Blood Money Quotes

“We need to get you examined by another psychiatrist and have him write a report that we’ll submit to the judge. Once that’s done, the judge will appoint a lawyer of his choosing to act as a guardian ad litem. It’s required in all conservatorship cases in Tennessee. The guardian ad litem is supposed to be neutral. He or she will talk to all the witnesses and will probably request an independent psychiatric examination. Then the guardian will submit a report to the judge and make recommendations. The judge doesn’t have to follow the recommendations, but from what I’ve been able to gather, the judge usually does what the guardian recommends.”
― Scott Pratt, Blood Money

“People can handle the truth, Griffin. I don’t understand why politicians and government officials can’t grasp that concept.”
― Scott Pratt, Blood Money

“I found it, Roscoe,” Charlie whispered. “I found Prometheus’s fire.”
― Scott Pratt, Blood Money

“No, it isn’t. I guess it used to be a date, but not anymore. The whole… I don’t know, I guess you’d call it protocol, of dating has changed. First you talk, then you date, then you agree to be exclusive, then you become boyfriend and girlfriend, and then you’re in a relationship.” “Ah, I get it,” I said. “It isn’t really official until it’s announced on Facebook.”
― Scott Pratt, Blood Money

“when she spoke up, but like the rest of us, she’d been drinking. “Why is it not fair?” I said. “She’s the one who has cancer. If she doesn’t want me to take the case, all she has to do is say so. I’m willing to abide by whatever decision she makes.” “Just tell them thanks but no thanks,” Lilly said. “If the circumstances were different, if Mom wasn’t sick, then we could”
― Scott Pratt, Blood Money

“His main concern was whether he’d be able to adapt to life without someone telling him what he could and couldn’t do every second of the day.”
― Scott Pratt, Blood Money

“He hadn’t felt joy or pain or compassion in so long that he sometimes wondered whether he’d be able to feel anything ever again. He hoped he would, though. He wanted to feel alive again before he died.”
― Scott Pratt, Blood Money

“he knew he wouldn’t be able to hold onto his rackets from inside prison. He also”
― Scott Pratt, Blood Money

“He lived on the property Roscoe owns, or owned until”
― Scott Pratt, Blood Money

“on the spot where Roscoe’s great-grandfather made his liquor. She”
― Scott Pratt, Blood Money

“to”
― Scott Pratt, Blood Money

“If you believed what Winston Churchill once wrote – that you could judge a society by the way it treats its prisoners”
― Scott Pratt, Blood Money

“You, my friend, have cojones the size of church bells,”
― Scott Pratt, Blood Money

“first. I”
― Scott Pratt, Blood Money

“mother,”
― Scott Pratt, Blood Money