"Being a parent is absolutely exhausting and draining, along with all the joy and love."
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"I naturally prefer the company of people who hold grudges, as long as they are not held against me."
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"Frequently, as so many poets and psalmists and songwriters have said, the invisible shift happens through the broken places."
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"Jealousy has always been my cross, the weakness and woundedness in me that has most often caused me to feel ugly and unlovable, like the Bad Seed."
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"I'm very sad about Mitch McConnell probably getting to be Senate majority leader, if only for two years. To me, he is just everything that is wrong with the world, a bullying obstructionist blowhard liar (not to put too fine a point on it)."
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"Pay attention to the beauty surrounding you."
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"My mind is a neighborhood I try not to go into alone."
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"Pets are the world to me. I think they are the most obvious manifestations of divine love that we are going to see this side of eternity."
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"If something inside of you is real, we will probably find it interesting, and it will probably be universal. So you must risk placing real emotion at the center of your work. Write straight into the emotional center of things. Write toward vulnerability. Risk being unliked. Tell the truth as you understand it. If you’re a writer you have a moral obligation to do this. And it is a revolutionary act—truth is always subversive."
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"It's good to do uncomfortable things. It's weight training for life."
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"Radical self-care is what we've been longing for, desperate for, our entire lives-friendship with our own hearts."
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"Rest and laughter are the most spiritual and subversive acts of all. Laugh, rest, slow down."
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"Nothing can be delicious when you are holding your breath."
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"Honesty is not necessarily interesting. I don't want to hear about your dreams or your acid trips, probably unless you make them really interesting."
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"We write to expose the unexposed. If there is one door in the castle you have been told not to go through, you must. The writer's job is to turn the unspeakable into words - not just into any words, but if we can, into rhythm and blues."
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"You don't always have to chop with the sword of truth. You can point with it too."
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"Teenagers who do not go to church are adored by God, but they don't get to meet some of the people who love God back."
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"Perfectionism means that you try not to leave so much mess to clean up. But clutter and mess show us that life is being lived."
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"I like to read away as much of the afternoon as possible, until real life rears its ugly head."
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"It was not facing what life dealt that made you crazy, but rather trying to set life straight where it was unstraightenable."
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