Books I Like: The Woman in the Window

 

my favoritelines from this book...

Watching is like nature photography: You don’t interfere with the wildlife.

I think of Dr. Brulov in Spellbound: “My dear girl, you cannot keep bumping your head against reality and saying it is not there.”

No family, happy or unhappy, is quite like any other.

As Shaw also said, alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life. Good old Shaw.

Because he did lie. The averted gaze, the leftward glance, the delayed response, the fidgeting—all the tells of a liar. I knew it before he opened his mouth.

“The definition of insanity, Fox,” Wesley used to remind me, paraphrasing Einstein, “is doing the same thing again and again and expecting a different result.” So stop thinking and start acting.