...And there it went, the burden of her lifetime, taken. Auteur: Ann Patchett Copy Quote More from Ann Patchett “But these last months had turned him around and now Gen saw there could be as m…” “For a man to know what he has when he had it, that is what makes him a fortunat…” “I saw it myself. An endless succession of mongrels and malingerers, the laziest…” “If someone gave you a device with which you could see entire worlds just by hol…”