198 Quotes by Lisa Scottoline

I love the dignity in the name Philadelphia, but at heart, we’re Philly.

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.

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.

I don’t need my head examined, but where were you when I married my second husband. Sheesh.

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

She was too exhausted to live.

I am an open book, literally. I don’t mind if people know way too much about me.

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

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...