Commonwealth
Ann Patchett
Top 10 Best Quotes
“Did you ever want to be a writer?” “No,” she said, and she would have told him. “I only wanted to be a reader.”
“Life, Teresa knew by now, was a series of losses. It was other things too, better things, but the losses were as solid and dependable as the earth itself.”
“Half the things in this life I wish I could remember and the other half I wish I could forget.”
“He is fifteen and ten and five. He is an instant. He is flying back to her. He is hers again. She feels the weight of him in her chest as he comes into her arms. He is her son, her beloved child, and she takes him back.”
“Isn't that what everyone wants, just for a moment to be unencumbered?”
“All the stories go with you, Franny thought, closing her eyes. All the things I didn’t listen to, won’t remember, never got right, wasn’t around for. All”
“This was the pleasure of a long life: the way some things worked themselves out.”
“There’s no protecting anyone,” Fix said, and reached over from his wheelchair to put his hand on hers. “Keeping people safe is a story we tell ourselves.”
“The three stages of life: youth, middle age, and ‘You’re looking good, Mr. Keating.”
“Bad habits were all a matter of perspective, and as long as the present was viewed through the lens of the past, anyone would say he was doing a spectacular job.”
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Book Keywords:
motherhood, death, responsibility, spirit, family, family-relationships, child, meditation, parenthood
