Lisa Scottoline Quotes

Motherhood was not for the weak.

Hannah was out of earshot, then turned to Caitlin.

I don't want to be less than, so some guy can feel more than. Capisce?

I can't stand just sitting here not doing anything. You can't solve a problem by remote control.

She's the Girl Who Dresses Too Hot For Work. Every rotation has one, probably every job.

If I stopped talking after I made my point, I'd never say anything.

From Anthony, reading, Can you let me know now? Sanchez leaves for weekend if we're not on. She felt a guilty pang. It's

You should be more paranoid than you are. Your typical suburban mom worries all the time, but she worries about the wrong things.
Because she doesn't worry about me.

Likewise, I would never be so rude as to not interrupt a friend. How else would she know I was listening?

A movie theater is Switzerland of the diet world.

Eric turned the corner onto his old

Do you know what they call people who hoard books? Smart.

Natural law says that matter cannot be created or destroyed, but that was pre-spanx.

I fool everybody!

The look he was going for was Friendly Suburban Dad, because that's what he was, but he suspected he'd achieved only
Cialis Guy.

She realised that letting someone go was setting them free.

Because she does not worry about me.

I always win in the end

My animals are a really important part of my life.

My theory is that you find out who your true friends are when something good happens to you, not when something bad happens to you. Everybody loves you when something bad happens to you. Then you're easy to love.

If you can't be brave, be determined. And you'll end up in the same place.

Who's the president of the United States?"
"Who cares? All politicians are crooks

We're here and we prey on you

Even if it's not what you planned, you can make a life for yourself on your own and be happy.

Any middle-aged woman knows that our feet are not for the faint of heart, especially in midwinter. I wear clogs, so it's actually like my feet are wooden now.

You're my best friend. I understand you and appreciate you, and can make you happy the rest of your life, I promise you that.

I don't really like you, but I'm so good at acting as if I do that it's basically the same thing.

Making the decision to have a child - it is momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body. - Elizabeth Stone

How do you tell the psychiatrists from the patients in the hospital?
The patients get better and leave.

Your typical suburban mom worries all the time, but she worries about the wrong things

I like terrific writing, but I also like a terrific story. My favorite books have both, and they're by contemporary, commercial American writers.

Don't argue what you don't believe in. Rule number one, in law and in life.

Let's talk about a decision that women have to make every morning-
Big purse or little purse?

Night came early to this neighborhood, the sun fleeing the sky, leaving heaven black and blue.

She kept an eye on the horizon, or where she thought it was, and understood that not everything that existed could be seen. Not every border was clear.

Great griefs are mute.

He didn't know why she was standing so close , much less touching him, but he didn't have time to worry about it.

Bars over the door, but not the window, and the roof looked

There were twenty questions, and forty was the top score. I scored
a thirty- eight, which means I would be graduating with honors if
I majored in being a sociopath.

And when I look at my mother, I reflect on her strength and endurance. She's cranky sometimes, but she is lovable and loving. I'd be happy to be there at 86.

Nobody was ever replaced in life, no hole completely filled or loss totally healed. You didn't need a medical degree to know that the human body really wasn't stronger in the broken places. Like any bone, the cracks would always show if you looked hard enough.

But not in "normal" people like me. They don't realize that evil lives on their street. Works in the cubicle next to them. Chats with them in the checkout line at CVS. Reads a paperback on the train next to them. Runs on a treadmill at their gym. Or marries their daughter. We're here, and we prey on you. We target you. We groom you.

I already know when I'm being bad, and I don't need to be nagged by my underwear.

I read, therefore, I matter.

His fee was $300 an hour, and
for clients who couldn't afford that, he had a sliding scale that was
never less than $250 - except for crying old ladies facing terminal
diagnoses.

You can't go! You're my husband, not my principal.

I'm a professional worrier.
It comes with the ovaries.

You should be more paranoid

Ask me if I care.

I'm always interested in products that claim to be aphrodisiacs, when we all know that the one and only aphrodisiac is a man volunteering to build you some bookshelves.

Suddenly, someone who was at the center of your life is gone, excised as quickly as an apple is cored, a sharp spike driven down the center of your world, then a cruel flick of the wrist and the almost surgical extraction of your very heart.

Eric approached the octagonal nurses' station, and a blonde nurse
looked up from her computer monitor, smiled, and pointed to
examining room D. Everybody recognized the hospital shrinks
from the bright red W on their lanyard IDs. The W stood for
Wright, the wing that contained the locked psych unit, but the
staff teased that W stood for Wackos. He'd heard all the jokes
How do you tell the psychiatrists from the patients in the hospital?
The patients get better and leave. Eric told the best psychiatrist
jokes, though he never told the ones about psychiatrist's kids. He
didn't think those were funny. He lived those.

If it weren't for book tours, I would never leave my house.

You need somebody to stand up for you. You're the little guy, you just don't realize it yet. The Commonwealth has all the aces, and you don't even know you're playing cards.

I learned that protecting someone by keeping him away from me doesn't shelter either of us. I learned that feeling other people's feelings for them doesn't bring us closer, it only separates me from myself and my needs. I always thought being codependent meant being too emotionally glued to someone; I didn't realize the way I was doing it was setting me adrift.

You cannot do more with less.

Even people who counted their blessings never counted them in the morning. For one thing, there wasn't time.

Judy felt dismayed. A half hour? She couldn't learn much about the gym in half an hour.

It's fun to do something dumb. Not something really dumb, like my second marriage. That was really really dumb.

Nah. I'm a tough cookie. Except for the cancer, I'm fine.

if you ask me, law leads to order, not necessarily justice.

1. I am superior to others.
Circle one: Doesn't apply to me. Partially applies to me. Fully applies to me.
And:
I would not feel sorry if someone were blamed for something I did.
Circle one: Doesn't apply to me. Partially applies to me. Fully applies to me.

Now, Megan, we can't pick on whoever abstained.

Here are a few of the sources I used, and I heartily recommend them: Simon Baron-Cohen, The Science of Evil; Judith Beck, Cognitive Behavior Therapy; Louis Cozolino, The Making of a Therapist; Kevin Dutton, The Wisdom of Psychopaths; James Fallon, The Psychopath Inside; Peter and Ginger Ross Breggin, Talking Back to Prozac; Robert D.

Listen carefully, I'm going to say three words."
"I love you?

Ellen had long ago stopped being embarrassed by temper tantrums. She flipped it and wore it like a badge of honor. A temper tantrum was a sign that a mom said no when it counted.

I love writing both fiction and memoir. Both have unique challenges; bottom line, fiction is hard because you have to come up with the credible, twisty plot, and memoir is hard because you have to say something true and profound, albeit in a funny way.

She's only human. Don't judge her. Just love her.

Testosterone should be a controlled substance.

You don't have to be dead to write a classic, and you don't have to be literary to be smart.

Jake thanked God he had a son to put to bed when he knew somewhere there was a family, right now, waiting for someone who would never come home.

You can really help support a character if you understand the setting. So for that reason I generally write about Philadelphia.

Don't try and change me. Women always try to change men. It never works. I'm not trying to change you. I'm trying to work with you.

We can't control what people do or say, even if it's dumb.

But the fact is, I'm not work-identified. I'm not a lawyer or a writer. I'm a mom, and I'm a woman, and that's the kind of people I want to see in books in the starring role.

I love everything about Philadelphia, and its food is like the city itself: real-deal, hearty, and without pretension. We've always had an underdog vibe as a city, but that just makes us try harder, and I love our scrappiness and scruffiness.

Not true, I got macular degeneration." Mrs. Teichner winked.
"Or maybe I'm just a degenerate!

I am really, I think, truly an easygoing, positive, fun person.

My face is a mask. I hide my thoughts. My words are calculated to please, charm, or undermine. I can sound smarter or dumber, depending on what you expect to hear. My actions further my self- interest.

He made eye contact but he kept it like casual observation, not a fixed stare. He held his arms at his sides, not only because it was less threatening, but they'd be able to fend off a blow. He cleared the doorway so he'd have an escape route.

There was no known cure for a Catholic education.

They didn't do things the way you would have. They're not you. That's what their declaration-of-independence rants were all about,when you used to fight, and why they kept telling us they want to do it their way ... Well, now, I get to do it my way ... Well, now, I get to do it my way ... And you know what? It's fun! ... I can do anything I damn well please. It's called freedom. And I earned every minute of it. And that's the best feeling in the world. To me, that's our long-delayed reward for decades of hands-on parenting. And for the tape running through the backs of our minds, in mommy lobe, for the rest of our lives ... Because it's really about being a woman at the wheel. We're always moving ahead. Enjoy the trip.

You haven't lived until you duct-taped a diaper on a dog.

Eric had asked administration not to pipe the music into his unit but they said it would cost too much to alter the system. He told them to take it out of his budget but they said no...He knew it was part of the larger problem, that mental illness wasn't taken seriously as physical illness...

Yes. He knows I'm dying, but he can't really accept it and
he'll be all alone when I'm gone. Can't you help him?

Everything associated with weddings cost the same - a fortune.

You know what Kovich always says, 'Leave or heave.'" She

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If you cant be brave then be determined. And you will end up in the same place.

They never see me coming.
Know why?
Because I'm already there.

I fool you. I fool everyone.

I look normal but i'm not

She wondered if justice was possible in a world full of profoundly evil and damaged human beings, in a veritable universe of damage.

I've read that one out of twenty-four people is a sociopath, and if you ask me, the other twenty-three of you should be worried.

That's what books do, isn't it? That's why I love to read. They bring us closer to ourselves.