Quotes from Scott Turow

openly desirous of my company, so alight with manifest appreciation of every angle of my being.

Looking him over, I realized that Robbie Feaver had turned an important corner in his life in the last few weeks; he remained good-looking, but worry and sleeplessness and depression and poor diet had worn on him in a way likely to be permanent. They had stolen some of his glory. Yet he'd maintained the show-must-go-on spirit, and had done his best to look his part.

He has developed an aesthete's appreciation for the knavishness, the guile, the selfish cleverness of so many of his clients, appreciating human misbehavior for its miserable creativity. In almost every criminal case, there is a moment that combines inspired imagination with sheer audacity in a way that leaves Stern gasping, and full of perverse admiration for conduct he knows he would never have the courage to attempt.

once belonged to religion or philosophy is now the business of science. That's where we'll learn what's really unknown about being here on Earth.

stained-glass panels between

For me, becoming a parent completely changed my idea about what it means to walk on this planet. Most people would say the same thing. It's as if the world has gone from flat to 3-D.

I stole several glances at the jury," Pafko says about the opening, "and they could not take their eyes from you." Stern tempers his pleasure in his client's compliments with the knowledge that Kiril has never abandoned the Argentinian way and frequently brings forth a river of fulsome bullshit.

Whatever it is that will occur between a man and a woman is more than half done the first time their lips meet in earnest. The wall that separates us from everyone else dissolves, and from then on, the two stand on different ground. And so we did. About ten that night I woke with Nara layered against my side in my bed.

Dr. Pafko said 'I did some things to solve the problem'?" This

A friend of mine, an older woman, once told me that every man is in love for an hour before and after each orgasm.

Treatment for malignancies had become only a little better than the tortures of a CIA black site.

That is one of the tragedies of aging, appreciating how many good and interesting people have passed by unknown.

Hope, that blind songbird. It flies through the bleakest skies.

Evil of that magnitude was like a dead star, sucking all the light out of life.

Like every other hypocrite alive, he was very good at applying unyielding standards to others. Bozic

I would say there's a spark, I told her, still caught up in that fixed look, her green eyes with their clever gleam. I would say you'd make a hell of a Boy Scout. Boy Scout? Yes, ma'am, cause you keep rubbing that stick, you're gonna get a lot more than a spark. I'm hoping for that.

But in the moment, how can you turn away when Someday can suddenly be real?

It's really chaos and darkness out there, and when we prétend it's not, it's just The Play. We're all onstage. Saying our lines. Playing at whoever we're trying to be at the moment. A lawyer. A spouse. Even though we know in the back of our heads that life is a lot more random and messed-up than we can ud to say to ourselves.

No, really. Are you a lawyer? Can I sue somebody in jail? You can. It wouldn't be worth much. Right. So are you listening? I can't sue my boyfriend, I gotta sue my landlord. Because your boyfriend threw you out the window? Because there weren't any screens on the window.

The deep-cover team had chosen the apartment building because it was the biggest along Feaver's route to and from the office. Large was better, more an ominous. Living undercover, she was supposed to avoid making new acquaintances, since even the friendliest inquiries my trip you up

question on cross-examination to which they don't know the answer, but Stern's instinct is that there is an opportunity for the defense

Find a good wife and you'll be happy; if not you'll become a philosopher.

you can never plan well enough. Life will always outwit you.

Laughter, it turns out, is the soul of liberty.