#ann patchett

[thoughtkick]

Just because things hadnt gone the way I had planned didnt necessarily mean they had gone wrong.

Ann Patchett

[perfectquote]

Just because things hadn’t gone the way I’d planned didn’t necessarily mean they’d gone wrong.

Ann Patchett

[aseaofquotes]

Ann Patchett, Tom Lake

[resqectable]

Just because things hadn’t gone the way I’d planned didn’t necessarily mean they’d gone wrong.

Ann Patchett

[quotefeeling]

Just because things hadn’t gone the way I’d planned didn’t necessarily mean they’d gone wrong.

Ann Patchett

[qvotext]

Just because things hadn’t gone the way I had planned didn’t necessarily mean they had gone wrong.

Ann Patchett

[quotemadness]

Just because things hadn’t gone the way I had planned didn’t necessarily mean they had gone wrong.

Ann Patchett

[perfectfeelings]

Just because things hadn’t gone the way I’d planned didn’t necessarily mean they’d gone wrong.

Ann Patchett

[novlr]

“Writing is a miserable, awful business. Stay with it. It is better than anything in the world.” — Ann Patchett

[thehopefulquotes]

Just because things hadn’t gone the way I’d planned didn’t necessarily mean they’d gone wrong.

Ann Patchett

[wordscanbeenough]

Half the things in this life I wish I could remember and the other half I wish I could forget.

Ann Patchett, Commonwealth

[thoughtkick]

Just because things hadn’t gone the way I’d planned didn’t necessarily mean they’d gone wrong.

Ann Patchett

[dk-thrive]

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)

[qvotable]

It makes you wonder. All the brilliant things we might have done with our lives if only we suspected we knew how.

Ann Patchett; Bel Canto

[sunsetquotes]

It makes you wonder. All the brilliant things we might have done with our lives if only we suspected we knew how.

Ann Patchett; Bel Canto

[surqrised]

Just because things hadn’t gone the way I’d planned didn’t necessarily mean they’d gone wrong.

Ann Patchett