Lisa Scottoline Quotes

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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.

Lisa Scottoline
Don't argue what you don't believe in. Rule number one, in law and in life.

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We don't think of mothers as having superpowers, but they do. Mothers... can tell we're sad by the way we say, 'I'm fine.'

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Let's talk about a decision that women have to make every morning- Big purse or little purse?

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McIllvaine, a trial veteran, had been standing out of the crossfire, keeping his mouth shut until it was time to grandstand for the jury. All the courtroom's a stage, and all the men and women in it merely lawyers.

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Because the thing about love is that we can't control whether we get it, but we can control whether we give it.

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Whoever said you can't go home again wasn't Italian.

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Everything associated with weddings cost the same — a fortune.

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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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Bad things are like waves. They're going to happen to you, and there's nothing you can do about it. They're part of life, like waves are a part of the ocean. If you're standing on the shoreline, you don't know when the waves are coming. But they'll come. You gotta make sure you get back to the surface, after every wave. That's all.

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I edged forward on my pew in the gallery so I wouldn't miss a single word. My ex-lover's new girlfriend, Eve Eberlein, was about to be publicly humiliated by the Honorable Edward J. Thompson. I wanted to dance with joy right there in the courtroom. Hell hath no fury like a lawyer scorned.

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

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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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Women shouldn't iron, ever. It's our wrinkles that make us interesting.

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