Quotes by Patricia Mccormick - Page 1

Simply to endure is to triumph.
Patricia Mccormick / Journalist
Endure
Triumph
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Guard the portals of your mind.
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Mind
Portal
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A man who doles out sweets, and slaps, with the same hand.
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Men
Hands
Sweet
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This affliction--hope--is so cruel and stubborn, I believe it will kill me
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Life
Believe
Stubborn
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Instead, we linger over a luxury that costs nothing: Imagining what may be.
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Cost
Luxury
May
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If you look hard enough, chaos turns into order the way letters turn into words.
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Letters
Looks
Order
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You show you care, you die.You show you fear, you die.You show nothing, maybe you live.
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Care
Show You Care
Shows
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The power of storytelling is to free us from isolation, shame, and whatever the situation.
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Isolation
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Look. I have a strategy. Why expect anything? If you don’t expect anything, you don’t get disappointed.
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Disappointment
Expectations
Looks
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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.
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Baby
Brother
Light
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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.
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Fog
Remember
Trying
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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.
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Hate
Heart
Thinking
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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 ourselves feel we have some power.
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Energy
Sometimes
Way
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I don't want to go slumming in somebody else's pain just to write a book. I want to go into those darker places to shine a light on that experience and come out with a story that validates the human spirit.
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Human Spirit
Darker
Shine
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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.
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Common
Lines
Pages
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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.
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Ceilings
Skins
Waiting
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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.
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Running
Eye
Strange Places
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I think young adults get a bad rap for being self-absorbed and self-centered. My experience going around the United States and speaking in schools is that teenagers here are very interested in the fate of their peers around the world.
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Fate
Peers
Self Absorbed
Bad Rap
Teenagers
Young Adults
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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.
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Baby
Eye
Laughter
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Arriving to class late is disruptive of the learning process. I think that it is disrespectful to both the instructor and the students. I generally find a problem with students being tardy to my 9:10 a.m. class, in which students would come in thirty minutes late to this fifty minute class. I started locking my door at 9:15 second semester.
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Class
Doors
Thinking
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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
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Doors
Moving
Night
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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.
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Blood
Long
Perfect
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