"I wish grace and healing were more abracadabra kind of things. Also, that delicate silver bells would ring to announce grace's arrival. But no, it's clog and slog and scootch, on the floor, in the silence, in the dark."

-- Anne Lamott

#Healing Quotes #Dark Quotes #Silence Quotes

“I don't need a holiday or a feast to feel grateful for my children, the sun, the moon, the roof over my head, music, and laughter, but I like to take this time to take the path of thanks less traveled.”
“You may own a cat, but cannot govern one.”
“The Bush administration does not desire to see Islam practiced in its pristine purity.”
“Interesting - I use a Mac to help me design the next Cray.(when he was told that Apple Inc. had recently bought a Cray supercomputer to help them design the next Mac )”
“I didn't think the teachers had the right to tell me what to do. I would just disobey, talk in the classroom, get very bad grades.”
“I didn't know how write a song, (verse, chorus, verse, chorus, bridge, chorus, bridge, verse), etc., and I didn't know how to write lyrics, so that's when I thought, well, I don't have to write a song with all those verses and choruses or lyrics. I can just sing everything the way I want to. So I sang all the instruments with my voice and just went with it.”
“I definitely would like to do some more dramatic roles.”
“We are formed by what we desire”

Source : John Irving, Carol Anshaw, Chris Cleave, Vaddey Ratner, Enid Shomer (2012). “Simon & Schuster 2012 Fiction Sampler”, p.45, Simon and Schuster

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