Hope is a horrible thing, you know. It's a plague. It's like walking around with a fishhook in your mouth and someone just keep pulling it and pulling it."
STATE OF WONDER

Ann Patchett

Stichwörter: death grief missing-persons



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shame should be reserved for the things we choose to do, not the circumstances that life puts on us

Ann Patchett


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If you're trying to find out what's coming next, turn off everything you own that has an OFF switch and listen.

Ann Patchett


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If someone gave you a device with which you could see entire worlds just by holding it in front of your eyes, worlds of such beauty and complexity that they took your breath away...wouldn't you want to show this device to everyone you knew?

Ann Patchett


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Carmen prayed hard. She prayed while standing near the priest in hopes it would give her request extra credibility. What she prayed for was nothing. She prayed that God would look on them and see the beauty of their existence and leave them alone.

Ann Patchett


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Perhaps you are right. In another setting it would be ridiculous, too grand. In another setting it would not happen because you are a famous woman and at best I would shake your famous hand for one second while you stepped into your car after a performance. But in this place I hear you sing every day. In this place I watch you eat your dinner, and what I feel in my heart is love. There is no point in not telling you that. These people who detain us so pleasantly may decide to shoot us after all. It is a possibility. And if that is the case, then why should I carry this love with me to the other world? Why not give to you what is yours?

Ann Patchett

Stichwörter: love



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In this life we love who we love. There were some stories in which facts were very nearly irrelevant.

Ann Patchett

Stichwörter: love



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People souldn't be allowed to decide that they wished to remain a hostage

Ann Patchett


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His own daughters constantly presented him with a mathematical impossibility, one minute running around the house wearing pajamas covered in images of the blankly staring Hello, Kitty, the next minute announcing they had dates who would be picking them up at seven. He believed his daughters were not old enough to date and yet clearly by the standards of this country they were old enough to be members of a terrorist organization

Ann Patchett


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You don't see many shy terrorists.

Ann Patchett


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