I was also ready to believe, though, that whatever good things I had managed to set upright could topple at any second.

There are times in your life when, despite the steel weight of your memories and the sadness that seems to lie at your feet like a shadow, you suddenly and strangely feel perfectly okay.

The living carry us inside them like pearls. We survive only so long as they remember us.

People who read Anne Lamott, like people who read Anne Rice, believe that tragedy is romantic, but the people who read Anne Lamott believe it ironically.

There was no one alive who did not contribute his share of mystery to the world.

I write out of gratitude for all the books I have loved over the years.

The books you love best - those are the immensity of the sea.

She had the same responsibility as everybody else did: to live as softly as she could in the world.

Worry is a mean-faced dwarf who beats on your heart like a kettledrum.

I always try to stay as quiet as possible about a book until it's finished.

I had always been the kind of boy who was quick to laugh and quick to cry.

I’d rather love you at the bottom than despise you at the top.

Education will turn mirrors into windows but it is revelation that will turn cowards into heros

If he's not a wreck without you, you married the wrong man.

It helps if you don't date other actors, but actresses are beautiful. How can you say no?

Never call a man a fool; borrow from him

If you don't live in the world of choosing, you live in the world of excusing.

My parents were incredibly strict, almost military style.

You know, we don't look much alike, but Denzel Washington would make a great sports agent.

The only journey of knowledge is from the depth of one being to the heart of another.

A woman should always challenge our respect, and never move our compassion.