Top 60 Catherine Doyle Quotes (2026 Update)

1. “This life is so complex that we rarely get to be the people we are truly meant to be. Instead, we wear masks and put up walls to keep from dealing with the fear of rejection, the feeling of regret, the very idea that someone may not love us for who we are deep in our core, that they might not understand the things that drive us.”

— Catherine Doyle

2. “I believe you’re too good and too kind to hurt someone, no matter how much they’ve hurt you. That your heart is too big. That your empathy runs too deep. That’s why I believe in you. I believe in you more than I could ever explain, and you expect me to stand by and watch while you destroy yourself right in front of my eyes.”

— Catherine Doyle

3. “Above the thunder clash of an angry sky, the Tide Summoner rang out.”

— Catherine Doyle

4. “That is your greatest responsibility. To live a life of breathless wonder, so that when it begins to fade from you, you will feel the shadow of its happiness still inside you and the blissful sense that you laughed the loudest, loved the deepest, and lived fearlessly, even as the specifics of it all melt away.”

— Catherine Doyle

5. “I must be irresistible. You can’t stay away from me for more than twenty-four hours.”

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6. “You can’t avoid the inevitability of death. It comes at you one way or another, and takes us all to the same place in the end. To apologize for it is to apologize for the sun shining or the rain falling. It is what it is.”

— Catherine Doyle

7. “Aren’t you glad I have no respect for your authority?”

— Catherine Doyle

8. “There is beauty everywhere; even in the dark, there is light, and that is the rarest kind of all.”

— Catherine Doyle

9. “The whole point of being a good friend is being in the darkness. I’ll be your light, until you can be it yourself again.”

— Catherine Doyle

10. “I don’t care,” he replied resolutely. “I’m not punching Bambi in the face.”

— Catherine Doyle

11. “I guess no one can be painted with just one brush. There is light and shade in all of us, pain and hardship, and some of us rise from it while others are darkened by it.”

— Catherine Doyle

12. “I didn’t kiss Sophie to get back at you, I kissed her because I’m in love with her!”

— Catherine Doyle

13. “I knew I couldn’t trust my illogical heart, and that meant I had to do everything in my power to stay away from him so I wouldn’t have to.”

— Catherine Doyle

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14. “People who make time for the sadness in your life, not just the joy, are worth keeping around.”

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15. “Imagine if we had no secrets, no respite from the truth. What if everything was laid bare the moment we introduced ourselves?”

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16. “The way you’re talking right now, you’re aspiring to my fist in your face!’ I yelled over my shoulder. I reached the door but he was there in a flash, sliding in front of me. He was so tall. So broad. So immovable. ‘Move,’ I hissed. ‘Or I swear to every god and planetary system I will hit you in your smug face.”

— Catherine Doyle

17. “There’s no love as real as that of a girl and her best friend.”

— Catherine Doyle

18. “It is hardest to kill the man who has the most to live for.’ He took a pretend shot. ‘The empty, the soulless, the hate-filled enemies drop like flies. Those who love, and love hard, are the ones left standing.”

— Catherine Doyle

19. “It was an uncomfortable feeling, staring into the darkest moments of someone’s soul without them knowing.”

— Catherine Doyle

20. “I would go into the darkness with you, but you won’t come into the light with me.”

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21. “You don’t really notice how many shadows there are in the world until you start being afraid of them.”

— Catherine Doyle

22. “You realize you’ve been staring at me for the past five minutes?”

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23. “You know,’ said Millie who was now narrowing her eyes, ’for someone with such a romantic name, he’s a real killjoy, isn’t he? He’s all, Ooh look at me, I’m sensitive and kind and I have a beautiful long name and pretty eyes, and then BAM! Psyche! I’m going to shoot you. You know what I call that, Soph? I call that false advertising, and I’m pretty sure it’s illegal.”

— Catherine Doyle

24. “I guess any halfwit could nail a game of ‘Spot the Falcone’. Just look for the shampoo-commercial hair or those I-might-murder-you eyes.”

— Catherine Doyle

25. “This life is so complex that we rarely get to be the people we are truly meant to be. Instead, we wear masks and put up walls to keep from dealing with the fear of rejection, the feeling of regret, the very idea that someone may not love us for who we are deep in our core, that they might not understand the things that drive us. I want to study the realness of life, not the gloss. There is beauty everywhere; even in the dark, there is light, and that is the rarest kind of all.”

— Catherine Doyle

26. “You really are something else.”

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27. “Maybe I am looking at you,’ he whispered. ‘Maybe I always have been.”

— Catherine Doyle

28. “Do you ever take a holiday? Like, do any of you just wake up and think ‘Today feels like a pyjama day.’? or is it always, ‘Today is a good day for murdering and stalking.’?”

— Catherine Doyle

29. “It was like his mother always said: Rose-coloured glasses disguise red flags – and Bartley was draped in them.”

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30. “A well-timed carb never fails to put things in perspective.”

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31. “Of course I wanted to meet you,” said Wren, and when her own tears fell, she scrubbed them away, wishing she could erase the unpleasant feelings that came with them. Guilt and loss, and this new yearning for the life they might have had together if things had been different. If only things had been different. “I thought about you every day of my life.”

— Catherine Doyle

32. “Thr rest of the spiraling steps, where the shadows rose up like waves to claim them.”

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33. “Since we’re trying to avoid suspicion on our way in, I’d rather not leave eighteen bodies behind us.”

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34. “The reckless part of her still yearned for his company, burned for his touch.”

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35. “Fear suddenly consumed by wonder.”

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36. “But Wren pushed that truth away. Why ruin a perfectly lovely morning with talk of what lay beyond tomorrow?”

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37. “And what about me?” demanded Wren. “What am I supposed to do?” Celeste smiled thinly. “You can go back to not existing for a while.”

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38. “My feelings for Ansel were as real as they could have been at the time. But they were like a painting of... oh, I don’t know, a basket of fruit. Nice to have but never truly satisfying. And Shen.” She smiled, without meaning to. “Well, my feelings for Shen are like real fruit. A whole mountain of fresh fruit! Apples and berries and pears and bananas...”

— Catherine Doyle

39. “Then came a sudden whoosh from somewhere over her head, followed by a rippling breeze. The roses trembled. Rose whipped her head around. And found herself staring into Shen Lo’s night-dark eyes. “Hello, Princess. Miss me?”

— Catherine Doyle

40. “And when the time comes, you will rise far above this wicked city, and become a flame in the dark.”

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41. “But now that she had tasted the desert air with Shen and watched the stars dancing in his eyes as he looked at her, she knew she had never loved Ansel. And she certainly couldn’t marry him. Of that, she was unerringly sure.”

— Catherine Doyle

42. “Because you never know how much you’ll miss a moment until it’s behind you.”

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43. “He only stared at her, as if she was the most precious thing he had ever seen. A slant of sunlight breaking through a storm. A lone star in a cloud-swept night.”

— Catherine Doyle

44. “Ignoring the prickle of unease that walked down her spine.”

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45. “She cleared her throat. “I found a new vocation.” “Stalking me?” “Wanting you.” Wren’s cheeks flared. Damn. She looked away sharply.”

— Catherine Doyle

46. “True power comes from sacrifice.”

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47. “He saw that fear – knew it as intimately as his own. And he wanted to take it from her. To shoulder it, until she could breathe again.”

— Catherine Doyle

48. “Sound still travels!” said Wren as she backed away. “Well, so does my shoe.”

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49. “Celeste was fearless like that, not afraid of the fall but of what she might miss at the top.”

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50. “Sera, this guy is obsessed”, said Bibi. “He can’t take his eyes off you. I can’t tell if he wants to ravish you or murder you.”

— Catherine Doyle