Clutch Quote by Patricia McCormick

When I have run out of words to copy, I look out the window at this strange place called India. Inside the train, the…

— Patricia McCormick

If you look hard enough, chaos turns into order the way letters turn into words.

— Patricia McCormick

Then I place the blade next to the skine on my palm. A tingle arced across my scalp. The flood tipped up at me…

— Patricia McCormick

Guard the portals of your mind.

— Patricia McCormick

“Each year, nearly 12,000 Nepali girls are sold by their families, intentionally o r unwittingly, into a life of sexual slavery in the brothels…

— Patricia McCormick

“People who aren't asleep when Ruby comes around have to take sleeping pills. Everyone is afraid of those pills- even the substance- abuse guests.”

— Patricia McCormick

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…

— Patricia McCormick

This affliction--hope--is so cruel and stubborn, I believe it will kill me

— Patricia McCormick

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…

— Patricia McCormick

“Trying to remember, I have learned , is like trying to clutch a handful of fog. Trying to forget, like trying to hold back…

— Patricia McCormick

The power of storytelling is to free us from isolation, shame, and whatever the situation.

— Patricia McCormick

“My bundle is light. My burden is heavy.”

— Patricia McCormick