Catherine Gilbert Murdock Quotes

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I hate it when people make fun of me and it turns out they're right.

Catherine Gilbert Murdock
I swear, every person I know gets far more satisfaction from doing good deeds than receiving them. Maybe that's the whole point in the end, all of us putting up with good deeds, tolerating them as best we can, counting the minutes until we have the opportunity to reciprocate.

Catherine Gilbert Murdock
Sometimes, well, all the time, I can't think of what to say because I'm so dumb and stuff, and then maybe I think of it like five days later.

Catherine Gilbert Murdock
But it turns out that even if I don't talk a lot, when it's something that matters I still have a lot to say.

Catherine Gilbert Murdock
It was like he was in a contest to see who could do the least work, only he was the only contestant.

Catherine Gilbert Murdock
I ultimately decided to hold my tongue and settle instead for the comfort of ignorance. Not knowing the truth, I retained hope, and that hope I held like a smooth warm stone against my heart.

Catherine Gilbert Murdock
I'd promised myself that I'd really work on talking more, talking about uncomfortable things, because I could see from Brian how well things could work out if you did.

Catherine Gilbert Murdock
And I have to tell you, as tough as farming is, the idea of farming when you're losing money year after year... that's not life even, that's like death. That's eternal damnation.

Catherine Gilbert Murdock
I milked, of course, and did some work around the barn, and tried not to think about Brian, which was like trying not to breathe.

Catherine Gilbert Murdock
How could I pretend to be someone else when I was already failing at being the person I already was?

Catherine Gilbert Murdock
I could not but wonder at the queen's unprecedented civility, until I realized with a flush of shame that it was my own improved behavior that motivated hers. So it is that we in life determine our own treatment.

Catherine Gilbert Murdock
And have your mother put my head on a stake? Do you have any notion what that would do to my handsome good looks?

Catherine Gilbert Murdock
And if I didn't, I'd spend the rest of my life wondering who I could have turned into if only I'd had the guts to try.

Catherine Gilbert Murdock
You can't think about how much you have left to do because that's just one thought, one sad thought, that'll make you bummed out all day long. Instead you've got to think about how much you've already done.

Catherine Gilbert Murdock
Everyone I looked at, their whole lives, did exactly what they were supposed to do without even questioning it, without even wondering if they could do something different.

Catherine Gilbert Murdock
She says you're not truly human until you've had your heart broken and you've broken someone's heart.

Catherine Gilbert Murdock