Laura Lippman
Related Only fools wait, and only tools bait. CRE This is too much reality for a Friday. AS GOOD AS IT GETS She was halfway through the second yard when she heard Cyprien fall and curse.LYNN VIEHL PHILIPPA GREGORY The night was white-blind with fog, and Kate staggered over every stone and stumbled in every puddle... ERIN BOW There are approximately two trillion cells in the human body. You are never alone, there are always ... DWIGHT W. HAYES In Cloud computing the difference between a dark cloud and a cloud with a silver lining, is the part... RAJAT MOHAN I think Jennifer Lopez is a phenom. And as far as I'm concerned, she's really a very smart b... RITA MORENO Laura could win a point with a passing shot or she could volley her way to a point. She is a skilled... DICK PIRETTI J. K. ROWLING SUE GRAFTON A man who wants to gain power over a woman must follow the example of women and condition his sex dr... ESTHER VILAR She realized as a girl of eight that if she sat down and wrote her stories, she could escape the par... DUDLEY CLENDINEN MERVYN PEAKE BANANA YOSHIMOTO THOMAS HARDY J.K. ROWLING A lot of teenagers write to me and say "I want to write a book. I want to get published." And those ... MAUREEN JOHNSON AYN RAND DANIELLE STEEL For as long as she could remember, she had thought that autumn air went well with books, that the tw... KATARINA BIVALD She can certainly beat me. But she has never run as fast as my best time in a half marathon. DANIELLE MOONEY PAULO COELHO Sierra felt full of hope and confidence in God. She knew who she was. And she knew Whose she was. ROBIN JONES GUNN JEFFREY FRY He only allowed himself a quick glance at her, knowing as soon as he saw her that she was the kind o... ADI ALSAID She is more worried than anything because it is not really the best place to be in the world right n... GEORGE MORGAN PATRICIA HIGHSMITH ELIZABETH BOWEN LEO NIKOLAEVICH TOLSTOY Heather just went after it. She tried to force the issue one way or another and decided to run with ... BRUCE CALHOUN MATTHEW DESMOND SARAH J. MAAS ALICE MUNRO Seems a lot of men never saw one such as me. A girl what could keep up and fight and ride and curse ... J.D. JORDAN TIM WILLOCKS LOUISA MAY ALCOTT FLORENCE KELLEY The goal tonight was pretty much let Catherine stay with (Scott) as long as she could, and she did a... BECKY MILLER Her stride frequency is so fast. She can turn her legs over probably twice or three times as fast as... MICHAEL LAWSON MICHAEL CUNNINGHAM ALICE MUNRO METTE IVIE HARRISON The Girl was gone, buried in the past. She never wanted to hear that name again. She was a woman for... CATHERINE COOKSON Death is not scary enough and not so sweet life of the human foot leaves gentility. IMAM ALI (AS) DEYTH BANGER She took on more of a leadership role as a senior. She was a quiet kid, not very talkative in the pa... JASON NICHOLS SHANNON HALE She had the swagger of a girl. She blushed like a boy. She had a girl’s toughness. She has a boy�... ALI SMITH As she conceived it, tea had to be as black as tar and as strong as a sinner's conscience. Or the ot... SERGEI LUKYANENKO A woman could be as beautiful as she felt herself to be. LAURA LEE GUHRKE BETTY SMITH SARAH DESSEN JANE AUSTEN MARISSA MEYER Besides her family, the only other permanent part of her life was with her friends online. She could... STEVAN V. NIKOLIC JODI PICOULT (She) told the defendant that she wanted to stay with him, and they drove west with the intent to 'g... DAVID LUDWIG She wants to excel. There's just something in her makeup -- a quality, a mindset -- that lets her ta... CARROLL LAHAYE There is no other time in a woman's life when she needs to be quite as smart as when she is looking ... KATHERINE ELLISON THOMM QUACKENBUSH Would you want you as a friend? PETER STROPLE It should not be surprised by seeing in our weird world that the people for enjoying own bread can a... ANUJ SOMANY Everyone out there is using you for their entertainment and what you mostly need is to be entertainm... SUPERNA BATHEJA She's a phenomenal passer. She averaged four or five assists, but she could have averaged a lot more... MARQUETTE BURGESS But she handles it better than most adults could. She has a peace about her as though everything is ... JULIE SCHERF My dog doesn't worry about the meaning of life. She may worry if she doesn't get her breakfa... JOKO BECK Occasionally, in the stillness of a taxi or an airplane, she would catalog the pleasures she had los... KEVIN BROCKMEIER She doesn’t have a ring on each finger, or a big diamond on each ring.ANNE BEREST AUDREY DIWAN CAROLINE DE MAIGRET AND SOPHIE MAS JAMES GRAY I’ll come back,” she promised. “I’ll always come back to you.”TIFFANY REISZ STEWART O'NAN They wanted a contemporary kitchen. She wanted a lot of white. She likes everything to be very clean... HEATHER FAULDING MELISSA DE LA CRUZ [Patricia Highsmith] was overwhelmed by sensory stimulation - there were too many people and too muc... ANDREW WILSON She was a great lady, she tried to help as many students as she could. She was always there for me. JAMIE JACKSON DAVID LEVITHAN MERIWETHER LEWIS She walked on and on as though if she walked far enough she might walk this thing out of her. As if ... JACKIE KAY ELIZABETH WURTZEL BORIS PASTERNAK Leaving James was not something Nina had thought possible, but if she could do so and still keep her... JEAN ELSON BEBE REXHA As long as she had books and money, nothing could be a catastrophe. KATARINA BIVALD B.J. NOVAK Interviewed after their transformation the girl said she still liked them ? but only as much as she ... ROBERT THOMPSON In the first two episodes, before she becomes Queen, I could be a lot freer with my emotions, but as... CLAIRE FOY DAVY CROCKETT J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI When she came out as a freshman you could tell she was going to be good and that she had a lot of po... KRISTI FRYE UNKNOWN Even as a young child in school she would rush to finish her school work so she could draw pictures. ANN EVANS Once again she would arrive at a foreign place. Once again be the newcomer, an outsider, the one who... LAURA ESQUIVEL LOUISE ERDRICH GEORG WILHELM FRIEDRICH HEGEL Everyone in my family pretty much has gone here so it seemed like the only option. I think (Lott) al... JENNIFER HOWARD We have all wrestled with her. As for techniques, Brooke probably has better moves than anyone on ou... RYAN SPRACKLING One of her secret fantasies had been that, as a girl who could code, she would work in the one place... MAUREEN F. MCHUGH J.K. ROWLING CHRISTINA ROSSETTI
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LAURA ZISKIN I was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2004. LAURA ZISKIN You know I'm proud that I was able to develop and produce movies that I wanted to make. LAURA ZISKIN For me as a filmmaker, I do the projects I'm really excited about. LAURA ZISKIN What's great about making movies is the sort of additive process of bringing people together and... LAURA ZISKIN I describe myself as someone who was always putting on a show, even when I was a little girl. I want... LAURA ZISKIN LAURA WILKINSON LAURA WILKINSON LAURA WILKINSON LAURA WILKINSON LAURA WILKINSON LAURA WILKINSON LAURA WILKINSON LAURA WILKINSON LAURA WILKINSON LAURA WASSER LAURA WASSER LAURA WASSER LAURA WASSER LAURA WASSER LAURA WASSER LAURA WASSER LAURA WASSER LAURA WASSER LAURA WASSER LAURA WASSER LAURA WASSER LAURA WASSER LAURA WASSER LAURA WASSER LAURA WASSER LAURA WASSER LAURA WASSER LAURA WASSER LAURA WASSER LAURA WASSER It's very lucky to be able to do a job where I get to sit about writing plays all day and going ... 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Even in that short time he had seen that Anne had great power. She did not care if she quarreled wit... 
I would like to be remembered as someone who did the best she could with the talent she had. 
The truth is, I could no more dictate her nature than she could dictate mine. Kinsey's happy as ... 
She could feel the blood flowing within her and she felt that she must die or break forth into leave... 
With a cold"--she spoke evenly, lowering her eyes a little--"now is the hardest time. Maybe even har... 
If she had not been imprudence incarnate, she would not have acted as she did when she met Henchard ... 
How do you want to be remembered?
She smiled. She knew she was dying. But it did not matter any longer. She had known something which ... 
Those who had seen eyes like hers before understood instantly that she was a woman who had suffered,... 
Hatred. Something almost as physical as walls, pianos, or nurses. She could almost touch the destruc... 
Nothing is ever as good or as bad as it appears to be. 
She knew what bothered her at the store...It was that the store intensified things that had always b... 
She posed as being more indolent than she felt, for fear of finding herself less able than she could... 
If one loves, one loves the whole person as he or she is, and not as one might wish them to be. 
Arleen’s children did not always have a home. They did not always have food. Arleen was not always... 
Whatever shred of hope he'd had for a future with her was gone. She still felt something for him, sh... 
She could not picture it. Herself riding on the subway or streetcar, caring for new horses, talking ... 
Her eyes were of different colors, the left as brown as autumn, the right as gray as Atlantic wind. ... 
Simple, sincere people seldom speak much of their piety. It shows itself in acts rather than in word... 
In order to be rated as good as a good man in the field of her earnings, she must show herself bette... 
She could have had a life as potent and dangerous as literature itself. 
What made more sense was that the bargain she was bound to was to go on living as she had been doing... 
A nod at Beatrice who held absolutely still. "She said she would come with me. She insisted on it. S... 
That's SHIT!
But when she turned her back to the lights, she saw that the night was so dark...She could not see t... 
As she read, at peace with the world and happy as only a little girl could be with a fine book and a... 
It's not forever', she'd said, but to my mother, it might as well have been. She had make her choice... 
Knowing their feelings as she did, it was a most attractive picture of happiness to her. She always ... 
Maybe she truly was hideous. But so long as she could deceive everyone, what did it matter? 
She was forced to consider the startling fact that the love of her life might not actually be someon... 
As he had kissed her neck, she could not repress the feeling she was a lamb making time with a wolf. 
As ugly an admission as this is, I met my wife at a party, and if I had been to the same party and s... 
Often, as she leafed through the sticky, plastic-coated pages, spotting herself with a frizzy perm o... 
As long as she could remember who she was, she was okay. She wouldn't go crazy. At least not today. 
It is a dangerous thing with brothers, to think that you could be as strong as them, or as wise as t... 
A woman brought her child with an abscess in the lower part of the back, and offered as much corn as... 
All the backpedaling and backstepping that goes on with powerful women today, with Hillary Clinton s... 
How well she does everything! She reads not as if reading were the highest human activity, but as if... 
Nicki Minaj is a very strong woman who knows exactly what she wants. As an artist, I understand her,... 
Being young was her thing, and she was the best at it. But every year, more and more girls came out ... 
The enemy fought with savage fury, and met death with all its horrors, without shrinking or complain... 
When I saw Wonder Woman being constantly put in positions where she'd get tied up with her own r... 
As with a little girl playing with her nurse, the toy which she
eagerly sought she soon tires of an... 
[She also tempers emotion with wry perspective. A woman driven to infamy by passion cannot have the ... 
It is solely by risking life that freedom is obtained; . . . the individual who has not staked his o... 
Fair as the moon and joyful as the light;
Anyone can love a perfect place. Loving Baltimore takes some resilience. 
I'm kind of a jock. I sail, I ride a bike, I hike, I pump iron. I just love to be active. 
I definitely want to win a gold medal, that should be everybody's goal. 
The women are stepping up their degree of difficulty more than the men. A lot of us do the same dive... 
I love overcoming challenges and fear. 
There's something about sitting face-to-face with an attorney in an office that enables people t... 
Evening bags should be just big enough for my phone, lipstick, house key, and credit card. 
A woman - even if she is the primary breadwinner - really needs to keep in mind that at some point, ... 
A typical complaint of married women with children is that their job stress tired them out so that t... 
Psychology doesn't like to talk about evil. It likes to talk about bad childhoods. But I very mu... 
Art indeed is a term referring to the social source and to the social utility of creative acts. 
You can always turn a bad kisser into a good one. 
Free love sounds great. 
I moved to Milan when I was 15. I was always looking for something; I never really felt like I belon...