"I imagine you working on me as an……" — 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 page but a line that says x = whatever it is that is wrong with me."
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19 Quotes by Patricia McCormick
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This affliction--hope--is so cruel and stubborn, I believe it will kill me
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Simply to endure is to triumph.
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If you look hard enough, chaos turns into order the way letters turn into words.
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Then I place the blade next to the skine on my palm. A tingle arced across my scalp. The flood…
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Ama wipes her hands on her apron, looks up at our old roof with new eyes, and lifts the baby…
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When I have run out of words to copy, I look out the window at this strange place called India.…
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Trying to remember, I have learned, is like trying to clutch a handful of fog. Trying to forget, like trying…
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Instead, we linger over a luxury that costs nothing: Imagining what may be.
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Look. I have a strategy. Why expect anything? If you don’t expect anything, you don’t get disappointed.
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A man who doles out sweets, and slaps, with the same hand.
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Guard the portals of your mind.
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Inside my head I carry: my baby goat, my baby brother, my ama's face, our family's future. My bundle is…
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