Catherine McKenzie Quotes & Sayings

I stare off into space for a minute. "I just wish my life would go back to the way it was."
"Why?"
"Because I was happy then. Things weren't perfect, but still, I knew where I fit. I knew where I was going."
"And you don't feel that way anymore?"
"No. I feel kind of ... lost in the middle of my own life, if that makes any sense. — Catherine McKenzie

If someone figured out a way to bottle woman-been-wronged, they'd make a fortune. — Catherine McKenzie

Is there a panic button I can hit? Or better yet, a button that will pause this whole scene while I figure out how I want to play it?
But no. That's not how it works in real life. — Catherine McKenzie

Life doesn't wait. You have to make it happen. You have to live it while it's happening around you. Life moves on. — Catherine McKenzie

All I knew was I had to talk to someone. I had to try to steal someone's rationality. — Catherine McKenzie

And why do the main characters always have to hate each other at the beginning of the movie? Like, hello, red flag. It's so obvious they're going to get together. — Catherine McKenzie

Some people are meant to disappear from your life, to remain a memory, a faded possibility. A curiosity. I ought to know. But when curiosity is so easily fulfilled, how do you avoid fulfilling it? A button is pressed and you're friends again. — Catherine McKenzie

Suppose I say summer, write the word "hummingbird," put it in an envelope, take it down the hill to the box. When you open my letter you will recall those days and how much, just how much, I love you. — Catherine McKenzie

You don't want to work to fall in love, you want to be in love. Like in a fairy tale. — Catherine McKenzie

Everyone's path to here is unique, Anne. It's what you do from here that counts. — Catherine McKenzie

It's all because of the video cameras. Standard issue in daycares these days: twelve cameras (six in the baby room, six in the toddler room), all strategically positioned so any concerned parent can watch their child all day long via streaming video if they want to. — Catherine McKenzie

And while I got that about him, he never seemed to understand or believe it when I told him I wasn't like that. That I was happy to coast. To drift and summersault like a dried-out leaf in the late fall, hoping to avoid the rake, the collecting pile, the compost heap. — Catherine McKenzie

Hummingbird Suppose I say summer, write the word "hummingbird," put it in an envelope, take it down the hill to the box. When you open my letter you will recall those days and how much, just how much, I love you. - RAYMOND CARVER — Catherine McKenzie

One minute doesn't erase a thousand. — Catherine McKenzie

It's just how love gets described in the movies. Like in Sleepless in Seattle ... " This is the movie they showed us last night. "Tom Hanks's character is musing about why he fell in love with his dead wife, and he says that it was because she could peel an apple in one long strip, or something like that. And I was reading something similar in a book recently, only that was about peeling an orange ... anyway ... I've just never felt like the way someone peels fruit would be a reason to spend the rest of your life with them. — Catherine McKenzie

His mouth tastes like Scotch, and feels familiar, like somewhere I've been before. — Catherine McKenzie

Love isn't simple, Katie, and neither is life. Things that are worth having are sometimes complicated, and they evoke complicated emotions. You know, one of the reasons people often turn to alcohol or drugs is that they can't deal with complications. — Catherine McKenzie

It seemed like almost nothing had happened, but that almost nothing changed everything for me. — Catherine McKenzie

It's hard to find someone you'd rather spend time with than not. — Catherine McKenzie

That I'd been letting life act itself out on me when I should have been directing it. — Catherine McKenzie

A pod in the Matrix is looking pretty good right now. — Catherine McKenzie

Her departure was a gradual thing, like a watercolor left in the sun, every day fainter until one day the canvas was bare and you had to rely on memory to recapture the image. — Catherine McKenzie

I don't think that bad actions erase good ones. Not really. — Catherine McKenzie

Like how there's this optimal money/happiness equation. Once you pass a certain amount of household income, life isn't any better. Apparently, money can't buy happiness, or it does, but it costs less than you imagined it would. — Catherine McKenzie

But, of course, everyone has regrets. Loose ends. Things they could do if they had more time. — Catherine McKenzie

You can quit if you want. If you hate it. If it isn't fun anymore. I'll back you with Dad. But you can't quit just because it's hard. Things are hard for most people. Life is hard. — Catherine McKenzie

I don't need my heart anymore, you can have it. Cut it out, put it in a box, bury it in the hard ground, next to you. My eyes are useless too. They only show me a world without you. Color blind, color absent, colorless. And my mind screams, Not fair! Not right. Not what I was promised on the swing set as you pushed me toward the sun. None of the stories you read me schooled me for this. I didn't learn this lesson in the moon, or on the train, or as a thing to be curious about. So I don't need my heart anymore, you can have it. Let it be buried, in the hard ground, next to you. — Catherine McKenzie