164 Quotes by Laura Lippman

She might not be as strong as everyone she met, or as fast, or even as smart. But she could bullshit with the best of them. Combine that with a license to carry, and a girl could more than get by in this life.

Are you using 'he' generically, or because it seems probable that a man did this?"Hunt shrugs, indifferent to pronouns. Men can afford to be.

John Updike, in that book you gave me, he said the dead make space. Do you know what I think? Updike doesn't know dick about what it's like to be a homicide cop in Baltimore.

Heloise long ago reconciled herself to the idea that all is fair in love and war, which is just another way of saying that nothing in life is ever fair, because life is love and war.

Coitus interruptus by SWAT team. At last a form of birth control that was one hundred percent reliable.

I think Baltimore suffers from nostalgia and it keeps us from being honest in talking about what really happened here. A place doesn't have to be perfect to be beloved, and I love this city and I love it better for seeing its flaws.

Anyone can love a perfect place. Loving Baltimore takes some resilience.

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

I think I'm part of a generation of crime writers all of whom woke up independently and recoiled with horror at the fact that we'd chosen this very conservative genre.