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Ann Patchett Quote: “Franny and Leo didn’t talk about marriage, except sometimes sentimentally in bed, his hands spreading wide across her back, and even then it was only to say how quickly they would have married had it not been for the future and the past.”
Ann Patchett Quote: “Doy was not my problem to solve but my brother to love.”
Ann Patchett Quote: “Why wouldn’t it stand to reason that this had been the whole of existence and now he would retreat back to the nothingness he had come from in order to let someone else have their turn at the view?”
Ann Patchett Quote: “In retrospect, my inability to put it together was its own sort of gift. I would understand what they were doing soon enough, at which point I would finally understand what I had done to Veronica. Veronica had such a small part in the story and still I loved her more than everyone at Tom Lake put together. She stayed with me after the rest of them had faded, maybe because we remember the people we hurt so much more clearly than the people who hurt us.”
Ann Patchett Quote: “You don’t have to,” I tell my daughter. “You want to. You wake up one day and you don’t want the carnival anymore. In fact, you can’t even believe you did that.”
Ann Patchett Quote: “Simon Thibault would never die in a foolish gesture for Edith. On the contrary, he would take every cowardly recourse available to him to ensure that their lives were spent together.”
Ann Patchett Quote: “The trick is in the decision to wake up every morning and meet the world again with love.”
Ann Patchett Quote: “To grow up with a mother who had run off to India, never to be heard from again, that was one thing – there was closure in that, its own kind of death. But to find out she was fifteen stops away on the Number One train to Canal and had failed to be in touch was barbaric. Whatever romantic notions I might have harbored, whatever excuses or allowances my heart had ever made on her behalf, blew out like a match.”
Ann Patchett Quote: “Contrary to popular belief, love does not need understanding to thrive.”
Ann Patchett Quote: “Sometimes that’s where the diamonds are.”
Ann Patchett Quote: “There is a finite amount of time,” Maeve said. “Maybe I understand that better now. I’ve wanted my mother back since I was ten years old, and now she’s here. I can use the time I’ve got to be furious, or I can feel like the luckiest person in the world.” “Those are the two choices?”
Ann Patchett Quote: “You’ve got to go through them, dive under just when they’re rising up for you, set your direction, close your eyes, and just swim like hell. Once you get through that, you’ll find there isn’t a better place for swimming because it’s the ocean and it goes on forever. You don’t have to see anyone you don’t want to. If you look out, away from the beach, it’s easy to imagine that there’s no one else but you in the whole world, you and maybe a couple of sea gulls.”
Ann Patchett Quote: “Do you think it’s possible to ever see the past as it actually was?”
Ann Patchett Quote: “People seem able to love their dogs with an unabashed acceptance that they rarely demonstrate with family or friends. The dogs do not disappoint them, or if they do, the owners manage to forget about it quickly. I want to learn to love people like this, the way I love my dog, with pride and enthusiasm and a complete amnesia for faults. In short, to love others the way my dog loves me.”
Ann Patchett Quote: “Clearly, we are not all ruined, and if we are, at some point it becomes our own responsibility.”
Ann Patchett Quote: “Based on my own experience, I believe the brain is as soft and malleable as bread dough when we’re young. I am grateful for every class trip to the symphony I went on and curse any night I was allowed to watch The Brady Bunch, because all of it stuck. Conversely, I am now capable of forgetting entire novels that I’ve read, and I’ve been influenced not at all by books I passionately love and would kill to be influenced by. Think about this before you let your child have an iPad.”
Ann Patchett Quote: “The rage dissipates along with the love, and all we’re left with is a story.”
Ann Patchett Quote: “The christening party took a turn when Albert Cousins arrived with gin.”
Ann Patchett Quote: “Amazon has opened a brick-and-mortar store in the mall across the street from us. People want to know how well we are doing. I’ll tell you how well we’re doing: they’ve come to kill us. But we’ll survive.”
Ann Patchett Quote: “Death always thinks of us eventually. The trick is to find the joy in the interim, and make good use of the days we have.”
Ann Patchett Quote: “All the things that feel reasonable when you’re trying to be an actress feel unbearable once you’ve stopped.”
Ann Patchett Quote: “It’s a wonderful thing to find a great teacher, but you also have to find him or her at a time in life when you’re able to listen to, trust, and implement the lessons you receive.”
Ann Patchett Quote: “I loved her even as she was swimming away from me, even as I was hating her. That’s the way it is, when you’ve loved somebody your whole life. It’s like a direction you go in, even when you don’t want to go anymore.”
Ann Patchett Quote: “And what I think is that this belief I had was what ruined everything. That’s the thing that kept me from going out and finding him, this idea that when he was ready he was going to come and find me. That’s the thing I’ve lost, that excitement, the nervousness I had from waiting. So just when I stopped waiting, that’s when you came.”
Ann Patchett Quote: “My sister had the full approval of our father, but that was like having a suitcase full of francs after France joined the eurozone. They were worthless, except to remind you that you used to be rich. She spent a couple of summers sleeping on the floor of the walk-in linen closet to avoid having to share her room with my stepfather’s children.”
Ann Patchett Quote: “It was already in place, without him seeing any of it, the web was spun and snug around the house, and while his first impulse, the natural impulse, was to press ahead anyway and see if he might beat out the odds, clear logic held him.”
Ann Patchett Quote: “I could understand why Gautama had to leave his wife and child in order to find the path to nirvana. The love between humans is the thing that nails us to this earth.”
Ann Patchett Quote: “Like every other mother in the history of time, I wondered if I would ever be able to love another child as much as I loved her.”
Ann Patchett Quote: “We had made a fetish out of our misfortune, fallen in love with it.”
Ann Patchett Quote: “When I hear Roxane sing I am still able to think well of the world,” Gen said. “This is a world in which she can still sing that music with so much compassion. That’s proof of something, isn’t it?”
Ann Patchett Quote: “Cancer really was the devil’s handshake.”
Ann Patchett Quote: “If I were taking notes, they would read: I see something. A shape? I have no idea. It’s not exactly the stuff that literary archives are made of.”
Ann Patchett Quote: “Bad habits were all a matter of perspective, and as long as the present was viewed through the lens of the past, anyone would say he was doing a spectacular job.”
Ann Patchett Quote: “What begins as something like a dream will in fact stay a dream forever unless you have the tools and the discipline to bring it out.”
Ann Patchett Quote: “DAs were the guys who smoked your cigarettes because they were trying to quit. The.”
Ann Patchett Quote: “There would never been an end to all the things I wished I’d asked my father. After so many years I thought less about his unwillingness to disclose and more about how stupid I’d been not to try harder.”
Ann Patchett Quote: “People like to ask me if writing can be taught, and I say yes. I can teach you how to write a better sentence, how to write dialogue, maybe even how to construct a plot. But I can’t teach you how to have something to say.”
Ann Patchett Quote: “No, you don’t look at the cigarette, you look at me. When you light a cigarette you have to look the person in the eyes.”
Ann Patchett Quote: “Stories are based in conflict, and when the conflict is resolved the story ends. That’s because for the most part happiness is amorphous, wordless, and largely uninteresting.”
Ann Patchett Quote: “I would give them the ability both to love and not to care.”
Ann Patchett Quote: “I was still in high school when I decided I didn’t want children. My somewhat twisted rationale was that I would never inflict childhood on anybody, especially not someone I loved. I never changed my mind.”
Ann Patchett Quote: “She had made a terrible error in judgement and he had turned it into something permanent and beautiful. That was the nail in the tire. Or not even that. Not her reading it, not his writing it, but.”
Ann Patchett Quote: “She told the woman to go to one of the online agent sites that list agents who are looking for new clients, and then follow their submission guidelines to the letter. If they ask for a twenty-page writing sample, do not send in twenty-two pages.”
Ann Patchett Quote: “I have always believed that the desire for revenge is one of life’s great motivators, and my success would be my revenge.”
Ann Patchett Quote: “Running, the music flew into him, became the wind that pushed back his hair and the slap of his own feet on the pavement.”
Ann Patchett Quote: “Having someone who believed in my failure more than my success kept me alert. It made me fierce. Without ever meaning to, my father taught me at a very early age to give up on the idea of approval. I wish I could bottle that freedom now and give it to every young writer I meet, with an extra bottle for the women. I would give them the ability both to love and not to care.”
Ann Patchett Quote: “Had the accompanist played so well? It would have been impossible to remember, his talent was to be invisible, to lift the soprano up, but now the people in the living room of the vice-presidential mansion listened to Kato with hunger and nothing in their lives had ever fed them so well.”
Ann Patchett Quote: “It doesn’t take so long for craving to subside. Once I got the hang of giving something up, it wasn’t much of a trick. The much harder part was living with the startling abundance that had been illuminated when I stopped trying to get more.”
Ann Patchett Quote: “I was a Catholic shaped by twelve years of Catholic school. Marriage was one of the seven sacraments I had memorized along with my multiplication tables in third grade. Catholicism wasn’t at the heart of marriage for me, but it was part of it. Marriage was one of the sacraments I was entitled to.”
Ann Patchett Quote: “I had a mother who left when I was a child. I didn’t miss her. Maeve was there, with her red coat and her black hair, standing at the bottom of the stairs, the white marble floor with the little black squares, the snow coming down in glittering sheets in the windows behind her, the windows as wide as a movie screen, the ship in the waves of the grandfather clock rocking the minutes away.”
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