Laura Lippman Quotes

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But you were a goody-goody, you said.' 'Even goody-goodies think about such things. In fact, I would say that's what defines us. We're always thinking about the things we don't dare do, figuring out where the lines are drawn, so we can go right up to the edge of things, then plead innocence on the ground of a technicality.

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It must be nice to be so strong and to think it's because you're so good, that you live right and eat right, so you deserve your health and happiness. But there is such a thing as luck, and there's more bad luck than good in this world.

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There are, of course, an infinite number of places where one is not, yet only one place where one actually is.

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

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How magnanimous was a gesture if one were constantly aware of its magnanimity?

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Children can be happy when their parents are miserable. But a parent is never happier than her unhappiest child.

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There was nothing more dangerous than people convinced of their own good intentions.

Laura Lippman

Laura Lippman

Laura Lippman

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Born: January 31, 1959 (age 66)

Bio: Laura Lippman is an American author of detective fiction.

Known for:

Wilde Lake (2016)
After I'm Gone (2014)
What the Dead Know (2007)
Baltimore Blues (1997)
I'd Know You Anywhere (2013)

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