You can't be a good person when you're writing and a bad person to your husband or a bad friend.
Ann PatchettSometimes not having any idea where weโre going works out better than we could possibly have imagined.
Ann PatchettHe realized now he was only just beginning to see the full extent to which it was his destiny to follow, to walk blindly into fates he could never understand. In fate there was reward, in turning over one's heart to God there was a magnificence that lay beyond description. At the moment one is sure that all is lost, look at what is gained!
Ann PatchettThe thing you can count on in life is that Tennessee will always be scorching hot in August.
Ann Patchett