Sharon Quirk

“If you want to write, practice writing. Practice it for hours a day, not to come up with a story you can publish, but because you long to learn how to write well, because there is something that you alone can say.”
― Ann Patchett, This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage

“Sometimes love does not have the most honorable beginnings, and the endings, the endings will break you in half. It’s everything in between we live for.”
― Ann Patchett, This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage

“The impressions we pick up as children, when our minds are still open to influence and as soft as damp sponges, are likely to stay with us the longest.”
― Ann Patchett, This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage

“Is it possible that anxiety ends at the moment when we no longer have time for it?”
― Ann Patchett, This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage