"If you look hard enough, chaos turns into……" — Patricia McCormick

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

— Patricia McCormick

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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
Simply to endure is to triumph.
Then I place the blade next to the skine on my palm. A tingle arced across my scalp. The flood…
Ama wipes her hands on her apron, looks up at our old roof with new eyes, and lifts the baby…
When I have run out of words to copy, I look out the window at this strange place called India.…
I imagine you working on me as an algebra problem, reducing me to fractions, crossing out common denominators, until there's…
Trying to remember, I have learned, is like trying to clutch a handful of fog. Trying to forget, like trying…
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…

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We have to rethink our whole energy approach, which is hard to do because we're so dependent on oil, not… — Margaret Atwood
Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit. — Henry Adams
Chaos was the law of nature; Order was the dream of man. — Henry Adams
Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance,… — Melody Beattie
To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now. — Samuel Beckett
Every passion borders on the chaotic, but the collector's passion borders on the chaos of memories. — Walter Benjamin
We learn from our gardens to deal with the most urgent question of the time: How much is enough? — Wendell Berry
The task of art today is to bring chaos into order. — Theodor Adorno
The battlefield is a scene of constant chaos. The winner will be the one who controls that chaos, both his… — Napoleon Bonaparte
A society deadened by a smothering network of laws while finding release in moral chaos is not likely to be… — Robert Bork
I was brought up in a household of chaos and I never felt stable at home. — Christina Aguilera
I have spoken honestly about being born into a home where there was discord and chaos. I saw my mom… — Christina Aguilera

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