“What I had come to love about book club (besides the fabulous desserts and free liquor) was how in hearing so many opinions about the same book, your own opinion expanded, as if you'd read the book several times instead… — Lorna Landvik Copy Share Image
“A few years back, when I finally got smart enough to go to a therapist, she asked me how I had held things together all these years. It didn't take long to come up with an answer. 'That's easy. I… — Lorna Landvik Copy Share Image
“Sister Ignatius taught me in Sunday School that "in the beginning there was light," but to me, it was always an incomplete sentence, which… — Lorna Landvik Copy Share Image
“That's where the importance of nurturing comes in; the already sculpted personality is not recast, but refined. Loving, caring families can sand and polish, but they can't chip away at a lawn ornament and turn it into Michelangelo's David. Or vice versa. Want another analogy? Regarding personality, I am convinced that at birth the cake is already baked. Nurture is… — Lorna Landvik Copy Share
“What I had come to love about book club (besides the fabulous desserts and free liquor) was how in hearing so many opinions about… — Lorna Landvik Copy Share Image
“The sun was as flirty as Scarlett O'Hara with the Tarleton twins, breaking through the clouds in spectacular bursts that seemed like personal favors… — Lorna Landvik Copy Share Image
“There are all kinds of stars in God's skies. Some are so bright and twinkly they take your breath away; and others don't shine… — Lorna Landvik Copy Share Image
“When Wade brought you home, I thought, Now here's a girl with a little fire in her. And where there's fire, there's usually smoke.” — Lorna Landvik Copy Share Image
“I fear the democratization of plastic surgery, when it's so cheap that everyone - the butcher, the baker, and the candlestick maker - goes under the knife and winds up looking like these tightly pulled, slightly surprised-looking society and celebrity aliens from Planet Botox. . . . When I was young, I could have bottled up my self-loathing and filled… — Lorna Landvik Copy Share
“I am the salt of the earth, and I do not believe in the ninety percent rigmarole that is organized religion. But miracles? Miracles,… — Lorna Landvik Copy Share Image
“A few years back, when I finally got smart enough to go to a therapist, she asked me how I had held things together… — Lorna Landvik Copy Share Image
