American - Author | April 10, 1954 -
Nothing heals us like letting people know our scariest parts: When people listen to you cry and lament, and look at you with love, it's like they are holding the baby of you.
Anne Lamott
LovePeopleBabyYouLookKnow
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.
WorkHopeDo The Right ThingWait
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.
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There is nothing as sweet as a comeback, when you are down and out, about to lose, and out of time.
TimeSweetComebackYouLoseDown
My idea of absolute happiness is to be in bed on a rainy day, with my blankie, my cat, and my dog.
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For me, Jesus is my cleft in the rock. He is my safest friend, my safe totally loving accepting big brother.
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Every woman's path is difficult, and many mothers were as equipped to raise children as wire monkey mothers. I say that without judgment: It is, sadly, true. An unhealthy mother's love is withering.
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The reason I never give up hope is because everything is so basically hopeless.
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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.
LifeGoodLiveChildGood Old Days
Everyone is flailing through this life without an owner's manual, with whatever modicum of grace and good humor we can manage.
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My parents, and librarians along the way, taught me about the space between words; about the margins, where so many juicy moments of life and spirit and friendship could be found. In a library, you could find miracles and truth and you might find something that would make you laugh so hard that you get shushed, in the friendliest way.
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I love readings and my readers, but the din of voices of the audience gives me stage fright, and the din of voices inside whisper that I am a fraud, and that the jig is up. Surely someone will rise up from the audience and say out loud that not only am I not funny and helpful, but I'm annoying, and a phony.
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