Lori Lansens famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

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
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
Art isn't a product. It's an experience
-- Lori Lansens

#Art #Art Is
the only thing left to do is love
-- Lori Lansens
What is it about sadness that can be so fulfilling?
-- Lori Lansens

#Sadness #Fulfilling
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. Iâ€™ve never used an airplane bathroom. Or worn a hat. Or been kissed like that. Iâ€™ve never driven a car. Or slept through the night. Never a private talk. Or a solo walk. Iâ€™ve never climbed a tree. Or faded into a crowd. So many things Iâ€™ve never done, but oh, how Iâ€™ve been loved. And, if such things were to be, Iâ€™d live a thousand lives as me, to be loved so exponentially.
-- Lori Lansens

#Eye #Airplane #Moon
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
I feel, holding books, accommodating their weight and breathing their dust, an abiding love. I trust them, in a way that I can't trust my computer, though I couldn't do without it. Books are matter. My books matter. What would I have done through these years without the library and all its lovely books?
-- Lori Lansens

#Book #Breathing #Dust
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
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
How cruel it must be for a man to live past his soul.
-- Lori Lansens

#Past #Men #Soul
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
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

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