198 Quotes by Lisa Scottoline

That at certain times, everything will fall surprisingly into place, even on a humid summer afternoon, with her feet in a baby pool. And in those times, justice and love will look so much alike that they will become the very same thing.

My argument will have to be that the plaintiff, who’s dead, wasn’t going to earn that much, because, after all, he wasn’t good enough to earn a promotion. And as far as pain and suffering, don’t pay him for that because he died within a year, so he didn’t suffer that long.

Katie had said that motherhood had no expiration date, and Jill had agreed, believing to the bone that that it transcended everything – biology, law, even time and space.

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

Judy felt dismayed. A half hour? She couldn’t learn much about the gym in half an hour.

And wouldn’t we be better off if every New Year’s, we thought about the things we did right and we resolved to keep doing them, no matter how wacky they were.

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.

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.

We’re here and we prey on you.