Quotes by : Ann Patchett

... the story of my marriage, which is the great joy and astonishment of my life, is too much like a....

He was so close to her then that they owned every molecule of air in the tiny room and the air grew heavy....

It is said the sesta is one of the only gifts the Europeans brought to South America, but I imagine the....

...was an elegant woman in a city of so many thousands of elegant women...

He realized now he was only just beginning to see the full extent to which it was his destiny to follow,....

The quality of gifts depends on the sincerity of the giver.

Always remember, any book you haven’t read is still a new book.

...as if the world had become a giant train station in which everything was delayed until further notice.....

The kind of love that offers its life so easily, so stupidly is always the love that is not returned.....

The two sisters were connected by neither love nor mutual affinity but by a very small bathroom that....