“anything like that again, I’m going to charge you with obstruction of justice, and I swear,” — Lisa Scottoline Justice Copy Share Image
People project all sorts of emotions onto their cats, and cats like it that way. — Lisa Scottoline Cat Copy Share Image
You don't have to be dead to write a classic, and you don't have to be literary to be smart. — Lisa Scottoline Copy Share Image
“Custom curtains made with a lovely Schumacher fabric that she’d used for the headboard.” — Lisa Scottoline Copy Share Image
I love my job, and I love books. I read anything, including cereal boxes. I care deeply about what people think of… — Lisa Scottoline Copy Share Image
Ellen had long ago stopped being embarrassed by temper tantrums. She flipped it and wore it like a badge of honor. A… — Lisa Scottoline Copy Share Image
“Everyone liked a clean-cut guy, and they tended to forget that appearances were deceiving. His” — Lisa Scottoline Copy Share Image
“I am all the daughters of my father’s house, And all the brothers too. —WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, Twelfth Night, ACT 2, SCENE 4” — Lisa Scottoline Brotherhood Copy Share Image
“Jake thanked God he had a son to put to bed when he knew somewhere there was a family, right now, waiting… — Lisa Scottoline Family Copy Share Image
I was a lawyer and I loved it, but my Francesca was born, and a divorce followed way too soon after, — Lisa Scottoline Copy Share Image
Because the thing about love is that we can't control whether we get it, but we can control whether we give it. — Lisa Scottoline Control Copy Share Image
“Night came early to this neighborhood, the sun fleeing the sky, leaving heaven black and blue.” — Lisa Scottoline Descriptive-prose Copy Share Image
I love writing both fiction and memoir. Both have unique challenges; bottom line, fiction is hard because you have to come up… — Lisa Scottoline Albeit Copy Share Image
Bad things are like waves. They're going to happen to you, and there's nothing you can do about it. They're part of… — Lisa Scottoline Art of life Copy Share Image
“She’d believed in forever in her twenties, when Gray had said it, meaning every word, and she’d believed in forever in her… — Lisa Scottoline Copy Share Image
“Justice didn’t compensate for the loss of human life. Justice was an intellectual concept, inevitably trumped by emotion. Justice was the word… — Lisa Scottoline Consolation prize Copy Share Image
I love everything about Philadelphia, and its food is like the city itself: real-deal, hearty, and without pretension. We've always had an… — Lisa Scottoline Copy Share Image
“Her father had grown up with The Tonys; Tony “From-Down-The-Block” LoMonaco, “Pigeon” Tony Lucia, and Tony “Two Feet” Pensiera, which got shortened… — Lisa Scottoline Copy Share Image
“Writing had always helped her, before. It always clarified her feelings and her thoughts, and she never felt like she could understand… — Lisa Scottoline Books Copy Share Image
“The problem is that three of the neighboring farms leased their land to Frazer Gas for fracking. Under Pennsylvania law, if three… — Lisa Scottoline Business Copy Share Image
“See the child, not the cancer. Then you’ll be happy when you visit, not sad.” — Lisa Scottoline Child Copy Share Image
“Natural law says that matter cannot be created or destroyed, but that was pre-spanx.” — Lisa Scottoline Humor Copy Share Image
Even if it's not what you planned, you can make a life for yourself on your own and be happy. — Lisa Scottoline Copy Share Image
I love the dignity in the name Philadelphia, but at heart, we're Philly. — Lisa Scottoline Dignity Copy Share Image
Let's talk about a decision that women have to make every morning- Big purse or little purse? — Lisa Scottoline Copy Share Image
Women shouldn't iron, ever. It's our wrinkles that make us interesting. — Lisa Scottoline Copy Share Image
“How can litigation not be adversarial? That’s the fun part.” — Lisa Scottoline Litigation Copy Share Image
I am an open book, literally. I don't mind if people know way too much about me. — Lisa Scottoline Copy Share Image
“Don’t think on what they say, because you don’t have to get yourself right with them. You have to get yourself right… — Lisa Scottoline Copy Share Image
Everybody hates lawyers, but they don't realize judges are just lawyers with a promotion. Think about it. — Lisa Scottoline Hate Copy Share Image
“The way it works in real life is that guilt is proportionate. In other words, there are degrees of guilt.” — Lisa Scottoline Guilt Copy Share Image
