Lisa Scottoline Quotes & Sayings

You should be more paranoid — Lisa Scottoline

It's the Snickers bars. Snickers equal romance. — Lisa Scottoline

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

I still think I'm writing Nancy Drew with a mortgage. — Lisa Scottoline

I fool you. I fool everyone. — Lisa Scottoline

I've learned that you don't stop loving someone just because they die. And you don't stop loving someone who's dead just because you start loving someone else. I know this violates the natural law that two things can't occupy the same place at the same time, but that's never been true of the human heart anyway. — Lisa Scottoline

Testosterone should be a controlled substance. — Lisa Scottoline

I am an open book, literally. I don't mind if people know way too much about me. — Lisa Scottoline

Good people can't imagine evil. It catches us by surprise, and it always will. — Lisa Scottoline

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. — Lisa Scottoline

Ask me if I care. — Lisa Scottoline

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

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. — Lisa Scottoline

No one's paying any attention to sociopaths, or they think we're all killers, which is a misconception. — Lisa Scottoline

We're here and we prey on you — Lisa Scottoline

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

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

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

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. — 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 human debris. And sometimes, like tonight, she felt as if she were tripping over the bodies. — 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

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

Celebrities are our heroes and heroines now, discussed the next day over latte or lunch. We have such a strong need to talk to each other, to have some commonality of story, that we're finding it in celebrities. In effect, we're turning reality into fiction. Using actors and actresses, just off duty. And how is this working for us? Not great. It leaves us with a perennially empty feeling. We find the celebrities empty, and at some level, we find ourselves empty for paying them so much attention. We've become reluctant voyeurs, and at some level, we know they're just people trying to live their lives. Our culture begins to lack content, depth, and substance. We miss the richness of human experience that story embodies, reflects, and carries forward. We might have to go back to reading books. Yay! — Lisa Scottoline

We may not be perfect, but we're good, and good people can't imagine evil. It catches us by surprise, and it always will. We don't know the first thing about the kind of evil that would sacrifice a child. — Lisa Scottoline

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. — Lisa Scottoline

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 life, like waves are a part of the ocean. If you're standing on the shoreline, you don't know when the waves are coming. But they'll come. You gotta make sure you get back to the surface, after every wave. That's all. — Lisa Scottoline

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

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. — Lisa Scottoline

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

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. — Lisa Scottoline

They don't realize evil lives on their streets — Lisa Scottoline

Every psychiatrist hated the irony that the best-paying specialty was cosmetic surgery, as if you could fix your psyche by changing your face. — Lisa Scottoline

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. — Lisa Scottoline

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

A movie theater is Switzerland of the diet world. — Lisa Scottoline

Your typical suburban mom worries all the time, but she worries about the wrong things — 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 and wrong, what's legal and illegal, ethical and unethical, moral and immoral. — Lisa Scottoline

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. — Lisa Scottoline

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

You cannot do more with less. — Lisa Scottoline

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

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. — Lisa Scottoline

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

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

Motherhood was not for the weak. — Lisa Scottoline

Truly I never thought of myself as writing legal thrillers, and I still don't think I do. I write stories about women. — Lisa Scottoline

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

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 — Lisa Scottoline

If you think I'm handsome, there's obviously nothing wrong with your vision. — Lisa Scottoline

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. — Lisa Scottoline

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

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. — Lisa Scottoline

I wonder if whoever invented World of Warcraft realizes it's practice for sociopaths. — Lisa Scottoline

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

She set down the glass, palmed the — Lisa Scottoline

I was a lawyer and I loved it, but my Francesca was born, and a divorce followed way too soon after. — Lisa Scottoline

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

Don't you wear glasses, George?" "Not anymore. I had my eyes lasered." Can you say midlife crisis? Radial keratotomy is the new red Porsche. — Lisa Scottoline

She realised that letting someone go was setting them free. — Lisa Scottoline

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

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. — Lisa Scottoline

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

My animals are a really important part of my life. — Lisa Scottoline

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

There was no known cure for a Catholic education. — Lisa Scottoline

Because she does not worry about me. — Lisa Scottoline

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. — Lisa Scottoline

Yes, she's about to embark on a new phase of her life. And yes, my role in her life may change. But as time goes on and our hearts grow more rings, we don't have to leave anyone behind. We can hold on to each other, and collect new hearts to hold, from this day forward, as long as we all shall live. — Lisa Scottoline

To Ned, will you. Carry on. — Lisa Scottoline

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. — Lisa Scottoline

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 — 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 you're my daughter or my mother. Or whether I'm your daughter or your mother. It's all the same emotion, which is worry. Or love! — Lisa Scottoline

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

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. — Lisa Scottoline

She'd believed in forever in her twenties, when Gray had said it, meaning every word, and she'd believed in forever in her thirties, when William had said it, lying through his teeth. But she'd lived long enough to know that forever couldn't be guaranteed to anyone. Even tomorrow couldn't be relied upon. — Lisa Scottoline

The truth is that every writer, whether it's fiction or nonfiction, is trying to write something truly original and that's what I think I'm doing. — Lisa Scottoline

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

I'm a sociopath. I look normal, but I'm not. I'm smarter, better, and freer, because I'm not bound by rules, law, emotion or regard for you. — Lisa Scottoline

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

I always win in the end — Lisa Scottoline

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

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

I read, therefore, I matter. — Lisa Scottoline

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. — Lisa Scottoline

I'm neither your friend nor your frenemy, unless you have what I want. — Lisa Scottoline

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. — Lisa Scottoline

I love the dignity in the name Philadelphia, but at heart, we're Philly. — Lisa Scottoline

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. — Lisa Scottoline

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

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

Eric turned the corner onto his old — Lisa Scottoline

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

Bars over the door, but not the window, and the roof looked — Lisa Scottoline

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. — Lisa Scottoline

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

I don't need my head examined, but where were you when I married my second husband. Sheesh. — Lisa Scottoline

Women shouldn't iron, ever. It's our wrinkles that make us interesting. — Lisa Scottoline