“Without using the word, everyone started forgiving each other again. Just like that, from the no of all nothingness: you have a big tense mess and out of it comes some joy. It must be magic.”

—  Anne Lamott

Source: Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith

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Novelist, essayist, memoirist, activist 1954

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