Kippy

“During Advent, we have to sit in our own anxiety and funkiness long enough to know what a Promised Land would be like, or, to put it another way, what it means to be saved--which, if we are to believe Jesus or Gandhi, specifically means to see everyone on earth as family.”
― Anne Lamott, Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith

“God, why does a mortal man have children? It is senseless to love anything this much.”
― Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams

“In this life we love who we love. There were some stories in which facts were very nearly irrelevant.”
― Ann Patchett, State of Wonder

“People who hadn't suffered a loss yet struck me as not quite grown up.”
― Anne Tyler, The Beginner's Goodbye