The Wife's Tale Quotes

“If you don't like something about yourself, change it. If you're OK with it, you gotta own it. There's nothing in between.”
― Lori Lansens, The Wife's Tale

“If you don’t like something about yourself, change it. If you’re okay with it, you gotta own it. There’s nothing in between.”
― Lori Lansens, The Wife's Tale

“The beach was empty and dark but she couldn't hear her fear over the call of the surf.”
― Lori Lansens, The Wife's Tale

“Her changing perception of time had altered the sum of her reflections.”
― Lori Lansens, The Wife's Tale

“you don’t like something about yourself, change it. If you’re okay with it, you gotta own it. There’s nothing in between.”
― Lori Lansens, The Wife's Tale

“Mary reached into her vinyl purse and extracted one of the novels, each of whose covers had promised laughter and tears. She began to read and, finding a masterful storyteller behind its pages, was instantly and gratefully transported to another place.”
― Lori Lansens, The Wife's Tale

“In some ways, Mary thought, Irma lived her whole life anxious to get things over with, as if she knew the end of her story all along, and didn’t feel the middle pages worth the effort of a read.”
― Lori Lansens, The Wife's Tale

“How could she have been so ungrateful? She envied the French singer who regretted nothing. She regretted all.”
― Lori Lansens, The Wife's Tale

“Feeling the wind rush in through the broken window, Mary thought of how Gooch would say, “You’re letting out the heat,” when she kept the door open, and “You’re letting out the cold,” when her nose was in the Kenmore. It struck her that there must be some other door left open through which she’d let out Gooch.”
― Lori Lansens, The Wife's Tale