Angela Willberg

“Clutter and mess show us that life is being lived...Tidiness makes me think of held breath, of suspended animation... Perfectionism is a mean, frozen form of idealism, while messes are the artist's true friend. What people somehow forgot to mention when we were children was that we need to make messes in order to find out who we are and why we are here.”
― Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird

“She felt as if the mosaic she had been assembling out of life's little shards got dumped to the ground, and there was no way to put it back together.”
― Anne Lamott, Crooked Little Heart

“Sam said to me the other day, "I love you like 20 tyrannosauruses on 20 mountaintops," and this is the exact same way in which I love him.”
― Anne Lamott

“I’m probably just as good a mother as the next repressed, obsessive-compulsive paranoiac.”
― Anne Lamott, Operating Instructions: A Journal of My Son's First Year