“ We want a sense that an important character, like a narrator, is reliable. We want to believe that a character is not playing ages or being coy or being manipulative, but is telling the truth to the b… Anne Lamott
“ We think we’re humans having spiritual experiences, but we’re really spirits having human experiences, Anne Lamott
“ This is what separates artists from ordinary people: the belief, deep in our hearts, that if we build our castles well enough, somehow the ocean won't wash them away. I think this is a wonderful kind… Anne Lamott
“ The reality is that most of us lived our first decades feeling welcome only when certain conditions applied: we felt safe and embraced only when the parental units were getting along, when we were on… Anne Lamott
“ The Amen is only as good as the attitude. If you are trying to finish up quickly so you can check your cell phone messages, you are missing the chance to spend quiet moments with the giver of life and… Anne Lamott
“ Oh my God, what if you wake up some day, and you’re 65, or 75, and you never got your memoir or novel written; or you didn’t go swimming in warm pools and oceans all those years because your thighs we… Anne Lamott
“ Now, Muriel Spark is said to have felt that she was taking dictation from God every morning-- sitting there, one supposes, plugged into a Dictaphone, typing away, humming. But this is a very hostile a… Anne Lamott
“ Mattie was in love with Daniel, of course; this was the X within the circle on her map: I love Daniel. Anne Lamott
“ Jealousy has always been my cross, the weakness and woundedness in me that has most often caused me to feel ugly and unlovable, like the Bad Seed. Anne Lamott
“ I’m pretty sure that only by experiencing that ocean of sadness in a naked and immediate way do we come to be healed—which is to say, we come to experience life with a real sense of presence and spaci… Anne Lamott
“ It is hard to remember that you are a cherished spiritual being when you're burping up apple fritters and Cheetos. Anne Lamott
“ In biblical times, they used to stone a few thirteen-year-olds with some regularity, which helped keep the others quiet and at home. The mothers were usually in the first row of stone throwers, and ha… Anne Lamott
“ I'm all over the place, up and down, scattered, withdrawing, trying to find some elusive sense of serenity.The world can't give that serenity. The world can't give us peace. We can only find it in our… Anne Lamott
“ I watched him carefully. He was making art because he has to, and because he's brave enough to try and make contact, right there on the edge of madness, where he dreams. Anne Lamott
“ I understood that the man I was calling for could never ever come back. Because I understood that the man that I was calling for was dead. Anne Lamott
“ I understood immediately the thrill of seeing oneself in print. It provides some sort of primal verification: you are in print; therefore you exist. Anne Lamott
“ I started to cry then, and I cried for a long time without making much noise. I cried and cried like a little kid. Anne Lamott
“ I remind myself nearly every day of something that a doctor told me six months before my friend Pammy died. This was a doctor who always gave me straight answers. When I called on this one particular… Anne Lamott
