Matt Etgen

“One thing I know for sure about raising children is that every single day a kid needs discipline.... But also every single day a kid needs a break.”
― Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird

“She wears latex bicycle shorts nearly every day, and I will tell you why: because she can. I consider it an act of aggression against the rest of us mothers who forgot to start working out after we had kids.”
― Anne Lamott

“Grief, as I read somewhere once, is a lazy Susan. One day it is heavy and underwater, and the next day it spins and stops at loud and rageful, and the next day at wounded keening, and the next day numbness, silence.”
― Anne Lamott, Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith

“But you are not your bank account, or your ambition. You're not the cold clay lump you leave behind when you die. You're not your collection of walking personality disorders. You are Spirit, you are love, and even though it is hard to believe sometimes, you are free. You're here to love, and be loved, freely. If you find out next week that you are terminally ill - and we're all terminally ill on this bus - what will matter are memories of beauty, that people loved you, and that you loved them.”
― Anne Lamott, Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith