“She didn't know how to hate her mother yet, but every time she left her father crying in the airport she came… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
“Clearly he needed a father, but some other father, any other father, would have been preferable.” — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
“Like her mother and all her mother's people before her, those inexhaustible blondes who staked their claims in verdant prairies, Marina was… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
“stayed with her, that she would think, even for an instant, of not shooting her father as failing him” — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
The '70s were a different time as far as parenting was concerned. People left their kids in the car with the windows… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
“my mother knew that no woman thought she was beautiful, or beautiful enough, or beautiful in the right way.” — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
“He had lived his life as a good father but now Oscar Mendoza saw again his life as a boy. A daughter… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
“Fix was starting to see that this was the way life worked once you got older and the kids came; there wasn't… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
“The entire time Albie followed Beverly around the house doing what the children referred to as “the stripper soundtrack”: Boom chicka-boom, boom-boom… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
“I wanted two girls," she said. "You and your sister. I wanted exactly what I had. Other people's children are too hard” — 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
“Whenever I kissed a boy in school, cut a day of classes, argued with my mother, over what I can’t remember, it… — 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
