Quotes from Lisa Scottoline

She set down the glass, palmed the

his toenails clicking

History taught that the cover-up was always worse than the crime.

Any victory won that way would be Pyrrhic.

CHAPTER FIFTY-EIGHT

me. Jesus, it's all over the news, right?" Bennie

Mary had been raised in a family where blood was as thick as tomato sauce.

He couldn't swim.

Custom curtains made with a lovely Schumacher fabric that she'd used for the headboard.

entered the country illegally

I can read you almost immediately, get your number right away, and push your buttons to make you do whatever I want.

memoir Teacher Man.

It is not your memories which haunt you. It is not what you have written down. It is what you have forgotten, what you must forget. What you must go on forgetting all your life. —JAMES FENTON, "A German Requiem

They say life is short, but the truth is, motherhood is short.

Bootleg miners did what's called robbing back, working the mine the wrong way, back to front, chipping away the coal pillars that were left to support the mine roof. They took out the pillars, collapsing the mines. It made it impossible to stop the fire when the government filled the shafts with fly ash in the seventies, and again in the eighties." Cate

looked back at Bennie in panic as Declan tugged him away. By the time they'd rounded the corner

Don't try and change me. Women always try to change men. It never works. I'm not trying to change you. I'm trying to work with you.

I'm a badass court reporter.

I know that you guys decide who you 'like' and who you don't, then confirmation bias sets in and before you know it, the wrong person has been suspected of murder, even charged.

Lawyers can't lie, officially. Only Congress.

There have always been anti-Semites, as there have always been fleas. Both are insignificant and brainless, having no purpose other than to torment their betters. I pray that someday we will be rid of them, but until then, we can only bathe. to keep them away.

And for their part, the Abruzzese had a popular saying: "It is better to have a dead man in your house than a Marchegiani at your door," because the men of Marche had been used as tax collectors by the Romans, and so were universally hated.

Cluster C liked everything to stay the same, forever.

chubby yellow Lab