54 Quotes by Lori Lansens

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

The most successful people in the most impossible situations are the ones that are sure they’re gonna get out of it, and they go on thinking that, even if they die trying.

Read it slow as you can. It’s like a fine meal. You don’t want to gulp it, but savor it so you can taste it in your memory when you’re lone done.

Before she closed her eyes tonight, Rose said she regretted that she has not done something heroic in her life. Well, it’s not like she can suddenly climb a tree and save a cat, or go to medical school and begin some important cancer research. But Rose has been my sister. I think that’s heroic.

It was only out on the cold street... that Riley began to feel the full loss of his father. Poppa, he thought, Oh Poppa. He’d grieved him since Christmas when he first took ill... but it was here now, an empty place where once had been Poppa. A quietness to replace Poppa’s good voice. A gust of wind that said he was there, not on earth, but in the air. Riley knew he would not be the same man again, for Riley had been Poppa’s son and was now only his survivor.

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.

You’re so dehydrated I can hear you blink.

In sleep, my sister and I found a common breath. In dreams, we knew the moon.

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.