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 More Quotes by Lori Lansens More Quotes From Lori Lansens 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. I’ve never used an airplane bathroom. Or worn a hat. Or been kissed like that. I’ve never driven a car. Or slept through the night. Never a private talk. Or a solo walk. I’ve never climbed a tree. Or faded into a crowd. So many things I’ve never done, but oh, how I’ve been loved. And, if such things were to be, I’d live a thousand lives as me, to be loved so exponentially. Lori Lansens airplane eye moon 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 strange-things strange thinking 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 secret-places girl thinking The city, no matter how small, is corrupt and unrepentant, while the sun shines brighter in the country, making people more wholesome. Lori Lansens cities country people the only thing left to do is love Lori Lansens left 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. Lori Lansens circles compassion people Art isn't a product. It's an experience Lori Lansens art-is products art 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. Lori Lansens elderly men firsts Winning the lottery is winning the lottery. It's highly unlikely and very unusual. Lori Lansens unlikely unusual winning 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. Lori Lansens team sports america Because I live in California now, I find my musings really being centered in this world. Lori Lansens california this-world world I was in the emergency room twice with heart palpitations and panic attacks. As one of my actor friends pointed out: your body doesn't know that you're making art. You think about struggle and challenge and you imagine yourself weighing 302 pounds and being restricted and in despair. Your body doesn't know that that's not the case. Lori Lansens struggle art thinking When you stand outside, you look around and find that the people you're with live on the fringes. Lori Lansens fringe people looks 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. Lori Lansens giving mean thinking We're seeing a decline in religion in North America but, I hope, a rise in individual spirituality. Whatever that means to people. Lori Lansens mean america people The drugstore is a wonderful place to see all manner of ailments. Lori Lansens wonderful-places ailments wonderful Evidence tells that black and Latina woman are more accepting of curves, and that's a good thing. Lori Lansens latina curves black The world's waistlines are expanding, but it's an epidemic of a larger issue in terms of our bounty having become our burden. Lori Lansens epidemics issues world 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. Lori Lansens california southern book How cruel it must be for a man to live past his soul. Lori Lansens soul men past
