Whistler Quotes

“It is,” I said, and for the first time in a long time, I remembered that I loved her, or more precisely, I remembered she was a person who had lived her own autonomous life full of mistakes and disappointments and judgments and thwarted love.”
― Ann Patchett, Whistler

“because childhood never leaves us. We seal the room up and cover it in sheetrock.”
― Ann Patchett, Whistler

“she was a person who had lived her own autonomous life full of mistakes and disappointments and judgments and thwarted love.”
― Ann Patchett, Whistler

“There was always a period of adjustment after school let out, a sudden realization that once again my time was my own. Every year the ghost memory of obligations followed me well into June (I have to grade papers! I have to look at Persuasion before class!) until finally I shook them off, though the dreams in which I was late, unprepared, or in the wrong room speaking the wrong language never left me.”
― Ann Patchett, Whistler

“Line up all the daughters in the world," Eddie said to the ambulance men. "You're never going to find a girl as good as this one.”
― Ann Patchett, Whistler

“Every teacup comes with a short documentary film:”
― Ann Patchett, Whistler

“and for the first time in a long time”
― Ann Patchett, Whistler

“Oh, Duck,” he said. “I’ll die, and so will you. I promise to go first and check it all out, make sure things look good up ahead.”
― Ann Patchett, Whistler

“It’s an awful business, loving another person.”
― Ann Patchett, Whistler

“Okay”
― Ann Patchett, Whistler

“There is so much randomness to youth. The person assigned to share your room becomes your friend, the girl you pass on your way out the door becomes your wife, and from these random encounters our entire lives are built,”
― Ann Patchett, Whistler

“expectations.”
― Ann Patchett, Whistler

“He believed it was his job to comfort people, and he never turned away from the responsibility.”
― Ann Patchett, Whistler

“Jonathan believes we all have our ministries. He would have said that his was metastatic melanoma, but in truth it was much larger than that. Jonathan’s ministry was loss, the loss of a spouse, sure, but he knew how to translate that into the loss of a friend, a parent, a child. He had been a brilliant hospital administrator because he never stayed in his office. When he walked the halls, he kept an eye out for suffering. Jonathan knew how to stand beside suffering,”
― Ann Patchett, Whistler

“Abigail.”
― Ann Patchett, Whistler

“topped by a noticeable pair of eyebrows.”
― Ann Patchett, Whistler