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1 " There was no protection, no quota system when it came to luck. It was like that moment in math when a child learns that the odds of heads or tails is always one-in-two, no matter how many times one has flipped the coin and gotten heads. Every flip, the odds are the same. Every day, you could be unlucky all over again. "
― Laura Lippman , I'd Know You Anywhere
2 " No one in the world loved you quite the way a younger sibling did. "
3 " Doing nothing,” Inez said, “is a choice in its own way. When you do nothing, you still do something. "
4 " Just because you worked hard on something didn’t make it worth doing. "
5 " hate how swiftly the world moves now, how glib everyone has become. We need to think more, not more quickly. "
6 " What was the point of giving children freedom to experiment and fail, if one then turned it all into a tiresome object lesson? "
7 " Family members must forgive one another. "
8 " But then again—if one doesn’t forgive someone, doesn’t one, in a sense, lose that person forever? "
9 " Not everyone has to get the same things all the time in order for life to be fair. "
10 " If you couldn’t face the truth about yourself, then you weren’t ready for the truth about anything, "
11 " Cynics fooled themselves into thinking they had sussed out the worst-case scenarios and were invariably surprised by how life trumped them. Dreamers were often disappointed—but seldom in themselves. "
12 " satisfactory husband that he was, he was a man and not one inclined to wax poetic about a day of cupcakes and movies. "
13 " She was a polite person, and politeness meant making others feel better even if it made you feel like shit. "
14 " They were, as a family, constantly on the verge of being dangerously, enviably cute. "
15 " throwing out “I sorry” as if it were confetti, her private little parade of destruction rolling past, leaving Eliza to clean up all of the mess. They had tried hard to teach their children the importance of genuine remorse, what it was to say and mean “I’m sorry. "
16 " listen, you know? Girls. They don’t listen. They’re in too much "
17 " CNN. I hate how swiftly the world moves now, how glib everyone has become. We need to think more, not more quickly. "
18 " Trudy couldn’t imagine men writing lovelorn letters to female murderers. "
