Lisa Scottoline

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.

If you can't be brave, be determined. And you'll end up in the same place.

Truly I never thought of myself as writing legal thrillers, and I still don't think I do. I write stories about women.

What I'm doing is writing stories about women who care about justice. They are women who think about the difference between right and wrong, what's legal and illegal, ethical and unethical, moral and immoral.

Nah. I'm a tough cookie. Except for the cancer, I'm fine.

I wonder if whoever invented World of Warcraft realizes it__ practice for sociopaths.

Writing had always helped her, before. It always clarified her feelings and her thoughts, and she never felt like she could understand something fully until the very minute that she'd written about it, as if each story was one she told herself and her readers, at the same time.

How do you tell the psychiatrists from the patients in the hospital?The patients get better and leave.

We're here and we prey on you.We target you.We groom you.

Listen carefully, I__ going to say three words.___ love you?

It's the Snickers bars. Snickers equal romance.

Jake thanked God he had a son to put to bed when he knew somewhere there was a family, right now, waiting for someone who would never come home.