Top 54 Katherine Center Quotes
#1. I like to write about people who are real and likeable. I like to write about people who tell their stories in that close and intimate voice we use with best friends. I love the closeness and honesty and vulnerability that come from characters who can talk that way.
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#2. It just seems to me there's enough pain in the world - and not nearly enough pleasure. I guess once you've had enough kidney stones, hot candle wax on the nipples seems less appealing.
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#3. It's always better to have what you have than to get what you wanted.
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#5. I just wanted to be good at this. And competent. And tough. And, ultimately, just: anybody but me. I was tired of being a disaster. I was tired of being a trampled-on flower. I wanted to be awesome. That wasn't too much, was it?
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#6. Barni loved talking about the dresses. "Aren't they huge? I've just always been this way," she said, twirling a little. "Just born healthy, I guess."
Oh, God. I hated her so much.
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#7. Something good was happening. My life was rising from the ashes, and the sight of it left me feeling something like hopeful.
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#9. It's more important to be interesting, to be vivid, and to be adventurous than to sit pretty for pictures.
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#10. Sometimes there is no way to hold your life together. Sometimes things just have to fall apart.
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#14. I felt like I had never really heard of a story that reflected the stuff I was going through as a mom. I came up with an idea for a story about motherhood that I would want to read.
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#16. Anything was possible. Everything was uncertain. But I knew one thing for sure: I'd bounced back before, and I would do it again and again and again. Because that's the only choice there is. And as many things as I still had to lose, I had just as many more left to find.
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#17. Maybe the past is supposed to fade-and that's actually a kindness of human memory.
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#18. You are writing the story of your only life every single minute of every day.
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#19. And despite everything I know now, I still believe, as I did when I was little, that there is an entire universe of things that my mother knows that I don't. I still believe that nothing truly bad can ever happen if my mother is around. I know it's not true. But still. It is true.
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#20. The best things about womanhood might possibly even be the conversations. The chatting. The gabbing. The whispering. The hands-on-hips eye-rolling. The yukking-it up.
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#21. What matters most is how you respond to your heartbreaks and your disappointments and your fears. What matters most is who you become in response to them.
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#22. Really, when I look back on it, I did exactly what I had set out to do. I changed my life. I woke myself up. I rediscovered passions of every variety. I forced myself to take a little time. I found a way to bring some of who I used to be into who I was.
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#23. You can't just wish strength for yourself. Or wisdom. Or resilience. Those things have to be earned.
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#24. I believe women are too hard on themselves. I believe that when you love someone, she becomes beautiful to you. I believe the eyes see everything through the heart. Nothing in the world feels as good as resting them on someone you love.
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#27. There is no question that the objects that surround us impact our experience of the world.
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#28. We are only as great as our struggles. We only become who we are in the face of them.
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#30. I'd tried so hard to make a perfect, untouchable life for myself. But trouble finds you. Tragedy finds you. And we keep trying anyway. We hope for the best. We believe we can make something for ourselves- something good that will last- even though, at the exact same time, we know we can't.
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#32. However, the trouble with getting what you've always wanted is that once you have it, you have to worry that you'll lose it.
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#33. I have an affection for tangible objects, like books and pages, but people sure do seem to love their Kindles! We're definitely in the middle of a revolution that will determine how people find, read, and experience stories.
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#34. My goal is to try to be as happy as I can - going through every day just as it is.
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#35. We build our lives in moments, and even the ones we can't remember become the story of who we are.
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#37. Be brave with your life, so others will be brave with theirs.
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#38. I don't think trying to be happy means you can never be sad," I said. "Right?
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#39. Nothing that doesn't push you past your limits can change your life. It's true of work, it's true of parenting, and it's true - a hundred times over - of love.
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#40. And so my hope for you, good boy, as you grow taller every day, is that you will learn to take good care of yourself, and you will learn to take good care of others-and, someday, you'll see how those two things are exactly the same.
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#41. And I was grateful. For all the things that had brought me to this moment, and for every single thing that would follow.
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#42. I guess that's the upside of not being young anymore ... You know from experience that the struggle always leads, in some way, to something better.
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#43. I'd love to paint our roof white - it's so hot down here in Texas! - and I'd love to have a rainwater collection system to save rain runoff for later. I also love to fantasize about keeping chickens in the backyard.
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#45. In fiction, you can be as true as you want. Real life is a different story.
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#48. I don't want my kids to be like me. I want them to be better than me.
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#52. Well, for example, happy people are more likely to register joy than unhappy people. So if you take two people who have experienced a day of, say, fifty percent good things and fifty percent bad things, an unhappy person would remember more of the bad.
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#53. The things we remember are what we hold on to. And what we hold on to becomes the story of our lives.
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#54. We are big composters. We compost everything - bread, tea bags, coffee grounds. I even dump out my old coffee in the garden. We keep a mixing bowl on the counter and just fill it up as the day goes along, then dump it in the mulch pile before dinner and wash it with the dinner dishes.
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