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Laura Lippman
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“... Tess had never met a rut she didn't like.”
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“... stinginess seemed instinctive to him. Darwinian even. He hadn't gotten to his current size by sharing.”
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“... it's smarter to be lucky than it's lucky to be smart.”
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“There was nothing more dangerous than people convinced of their own good intentions.”
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“... how magnanimous was a gesture if one were constantly aware of its magnanimity?”
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“Children can be happy when their parents are miserable. But a parent is never happier than her unhappiest child.”
Laura Lippman, U.S. writer
(1959)