Patricia McCormick Quotes

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• This affliction--hope--is so cruel and stubborn, I believe it will kill me
• Simply to endure is to triumph.
• If you look hard enough, chaos turns into order the way letters turn into words.
• Then I place the blade next to the skine on my palm. A tingle arced across my scalp. The flood tipped up at me and…
• Ama wipes her hands on her apron, looks up at our old roof with new eyes, and lifts the baby from his basket. She twirls…
• When I have run out of words to copy, I look out the window at this strange place called India. Inside the train, the people…
• I imagine you working on me as an algebra problem, reducing me to fractions, crossing out common denominators, until there's nothing left on the page…
• Trying to remember, I have learned, is like trying to clutch a handful of fog. Trying to forget, like trying to hold back the monsoon.
• Instead, we linger over a luxury that costs nothing: Imagining what may be.
• Look. I have a strategy. Why expect anything? If you don’t expect anything, you don’t get disappointed.
• A man who doles out sweets, and slaps, with the same hand.
• Guard the portals of your mind.
• Inside my head I carry: my baby goat, my baby brother, my ama's face, our family's future. My bundle is light. My burden is heavy.
• Rochelle," she calls out, still looking at me. "Is there anyone down at the desk? I need something." I'm too startled to move. Is she…
• Then I placed the blade next to the skin on my palm. A tingle arched across my scalp. The floor tipped up at me and…
• Long time I been on my own, but now really I'm alone. I survive the killing, the starving, all the hate of the Khmer Rouge,…
• Sometimes when we’re in situations where we feel we’re not in control, we do things, especially things that take a lot of energy, as a…
• The power of storytelling is to free us from isolation, shame, and whatever the situation.
• I think young adults get a bad rap for being self-absorbed and self-centered. My experience going around the United States and speaking in schools is…

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