Best Ann Patchett Quotations
- Everyone knows everything eventually. Eventually
- Never be so focused on what you're looking for that you overlook the thing you actually find. Actually Find
- It was too much work to remember things you might not have again, and so one by one they opened up their hands and let… Go
- Only a few of us are going to be willing to break our own hearts by trading in the living beauty of imagination for the… Beauty
- Home, bed, sleep, mother--who knew more beautiful words than these? Beautiful
- For a man to know what he has when he had it, that is what makes him a fortunate man. Fortunate
- To say it was a beautiful day would not begin to explain it. It was that day when the end of summer intersects perfectly with… Beautiful
- Listen she said, everything ends, every single relationship you will ever have in your lifetime is going to end.... I'll die, you'll die, you'll get… Always Going
- Reading fiction is important. It is a vital means of imagining a life other than our own, which in turn makes us more empathetic beings.… Ability
- Our friendship was like our writing in some ways. It was the only thing that was interesting about our otherwise dull lives. We were better… All
- I will write my way into another life. Another Life
- No one tells the truth to people they don't actually know, and if they do it is a horrible trait. Everyone wants something smaller, something… Actually Know
- There was no one clear point of loss. It happened over and over again in a thousand small ways and the only truth there was… Clear
- He used to say we all had a compass inside of us and what we needed to do was to find it and to follow… All
- The kind of love that offers its life so easily, so stupidly, is always the love that is not returned. Easily
- The quality of gifts depends on the sincerity of the giver. Depends
- If you've had good gin on a hot day in Southern California with the people you love, you forget Nebraska. The two things cannot coexist.… Better
- For the most part wisdom comes in chips rather than blocks. You have to be willing to gather them constantly, and from sources you never… Adding
- Sometimes love does not have the most honorable beginnings, and the endings, the endings will break you in half. It's everything in between we live… Beginnings