Laura Marx Fitzgerald > Quotes

“but the way i see it is, hasn't it been long enough? Hasn't the world always been full of monsters and lies? Isn't it our place to fight them, to tell the truth, to rewrite the story? to ensure the return of spring in a world of winter”
― Laura Marx Fitzgerald, The Gallery

“This was part of the Nazis’ plan, do you see? To make even us believe that we had no place on this earth. But then the ugliness, the brutality would be pierced by this ray of beauty, and you’d think . . .”
― Laura Marx Fitzgerald, Under the Egg

“The parents of Success are a Little Bit of Luck and Not a Little Bit of Money,”
― Laura Marx Fitzgerald, The Gallery

“Most folks at Shaded Acres (actually a sun-blasted high-rise surrounded by “acres” of Brooklyn concrete) won’t take rooms on the cemetery side. But I requested this side for the same reason I always ride in the front seat: I like to see where I’m going. I”
― Laura Marx Fitzgerald, The Gallery

“I worried that I wouldn’t be allowed in the Daily Standard’s imposing, marble-halled building. But on this day, it seemed even a sweaty, huffing girl”
― Laura Marx Fitzgerald, The Gallery

“You believed me. That was enough. That was what started it all.”
― Laura Marx Fitzgerald, The Gallery

“Peruginos, Bellinis, Titians, Georgiones, Simibaldos, Lottos, Pintoricchios, Solarios, Tifernates, Botticellis, Ghirlandaios, and all the Fras (Fra Bartolommeo, Fra Filippo Lippi, Fra Lippo Lippi, Fra Angelico).”
― Laura Marx Fitzgerald, Under the Egg

“The precepts of the law are these: to live correctly, to do an injury to none, and to render to every one his own”—a holdover from the building’s original function as a jail and courthouse.”
― Laura Marx Fitzgerald, Under the Egg

“The battle had been won, but I couldn’t shake the feeling that the cost had been too great.”
― Laura Marx Fitzgerald, The Gallery

“A new day, a new beginning, a new chance at a new ending.”
― Laura Marx Fitzgerald, Under the Egg

“He put his hands on my shoulders. "Well, Martha, now you have your vision, don't you? 'The nearer we live to the source of wealth, the more wealth we shall receive.' Do you know what book that's from?”
― Laura Marx Fitzgerald, The Gallery

“Mother Nature had draped a wet wool sweater around the city’s shoulders that day.”
― Laura Marx Fitzgerald, Under the Egg