A Private Disgrace Quotes

“We wasted little time wondering how anyone, even Lizzie, could nurse for five years a smoldering, mounting, murderous hate for anyone as uninteresting as Abby Borden ... we did, however, attach grave importance to Lizzie's 'peculiar spells.”
― Victoria Lincoln, A Private Disgrace: Lizzie Borden by Daylight

“At this point, while the girls chatted on over the fence in the rear side lot, people began to notice things.  A buggy with two men in it made a U-turn and stopped in front of the Kelly cottage.”
― Victoria Lincoln, A Private Disgrace: Lizzie Borden By Daylight

“Mrs. Borden walked off toward the front of the house, flicking her feather duster.  Bridget did not see her alive again.”
― Victoria Lincoln, A Private Disgrace: Lizzie Borden By Daylight

“August 4, 1892, was hot even at dawn; it became the hottest day in memory for all who lived in a town remarkable for its summer heat.  "The hill," that steep slope to the northeast, cuts Fall River off from New England's cool wind from the open sea.”
― Victoria Lincoln, A Private Disgrace: Lizzie Borden By Daylight

“That there was a plan, and one that Uncle John was terrified would be discovered and misunderstood, he himself will give us repeated evidence.  But what was the plan?”
― Victoria Lincoln, A Private Disgrace: Lizzie Borden By Daylight

“The more I have studied the evidence, the more I realize that this proposed transfer was the precipitating motive for the crime.”
― Victoria Lincoln, A Private Disgrace: Lizzie Borden By Daylight

“Popular Fall River opinion attributed the murder of Abby Borden to the circumstance that "poor Lizzie was always sort of crazy.”
― Victoria Lincoln, A Private Disgrace: Lizzie Borden By Daylight

“On the other hand, like most of Fall River, I had always wanted to read Edwin H. Porter's The Fall River Tragedy.  However, Lizzie bought off the printer, a local, and had the books destroyed before they hit the shops”
― Victoria Lincoln, A Private Disgrace: Lizzie Borden By Daylight