Quotes by : Laura Lippman

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

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

The past was worth remembering and knowing in its own right. It was not behind us, never truly behind....

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

Whatever you want, at any moment, someone else is getting it. Whatever you have, someone else is longing....

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....

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

...Baltimore. It's imperfect. Boy, is it imperfect. And there are parts of its past that make you wince.....

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