Hush Hush Quotes

“I hate the habit of calling women high-maintenance, as if they were cars or appliances. As if women, in general, require care in a way that men do not.”
― Laura Lippman, Hush Hush

“Because whenever a woman kills her child, every other mother—at least, every one who’s honest with herself—has a flash of sympathy. Not empathy. They don’t want to have done it, cannot imagine doing it. But they know.”
― Laura Lippman, Hush Hush

“Being a mother was like being trapped in the first fifteen minutes of a horror film. Everything was fine, lovely. But there was this persistent sense of dread.”
― Laura Lippman, Hush Hush

“Money. Time. The first was theoretically infinite. Tess had always embraced the wisdom of Mr. Bernstein in Citizen Kane: It’s not hard to make a lot of money, if all you want to do is make a lot of money. But the pursuit of money blinded one to the finite nature of time. There was no truer democracy than time. Everyone got twenty-four hours in a day.”
― Laura Lippman, Hush Hush