To the Bridge Quotes

“. While we might believe that pretty is as pretty does, on some level we want to see youth and beauty as signs of goodness, of innocence. The attractive woman is given a pass. The ugly one gets the chair.”
― Nancy Rommelmann, To the Bridge

“I hope instead she rages!”
― Nancy Rommelmann, To the Bridge

“The state can’t seem to keep the roads paved; you think we should trust them with life-and-death decisions?”
― Nancy Rommelmann, To the Bridge

“It is easy—terribly easy—to shake a man’s faith in himself. To take advantage of that to break a man’s spirit is devil’s work. —George Bernard Shaw, Candida”
― Nancy Rommelmann, To the Bridge

“In The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher, Kate Summerscale wrote of the murder of a boy Eldon’s age, “Perhaps this is the purpose of detective investigations, real and fictional—to transform sensation, horror and grief into a puzzle, and then to solve the puzzle, to make it go away.”
― Nancy Rommelmann, To the Bridge

“There is no such thing as an immutable truth, much as our hearts might yearn for it and our justice systems demand it; there are only the stories we tell ourselves.”
― Nancy Rommelmann, To the Bridge

“Daryl said Amanda was “a good mother, except for the cleaning up after, the feeding, and the caretaking part.”
― Nancy Rommelmann, To the Bridge

“It’s not just an easy one-liner. The state can’t seem to keep the roads paved; you think we should trust them with life-and-death decisions?”
― Nancy Rommelmann, To the Bridge

“And if some people heard “meth addict murders three people” or “mother throws children from bridge” and thought, get rid of them, and then voted for the death penalty? “But that just isn’t justice,” he said, later emphasizing, “It’s a pendulum swing. I still don’t quite understand why the United States wants that kind of vengeance, and that’s all it is.”
― Nancy Rommelmann, To the Bridge

“The stories could be true, or they could be conjecture; people stuck stories to her like wet plaster. Into what position would they set?”
― Nancy Rommelmann, To the Bridge

“bring us love?”
― Nancy Rommelmann, To the Bridge

“It is easy—terribly easy—to shake a man’s faith in himself. To take advantage of that to break a man’s spirit is devil’s work.”
― Nancy Rommelmann, To the Bridge

“you can write about sociopaths, you can read all about them, and chances are you will not recognize one when he is taking you in.”
― Nancy Rommelmann, To the Bridge

“go arrowhead hunting like normal people. A relief. Sara worked with special-needs kids, and there was no way she could be associated with what had been going on the summer before. Sara could see Ryan was relieved,”
― Nancy Rommelmann, To the Bridge

“we tinker with actuality in order to transform the tale told by an idiot into an orderly, self-serving narrative.”
― Nancy Rommelmann, To the Bridge