Quotes from Lisa Scottoline

You're my best friend. I understand you and appreciate you, and can make you happy the rest of your life, I promise you that.

Moms never get out of the kid business. Last time I checked, motherhood had no expiration date.

Yes, she's about to embark on a new phase of her life. And yes, my role in her life may change. But as time goes on and our hearts grow more rings, we don't have to leave anyone behind. We can hold on to each other, and collect new hearts to hold, from this day forward, as long as we all shall live.

Ha! She has a dark side, my sister. Nobody believes it, but she used to torture me when I was little.

Good people can't imagine evil. It catches us by surprise, and it always will.

I already know when I'm being bad, and I don't need to be nagged by my underwear.

You haven't lived until you duct-taped a diaper on a dog.

Mary was always surprised at how terse men could be. She needed fifteen minutes to say hello. Plus hugging time.

She'd believed in forever in her twenties, when Gray had said it, meaning every word, and she'd believed in forever in her thirties, when William had said it, lying through his teeth. But she'd lived long enough to know that forever couldn't be guaranteed to anyone. Even tomorrow couldn't be relied upon.

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

So every day, before every meal, my question is the same. What can I make with what I have?

Alice was back, the landlord was evicting her, and she was out of dog food. She hadn't felt so totally at a loss since the day her mother had passed. And her employees were staring at her, momentarily speechless.

Motherhood was not for the weak.

Making the decision to have a child—it is momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body. —Elizabeth Stone

She had lived long enough to learn that families didn't dissolve or reconfigure neatly, but left debris lying everywhere, and it was human debris. And sometimes, like tonight, she felt as if she were tripping over the bodies.

They drove through the town of Collegeville on Route 29, a winding two-lane road, and continued past colonial vintage houses, then rolling hills and pastured horses. The farmland turned into a vast open space, and Christine sensed they were approaching the prison. "I think we're almost there," she said, glancing over. Lauren

nobody was ever replaced in life, no hole completely filled or loss totally healed. You didn't need a medical degree to know that the human body really wasn't stronger in the broken places. Like any bone, the cracks would always show if you looked hard enough.

You proceeded irregardless

You think you're in Connecticut, but you're in the jungle.

Her father had grown up with The Tonys; Tony "From-Down-The-Block" LoMonaco, "Pigeon" Tony Lucia, and Tony "Two Feet" Pensiera, which got shortened to "Feet," so even his nickname had a nickname.

Don't think on what they say, because you don't have to get yourself right with them. You have to get yourself right with you.

the reverse-discrimination case

That's grief, man. It gets in you. Your body carries it. It's embedded.

The human body was a thing of beauty because so many structures protected the heart, but she realized that the human heart simply could not be protected, not by muscle, not by bone, not by anything.