Everyone Is Beautiful: A Novel
A source page for quotes linked to Katherine Center.
“...courage makes everything easier next time. And I'm not going to let you live your life in fear.”
“We made a choice to do joy on purpose. Not in spite of life’s sorrows. But because of them.”
“[N]ot getting what you want forces you to appreciate what you already have.”
“Needing to find reasons to live had forced me to build a life worth living.”
“I got up every day, and went to bed every night, and tried to be a good person in between.”
“And I guess there really is something profoundly healing about letting somebody love you.”
“No one is born fearless" Rue said. "You have to earn it.”
“But I wasn't like most of humanity. I didn't like being helped.”
“I would write a hundred happy endings for us if I could.”
“When you don't know what to do for yourself, do something for somebody else.”
“But she never did let reality get in the way of resentment.”
“Maybe the past is supposed to fade-and that's actually a kindness of human memory.”
“We build our lives in moments, and even the ones we can't remember become the story of who we are.”