Top 140 Lisa Scottoline Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “I am really, I think, truly an easygoing, positive, fun person.”

— Lisa Scottoline

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

— Lisa Scottoline

103. “Can you imagine what it’s like to be a legal malpractice lawyer? The clients are the worst! They’re all lawyers!”

— Lisa Scottoline

104. “Bennie tried to keep her face forward.”

— Lisa Scottoline

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

— Lisa Scottoline

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

— Lisa Scottoline

107. “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

108. “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

109. “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

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

— Lisa Scottoline

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

— Lisa Scottoline

112. “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

113. “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

114. “Cynthia’s face popped onto the screen, a gorgeous, blue-eyed blonde with a dazzling smile. Mindy thought of the baby and how pretty he or she would have been.”

— Lisa Scottoline

115. “Good people can’t imagine evil. It catches us by surprise, and it always will.”

— Lisa Scottoline

116. “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

117. “It doesn’t matter who she is, it matters who you are.”

— Lisa Scottoline

118. “You cannot do more with less.”

— Lisa Scottoline

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

— Lisa Scottoline

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

— Lisa Scottoline

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

— Lisa Scottoline

122. “Testosterone should be a controlled substance.”

— Lisa Scottoline

123. “She was too exhausted to live.”

— Lisa Scottoline

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

— Lisa Scottoline

125. “You know what Kovich always says, ‘Leave or heave.’” She.”

— Lisa Scottoline

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

— Lisa Scottoline

127. “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

128. “I’m always interested in products that claim to be aphrodisiacs, when we all know that the one and only aphrodisiac is a man volunteering to build you some bookshelves.”

— Lisa Scottoline

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

— Lisa Scottoline

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

— Lisa Scottoline

131. “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

132. “Truly I never thought of myself as writing legal thrillers, and I still don’t think I do. I write stories about women.”

— Lisa Scottoline

133. “We’re here and we prey on you.”

— Lisa Scottoline

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

— Lisa Scottoline

135. “The way it works in real life is that guilt is proportionate. In other words, there are degrees of guilt.”

— Lisa Scottoline

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

— Lisa Scottoline

137. “Her father had grown up with The Tonys; Tony “From-Down-The-Block” LoMonaco, “Pigeon” Tony Lucia, and Tony “Two Feet” Pensiera, which got shortened to “Feet,” so even his nickname had a nickname.”

— Lisa Scottoline

138. “The human body was a thing of beauty because so many structures protected the heart, but she realized that the human heart simply could not be protected, not by muscle, not by bone, not by anything.”

— Lisa Scottoline

139. “That’s grief, man. It gets in you. Your body carries it. It’s embedded.”

— Lisa Scottoline

140. “Tears came to my eyes and grief ambushed me, as if it had been lying in wait all along.”

— Lisa Scottoline