“Lawyers were notorious for finding cases in the most unlikely places, especially ones with huge potential damagers awards.”

“a guardian ad litem... GAL is appointed by a court to be a child's advocate during legal proceedings that involve a minor. You don't have to be a lawyer to be trained as a GAL, but you have to have a moral compass and a heart. Which, actually probably renders most lawyers unqualified for the job.”

“When you don't know where you're headed, you find places no one else would ever think to explore.”

“Unlike Elise, who could discover parts of a person they didn't even know were absent, you specialized in tangible, but that, I feared, was only a matter of time.”

“You fell in love with someone because of the tilt of his smile, or because he could make you laugh, or in this case, because he made you believe that you were the only one who could save him.”

“Dylan Jerome," the lawyer admits, "wanted to sue God for not caring enough about him.”

“I look for places like me: big, hollow, forgotten by most everyone.”