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Top 15 Katy Hays Quotes (2026 Update)

Katy Hays Quote: “Choice is the one thing we all share. It’s the ultimate level playing field.”

1. “Choice is the one thing we all share. It’s the ultimate level playing field.”

Katy Hays Quote: “I had never been to Europe, but I imagined it would look something like this: shady and cobbled and Gothic. The kind of place that reminded you how temporary the human body was, but how enduring stone.”

2. “I had never been to Europe, but I imagined it would look something like this: shady and cobbled and Gothic. The kind of place that reminded you how temporary the human body was, but how enduring stone.”

Katy Hays Quote: “Wasn’t that, after all, why we had become academics and researchers in the first place? To discover art as a practice, not just as an artifact?”

3. “Wasn’t that, after all, why we had become academics and researchers in the first place? To discover art as a practice, not just as an artifact?”

Katy Hays Quote: “All we’re doing is weaving together a life. Trying to see where the different threads take us.”

4. “All we’re doing is weaving together a life. Trying to see where the different threads take us.”

Katy Hays Quote: “We are, you see, both masters of our fate and at the mercy of the Moirai – the three Fates who weave our futures and cut them short. And while I still believe we can control the little things in life, those small decisions that add up to the everyday, I think, perhaps, the overall shape of our life is not ours to decide.”

5. “We are, you see, both masters of our fate and at the mercy of the Moirai – the three Fates who weave our futures and cut them short. And while I still believe we can control the little things in life, those small decisions that add up to the everyday, I think, perhaps, the overall shape of our life is not ours to decide.”

Katy Hays Quote: “You should be careful what you put your faith in, of course,” she continued. “Humans have a tendency to be easily romanced by the promise of knowledge.”

6. “You should be careful what you put your faith in, of course,” she continued. “Humans have a tendency to be easily romanced by the promise of knowledge.”

Katy Hays Quote: “Like a true cloister, it was silent save for the sound of our footsteps.”

7. “Like a true cloister, it was silent save for the sound of our footsteps.”

Katy Hays Quote: “The death of my father had unmoored her. After he was gone, the tight structure of our daily life got looser: the milk expired and was not replaced, our small patch of lawn overgrew, my mother stopped changing her sheets. And then, there would be a day during which she would whip everything back to the way it was before, a sudden tightening. But the loosening would come back. A slow easing at first, and then a swift, remorseless undoing – again and again.”

8. “The death of my father had unmoored her. After he was gone, the tight structure of our daily life got looser: the milk expired and was not replaced, our small patch of lawn overgrew, my mother stopped changing her sheets. And then, there would be a day during which she would whip everything back to the way it was before, a sudden tightening. But the loosening would come back. A slow easing at first, and then a swift, remorseless undoing – again and again.”

Katy Hays Quote: “I wanted to see the places he brought home in books from the Penrose Library – the campaniles of Italy, the windswept coastline of Morocco, the twinkling skyscrapers of Manhattan. Places I could only afford to travel to on the page.”

9. “I wanted to see the places he brought home in books from the Penrose Library – the campaniles of Italy, the windswept coastline of Morocco, the twinkling skyscrapers of Manhattan. Places I could only afford to travel to on the page.”

Katy Hays Quote: “What if our whole life – how we live and die – has already been decided for us? Would you want to know, if a roll of the dice or a deal of the cards could tell you the outcome? Can life be that thin, that disturbing?”

10. “What if our whole life – how we live and die – has already been decided for us? Would you want to know, if a roll of the dice or a deal of the cards could tell you the outcome? Can life be that thin, that disturbing?”

Katy Hays Quote: “But my father was like the putty that had filled in the sharp cracks between my mother and me, the places where we didn’t fit, and without that putty, we kept running up against each other, all hard angles and brittleness.”

11. “But my father was like the putty that had filled in the sharp cracks between my mother and me, the places where we didn’t fit, and without that putty, we kept running up against each other, all hard angles and brittleness.”

Katy Hays Quote: “I think it reflects the extent to which, although the Renaissance is often considered an era of logic and science, it was easily seduced by ancient practices that didn’t include geometry and anatomy, but rather a belief in oracles and mystical traditions. In some ways it was also very” – I paused – “ anti-science. Broad strokes, of course.”

12. “I think it reflects the extent to which, although the Renaissance is often considered an era of logic and science, it was easily seduced by ancient practices that didn’t include geometry and anatomy, but rather a belief in oracles and mystical traditions. In some ways it was also very” – I paused – “ anti-science. Broad strokes, of course.”

Katy Hays Quote: “It struck me then that Rachel’s generosity – the thing I had been so taken with, the thing that seemed so genuine – was actually the source of her control. She was both benefactor and micromanager, skillfully moving us through our paces, and sheltering us with privilege while we complied. And while it was clear that she liked me, she also believed she was smarter, more capable.”

13. “It struck me then that Rachel’s generosity – the thing I had been so taken with, the thing that seemed so genuine – was actually the source of her control. She was both benefactor and micromanager, skillfully moving us through our paces, and sheltering us with privilege while we complied. And while it was clear that she liked me, she also believed she was smarter, more capable.”

Katy Hays Quote: “What if our whole life – how we live and die – has already been decided for us? Would you want to know, if a roll of the dice or a deal of the cards could tell you the outcome? Can life be that thin, that disturbing? What if we are all just Caesar? Waiting on our lucky throw, refusing to see what waits for us in the ides of March.”

14. “What if our whole life – how we live and die – has already been decided for us? Would you want to know, if a roll of the dice or a deal of the cards could tell you the outcome? Can life be that thin, that disturbing? What if we are all just Caesar? Waiting on our lucky throw, refusing to see what waits for us in the ides of March.”

Katy Hays Quote: “I don’t know what will become of my life,” I said, “and I’m the one living it.”

15. “I don’t know what will become of my life,” I said, “and I’m the one living it.”

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