You want to give me chocolate and flowers? That would be great. I love them both. I just don't want them out… — Anne Lamott Children Copy Share Image
Over and over I feel as if my characters know who they are, and what happens to them, and where they have… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“I felt changed and a little crazy. But though I was still like a stained and slightly buckled jigsaw puzzle with some… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Nothing heals us like letting people know our scariest parts: When people listen to you cry and lament, and look at you… — Anne Lamott Baby Copy Share Image
We write to expose the unexposed. If there is one door in the castle you have been told not to go through,… — Anne Lamott Castles Copy Share Image
Mattie sat at the table, obsessing, orbiting around herself. She was sick of her worried, hostile mind. It would have killed her… — Anne Lamott Heart Copy Share Image
“Look, if you don't have a bad attitude and lots of things wrong with you, no serious person is going to be… — Anne Lamott Attitude Copy Share Image
“... writing is about telling the truth. We are a species that needs and wants to understand who we are. Sheep lice… — Anne Lamott Telling the truth Copy Share Image
It helps to resign as the controller of your fate. All that energy we expend to keep things running right is not… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
My parents, and librarians along the way, taught me about the space between words; about the margins, where so many juicy moments… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I knew that the world was a harsh place, and my family was a mess, and even though I danced as fast… — Anne Lamott Art Copy Share Image
“They taught me that being of service, an ally to the lonely and suffering, a big-girl helper to underdogs, was my best… — Anne Lamott Good ideas Copy Share Image
As a Christian and a feminist, the most important message I can carry and fight for is the sacredness of each human… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I do for myself exactly what I would do for you - make a lovely cup of tea, or a hot bath,… — Anne Lamott Action Copy Share Image
All I ever wanted since I arrived here on Earth were the things that turned out to be within reach. The same… — Anne Lamott Baby Copy Share Image
“we all wanted this because let's face it, it's so inspiring and such a relief when people find a way to bear… — Anne Lamott Death Copy Share Image
“One writer I know tells me that he sits down every morning and says to himself nicely, "It's not like you don't… — Anne Lamott Choice Copy Share Image
Novels ought to have hope; at least, American novels ought to have hope. French novels don't need to. We mostly win wars,… — Anne Lamott Books Copy Share Image
I'm very sad about Mitch McConnell probably getting to be Senate majority leader, if only for two years. To me, he is… — Anne Lamott Blowhards Copy Share Image
My writer friends, and they are legion, do not go around beaming with quiet feelings of contentment. Most of them go around… — Anne Lamott Contentment Copy Share Image
If there is one door in the castle you have been told not to go through, you must. Otherwise, you'll just be… — Anne Lamott Castle Copy Share Image
A nun I know once told me she kept begging God to take her character defects away from her. After years of… — Anne Lamott Away from you Copy Share Image
“Try to be a good sport, baby. Sharon feels as bad as you do. It's all right for you to be mad,… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I'm drawn to almost any piece of writing with the words 'divine love' and 'impeachment' in the first sentence. But I know… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
There is ecstasy in paying attention. You can get into a kind of Wordsworthian openness to the world, where you see in… — Anne Lamott Attention Copy Share Image
We are a species that needs and wants to understand who we are. Sheep lice do not seem to share this longing,… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“When we agree to (or get tricked into) being part of something bigger than our own wired, fixated minds, we are saved.… — Anne Lamott Life Copy Share Image
“Rosie [her teenage daughter] had a secret life now, was putting together her own tribe, finding her identity there, and it was… — Anne Lamott Children Copy Share Image
So how on earth can I bring a child into the world, knowing that such sorrow lies ahead, that it is such… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor, the enemy of the people. It will keep you cramped and insane your whole life… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“My parents, teachers, and the culture I grew up in showed me a drawer in which to stuff my merciful nature, because… — Anne Lamott Compassion Copy Share Image
Sometimes, no matter how screwed up things seem, I feel like we're all at a wedding. But you can't just come out… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Mine was a patchwork God, sewn together from bits of rag and ribbon, Eastern and Western, pagan and Hebrew, everything but the… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
And that almost everyone was struggling to wake up, to be loved, and not feel so afraid all the time. That's what… — Anne Lamott Booze Copy Share Image
Grief, as I read somewhere once, is a lazy Susan. One day it is heavy and underwater, and the next day it… — Anne Lamott Grief Copy Share Image
Everyone wanted me to get help and rejoin life, pick up the pieces and move on, and I tried to, I wanted… — Anne Lamott Forget the past Copy Share Image
Sometimes I think God loves the ones who most desperately ache and are most desperately lost - his or her wildest, most… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“Rosie had been a little girl with a dead dad, and there was no getting around that or over that. Even a… — Anne Lamott Drunk Copy Share Image
When God is going to do something wonderful, He or She always starts with a hardship; when God is going to do… — Anne Lamott Faith Copy Share Image
“whatever you come up with needs to suggest a voice that you are not trying to control. If you’re lost in the… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
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