Lauren Geier

“Odysseus had twenty years to shed his battle skin. My grandfather left the battle field in France and rode home in a ship that crawled across the ocean slowly so he could catch his breath. I get on a plane in hell and get off, hours later, at home. I try to ignore death, but she's got her arm around my waist waiting to poison everything I touch.”
― Laurie Halse Anderson, The Impossible Knife of Memory

“All my life, I have made it complicated, but it is so simple. I love when I love. And when I love, I am myself.”
― Hugh Prather, Notes to Myself

“A good book is the precious life-blood of a master-spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life, and as such it must surely be a necessary commodity.”
― Penelope Fitzgerald, The Bookshop

“You can safely assume you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.”
― Anne Lamott