Kate

“I changed along with it. Anything I thought I couldn’t do turned out to be something I managed fine.”
― Ann Patchett, This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage

“have never subscribed to the notion of “writing what you know,” at least not for myself. I don’t know enough interesting things.”
― Ann Patchett, This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage

“Forgiveness, therefore, is key. I can’t write the book I want to write, but I can and will write the book I am capable of writing.”
― Ann Patchett, This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage

“We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread. They may have been few in number, but they offer sufficient proof that everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.”
― Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning