Scottoline Lisa Quotes & Sayings

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

You should be more paranoid — Lisa Scottoline

One out of twenty-three is a sociopath and that's 4 percent of the population, that's a lot of sociopaths. Anorexic's are 3 percent and everybody talks about them. — 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

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

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

Testosterone should be a controlled substance. — 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

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

I have learned that the love a mother has for her child is unique among human emotions. Every mother knows this insticntively, but that doesn't mean it doesn't need articulating. — 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 underdog vibe as a city, but that just makes us try harder, and I love our scrappiness and scruffiness. — Lisa Scottoline

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. — 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

Hannah was out of earshot, then turned to Caitlin. — Lisa Scottoline

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

Alafair Burke's first standalone is a must read! You'll lose yourself in this riveting story of Alice Humphrey, a woman whose nightmare begins when she goes to work at her new gallery job, only to find everything gone - and a murdered man on the floor. You can't guess the plot twists that follow, as Alice's whole word turns upside down and she has to question everyone and everything she thought was real. And the ending is a shocker you'll never see coming. — 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

Don't think on what they say, because you don't have to get yourself right with them. You have to get yourself right with you. — 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

Don't argue what you don't believe in. Rule number one, in law and in life. — 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 set down the glass, palmed the — 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

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

Great griefs are mute. — 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

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

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

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

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. — Lisa Scottoline

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

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

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. — Lisa Scottoline

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

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

Knees, but they evaporated as the boat picked — Lisa Scottoline

I read, therefore, I matter. — Lisa Scottoline

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

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

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

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

I love my job, and I love books. I read anything, including cereal boxes. I care deeply about what people think of my books, and I memorize my reviews. I love to hear from my readers. — Lisa Scottoline

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

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

Dr. Fortunato," Kristine shot back at Laurie, her resentment undisguised. "You don't know how we do things in Wright. Dr. Parrish doesn't care about hospital hierarchy. He's very accessible and he'd never let his ego get in the way of patient care. Maybe you do things differently where you work- — 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

I look normal but i'm not — 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

Truth is, every writer has to be a good editor, and you have to edit yourself. It's a skill every writer has to acquire. — 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

Moms never get out of the kid business. Last time I checked, motherhood had no expiration date. — Lisa Scottoline

Everything associated with weddings cost the same - a fortune. — 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

I always win in the end — 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's an odd duck
but he's a good kid, with a good heart. — 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

I love the dignity in the name Philadelphia, but at heart, we're Philly. — 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 get up around 8 o'clock, which gives me enough time to walk dogs and feed chickens and horses. Then I get to work in my home office upstairs, and basically, I don't stop until I've written 2,000 words and/or the Stephen Colbert show is over. — 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

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

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