Ann PatchettBecause of her singing they all went away feeling moved, feeling comforted, feeling, perhaps, the slightest tremors of faith.361Hope
Ann PatchettEveryone knows everything eventually. ✨ Ann Patchett (2011). State of Wonder, p.161, Bloomsbury Publishing361Politics
Ann PatchettStaying within the world of a novel gives us the ability to be quiet and alone, two skills that are disappearing faster than the polar icecaps. ✨ Ashton Kutcher’s 'Raj… ▶373Reading
Ann PatchettReading fiction is important. It is a vital means of imagining a life other than our own, which in turn makes us more empathetic beings. Following complex story lines stretches ou… ▶353LifeReadingThought
Ann PatchettSometimes not having any idea where we’re going works out better than we could possibly have imagined.311ThoughtTime
Ann PatchettHe realized now he was only just beginning to see the full extent to which it was his destiny to follow, to walk blindly into fates he could never understand. In fate there was re… ▶344LoveTime
Ann PatchettYou can’t control what other people think about your art. Think about the part of yourself that you can control, which is your ability to be kind and loving and creative.334HumanityThought
Ann PatchettBut these last months had turned him around and now Gen saw there could be as much virtue in letting go of what you knew as there had ever been in gathering new information. He wo… ▶356Thought
Ann PatchettOne must not be shy where language is concerned. ✨ Ann Patchett (2011). State of Wonder, p.198, Bloomsbury Publishing312Politics
Ann PatchettPraise and criticism seem to me to operate exactly on the same level. If you get a great review, it's really thrilling for about ten minutes. If you get a bad review, it's really … ▶302Sadness
Ann PatchettIf someone loves you for what you can do then it's flattering, but why do you love them? If someone loves you for who you are then they have to know you, which means you have to k… ▶368Love
Ann PatchettOur friendship was like our writing in some ways. It was the only thing that was interesting about our otherwise dull lives. We were better off when we were together. Together we … ▶281HumanityThoughtTruth
Ann PatchettIt was never the right time or it was always the right time, depending on how you looked at it.369Time
Ann PatchettIt is said the sesta is one of the only gifts the Europeans brought to South America, but I imagine the Brazilians could have figured out how to sleep in the afternoon without hav… ▶3710Politics
Ann PatchettIt's easier to love a woman when you can't understand a word she's saying.303Love
Ann PatchettI was starting to wonder if I was ready to be a writer, not someone who won prizes, got published and was given the time and space to work, but someone who wrote as a course of li… ▶3610LifeReadingTime
Ann PatchettThe thing you can count on in life is that Tennessee will always be scorching hot in August. ✨ Ann Patchett (2009). Truth & Beauty: A Friendship, p.6, Harper Collins3610LifeTruth
Ann PatchettComing back is the thing that enables you to see how all the dots in your life are connected, how one decision leads you another, how one twist of fate, good or bad, brings you to… ▶348Life
Ann PatchettThat 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 late… ▶338ThoughtTimeTruth
Ann PatchettI 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 (2011). The Patron Saint of Liars, p.… ▶327Time
Ann PatchettTo say it was a beautiful day would not begin to explain it. It was that day when the end of summer intersects perfectly with the start of fall .... [p.218 ff.]252Thought
Ann PatchettThe 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 (2009). Bel Canto, … ▶253Truth
Ann PatchettMaybe the private life wasn't forever. Maybe everyone got it for a little while and then spent the rest of their lives remembering.286Life
Ann PatchettMaybe that was the definition of life everlasting: the belief that the next generation would carry your work forward. ✨ Ann Patchett (2012). Run, p.93, Bloomsbury Publishing… ▶242Life
Ann PatchettLove is a rebellious bird that no one can tame253Love
Ann PatchettI think people become consumed with selling a book when they need to be consumed with writing it.287HumanityReadingThought
Ann PatchettI think of Nashville as a very natural place. We're easy going, we are ourselves. There isn't a lot of preening or trying to impress. So it's an easy place to just be and that is … ▶232PoliticsThought
Ann PatchettThe kind of love that offers its life so easily, so stupidly, is always the love that is not returned.309LifeLove
Ann PatchettHe doesn’t know to want for more because nothing in his life has been as much as this...on that night he thinks that no one has ever had so much and only later will he know he sho… ▶276LifeThought
Ann PatchettIn this life we love who we love. There were some stories in which facts were very nearly irrelevant.232LifeLoveTruth
