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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 1b379f1 | anything like that again, I'm going to charge you with obstruction of justice, and I swear, | Lisa Scottoline | ||
| 82ca95c | The locals tell me that alcoholism and crime increases in fracking areas. Also traffic accidents, because of the heavy machinery using roads not meant to carry the loads and noise. | Lisa Scottoline | ||
| e43a27b | Bail Commissioner Holloway banged his | Lisa Scottoline | ||
| b8f047d | Okay." "Thanks, bye." Bennie left the conference room, met" | Lisa Scottoline | ||
| feb9fa3 | Everyone liked a clean-cut guy, and they tended to forget that appearances were deceiving. His | Lisa Scottoline | ||
| 278aed1 | I am all the daughters of my father's house, And all the brothers too. --WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, Twelfth Night, ACT 2, SCENE 4 | Lisa Scottoline | ||
| 2c1f8a2 | you very much, and now I'll take | Lisa Scottoline | ||
| f7c8c20 | She always tried to be professional, but she'd been so professional that she'd almost killed someone. | Lisa Scottoline | ||
| 2c44438 | him, but Officer Agabe-Diaz reached him first, then everything seemed to happen at once: The mortuary assistants bumped the gurney against the doorjamb, jostling the black vinyl body bag. The uniformed officers rushed to help them as Patrick came running toward the stretcher, bursting into tears. Officer Agabe-Diaz scooped Patrick up just before he got there, then turned and handed him screaming and crying to Mary, who hugged him as tightly.. | Lisa Scottoline | ||
| 983f715 | The way it works in real life is that guilt is proportionate. In other words, there are degrees of guilt. | Lisa Scottoline | ||
| 63f6da8 | Melendez | Lisa Scottoline | ||
| 5fcecb0 | Don't you wear glasses, George?" "Not anymore. I had my eyes lasered." Can you say midlife crisis? Radial keratotomy is the new red Porsche." | Lisa Scottoline | ||
| 5d35254 | Any victory won that way would be Pyrrhic. | Lisa Scottoline | ||
| 180f28f | Morton, | Lisa Scottoline | ||
| 596b350 | her gratitude didn't show. "Well, here's what I did yesterday, from noon" | Lisa Scottoline | ||
| e8fc729 | Please, detective, you were saying. | Lisa Scottoline | ||
| 397de9c | The room? Why am I not surprised? | Lisa Scottoline | ||
| f27efbc | what's the matter?" "I'm not ready," | Lisa Scottoline | ||
| 65c8f2d | to Ned, will you. Carry on. | Lisa Scottoline | ||
| 5e814f4 | they were the go-betweens, going back and forth to a | Lisa Scottoline | ||
| 5ab7d49 | Thank you, Your Honor." Bennie" | Lisa Scottoline | ||
| b165df9 | But whose mother are you? Don't slip so easily into the role of being that kid's mother." "I used to be." "But you're not, anymore." "Really?" Jill's chest tightened. "What's a mother, or a stepmother? What's a family? Isn't it forever? The love doesn't stop when the legal relationship does." "No, but the obligation does. The responsibility does." Jill tried a different tack. "Okay, think about it this way. Your son Steven is going to be my.. | Lisa Scottoline | ||
| 663641a | Suddenly, there was a noise from the front door. Dr. Dave turned away, toward the sound. And all hell broke loose. Chapter Forty-seven "NO!" Ryan bellowed, barreling into the kitchen with Pam at his heels. "No" was all Jake could whisper, horrified they were in harm's way. Ryan took a flying leap at Dave and tackled him heavily to the ground. They both yelled and grunted, struggling for the gun. Suddenly a shot fired. Pam screamed. Tear.. | Lisa Scottoline | ||
| e8e7636 | gestured to an empty chair, | Lisa Scottoline | ||
| 7663c11 | Here are a few of the sources I used, and I heartily recommend them: Simon Baron-Cohen, The Science of Evil; Judith Beck, Cognitive Behavior Therapy; Louis Cozolino, The Making of a Therapist; Kevin Dutton, The Wisdom of Psychopaths; James Fallon, The Psychopath Inside; Peter and Ginger Ross Breggin, Talking Back to Prozac; Robert D. | Lisa Scottoline | ||
| c3ddf2a | Judy woke up on her back in the parking lot. | Lisa Scottoline | ||
| 5a27914 | knees, but they evaporated as the boat picked | Lisa Scottoline | ||
| 92b4d29 | me. Jesus, it's all over the news, right?" Bennie" | Lisa Scottoline | ||
| 2ed3df5 | They say life is short, but the truth is, motherhood is short. | Lisa Scottoline | ||
| 1b488d6 | Bennie knew her mother had loved her long after she was well enough to say so, though she barely remembered her mother's caring for her as a child. Bennie guessed her mother had performed the routine functions that mothers do every day, for there had been evidence of it. Bennie had won awards in elementary school, tiny pins like tie tacks that lay ignored in her jewelry box, for getting good grades and having good penmanship. She had stumbl.. | Lisa Scottoline | ||
| 86c2e27 | She remained standing in the empty gallery long after Jack had been | Lisa Scottoline | ||
| 4b0748e | little fucker!" Star shouted at" | Lisa Scottoline | ||
| 3941867 | little fucker!" Star shouted at him. "No! Don't kill me! Please, God!" The dude's hands flew up to where his head got hit and he crumpled in half like a paper doll, falling to his knees on a pile of rotted wood and greasy drywall. The corner was filled with garbage spilling" | Lisa Scottoline | ||
| 268e761 | 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." | Lisa Scottoline | ||
| ee12b19 | 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. | Lisa Scottoline | ||
| e312a58 | mine. "Oh, I mean that as a compliment" | Lisa Scottoline | ||
| 0422472 | when I told him my idea for this motion, even | Lisa Scottoline | ||
| 88aab17 | Bars over the door, but not the window, and the roof looked | Lisa Scottoline | ||
| b2c782a | Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and will come forth later in uglier ways. --Sigmund Freud | Lisa Scottoline | ||
| e24296f | Bennie wiped her greasy fingers on a napkin, | Lisa Scottoline | ||
| 8b368fc | she had trained him to think she didn't need him. | Lisa Scottoline | ||
| 702bbaf | What got you into rowing?" Declan covered" | Lisa Scottoline | ||
| 62f3a4b | Bennie tried to keep her face forward | Lisa Scottoline | ||
| 4fee4b7 | Lou had to believe he'd find something on Winchester if he just took it methodical. Half a mil. Lou thought about knocking again, then lowered his arm and stood there like a stupid ass. Couldn't even decide whether to knock. Half of him wanted to know what was going on; the other half would just as soon let it lie. The neighbors had IDed | Lisa Scottoline |