Ann Patchett Quotes
I wanted two girls, " she said. "You and your sister. I wanted exactly what I had. Other people's children are too hard
Is it possible that anxiety ends at the moment when we no longer have time for it?
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.
She's growing up, " Sister Evangeline said.And I wanted to tell her no, I'm not. Everything is exactly the same.
We shared ideas like sweaters, with easy exchange and lack of ownership.
Writing is a miserable, awful business. Stay with it. It is better than anything in the world
If want a person wants is his life, he tends to be quiet about wanting anything else.
If a novel was a map of a country, a story was the bright silver pin that marked the crossroads.
...as if the world had become a giant train station in which everything was delayed until further notice.
But it is never about who has given what. That is not the way of gifts. This is not a business we are conducting.
Running, the music flew into him, became the wind that pushed back his hair and the slap of his own feet on the pavement.
Somebody's going to have to make the money to buy you all those books.""They're free, " Franny said. "I check them out of the library.""Well, thank God for libraries, " Caroline said.
