Hello. Here is a list of 15 quotes that I liked and saved while reading Tom Lake book by Ann Patchett. I hope you will like them too. By the way, I am Deepak Kundu, an avid book reader, quotes collector and blogger.
Tom Lake Quotes
- You could spend years in a New York apartment never knowing the people who live two feet away from you, but live on an orchard in Michigan and you will use the word neighbor to refer to every person for miles. You will rely on them and know their children and their harvest and their machinery and their dogs. – Quote from Tom Lake book by Ann Patchett
- That’s what life was like back in the day, you buried your children, your husband, your parents right there on the farm. They had never been anywhere else. They had never wanted to be anywhere else. – Quote from Tom Lake book by Ann Patchett
- It’s terrifying. The idea that in order to get to do this thing you really, really want, you might be told you have to do the exact thing you’d never want to do. – Quote from Tom Lake book by Ann Patchett
- This is a story about falling in love with Peter Duke who wasn’t famous at all. It’s about falling so wildly in love with him – the way one will at twenty-four – that it felt like jumping off a roof at midnight. There was no way to foresee the mess it would come to in the end, nor did it occur to me to care. – Quote from Tom Lake book by Ann Patchett
- Nothing gets an actor out of bed like the knowledge that the understudy is reading his part. – Quote from Tom Lake book by Ann Patchett
- There is no explaining this simple truth about life: you will forget much of it. The painful things you were certain you’d never be able to let go? Now you’re not entirely sure when they happened, while the thrilling parts, the heart-stopping joys, splintered and scattered and became something else. Memories are then replaced by different joys and larger sorrows, and unbelievably, those things get knocked aside as well, until one morning you’re picking cherries with your three grown daughters and your husband goes by on the Gator and you are positive that this is all you’ve ever wanted in the world. – Quote from Tom Lake book by Ann Patchett
- We clump together in our sorrow. In joy we may wander off in our separate directions, but in sorrow we prefer to hold hands. – Quote from Tom Lake book by Ann Patchett
- Farming is depressing. But once it gets in you, you can’t put it down. – Quote from Tom Lake book by Ann Patchett
- I don’t think I could have been in love with a person who was so clearly in love with someone else. That would be self-defeating and I wasn’t the self-defeating type. – Quote from Tom Lake book by Ann Patchett
- A child’s ability to misunderstand is limitless, even when she is no longer a child. – Quote from Tom Lake book by Ann Patchett
- You can’t save them that won’t save themselves. – Quote from Tom Lake book by Ann Patchett
- The problem with being the only woman in a play in which the three other characters were men and the playwright was a man and the director was a man was that no matter what I said, I sounded petulant, female. – Quote from Tom Lake book by Ann Patchett
- No summer girlfriend ever changed the course of a movie star’s life. But still, I am sorry I didn’t try. – Quote from Tom Lake book by Ann Patchett
- We remember the people we hurt so much more clearly than the people who hurt us. – Quote from Tom Lake book by Ann Patchett
- Good marriages are never as interesting as bad affairs. – Quote from Tom Lake book by Ann Patchett