I've spent my whole life trying to get over having had Nikki for a mother, and I have to say that from day one after she died, I liked having a dead … - Anne Lamott

Grace is the light or electricity or juice or breeze that takes you from that isolated place and puts you with others who are as startled and embarrassed and eventually grateful as you are to be there.

A good marriage is where both people feel like they're getting the better end of the deal.

When you can step back at moments like these and see what is happening, when you watch people you love under fire or evaporating, you realize that the secret of life is patch patch patch. Thread your needle, make a knot, find one place on the other piece of torn cloth where you can make one stitch that will hold. And do it again. And again. And again.