Quotes by Catherine Gilbert Murdock

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?

Looks

Mother

Parenting

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.

Damnation

Ideas

Years

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.

Guts

Trying

Wonder

And that’s where our conversation went from there, than God, both of us laughing our butts off at the thought of a hoops game between two teams on intravenous fluids. Which makes absolutely no sense at all; I know that. But that’s why it cheered me up, because it was so absolutely stupid. It cheered me up more than I’d ever thought I’d be cheered up again.

Games

Stupid

Team

Every fairy tale, it seems, concludes with the bland phrase “happily ever after.” Yet every couple I have ever known would agree that nothing about marriage is forever happy. There are moments of bliss, to be sure, and lengthy spans of satisfied companionship. Yet these come at no small effort, and the girl who reads such fiction dreaming her troubles will end ere she departs the altar is well advised to seek at once a rational women to set her straight.

Couple

Dream

Girl

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.

Different

Questioning

Wonder

Everyone’s scared. So scared they can’t sleep sometimes. Or eat. Or keep their weight on.” “Then why bother playing?” I asked. It was a whisper, this question. “Because. You love the game. You love the people you play with. You love winning, maybe. You love that one moment when you get it right . . . I dunno. Why do you play?” “Because,” I whispered, “it’s who I am.” Sounds like a good reason to me.

Sleep

Who I Am

Winning

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

Failing

Persons

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.

Queens

Shame

Wonder

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.

Barns

Thinking

Trying

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Awful

Barns

Broken

Contestants

Contests

Corridors

Couple

Cry

Damnation

Dating

Deeds

Different

Dream

Dumb

Elevation

Failing

Games

Girl

Guts

Heart

Helping

House

Humans

Ideas

Jam

Knows

Looks

Mother

Opportunity

Parenting

Persons

Queens

Questioning

Receiving

Relationship

Said

Shame

Sleep

Staircases

Stronger

Stuff

Stupid

Team

Thinking

Tired

Trying

What If

Who I Am

Winning

Wonder

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Quotes by Catherine Gilbert Murdock

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?

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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