The Girl in the Green Raincoat Quotes

“sound silly, but I figured out that being happy made me happier than being unhappy ever did.” Tess replayed these words in”
― Laura Lippman, The Girl in the Green Raincoat

“he began, over dinner at Cantler’s, a much beloved but out-of-the-way restaurant near”
― Laura Lippman, The Girl in the Green Raincoat

“etiquette rule that dictated a woman should put on all the jewelry she intends to wear, then remove one piece before leaving the house. Maybe two pieces, in his case.”
― Laura Lippman, The Girl in the Green Raincoat

“In the Realm of the Senses for May? Or something by Peter Greenaway? You have to understand, to Lloyd, film is film, it’s all about technique,”
― Laura Lippman, The Girl in the Green Raincoat

“Bring wine,” she hissed into the phone. “And Matthew’s pizza. Those lima beans with feta cheese from Mezze. Sopa-pillas from Golden West. Hurry!”
― Laura Lippman, The Girl in the Green Raincoat

“Of course, as the book makes clear, it also owes much to Rear Window and The Daughter of Time, not to mention an article I wrote in 1998, about”
― Laura Lippman, The Girl in the Green Raincoat

“Goldenberg Peanut Chew for lunch, or a bag of Utz crab chips.”
― Laura Lippman, The Girl in the Green Raincoat

“You must admit that this all seems rather, well, ironic.” If Tess Monaghan weren’t seven months pregnant, she would have downed a shot, in honor of a drinking game she and Whitney had devised years ago: Whenever anyone misused the word “ironic,” slam back tequila. On a good night it was possible to get drunk fifteen minutes into the six o’clock news.”
― Laura Lippman, The Girl in the Green Raincoat

“drunk fifteen minutes into the six o’clock news.”
― Laura Lippman, The Girl in the Green Raincoat

“her. It may sound silly, but I figured out that being happy made me happier than being unhappy ever did.”
― Laura Lippman, The Girl in the Green Raincoat

“Whenever I got cross with him, I would think about that girl at the bus stop, how unhappy she was, how she thought no one could ever want to take her on a date, much less love her. It may sound silly, but I figured out that being happy made me happier than being unhappy ever did.”
― Laura Lippman, The Girl in the Green Raincoat

“Her eye was drawn to a miniature version of Esskay, a prancing greyhound, a true gray one, whereas Esskay was black with a patch of white at her breast.”
― Laura Lippman, The Girl in the Green Raincoat

“Rear Window, popping”
― Laura Lippman, The Girl in the Green Raincoat