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Oh, my love,' she said. 'What do the only children do?'

'We'll never have to know.


Ann Patchett

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ANN ROMNEY I advise keeping four feet on the floor and all hands on deck.
ANN LANDERS I have lived pain, and my life can tell: I only deepen the wound of the world when I neglect to give...
ANN VOSKAMP The brave who focus on all things good and all things beautiful and all things true, even in the sma...
ANN VOSKAMP Any Republican who says he can work with Hillary Clinton is a traitor to the nation.
ANN COULTER Adults are tempted to produce and perform Christmas for their kids and their families, and they arri...
ANN VOSKAMP Sometimes God answers our questions with questions.
ANN VOSKAMP I think the fall in Eden was ultimately a failure to give thanks.
ANN VOSKAMP Get this, kids - how a man proposes isn't what makes him romantic. It's how a man purposes t...
ANN VOSKAMP A simplified Christmas isn't about circumstances as much as it is about focus.
ANN VOSKAMP I'm not a fast writer at all. I come empty and wait upon the Lord. So it really is all a waiting...
ANN VOSKAMP The real romantics imagine greying and sagging and wrinkling as the deepening of something sacred.
ANN VOSKAMP Whatever I'm writing comes organically out of my life.
ANN VOSKAMP I write a chapter, then edit it and edit it and edit it and edit it. I don't think we mine creat...
ANN VOSKAMP Gratitude's not a natural posture. The prince of darkness is ultimately a spoiled ingrate, and I...
ANN VOSKAMP My husband is Dutch, and his family, when you sat down to eat food at the table, you never left the ...
ANN VOSKAMP Counting one thousand gifts, I discovered I could count on God.
ANN VOSKAMP I came into this world the way every person on the planet does - with clenched fists.
ANN VOSKAMP Scales always lie. They don't make a scale that ever told the truth about value, about worth, ab...
ANN VOSKAMP When we can't bottle our tears up anymore, God catches every one in His bottle. God's catchi...
ANN VOSKAMP Romance isn't measured by how viral your proposal goes. The Internet age may try to sell you som...
ANN VOSKAMP Really good writing, from my perspective, runs a lot like a visual on the screen. You need to create...
ANN VOSKAMP Giving thanks is that: making the canyon of pain into a megaphone to proclaim the ultimate goodness ...
ANN VOSKAMP Measuring sticks try to rank some people as big and some people as small - but we aren't sizes. ...
ANN VOSKAMP Comparison is a thug that robs your joy. But it's even more than that - Comparison makes you a t...
ANN VOSKAMP In a storm of struggles, I have tried to control the elements, clasp the fist tight so as to protect...
ANN VOSKAMP When grief is deepest, words are fewest.
ANN VOSKAMP Maturity: Be able to stick with a job until it is finished. Be able to bear an injustice without hav...
ANN LANDERS I just feel like I'm a very lucky person to have a new life outside of politics.
ANN RICHARDS Be greedy for social change, and your life will be endlessly enriched. The only failure lies in not ...
ANN COTTON And I cannot tell you how much I appreciate that because the days are long, the road is hard, the tr...
ANN ROMNEY Sometimes when I'm watching television and something, an image, will come on that has to do with...
ANN RICHARDS 'Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell' by Susanna Clarke is a big, thick book. About a thousan...
ANN LECKIE I've been in this business for a long time, and I no longer think that anything that I do by way...
ANN BEATTIE Katana is a trained, disciplined martial artist. She removes herself from Birds of Prey to go on a p...
ANN NOCENTI You didn't have to go on location if you could just shoot down City Hall, LA.
ANN ROBINSON We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity. We weren'...
ANN COULTER