Quote by Ann Patchett Download Open image ““At least she was not a tall woman. She was a pixie, a pocket Venus.”” — Ann Patchett ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“Her kind was supposed to be irresistibly alluring to humans. She was the humanoid equivalent of a Venus flytrap.” — Sarah Beth Durst Copy Share Image
“She was a slightly built woman, narrow of hip. He was not a small man.” — Catherine Anderson Copy Share Image
“I should have realized that somebody that pretty was dangerous. She was like a freaking walking Venus flytrap.” — Tara A. Fuller Copy Share Image
“She was wrapped in my jacket, almost swallowed by it. You never realize how small a woman is until she wears your clothes.” — James Russell Lingerfelt Copy Share Image
“Not Diana herself, although this was more of a Venus after all, could have done a graceful thing more gracefully. ” — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
“I may be taller than her on my knees. Does she need a man she can climb?” — Carol Maloney Scott Copy Share Image
“(Why did she think tall people couldn’t be crazy? Because they looked like they ruled the world?” — Liane Moriarty Copy Share Image
“Sizewise, she's always been just smaller than me. But I think of her and I feel like she's as big as the world.” — Patrick Ness Copy Share Image
“She had a tall bearing and a tall voice and a tall manner, and was tall in every respect except height. Amazingly, she'd apparently… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“She doesn’t stand up because her legs are too short. She’s a very bad figure.” — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“She was a strange, unsettled planet that had had once sustained life. She was a language that I had thought I almost understood even… — Miriam Toews 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