Quotes from Lorna Landvik

Good posture and an attitude let you get away with anything.

It's the rare person whose outside matches up with who they are inside.

I guess when someone's really hurt you, there always seems to be a possibility for more.

She felt like a bad actress in a play she never wanted to be in.

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.

You must think I'm some kind of nut, but it's just . . . I don't know, it's just that I can't take what's happening in the world. I can't take all these people getting shot. I can't take this war. I just thought we were supposed to be better than that. I really did believe we were on the dawn of a new age.

Well, why not shoot for it? she thought. That moon's there as much for me as for anybody.

He wondered what the point was of possessing a wild heart if it was ultimately harnessed by a timid soul. Others were capable of the adventure he yearned for

A tear fell from her son's eye and splashed on Olive's cheek, which shamed away her vanity, making her want to concentrate on bigger issues. Fletcher, I love you! It was hard for me to show it—I had to make a living for us, didn't I?—but honestly, Fletcher, you were a prince among sons. A prince! How did a gentleman like you come from a cad like your father?

Few women are able to relax in the classic executive pose, mainly because too few women are executives.

She was a master cake baker and her creations were not just oohed and ahhed over by other kids at my birthday parties, but requested by those kid's mothers for their own celebrations... She not only accepted any request I made, but far exceeded my own ideas as to how it might look. She was an artist who sculpted in cake and painted in frosting.