Writing is a miserable, awful business. Stay with it. It is better than anything in the world.
Ann PatchettThe light was cut to lace by the trees that had grown so thick with leaves in the last few months.
Ann PatchettHope is a horrible thing, you know. I don't know who decided to package hope as a virtue because it's not. It's a plague. Hope is like walking around with a fishhook in your mouth and somebody just keeps pulling it and pulling it.
Ann Patchett