Top 140 Lisa Scottoline Quotes (2026 Update) [Page 3]

101. “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

102. “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.”

— Lisa Scottoline

103. “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

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

— Lisa Scottoline

105. “I fool everybody!”

— Lisa Scottoline

106. “I don’t care what anyone thinks. I only care about the law. I only care about the constitution.”

— Lisa Scottoline

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

— Lisa Scottoline

108. “Writing had always helped her, before. It always clarified her feelings and her thoughts, and she never felt like she could understand something fully until the very minute that she’d written about it, as if each story was one she told herself and her readers, at the same time.”

— Lisa Scottoline

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

— Lisa Scottoline

110. “About $300 or $400 a month per child, depending on a couple of factors, like they get more if the child has special needs.” Abby shrugged. “But the way I look at it, even if their motive is money, that doesn’t mean they won’t do a good job.”

— Lisa Scottoline

111. “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.”

— Lisa Scottoline

112. “She realised that letting someone go was setting them free.”

— Lisa Scottoline

113. “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

114. “Because she does not worry about me.”

— Lisa Scottoline

115. “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...”

— Lisa Scottoline

$Lisa Scottoline Quote: “The Marcellus Shale is one of the largest deposits of natural gas in the country, and it’s one of the major fracking sites. In fact, the most fracking sites in the entire country are in Pennsylvania, on the Marcellus in Susquehanna County and a bunch of others. Towns like Dimock, Montrose, Springville, Headley. As you know, the gas companies use explosives to drill and they have the FELs.”$

116. “The Marcellus Shale is one of the largest deposits of natural gas in the country, and it’s one of the major fracking sites. In fact, the most fracking sites in the entire country are in Pennsylvania, on the Marcellus in Susquehanna County and a bunch of others. Towns like Dimock, Montrose, Springville, Headley. As you know, the gas companies use explosives to drill and they have the FELs.”

— Lisa Scottoline

117. “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.”

— Lisa Scottoline

118. “Testosterone should be a controlled substance.”

— Lisa Scottoline

119. “Cluster C liked everything to stay the same, forever.”

— Lisa Scottoline

120. “Your typical suburban mom worries all the time, but she worries about the wrong things.”

— Lisa Scottoline

121. “A movie theater is Switzerland of the diet world.”

— Lisa Scottoline

122. “She was too exhausted to live.”

— Lisa Scottoline

123. “You think you’re in Connecticut, but you’re in the jungle.”

— Lisa Scottoline

124. “I can read you almost immediately, get your number right away, and push your buttons to make you do whatever I want.”

— Lisa Scottoline

125. “Mary was always surprised at how terse men could be. She needed fifteen minutes to say hello. Plus hugging time.”

— Lisa Scottoline

126. “Kids with anxiety issues were in psychic pain, and nobody knew that better than he did. Anybody could be pushed over the edge, given the right circumstances.”

— Lisa Scottoline

127. “Women shouldn’t iron, ever. It’s our wrinkles that make us interesting.”

— Lisa Scottoline

128. “They don’t realize evil lives on their streets.”

— Lisa Scottoline

$Lisa Scottoline Quote: “The problem is that three of the neighboring farms leased their land to Frazer Gas for fracking. Under Pennsylvania law, if three contiguous farms lease to frackers, the gas company can drill underneath your parcel, whether you leased or not.”$

129. “The problem is that three of the neighboring farms leased their land to Frazer Gas for fracking. Under Pennsylvania law, if three contiguous farms lease to frackers, the gas company can drill underneath your parcel, whether you leased or not.”

— Lisa Scottoline