Lisa Scottoline
Lisa Scottoline is a #1 bestselling and Edgar award-winning author of 33 novels. Her books are book-club favorites, and Lisa and her daughter Francesca Serritella have hosted an annual Big Book Club Party for over a thousand readers at her Pennsylvania farm, for the past twelve years. Lisa has served as President of Mystery Writers of America, and her reviews of fiction and non-fiction have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post and The Philadelphia Inquirer. She also writes a weekly column with her daughter for the Philadelphia Inquirer entitled Chick Wit, a witty take on life from a woman’s perspective, which have been collected in a bestselling series of humorous memoirs. Lisa graduated magna cum laude in three years from the University of Pennsylvania, with a B.A. in English, and cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania Law School, where she taught Justice and Fiction. Lisa has over 30 million copies of her books in print and is published in over 35 countries. She lives in the Philadelphia area with an array of disobedient pets and wouldn’t have it any other way.
“Do you know what they call people who hoard books? Smart.”
“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.”
“She realised that letting someone go was setting them free.”
“We can't control what people do or say, even if it's dumb.”
“You cannot do more with less.”
“Great griefs are mute.”
“Likewise, I would never be so rude as to not interrupt a friend. How else would she know I was listening?”
“It's fun to do something dumb. Not something really dumb, like my second marriage. That was really really dumb.”
“A movie theater is Switzerland of the diet world.”
“Natural law says that matter cannot be created or destroyed, but that was pre-spanx.”
“It's the Snickers bars. Snickers equal romance.”
“Ellen had long ago stopped being embarrassed by temper tantrums. She flipped it and wore it like a badge of honor. A temper tantrum was a sign that a mom said no when it counted.”
“Even people who counted their blessings never counted them in the morning. For one thing, there wasn't time.”
“I read, therefore, I matter.”
“Let's talk about a decision that women have to make every morning- Big purse or little purse?”
“Women shouldn't iron, ever. It's our wrinkles that make us interesting.”
“Because the thing about love is that we can't control whether we get it, but we can control whether we give it.”
“The thing about love is that we can't control whether we get it, but we can control whether we give it. And each feels as good as the other. Your heart doesn't know if it's loving a man, a book, or a puppy. If your heart were that smart, it would be your brain.”