164 Quotes by Laura Lippman

Kindness could be so much more painful than cruelty.

It’s very different to have this kid that I’m truly responsible for.

You can rewrite life all you want, Sandy thought. It’s still a play where everyone dies in the end.

Things have happened – so fast. Ten days ago, we didn’t even know Rudy was sleeping rough again.” “Isn’t that a British term?” “It is.” Mrs. Drysdale is allowed to speak to this at least. “But Rudy liked it. He said it was more like the way he lived. He wasn’t homeless. Our door was always open to him. Always.

Bad taste never dies. It just keeps evolving.

No one in the world loved you quite the way a younger sibling did.

Ten years. Ten years. Rachel missed her father every day. Not consciously, but his absence was a part of her, like a vine that wraps around a structure, sustains it even as it weakens it.

Everyone cared what others thought, even those who were defiantly different. They cared more than anyone.

I’m for anything that lets writers stretch, in or out of their series.