Top 40 Lori Lansens Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “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

2. “The climb speaks to our character, but the view, I think, to our souls.”

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3. “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.”

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4. “Art isn’t a product. It’s an experience.”

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5. “As I grew older, I found I could surrender my own comfort so effortlessly it didn’t qualify as sacrifice.”

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

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7. “There will be sway.”

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8. “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.”

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9. “The most successful people in the most impossible situations are the ones that are sure they’re gonna get out of it, and they go on thinking that, even if they die trying.”

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10. “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.”

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11. “When you get older you think of sadness in a different way. You don’t judge it so harshly.”

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12. “We’re seeing a decline in religion in North America but, I hope, a rise in individual spirituality. Whatever that means to people.”

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13. “Regrets. Sure you think about regrets, but it’s not regret for the things you’ve done that occupy you, as much as it is a longing for the things you’ll never have a chance to do.”

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14. “The world’s waistlines are expanding, but it’s an epidemic of a larger issue in terms of our bounty having become our burden.”

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15. “Evidence tells that black and Latina woman are more accepting of curves, and that’s a good thing.”

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16. “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.”

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17. “What is it about sadness that can be so fulfilling?”

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18. “My father used to say there are two kinds of people: the noticers and the noticed.”

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19. “Winning the lottery is winning the lottery. It’s highly unlikely and very unusual.”

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20. “In those dangerous narrows grew children who knew too much too young but, sadly, always seemed to learn too little too late.”

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21. “When you stand outside, you look around and find that the people you’re with live on the fringes.”

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22. “I wonder if all women secretly fantasize, like me, about what it would be like to be an extraordinary beauty and bitchy as you wanna be.”

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23. “I would not have dreamed back then, could never have imagined, that one day I would be a childless mother too.”

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24. “Regrets serve their purpose. You’ll see.”

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25. “Funny how you can measure time by pets that were not even your own.”

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26. “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.”

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

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28. “The drugstore is a wonderful place to see all manner of ailments.”

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29. “Her changing perception of time had altered the sum of her reflections.”

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30. “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.”

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31. “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.”

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32. “The beach was empty and dark but she couldn’t hear her fear over the call of the surf.”

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33. “Resilience, thy name is Devine.”

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34. “Sometimes a guy wants to feel like he learned something without being taught.”

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35. “Wake in bed and know, because dreams are not true, that the sun will be shining and it will not storm today.”

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36. “Read it slow as you can. It’s like a fine meal. You don’t want to gulp it, but savor it so you can taste it in your memory when you’re lone done.”

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37. “In sleep, my sister and I found a common breath. In dreams, we knew the moon.”

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38. “How cruel it must be for a man to live past his soul.”

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39. “Shelley says some people were born on third base and some people were born outside the ballpark, and the journey to home plate ain’t the same for all. Wouldn’t it be better for everyone to, like, find a way to get everybody in the game?”

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40. “Write,′ she said, ’as if you’ll never be read. That way you’ll be sure to tell the truth.”

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41. “Before she closed her eyes tonight, Rose said she regretted that she has not done something heroic in her life. Well, it’s not like she can suddenly climb a tree and save a cat, or go to medical school and begin some important cancer research. But Rose has been my sister. I think that’s heroic.”

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42. “It was only out on the cold street... that Riley began to feel the full loss of his father. Poppa, he thought, Oh Poppa. He’d grieved him since Christmas when he first took ill... but it was here now, an empty place where once had been Poppa. A quietness to replace Poppa’s good voice. A gust of wind that said he was there, not on earth, but in the air. Riley knew he would not be the same man again, for Riley had been Poppa’s son and was now only his survivor.”

— Lori Lansens

43. “You’re so dehydrated I can hear you blink.”

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44. “I believe it was the Lord... for who else could know your trouble and ours and bring us together in this right way?”

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45. “You do good mothering.”

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46. “Remy didn’t suggest an ounce of discourtesy, but only had a different way of talking. It’s something Chester’d learned, how a person’s words did not always disclose the intention of his heart. He’d been called fine things by people who feared and loathed him, and slanderous things by people who thought well on him but were ignorant.”

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47. “It was Aunt Lovey’s belief that all ordinary people led extraordinary lives, but just didn’t notice.”

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