Quotes from John Grisham

Once again, I am thankful that alcohol is not my temptation.

I had a long night, too much to drink, too much to eat, a rather nasty cigar, and I slept on the porch like a dead man until a really big cat pounced on my chest at three in the morning and scared the hell out of me. How was I to know it was his rocker?

Ray Chapman was killed by a pitch in 1920. Mickey Cochrane never played again after taking one in the head. Tony Conigliaro was a certain Hall of Famer, then he got beaned in the eye. I

I can feel the competition here, very much like the first few weeks of law school when we were terribly concerned with each other's initial progress. I nod at a few acquaintances, silently hoping they flunk the exam because they're silently hoping I Collapse too. Such is the nature of the profession.

provided a fine home

In the United States we spend $40,000 a year to incarcerate each prison inmate and $8,000 to educate each elementary school student.

I was hurting, too. How could she have done such a terrible thing? She was my friend. She treated me like a confidant, and she protected me like a big sister. I loved Tally, and now she had run off with a vicious killer.

SUDDEN AFFLUENCE triggers a desire for the better things in life.

Plans—nothing ever goes as planned, and the survivors are the ones who can adapt on the fly.

I wished i were seven feet tall. I'd hop up there and attack ol' Samson while the crowd went wild. I'd whip him good, send him flying, and become the biggest hero in Black Oak. But, for now, I could only boo him.

Four months ago, he had a mild heart attack and his doctor told him to retire. He found another doctor.

Mine was the only white face in the crowded restaurant, but I was coming to terms with my whiteness. No one had tried to murder me yet. No one seemed to care.

Mrs. Vanlandingham from across the street heard the commotion and came running, still holding a dish towel. She arrived just as the sheriff, Nix Gridley, wheeled into the parking lot and slid in the gravel.

She was the only girl he had ever loved. It ended abruptly when she ditched him for a football player. He carried the wounds for six years until he caught her and killed her. Only then had his pain suddenly vanished, his broken heart was healed. The score was even.

he's now in hiding, in another state. I give him cash to live on." "Is that legal?" "That's not a fair question in coal country. Nothing is black-and-white in my world. The enemy breaks every rule in the book, so the fight is never fair. If you play by the rules, you lose, even when you're on the right side.

tower. I heard the laughter

He had blown the trumpet for so long that no one heard it anymore.

Since we can all agree that it's wrong to kill, why do we allow the State to kill?

Sure it will. That's part of it, Abby. It's a cutthroat business where the weak are eaten and the strong get rich. It's a marathon. He who endures wins the gold. And dies at the finish line.

You just don't understand men, Samantha. Looking is automatic and it's harmless. We all look. Come on.

The bloodstain expert who testified against Quincy was a former Denver homicide detective named Paul Norwood. After working crime scenes for a few years, he had decided to

Deck has reduced the Canons of Ethics to the Big Three: Fight for your client, don't steal, try not to lie.

professor taps his laptop, the images change, and we are lost in the world of red blood cells. The cell's nucleus is small and round and serves as the cell's command center. It controls the cell's growth and reproduction. It is surrounded by a membrane. And on and on. Attached to our petition was Benderschmidt's full report, including pages of impenetrable stuff on cells and blood. I confess that I have not read it entirely, but something tells me Judge Kumar has.

The gate was packed with weary travelers, most of them standing and huddled along the walls because the meager allotment of plastic chairs had long since been taken. Every plane that came and went held at least eighty passengers, yet the gate had seats for only a few dozen.