Quotes from John Grisham

If Kenny Taft knew something, he took it to his grave.

I can't imagine who would be covering a hearing in a forgotten case in East Nowhere, Florida.

Too poor to paint and too proud to whitewash.

know for sure that a crime is being planned. He said some things any father would say, and I'm sure he's having thoughts any father would have. But as far as actually planning a crime, I don't think so. Secondly

It has taken me years to convince her that there are thousands of innocent people locked away.

In little pockets of conversation, old men were telling stories of ancient floods. Women were talking of about how much rain there'd been in other towns -- Paragould, Lepanto, and Manila.

drug charge. When I asked Lonnie about it

I'm concerned. He witnessed something awful, and he might be in shock.

In at least half of the DNA exonerations of innocent men and women, bad forensics have been the cornerstone of the prosecution's evidence.

The truth was that, at the age of thirty-six, Lacy was content to live alone, to sleep in the center of the bed, to clean up only after herself, to make and spend her own money, to come and go as she pleased, to pursue her career without worrying about his, to plan her evenings with input from no one else, to cook or not to cook, and to have sole possession of the remote control.

Rich folks can tolerate almost anything, but not rejection.

For her, the holidays began in late October and steadily gathered momentum until the big bang, a ten-hour marathon on Christmas Day with four meals and a packed house.

Golf Club description:] Once it had enough members to sustain itself, it began the obligatory practice of excluding others.

In a famous 1963 decision, Brady v. Maryland, the U.S. Supreme Court held that "the suppression by the prosecution of evidence favorable to an accused upon request violates due process where the evidence is material either to guilt or to punishment, irrespective of the good faith or bad faith of the prosecution.

You spend more on fancy coffee than I do on meals. Why can't you help the poor, the sick, the homeless?

I had never seen a woman's breasts before, and I doubted if any seven-year-old boy in Craighead County had. Maybe some kid had stumbled upon his mother, but I was certain no boy my age had never had this view.

Sam, who had not had the chance to bitch and yell at them for two weeks, unloaded in the locker room and everyone felt better.

As I told you before, it's fairly easy to convict an innocent man and virtually impossible to exonerate one.

her lies, something came over him, maybe the Holy Spirit, and he just couldn't

God help us, if ever in this great country we turn our heads while people who have not had fair trials are executed. That almost happened in this case.

There are times, many times, when I despise judges, especially blind ones and old ones

Jailhouse snitches testify every day in this country. Other civilized countries prohibit them, but not here.

That's sounds right. Another $5,000 went to dress up the Little League park where he had played so many games. Seems like he paid off the MORTAGE on his parents' home, which wasn't that much.

The Bardtown Federal Detention Facility was in a secluded valley three miles off Interstate 99 and twenty miles south of Altoona. If there was a town nearby, it wasn't visible.