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

If there is one door in the castle you have been told not to go through, you must. Otherwise you'll just be rearranging furniture in rooms you've already been in.

—Anne Lamott

Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don't give up.

—Anne Lamott

Forgiveness means it finally becomes unimportant that you hit back. You're done. It doesn't necessarily mean that you want to have lunch with the person. If you keep hitting back, you stay trapped in the nightmare.

—Anne Lamott in Plan B

How come you can hear a chord, and then another chord, and then your heart breaks open?

—Anne Lamott

May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds.

—Edward Abbey

I hate hiding how much the stupid things he did hurt me, but I hated the idea of him finding out even more.

—Leigh Bardugo in Shadow and Bone

I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.

—James Baldwin in The Fire Next Time

I have always felt that a politician is to be judged by the animosities he excites among his opponents.

—Winston Churchill