Laurie Viera Rigler Quotes

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?

Our heart chooses for us, or a tiny whisper inside that is too faint for us to hear.

And I decide to stop inwardly composing the feminist world court's prosecutorial summation to the jury.

I will not allow myself to entertain that though. Yeah, right. I'm not only entertaining that though, I'm taking it out to dinner and a movie. The goal is to focus on the now and to figure out how to reclaim your past. Or the parallel. Or my sanity.
Too much thinking never solved anything.

But see, that's the thing about movies. Nothing is left to the imagination. You read a book, and you see a picture of the characters and the scenes in your mind. You don't have that with a movie. It's all either up there on the screen laid out for you, or it isn't there at all.

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.

God forbid the wife should have prior knowledge of sex, let alone enjoy it.

Only Complete and absolute surrender.

Most of us walk through our daily lives as if we were asleep. We regard not what is before our eyes. We see not how we construct fantasies of our own and others' intentions without having the smallest knowledge of what we, or they, are truly about. We are all imaginists, storytellers if you will, and the pity is that none of us recognizes his sorry state.

Those who want the truth, get truth. Those who want lies, get lies no matter what I say.

Tonight, however, all I can think of is the juxtaposition of destiny and free will, and whether it makes no difference what I do, or all the difference in the world.

None of my friends knows that most of the sick days I've taken from work are not sick days, but Austen days.

Be where you are right now. Live your life. You are only hurting your chances by struggling so ...

Only a fool would wish to go back to who he was.

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.

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.