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Top 500 Ann Patchett Quotes (2025 Update)
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Ann Patchett Quote: “The joy of my childhood ended not when my mother left, but when Maeve left, the year Andrea and my father.”
Ann Patchett Quote: “The timing of the electrical failure seemed dramatic and perfectly correct, as if the lights had said, “You have no need for sight. Listen.”
Ann Patchett Quote: “He is fifteen and ten and five. He is an instant. He is flying back to her. He is hers again. She feels the weight of him in her chest as he comes into her arms. He is her son, her beloved child, and she takes him back.”
Ann Patchett Quote: “The President’s unwavering devotion to his television set was so potentially embarrassing his cabinet would gladly have traded it in for an indiscreet mistress.”
Ann Patchett Quote: “They said no, she can’t make it. They said everything’s closed. And I said you don’t know Ann.” And then he drifted off to sleep. Explain doubt to me, because at that moment I ceased to understand it. In return I will tell you everything I know about love.”
Ann Patchett Quote: “Franny brushed the snow off her shoulders and made her way to the rented SUV. She had never told that story to Leo. She had meant to but then for some reason she decided to hold it back. Now she understood that at some point far out in the future there would be a night just like tonight, and she would remember this story and know that no one else in the world knew it had happened except Albie. She had needed to keep something for herself.”
Ann Patchett Quote: “I felt a quick gust of annoyance and I let it turn to anger, anger being infinitely preferable to guilt.”
Ann Patchett Quote: “You have to remember that they could go at any time, and if a man’s smart he never forgets that.”
Ann Patchett Quote: “Maybe it was possible, we thought, to rise above the pathetic holidays of our youth.”
Ann Patchett Quote: “We had invented time, and we could not kill it fast enough. After dinner, dancing, and baths, we read, wrote our poems and stories, brushed our teeth, and tumbled into bed, only to find the next day was exactly the same. We had not moved one inch forward in the night. It was like prison, not in the punishment but in the vast sameness of the days. We were impossibly rich in time, and we lavished the excess on one another.”
Ann Patchett Quote: “I dug my face into the pillow. I was waking up and I did not want to wake up.”
Ann Patchett Quote: “Bernadette had been dead two weeks when her sisters showed up in Doyle’s living room asking for the statue back.”
Ann Patchett Quote: “He realized then what he had known from the first minute he saw her, from when she leaned out the kitchen door and called for her husband. This was the start of his life.”
Ann Patchett Quote: “New York represented her shame about things that were in no way her fault.”
Ann Patchett Quote: “The entire time Albie followed Beverly around the house doing what the children referred to as “the stripper soundtrack”: Boom chicka-boom, boom-boom chicka-boom. When their mother stopped walking the soundtrack stopped. If she took a single step it was accompanied by Albie saying only “boom” in a voice that was weirdly sexual for a six-year-old.”
Ann Patchett Quote: “The problem, I wanted to say, was that I was asleep to the world.”
Ann Patchett Quote: “Life, Teresa knew by now, was a series of losses. It was other things too, better things, but the losses were as solid and dependable as the earth itself.”
Ann Patchett Quote: “The dinner was a huge production, with kids stashed in the den to eat off card tables like a collection of understudies who dreamed of one day breaking into the dining room.”
Ann Patchett Quote: “For as many times as the horrible thing happens, a thousand times in every day the horrible thing passes us by.”
Ann Patchett Quote: “What you have to remember about your mother is that she didn’t have her own character. She turned into whoever she was sitting next to. When.”
Ann Patchett Quote: “The general wisdom around here is if you can’t get it at Wal-Mart, you don’t need it.” Sabine looked up at the brown building, which was itself the size of another parking lot. “I’ve never actually been in one of these.” “Go on,” Kitty said. Sabine shook her head. “I’ve just never had any reason to.” Kitty stubbed out her cigarette and replaced her mitten. “Well, you are in for a treat.”
Ann Patchett Quote: “People think you have to be going someplace, when, in fact, the ride is plenty.”
Ann Patchett Quote: “Kitty stopped the cart and put in two three-packs of paper towels. “Sale.” Sabine nodded. Was $2.49 a good price? To know if paper towels were a deal this time, you’d have to remember what they cost last time. Sabine could never remember.”
Ann Patchett Quote: “The game, frankly, was more peaceful without language.”
Ann Patchett Quote: “I took some rea; comfort from my day job. Like a soprano’s boned corset, the built-in restrictions provided both support and something to push against.”
Ann Patchett Quote: “Whenever I kissed a boy in school, cut a day of classes, argued with my mother, over what I can’t remember, it was not God’s forgiveness I sought, but his. He was the one I told.”
Ann Patchett Quote: “New York represented her shame about things that were in no way her fault, or at least that’s what I was thinking.”
Ann Patchett Quote: “Maeve was an Icelandic truck driver at heart, no weather stopped her.”
Ann Patchett Quote: “I marveled at the resilience of children for their ability to survive their own childhoods with joy.”
Ann Patchett Quote: “Somewhere along the line Teddy’s love for his mother had become his love for Father Sullivan, and his love for Father Sullivan became his love for God. The three of them were bound into an inextricable knot: the living and the dead and the life everlasting. Each one led him to the other, and any member of the trinity he loved simply increased his love for all three. The question wasn’t did he ever think of his mother. The question was did he ever think of anything else.”
Ann Patchett Quote: “One more joy I had failed to consider: that I can talk strangers into reading books that I love.”
Ann Patchett Quote: “I can’t imagine what kind of work it would take to actually put the past in order.”
Ann Patchett Quote: “It is possible to love someone with all your heart and still know your union would never have survived having children together. It was one of the many things that made Karl and me such a good match: I didn’t want children and he already had them. I thought it when I caught him pouring half-and-half on the dog’s kibble. It was best this way.”
Ann Patchett Quote: “Maisie’s phone rings. The house rule is no phones at the table but we’ve made an exception for Maisie who keeps getting calls from neighbors asking for help, and we made an exception for Emily so that Benny can text her and tell her what time he’ll be back at the house, and so of course we extended the exception to Nell, because why would we let her sisters answer their phones at the table and make her turn hers off? Joe and I turn off our phones because everyone we want to talk to is here.”
Ann Patchett Quote: “You can tell them what they should do until you don’t have any breath left, but the thing that stops them, the thing that scares them bad enough to stop, is something they have to come to by themselves.”
Ann Patchett Quote: “If you’re not going to pursue medicine professionally then I can’t see how you’re allowed to pursue it personally.”
Ann Patchett Quote: “You don’t see many shy terrorists.”
Ann Patchett Quote: “I was starting to wonder if I was ready to be a writer, not someone who won prizes, got published and was given the time and space to work, but someone who wrote as a course of life. Maybe writing wouldn’t have any rewards. Maybe the salvation I would gain through work would only be emotional and intellectual. Wouldn’t that be enough, to be a waitress who found an hour or two hidden in every day to write?”
Ann Patchett Quote: “They were her kidnappers, sailing her across the lawn and into the backseat of the car, lifting up her feet while pivoting her around in a way that was disturbingly professional, as if stealing old people was what they did.”
Ann Patchett Quote: “The madder Maeve got, the more thoughtful she became. In this way she reminded me of our father – every word she spoke came individually wrapped.”
Ann Patchett Quote: “When Lucy believed that there were actually things in the world that were worse than what had happened to her, she could pull herself up on this knowledge like a rope. When she lost sight of it, she sank.”
Ann Patchett Quote: “But part of what I love about both novels and dogs is that they are so beautifully oblivious to economic concerns. We serve them, and in return they thrive.”
Ann Patchett Quote: “In my books, I make up the experiences and the characters, but the emotional life is real. It is my own.”
Ann Patchett Quote: “Marina filled her lungs with frozen air and smelled both winter and spring, dirt and leftover snow with the smallest undercurrent of something green.”
Ann Patchett Quote: “Hard work is first and foremost hard, and whether or not it’s ultimately rewarding is very rarely the thing you’re thinking of at the moment.”
Ann Patchett Quote: “Kentucky, a state whose capital I did not know. I had never wondered about Kentucky, never imagined it as a girl the way I had New York or Houston or Paris. No one I knew had ever been to Kentucky, or was planning on going, and so I thought it would be the last place anyone would look for me. “Tell.”
Ann Patchett Quote: “Making friends with other writers you respect is reason enough to go to graduate school. You.”
Ann Patchett Quote: “I don’t think I ever took the train to Philadelphia without thinking of chemistry, and how Morey Able told me that without a solid grasp of chapter 1, chapter 2 would be impossible. Maeve had done that work when our mother came back, gone all the way to the beginning until she was certain she understood what had happened.”
Ann Patchett Quote: “For the vast majority of the people on this planet,” Fix had said, “the thing that’s going to kill them is already on the inside.”
Ann Patchett Quote: “It was her plan to outrun all of that, and somewhere in that running she had started to fly. She no longer felt like touching all the dirt and the muck she had so patiently submitted herself to so that people would think she was a very nice girl. She was not such a very nice girl. Nobody who was very, very nice would ever work this hard to take something they wanted only for themselves.”
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