He used to say we all had a compass inside of us and what we needed to do was to find it and to follow it. Author: Ann Patchett Copy Quote More from Ann Patchett “Sometimes not having any idea where we're going works out better than we could …” “We all have ideas, sometimes good ones, not to mention the gift of emotional tu…” “But it never worked that way, and the sex just made her lonelier. I understood …” “I wanted to eat her pain, take it into me and make it my own.”