Broadway Butterfly Quotes

“Women are the moral compass of society. We exert our good influences on our marriages, our children, the circles in which we move, and the communities in which we exist. Without us, the moral structure of society would disintegrate, and with that, society itself. So we forgive, even when our hearts are broken. We hold our heads up and march on when we feel as though we might die—because we’re women and we’re wives. It’s the bravest and best thing we can do—and our worlds, and the world at large, are far better for it.”
― Sara DiVello, Broadway Butterfly

“The necessity to arrive earlier, stay later, and work twice as hard (and get paid half as much), simply for the privilege to be allowed to be there, trailed her like a constant shadow.”
― Sara DiVello, Broadway Butterfly

“That was the thing people didn’t want to think about: murders generally were committed by people the victims knew—most knew their attackers well.”
― Sara DiVello, Broadway Butterfly

“The sun bore down on Park Place, and New Yorkers, the fastest walkers in the world in the fastest city in the world, learned what folks down south always knew: it was best to move a little slower in the summer—there was no besting the heat.”
― Sara DiVello, Broadway Butterfly

“The only thing worse than being married to a publicly named adulterer was being married to a publicly named murderer. How had her perfect life come to this? She wished for the oblivion of sleep, to stay in bed until she died. She would not return to Philadelphia. She would not receive visitors. She would walk into the sea and let herself sink.”
― Sara DiVello, Broadway Butterfly

“But then again, investigations were like races: sometimes the dark horse surprised you.”
― Sara DiVello, Broadway Butterfly

“Coughlin stomped back to bed. He’d told his division he had the flu, but he was really just sick of the bullshit.”
― Sara DiVello, Broadway Butterfly

“But ideally, the Republican in office would conduct himself with decorum and wouldn’t have new indecent accusations hurled at him every day.”
― Sara DiVello, Broadway Butterfly

“So we forgive, even when our hearts are broken. We hold our heads up and march on when we feel as though we might die—because we’re women and we’re wives. It’s the bravest and best thing we can do—and our worlds, and the world at large, are far better for it.”
― Sara DiVello, Broadway Butterfly

“Women are the moral compass of society. We exert our good influences on our marriages, our children, the circles in which we move, and the communities in which we exist. Without us, the moral structure of society would disintegrate, and with that, society itself. So we forgive, even when our hearts are broken. We hold our heads up and march on when we feel as though we might die—because we’re women and we’re wives. It’s the bravest and best thing we can do—and our worlds, and the world at large, are far better for”
― Sara DiVello, Broadway Butterfly

“Then again, almost everyone disappointed him somehow.”
― Sara DiVello, Broadway Butterfly

“She’d known some no-good men and reported on many more. Nearly every case she covered involved a no-good man who felt that the world or a woman had wronged him somehow. But no matter what he’d done, she’d yet to meet a no-good man who thought of himself as the villain.”
― Sara DiVello, Broadway Butterfly

“But being involved with powerful, corrupt men certainly doesn’t seem to extend anyone’s life expectancy.”
― Sara DiVello, Broadway Butterfly

“It had been nearly two months since Dot King had been murdered, five weeks since J. K. Mitchell had gone to DC and Pecora had swiftly thereafter dropped the case, two weeks since the attorney general of the United States had stuck his son in a sanitarium, and exactly zero seconds since Julia had stopped thinking about it all.”
― Sara DiVello, Broadway Butterfly

“Leave it to a man to think he should decide a woman’s identity, instead of honoring her as she’d wished to be known.”
― Sara DiVello, Broadway Butterfly

“As I’m sure you know, it’s commonly used by dentists and doctors as an anesthetic, and it’s sold in pharmacies for personal use as a sleep aid.”
― Sara DiVello, Broadway Butterfly

“She kept the lamp on, even though electricity was up over a penny a kilowatt”
― Sara DiVello, Broadway Butterfly

“their remaining time in a 147-room Georgian mansion outside Philadelphia known as Whitemarsh Hall”
― Sara DiVello, Broadway Butterfly