Blue Shoe Quotes

“It was not facing what life dealt that made you crazy, but rather trying to set life straight where it was unstraightenable.”
― Anne Lamott, Blue Shoe

“Mattie sat at the table, obsessing, orbiting around herself. She was sick of her worried, hostile mind. It would have killed her long before, she felt, if it hadn't needed the transportation.”
― Anne Lamott, Blue Shoe

“Mattie was in love with Daniel, of course; this was the X within the circle on her map: I love Daniel.”
― Anne Lamott, Blue Shoe

“He had the time to hear, like a person who believed there was someone alive beneath the rubble of herself, who heard the soft sounds she could still make from the broken parts that had waited decades to be missed.”
― Anne Lamott, Blue Shoe

“tucked his hands under his thighs as if they had to be contained, as if they would lash out otherwise, or fly away.”
― Anne Lamott, Blue Shoe

“could see movement in the air all around her, could see that the wind had breath in it, a ripple, a warm exhalation. This month brought the sense of a light scarf being blown about, on the muscle of the wind.”
― Anne Lamott, Blue Shoe

“An early spring arrived, with skies of faded-workshirt blue.”
― Anne Lamott, Blue Shoe

“weirdness of Halloween gave birth to November, stately and ponderous, the dramatic darkening in the days. She rested, and tried to dig a deep hole for herself, pull in her soul’s cloak around her. The light of December was pinched, and it hung down, glowering and tight, and then rushed toward the winter solstice. The”
― Anne Lamott, Blue Shoe

“Fog was the moon’s cousin, like nurses with cool compresses for her temples, and she drove out to Point Reyes, and there was fog, and it was good.”
― Anne Lamott, Blue Shoe

“Nicky dropped the children off that night, he poked his head in long enough to say that everything had gone fine. The children ran into her arms. Harry smelled as sweet and pungent as sawdust, Ella as deliciously odd as puppy breath. The touch of their skin, the smells, made her whole again, like an animal lost in the wilds that finds its mother.”
― Anne Lamott, Blue Shoe

“Nothing worked consistently anymore, not the illusion or the self-made glue that had held them together, not even the armature of habit. For years, when she”
― Anne Lamott, Blue Shoe

“Mattie saw herself and Angela as the trees that grew out of cliffs and boulders above the ocean near Monterey—evergreen creatures, windswept, magnificent, twisty, gnarled pines growing out of the layers of rock, where maybe there had once been some nutrition, maybe there had once been soil from which the trees had sprung, but then the soil had blown away, and they still grew.”
― Anne Lamott, Blue Shoe