I don't experience much loneliness, oddly. Sometimes I have thought I was lonely and it turned out I was in reality wanting a snack, just like sometimes I have thought I was mad and it turned out I was actually… — Patricia Lockwood Copy Share Image
“The desire to describe voice, gesture, skin color, is a desire to eat, take over, make into part of the pattern. I am happy… — Patricia Lockwood Copy Share Image
“And for you, I think, a religious life,' she said, a calm certainty all over her crisscrossed face. She didn't even bother with a… — Patricia Lockwood Copy Share Image
“Above all else, he loves trilogies. There has never been a trilogy he didn't like, and if you don't understand why, I have three… — Patricia Lockwood Copy Share Image
“I'm not interested in heaven unless my anger gets to go there too. I'm not interested in a happy eternity unless I get to… — Patricia Lockwood Copy Share Image
“Part of what you have to figure out in this life is, Who would I be if I hadn’t been frightened? What hurt me,… — Patricia Lockwood Copy Share Image
Here's what I think: the best author photo ever taken is the author photo of you holding your extra-large engulfing rabbit and looking straight… — Patricia Lockwood Copy Share Image
“The question for someone who was raised in a closed circle and then leaves it, is what is the us, and what is the… — Patricia Lockwood Copy Share Image
The only thing that dictates whether I respond to someone is whether I have something interesting to say in return. I respond to people… — Patricia Lockwood Copy Share Image
“He clenched his small fist, bellowed his rage to the heavens, and resolved to never again recognize the authority of any man on earth.” — Patricia Lockwood Copy Share Image
“As they perform this ritual, I almost have to turn away, thinking again what a boomeranging, out-of-body experience it is to watch a religious… — Patricia Lockwood Copy Share Image
“and we lived in Stuart, Florida, which made the dubious claim of being the Sailfish Capital of the World.” — Patricia Lockwood Copy Share Image
