No one tells you that your life is effectively over when you have a child: that you’re never going to draw another complacent breath again… or that whatever level of hypochondria and rage you’d learned to repress and live with is going to seem like the good old days. Anne Lamott Read Quote
When hope is not pinned wriggling onto a shiny image or expectation, it sometimes floats forth and opens. Anne Lamott Read Quote
Alice Adams wrote a sweet note to me after my first novel came out when I was 26, and I was so blown away that I sent her a bunch of stamps by return mail. I have no idea what I was thinking. It was a star-struck impulse. Anne Lamott Read Quote
Everyone is flailing through this life without an owner’s manual, with whatever modicum of grace and good humor we can manage. Anne Lamott Read Quote
We must not inflict life on children who will be resented; we must not inflict unwanted children on society. Anne Lamott Read Quote
Life is really pretty tricky, and there’s a lot of loss, and the longer you stay alive, the more people you lose whom you actually couldn’t live without. Anne Lamott Read Quote
Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don’t give up. Anne Lamott Read Quote
You can safely assume that you’ve created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do. Anne Lamott Read Quote
I do not at all understand the mystery of grace – only that it meets us where we are but does not leave us where it found us. Anne Lamott Read Quote
The opposite of faith is not doubt: It is certainty. It is madness. You can tell you have created God in your own image when it turns out that he or she hates all the same people you do. Anne Lamott Read Quote
