Saralee Woods

“Now I was quiet. “It’s because police departments have constraints,” she continued. “Constraints of time, money, manpower, politics, and public pressure. Even their vaunted forensic labs aren’t the magical places we think they are;”
― Liza Tully, The World's Greatest Detective and Her Just Okay Assistant

“suggest otherwise. To be an old woman—I know people complain about being invisible, but that’s not what bothers me. It’s the sense of being an affront.” “An affront?” “An offense, almost like a bad smell. People don’t like the old because it reminds them that they will get old and, eventually, die. Aging is seen almost as a disease, something to be fixed or arrested.”
― Laura Lippman, Murder Takes a Vacation

“willing to listen and think about it. So many people now—it seems to me that they just double down when we ask that they reconsider that there’s no universal history, that there’s no version where someone”
― Laura Lippman, Murder Takes a Vacation

“Spend your money on experiences. All the so-called happiness experts agree that experiences bring us more enduring happiness than almost anything we”
― Laura Lippman, Murder Takes a Vacation