Lauren

“This is the most profound spiritual truth I know: that even when we're most sure that love can't conquer all, it seems to anyway. It goes down into the rat hole with us, in the guise of our friends, and there it swells and comforts. It gives us second winds, third winds, hundredth winds.”
― Anne Lamott, Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith

“It was never meant to be permanent. You must have known the tide would come back in.”
― Anne Lamott, Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith

“Remember, 'No one's more important than people'! In other words, friendship is the most important thing--not career or housework, or one's fatigue--and it needs to be tended and nurtured.”
― Julia Child, My Life in France

“Hell is the absence of the people you long for.”
― Emily St. John Mandel, Station Eleven