Ann Patchett Quote

I used to be a cool chick but I'm not anymore.

All women do have a different sense of sexuality, or sense of fun, or sense of like what's sexy or cool or tough.

We're entering a new world in which data may be more important than software.

Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age.

Handle a book as a bee does a flower, extract its sweetness but do not damage it.

Oh honey, someday a real man is going to make you see stars and you won't even be looking at the sky." Excerpt from Grace Willow's Last Minute Bride

Success is hard, rewards are scant and the glory not always there.

I used to wonder if it was God's plan that I should be alone for so much of my life. But I found peace. I found happiness within people and the world.

You know all that sympathy that you feel for an abused child who suffers without a good mom or dad to love and care for them? Well, they don't stay children forever. No one magically becomes an adult...

The humanitarian philosophies that have been developed (sometimes under some religious banner and invariably in the face of religious opposition) are human inventions, as the name implies - and our sp...