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Book: Operating Instructions: A Journal of My Son's First Year
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  1. Anne Lamott _ Operating Instructions: A

    I cry intermittently, like a summer rain. I don't feel racked by the crying; in fact, it hydrates me. Then rage wells up in me, and I want to take a crowbar to all the cars in the neighborhood.
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  2. Anne Lamott _ Operating Instructions: A

    I guess he'll have to figure out someday that he is supposed to have this dark side, that it is part of what it means to be human, to have the darkness just as much as the light- that in fact the dark parts make the light visible; without them, the light would disappear. But I guess he has to figure other stuff out first, like how to keep his neck from flopping all over the place and how to sit up.
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  3. Anne Lamott _ Operating Instructions: A

    So Rita and I decided that the most subversive, revolutionary thing I could do was to show up for my life and not be ashamed.
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  4. Anne Lamott _ Operating Instructions: A

    ...one of the worst things about being a parent, for me, is the self-discovery, the being face to face with one's secret insanity and brokenness and rage.
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  5. Anne Lamott _ Operating Instructions: A

    I'm probably just as good a mother as the next repressed, obsessive-compulsive paranoiac.
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  6. Anne Lamott _ Operating Instructions: A

    one thing about having a baby is that each step of the way you simply cannot imagine loving him any more than you already do, because you are bursting with love, loving as much as you are humanly capable of- and then you do, you love him even more.
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  7. Anne Lamott _ Operating Instructions: A

    I think we're all pretty crazy on this bus. I'm not sure I know anyone who's got all the dots on his or her dice.
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  8. Anne Lamott _ Operating Instructions: A

    Part of me loves and respects men so desperately, and part of me thinks they are so embarrassingly incompetent at life and in love. You have to teach them the very basics of emotional literacy. You have to teach them how to be there for you, and part of me feels tender toward them and gentle, and part of me is so afraid of them, afraid of any more violation.
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  9. Anne Lamott _ Operating Instructions: A

    I don't remember who said this, but there really are places in the heart you don't even know exist until you love a child.
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  10. Anne Lamott _ Operating Instructions: A

    And I felt like my heart had been so thoroughly and irreparably broken that there could be no real joy again, that at best there might eventually be a little contentment. Everyone wanted me to get help and rejoin life, pick up the pieces and move on, and I tried to, I wanted to, but I just had to lie in the mud with my arms wrapped around myself, eyes closed, grieving, until I didn't have to anymore.
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  11. Anne Lamott _ Operating Instructions: A

    He said that when he sees little kids sitting in the backseat of cars, in those car seats that have steering wheels, with grim expressions of concentration on their faces, clearly convinced that their efforts are causing the car to do whatever it is doing, he thinks of himself and his relationship with God: God who drives along silently, gently amused, in the real driver's seat.
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  12. Anne Lamott _ Operating Instructions: A

    They ask that we pray for their families, and for kinder leaders, and for the homeless, and people with AIDS, and people in other countries in crises of starvation or war.
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