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

Maybe what you care most passionately about are fasting and high colonics — cappuccino enemas, say. This is fine, but we do not want you to write about them; we will secretly believe that you are simply spiritualizing your hysteria. There are millions of people already doing this at churches and New Age festivals across the land.

We stitch together quilts of meaning to keep us warm and safe, with whatever patches of beauty and utility we have on hand.

it speaks of such integrity to refuse to pretend that you’re doing well just to help other people deal with the fact that sometimes we face an impossible loss.