“A child’s bond to her mother cannot be understated, and my bond with Helen was a ragged, baffling, disheartening, chaotic mess. I felt crazy, often, around my own mother. I grew up questioning what was normal, asking what reality was… — Cathy Lamb Copy Share Image
“I have learned that what we want from life, and what we get, are often two very different things” — Cathy Lamb Copy Share Image
“Grab the love. Hold on tight. Treasure it. Put that love you have for your husband first, arrange everything else around it, and all… — Cathy Lamb Copy Share Image
“Sometimes things are so insanely private, you don't even want to talk about them with yourself. Don't talk about them, don't wrestle with them,… — Cathy Lamb Copy Share Image
“A child’s bond to her mother cannot be understated, and my bond with Helen was a ragged, baffling, disheartening, chaotic mess. I felt crazy,… — Cathy Lamb Copy Share Image
“wasn’t a live chicken—that would not have been kind to the chicken—but a whole, plucked chicken.” — Cathy Lamb Copy Share Image
“I can wield any type of saw out there, and I have to do this, even if it takes me years. That I can… — Cathy Lamb Copy Share Image
“Sisters are the worst. And they are the best. A sister can be awful and complicated and loving and protective and petty and competitive,… — Cathy Lamb Copy Share Image
Sometimes we miss happy because we're always looking for something else. We worry, we give in to fear, we compare ourselves to others, we're… — Cathy Lamb Copy Share Image
“Sometimes that’s all you can do, I think. Hold hands. Because life gets so scary sometimes, so bleak, so cold, that you are beyond… — Cathy Lamb Copy Share Image
“Sanity is tenuous. Tenuous. Comes and goes. Many of the brightest people floating about this planet have only a finger's grip on sanity, if… — Cathy Lamb Copy Share Image
“... I would far rather get to be ninety years old and look back and say, "I tried my damnedest" to succeed, rather than… — Cathy Lamb Copy Share Image
“I sprinted into the conference room as my boss, and the owner of this law firm, Cherie Poitras, grabbed her client around the waist,… — Cathy Lamb Copy Share Image
“When you're sad or depressed, you might as well get something done," Lydia always said. "Pretty soon, you're not sad or depressed, and darned… — Cathy Lamb Copy Share Image
Happiness, most often, is a choice. Make the choice to sit, breathe, and be in that moment. — Cathy Lamb Copy Share Image
