Lady in the Lake Quotes

“Kindness could be so much more painful than cruelty.”
― Laura Lippman, Lady in the Lake

“The world kept telling her to look away, to pay no attention to an age-old system, in which men thrived and inconvenient women disappeared.”
― Laura Lippman, Lady in the Lake

“We cannot imagine what we cannot see.”
― Laura Lippman, Lady in the Lake

“A woman dies young, it’s man trouble.”
― Laura Lippman, Lady in the Lake

“She wondered what Ali looked like. She was going to either look exactly like Maddie or be as opposite as possible. Maddie would find it more flattering if he had chosen her opposite number. Another blue-eyed brunette would indicate that she was just a type, whereas a wispy blonde would suggest that he would never quite get over her, that she would be with him forever, sort of like chicken pox.”
― Laura Lippman, Lady in the Lake

“But what if the girlfriend would not be silenced, what if she threatened to make a fuss? The status quo relied on women’s playing by the rules of a game they could never win.”
― Laura Lippman, Lady in the Lake

“But then, what woman actually had her own name? Maddie’s “maiden” name was her mother’s married one.”
― Laura Lippman, Lady in the Lake

“Again, I have to ask: are you really missing if nobody misses you?”
― Laura Lippman, Lady in the Lake

“Of course women cared about stature, too, but they learned early to surrender any idea that life was a series of fair exchanges.”
― Laura Lippman, Lady in the Lake

“In the animal kingdom, the male performs for the woman, woos her with his beautiful feathers or flowing mane, is always trying to out-strut the other men. Why do humans do it the other way? It doesn’t make sense. Men need us more than we need them.”
― Laura Lippman, Lady in the Lake

“something she was obliged to keep to herself because of others’ prejudices.”
― Laura Lippman, Lady in the Lake

“People today are always talking about prejudice and stuff, like the rest of us never knew it.”
― Laura Lippman, Lady in the Lake

“The heart knows nothing, sees nothing, but it kicks up a ruckus, throws tantrums to get what it wants.”
― Laura Lippman, Lady in the Lake

“How could 1906 and 1966 be part of the same century? In 1906, there had been no world wars, most people didn’t have telephones and cars. In 1906, women couldn’t vote and black men could by law, but not in practice.”
― Laura Lippman, Lady in the Lake