And When She Was Good Quotes

“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.”
― Laura Lippman, And When She Was Good

“It is one of the oddities of life in Maryland that no single supermarket can serve a household’s entire needs.”
― Laura Lippman, And When She Was Good

“Then the sun finally comes up, and such 3:00 A.M. thoughts are banished, as they should be.   She”
― Laura Lippman, And When She Was Good

“She pressed her fingertips against the glass and thanked him for his insight. Supermax”
― Laura Lippman, And When She Was Good

“True, she never got a real M.B.A., but she had taken courses online and worked her way through list after list of so-called Great Books. She read the newspaper carefully. She was better informed on current events than almost anyone she knew. To have Sophie laugh at her, to throw her lack of formal education in her face— That”
― Laura Lippman, And When She Was Good

“drawer next to the kitchen, where a child in search of scratch paper might end up pulling out the applications used by would-be customers of the Women’s Full Employment Network. The issue of paper was central to Heloise’s life long before various companies began begging its customers to go paperless and save the environment—along with their overhead. (Heloise has always been amused by the good causes that capitalism will embrace in order to save money. Paperless billing! No daily laundry in hotels! Adjusting thermostats! But ask them to reduce their actual dependence on fossil fuel? Impossible.) Heloise, like the best madams, keeps an enormous amount of information in her head, but”
― Laura Lippman, And When She Was Good

“cul- de-sacs”
― Laura Lippman, And When She Was Good

“I guess that’s the exception that proves the rule.” “Actually, the saying should be the exception that tests the rule. It’s been corrupted over the years.” Heloise has spent much of her adult life acquiring such trivia, putting away little stores of factoids that are contrary to what most people think they know, including the origin of “factoid,” which was originally used for things that seem true but have no basis in fact. There’s the accurate definition of the Immaculate Conception, for example, or the historical detail that slaves in Maryland remained in bondage after the Emancipation Proclamation because only Confederate slaves were freed by the act. The purist’s insistence that “disinterested” is not the same as “uninterested.”
― Laura Lippman, And When She Was Good