Nina Simon > Quotes

“That’s the beauty of the people we love,” she finally said. “No matter how well we know them, there’s always more to discover.”
― Nina Simon, Mother-Daughter Murder Night

“Just go. Now. Please.” Jack’s grandma had told her it was always good to give men simple instructions in complicated situations.”
― Nina Simon, Mother-Daughter Murder Night

“But you have to love yourself the most. No one else can do that for you.”
― Nina Simon, Mother-Daughter Murder Night

“Life is a negotiation. With yourself. With others. You can’t sit around waiting for someone else to guess what you want. You have to ask for it, even if it’s scary.”
― Nina Simon, Mother-Daughter Murder Night

“Jack’s grandma had told her it was always good to give men simple instructions in complicated situations.”
― Nina Simon, Mother-Daughter Murder Night

“Mother-daughter murder night, we used to call it. It was our little ritual.”
― Nina Simon, Mother-Daughter Murder Night

“Never volunteer to be a secretary,”
― Nina Simon, Mother-Daughter Murder Night

“In my experience,” Lana said, articulating each word with precision, “women who blame other women for their problems have their own deficiencies to deal with.”
― Nina Simon, Mother-Daughter Murder Night

“In the words of cognitive scientists Deirdre Wilson and Dan Sperber, relevance “yields positive cognitive effect.” Something is relevant if it gives you new information, if it adds meaning to your life, if it makes a difference to you. It’s not enough for something to be familiar, or connected to something you already know. Relevance leads you somewhere. It brings new value to the table.”
― Nina Simon, The Art of Relevance

“It’s always good to make a man sweat, Jack. At least until you have something you want from him.”
― Nina Simon, Mother-Daughter Murder Night

“Land is the most precious form of power on this planet. There’s only so much of it. When you buy it—” “—or steal it—” Lana nodded. “You stake a claim on its future. If you own the land, you can do what you want. You can plant trees, build skyscrapers, or plan a whole new city. You can shape the future you want for yourself and your family.”
― Nina Simon, Mother-Daughter Murder Night

“You know how you told me winners never mumble?” Jack held up the book she was reading about Theodore Roosevelt. “He says you should speak softly and carry a big stick.” Lana scoffed. “You think they let women have sticks?”
― Nina Simon, Mother-Daughter Murder Night

“Please,” she said. “Not everything is about racism or discrimination. This is just good old-fashioned incompetence.”
― Nina Simon, Mother-Daughter Murder Night

“This is my chance,” she said. “I may not like the way it has come to me. But I’d be a fool not to take it.”
― Nina Simon, Mother-Daughter Murder Night

“waving her arms like an air traffic controller.”
― Nina Simon, Mother-Daughter Murder Night

“it was barbaric and capitalist and beautiful all at once.”
― Nina Simon, Mother-Daughter Murder Night

“Lana figured this must be what being dead was like. No one asking her for anything.”
― Nina Simon, Mother-Daughter Murder Night

“There was silence on the line, and Lana caught a whiff of the familiar scent of a man aroused by his own confusion.”
― Nina Simon, Mother-Daughter Murder Night

“Let’s get out of here,” Lana said. “If we’re going to make progress, we need decent coffee.”
― Nina Simon, Mother-Daughter Murder Night

“Some people trusted the universe to take care of them. And then there were people like Jack who took care of themselves.”
― Nina Simon, Mother-Daughter Murder Night

“Not every battle is fought in the open,”
― Nina Simon, Mother-Daughter Murder Night

“it was always worth making men want more than they could get.”
― Nina Simon, Mother-Daughter Murder Night

“Before he died, my father told me it takes a man forty years to learn how to listen to women. To take seriously their power, how ruthless they can be.”
― Nina Simon, Mother-Daughter Murder Night

“with”
― Nina Simon, Mother-Daughter Murder Night

“She kept herself impeccably tailored and toned, relentless in battle against the forces that turned other women invisible as they aged, stepped on and stepped over.”
― Nina Simon, Mother-Daughter Murder Night

“But God doesn’t want you to get married.” “God doesn’t want me to get married?” Miss Gigi nodded. “God wants you to be happy. How’s a husband going to help with that?”
― Nina Simon, Mother-Daughter Murder Night

“women who blame other women for their problems have their own deficiencies to deal with.”
― Nina Simon, Mother-Daughter Murder Night

“unexpected compliments were usually followed by unreasonable requests.”
― Nina Simon, Mother-Daughter Murder Night

“When you want someone to go somewhere they don’t want to go, introduce confusion. Maybe even a little pain. And then make your destination the solution, the alleviation of that pain.”
― Nina Simon, Mother-Daughter Murder Night

“Lana was glad her granddaughter had not yet been so thoroughly let down by a man that she wanted to kill him.”
― Nina Simon, Mother-Daughter Murder Night