Sometimes love does not have the most honorable beginnings, and the endings, the endings will break you in half. It's everything in between we live for.
Ann PatchettFor the most part wisdom comes in chips rather than blocks. You have to be willing to gather them constantly, and from sources you never imagined to be probable. No one chip gives you the answer for everything. No one chip stays in the same place throughout your entire life. The secret is to keep adding voices, adding ideas, and moving things around as you put together your life. If youโre lucky, putting together your life is a process that will last through every single day youโre alive.
Ann PatchettBut we cannot unbraid the story of another personโs life and take out all the parts that donโt suit our purposes and put forth only the ones that do.
Ann PatchettSociety was nothing but a long, dull dinner party conversation in which one was forced to speak to one's partner on both the left and the right.
Ann PatchettSome people are born to make great art and others are born to appreciate it. โฆ It is a kind of talent in itself, to be an audience, whether you are the spectator in the gallery or you are listening to the voice of the world's greatest soprano. Not everyone can be the artist. There have to be those who witness the art, who love and appreciate what they have been privileged to see.
Ann Patchett