Look Again Quotes

“Even people who counted their blessings never counted them in the morning. For one thing, there wasn't time.”
― Lisa Scottoline, Look Again

“Bad things are like waves. They're going to happen to you, and there's nothing you can do about it. They're part of life, like waves are a part of the ocean. If you're standing on the shoreline, you don't know when the waves are coming. But they'll come. You gotta make sure you get back to the surface, after every wave. That's all.”
― Lisa Scottoline, Look Again

“It's the Snickers bars. Snickers equal romance.”
― Lisa Scottoline, Look Again

“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.”
― Lisa Scottoline, Look Again

“Night came early to this neighborhood, the sun fleeing the sky, leaving heaven black and blue.”
― Lisa Scottoline, Look Again

“He’s an odd duck
but he’s a good kid, with a good heart.”
― Lisa Scottoline, Look Again

“When I started the book, I didn’t know how it was going to end; in fact, I didn’t even know how it was going to middle.”
― Lisa Scottoline, Look Again

“Remember, plan for the worst and you’ll be happily surprised.”
― Lisa Scottoline, Look Again

“The deepest pain in her heart eased just a little, and she let herself feel how very powerful is something so simple, yet so profound, as a father’s love.”
― Lisa Scottoline, Look Again

“I have learned that the love a mother has for her child is unique among human emotions. Every mother knows this instinctively, but that doesn’t mean it doesn’t need articulating.”
― Lisa Scottoline, Look Again

“My mother died recently, and it feels a lot like that. Suddenly, someone who was at the center of your life is gone, excised as quickly as an apple is cored, a sharp spike driven down the center of your world, then a cruel flick of the wrist and the almost surgical extraction of your very heart. And like a death, it does not end the relationship. I am still the daughter of my mother, though she is gone.”
― Lisa Scottoline, Look Again

“It’s so new, a wound still bleeding, the flesh torn apart, the gash swollen and puffy, yet to be sewn together or grafted, years from scar tissue, bumpy and hard.”
― Lisa Scottoline, Look Again

“A light seared through the dark room of her mind, illuminating every corner, flooding every crack in the plaster, filling the grain in the floorboards, setting even the dust motes ablaze.”
― Lisa Scottoline, Look Again

“Bad things are like waves. They’re going to happen to you, and there’s nothing you can do about it. They’re part of life, like waves are a part of the ocean. If you’re standing on the shoreline, you don’t know when the waves are coming. But they’ll come. You gotta make sure you get back to the surface, after every wave. That’s all.”
― Lisa Scottoline, Look Again

“You know, if you live long enough, you realize there’s nothing you can’t handle. I lost my husband and I lost my kid sister. If you asked me, I never would’ve thought that I’d be standing here afterwards. Life makes you strong, and death makes you strong, too.”
― Lisa Scottoline, Look Again

“A fireball sun climbed a cloudless sky, and the humidity was 120,000 percent.”
― Lisa Scottoline, Look Again

“I’d better go. Will hates the flying monkeys.” “Everybody hates the flying monkeys,” Ron said, with a final smile.”
― Lisa Scottoline, Look Again

“She held the note in her hand and closed her eyes, feeling its heavy paper beneath her fingers, letting it connect her to her mother through space and time.”
― Lisa Scottoline, Look Again

“No mother deserved to be forgotten, and certainly not hers.”
― Lisa Scottoline, Look Again

“It was a secret pleasure of being a reporter. You never knew where your words landed.”
― Lisa Scottoline, Look Again

“Ellen tried to make sense of the number. Everybody counted bodies, to quantify the cost. But whether it cost nine kids or twelve, it was no worse than one. One child was enough. One body was one too many. One was the only number.”
― Lisa Scottoline, Look Again

“You know, they say war is hell, but I’ve been in a war and I’ve been in a newsroom. To me, you pick your poison.”
― Lisa Scottoline, Look Again

“Filling the newsroom were fifty-odd L-shaped desks furnished with computers, multiline phones, and atmospheric clutter, but only a few were occupied. Ellen had been at the paper long enough to remember when all the desks were full and the newsroom had the self-important hustle-bustle depicted on TV and the movies. There had been an electricity in the air then, from working at the epicenter of breaking news. Now the epicenter of breaking news had moved to the Internet, leaving too many of the desks vacant, now one more.”
― Lisa Scottoline, Look Again

“school tomorrow.”
― Lisa Scottoline, Look Again

“was an unfortunate choice for a favorite color, unless you were a leprechaun.”
― Lisa Scottoline, Look Again

“close at three o’clock.”
― Lisa Scottoline, Look Again

“Pinocchio”
― Lisa Scottoline, Look Again

“Here is how a mother's love is different:
You may fall out of love with a man.
But you will never fall out of love with your child.
Even after he is gone.”
― Lisa Scottoline, Look Again