Quotes by : Ann Patchett

Isn't that what everyone wants, just for a moment to be unencumbered?

Coming back is the thing that enables you to see how all the dots in your life are connected, how one....

The process of putting the thing you value most in the world out for the assessment of strangers is a....

Maybe everyone does have a novel in them, perhaps even a great one. I don't believe it, but for the purposes....

The sleep he went back to was never the one he left.

The entire time Albie followed Beverly around the house doing what the children referred to as “the....

She's growing up," Sister Evangeline said.And I wanted to tell her no, I'm not. Everything is exactly....

He is fifteen and ten and five. He is an instant. He is flying back to her. He is hers again. She feels....

Some children were lucky enough to have their Potter novels banned by witch-hunting school boards and....

But it is never about who has given what. That is not the way of gifts. This is not a business we are....