Lorna Landvik Quotes & Sayings

To be good to yourself ... Sometimes it seems that takes a special talent all its own. — Lorna Landvik

Honey, life can be a ballroom dance and it can be full of shit. Your job in both cases is to watch where you step. — Lorna Landvik

She felt like a bad actress in a play she never wanted to be in. — Lorna Landvik

Good posture and an attitude let you get away with anything. — Lorna Landvik

I used to think love could save anything, but it can't if the vessel's cracked. — Lorna Landvik

Not everything's funny, Mother."
"No," said Leola, "so I guess when you can laugh,, it's all the sweeter. — Lorna Landvik

...I guess when someone's really hurt you, there always seems to be a possibility for more. — Lorna Landvik

We laughed harder than the humor deserved, which goes to show you no matter your age, you're closer to adolescence than you think. — Lorna Landvik

There are all kinds of stars in God's skies. Some are so bright and twinkly they take your breath away; and others don't shine so brightly but they're still tehre. Thier light's just a little softer, that's all.: — Lorna Landvik

Books were her easiest friends. They demanded nothing from her but her attention. — Lorna Landvik

Home was always the place she went to when she had to start over. — Lorna Landvik

When Wade brought you home, I thought, Now here's a girl with a little fire in her. And where there's fire, there's usually smoke. — Lorna Landvik

What I had come to love about book club (besides the fabulous desserts and free liquor) was how in hearing so many opinions about the same book, your own opinion expanded, as if you'd read the book several times instead of just once. — Lorna Landvik

sometimes life's like a bad waiter and serves you exactly what you don't want. You can cry and scream and order him to take it back, but in the end, you're the one who has to deal with what's finally set before you. — Lorna Landvik

I am the salt of the earth, and I do not believe in the ninety percent rigmarole that is organized religion. But miracles? Miracles, my friend are a different thing entirely. From what I can see, miracles are built from love, and as far as love is concerned, I am a true believer. — Lorna Landvik

The sun was as flirty as Scarlett O'Hara with the Tarleton twins, breaking through the clouds in spectacular bursts that seemed like personal favors and then retreating for hours, days, and making us all ache for just a glimpse. — Lorna Landvik

Women with minds scare some men. We make them wonder if they're as on top of things as they think they are. — Lorna Landvik

I fear the democratization of plastic surgery, when it's so cheap that everyone - the butcher, the baker, and the candlestick maker - goes under the knife and winds up looking like these tightly pulled, slightly surprised-looking society and celebrity aliens from Planet Botox. . . . When I was young, I could have bottled up my self-loathing and filled a mile of train cars with it. Now that I'm old, I can't think of anyone I'd rather be than me. . . . That's what we need now: surgeons who can slice away the self-consciousness, the fear, the loneliness, and inject a little hope instead. A little love. Or a doctor who implants only high spirits, penchants for practical jokes, or the ability to cha-cha even to a dirge beat. — Lorna Landvik

A few years back, when I finally got smart enough to go to a therapist, she asked me how I had held things together all these years.
It didn't take long to come up with an answer. 'That's easy. I belong to a book club — Lorna Landvik

That's where the importance of nurturing comes in; the already sculpted personality is not recast, but refined. Loving, caring families can sand and polish, but they can't chip away at a lawn ornament and turn it into Michelangelo's David. Or vice versa. Want another analogy? Regarding personality, I am convinced that at birth the cake is already baked. Nurture is the nuts or frosting, but if you're a spice cake you're a spice cake, and nothing is going to change you into an angel food. — Lorna Landvik

It's the rare person whose outside matches up with who they are inside. — Lorna Landvik

Is it every man and woman's curse to want it all and only get ten percent of it? Or do we ask too much? — Lorna Landvik

I hate the way bitterness is like a black, bubbling tar pit in me, and I hate the way so many memories of you are in that pit. — Lorna Landvik

Sister Ignatius taught me in Sunday School that "in the beginning there was light," but to me, it was always an incomplete sentence, which God should have known to ammend: in the beginning God created light...to read by. — Lorna Landvik