Quote of the Day (Laura Lippman, on a Dieting, First-Time Drug Buyer)

“Molly thought hard, and Molly thinking was like a fat guy running --- there was a lot of visible effort.”— Baltimore-based crime fiction writer Laura Lippman, “The Crack Cocaine Diet,” in Hardly Knew Her: Short Stories (2008)

(Photo of Laura Lippman taken at the 2015 Library of Congress National Book Festival, Sept. 6, 2015, by fourandsixty.)