Prom Mom Quotes

“How do you live with yourself? How does anyone live with themselves, in the end? The way I see it, you either admit to yourself exactly who you are - or you lie to yourself the way you lie to the rest of the world.”
― Laura Lippman, Prom Mom

“too many consumerist sirens encouraging you to dash your shopping cart on rocks”
― Laura Lippman, Prom Mom

“She couldn’t take any more bad news, she just couldn’t. Sometimes, she felt guilty about her relative comfort and safety in a world where people were dying by the thousands, daily. Then she resented feeling guilty. No one’s life was perfect.”
― Laura Lippman, Prom Mom

“She liked to think of herself as an inquisitive person. But she also valued politeness, and that was a tricky combination, getting trickier all the time. How did one express curiosity about others without violating boundaries?”
― Laura Lippman, Prom Mom

“Wegmans made her feel as if she were unworthy of it, like someone who went to Paris and saw only the Louvre and the Eiffel Tower. She was a Wegmans tourist, a bad one.”
― Laura Lippman, Prom Mom

“Too many people got distracted by one-upmanship, the urge to be the alpha in any encounter, social or business. Joe wanted only to get out with what he wanted.”
― Laura Lippman, Prom Mom

“He had sometimes thought that if she had the option to be nothing but a brain in a jar, that would be fine with her.”
― Laura Lippman, Prom Mom