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It was my own special brand of insanity that made me think the trials of Lucy's life could somehow be eased by the order of Tupperware. — Ann Patchett

The story of my marriage, which is the great joy and astonishment of my life, is too much like a fairy tale, the German kind, unsweetened by Disney. — Ann Patchett

This was the pleasure of a long life: the way some things worked themselves out. — Ann Patchett

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

People souldn't be allowed to decide that they wished to remain a hostage — Ann Patchett

A daughter was a battle between fathers and boys in which the fathers fought valiantly and always lost. — Ann Patchett

But we cannot unbraid the story of another person's life and take out all the parts that don't suit our purposes and put forth only the ones that do. — Ann Patchett

You have to remember that they could go at any time, and if a man's smart he never forgets that. — Ann Patchett

As if the world had become a giant train station in which everything was delayed until further notice. — Ann Patchett

I can write for any magazine now, in any voice. I can do it in two hours, I could do it in my sleep, it's like writing a grocery list. — Ann Patchett

The sleep he went back to was never the one he left. — Ann Patchett

They look into the mirror and all they can see is a collection of flaws, — Ann Patchett

No one should have to go back to the place where she had once been a girl. — Ann Patchett

I think people become consumed with selling a book when they need to be consumed with writing it. — Ann Patchett

Sometimes not having any idea where we're going works out better than we could possibly have imagined. — Ann Patchett

In the future, he will try to say her name enough, but he never can. — Ann Patchett

Happiness compresses time, makes it dense and bright, pocketsized. — Ann Patchett

Gen was sleeping the sleep of the heavily drugged. — Ann Patchett

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

my mother knew that no woman thought she was beautiful, or beautiful enough, or beautiful in the right way. — Ann Patchett

Franny gave her sister a tired smile. "Oh, my love," she said. "What do the only children do?"

"We'll never have to know," Caroline said. — Ann Patchett

The world is full of things we're better off not knowing. — Ann Patchett

Have never subscribed to the notion of "writing what you know," at least not for myself. I don't know enough interesting things. — Ann Patchett

She was his wife in every way that mattered and that would save her. — Ann Patchett

Your guilt's got nothing on my guilt," Franny said. "Your guilt isn't even in the ballpark. — Ann Patchett

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. The — Ann Patchett

had I listened to no one, or only to the people who liked me, the workshop would have been a waste of time. — Ann Patchett

Gen, with his genius for languages, was often at a loss for what to say when left with only his own words. — Ann Patchett

You can't always trust what you think, what you know ... but you can always trust your nature. — Ann Patchett

sense trying to make him feel bad about it. She tilted back her glass and went past the gin for a second time. She — Ann Patchett

Teresa closed her eyes, waited, inhaled sonofabitch, exhaled sonofabitch. — Ann Patchett

Everyone knows everything eventually. — Ann Patchett

I was young and filled with a degree of self-interest that could rightly be called selfishness. Nothing was more important than the stories we wrote, — Ann Patchett

Maybe that was the definition of life everlasting: the belief that the next generation would carry your work forward. — Ann Patchett

Isn't that what everyone wants, just for a moment to be unencumbered? — Ann Patchett

I think the best vacation is the one that relieves me of my own life for a while and then makes me long for it again. — Ann Patchett

Instead, he was astonished by what he had: the chance to sit beside this woman in the late afternoon light while she read. — Ann Patchett

Until then I'll keep writing things down, both the things I make up and the things that have happened. It is the way I've learned to see my life. — Ann Patchett

Just because things hadn't gone the way I had planned didn't necessarily mean they had gone wrong. — Ann Patchett

It's easier to love a woman when you can't understand a word she's saying. — Ann Patchett

He was in love, and never had he felt such kindness towards another person. — Ann Patchett

Time applied equaled work completed. I — Ann Patchett

I wanted to eat her pain, take it into me and make it my own. — Ann Patchett

Maybe the private life wasn't forever. Maybe everyone got it for a little while and then spent the rest of their lives remembering. — Ann Patchett

Did you ever want to be a writer?" "No," she said, and she would have told him. "I only wanted to be a reader. — Ann Patchett

Because of her singing they all went away feeling moved, feeling comforted, feeling, perhaps, the slightest tremors of faith. — Ann Patchett

Further than five minutes ahead. But since I knew at the end of the week I couldn't go back, I called a lawyer. — Ann Patchett

Far outside the city the tree frogs were calling her, and the deep, rhythmic pulse of their voices set the blood flow to her heart. — Ann Patchett

Sometimes if there's a book you really want to read, you have to write it yourself. — Ann Patchett

It was nothing like Roxanne singing, where it seemed that everyone's heart would have to wait until she finished before it could beat again. — Ann Patchett

Even though I didn't know I was applying for the job, I have somehow become the spokesperson for independent book stores. — Ann Patchett

That's why you can eat cheesecake,' she said, and sighed. 'Because you don't. That's the way it works. — Ann Patchett

Write because you love the art and the discipline, not because you're looking to sell something. — Ann Patchett

No one should go into debt to study creative writing. It's simply not worth it. This is not medical school. — Ann Patchett

It makes you wonder. All the brilliant things we might have done with our lives if only we suspected we knew how. — Ann Patchett

But it is never about who has given what. That is not the way of gifts. This is not a business we are conducting. — Ann Patchett

She understood in life that a person was only allowed one trip down to hell. — Ann Patchett

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

Love was action. It came to you. It was not a choice. — Ann Patchett

An essential element of being a writer is learning whom to listen to and whom to ignore where your work is concerned. Every — Ann Patchett

The question is whether or not you choose to disturb the world around you, or if you choose to let it go on as if you had never arrived. — Ann Patchett

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

Always remember, any book you haven't read is still a new book. — Ann Patchett

You don't see many shy terrorists. — Ann Patchett

Oh, my love,' she said. 'What do the only children do?'

'We'll never have to know. — Ann Patchett

He couldn't help but like the look of children when they were sleeping. "Is — Ann Patchett

but sometimes all the right things are as useless as nothing at all. Life, — Ann Patchett

She would not attend the dinner (she did not eat before she sang) but would arrive at the end of the meal and perform six arias with her accompanist. — Ann Patchett

It was soaring, that voice, warm and complicated, utterly fearless. — Ann Patchett

and washing it off in the sink. "Finish up your lunch." "We're starting now?" "Good a — Ann Patchett

As if music were a separate thing you could drive yourself into, make love to, fuck. — Ann Patchett

The kind of love that offers its life so easily, so stupidly, is always the love that is not returned. — Ann Patchett

I will write my way into another life. — Ann Patchett

Maybe there would be a bad outcome for some of the others, but no one was going to shoot a soprano. — Ann Patchett

stopped by this. Even she, who knew next to nothing — Ann Patchett

Was an elegant woman in a city of so many thousands of elegant women ... — Ann Patchett

Learn to write by writing — Ann Patchett

She's growing up, Sister Evangeline said.
And I wanted to tell her no, I'm not. Everything is exactly the same. — Ann Patchett

Writing is a job, a talent, but it's also the place to go in your head. It is the imaginary friend you drink your tea with in the afternoon. — Ann Patchett

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

Maybe once he wished I was his daughter, because it was plain that my news was hard for him to hear. — Ann Patchett

So was the movie excruciating to watch because nothing was right, or was it excruciating to watch because, impossibly, some things were? Every — Ann Patchett

I believe, in my better moments, that there is a plan and things go not the way we want them to but the way they should. — Ann Patchett

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. — Ann Patchett

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

His heart woke him up to remind him that in life there was never a limitless number of nights. The — Ann Patchett

Half the things in this life I wish I could remember and the other half I wish I could forget. — Ann Patchett

Love is a rebellious bird that no one can tame — Ann Patchett

The thing you can count on in life is that Tennessee will always be scorching hot in August. — Ann Patchett

Every drop of rain hit the ground with such force it bounced back up again, giving the earth the appearance of something boiling. — Ann Patchett

Nobody is allowed to tell me where the limits of my imagination are. — Ann Patchett

It was a miraculous thing to be able to watch the person you love undetected, — Ann Patchett

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

Time could barely pull the second hand forward on the clock ... — Ann Patchett

I don't write for an audience, I don't think whether my book will sell, I don't sell it before I finish writing it. — Ann Patchett

The light was cut to lace by the trees that had grown so thick with leaves in the last few months. — Ann Patchett

If you grow corn or trade in pigs or write poetry then you go to Iowa City." "That's why I haven't been. — Ann Patchett

Why is it that we understand playing the cello will require work, but we attribute writing to the magic of inspiration? — Ann Patchett

Teresa kept sitting — Ann Patchett

It was not a musical voice, and yet it affected him like music. — Ann Patchett