Quotes by : Laura Lippman

Reading was not a fallback position for her but an ideal state of being.

Being a mother was like being trapped in the first fifteen minutes of a horror film. Everything was fine,....

There's a serendipity to real life that the Internet can't duplicate. Do you use the library? For anything?....

It must be nice to be so strong and to think it's because you're so good, that you live right and eat....

I would prefer," Pat said, his voice a little stiff, as if he expected resistance, "that I be the cosigner....

But the central branch of the Enoch Pratt Free Library was still a place of wonders to Tess, even if....

Going to college don't make you from somewhere, any more than a cat born in an over can call itself a....

My grandmother’s parents had thought she was too good for my grandfather. They were Irish, shipworkers....

There was no protection, no quota system when it came to luck. It was like that moment in math when a....

But you were a goody-goody, you said.' 'Even goody-goodies think about such things. In fact, I would....