Ann Patchett

Truth & Beauty

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  • María José Evia H.has quoted2 years ago
    he world is saved through deeds, not prayer, because what is prayer but a kind of worry?
  • María José Evia H.has quoted2 years ago
    . I was stunned by the rawness of her pain. I came to understand that night in the sports bar, safe from the blinding rain, that I could not worry about Lucy anymore. I knew then it was just too enormous for me to manage and that worrying about her would swamp me
  • María José Evia H.has quoted2 years ago
    Lucy tried constantly to find and fully participate in any joy that was available to her, but still she was pulled into scorching bouts of depression
  • María José Evia H.has quoted2 years ago
    if you don’t want to engage with someone, don’t engage with them, ever, on any level, and they will go away.
  • María José Evia H.has quoted2 years ago
    The point isn’t to hear it and then reject it. The point is to cross to the other side of the street when you see him coming
  • María José Evia H.has quoted2 years ago
    Poetry defined her, saved her. There were times it seemed to be the only thing around that made perfect sense.
  • María José Evia H.has quoted2 years ago
    Grief isn’t something to ‘be gotten through.’ It has no life of its own like that, it’s just plain and simply there. It’s one of the things which tells us we’re human.
  • María José Evia H.has quoted2 years ago
    . Based on my limited personal experience, I had thought it was a given that plastic surgeons had good magazine
  • María José Evia H.has quoted2 years ago
    MY FAMILY, like every family, had its own particular set of insanities about money, but we had enough
  • María José Evia H.has quoted2 years ago
    The compromise was that I would do all the cleaning and cooking and that neither of us would complain about it, which suited both of us fin
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