More quotes by Anne Lamott

"Laughter is carbonated holiness."
"Most of me was glad when my mother died. She was a handful, but not in a cute, festive way. More in a life-threatening way, that had caused me a long time ago to give up all hope of ever feeling good about having had her as a mother."
"Lighthouses don’t go running all over an island looking for boats to save; they just stand there shining."
"You can safely assume you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do."
"Everyone is flailing through this life without an owner's manual, with whatever modicum of grace and good humor we can manage."