The Lions Of Fifth Avenue Quotes
"We live on deadlines and cigarettes, remember."
"It’s repressive and stupid. Write that down."
"Money isn’t everything, although her father would certainly disagree."
"I wish I were reporting on more interesting subjects."
"You disturb my sleep when I just got done with the night shift, I think you owe me something."
"It’s easier when everyone is gone. I don’t have to worry about upsetting the patrons or the staff."
"Every day, there was yet another dinner to cook, yet another sock to mend."
"The ups and downs of heartbreak were not for her, no way, not after what she’d already been through."
"She took a handkerchief from her sleeve and wiped her eyes, enjoying the stillness of the space, the dark quiet."
"We always land on our feet. What burden are you talking about?"
"I wish we could afford it so you could go, but maybe this is for the best."
"That’s a well-reported story. Not well written, mind you. It was painful to read. But the reporting was good. Quite good."
"Human contact is essential for a child’s development."
"The very phrase ‘the corruption of the family dynamic’ is another way of keeping women downtrodden."
"History is made by people in power making decisions."
"I resolved that women should have knowledge of contraception."
"The documents were crucial to examining the state of mind of the artist."
"History is made by people in power making decisions, and their notes and writings reveal the decision-making process."
"I don’t want you looking at it in your closet every time you open it, Sadie. Buy yourself something pretty instead."
"After the first experience of the death of someone you love, each later one is exponentially more painful, because you know how hard it will be to recover from the loss."
"I swear, you bring him up every chance you get."
"It was like a crazy seven-layer chocolate cake that normally you’d make for a birthday party or something."
"She always said she liked to bake because it was scientific, that if you added the right ingredients at the right time, in the right order, you’d never go wrong."
"I want to write about so much, I can hardly stand it. The world is changing, and I want to be out there, taking it all down."
"You’re much tougher than I am, though. I know I have a lot to learn."
"Don’t be so hard on yourself. You’re here, aren’t you?"
"Your logic holds true. It’s a pleasure to meet an equal adversary."
"You look so much like her. Forgive me, I’ve been a little under the weather, and seeing you is something of a shock. Come in."
"It was wonderful. They were a beautiful pair. They first met in New York, and although they kept separate residences, they rarely spent a night apart."
"She stayed late, as she sometimes used to. A German bomb dropped, and the building toppled over onto both of them."
"Laura was at times joyful, always quick-witted. But she didn’t talk about her life in America."
"She told me that the book was exactly where it should be, yet exactly where it should not."
"Learning how to be clear, to express what she was thinking without worrying it was wrong or stupid. To take up space and not apologize for it."
"Books were what I knew, so I got a job at a bookstore, working as an assistant, eventually taking over after the owner died."
"I suppose I couldn’t help but hold on to a vestige of my lineage."
"What Miss Larkin stole was not simply a certain number of pages worth a certain amount, but pieces of Western history and culture."
"The loss of these items is a detriment to all humanity and civilization."
"We depend on the accessibility of these documents so that new ways of thinking can flourish."
"Like Laura, Sadie was devoted to her work. And also like Laura, she’d met and fallen in love with someone who was as passionate about their career as she was."
"After all the uncertainty of the past several months, Sadie had finally set herself free."
"She was free to love the handsome, burly man who’d approached her in the Reading Room so many months ago, and free to continue as curator, protector, and champion of the Berg Collection."
"It was time to head uptown, back to the library, back home."