Lisa Barr > Quotes

“Shoes tell the whole story—who you are, what you can afford, if you are an impostor or the real deal.”
― Lisa Barr, Woman on Fire

“The Ordinary is Extraordinary ..." my motto for life as a writer/Mom/woman”
― Lisa Barr

“Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one. —STELLA ADLER”
― Lisa Barr, The Unbreakables

“Rule of thumb: The closer you are to a story, the further away you will be from the truth.”
― Lisa Barr, Woman on Fire

“Once you decide you are no longer a lamb but a wolf, everything changes.”
― Lisa Barr, The Goddess of Warsaw

“stooped to my lowest denominator, risen to my highest calling.”
― Lisa Barr, The Goddess of Warsaw

“Thirty percent of Warsaw’s population was Jewish, the largest Jewish community in Europe. But they have murdered so many of us at this point—including at least 99 percent of our children.”
― Lisa Barr, The Goddess of Warsaw

“story.”
― Lisa Barr, Woman on Fire

“Classy, cool under pressure, non-gossipy, a workhorse with solid midwestern values, who always puts his needs first.”
― Lisa Barr, Woman on Fire

“I feigned happiness for my best friend, pretended that Jakub was my bashert—soulmate. I should have earned an award for my acting performances. The only person with whom I couldn’t pretend was me.”
― Lisa Barr, The Goddess of Warsaw

“And yet, this death trap is no match for the lust eclipsing my heart, the constant unrequited craving. If I die tomorrow, I want him. Once. I’m asking you, God. You’ve taken so much already. Give me Aleksander and the rest of my fate is yours to play with. Do we have a deal?”
― Lisa Barr, The Goddess of Warsaw

“Your gifts lie in the place where your values, passions and strengths meet. Discovering that place is the first step toward sculpting your masterpiece—Your life. —MICHELANGELO”
― Lisa Barr, The Unbreakables

“A publicity hound with his flamboyant and risqué acquisitions and, in Ellis’s mind, a grandstanding manipulator and opportunist.”
― Lisa Barr, Woman on Fire

“Adam’s face dims, and Ellis immediately regrets bringing that up. Did he really think that Adam, a recovered heroin addict, could somehow help him find his long-lost painting before Margaux de Laurent’s dirty hands get there first? . . . Shame on him.”
― Lisa Barr, Woman on Fire

“Yes, but lowlifes with a lot of expendable cash are a boost for my bank account. They’re all buying up expensive art to show off to their depraved friends to raise their status. Who cares? It’s a win for me.”
― Lisa Barr, Woman on Fire

“He worked closely with Hugo Boss himself, a rabid anti-Semite and Nazi loyalist. I know exactly where you’re going with this, Mr. Bakker, using the painting as the segue to what you really want to find out. Been down that road more times than you can count.” He drops the pen to the table and stands. He’s jittery. Jules wonders if he’s on something. “It’s not a proud family legacy to have, believe me.”
― Lisa Barr, Woman on Fire

“She pimps out her female workers to wealthy men to make sales. The older the man, the younger the woman assigned to sell him the painting. And it doesn’t stop there. ‘Margaux’s Girls,’ as she calls them, know they need to go the distance or their jobs are on the line . . . What that distance is, you can only imagine.” Adam”
― Lisa Barr, Woman on Fire

“Your face . . . how far will you go to use it?”
― Lisa Barr, The Goddess of Warsaw

“A killer back to a boy who’d lost his parents. At least he still has tears. The last vestige of humanity. Most of us have already gone numb.”
― Lisa Barr, The Goddess of Warsaw

“Welcome to the investigative team. Disbanded, off the books, but still highly operational. Can I trust you, Jules?” He doesn’t wait for her response. She’s made it past Louise, collected two hundred dollars, and is ready to go—that’s all he needs to know.”
― Lisa Barr, Woman on Fire

“If I create from the heart, nearly everything works: if from the head, almost nothing. —MARC CHAGALL”
― Lisa Barr, The Unbreakables

“Funny, how war both entraps and frees you. What’s the point of niceties, manners, morals, and suppressed emotion when you could die at any given moment?”
― Lisa Barr, The Goddess of Warsaw

“She was Catholic, carefree, Bohemian. They fell in love, but never married, though she called him husband, took his name, and gave it to me . . .” And his family hated me.”
― Lisa Barr, Woman on Fire

“Rogues’ Gallery: The Rise (and Occasional Fall) of Art Dealers, the Hidden Players in the History of Art by Philip Hook.”
― Lisa Barr, Woman on Fire

“And then she begins to cry. My baby finally lets it all out, and it’s about damn time. She’s been so strong, too strong. Ava cries for all the things in life that she can’t fix. And all I can do is hold her, rub her head, and be present. It’s the most powerless aspect of parenting. We can’t take away our child’s pain, we can’t carry it for them. We can only just be there, a hand to hold, a shoulder to lean on, an ear to listen, and a hug to reassure.”
― Lisa Barr, The Unbreakables

“Instead, she is left picking up the pieces of a drunken, gambling womanizer; a despicable son of who squandered all the family jewels that fell like manna into his slippery lap. I hate him. My father’s dead— and I still hate him.”
― Lisa Barr, Woman on Fire

“You are my favorite, and you know why? Because ‘instinct’ is not something that can be bought or sold or trained. The very best dealers are born with it.”
― Lisa Barr, Woman on Fire

“I plan to leave no stone unturned, Mr. Baum. The Nazis, to their own detriment, created an impeccable paper trail, documenting everything they did.” She eyes Dan. “Our work begins.”
― Lisa Barr, Woman on Fire

“Ellis nods. They all do. “Of course. He’s that famous art detective,” Ellis says. “Don’t they call him the Sherlock Holmes of international art theft? He’s the one who found that Rembrandt that was stolen from the Louvre in a cave in Slovenia, right?”
― Lisa Barr, Woman on Fire

“Let’s be clear. I am not a star. I am a comet—a ball of gas, rock, and debris camouflaged in a spray of light.” My gaze narrows as if she were a lowly grip on my set. “Here’s what you don’t know, Miss Hayes, what the Enquirer has not yet uncovered . . . Browning is not my real name. It’s the make of the gun I used to kill the Nazi who pistol-whipped my father to death.”
― Lisa Barr, The Goddess of Warsaw