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Category: Ann Patchett

…was an elegant woman in a city of so many thousands of elegant women…

…the terrible crumple and blanch of a lie come undone…

ann-patchett, lie, lies, run, truth

She didn’t know how to hate her mother yet, but every time she left her father crying in the airport she came that much closer to figuring it out.

divorce, parenting

I wanted two girls,” she said. “You and your sister. I wanted exactly what I had. Other people’s children are too hard

divorce, parenting

One must not be shy where language is concerned.

foreign-language, lad, language

He was so close to her then that they owned every molecule of air in the tiny room and the air grew heavy with their desire and worked to move them together.

closeness, desire, love

The kind of love that offers its life so easily, so stupidly is always the love that is not returned.

burning-love, desire, facts-of-life, love, sacrifice, selfless-love, unrequited-love

If Kumar had his way they would leave for Fiji every year just before Thanksgiving and not return until the New Year rang in and the decorations came down. They would swim with the fishes and lie on the beach eating papaya. On the years they were tired of Fiji they would go to Bali or Sydney or any sunny, sandy place whose name contained an equal number of consonants and vowels.

beach, holidays, travel

He was in love, and never had he felt such kindness towards another person.

Running, the music flew into him, became the wind that pushed back his hair and the slap of his own feet on the pavement.

The quality of gifts depends on the sincerity of the giver.

But it is never about who has given what. That is not the way of gifts. This is not a business we are conducting.