Lisa Scottoline

“You cannot do more with less.”

— Lisa Scottoline

“you very much, and now I’ll take”

— Lisa Scottoline

I read, therefore, I matter.

— Lisa Scottoline

Testosterone should be a controlled substance.

— Lisa Scottoline

It's the Snickers bars. Snickers equal romance.

— Lisa Scottoline

“Great griefs are mute.”

— Lisa Scottoline

“Motherhood was not for the weak.”

— Lisa Scottoline

“anything like that again, I’m going to charge you with obstruction of justice, and I swear,”

— Lisa Scottoline

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

— Lisa Scottoline

People project all sorts of emotions onto their cats, and cats like it that way.

— Lisa Scottoline

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

— Lisa Scottoline

“Custom curtains made with a lovely Schumacher fabric that she’d used for the headboard.”

— Lisa Scottoline

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

— Lisa Scottoline

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

— Lisa Scottoline

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

— Lisa Scottoline

“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

Everybody hates lawyers, but they don't realize judges are just lawyers with a promotion. Think about it.

— Lisa Scottoline

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

— Lisa Scottoline

“The way it works in real life is that guilt is proportionate. In other words, there are degrees of guilt.”

— Lisa Scottoline

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

— Lisa Scottoline

“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

“Everyone liked a clean-cut guy, and they tended to forget that appearances were deceiving. His”

— Lisa Scottoline

“Jake thanked God he had a son to put to bed when he knew somewhere there was a family, right now, waiting…

— Lisa Scottoline

“She had lived long enough to learn that families didn’t dissolve or reconfigure neatly, but left debris lying everywhere, and it was…

— Lisa Scottoline

Nobody was ever replaced in life, no hole completely filled or loss totally healed. You didn't need a medical degree to know…

— Lisa Scottoline

“If I'm yelling at you, you know I love you. Because I want your chest to keep going up and down, whether…

— Lisa Scottoline

What I'm doing is writing stories about women who care about justice. They are women who think about the difference between right…

— Lisa Scottoline

“I know that people get angry and I'm generally a fan of emotions. And to be real, it makes great television. A…

— Lisa Scottoline

“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

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

“Writing had always helped her, before. It always clarified her feelings and her thoughts, and she never felt like she could understand…

— Lisa Scottoline

“Celebrities are our heroes and heroines now, discussed the next day over latte or lunch. We have such a strong need to…

— Lisa Scottoline

“Suddenly, there was a noise from the front door. Dr. Dave turned away, toward the sound. And all hell broke loose.  …

— Lisa Scottoline

“The Marcellus Shale is one of the largest deposits of natural gas in the country, and it’s one of the major fracking…

— Lisa Scottoline

Alafair Burke's first standalone is a must read! You'll lose yourself in this riveting story of Alice Humphrey, a woman whose nightmare…

— Lisa Scottoline

“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…

— Lisa Scottoline

“But whose mother are you? Don’t slip so easily into the role of being that kid’s mother.” “I used to be.” “But…

— Lisa Scottoline

“A movie theater is Switzerland of the diet world.”

— Lisa Scottoline

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

— Lisa Scottoline

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

— Lisa Scottoline