There is no question that the objects that surround us impact our experience of the world. Katherine Center More Quotes by Katherine Center More Quotes From Katherine Center There on the sofa, as I nursed Maxie and her eyes slid closed, I said to the girls, 'I think nursing is where kisses come from.' I had been thinking about it. Nursing had to be the place where nurturing and sweet milk and soft skin and mouths and warmth all came together and started to mean something about love. I had always assumed kissing was a learned thing, like waving bye-bye or speaking a language. But since Maxie, I'd decided that it was innate, the adult version of something we know to do from the moment we're born. All of it tied together in the cycle of life. Katherine Center girl sweet mean That's what just hit me: How you really can't have everything. You have to give up the old to get the new. You can't be the child and the mom at the same time. You can't be your young self and your old self at the same time. You can't know what you know now and feel the way you did then. You can't, you can't, you can't. Katherine Center giving-up mom children Maybe the past is supposed to fade-and that's actually a kindness of human memory. Katherine Center kindness memories past We all carry our mothers inside us. Katherine Center mother It's always better to have what you have than to get what you wanted. Katherine Center wanted Beauty comes from tenderness. Katherine Center tenderness It's vital to learn how to make the best of things. Katherine Center There is no tenderness without bravery. Katherine Center tenderness bravery Sometimes there is no way to hold your life together. Sometimes things just have to fall apart. Katherine Center together way fall In fiction, you can be as true as you want. Real life is a different story. Katherine Center different real fiction People are always beautiful when you love them. Katherine Center beautiful people You don't have to be perfect to be awesome. Katherine Center perfect If you feel lucky, then you are. Katherine Center lucky ifs feels My goal is to try to be as happy as I can - going through every day just as it is. Katherine Center i-can goal trying Success is doing the right thing for who you are. Katherine Center right-thing doing-the-right-thing who-you-are Writing a novel is a lot like reading one. Katherine Center novel reading writing All my main characters are people I'd love to sit around having coffee with. They are people who will tell you honestly about the things that scare them and worry them and trouble them. Because those moments of connection between women-when they really decide to be honest with each other about their lives-are some of the best things in life. Katherine Center things-in-life coffee character I like to write about people who are real and likeable. I like to write about people who tell their stories in that close and intimate voice we use with best friends. I love the closeness and honesty and vulnerability that come from characters who can talk that way. Katherine Center honesty real writing I guess that's the upside of not being young anymore... You know from experience that the struggle always leads, in some way, to something better. Katherine Center struggle young way It's more important to be interesting, to be vivid, and to be adventurous than to sit pretty for pictures. Katherine Center vivid important interesting
