The Laws of Our Fathers Quotes

“The years roll on and life seems like this more and more, that choices don't really exit in the way I thought they would when I was a child and expected the regal power of adulthood to provide clarity and insight.”
― Scott Turow, The Laws of Our Fathers

“That’s why so many people want to be victims today. So they don’t have to accept the burden of being raised without historical calamity—without war or famine. They want an excuse for the fact they’re still not happy.”
― Scott Turow, The Laws of our Fathers

“The sun is a pale disk in the soiled white sky.”
― Scott Turow, The Laws of our Fathers

“I find myself clutched by he resentment, which I still think of as as peculiarly female, of being so often the victim of circumstance and time.”
― Scott Turow, Laws of Our Fathers

“… one of those bold girls, a rebel beneath the veneer of gentile manors.”
― Scott Turow, Laws of Our Fathers

“They say you just teach them to leave you”, I finally remark. “From the first step.”
― Scott Turow, Laws of Our Fathers

“In her mothering years, he lived in undying amazement of Lucy. She looked at every paper, bored in until she’d heard every the teacher asked at school. She knew by heart what was on the lunch menu, the name of every friend and whether she or he was a good influence, even if the kid had never set foot inside their home. She’d memorized every trumpet note or ballet turn. She hit the laundry room at 6 a.m., because she knew what clothes they’d want to wear, right down to the undies. Her children’s lives were so thoroughly understood, digested, imagined, so thoroughly her own, that other women often seemed to freeze over in shame.

But all of that allowed Lucy to avoid wondering about herself.”
― Scott Turow, Laws of Our Fathers