15 Quotes by Laurie Viera Rigler

What she said was something about trusting that everything, no matter how horrible it might seem at the moment, ultimately turns out to be a blessing.

I cannot imagine a world in which one can read Jane Austen only once.

What couldn’t I do now, having already committed such a breach of fashion logic and lived to tell the tale? Why couldn’t I pretend to be a woman with a solid core of self-worth, who likes herself no matter what the nearest handsome man or evil mother thinks of her?

It seems there is nothing I cannot find out from my oracle, the computer.

I self-medicate with fat, carbohydrates, and Jane Austen, my number one drug of choice, my constant companion through every breakup, every disappointment, every crisis. Men might come and go, but Jane Austen was always there. In sickness and in health, for richer, for poorer, till death do us part.

But I know that any man whose very presence incites me to nearly throw away my reputation-or whatever shreds of it remain-is someone I must avoid at any cost.