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I plan everything. I set everyone in motion, and when the moment comes, I strike. I always win in the end. They never see me coming. Know why? Because I'm already there.
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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."
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Lisa Scottoline |
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79dde48
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Great griefs are mute.
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Lisa Scottoline |
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5fa297d
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Who's the president of the United States?" "Who cares? All politicians are crooks"
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Lisa Scottoline |
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ec42cab
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Mary wondered when law got so complicated that even the lawyers needed lawyers.
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Lisa Scottoline |
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040e745
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She realised that letting someone go was setting them free.
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Lisa Scottoline |
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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.
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Lisa Scottoline |
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Natural law says that matter cannot be created or destroyed, but that was pre-spanx.
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Lisa Scottoline |
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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.
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Lisa Scottoline |
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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.
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Lisa Scottoline |
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It's fun to do something dumb. Not something really dumb, like my second marriage. That was really really dumb.
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Lisa Scottoline |
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It doesn't matter who she is, it matters who you are.
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Lisa Scottoline |
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Harry Truman never said 'Give 'em hell.' He said, 'I just told him the truth and they thought it was hell.
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Lisa Scottoline |
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Because she does not worry about me.
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Lisa Scottoline |
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Night came early to this neighborhood, the sun fleeing the sky, leaving heaven black and blue.
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eloquently-put
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Lisa Scottoline |
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No one's paying any attention to sociopaths, or they think we're all killers, which is a misconception.
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Lisa Scottoline |
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Moms never get out of the kid business. Last time I checked, motherhood had no expiration date.
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Lisa Scottoline |
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0589700
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You cannot do more with less.
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Lisa Scottoline |
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That's what books do, isn't it? That's why I love to read. They bring us closer to ourselves.
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Lisa Scottoline |
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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!
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Lisa Scottoline |
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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.
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Lisa Scottoline |
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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.
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Lisa Scottoline |
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She's only human. Don't judge her. Just love her.
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Lisa Scottoline |
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8d55494
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A movie theater is Switzerland of the diet world.
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Lisa Scottoline |
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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.
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Lisa Scottoline |
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10009aa
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Good people can't imagine evil. It catches us by surprise, and it always will.
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Lisa Scottoline |
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I already know when I'm being bad, and I don't need to be nagged by my underwear.
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Lisa Scottoline |
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c931eda
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You haven't lived until you duct-taped a diaper on a dog.
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Lisa Scottoline |
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Motherhood was not for the weak.
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Lisa Scottoline |
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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
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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.
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Lisa Scottoline |
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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.
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Celebrities are our heroes and heroines now, discussed the next day over latte or lunch. We have such a strong need to talk to each other, to have some commonality of story, that we're finding it in celebrities. In effect, we're turning reality into fiction. Using actors and actresses, just off duty. And how is this working for us? Not great. It leaves us with a perennially empty feeling. We find the celebrities empty, and at some level, we..
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Lisa Scottoline |
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If I stopped talking after I made my point, I'd never say anything.
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Lisa Scottoline |
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she wondered if justice was possible in a world full of profoundly evil and damaged human beings, in a veritable universe of damage.
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Lisa Scottoline |
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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"
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Lisa Scottoline |
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I learned that protecting someone by keeping him away from me doesn't shelter either of us. I learned that feeling other people's feelings for them doesn't bring us closer, it only separates me from myself and my needs. I always thought being codependent meant being too emotionally glued to someone; I didn't realize the way I was doing it was setting me adrift.
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introspection
love
relationship
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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.
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Lisa Scottoline |
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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.
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Lisa Scottoline |
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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.
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Lisa Scottoline |
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the reverse-discrimination case,
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Lisa Scottoline |
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life wouldn't be as much fun if we knew where its treasures were hidden. Sometimes you had to search for them. Sometimes you had to fight for them. And sometimes, they were at your feet. Either way, they were waiting. For you.
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Lisa Scottoline |
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See the child, not the cancer. Then you'll be happy when you visit, not sad.
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Lisa Scottoline |
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She's the Girl Who Dresses Too Hot For Work. Every rotation has one, probably every job.
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Lisa Scottoline |