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 PatchettNo matter how much we love a book, the experience of reading it isn't complete until we can give it to someone who will love it as much as we do
Ann PatchettMaybe there would be a bad outcome for some of the others, but no one was going to shoot a soprano.
Ann PatchettI believe, in my better moments, that there is a plan and things go not the way we want them to but the way they should.
Ann Patchett