Catholicism is an obsessive-compulsive faith.
Ann PatchettMots clés run catholicism obsessive-compulsive-disorder ann-patchett
But it is never about who has given what. That is not the way of gifts. This is not a business we are conducting.
Ann PatchettMots clés gifts
Most of the time, we're loved for what we can do rather than for who we are. It's not such a bad thing, being loved for what you can do.'
'But the other is better.'
'Better. I hate to say better, but it is. 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.
Mots clés love
Sleep was a country for which he could not obtain a visa.
Ann PatchettMots clés sleep
To be truly brave, I believe a person has to be more than a little stupid. If you knew how hard or how dangerous something was going to be at the onset, chances are you'd never do it.
Ann PatchettFrom his endless work had come a great industry, great personal gain, but happiness? It was a word he would have puzzled over, unable to understand it's importance even while it's meaning was evident.
Ann PatchettOnly now, as I'm typing this, have I realized the only thing I wasn't thinking of was how lonely I was. I guess I was my old self for awhile there, my better self. Lately I've been completely obsessed by my loneliness: it colors (note I didn't say colours) everything I see these past few weeks. It's okay to be lonely, I know that, but I don't like the way it's become the thing by which I measure everything else. I can't seem to try to not be lonely: it only seems to happen accidentally
Ann PatchettThe process of putting the thing you value most in the world out for the assessment of strangers is a confidence-shaking business even in the best of times.
Ann PatchettGAWKING IS A LOOK stronger than a stare. The gawk was full of brazen curiosity, pity, and fear, every unattractive human emotion rolled into one unflattering facial expression.
Ann PatchettNothing comforted Sabine like long division. That was how she had passed time waiting for Phan and then Parsifal to come back from their tests. She figured the square root of the date while other people knit and read. Sabine blamed much of the world's unhappiness on the advent of calculators.
Ann PatchettMots clés mathematics
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