Catherine Ryan Hyde Quotes

A true test of friendship, to sit or walk with a friend for an hour in perfect silence , without wearying of one another's company.

When you're comfortable with someone you love, the silence is the best. And, that's how me and J. are. When we're in a room together, we don't have to say anything. It's for real.

I possess the faculty of enjoying the company of those I - of my friends as well in silence as in conversation.

Intimate acquaintance must precede real friendship

You must therefore love me, myself, and not my circumstances, if we are to be real friends.

He says a million things without saying a word. I have never heard a more eloquent silence.

Real love is comforting, to be sure, but not always at first.

We're fascinated by the words--but where we meet is in the silence behind them.

Not a word passes between us, not because we have nothing to say, but because we don't have to say anything

The most significant conversations of our lives occur in silence.

My best Acquaintances are those With Whom I spoke no Word

Friendship that insists upon agreement on all matters is not worth the name. Friendship to be real must ever sustain the weight of honest differences, however sharp they be.

When friends grow cold, and the converse of intimates languishes into vapid civility and commonplace, these only continue the unaltered countenance of happier days, and cheer us with that true friendship which never deceived hope, nor deserted sorrow.

They had never been closer in their month of love, nor communicated more profoundly one with another, than when she brushed silent lips against his coat's shoulder or when he touched the end of her fingers, gently, as though she were asleep.

Those five fingers and that palm were like a display case crammed full of everything I wanted to know--and everything I had to know. By taking my hand, she showed me what these things were. That within the real world, a place like this existed. In the space of those ten seconds I became I tiny bird, fluttering in the air, the wind rushing by. From high in the sky I could see a scene far away. It was so far off I couldn't make it out clearly, yet something was there, and I knew that someday I would travel to that place.

In real life, I always look at people and how they walk, or how they carry themselves. I think about the body a lot, in performance.

Maybe that's what real friendship is -- getting so used to people that you need to be annoyed by them.

A real friendship ought to introduce each person to unexpected weirdness in the other.

Lord Chatham and Napoleon were ns much actors as Garrick or Talma. Now, an imposing air should always be taken as evidence of imposition. Dignity is often a veil between us and the real truth of things.

There is a form of communication that transcends the power of words.

A friend in need is a friend indeed!

Real friends are hard to come by, and as annoying as Henry is, he'd throw himself in front of dragon's fire for you." "And that's the definition of a real friend?" "Oh, yes, just ask Owain." He laughed.

The real truth about a lot of life's mysteries can be explained by science but people don't want to get in bed with science because it's cold. They prefer religion, myth, drama.

Air and manners are more expressive than words.

My friendship with Martin [Schulz], by contrast, is completely different in that it goes far beyond politics.