Coming back is the thing that enables you to see how all the dots in your life are connected. Ann Patchett More Quotes by Ann Patchett More Quotes From Ann Patchett Praise and criticism seem to me to operate exactly on the same level. If you get a great review, it's really thrilling for about ten minutes. If you get a bad review, it's really crushing for ten minutes. Either way, you go on. Ann Patchett crush criticism goes-on It was too much work to remember things you might not have again, and so one by one they opened up their hands and let them go. Ann Patchett too-much might hands I read books I hate all the time, and I don't mention them or talk about them. Ann Patchett i-hate hate book I have been accused of being a Pollyanna, but I think there are plenty of people dealing with the darker side of human nature, and if I am going to write about people who are kind and generous and loving and thoughtful, so what? In my life I have met astonishingly good people. Ann Patchett thoughtful writing thinking Home, bed, sleep, mother--who knew more beautiful words than these? Ann Patchett mother sleep beautiful 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 winning love-you two That's important to me, to recommend books. Ann Patchett important book If you're trying to find out what's coming next, turn off everything you own that has an OFF switch and listen. Ann Patchett turns next trying shame should be reserved for the things we choose to do, not the circumstances that life puts on us Ann Patchett shame should circumstances But we cannot unbraid the story of another person’s life and take out all the parts that don’t suit our purposes and put forth only the ones that do. Ann Patchett suits purpose stories You are the same person in every aspect of your life, and you have to be a responsible person in every aspect of your life. Ann Patchett responsible-person aspect responsible I think the best vacation is the one that relieves me of my own life for a while and then makes me long for it again. Ann Patchett vacation long thinking Using your imagination is the one time in life you can really go anywhere. Ann Patchett one-time imagination Whenever I saw her, I felt like I had been living in another country, doing moderately well in another language, and then she showed up speaking English and suddenly I could speak with all the complexity and nuance that I hadn't realized was gone. With Lucy I was a native speaker. Ann Patchett nuance gone country I was always on time, I did my work to exact specifications, I spoke when spoken to. Ann Patchett specifications spokes Maybe that was the definition of life everlasting: the belief that the next generation would carry your work forward. Ann Patchett next generations definitions Love is a rebellious bird that no one can tame Ann Patchett rebellious love-is bird Maybe the private life wasn't forever. Maybe everyone got it for a little while and then spent the rest of their lives remembering. Ann Patchett forever littles remember You should not have assault rifles in your home. Ann Patchett rifles should home If someone loves you for what you can do then it's flattering, but why do you love them? If someone loves you for who you are then they have to know you, which means you have to know them. Ann Patchett one-love love-you mean
