Lorna Landvik · 512 pages
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“What I had come to love about book club (besides the fabulous desserts and free liquor) was how in hearing so many opinions about the same book, your own opinion expanded, as if you'd read the book several times instead of just once.”
― Lorna Landvik, quote from Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons
“Sister Ignatius taught me in Sunday School that "in the beginning there was light," but to me, it was always an incomplete sentence, which God should have known to ammend: in the beginning God created light...to read by.”
― Lorna Landvik, quote from Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons
“A few years back, when I finally got smart enough to go to a therapist, she asked me how I had held things together all these years.
It didn't take long to come up with an answer. 'That's easy. I belong to a book club”
― Lorna Landvik, quote from Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons
“Books were her easiest friends. They demanded nothing from her but her attention.”
― Lorna Landvik, quote from Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons
“...in the beginning God created light... to read by.”
― Lorna Landvik, quote from Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons
“I used to think love could save anything, but it can't if the vessel's cracked.”
― Lorna Landvik, quote from Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons
“Women with minds scare some men. We make them wonder if they're as on top of things as they think they are.”
― Lorna Landvik, quote from Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons
“I hate the way bitterness is like a black, bubbling tar pit in me, and I hate the way so many memories of you are in that pit.”
― Lorna Landvik, quote from Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons
“We laughed harder than the humor deserved, which goes to show you no matter your age, you're closer to adolescence than you think.”
― Lorna Landvik, quote from Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons
“Good posture and an attitude let you get away with anything.”
― Lorna Landvik, quote from Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons
“...I guess when someone's really hurt you, there always seems to be a possibility for more.”
― Lorna Landvik, quote from Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons
“She felt like a bad actress in a play she never wanted to be in.”
― Lorna Landvik, quote from Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons
“When Wade brought you home, I thought, Now here's a girl with a little fire in her. And where there's fire, there's usually smoke.”
― Lorna Landvik, quote from Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons
“A few years back, when I finally got smart enough to go to a therapist, she asked me how I had held things together all these years. It didn’t take long to come up with an answer. “That’s easy. I belong to a book club.”
― Lorna Landvik, quote from Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons
“in the beginning God created light . . . to read by.”
― Lorna Landvik, quote from Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons
Lorna Landvik
Born place: in Grand Forks, ND, The United States
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