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Ann Patchett Quote: “This story – which begins and begins – starts again here.”
Ann Patchett Quote: “I remember complaining one night on the phone to my mother that we spent too much of our time worrying about love and money. “Think of it as research,” she said. “That’s what everybody writes about.”
Ann Patchett Quote: “The problem with being the only woman in a play in which the three other characters were men and the playwright was a man and the director was a man was that no matter what I said, I sounded petulant, female.”
Ann Patchett Quote: “Don’t let yourself get upset. People who get upset only make more work.”
Ann Patchett Quote: “Then I remembered what my father had told me, that the things we could do nothing about were best put out of our minds.”
Ann Patchett Quote: “At the time I thought this was my big chance for love, that I was going something very romantic and important, but looking back on it now, it all seems part of a very simple equation: I left the house where I lived with someone who loved me to go to the house of someone who did not love me at all.”
Ann Patchett Quote: “The future is not one thing. So many possibilities can arise as a result of intelligence, education, curiosity, and hard work. No one ever told me that, and I’m sorry it took this long for me to figure it out.”
Ann Patchett Quote: “Had I known anything about the elegance of quitting at the right time, I would have made so many people, starting with myself and Dennis, so much happier.”
Ann Patchett Quote: “The point, I wanted to say, was that we shouldn’t still be driving to the Dutch House, and the more we kept up with our hate, the more we were forever doomed to live out our lives in a parked car on VanHoebeek Street.”
Ann Patchett Quote: “This was the pleasure of a long life: the way some things worked themselves out.”
Ann Patchett Quote: “I just want her to be one of us, but when you think about saints, I don’t imagine any of them made their families happy.”
Ann Patchett Quote: “You could see just a trace of the daughter there, the way she held her shoulders back, the length of her neck. It was a crime what time did to women.”
Ann Patchett Quote: “Is it possible that anxiety ends at the moment when we no longer have time for it?”
Ann Patchett Quote: “It’s like you don’t want to be dislodged from your suffering.”
Ann Patchett Quote: “I could have had one life but insteads I had another because of this book my grandmother protected. What a miracle is that? I was taught to love beautiful things. I had a language in which to consider beauty. Later that extended to the opera, to the ballet, to architecture I saw, and even later still I came to realize that what I had seen in the paintings I could see in the fields or a river. I could see it in people. All of that I attribute to this book.”
Ann Patchett Quote: “When Teresa was told that she had lost summers, she made a point to curse and weep, but she wondered silently if she hadn’t just been handed the divorce equivalent of a Caribbean vacation.”
Ann Patchett Quote: “The biggest lie in business is that it takes money to make money, remember that. You gotta be smart, have a plan, pay attention to what’s going on around you. None of that costs a dime.”
Ann Patchett Quote: “She put no stock in dreams. To her they were just a television left on in another room.”
Ann Patchett Quote: “Nell is a girl without secrets. Watching her face is like going to a movie.”
Ann Patchett Quote: “Our childhood was a fire. There had been four children in the house and only two of them had gotten out.”
Ann Patchett Quote: “To be truly brave, I believe a person has to be more than a little stupid. If you knew how hard or how dangerous something was going to be at the onset, chances are you’d never do it, so if I went back I would never be able to leave again. Now that I knew what leaving meant.”
Ann Patchett Quote: “Do you want to do this thing? Sit down and do it. Are you not writing? Keep sitting there. Does it not feel right? Keep sitting there. Think of yourself as a monk walking the path to enlightenment. Think of yourself as a high school senior wanting to be a neurosurgeon. Is it possible? Yes. Is there some shortcut? Not one I’ve found.”
Ann Patchett Quote: “No matter how many years ago I’d stopped playing Emily, she is still here. All of Grover’s Corners is in me.”
Ann Patchett Quote: “It sounded so nostalgic when he said it, the three of us, as if we had once been a unit instead of just a circumstance.”
Ann Patchett Quote: “It was a time in my life when a Junior Mint could mean the difference between happiness and unhappiness.”
Ann Patchett Quote: “He wondered sometimes if it was love or just a lack of rest that had twisted such a longing in his heart.”
Ann Patchett Quote: “All of the love and the longing a body can contain was spun into not more than two and a half minutes of song, and when she came to the highest notes it seemed that all they had been given in their lives and all they had lost came together and made a weight that was almost impossible to bear.”
Ann Patchett Quote: “He had never sought her out or made himself to be anything more than any other member of the audience. He did not assume his appreciation for her talent exceeded anyone else’s. He was more inclined to believe that only a fool would not feel about her exactly how he felt. There was nothing more to want than the privilege to sit and listen.”
Ann Patchett Quote: “One person’s endured lechery was another person’s cherished summer affair.”
Ann Patchett Quote: “No one could see her objectively anyway. Even those who saw her for the first time, before she had opened her mouth to sing. Found her radiant, as if her talent could not be contained in her voice and so poured like light though her skin. Then all that could be seen was the weight and the gloss of her hair and the pale pink of her cheeks and her beautiful hands.”
Ann Patchett Quote: “Back then I didn’t know you weren’t supposed to give your whole heart to a baby that isn’t yours.”
Ann Patchett Quote: “Things changed again after that, change being the one constant.”
Ann Patchett Quote: “Crazy is another sloppy word, like rich. It’s all a matter of reference.”
Ann Patchett Quote: “Everybody likes Anders. But if Vogel.”
Ann Patchett Quote: “I decided I was going to make up a novel, and that the novel was going to get me out of the restaurant. The novel was going to be my getaway car.”
Ann Patchett Quote: “The worst part is understanding you’re going to die.′ She looked at me, her black eyebrows raised. ‘You didn’t understand that?’ I shook my head. ‘You think you understand it. You think that when you’re ninety-six you’ll lie down on the couch after a big Thanksgiving dinner and not wake up, but even then you’re not really sure. Maybe there’ll be some special dispensation for you. Everybody thinks that.”
Ann Patchett Quote: “But in her day, Emily had been a beast, a teenage girl so riven with hormones and rage that her two younger sisters decided it would be easier to just be good. Emily had raised sufficient hell for all of them put together.”
Ann Patchett Quote: “She understood in life that a person was only allowed one trip down to hell.”
Ann Patchett Quote: “There’s no protecting anyone,” Fix said, and reached over from his wheelchair to put his hand on hers. “Keeping people safe is a story we tell ourselves.”
Ann Patchett Quote: “Zen- Dojo Tozan was not in Sarnen or Thu but somewhere between the two, not in a village but in the tall grass and blue flowers.”
Ann Patchett Quote: “Field after field after field, and not an inch of space wasted on something as decorative and meaningless as a tree. “You’ve.”
Ann Patchett Quote: “She has a point,” Cousins said. He never would have stood back here making sandwiches, though he felt he could use a sandwich, that he wanted one, and so he poured himself another drink.”
Ann Patchett Quote: “Because while Leo Posen appeared to be perfectly sober, she would be that he seemed that way regardless of how much he had drunk. Some men were like that. They went from sober to more or less dead without intermediate steps.”
Ann Patchett Quote: “That is one thing I’ve learned, that it is possible to really understand things at certain points, and not be able to retain them, to be in utter confusion just a short while later. I used to think that once you really knew a thing, its truth would shine on forever. Now it’s pretty obvious to me that more often than not the batteries fade, and sometimes what you knew even goes out with a bang when you try to call on it, just like a lightbulb cracking off when you throw the switch.”
Ann Patchett Quote: “Some children were lucky enough to have their Potter novels banned by witch-hunting school boards and micromanaging ministers. Is there any greater job than a book you’re not allowed to read, a book you could go to hell for reading?”
Ann Patchett Quote: “Like any other monkey on your back, no addiction ever feels complete until you can pass it on to your friends.”
Ann Patchett Quote: “Lucy was invisible, exuberant, and utterly birdlike in her wild, darting freedom.”
Ann Patchett Quote: “All you have to do,” he tells me, “is give a little bit of understanding to the possibility that life might not have been fair.” The trouble with good fortune is that we tend to equate it with personal goodness, so that if things are going well for us and less well for others, it’s assumed they must have done something to have brought that misfortune on themselves while we must have.”
Ann Patchett Quote: “Transcendentalist movement?”
Ann Patchett Quote: “The warm air smelled like popcorn and Coke. It smelled like a carnival wearing new clothes.”
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