You want to protect your child from pain, and what you get instead is life, and grace; and though theologians insist that grace is freely given, the truth is that sometimes you pay for it through the nose. And you can't pay your child's way.
Anne LamottLies cannot nourish or protect you. Only freedom from fear, freedom from lies, can make us beautiful, and keep us safe.
Anne LamottThis business of having been issued a body is deeply confusing... Bodies are so messy and disappointing.
Anne LamottWhen everything starts going wrong all at once, it is to protect something big and lovely that is trying to get itself born.
Anne Lamott