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Ama wipes her hands on her apron, looks up at our old roof with new eyes, and lifts the baby from his basket. She twirls him in the air, her skirts flying around her ankles the way the clouds swirl ar...

Patricia McCormick

Ama wipes her hands on her apron, looks up at our old roof with new eyes, and lifts the baby from his basket. She twirls him in the air, her skirts flying around her ankles the way the clouds swirl ar...

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In the evening, the brilliant yellow pumpkin blossoms will close, drunk on sunshine, while the milky white jasmine will open their slender throats and sip the chill Himalayan air.At night, low hearths...

Patricia McCormick

In the evening, the brilliant yellow pumpkin blossoms will close, drunk on sunshine, while the milky white jasmine will open their slender throats and sip the chill Himalayan air.At night, low hearths...

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About Author
Pat McCormick may refer to:

Pat McCormick (actor) (1927–2005), appeared in Smokey and the Bandit, wrote for The Tonight Show
Patricia McCormick (author) (born 1956), American journalist and writer of realistic fiction for young adults
Patricia McCormick (bullfighter) (1929–2013)
Pat McCormick (diver) (1930–2023), Olympic gold medalist
Pat McCormick (television personality) (born c. 1933), Oakland, California area television weatherman

When I have run out of words to copy, I look out the window at this strange place called India. Inside the train, the people around me are snoring. I don't understand how they can close their eyes whe...

Patricia McCormick

When I have run out of words to copy, I look out the window at this strange place called India. Inside the train, the people around me are snoring. I don't understand how they can close their eyes whe...

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Back at the hut, all my sister, they start to cry. No crying, my aunt says, very strict. You cry only in your mind.But later, when everyone else asleep, I hear my aunt, her tears, they fall like rain.

Patricia McCormick

Back at the hut, all my sister, they start to cry. No crying, my aunt says, very strict. You cry only in your mind.But later, when everyone else asleep, I hear my aunt, her tears, they fall like rain.

You show you care, you die.You show you fear, you die.You show nothing, maybe you live.

Patricia McCormick

You show you care, you die.You show you fear, you die.You show nothing, maybe you live.

Tags: fear of death, fearlessness

My bundle is light.My burden is heavy.

Patricia McCormick

My bundle is light.My burden is heavy.

Look. I have a strategy. Why expect anything? If you don’t expect anything, you don’t get disappointed.

Patricia McCormick

Look. I have a strategy. Why expect anything? If you don’t expect anything, you don’t get disappointed.

Tags: disappointment, expectations, hope, life, strategy

Long time I been on my own, but now really I'm alone. I survive the killing, the starving, all the hate of the Khmer Rouge, but I think maybe now I will die of this, of broken heart.

Patricia McCormick

Long time I been on my own, but now really I'm alone. I survive the killing, the starving, all the hate of the Khmer Rouge, but I think maybe now I will die of this, of broken heart.

Instead, we linger over a luxury that costs nothing: Imagining what may be.

Patricia McCormick

Instead, we linger over a luxury that costs nothing: Imagining what may be.

I inhale deeply, drinking the warmth in the scent of mountain sunshine, a warmth that smells of freshly turned soil and clean laundry baking in the sun.

Patricia McCormick

I inhale deeply, drinking the warmth in the scent of mountain sunshine, a warmth that smells of freshly turned soil and clean laundry baking in the sun.

Simply to endure is to triumph.

Patricia McCormick

Simply to endure is to triumph.

Inside my head I carry:my baby goat, my baby brother, my ama's face, our family's future. My bundle is light. My burden is heavy.

Patricia McCormick

Inside my head I carry:my baby goat, my baby brother, my ama's face, our family's future. My bundle is light. My burden is heavy.

That first phrase-please bless me, Father, for I have sinned-was so humbling and so total, Matt always felt a kind of absolution as soon as he said it

Patricia McCormick

That first phrase-please bless me, Father, for I have sinned-was so humbling and so total, Matt always felt a kind of absolution as soon as he said it

Then I place the blade next to the skine on my palm. A tingle arced across my scalp. The flood tipped up at me and my body spiraled away. Then I was on the ceiling looking down, waiting to see what wo...

Patricia McCormick

Then I place the blade next to the skine on my palm. A tingle arced across my scalp. The flood tipped up at me and my body spiraled away. Then I was on the ceiling looking down, waiting to see what wo...

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All the time you fighting, you think only of how to survive. All the time you survive, you wonder why you don’t die. But now my life can be something different. Now, in America, I don’t have to fight....

Patricia McCormick

All the time you fighting, you think only of how to survive. All the time you survive, you wonder why you don’t die. But now my life can be something different. Now, in America, I don’t have to fight....

This affliction--hope--is so cruel and stubborn, I believe it will kill me

Patricia McCormick

This affliction--hope--is so cruel and stubborn, I believe it will kill me

Hey, S.T., Sydney says finally. I don't budge. She nudges me with her elbow. You want to know something?I still can't look up. But I nod.It's not your fault either. She says this like it's not big dea...

Patricia McCormick

Hey, S.T., Sydney says finally. I don't budge. She nudges me with her elbow. You want to know something?I still can't look up. But I nod.It's not your fault either. She says this like it's not big dea...

Tags: release, relief, truth

Guard the portals of your mind.

Patricia McCormick

Guard the portals of your mind.

Auntie says that in the city, people gather and pay money to see beautiful women and handsome men put on a show. The people in the show are called movie stars.

Patricia McCormick

Auntie says that in the city, people gather and pay money to see beautiful women and handsome men put on a show. The people in the show are called movie stars.

Then I placed the blade next to the skin on my palm. A tingle arched across my scalp. The floor tipped up at me and my body spilled away. Then I was on the ceiling looking down, waiting to see what wo...

Patricia McCormick

Then I placed the blade next to the skin on my palm. A tingle arched across my scalp. The floor tipped up at me and my body spilled away. Then I was on the ceiling looking down, waiting to see what wo...