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 More Quotes by Lori Lansens More Quotes From Lori Lansens 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 dust book years 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 coffee liars 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 one-day voice 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 like-something about-yourself ifs What is it about sadness that can be so fulfilling? Lori Lansens fulfilling sadness