Confessions of a Jane Austen Addict Quotes

“I cannot imagine a world in which one can read Jane Austen only once.”
― Laurie Viera Rigler, Confessions of a Jane Austen Addict

“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.”
― Laurie Viera Rigler, Confessions of a Jane Austen Addict

“Be where you are right now. Live your life. You are only hurting your chances by struggling so . . . .”
― Laurie Viera Rigler, Confessions of a Jane Austen Addict

“Most intelligent men and women like to go forth into the world and stalk their own prey, choose their own mirrors of dysfunction . . . .”
― Laurie Viera Rigler, Confessions of a Jane Austen Addict

“Just be where you are. That is the only way to get where you're supposed to go.”
― Laurie Viera Rigler, Confessions of a Jane Austen Addict

“I would 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.”
― Laurie Viera Rigler, Confessions of a Jane Austen Addict

“They say the truth will set you free, but what nobody tells you is that sometimes the truth will also make you miserable.”
― Laurie Viera Rigler, Confessions of a Jane Austen Addict

“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.”
― Laurie Viera Rigler, Confessions of a Jane Austen Addict

“You know, it is a little known fact that thinking is entirely overrated. The world would be a much better place if we all did a lot less of it”
― Laurie Viera Rigler, Confessions of a Jane Austen Addict

“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.”
― Laurie Viera Rigler, Confessions of a Jane Austen Addict

“You know, it is a little known fact that thinking is entirely overrated. The world would be a much better place if we all did a lot less of it.”
― Laurie Viera Rigler, Confessions of a Jane Austen Addict

“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.”
― Laurie Viera Rigler, Confessions of a Jane Austen Addict

“None of my friends knows that most of the sick days I've taken from work are not sick days, but Austen days.”
― Laurie Viera Rigler, Confessions of a Jane Austen Addict

“What Martha Stewart-like demon of a Stepford wife is possessing me?”
― Laurie Viera Rigler, Confessions of a Jane Austen Addict

“...and I decide to stop inwardly composing the feminist world court's prosecutorial summation to the jury.”
― Laurie Viera Rigler, Confessions of a Jane Austen Addict

“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?”
― Laurie Viera Rigler, Confessions of a Jane Austen Addict

“Only Complete and absolute surrender.”
― Laurie Viera Rigler, Confessions of a Jane Austen Addict

“Only a fool would wish to go back who he was.”
― Laurie Viera Rigler, Confessions of a Jane Austen Addict

“Our heart chooses for us, or a tiny whisper inside that is too faint for us to hear.”
― Laurie Viera Rigler, Confessions of a Jane Austen Addict

“God forbid the wife should have prior knowledge of sex, let alone enjoy it.”
― Laurie Viera Rigler, Confessions of a Jane Austen Addict

“Men might come and go, but Jane Austen was always there.”
― Laurie Viera Rigler, Confessions of a Jane Austen Addict

“I resent it being a truth universally acknowledged, no matter what era I find myself in, that a single woman of thirty must be in want of a husband.”
― Laurie Viera Rigler, Confessions of a Jane Austen Addict

“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.”
― Laurie Viera Rigler, Confessions of a Jane Austen Addict

“It's bad enough to be a baby-making machine with no epidural in sight in exchange for the state-sanctioned title of 'Mrs' before one's name. But to be a 'Miss' with an ever-increasing brood of children, just waiting for the man to grow weary of stretch marks and spit-ups? No thank you?”
― Laurie Viera Rigler, Confessions of a Jane Austen Addict

“Those who want the truth, get truth. Those who want lies, get lies no matter what I say.”
― Laurie Viera Rigler, Confessions of a Jane Austen Addict

“Here is an unbroken space in which a woman and a man may with the full sanction of society, practically make love to each other with their eyes, their fleeting touch, and the display of their bodies. Emblem of marriage, indeed.”
― Laurie Viera Rigler, Confessions of a Jane Austen Addict

“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.”
― Laurie Viera Rigler, Confessions of a Jane Austen Addict

“Mom is mostly interested in my life inasmuch as it affects her own.
Fact is, despite her selfishness, or maybe even because or it, I can always ask Mom for help in a pinch. She seems to get on some kind of high fueled by maternal hormones and self-importance whenever I'm in extremis. Suddenly, she develops an in-depth interest in my life, feeding of the drama like a soap opera junkie anxious for the next installment. My breakups, heartbreaks, and financial crises give her something to talk about with her friends, especially her role as glorified rescuer of the distressed. Inevitably, whenever I emerge from a crisis and get my life back to normal, dear Mom lapses back into her routine lack of interest.”
― Laurie Viera Rigler, Confessions of a Jane Austen Addict