State of Wonder
Ann Patchett
Top 10 Best Quotes
“Never be so focused on what you're looking for that you overlook the thing you actually find.”
“Hope is a horrible thing, you know. I don't know who decided to package hope as a virtue because it's not. It's a plague. Hope is like walking around with a fishhook in your mouth and somebody just keeps pulling it and pulling it.”
“In this life we love who we love. There were some stories in which facts were very nearly irrelevant.”
“There was no one clear point of loss. It happened over and over again in a thousand small ways and the only truth there was to learn was that there was no getting used to it.”
“Everyone knows everything eventually.”
“He used to say we all had a compass inside of us and what we needed to do was to find it and to follow it.”
“No one tells the truth to people they don't actually know, and if they do it is a horrible trait. Everyone wants something smaller, something neater than the truth.”
“It is said the sesta is one of the only gifts the Europeans brought to South America, but I imagine the Brazilians could have figured out how to sleep in the afternoon without having to endure centuries of murder and enslavement.”
“But we cannot unbraid the story of another person’s life and take out all the parts that don’t suit our purposes and put forth only the ones that do.”
“She understood in life that a person was only allowed one trip down to hell.”
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Book Keywords:
fiction, loss, love, hope, truth-telling
