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Sometimes you have to destroy things, even people, in order to save them. (7) — Laura Lippman

There's always time to read. Don't trust a writer who doesn't read. It's like eating food prepared by a cook who doesn't eat. — Laura Lippman

I'm a morning person, which is a hideous thing to be. No one likes morning people, not even other morning people. — Laura Lippman

There was nothing more dangerous than people convinced of their own good intentions. — Laura Lippman

McCafferty's was a Mount Washington steak house, sort of the Palm Lite, with caricatures of Baltimore celebrities hanging — Laura Lippman

Going to college don't make you from somewhere, any more than a cat born in an over can call itself a biscuit. — Laura Lippman

Tess's Uncle Donald winced when he entered the Kibbitz Room at Attman's Delicatessen. The pained expression — Laura Lippman

Reading was not a fallback position for her but an ideal state of being. — Laura Lippman

Literally. Unlike most people, even allegedly educated ones, he used — Laura Lippman

Bad taste never dies. It just keeps evolving. — Laura Lippman

My family is really, really Southern - I had two uncle Bubbas, and grandparents that we called Big Mama and Big Daddy. — Laura Lippman

In fact, I think every book I've written has been inspired by a real event. — Laura Lippman

Anyone can love a perfect place. Loving Baltimore takes some resilience. — Laura Lippman

I adore the work of Stephen Sondheim. I like musicales in general. They make surprisingly great running tapes. — Laura Lippman

Whatever you want, at any moment, someone else is getting it. Whatever you have, someone else is longing for. — Laura Lippman

Everyone thinks everything's a waste of time when it's not the thing that leads to an answer. — Laura Lippman

Children can be happy when their parents are miserable. But a parent is never happier than her unhappiest child. — Laura Lippman

She was a polite person, and politeness meant making others feel better even if it made you feel like shit. — Laura Lippman

Coitus interruptus by SWAT team. At last a form of birth control that was one hundred percent reliable. — Laura Lippman

I'm for anything that lets writers stretch, in or out of their series. — Laura Lippman

Hate how swiftly the world moves now, how glib everyone has become. We need to think more, not more quickly. — Laura Lippman

How magnanimous was a gesture if one were constantly aware of its magnanimity? — Laura Lippman

I've gotten to do a lot of stuff, traveled, worked hard at my career. — Laura Lippman

You can rewrite life all you want, Sandy thought,. It's still a play where everyone dies in the end. — Laura Lippman

Everyone cared what others thought, even those who were defiantly different. They cared more than anyone. — Laura Lippman

Bring wine," she hissed into the phone. "And Matthew's pizza. Those lima beans with feta cheese from Mezze. Sopa-pillas from Golden West. Hurry! — Laura Lippman

Reporting is pretty vital to me. It keeps me connected to the world. A 40-hour-per-week day job may be less feasible as time goes on. — Laura Lippman

It's very different to have this kid that I'm truly responsible for. — Laura Lippman

It's smarter to be lucky than it's lucky to be smart. — Laura Lippman

Stinginess seemed instinctive to him. Darwinian even. He hadn't gotten to his current size by sharing. — Laura Lippman

I'm at the age most people are sending their kids off to college. — Laura Lippman

When destiny wants to fuck with you, it can afford to be patient. Destiny has all the time in the world. — Laura Lippman

Just because you worked hard on something didn't make it worth doing. — Laura Lippman

and a Dr. Brown's celery soda. — Laura Lippman

I like to see writers reach bigger and bigger audiences, and stand-alones have allowed some of them to do just that. — Laura Lippman

Listen, you know? Girls. They don't listen. They're in too much — Laura Lippman

Fenwick, sitting down to — Laura Lippman

Feeding her raw oysters at Charleston, or sharing the gingerbread with lemon chiffon sauce at Bicycle. — Laura Lippman

Cain - and the password, "Indemnity." Given how rapidly management changed at the Beacon-Light, it was entirely plausible that this familiar — Laura Lippman

There are, of course, an infinite number of places where one is not, yet only one place where one actually is. — Laura Lippman

She liked what she saw, although she knew being a not-beautiful woman was supposed to be a tragedy. — Laura Lippman

he began, over dinner at Cantler's, a much beloved but out-of-the-way restaurant near — Laura Lippman

sound silly, but I figured out that being happy made me happier than being unhappy ever did." Tess replayed these words in — Laura Lippman

All life is hindsight, really, stories informed by their endings. — Laura Lippman

No one in the world loved you quite the way a younger sibling did. — Laura Lippman

Doing nothing," Inez said, "is a choice in its own way. When you do nothing, you still do something. — Laura Lippman

What was the point of giving children freedom to experiment and fail, if one then turned it all into a tiresome object lesson? — Laura Lippman

They were, as a family, constantly on the verge of being dangerously, enviably cute. — Laura Lippman

I begin each book with a challenge to myself. — Laura Lippman

Satisfactory husband that he was, he was a man and not one inclined to wax poetic about a day of cupcakes and movies. — Laura Lippman

Her dilemma - the eternal human dilemma - is that she wants a chance to revisit her choices with full knowledge of the future. — Laura Lippman