Laurie Viera Rigler Quotes & Sayings

Those who want the truth, get truth. Those who want lies, get lies no matter what I say. — Laurie Viera Rigler

And I decide to stop inwardly composing the feminist world court's prosecutorial summation to the jury. — Laurie Viera Rigler

Most of us walk through our daily lives as if we were asleep. We regard not what is before our eyes. We see not how we construct fantasies of our own and others' intentions without having the smallest knowledge of what we, or they, are truly about. We are all imaginists, storytellers if you will, and the pity is that none of us recognizes his sorry state. — Laurie Viera Rigler

Only a fool would wish to go back who he was. — Laurie Viera Rigler

I self-medicate with fat, carbohydrates, and Jane Austen, my number one drug of choice, my constant companion through every breakup, every disappointment, every crisis. Men might come and go, but Jane Austen was always there. In sickness and in health, for richer, for poorer, till death do us part. — Laurie Viera Rigler

Our heart chooses for us, or a tiny whisper inside that is too faint for us to hear. — Laurie Viera Rigler

I cannot imagine a world in which one can read Jane Austen only once. — Laurie Viera Rigler

But I do know that any place where there are six novels by the author of Pride and Prejudice must be a very special sort of heaven. — Laurie Viera Rigler

God forbid the wife should have prior knowledge of sex, let alone enjoy it. — Laurie Viera Rigler

They say the truth will set you free, but what nobody tells you is that sometimes the truth will also make you miserable. — Laurie Viera Rigler

Here is an unbroken space in which a woman and a man may with the full sanction of society, practically make love to each other with their eyes, their fleeting touch, and the display of their bodies. Emblem of marriage, indeed. — Laurie Viera Rigler

What Martha Stewart-like demon of a Stepford wife is possessing me? — Laurie Viera Rigler

Just be where you are. That is the only way to get where you're supposed to go. — Laurie Viera Rigler

You know, it is a little known fact that thinking is entirely overrated. The world would be a much better place if we all did a lot less of it — Laurie Viera Rigler

What she said was something about trusting that everything, no matter how horrible it might seem at the moment, ultimately turns out to be a blessing. — Laurie Viera Rigler

Only a fool would wish to go back to who he was. — Laurie Viera Rigler

Only Complete and absolute surrender. — Laurie Viera Rigler

What couldn't I do now, having already committed such a breach of fashion logic and lived to tell the tale? Why couldn't I pretend to be a woman with a solid core of self-worth, who likes herself no matter what the nearest handsome man or evil mother thinks of her? — Laurie Viera Rigler

None of my friends knows that most of the sick days I've taken from work are not sick days, but Austen days. — Laurie Viera Rigler

But see, that's the thing about movies. Nothing is left to the imagination. You read a book, and you see a picture of the characters and the scenes in your mind. You don't have that with a movie. It's all either up there on the screen laid out for you, or it isn't there at all. — Laurie Viera Rigler

But I know that any man whose very presence incites me to nearly throw away my reputation-or whatever shreds of it remain-is someone I must avoid at any cost. — Laurie Viera Rigler

Be where you are right now. Live your life. You are only hurting your chances by struggling so ... — Laurie Viera Rigler

It's bad enough to be a baby-making machine with no epidural in sight in exchange for the state-sanctioned title of 'Mrs' before one's name. But to be a 'Miss' with an ever-increasing brood of children, just waiting for the man to grow weary of stretch marks and spit-ups? No thank you? — Laurie Viera Rigler

Most intelligent men and women like to go forth into the world and stalk their own prey, choose their own mirrors of dysfunction ... — Laurie Viera Rigler

I resent it being a truth universally acknowledged, no matter what era I find myself in, that a single woman of thirty must be in want of a husband. — Laurie Viera Rigler

I will not allow myself to entertain that though. Yeah, right. I'm not only entertaining that though, I'm taking it out to dinner and a movie. The goal is to focus on the now and to figure out how to reclaim your past. Or the parallel. Or my sanity.
Too much thinking never solved anything. — Laurie Viera Rigler

It seems there is nothing I cannot find out from my oracle, the computer. — Laurie Viera Rigler

Tonight, however, all I can think of is the juxtaposition of destiny and free will, and whether it makes no difference what I do, or all the difference in the world. — Laurie Viera Rigler