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Ann Patchett Quote: “I like the Catholic Church,” she says to me sometimes. “Good thing,” I say, which always makes her laugh. I think that she is everything I have ever loved about our religion distilled down to fit into one person, everything about the faith that is both selfless and responsible: bringing soup to the sick; visiting the widowed husbands of her friends who have died; sticking with the children who are slow to learn and teaching them how to.”
Ann Patchett Quote: “Wearing shoes in the house was barbaric. There was almost as much indignity in wearing shoes in the house as there was in being kidnapped.”
Ann Patchett Quote: “We had made a fetish out of our misfortune, fallen in love with it. I was sickened to realize we’d kept it going for so long, not that we had decided to stop.”
Ann Patchett Quote: “For the most part wisdom comes in chips rather than blocks. You have to be willing to gather them constantly, and from sources you never imagined to be probable.”
Ann Patchett Quote: “Natalie Posen had chosen to bury her husband in Los Angeles, giving her spite the air of the eternal.”
Ann Patchett Quote: “He was in love, and never had he felt such kindness towards another person. Never had he received such kindness. Maybe the private life wasn’t forever. Maybe everyone got it for a little while and then spend the rest of their lives remembering.”
Ann Patchett Quote: “I see the past as it actually was,” Maeve said. She was looking at the trees. “But we overlay the present onto the past. We look back through the lens of what we know now, so we’re not seeing it as the people we were, we’re seeing it as the people we are, and that means the past has been radically altered.”
Ann Patchett Quote: “That’s not possible.” Pallace disagreed. “It’s possible, not optimal.”
Ann Patchett Quote: “As every reader knows, the social contract between you and a book you love is not complete until you can hand that book to someone else and say, Here, you’re going to love this.”
Ann Patchett Quote: “Until that minute I never realized the extent to which I carried this fear with me everywhere, every minute of my life.”
Ann Patchett Quote: “That is, after all, Robin’s superpower: to love the person in front of her as she is, to see all the glorious light inside them and reflect it back, everywhere.”
Ann Patchett Quote: “French wine was the cornerstone of French diplomacy. They handed it out like peppermints.”
Ann Patchett Quote: “Influence is a combination of circumstance and luck: what we are shown and what we stumble upon in those brief years when our hearts and minds are fully open.”
Ann Patchett Quote: “Girls and their dates still got dressed to go to the Apollo for amateur night but by 1968 pretty much every representation of hope in the country had been put up against a wall and shot.”
Ann Patchett Quote: “What a shame it would have been to miss God while waiting for Him.”
Ann Patchett Quote: “In those happy dark ages before cell phones and the internet, such miscalculations were solved not by changing the situation but by changing yourself. I put on another sweater and my coat. I.”
Ann Patchett Quote: “Always remember, any book you haven’t read is still a new book.”
Ann Patchett Quote: “Maybe once he wished I was his daughter, because it was plain that my news was hard for him to hear.”
Ann Patchett Quote: “Writing must not be compartmentalized. You don’t step outside of the stream of your life to do your work. Work was the life. And who you were as a mother, a teacher, friend, citizen, activist, and artist was all the same person... People ask me if writing can be taught, and yes, I can teach you to write a better sentence, to construct dialogue, to develop a plot. But I can’t teach you how to have something to say.”
Ann Patchett Quote: “I’m not company. I’m your mother.” She said it lightly.”
Ann Patchett Quote: “The process of putting the thing you value most in the world out for the assessment of strangers is a confidence-shaking business even in the best of times.”
Ann Patchett Quote: “MOST OF THE writers and artists I know were made for sheltering in place. The world asks us to engage, and for the most part we can, but given the choice, we’d rather stay home.”
Ann Patchett Quote: “I never learned how to take the beautiful thing in my imagination and put it on paper without feeling I killed it along the way. I did, however, learn how to weather the death, and I learned how to forgive myself for it.”
Ann Patchett Quote: “People made her tired. The way they were easy with one another, the way they seemed so natural, only made her sad.”
Ann Patchett Quote: “His own daughters constantly presented him with a mathematical impossibility, one minute running around the house wearing pajamas covered in images of the blankly staring Hello, Kitty, the next minute announcing they had dates who would be picking them up at seven. He believed his daughters were not old enough to date and yet clearly by the standards of this country they were old enough to be members of a terrorist organization.”
Ann Patchett Quote: “She shrugged. “I gave up caring where I lived a long time ago, and anyway, I think it’s good for me. It teaches me humility. She teaches me humility.” She tipped her head backwards the way Maeve would do. “You have to serve those who need to be served, not just the ones who make you feel good about yourself. Andrea’s my penance for all the mistakes.”
Ann Patchett Quote: “Maybe he was concerned, or bored, or inappropriately friendly, or midwestern friendly.”
Ann Patchett Quote: “The great love of his life, after God, lived only in dark vinyl.”
Ann Patchett Quote: “His heart woke him up to remind him that in life there was never a limitless number of nights. The.”
Ann Patchett Quote: “She was in her room, sitting on the window seat with her long legs straight out in front of her. She had a book in her lap but she wasn’t reading it, she was looking out at the garden. The room was angled to the west while not facing west directly, and the way the last bit of light fell over her, she looked like a painting.”
Ann Patchett Quote: “Life could very well be lived out in that spot. She tried to remember her aggressiveness, all the things the Generals had taught her in training, but it was one thing to take what you must for the good of the people and quite another to ask for something for yourself. She knew nothing at all about asking.”
Ann Patchett Quote: “I slept like his sister would have, without trouble or dreams.”
Ann Patchett Quote: “I’ll tell you the truth, Dr. Singh, what I have discovered about these trees is not what I expected. It will not be what your pharmaceutical company expects. It is something much greater, much more ambitious than anything we had hoped for. That was Dr. Rapp’s great lesson in the Amazon, in science: Never be so focused on what you’re looking for that you overlook the thing you actually find.”
Ann Patchett Quote: “People simultaneously wanted to kill them, believed that they had almost killed them, and were afraid of being killed by them.”
Ann Patchett Quote: “I have never in my life known a writer who enjoyed the actual act of writing less than Lucy, which is saying something because just about every writer I know sits down to work with some degree of dread.”
Ann Patchett Quote: “To list the things I didn’t ask my father about would be to list the stars in heaven, so let me throw out one: I did not ask my father about women. Not women in general and what you were supposed to do with them, and definitely not women in the particular: my mother, my sister, Andrea.”
Ann Patchett Quote: “You wouldn’t believe all the nice people I’ve met at chemotherapy,” she.”
Ann Patchett Quote: “The distance between me and annihilation was the width of a snowflake.”
Ann Patchett Quote: “Karl had been living in our house for twenty-five years. I’d been there for sixteen – the longest I’d ever lived anywhere by more than a decade. Ours was a marriage of like-minded nearness. Karl’s suit jacket went directly onto a hanger. I wiped down the kitchen counters before going to bed. Our never-ending stream of houseguests frequently commented on the tranquility of our surroundings, and I told them the secret was not having much stuff.”
Ann Patchett Quote: “That’s the tricky part about being a saint. If you ever think of yourself as one it throws you out of the running. I’ve known people who thought they were saints, plenty of them, and believe you me, they were anything but.”
Ann Patchett Quote: “In the summer the pear trees were fine. In the summer, all that is hideous about a pear tree is hidden by leaves and pears. But once those disguises were removed they were nothing but acres of murderous psychopaths emboldened by darkness.”
Ann Patchett Quote: “I am fifty-seven. I am twenty-four.”
Ann Patchett Quote: “Bears prevented me from wandering off. Rain prevented me from reading on the shore. Mosquitoes prevented everything else.”
Ann Patchett Quote: “Franny looked at them up on the porch, everyone softened by the veil of the screen, by the light that was slanting in behind them, by the bank of yellow lilies that separated them from her. It was not unlike seeing tigers at the zoo.”
Ann Patchett Quote: “Clearly he needed a father, but some other father, any other father, would have been preferable.”
Ann Patchett Quote: “The problem, I wanted to say, was that I was asleep to the world. Even in my own house I had no idea what was going on.”
Ann Patchett Quote: “The art of writing comes way down the line, as does the art of interpreting Bach. Art stands on the shoulders of craft, which means that to get to the art you must master the craft. If you want to write, practice writing. Practice it for hours a day, not to come up with a story you can publish, but because you long to learn how to write well, because there is something that you alone can say.”
Ann Patchett Quote: “He did not understand how such a short time in this house could have returned him to adolescence.”
Ann Patchett Quote: “Maeve had a stack of Henry James novels on her bedside table. The Turn of the Screw? Was that what they wanted?”
Ann Patchett Quote: “Lelia gave a dharma talk about letting go of self-definition: I can’t do this because of what happened to me in my childhood; I can’t do that because I am very shy; I could never go there because I’m afraid of clowns or mushrooms or polar bears. The group gave a gentle, collective laugh of self-recognition. Teresa found the talk helpful, as she had been having an extended interior dialogue during meditation about how septuagenarians from Torrance were fundamentally unsuited for Buddhism.”
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