Patricia Mccormick Quotes

If you look hard enough, chaos turns into order the way letters turn into words. ~ Patricia McCormick

I have been beaten here,
locked away,
violated a hundred times,
and a hundred times more.
I have been starved,
and cheated,
tricked
and disgraced.
How odd is it that I am undone by the simple kindness of a small boy with a yellow pencil. ~ Patricia McCormick

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

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

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

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

Simply to endure is to triumph. ~ Patricia McCormick

Most of all, I am afraid of life outside this place ~ Patricia McCormick

In the evening, the brilliant yellow pumpkin blossoms will close, drunk on sunshine, while the milky white jasmine will open their slender throats and sip the chill Himalayan air.
At night, low hearths will send up wispy curls of smoke fragrant with a dozen dinners, and darkness will clothe the land.
Except on nights when the moon is full. On those nights, the hillside and the valley below are bathed in a magical white light, the glow of the perpetual snows that blanket the mountaintops. On those nights I lie restless in the sleeping loft, wondering what the world is like beyond my mountain home. ~ Patricia McCormick

Rochelle," she calls out, still looking at me. "Is there anyone down at the desk? I need something."
I'm too startled to move. Is she going to tell on me, get me in trouble?
Rochelle's gotten up; she's banging the toilet stall doors open one by one, checking to make sure no one's in there. When the last stall turns up empty, she gives Amanda an annoyed look. "What do you need this time of night?"
Amanda smiles at me, then turns to face Rochelle. "A tampon ~ Patricia McCormick

This affliction
hope
is so cruel and stubborn, I believe it will kill me ~ Patricia McCormick

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

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

Look. I have a strategy. Why expect anything? If you don't expect anything, you don't get disappointed. ~ Patricia McCormick

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

Instead, we linger over a luxury that costs nothing: Imagining what may be. ~ Patricia McCormick

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

A man who doles out sweets, and slaps, with the same hand. ~ Patricia McCormick

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

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

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

she is bent under the weight of her burden ~ Patricia McCormick

Black women's feelings of responsibility for nurturing the children in their own extended family networks have stimulated a more generalized ethic of care where black women feel accountable to all the black community's children. ~ Patricia Hill Collins

Are you done yet?' Issac called
Charles tilted his head back and called back, 'I suppose that's why they call you the five minute wonder.'
Anna could feel her eyes round and her mouth drop open 'I cant believe you just said that' She paused and reconsidered. 'I am so telling Samuel you said that.'
Charles smiled. kissed her gently, and said 'Samuel won't believe you. ~ Patricia Briggs

A rush of panic comforted him with its familiarity. ~ Patricia Highsmith

I like what you've done to your face, Ben said, tapping his eye. ~ Patricia Briggs

I think this is just the natural progression of Columbus gangs. They are getting older now, and they are looking for newer markets. We're really seeing them spreading throughout the state, especially south. ~ Patricia Brooks

It seems probable that humans have been on the planet, with much the same brain, for about 250,000 years. ~ Patricia Churchland

I come from people who have always been polite enough to feel that nothing has ever happened to them. ~ Patricia Hampl

Coincidences are the explanations of lazy and cowardly people for what they don't understand. ~ Patricia Nedelea

Just because something is dangerous does not make it evil. (Adam) ~ Patricia Briggs

Take a good look at your fabric and intuit what it is saying to you. ~ Patricia Belyea

Yes, you deserved a better childhood, but as a survivor of abuse, you certainly deserve a blissful life. ~ Patricia Dsouza

As patients and consumers, we are better informed today about our health care than any previous generation. ~ Patricia Hewitt

The half of her that is underwater would like to be
under a desk, the head of her that is underwater
would like to be fully immersed. ~ Patricia Lockwood

Thanks for all the wonderful memories. They're like something in a museum already or something preserved in amber, a little unreal, as you must have felt yourself always to me ~ Patricia Highsmith

Kim lifted the lid. Inside, on a small pillow covered in white velvet, lay a gold sunburst the size of her thunbnail, hung on a delicate chain. It looked a little like the first spell she had ever cast, a small explosion of light re-created in metal, and she was not really surprised to find the card with the single word "Mairelon" scraled across it. ~ Patricia C. Wrede

How do god fit him ass in them jeans when he is, in fact, Everywhere ~ Patricia Lockwood

In my dream I drank fully of water, but when I woke, I was thirsty. Ned Low ~ Patricia Goodwin

You can't do such a lot and do it all so well and have much time left for the ordinary human feelings. ~ Patricia Wentworth

There are three things that any scene in a book or short story can do: (1) It can advance the plot, (2) It can explain the background or backstory, or (3) It can deepen the characterization. ~ Patricia C. Wrede

Fewer people die when you are around. These are the facts. Being upset about them don't make them false. ~ Patricia Briggs

You're always close and you never get that big romantic lead. ~ Patricia Clarkson

We worshipped a great white body that was an avalanche of good news, and we slit it open in every part. "That can't go through the mail," the postman gasped, "because that is a super-stabbed body!" The super-stabbed body rose up, with many butterknives sticking out of it, and said, "I AM the mail." It had so many lovers. ~ Patricia Lockwood

My favorite body part? My feet. They're not pretty, but they get me where I want to go. ~ Patricia Heaton

As soon as [Patricia Highsmith] had stopped work, she felt purposeless and quite at a loss about what to do with herself. 'There is no real life except in working,' she wrote in her notebook, 'that is to say in the imagination.' It was in this state that she observed that only one situation would drive her to commit murder - being part of a family unit. Most likely, she thought, she would strike out in anger at a small child, felling them in one blow. But children over the age of eight, she surmised, would probably take two blows to kill. The reality of socialising with anyone, no matter how close, she said, left her feeling fatigued. ~ Andrew Wilson

Men can be such provoking creatures. One would think the entire world and everything in it were made only for their enjoyment and approval. ~ Patricia C. Wrede

Caleb looked at her lips. "Your eyes are incredible."
"O-kay." Jocelyn had to concentrate not to lean forward to touch her mouth to his.
"Really amazing."
He's right there and his lips are so full, so luscious, so close.
And far too tempting to pass up. ~ Patricia W. Fischer

Never run from a predator. Even the most behaved of them will have a hard time restraining themselves from chasing after a prey. ~ Patricia Briggs

Older homeless people are more likely to be women, because they don't have pensions and they are caretakers, so they withdraw from the workforce and end up having no pension if their husband leaves them, so the whole thing is just a nightmare. ~ Patricia Arquette

Because I want us to be friends again. I made some really bad choices, and I'm sorry. You're leaving for Florida and if we don't fix this now, it won't be fixed. ~ Katie McGarry

I thought that all magic has its price.'
'Magic does,' Faey said. 'But let us consider this an exchange of knowledge. I'll tell you what you want to know and you'll tell me why you want to know it. ~ Patricia A. McKillip

Survivors can't always choose their methods. ~ Patricia Briggs

I jerked my chin toward Frost's body. 'All that is required for evil to prevail is for good men to do nothing.'
Hao said, "Life is not safe. A man might spend his whole time on earth staying safe in a basement, and in the end, he still dies like everyone else." Half-naked, covered with the same filth we all were, he still gave the impression of being in control of himself and his environment. ~ Patricia Briggs