Lorna Landvik > Quotes

“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, Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons

“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, Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons

“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, Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons

“Books were her easiest friends. They demanded nothing from her but her attention.”
― Lorna Landvik, Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons

“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, Patty Jane's House of Curl

“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

“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, Welcome to the Great Mysterious

“...in the beginning God created light... to read by.”
― Lorna Landvik, Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons

“Good posture and an attitude let you get away with anything.”
― Lorna Landvik, Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons

“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, Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons

“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

“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, Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons

“I used to think love could save anything, but it can't if the vessel's cracked.”
― Lorna Landvik, Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons

“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, Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons

“This is the first birthday I've had without the person who's responsible for bringing me into the world all those decades ago. My mother... Because it was her desire to be the first to wish me a happy birthday, I always got a 5:30am phone call from her. I'm an early riser, but not that early. Yet even when my birthday fell on a Saturday, or Sunday, I loved getting that call. There are so many things you miss about a loving mother, especially on the first birthday you have without her.”
― Lorna Landvik, Chronicles of a Radical Hag

“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, Oh My Stars

“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, Oh My Stars

“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

“Gadzooks! What a big chunk of God is to be found by looking into the face of someone you love!”
― Landvik Lorna

“...I guess when someone's really hurt you, there always seems to be a possibility for more.”
― Lorna Landvik, Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons

“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, Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons

“She felt like a bad actress in a play she never wanted to be in.”
― Lorna Landvik, Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons

“It's the rare person whose outside matches up with who they are inside.”
― Lorna Landvik, Best to Laugh

“Not everything's funny, Mother."
"No," said Leola, "so I guess when you can laugh,, it's all the sweeter.”
― Lorna Landvik, Oh My Stars

“Oh, my,” said Fletcher, and not knowing exactly what to do with the proof of an alien visit, he scratched it.”
― Lorna Landvik, Mayor of the Universe: A Novel

“Never underestimate the importance of ease in the love department.”
― Lorna Landvik, Oh My Stars

“The business of life forces you to stay afloat when grief would just as soon let you drown.”
― Lorna Landvik, The View from Mount Joy

“A tear fell from her son’s eye and splashed on Olive’s cheek, which shamed away her vanity, making her want to concentrate on bigger issues. Fletcher, I love you! It was hard for me to show it—I had to make a living for us, didn’t I?—but honestly, Fletcher, you were a prince among sons. A prince! How did a gentleman like you come from a cad like your father?”
― Lorna Landvik, Mayor of the Universe: A Novel

“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, Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons

“That’s the beauty of a book—through its characters, you can imagine your life outside your life.”
― Lorna Landvik, Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons