Ann Patchett

Because of her singing they all went away feeling moved, feeling comforted, feeling, perhaps, the slightest tremors of faith. ↗

— Ann Patchett

#faith

Maybe that was the definition of life everlasting: the belief that the next generation would carry your work forward. ↗

— Ann Patchett

#life

... the story of my marriage, which is the great joy and astonishment of my life, is too much like a fairy tale, the German kind, unsweetened by Disney. ↗

— Ann Patchett

#marriage #humor

If you've had good gin on a hot day in Southern California with the people you love, you forget Nebraska. The two things cannot coexist. The stronger, better of the two wins. ↗

— Ann Patchett

#nebraska #love

As if music were a separate thing you could drive yourself into, make love to, fuck. ↗

— Ann Patchett

#love

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

— Ann Patchett

#paris #beauty

The more we are willing to separate from distraction and step into the open arms of boredom, the more writing will get on the page. ↗

— Ann Patchett

#life

He was so close to her then that they owned every molecule of air in the tiny room and the air grew heavy with their desire and worked to move them together. ↗

— Ann Patchett

#desire #love #love

It's easier to love a woman when you can't understand a word she's saying. ↗

— Ann Patchett

#women #love

Most of the time we're loved for what we can do rather than for who we are. ↗

— Ann Patchett

#love