Patricia McCormick
Patricia McCormick
American author who was a two-time finalist for the National Book Award in 2006 and 2012 for her books Sold and Never Fall Down, respectively.
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth23 May 1956
CountryUnited States of America
power whatever
The power of storytelling is to free us from isolation, shame, and whatever the situation.
darker experience human pain places shine somebody
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.
order letters way
If you look hard enough, chaos turns into order the way letters turn into words.
waiting skins body
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...
triumph endure
Simply to endure is to triumph.
hate heart thinking
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.
mind portal
Guard the portals of your mind.
fog trying remember
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.