Top 140 Lisa Scottoline Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “Psychiatrists, psychologists, and mental health workers in hospitals had an assault rate of 60 percent, six times higher than other healthcare professionals.”

— Lisa Scottoline

52. “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

53. “Harry Truman never said ‘Give ’em hell.’ He said, ‘I just told him the truth and they thought it was hell.”

— Lisa Scottoline

54. “Everybody should have at least one girlfriend who can make her laugh.”

— Lisa Scottoline

55. “Yes, there what we would consider ’emergent circumstances.”

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56. “You should be more paranoid.”

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57. “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

58. “Judy woke up on her back in the parking lot.”

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59. “There was no known cure for a Catholic education.”

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60. “You can’t go! You’re my husband, not my principal.”

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61. “We never lose the people we love.”

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62. “We can’t control what people do or say, even if it’s dumb.”

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63. “They drove through the town of Collegeville on Route 29, a winding two-lane road, and continued past colonial vintage houses, then rolling hills and pastured horses. The farmland turned into a vast open space, and Christine sensed they were approaching the prison. “I think we’re almost there,” she said, glancing over. Lauren.”

— Lisa Scottoline

64. “You can really help support a character if you understand the setting. So for that reason I generally write about Philadelphia.”

— Lisa Scottoline

65. “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

66. “Now, Megan, we can’t pick on whoever abstained.”

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67. “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.”

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68. “See the child, not the cancer. Then you’ll be happy when you visit, not sad.”

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69. “Motherhood was not for the weak.”

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70. “Ha! She has a dark side, my sister. Nobody believes it, but she used to torture me when I was little.”

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71. “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.”

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72. “No one’s paying any attention to sociopaths, or they think we’re all killers, which is a misconception.”

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73. “I look normal but i’m not.”

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74. “The locals tell me that alcoholism and crime increases in fracking areas. Also traffic accidents, because of the heavy machinery using roads not meant to carry the loads and noise.”

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75. “Welcome to motherhood. You’re the safe one to blame. You catch it all. Moms are lightning rods with breasts.”

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76. “So every day, before every meal, my question is the same. What can I make with what I have?”

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77. “How can litigation not be adversarial? That’s the fun part.”

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78. “She remained standing in the empty gallery long after Jack had been.”

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79. “Love transcends blood ties, it pays no heed to time or space, much less mere geography.”

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80. “Please, detective, you were saying.”

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81. “If you think I’m handsome, there’s obviously nothing wrong with your vision.”

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82. “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.”

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83. “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

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

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85. “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.”

— Lisa Scottoline

86. “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

87. “To me, it doesn’t really matter how a baby comes into the world, only that it does. I just feel lucky in who my baby is. Best of luck with yours.”

— Lisa Scottoline

88. “Alice was back, the landlord was evicting her, and she was out of dog food. She hadn’t felt so totally at a loss since the day her mother had passed. And her employees were staring at her, momentarily speechless.”

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89. “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.”

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90. “I fool everybody!”

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91. “What got you into rowing?” Declan covered.”

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

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93. “You proceeded irregardless.”

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94. “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.”

— Lisa Scottoline

95. “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

96. “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.”

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97. “Mary wondered when law got so complicated that even the lawyers needed lawyers.”

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98. “I am really, I think, truly an easygoing, positive, fun person.”

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99. “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.”

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100. “Even people who counted their blessings never counted them in the morning. For one thing, there wasn’t time.”

— Lisa Scottoline