“I think that she is everything I have ever loved about our religion distilled down to fit into one person, everything about… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
“You don't find strangers declaring themselves to you awkward?' But then she wouldn't, would she? People must fall in love with her… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
“...writing stories was always a bit like falling in love with a stranger and running off to Marrakech for a long weekend.… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
“I remember complaining one night on the phone to my mother that we spent too much of our time worrying about love… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
“...it was a miraculous thing to be able to watch the person you love undetected,” — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
Thank God Roxane Coss had not fallen in love with one of the Russians. She doubted they could make it up the… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
“...that it was so completely their own that it would have been pointless to even try to speak of it to someone… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
“These people who detain us so pleasantly may decide to shoot us after all. It is a possibility. And if that is… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
I can't write the book I want to write, but I can and will write the book I am capable of writing. — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
“Without worry to protect me, every thought that came into my mind received real attention.” — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
“I wrote the last sentence of The Patron Saint of Liars in early April and stumbled out of my apartment and into the beautiful… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
“In the future, he will try to say her name enough, but he never can.” — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
My novels are very much the same, as I think many people's novels are. — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
“He was in love, and never had he felt such kindness towards another person.” — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
If I was a waitress, I was too tired at the end of the day when I came home to try to write. — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
“She didn't know how to hate her mother yet, but every time she left her father crying in the airport she came that much… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
“When you think of love you think as an American. You must think like a Russian. It is a more expansive view.' 'Americans havea… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
