In this life we love who we love. There were some stories in which facts were very nearly irrelevant.
Ann PatchettI can write for any magazine now, in any voice. I can do it in two hours, I could do it in my sleep, it's like writing a grocery list.
Ann PatchettThe light was cut to lace by the trees that had grown so thick with leaves in the last few months.
Ann PatchettComing back is the thing that enables you to see how all the dots in your life are connected, how one decision leads you another, how one twist of fate, good or bad, brings you to a door that later takes you to another door, which aided by several detours--long hallways and unforeseen stairwells--eventually puts you in the place you are now.
Ann Patchett