Patricia Mccormick Quotes

#1. 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

#2. No one's noticed. So much is destroyed, we can't be bothered.

Doris Lessing

#3. There is a meaning of life but I've been sworn to secrecy.

Brian Spellman

#4. I imagine you working on me as an algebra problem, reducing me to fractions, crossing out common denominators, until there's nothing left on the page but a line that says x = whatever it is that is wrong with me.

Patricia McCormick

#5. Running through the grey-eyed dawn with last night's trash in mind, the brown dog scuttles through fluted gates while birds sing on above the world about a bit of fallen cheese, the shish kebob he ate and all the vagaries of plates

Andre Alexis

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

Patricia McCormick

#7. Trying to remember, I have learned, is like trying to clutch a handful of fog. Trying to forget, like trying to hold back the monsoon.

Patricia McCormick

#8. 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 would happen next ...

Patricia McCormick

#9. 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

#10. Guard the portals of your mind.

Patricia McCormick

#11. 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 around the mountain cap
her laughter fresh and strange and musical to my ears.

Patricia McCormick

#12. People who aren't asleep when Ruby comes around have to take sleeping pills. Everyone is afraid of those pills- even the substance- abuse guests.

Patricia McCormick

#13. A man who doles out sweets, and slaps, with the same hand.

Patricia McCormick

#14. The power of storytelling is to free us from isolation, shame, and whatever the situation.

Patricia McCormick

#15. We can't bankrupt Exxon. But we can politically and morally bankrupt them.

Bill McKibben

#16. Sometimes when we're in situations where we feel we're not in control, we do things, especially things that take a lot of energy, as a way of making ourselves feel we have some power.

Patricia McCormick

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

Patricia McCormick

#18. Simply to endure is to triumph.

Patricia McCormick

#19. We...advance toward a state of society in which not only each man but every impulse in each man claims carte blanche.

C.S. Lewis

#20. 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

#21. she is bent under the weight of her burden

Patricia McCormick

#22. If you look hard enough, chaos turns into order the way letters turn into words.

Patricia McCormick

#23. I don't want to go slumming in somebody else's pain just to write a book. I want to go into those darker places to shine a light on that experience and come out with a story that validates the human spirit.

Patricia McCormick

#24. I think young adults get a bad rap for being self-absorbed and self-centered. My experience going around the United States and speaking in schools is that teenagers here are very interested in the fate of their peers around the world.

Patricia McCormick

#25. 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

#26. 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 deal. Like it's nothing.
But it's everything.

Patricia McCormick

#27. This affliction
hope
is so cruel and stubborn, I believe it will kill me

Patricia McCormick

#28. 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 when there is so much to see.

Patricia McCormick

#29. Don't say I didn't warn you. One of these days you're going to take in a stray that'll really break your heart."
~Ed

Kate Douglas

#30. I think most writers' houses are disappointing. What's much more atmospheric and interesting are the places they wrote about.

Joseph Kanon

#31. Besides, she was alone and those who drink alone, she decided, had no need of any impediments to the pure act of consumption.

Alan Goodare

#32. I remember when I first found out I was having a boy, I became obsessed with buying boys' clothes. Then came my daughter, and I was obsessed with buying girls' clothes. Everything looks 10 million times cuter when it's teeny-tiny.

Kourtney Kardashian

#33. My son jokes with me that he thinks I Google the word 'sad' to come up with book ideas.

Patricia McCormick

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

Patricia McCormick

#35. Most of all, I am afraid of life outside this place

Patricia McCormick