Quotes by Ann Patchett, Bel Canto

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He realized now he was only just beginning to see the full extent to which it was his destiny to follow, to walk blindly — Ann Patchett, Bel Canto
It's easier to love a woman when you can't understand a word she's saying. — Ann Patchett, Bel Canto
Some people are born to make great art and others are born to appreciate it. … It is a kind of talent in itself, to be a — Ann Patchett, Bel Canto
Katsumi Hosokawa - (he) believed that life, true life, was something that was stored in music. — Ann Patchett, Bel Canto
He was in love, and never had he felt such kindness towards another person. — Ann Patchett, Bel Canto
He was so close to her then that they owned every molecule of air in the tiny room and the air grew heavy with their des — Ann Patchett, Bel Canto
There was no time for kissing but she wanted him to know that in the future there would be. A kiss in so much loneliness — Ann Patchett, Bel Canto
Sleep was a country for which he could not obtain a visa. — Ann Patchett, Bel Canto
Gen was sleeping the sleep of the heavily drugged. — Ann Patchett, Bel Canto
If want a person wants is his life, he tends to be quiet about wanting anything else. — Ann Patchett, Bel Canto
...as if the world had become a giant train station in which everything was delayed until further notice. — Ann Patchett, Bel Canto
They lived their lives only for the hour that lay ahead of them. — Ann Patchett, Bel Canto
But it is never about who has given what. That is not the way of gifts. This is not a business we are conducting. — Ann Patchett, Bel Canto
The quality of gifts depends on the sincerity of the giver. — Ann Patchett, Bel Canto
Running, the music flew into him, became the wind that pushed back his hair and the slap of his own feet on the pavement — Ann Patchett, Bel Canto
Never had he thought, never once, that such a woman existed, one who stood so close to God that God's own voice poured f — Ann Patchett, Bel Canto
...was an elegant woman in a city of so many thousands of elegant women... — Ann Patchett, Bel Canto