Patricia McCormick famous quotes

03-26-2025

Look. I have a strategy. Why expect anything? If you donâ€™t expect anything, you donâ€™t get disappointed.
-- Patricia McCormick

#Disappointment #Expectations #Looks
If you look hard enough, chaos turns into order the way letters turn into words.
-- Patricia McCormick

#Order #Letters #Way
This affliction--hope--is so cruel and stubborn, I believe it will kill me
-- Patricia McCormick

#Life #Believe #Stubborn
Long time I been on my own, but now really I'm alone. I survive the killing, the starving, all the hate of the Khmer Rouge, but I think maybe now I will die of this, of broken heart.
-- Patricia McCormick

#Hate #Heart #Thinking
Then I placed the blade next to the skin on my palm. A tingle arched across my scalp. The floor tipped up at me and my body spilled away. Then I was on the ceiling looking down, waiting to see what would happen next...
-- Patricia McCormick

#Waiting #Skins #Body
Rochelle," she calls out, still looking at me. "Is there anyone down at the desk? I need something." I'm too startled to move. Is she going to tell on me, get me in trouble? Rochelle's gotten up; she's banging the toilet stall doors open one by one, checking to make sure no one's in there. When the last stall turns up empty, she gives Amanda an annoyed look. "What do you need this time of night?" Amanda smiles at me, then turns to face Rochelle. "A tampon
-- Patricia McCormick

#Moving #Night #Doors
Inside my head I carry: my baby goat, my baby brother, my ama's face, our family's future. My bundle is light. My burden is heavy.
-- Patricia McCormick

#Baby #Brother #Light
Guard the portals of your mind.
-- Patricia McCormick

#Mind #Portal
A man who doles out sweets, and slaps, with the same hand.
-- Patricia McCormick

#Sweet #Men #Hands
Instead, we linger over a luxury that costs nothing: Imagining what may be.
-- Patricia McCormick

#Luxury #Cost #May
Trying to remember, I have learned, is like trying to clutch a handful of fog. Trying to forget, like trying to hold back the monsoon.
-- Patricia McCormick

#Fog #Trying #Remember
I imagine you working on me as an algebra problem, reducing me to fractions, crossing out common denominators, until there's nothing left on the page but a line that says x = whatever it is that is wrong with me.
-- Patricia McCormick

#Lines #Pages #Common
When I have run out of words to copy, I look out the window at this strange place called India. Inside the train, the people around me are snoring. I don't understand how they can close their eyes when there is so much to see.
-- Patricia McCormick

#Running #Eye #People
Ama wipes her hands on her apron, looks up at our old roof with new eyes, and lifts the baby from his basket. She twirls him in the air, her skirts flying around her ankles the way the clouds swirl around the mountain cap--her laughter fresh and strange and musical to my ears.
-- Patricia McCormick

#Baby #Laughter #Eye
Then I place the blade next to the skine on my palm. A tingle arced across my scalp. The flood tipped up at me and my body spiraled away. Then I was on the ceiling looking down, waiting to see what would happen next. What happened next was thet a perfect, straight line of blood bloomed from under the blade.The line grow into a long, Fat bubbel, A lush crimson bubbel that got bigger and bigger. I watch from above, waiting to see how big it would get before it burst. when it did, I felt awesome. Satisfied, finally. Then exhausted.
-- Patricia McCormick

#Blood #Long #Perfect
Simply to endure is to triumph.
-- Patricia McCormick

#Triumph #Endure
Sometimes when weâ€™re in situations where we feel weâ€™re not in control, we do things, especially things that take a lot of energy, as a way of making ourselves feel we have some power.
-- Patricia McCormick

#Way #Energy #Sometimes

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