“You want to give me chocolate and flowers? That would be great. I love...” — Anne Lamott Quote

“You want to give me chocolate and flowers? That would be great. I love them both. I just don't want them out of guilt, and I don't want them if you're not going to give them to all the people who helped mother our children.”

“When we're dealing with the people in our family - no matter how annoying or gross they may be, no matter how self-inflicted their suffering may appear, no matter how afflicted they are with ignorance, prejudice or nose hairs - we give from the deepest parts of ourselves.”

“The whistle is always waiting to be blown, and in some ways, it gets me to do better work.”

“Laughter is carbonated holiness.”

“Most of me was glad when my mother died. She was a handful, but not in a cute, festive way. More in a life-threatening way, that had caused me a long time ago to give up all hope of ever feeling good about having had her as a mother.”

“I've heard people say that God is the gift of desperation, and there's a lot to be said for having really reached a bottom where you've run out of any more good ideas or plans for everybody else's behavior; or how to save and fix and rescue; or just get out of a huge mess, possibly of your own creation.”

“I like all sorts of chocolate. Milk chocolate, dark chocolate, anything.”

“I owe it all to little chocolate donuts.”

“I'm a woman who wants her chocolate.”

“I don't really work out. I eat a lot of sweets. I have chocolate all over my house.”

“Trying to get an 11-year-old off an iPad is like trying to persuade somebody that they should give up a chocolate gateau so that they can lick a tomato instead.”

“People, when they buy a hat, they can't explain why they want to buy it or why they want it, but they do. It's like chocolate.”