Just because things hadn’t gone the way I’d planned didn’t necessarily mean they’d gone wrong.
Ann Patchett
490 notes
·
View notes
Just because things hadn’t gone the way I’d planned didn’t necessarily mean they’d gone wrong.
Ann Patchett
203 notes
·
View notes
Half the things in this life I wish I could remember and the other half I wish I could forget.
Ann Patchett, Commonwealth
356 notes
·
View notes
It’s not that I’m unaware of the suffering and soon-to-be-more suffering in the world...it’s that I know the suffering exists beside wet grass and a bright blue sky recently scrubbed by rain. The beauty and the suffering are equally true... (I need to) see it all and hold it for as long as I can.
— Ann Patchett, Tom Lake: A Novel (Harper, August 1, 2023) (via Book Review in Wall Street Journal, ‘Tom Lake’ Review: Ann Patchett’s Spotlight on the Past by Heller McAlpin, July 28, 2023)
934 notes
·
View notes
Just because things hadn’t gone the way I’d planned didn’t necessarily mean they’d gone wrong.
Ann Patchett
581 notes
·
View notes
Just because things hadn’t gone the way I’d planned didn’t necessarily mean they’d gone wrong.
Ann Patchett
170 notes
·
View notes
Just because things hadn’t gone the way I’d planned didn’t necessarily mean they’d gone wrong.
Ann Patchett
265 notes
·
View notes
Just because things hadn’t gone the way I’d planned didn’t necessarily mean they’d gone wrong.
Ann Patchett
190 notes
·
View notes
There is no explaining the simple truth about life: you will forget much of it. The painful things you were certain you’d never be able to let go? Now you’re not entirely sure when they happened, while the thrilling parts, the heart-stopping joys, splintered and scattered and become something else. Memories are then replaced by different joys and larger sorrows, and unbelievably, those things get knocked aside as well, until one morning you’re picking cherries with your three grown daughters and your husband goes by on the Gator and you are positive that this is all you’ve ever wanted in the world.
– Ann Patchett, Tom Lake
91 notes
·
View notes
Just because things hadnt gone the way I had planned didnt necessarily mean they had gone wrong.
Ann Patchett
475 notes
·
View notes
Just because things hadn’t gone the way I’d planned didn’t necessarily mean they’d gone wrong.
Ann Patchett
201 notes
·
View notes
Just because things hadn’t gone the way I’d planned didn’t necessarily mean they’d gone wrong.
Ann Patchett
44 notes
·
View notes
Just because things hadnt gone the way I had planned didnt necessarily mean they had gone wrong.
Ann Patchett
78 notes
·
View notes