Top 50 Lori Lansens Quotes

#1. I wondered who would teach me, or if a boy could learn on his won, what it means to be a man.

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#2. The drugstore is a wonderful place to see all manner of ailments.

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#3. Because I live in California now, I find my musings really being centered in this world.

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#4. Funny how you can measure time by pets that were not even your own.

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#5. If heaven is tolerant and writers are allowed (bunch of liars though they are), I wonder if they gather for coffee to ponder the prose they should have written instead.

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#6. Write,' she said, 'as if you'll never be read. That way you'll be sure to tell the truth.

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#7. I'm not alone in having obese people in my circle and in my family. I have loved morbidly obese people, and I don't approach obesity with revulsion or judgment but with empathy and compassion.

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#8. Her changing perception of time had altered the sum of her reflections.

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#9. Evidence tells that black and Latina woman are more accepting of curves, and that's a good thing.

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#10. If you don't like something about yourself, change it. If you're OK with it, you gotta own it. There's nothing in between.

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#11. The final picture in the album was of Aunt Lovey and Uncle Stash, their black-and-white wedding photo. I hated that their picture came last, because it felt like they were saying goodbye.

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#12. Uncle Stash said you didn't have to be crazy to to do something stupid, just young.

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#13. When you get older you think of sadness in a different way. You don't judge it so harshly.

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#14. When we talk about God, I think what most of us mean is some greater thing, some higher power that can help us access our own strength or give us strength.

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#15. Aunt Lovey used to tell me that if I wanted to be a writer, I needed a writer's voice. 'Read,' she'd say, 'and if you have a writer's voice, one day it will shout out, 'I can do that too!

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#16. The climb speaks to our character, but the view, I think, to our souls

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#17. You're so dehydrated I can hear you blink.

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#18. the only thing left to do is love

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#19. Art isn't a product. It's an experience

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#20. It's not that you like being sad, but you start to see the value of it. You don't judge sadness so harshly.

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#21. In some ways, Mary thought, Irma lived her whole life anxious to get things over with, as if she knew the end of her story all along, and didn't feel the middle pages worth the effort of a read.

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#22. How could she have been so ungrateful? She envied the French singer who regretted nothing. She regretted all.

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#23. The beach was empty and dark but she couldn't hear her fear over the call of the surf.

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#24. In sleep, my sister and I found a common breath. In dreams, we knew the moon.

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#25. Regrets serve their purpose. You'll see.

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#26. Before she closed her eyes tonight, Rose said she regretted that she has not done something heroic in her life. Well, it's not like she can suddenly climb a tree and save a cat, or go to medical school and begin some important cancer research. But Rose has been my sister. I think that's heroic.

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#27. I hum some secret place into being, thinking of this other me, the one that only I can see, a girl called She, who is not We, a girl who I will never be.

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#28. I would not have dreamed back then, could never have imagined, that one day I would be a childless mother too.

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#29. I was three inches taller but he could smell my fear.

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#30. Wake in bed and know, because dreams are not true, that the sun will be shining and it will not storm today.

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#31. Winning the lottery is winning the lottery. It's highly unlikely and very unusual.

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#32. You don't know if you ruined your kids or if they were born that way.

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#33. The most successful people in the most impossible situations are the ones that are sure they're gonna get out of it, and they go on thinking that, even if they die trying.

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#34. The city, no matter how small, is corrupt and unrepentant, while the sun shines brighter in the country, making people more wholesome.

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#35. In those dangerous narrows grew children who knew too much too young but, sadly, always seemed to learn too little too late.

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#36. Regrets. Sure you think about regrets, but it's not regret for the things you've done that occupy you, as much as it is a longing for the things you'll never have a chance to do.

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#37. When I grew up, all of our news, weather, and sports came from America. The people where I grew up rooted for American teams as opposed to Canadian teams.

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#38. I have had, like most women, a lifelong preoccupation with my weight. My first published short story was a love story between an elderly man and a very young morbidity obese woman.

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#39. On the farm, in our first-floor bedroom, my sister and I were sheltered in the essence of normal. We were not hidden, but unseen. The orange farmhouse was our castle, our kingdom the fields around, and the shallow creek that bisected our property the sea we crossed to find adventure.

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#40. I felt the weight of my father's failures and the absence of my mother and I wondered who would teach me, or if a guy could learn on his own, what it means to be a man.

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#41. When you stand outside, you look around and find that the people you're with live on the fringes.

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#42. What is it about sadness that can be so fulfilling?

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#43. Resilience, thy name is Devine.

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#44. We're seeing a decline in religion in North America but, I hope, a rise in individual spirituality. Whatever that means to people.

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#45. The strangest thing about strange things is that they're only strange when you hear about them or think about them later, but never when you're living them.

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#46. How cruel it must be for a man to live past his soul.

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#47. Mary reached into her vinyl purse and extracted one of the novels, each of whose covers had promised laughter and tears. She began to read and, finding a masterful storyteller behind its pages, was instantly and gratefully transported to another place.

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#48. The world's waistlines are expanding, but it's an epidemic of a larger issue in terms of our bounty having become our burden.

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#49. My father used to say there are two kinds of people: the noticers and the noticed

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#50. There will be sway.

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