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Lori Lansens

Lori Lansens Books

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Lori Lansens is a Canadian novelist known for her distinctive narrative style and profound insights into social issues. Her works often focus on the lives of marginalized individuals, exploring themes such as family, identity, and gender.

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

Fear Courage Bravery Brave

Book:The Wife's Tale

Source: The Wife's Tale

“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.”

People America Sports Team Grew Grew Up News Weather Rooted

Author:Lori Lansens

“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.”

Men Firsts Stories Young Weight Love Story Short Story Elderly Lifelong Preoccupation Obese Morbidity

Author:Lori Lansens

“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.”

World Book Next Speak Currents Setting Settings California Southern Southern California

Author:Lori Lansens

“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.”

People Compassion Judgment Approach Empathy My Family Circles Not Alone Obesity Obese Revulsion Compassion And Empathy

Author:Lori Lansens

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

World Term Issues Burden Expanding Epidemics Bounty

Author:Lori Lansens

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

Black Accepting Evidence Good Things Curves Latina Latina Women

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

Wonderful Ailments Wonderful Places

Author:Lori Lansens

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

People Mean America Spirituality Individual Seeing Decline North America

Author:Lori Lansens

“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.”

Thinking Giving Mean Helping Greater Higher Access Higher Power Greater Things

Author:Lori Lansens

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

Winning Unusual Unlikely Lottery Winning The Lottery

Author:Lori Lansens

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

People Looks Standing Out Fringe

Author:Lori Lansens

“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.”

Thinking Knows Heart Art Body Actors Challenges Rooms Cases Struggle Imagine Despair Your Body Pounds Panic Emergencies Weighing Panic Attacks Emergency Room Palpitation

Author:Lori Lansens

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

World This World California Musings

Author:Lori Lansens

“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.”

Thinking Strange Strange Things

Book:The Girls: A Novel

Source: The Girls: A Novel

“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.”

Ifs Should Writing Heaven Wonder Written Should Have Coffee Bunch Prose Liars Pondering

Book:The Girls: A Novel

Source: The Girls: A Novel

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

Book:The Girls

Source: The Girls

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

Ifs Way Writing Said Telling The Truth

Book:The Girls

Source: The Girls

“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.”

Thinking I Can Girl Secret Secret Places

Book:The Girls

Source: The Girls

“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?”

Way Feels Years I Can Book Matter Done Computer Weight Library Lovely Dust Breathing Abiding Abiding Love

Author:Lori Lansens

“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.”

Ifs About Yourself Like Something

Book:The Wife's Tale

Source: The Wife's Tale

“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.”

Ifs Done Eye Used Night Walks Tree Car Arms Thousand Moon Raised Crowds Driven Grass Hats My Sister Airplane Worn Solo Bathroom Faded

Book:The Girls

Source: The Girls

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

Sadness Fulfilling

Book:The Girls

Source: The Girls

“the only thing left to do is love”

Book:Rush Home Road

Source: Rush Home Road

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

Art Products Art Is

Book:The Girls

Source: The Girls

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

People Country Matter Cities Sun Shining Brighter Sun Shines

Book:The Girls

Source: The Girls

“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!”

Ifs I Can Wanted Used Voice Can Do Needed One Day Aunt Shout Out Writer's Voice

Book:The Girls

Source: The Girls

About the Author

Born: 1962
Known for: Novelist
Quotes: 27

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