What Alice Knew Quotes

“It is in our nature to enjoy atrocity so long as it continues to shock and remains comfortably removed from our own lives.”
― Paula Marantz Cohen, What Alice Knew: A Most Curious Tale of Henry James & Jack the Ripper

“What we find to love or to hate comes to us as a substitute for something else.”
― Paula Marantz Cohen, What Alice Knew: A Most Curious Tale of Henry James & Jack the Ripper

“He could not do most things, and what he could do, he did. But William had always been capable of many things. The stress of choice had weighed on him.”
― Paula Marantz Cohen, What Alice Knew: A Most Curious Tale of Henry James & Jack the Ripper