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Run QUOTES

1 " ...the terrible crumple and blanch of a lie come undone... "

― Ann Patchett , Run

2 " The sleep he went back to was never the one he left. "

― Ann Patchett , Run

3 " Maybe that was the definition of life everlasting: the belief that the next generation would carry your work forward. "

― Ann Patchett , Run

4 " Home, bed, sleep, mother--who knew more beautiful words than these? "

― Ann Patchett , Run

5 " Certain things existed out of time. It was ten years ago, it was this morning. In that way the accident was like his mother's death. It did not recede so much as hover, waxing and waning at different intervals but always there. It happened in the past and it was always happening. It happened every single minute of the day. "

― Ann Patchett , Run

6 " She's a nice girl," Tennessee said as a way of saying goodbye to them, as a way of saying thank you and I'm sorry, as a way of saying, I wish I had never let you go and I wish we had never met. "

― Ann Patchett , Run

7 " Catholicism is an obsessive-compulsive faith. "

― Ann Patchett , Run

8 " She isn’t my mother.” He meant, of course, by simple mathematical extension, that his mother wasn’t Teddy’s mother either. Which meant that Bernadette, for whom he had lit a thousand candles, was the mother to whom his enormous love and devotion had no claim. "

― Ann Patchett , Run

9 " The sick were a ferocious lot. They’d walk right through you if they thought that health was on the other side. "

― Ann Patchett , Run

10 " He did not understand how such a short time in this house could have returned him to adolescence. He could package the place as hell’s interpretation of the Fountain of Youth and make a fortune: just walk in the door and you’re fifteen all over again. "

― Ann Patchett , Run

11 " What a shame it would have been to miss God while waiting for Him. "

― Ann Patchett , Run

12 " With Tennessee there to visit, Regina Cleri had been bearable to him, and without her he felt like what he was: a useless old man who had been shelved away to die. "

― Ann Patchett , Run

13 " Transcendentalist movement? "

― Ann Patchett , Run

14 " He did not understand how such a short time in this house could have returned him to adolescence. "

― Ann Patchett , Run

15 " let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself—nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance. "

― Ann Patchett , Run

16 " we are tired—tired of being segregated and humiliated; tired of being kicked about by the brutal feet of oppression. There comes a time my friends when people get tired of being plunged across the abyss of humiliation, when they experience the bleakness of nagging despair. There comes a time when people get tired of being pushed out of the glimmering sunlight of last July and left standing amid the piercing chill of an Alpine November. "

― Ann Patchett , Run

17 " His heart woke him up to remind him that in life there was never a limitless number of nights. The "

― Ann Patchett , Run

18 " Neither Doyle nor Sullivan had ever been to visit him at Regina Cleri, and Tip had only come one time and then left after five minutes. To Father Sullivan it was as if this part of his family, these people whom he loved, had all packed up and gone to Africa. "

― Ann Patchett , Run

19 " Duty—honor—country,’” he said in the voice of an old white man who’d been battered by war. “‘Those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be. "

― Ann Patchett , Run

20 " I said then, and I say now, that while there is a lower class, I am in it, while there is a criminal element, I am of it, and while there is a soul in prison, I am not free…’” Night "

― Ann Patchett , Run