a couple of rotten choices. Like you can fail to comprehend the world you've got, or you can see it as this ugly, evil, dangerous place and not be able to do a damn thing about it.”
― Catherine Ryan Hyde, Becoming Chloe

“I try to think of a way to get there without going past it. There are lots of ways, but they all have me walking a little farther. And that's stupid, I decide. What am I, a little kid? I can stand to see something it hurts to want. I can see it and then just keep walking. It happens to lots of people everyday. We all survive.”
― Catherine Ryan Hyde, Becoming Chloe

“You could do worse than to be amazed.”
― Catherine Ryan Hyde, Becoming Chloe

“there’s something about standing on the top of a mountain you personally climbed at great sacrifice.”
― Catherine Ryan Hyde, Becoming Chloe

“We’re all just running around being exactly what we are.”
― Catherine Ryan Hyde, Becoming Chloe

“Once you get that sense that there’s no real security, that anything at all can happen to you, then every minute you’re okay is a joy. Part of the joy is feeling like you can make your way in a world that isn’t always easy.”
― Catherine Ryan Hyde, Becoming Chloe

“I think the world is just as terrible as beautiful and just as beautiful as terrible.”
― Catherine Ryan Hyde, Becoming Chloe

“There’s a full moon tonight, so everything is Peary and shadowy but visible. It gives me the feeling of something stolen, something I wasn’t supposed to be able to see. Some treasure not normally mine.”
― Catherine Ryan Hyde, Becoming Chloe

“Nobody said we would get out unscarred, I guess.
Nobody said it was a beautiful work with no scars”
― Catherine Ryan Hyde, Becoming Chloe

“I can see how she takes all that physical beauty in. Let’s it become apart of her. Like breathing air and eating food, and then using that to make new cells and feed the old ones.”
― Catherine Ryan Hyde, Becoming Chloe

“There’s so much I see every day and don’t really understand and I just don’t stop to think about the fact that I don’t really understand.”
― Catherine Ryan Hyde, Becoming Chloe

“First I think, how weird is this? Sitting in the park holding hands with a complete stranger. Then I decided that there are a lot of weird things in the word, and this is not the very worst of them.”
― Catherine Ryan Hyde, Becoming Chloe

“I watch the rain stream down the windows in the dark. It gives me a feeling that the whole world is taking a moment to be sad.”
― Catherine Ryan Hyde, Becoming Chloe

“Maybe sometimes you just have a couple of rotten choices. Like you can fail to comprehend the world you’ve got, or you can see it as this ugly, evil, dangerous place and not be able to do a damn thing about it.”
― Catherine Ryan Hyde, Becoming Chloe

“winter. Chloe throws them bits of trail mix to avoid”
― Catherine Ryan Hyde, Becoming Chloe

“Part of the joy is feeling like you can make your way in a world that isn’t always easy. Anyway,”
― Catherine Ryan Hyde, Becoming Chloe

“anybody can think the world is beautiful when it’s all going their way. That’s just like untested faith.”
― Catherine Ryan Hyde, Becoming Chloe

“You could do worse than to be amazed. *”
― Catherine Ryan Hyde, Becoming Chloe

“Everyone knows, on some deep level, the conversations in which they don’t belong. Chloe”
― Catherine Ryan Hyde, Becoming Chloe

“You can’t point to this joy, Jordy. You’d have to point everywhere at once. And if you point everywhere at once, then you’re not really pointing anywhere at all.” I”
― Catherine Ryan Hyde, Becoming Chloe

“Even if this was the only thing I ever did in my whole life, it would be worth having a life just to do this.” We”
― Catherine Ryan Hyde, Becoming Chloe

“Funny how we do things before there’s even time to think how it will turn out.”
― Catherine Ryan Hyde, Becoming Chloe

“I find it touching, almost enviable, that a person with so little feels she has all she needs.”
― Catherine Ryan Hyde, Becoming Chloe

“I like your cats,” Chloe says. “How many cats do you have?”
― Catherine Ryan Hyde, Becoming Chloe