Simply to endure is to triumph.

- Patricia Mccormick

A man who doles out sweets, and slaps, with the same hand.

- Patricia Mccormick

You show you care, you die.You show you fear, you die.You show nothing, maybe you live.

- Patricia Mccormick

Sometimes when we’re in situations where we feel we’re not in control, we do things, especially things that take a lot of energy, as a way of making …

- Patricia Mccormick

Look. I have a strategy. Why expect anything? If you don’t expect anything, you don’t get disappointed.

- Patricia Mccormick

Instead, we linger over a luxury that costs nothing: Imagining what may be.

- Patricia Mccormick

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…

- Patricia Mccormick

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

If you look hard enough, chaos turns into order the way letters turn into words.

- Patricia Mccormick