"Trying to remember, I have learned, is like……" — 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 the monsoon."
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Patricia McCormick
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19 Quotes by Patricia McCormick
Patricia McCormick has 19 quotes on this site.
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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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I imagine you working on me as an algebra problem, reducing me to fractions, crossing out common denominators, until there's…
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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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Homosexuality is an ugly sin, repugnant to those who find no temptation in it, as well as to many past…
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When a man dies he clutches in his hands only that which he has given away during his lifetime.
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The drivers have one foot on the brake, one on the clutch and one on the throttle.
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Christ prayed for those that crucified Him: 'Father, count not this sin against them; they know not what they do.'…
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For most of us, karma and negative emotions obscure the ability to see our own intrinsic nature, and the nature…
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Time heals all and heels hurt to walk in, but they go with the clutch that you carry your lip…
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If you see things as in eternity, you are less a prey to the pain of their passing, and so…
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When the heart is cut or cracked or broken Do not clutch it Let the wound lie open Let the…
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Nothing can be more depressing than to expose, naked to the light of thought, the hideous growth of argot. Indeed…
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