Quotes from John Grisham

The lawyer calmly said, "Ethics are determined by what they catch you doing. If you don't get caught, then you haven't violated any ethics.

I figured you were missing me.

If you see a problem, Theo, think of a way to fix it and do it now. Don't spend all your time making plans.

He nodded at the big leather bags. "What's in there?" "Papers." "Papers?" "Papers." "What kind of papers?" Toilet paper, she thought. I spend my vacations traveling the Caribbean collecting toilet paper. "Legal documents, crap like that. I'm a lawyer.

He ordered another glass of rosé, and the second one proved as ineffective as the first.

the jury that conniving her way into wills handwritten by her old and vulnerable bosses was a devious pattern.

Amonth after the death of her husband, Jackie Bell moved with her three children to her parents' home in Rome, Georgia.

John D. MacDonald is a favorite of mine, especially his Travis McGee series

Her husband, a devout servant and follower of Christ, was reading his Bible and preparing his sermon, at church, when he was murdered. Why couldn't God protect him, of all people? Upon deeper reflection, this often led to the more troubling question, one she never asked aloud: Is there really a God? The mere consideration of this as a passing thought frightened her, but she could not deny its existence.

He received his first death threat at the age of twenty-five, and started carrying a gun.

she moved out and into a rental home on the other side of town. It was owned by a lawyer named Errol McLeish, a thirty-nine-year-old bachelor she had known years earlier at Rome High School.

Wow. Quite unusual. Narcissistic, split personality, able to live in one world as a respected, productive member of society while spending his off-hours plotting the next kill. It'll be hard to nail this guy. Unless." Allie said, "Unless he makes a mistake, right?

I read a story once about a guy who killed himself. Some shrink was going on about the futility of trying to understand it. It's impossible, makes no sense at all. Once a person reaches that point, he's in another world, one that his survivors will never understand.

So, how did you manage to get the story about Bannick and Eileen? It's all hearsay and third-hand and urban legend, all remembered and told by a bunch of drunk rich kids. Right?" "For the most part, yes.

Years later he renovated a loft apartment that became his love nest, then his home. To him, the hammering, sawing, and sweating were therapy, a mental and physical escape from a job filled with stress.

Almost monthly I deal with self-righteous prosecutors who lie, cheat, stonewall, cover up, ignore ethics, and do whatever it takes to get a conviction, even when they know the truth and the truth tells them they are wrong. So I know the breed, the ilk, the subclass of lawyer who's above the law because he is the law. Huver

Tell the truth, she advised him, and everything will be fine.

But, in a case like this, it'll be nice to have twelve of our good and faithful citizens in the hot seat.

sometimes it takes balls to walk away. Do it now while you can still enjoy life.

The ship was sinking and the rats were jumping overboard.

Most of his pals did not understand how it was possible to have a friend who was a girl but not actually a girlfriend. Theo had grown weary of trying to explain this. It was complicated.

as they watched the people. After he left, they changed and jumped in the water for a lazy afternoon

Six years after her Parkinson's disease diagnosis, Kimberly suffered from involuntary shaking and could no longer ride her bike or enjoy other forms of exercise. She was successfully treated in a focused ultrasound clinical trial at the University of Maryland. She is now back on her bike and says the clock has been turned back on her life.

The Prosecutor. His first name was Wagner, an extremely odd choice by his mother, but then it was her maiden name and she thought it fit him nicely, at least in the hospital. By the age of ten, though, he hated it for many reasons and chopped it in half. He'd gone by Wag for the past thirty years. Wag Dunlap. The voters seemed to like the oddness of his name.