168 Quotes by Jen Lancaster

You can’t all of a sudden go to sleep one night and wake up Martha Stewart. It’s bit by bit by bit.

The paradox of living in the safest possible time is that those who suffer from anxiety aren’t hardwired to take the win; we panic when things go too well.

I yearn to be a woman of more depth, but I’m not so fond of the path I’d need to follow to get there.

No, it’s not a ‘corpse thing.’ I feel I lack the emotional capacity to deal with those in mourning...

The difference between social media and a social life is the difference between eating a marshmallow Peep and dining on a tomahawk-cut rib eye: one is substantial and nutritious; the other is just a momentarily satisfying puff of sweetened air, offering no long-term benefits. I can enjoy the fluff, but I can’t subsist on it.

Anyone who grew up in a household where carob passed for chocolate and apple pies were actually filled with zucchini will feel me here.

I’m not one of those folks who have to face death to live life. I.

What about my Girls Gone Mild life leads you to believe I’m a body shot shy of debauchery? Is it the pearls?

I’ve always wanted to take a swim wherever it is they snap those screensaver photos – Fiji? Bora Bora? The Maldives? – and sleep in a hotel room that’s more of a hut built on a dock over the water. After reading The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency, I’m dying to see the sun set in Botswana. I want to visit Indian temples and volunteer at an elephant sanctuary.