Quotes from Lisa Scottoline

She kept an eye on the horizon, or where she thought it was, and understood that not everything that existed could be seen. Not every border was clear.

But not in "normal" people like me. They don't realize that evil lives on their street. Works in the cubicle next to them. Chats with them in the checkout line at CVS. Reads a paperback on the train next to them. Runs on a treadmill at their gym. Or marries their daughter. We're here, and we prey on you. We target you. We groom you.

My face is a mask. I hide my thoughts. My words are calculated to please, charm, or undermine. I can sound smarter or dumber, depending on what you expect to hear. My actions further my self- interest.

She realised that letting someone go was setting them free.

Natural law says that matter cannot be created or destroyed, but that was pre-spanx.

Great griefs are mute.

It's fun to do something dumb. Not something really dumb, like my second marriage. That was really really dumb.

Mary wondered when law got so complicated that even the lawyers needed lawyers.

Harry Truman never said 'Give 'em hell.' He said, 'I just told him the truth and they thought it was hell.

Night came early to this neighborhood, the sun fleeing the sky, leaving heaven black and blue.

No one's paying any attention to sociopaths, or they think we're all killers, which is a misconception.

Because she does not worry about me.

You should be more paranoid than you are. Your typical suburban mom worries all the time, but she worries about the wrong things. Because she doesn't worry about me.

You cannot do more with less.

War was eternal, but so was peace. Death was eternal, but so was life. Darkness was eternal, but so was light. Hate was eternal, but above all, so was love.

That's what books do, isn't it? That's why I love to read. They bring us closer to ourselves.

her law firm needed the dough. The slump in the economy had hit lawyers, too, and people had stopped suing each other. Could world peace be far behind?

If I'm yelling at you, you know I love you. Because I want your chest to keep going up and down, whether you're my daughter or my mother. Or whether I'm your daughter or your mother. It's all the same emotion, which is worry. Or love!

Every psychiatrist hated the irony that the best-paying specialty was cosmetic surgery, as if you could fix your psyche by changing your face.

It doesn't matter who she is, it matters who you are.

I've learned that you don't stop loving someone just because they die. And you don't stop loving someone who's dead just because you start loving someone else. I know this violates the natural law that two things can't occupy the same place at the same time, but that's never been true of the human heart anyway.

I know that people get angry and I'm generally a fan of emotions. And to be real, it makes great television. A debate where everybody is yelling at each other is totally fun to watch. Until you realize that's how we choose a president.

She's only human. Don't judge her. Just love her.

A movie theater is Switzerland of the diet world.