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fa2181c	Write,' she said, 'as if you'll never be read. That way you'll be sure to tell the truth.		Lori Lansens
436df0a	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
4f947b9	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
d0d152d	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.	writing	Lori Lansens
30bea1d	What is it about sadness that can be so fulfilling?		Lori Lansens
f064c2a	How cruel it must be for a man to live past his soul.		Lori Lansens
ddad853	Art isn't a product. It's an experience		Lori Lansens
9e2b61e	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
c78a39e	When you get older you think of sadness in a different way. You don't judge it so harshly.		Lori Lansens
5341752	The city, no matter how small, is corrupt and unrepentant, while the sun shines brighter in the country, making people more wholesome.		Lori Lansens
db1d59c	the only thing left to do is love		Lori Lansens
a172401	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
9271612	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
cbc2286	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.		Lori Lansens
f862507	In sleep, my sister and I found a common breath. In dreams, we knew the moon.		Lori Lansens
14ef41e	The climb speaks to our character, but the view, I think, to our souls		Lori Lansens
1cadf71	My father used to say there are two kinds of people: the noticers and the noticed	family-relationships family-drama survival-story suspense	Lori Lansens
c6a582c	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.	struggle strength	Lori Lansens
1cc6d7c	I can't exactly say why I've chosen to write about the things that I am writing about. There are doubtless better stories from my life that I am missing, events and escapades I am not wise enough to know were important. If heaven is tolerant and writers are allowed (bunch of liars that they are), I wonder if they gather for coffee to ponder the prose they should have written instead.		Lori Lansens
44b6335	I would not have dreamed back then, could never have imagined, that one day I would be a childless mother too.		Lori Lansens
30c55ee	Funny how you can measure time by pets that were not even your own.		Lori Lansens
b6ba145	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.		Lori Lansens
7370a8d	Regrets serve their purpose. You'll see.	regrets	Lori Lansens
ac61c77	In those dangerous narrows grew children who knew too much too young but, sadly, always seemed to learn too little too late.		Lori Lansens
91acc7c	Uncle Stash said you didn't have to be crazy to to do something stupid, just young.		Lori Lansens
1c231de	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.		Lori Lansens
8b25fa2	There will be sway.		Lori Lansens
c458779	As I grew older, I found I could surrender my own comfort so effortlessly it didn't qualify as sacrifice.		Lori Lansens
7481de8	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.		Lori Lansens
fa547b5	The beach was empty and dark but she couldn't hear her fear over the call of the surf.	bravery courage fear	Lori Lansens
2b4e2f0	Sometimes a guy wants to feel like he learned something without being taught.		Lori Lansens
69fa3ea	Ruby is my sister. And strangely, undeniably, my child.		Lori Lansens
eeb4bb5	On the farm, in our first-floor bedroom, my sister and I were sheltered in the essence of normal. We were not hidden, but unseen. The orange farmhouse was our castle, our kingdom the fields around, and the shallow creek that bisected our property the sea we crossed to find adventure.		Lori Lansens
70d853e	The final picture in the album was of Aunt Lovey and Uncle Stash, their black-and-white wedding photo. I hated that their picture came last, because it felt like they were saying goodbye.		Lori Lansens
1996c85	If you don't like something about yourself, change it. If you're okay with it, you gotta own it. There's nothing in between.		Lori Lansens
42e6395	You're so dehydrated I can hear you blink.		Lori Lansens
b6d9d0f	I felt the weight of my father's failures and the absence of my mother and I wondered who would teach me, or if a guy could learn on his own, what it means to be a man.		Lori Lansens
55ca2b6	Resilience, thy name is Devine.	sarcasm	Lori Lansens
2b55ac0	I was three inches taller but he could smell my fear.	strength-and-courage	Lori Lansens
a77379b	I wondered who would teach me, or if a boy could learn on his won, what it means to be a man.		Lori Lansens
648ea3a	My father used to say there are two kinds of people. The notices and the noticed.		Lori Lansens
8b1b020	Her changing perception of time had altered the sum of her reflections.		Lori Lansens
64a918e	You're just not always in a place for as long as you thought you'd be.		Lori Lansens
4139ca3	You think about these words a lot, and there are not many things, when you come right down to it, that you'll be happy to see the end of.		Lori Lansens

Write,' she said, 'as if you'll never be read. That way you'll be sure to tell the truth.

Lori Lansens

436df0a

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

4f947b9

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

d0d152d

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.

writing

Lori Lansens

30bea1d

What is it about sadness that can be so fulfilling?

Lori Lansens

f064c2a

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

Lori Lansens

ddad853

Art isn't a product. It's an experience

Lori Lansens

9e2b61e

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

c78a39e

When you get older you think of sadness in a different way. You don't judge it so harshly.

Lori Lansens

5341752

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

Lori Lansens

db1d59c

the only thing left to do is love

Lori Lansens

a172401

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

9271612

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

cbc2286

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.

Lori Lansens

f862507

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

Lori Lansens

14ef41e

The climb speaks to our character, but the view, I think, to our souls

Lori Lansens

1cadf71

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

family-relationships family-drama survival-story suspense

Lori Lansens

c6a582c

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.

struggle strength

Lori Lansens

1cc6d7c

I can't exactly say why I've chosen to write about the things that I am writing about. There are doubtless better stories from my life that I am missing, events and escapades I am not wise enough to know were important. If heaven is tolerant and writers are allowed (bunch of liars that they are), I wonder if they gather for coffee to ponder the prose they should have written instead.

Lori Lansens

44b6335

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

Lori Lansens

30c55ee

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

Lori Lansens

b6ba145

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.

Lori Lansens

7370a8d

Regrets serve their purpose. You'll see.

regrets

Lori Lansens

ac61c77

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

Lori Lansens

91acc7c

Uncle Stash said you didn't have to be crazy to to do something stupid, just young.

Lori Lansens

1c231de

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.

Lori Lansens

8b25fa2

There will be sway.

Lori Lansens

c458779

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

Lori Lansens

7481de8

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.

Lori Lansens

fa547b5

The beach was empty and dark but she couldn't hear her fear over the call of the surf.

bravery courage fear

Lori Lansens

2b4e2f0

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

Lori Lansens

69fa3ea

Ruby is my sister. And strangely, undeniably, my child.

Lori Lansens

eeb4bb5

On the farm, in our first-floor bedroom, my sister and I were sheltered in the essence of normal. We were not hidden, but unseen. The orange farmhouse was our castle, our kingdom the fields around, and the shallow creek that bisected our property the sea we crossed to find adventure.

Lori Lansens

70d853e

The final picture in the album was of Aunt Lovey and Uncle Stash, their black-and-white wedding photo. I hated that their picture came last, because it felt like they were saying goodbye.

Lori Lansens

1996c85

If you don't like something about yourself, change it. If you're okay with it, you gotta own it. There's nothing in between.

Lori Lansens

42e6395

You're so dehydrated I can hear you blink.

Lori Lansens

b6d9d0f

I felt the weight of my father's failures and the absence of my mother and I wondered who would teach me, or if a guy could learn on his own, what it means to be a man.