Lori Lansens Quotes

• 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.

  Lori Lansens

  Thinking, Strange, Strange Things

  Lori Lansens (2006). “The Girls: A Novel”, p.119, Hachette UK

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• I have never looked into my sister's eyes. I have never bathed alone. I have never stood in the grass at night and raised my arms to the beguiling moon. I’ve never used an airplane bathroom. Or worn a hat. Or been kissed like that. I’ve never driven a car. Or slept through the night. Never a private talk. Or a solo walk. I’ve never climbed a tree. Or faded into a crowd. So many things I’ve never done, but oh, how I’ve been loved. And, if such things were to be, I’d live a thousand lives as me, to be loved so exponentially.

  Lori Lansens

  Airplane, Eye, Moon

  Lori Lansens (2009). “The Girls”, p.1, Vintage Canada

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• 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.

  Lori Lansens

  Girl, Thinking, Secret Places

  Lori Lansens (2009). “The Girls”, p.234, Vintage Canada

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• Art isn't a product. It's an experience

  Lori Lansens

  Art, Art Is, Products

  Lori Lansens (2009). “The Girls”, p.385, Vintage Canada

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

  Lori Lansens

  Country, Cities, People

  Lori Lansens (2009). “The Girls”, p.46, Vintage Canada

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• the only thing left to do is love

  Lori Lansens

  Left

  Lori Lansens (2009). “Rush Home Road”, p.172, Vintage Canada

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• 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.

  Lori Lansens

  Compassion, Circles, People

  Source: www.elle.com

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

  Lori Lansens

  Past, Men, Soul

  Lori Lansens (2009). “The Girls”, p.411, Vintage Canada

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

  Lori Lansens

  Winning, Unusual, Unlikely

  Source: www.elle.com

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

  Lori Lansens

  People, Looks, Fringe

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

  Lori Lansens

  Wonderful, Ailments, Wonderful Places

  Source: www.elle.com

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

  Lori Lansens

  Curves, Black, Latina

  Source: www.elle.com

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

  Lori Lansens

  Mean, America, People

  Source: www.elle.com

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• 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!

  Lori Lansens

  Aunt, Voice, One Day

  Lori Lansens (2009). “The Girls”, p.6, Vintage Canada

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• 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.

  Lori Lansens

  About Yourself, Like Something, Ifs

  Lori Lansens (2009). “The Wife's Tale”, p.176, Knopf Canada

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

  Lori Lansens

  Writing, Way, Telling The Truth

  Lori Lansens (2009). “The Girls”, p.14, Vintage Canada

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

  Lori Lansens

  California, World, This World

  Source: www.elle.com

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• 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.

  Lori Lansens

  Men, Elderly, Firsts

  Source: www.elle.com

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• 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.

  Lori Lansens

  Sports, Team, America

  Source: www.elle.com

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• I was in the emergency room twice with heart palpitations and panic attacks. As one of my actor friends pointed out: your body doesn't know that you're making art. You think about struggle and challenge and you imagine yourself weighing 302 pounds and being restricted and in despair. Your body doesn't know that that's not the case.

  Lori Lansens

  Art, Struggle, Thinking

  Source: www.elle.com

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• 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.

  Lori Lansens

  Liars, Coffee, Writing

  Lori Lansens (2006). “The Girls: A Novel”, p.104, Hachette UK

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• 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.

  Lori Lansens

  Mean, Thinking, Giving

  Source: www.elle.com

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• What is it about sadness that can be so fulfilling?

  Lori Lansens

  Sadness, Fulfilling

  Lori Lansens (2009). “The Girls”, p.38, Vintage Canada

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

  Lori Lansens

  Epidemics, Issues, World

  Source: www.elle.com

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• Now that I live in Southern California, my current world certainly speaks to me, and I sense that my next book will have a more American and southerly setting. But that's certainly not to say I won't be back to Leaford.

  Lori Lansens

  Book, California, Southern

  Source: www.elle.com

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