Lisa Belkin > Quotes

“Until that night Lucille had believed that people say things in anger that they do not really mean. By the time the fracas in her dining room had ended, however, she had come to believe that what people say in anger is what they really do mean, but usually have the self-control to keep to themselves.”
― Lisa Belkin, Show Me A Hero

“There is nothing more nerve-wracking than being inches from a lifelong goal.”
― Lisa Belkin, Show Me A Hero

“Courage' isn't the kind of word you use to describe yourself, Nick, even if we both know it's true. That only works if other people are saying it.”
― Lisa Belkin, Show Me A Hero

“The real power—the power to hire, fire, and spend money—still lay mostly with the city manager, except that he was appointed by, and could therefore be dismissed by, the members of the City Council. The end result was that no one was ever really in charge in Yonkers.”
― Lisa Belkin, Show Me A Hero

“Courage' isn't the kinds of word you use to describe yourself, Nick, even if we both know it's true. That only works if other people are saying it.”
― Lisa Belkin

“Our lives are prologue to one version of a story, and epilogue to another. We don’t get to see the “all of it”—or even the “more of it”—unless a family historian, or a fervent genealogist, or a somewhat obsessed author comes along to map the whole.”
― Lisa Belkin, Genealogy of a Murder: Four Generations, Three Families, One Fateful Night

“Her cooking was terrible, her English minimal, and so their Sabbath dinner conversation was mostly her gesturing toward seconds of overdone meat and underdone potatoes while he pantomimed being full. Every so often she got up to yell at the cat in Yiddish.”
― Lisa Belkin, Genealogy of a Murder: Four Generations, Three Families, One Fateful Night