Top 100 Scottoline Quotes
#1. Moms never get out of the kid business. Last time I checked, motherhood had no expiration date.
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#2. People project all sorts of emotions onto their cats, and cats like it that way.
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#3. How do you tell the psychiatrists from the patients in the hospital?
The patients get better and leave.
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#4. I have learned that the love a mother has for her child is unique among human emotions. Every mother knows this insticntively, but that doesn't mean it doesn't need articulating.
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#5. I wonder if whoever invented World of Warcraft realizes it's practice for sociopaths.
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#7. Your typical suburban mom worries all the time, but she worries about the wrong things
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#8. 1. I am superior to others.
Circle one: Doesn't apply to me. Partially applies to me. Fully applies to me.
And:
I would not feel sorry if someone were blamed for something I did.
Circle one: Doesn't apply to me. Partially applies to me. Fully applies to me.
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#9. There were twenty questions, and forty was the top score. I scored
a thirty- eight, which means I would be graduating with honors if
I majored in being a sociopath.
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#10. 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.
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#11. Nobody was ever replaced in life, no hole completely filled or loss totally healed. You didn't need a medical degree to know that the human body really wasn't stronger in the broken places. Like any bone, the cracks would always show if you looked hard enough.
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#12. She realised that letting someone go was setting them free.
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#13. Making the decision to have a child - it is momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body. - Elizabeth Stone
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#14. What I'm doing is writing stories about women who care about justice. They are women who think about the difference between right and wrong, what's legal and illegal, ethical and unethical, moral and immoral.
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#16. But the fact is, I'm not work-identified. I'm not a lawyer or a writer. I'm a mom, and I'm a woman, and that's the kind of people I want to see in books in the starring role.
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#17. Don't argue what you don't believe in. Rule number one, in law and in life.
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#19. Any middle-aged woman knows that our feet are not for the faint of heart, especially in midwinter. I wear clogs, so it's actually like my feet are wooden now.
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#20. If it weren't for book tours, I would never leave my house.
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#21. She had lived long enough to learn that families didn't dissolve or reconfigure neatly, but left debris lying everywhere, and it was human debris. And sometimes, like tonight, she felt as if she were tripping over the bodies.
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#22. Judy felt dismayed. A half hour? She couldn't learn much about the gym in half an hour.
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#23. No one's paying any attention to sociopaths, or they think we're all killers, which is a misconception.
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#24. If I stopped talking after I made my point, I'd never say anything.
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#26. From Anthony, reading, Can you let me know now? Sanchez leaves for weekend if we're not on. She felt a guilty pang. It's
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#27. Let's talk about a decision that women have to make every morning-
Big purse or little purse?
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#28. I already know when I'm being bad, and I don't need to be nagged by my underwear.
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#29. 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.
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#31. Even if it's not what you planned, you can make a life for yourself on your own and be happy.
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#32. You should be more paranoid than you are. Your typical suburban mom worries all the time, but she worries about the wrong things.
Because she doesn't worry about me.
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#34. We may not be perfect, but we're good, and good people can't imagine evil. It catches us by surprise, and it always will. We don't know the first thing about the kind of evil that would sacrifice a child.
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#35. I know that people get angry and I'm generally a fan of emotions. And to be real, it makes great television. A debate where everybody is yelling at each other is totally fun to watch.
Until you realize that's how we choose a president.
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#36. The look he was going for was Friendly Suburban Dad, because that's what he was, but he suspected he'd achieved only
Cialis Guy.
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#37. Night came early to this neighborhood, the sun fleeing the sky, leaving heaven black and blue.
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#38. Bars over the door, but not the window, and the roof looked
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#39. I was a lawyer and I loved it, but my Francesca was born, and a divorce followed way too soon after.
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#40. His fee was $300 an hour, and
for clients who couldn't afford that, he had a sliding scale that was
never less than $250 - except for crying old ladies facing terminal
diagnoses.
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#44. The thing about love is that we can't control whether we get it, but we can control whether we give it. And each feels as good as the other. Your heart doesn't know if it's loving a man, a book, or a puppy. If your heart were that smart, it would be your brain.
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#47. Ellen had long ago stopped being embarrassed by temper tantrums. She flipped it and wore it like a badge of honor. A temper tantrum was a sign that a mom said no when it counted.
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#48. If I'm yelling at you, you know I love you. Because I want your chest to keep going up and down, whether you're my daughter or my mother. Or whether I'm your daughter or your mother. It's all the same emotion, which is worry. Or love!
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#49. If you can't be brave, be determined. And you'll end up in the same place.
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#53. I don't need my head examined, but where were you when I married my second husband. Sheesh.
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#54. I am an open book, literally. I don't mind if people know way too much about me.
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#56. I'm neither your friend nor your frenemy, unless you have what I want.
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#57. Who's the president of the United States?"
"Who cares? All politicians are crooks
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#58. 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-
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#59. 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.
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#61. He didn't know why she was standing so close , much less touching him, but he didn't have time to worry about it.
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#62. Suddenly, someone who was at the center of your life is gone, excised as quickly as an apple is cored, a sharp spike driven down the center of your world, then a cruel flick of the wrist and the almost surgical extraction of your very heart.
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#63. I am really, I think, truly an easygoing, positive, fun person.
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#64. 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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#67. You know what Kovich always says, 'Leave or heave.'" She
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#68. 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.
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#69. You're my best friend. I understand you and appreciate you, and can make you happy the rest of your life, I promise you that.
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#70. 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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#71. She's the Girl Who Dresses Too Hot For Work. Every rotation has one, probably every job.
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#73. I love writing both fiction and memoir. Both have unique challenges; bottom line, fiction is hard because you have to come up with the credible, twisty plot, and memoir is hard because you have to say something true and profound, albeit in a funny way.
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#74. Likewise, I would never be so rude as to not interrupt a friend. How else would she know I was listening?
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#75. Listen carefully, I'm going to say three words."
"I love you?
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#77. Jake thanked God he had a son to put to bed when he knew somewhere there was a family, right now, waiting for someone who would never come home.
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#79. I love my job, and I love books. I read anything, including cereal boxes. I care deeply about what people think of my books, and I memorize my reviews. I love to hear from my readers.
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#80. Don't think on what they say, because you don't have to get yourself right with them. You have to get yourself right with you.
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#81. If you cant be brave then be determined. And you will end up in the same place.
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#82. Everything associated with weddings cost the same - a fortune.
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#83. Women shouldn't iron, ever. It's our wrinkles that make us interesting.
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#84. 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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#85. She wondered if justice was possible in a world full of profoundly evil and damaged human beings, in a veritable universe of damage.
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#86. He's an odd duck
but he's a good kid, with a good heart.
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#87. 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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#88. Even people who counted their blessings never counted them in the morning. For one thing, there wasn't time.
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#90. I love the dignity in the name Philadelphia, but at heart, we're Philly.
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#91. That's what books do, isn't it? That's why I love to read. They bring us closer to ourselves.
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#92. Truly I never thought of myself as writing legal thrillers, and I still don't think I do. I write stories about women.
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#93. Don't you wear glasses, George?" "Not anymore. I had my eyes lasered." Can you say midlife crisis? Radial keratotomy is the new red Porsche.
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#94. I get up around 8 o'clock, which gives me enough time to walk dogs and feed chickens and horses. Then I get to work in my home office upstairs, and basically, I don't stop until I've written 2,000 words and/or the Stephen Colbert show is over.
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#95. We can't control what people do or say, even if it's dumb.
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#96. I don't really like you, but I'm so good at acting as if I do that it's basically the same thing.
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#97. Nah. I'm a tough cookie. Except for the cancer, I'm fine.
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#98. He made eye contact but he kept it like casual observation, not a fixed stare. He held his arms at his sides, not only because it was less threatening, but they'd be able to fend off a blow. He cleared the doorway so he'd have an escape route.
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#99. I love everything about Philadelphia, and its food is like the city itself: real-deal, hearty, and without pretension. We've always had an underdog vibe as a city, but that just makes us try harder, and I love our scrappiness and scruffiness.
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