Quotes from Lisa Scottoline

Nobody planned on the worst, but they got it just the same and had to deal. He knew the saying that "Man plans and God laughs," but he'd learned the truth was exactly the opposite—Man plans and God cries.

Connolly had performed a makeover in reverse, to look like Bennie.

Thank you, Your Honor." Bennie

She was ditching Facebook and going back to real books.

Maybe she should start smoking.

The problem is that three of the neighboring farms leased their land to Frazer Gas for fracking. Under Pennsylvania law, if three contiguous farms lease to frackers, the gas company can drill underneath your parcel, whether you leased or not.

My argument will have to be that the plaintiff, who's dead, wasn't going to earn that much, because, after all, he wasn't good enough to earn a promotion. And as far as pain and suffering, don't pay him for that because he died within a year, so he didn't suffer that long.

anything like that again, I'm going to charge you with obstruction of justice, and I swear

mine. "Oh, I mean that as a compliment

Everybody should have at least one girlfriend who can make her laugh.

In our old age, smaller pleasures assume greater importance, don't you think?

when I told him my idea for this motion, even

to the latest mole in district headquarters, who leaked them confidential info about what was coming

Jack Newlin had no choice but to frame himself for murder.

rural area of New Jersey, which produced tomatoes, peaches, and corn.

hand pump. It emitted a faint grayish smoke

Bars over the door, but not the window, and the roof looked

Bacon is the meth of meats.

Books center us, heal us, and connect us, and I believe that reading is fundamental to democracy.

Mary? You in love?" She looks up at me expectantly. With her shaggy haircut, there on the floor, she reminds me of a sheepdog waiting for a Milk-Bone. "I'm in confusion.

As you know, the Complaint filed by Messrs. Battle, McManus, and Madden alleges that your law firm failed to hire them because of their gender.

the widespread illiteracy of Sicily in the 1800s was one reason the class system was fixed in place, denying opportunity and equality to so many.

Here is how a mother's love is different: You may fall out of love with a man. But you will never fall out of love with your child. Even after he is gone.

breasts had grown to gargantuan proportions