I'd Know You Anywhere Quotes

“No one in the world loved you quite the way a younger sibling did.”
― Laura Lippman, I'd Know You Anywhere

“Doing nothing,” Inez said, “is a choice in its own way. When you do nothing, you still do something.”
― Laura Lippman, I'd Know You Anywhere

“There was no protection, no quota system when it came to luck. It was like that moment in math when a child learns that the odds of heads or tails is always one-in-two, no matter how many times one has flipped the coin and gotten heads. Every flip, the odds are the same. Every day, you could be unlucky all over again.”
― Laura Lippman, I'd Know You Anywhere

“Just because you worked hard on something didn’t make it worth doing.”
― Laura Lippman, I'd Know You Anywhere

“hate how swiftly the world moves now, how glib everyone has become. We need to think more, not more quickly.”
― Laura Lippman, I'd Know You Anywhere

“What was the point of giving children freedom to experiment and fail, if one then turned it all into a tiresome object lesson?”
― Laura Lippman, I'd Know You Anywhere

“If you couldn’t face the truth about yourself, then you weren’t ready for the truth about anything,”
― Laura Lippman, I'd Know You Anywhere

“But then again—if one doesn’t forgive someone, doesn’t one, in a sense, lose that person forever?”
― Laura Lippman, I'd Know You Anywhere

“Family members must forgive one another.”
― Laura Lippman, I'd Know You Anywhere

“Not everyone has to get the same things all the time in order for life to be fair.”
― Laura Lippman, I'd Know You Anywhere

“Cynics fooled themselves into thinking they had sussed out the worst-case scenarios and were invariably surprised by how life trumped them. Dreamers were often disappointed—but seldom in themselves.”
― Laura Lippman, I'd Know You Anywhere

“satisfactory husband that he was, he was a man and not one inclined to wax poetic about a day of cupcakes and movies.”
― Laura Lippman, I'd Know You Anywhere

“throwing out “I sorry” as if it were confetti, her private little parade of destruction rolling past, leaving Eliza to clean up all of the mess. They had tried hard to teach their children the importance of genuine remorse, what it was to say and mean “I’m sorry.”
― Laura Lippman, I'd Know You Anywhere

“They were, as a family, constantly on the verge of being dangerously, enviably cute.”
― Laura Lippman, I'd Know You Anywhere

“She was a polite person, and politeness meant making others feel better even if it made you feel like shit.”
― Laura Lippman, I'd Know You Anywhere

“CNN. I hate how swiftly the world moves now, how glib everyone has become. We need to think more, not more quickly.”
― Laura Lippman, I'd Know You Anywhere

“listen, you know? Girls. They don’t listen. They’re in too much”
― Laura Lippman, I'd Know You Anywhere

“Everybody wants to rule the world-- but only according to his or her own ideas about what mattered.”
― Laura Lippman, I'd Know You Anywhere

“Trudy couldn’t imagine men writing lovelorn letters to female murderers.”
― Laura Lippman, I'd Know You Anywhere