"This affliction--hope--is so cruel and stubborn, I believe……" — Patricia McCormick

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

— Patricia McCormick

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19 Quotes by Patricia McCormick

Patricia McCormick has 19 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

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…
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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More Affliction Quotes

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The pencil of the Holy Ghost hath labored more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon. — Francis Bacon
The true believer is rewarded in every thing, even in affliction. — Abu Bakr
Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested… — James A. Baldwin
As threshing separates the wheat from the chaff, so does affliction purify virtue. — Christian Nestell Bovee
Affliction's sons are brothers in distress; A brother to relieve, how exquisite the bliss! — Robert Burns
God's way of answering the Christian's prayer for more patience, experience, hope and love often is to put him into… — Richard Cecil
No man is more unhappy than the one who is never in adversity; the greatest affliction of life is never… — Victor Hugo
What I point out to you is only that you shouldn't allow yourselves to be confused by others. Act when… — Unknown Author
A characteristic of those who are still progressing in blessed mourning is temperance and silence of the lips; and of… — John Climacus
Quiet and sincere sympathy is often the most welcome and efficient consolation to the afflicted. Said a wise man to… — Tryon Edwards
In times of affliction we commonly meet with the sweetest experiences of the love of God. — John Bunyan
When old companions, old lusts, and sins crowd in upon you, and when you feel that you are ready to… — Robert Murray M'Cheyne

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