Loyalty Quotes

“In our old age, smaller pleasures assume greater importance, don’t you think?”
― Lisa Scottoline, Loyalty

“Here’s what I tell myself. None of us is meant to live forever. We’re meant to live only in the time we have, in love and kindness. That’s all anyone can hope for.”
― Lisa Scottoline, Loyalty

“But faith was always there for him, whether in sun or in shadow. Faith was at her best in darkness. Then, faith shone.”
― Lisa Scottoline, Loyalty

“Alfredo felt a pang, having learned long ago that not everybody saw animals for who they truly were, and all lives were poorer as a result.”
― Lisa Scottoline, Loyalty

“the widespread illiteracy of Sicily in the 1800s was one reason the class system was fixed in place, denying opportunity and equality to so many.”
― Lisa Scottoline, Loyalty

“Books center us, heal us, and connect us, and I believe that reading is fundamental to democracy.”
― Lisa Scottoline, Loyalty

“The Sicilian Inquisition shows how law can perpetrate horrific injustice, in that it sanctioned the torture, murder, and expulsion of Sicily’s Jews.”
― Lisa Scottoline, Loyalty

“its earliest roots to the luxuriant lemon groves around Palermo, arising from a unique set of circumstances in the 1800s, which combined legal, social, political, and even agricultural factors.”
― Lisa Scottoline, Loyalty

“some historians call Sicily “the world’s island” because it has been conquered by so many peoples, owing to its location in the middle of the Mediterranean, valuable for trade and military reasons. Sicilians have been influenced by each culture, and the island’s amazingly diverse history is reflected in its dramatic architecture, ruggedly beautiful terrain, delicious food, sibilant language, even the faces of its people.”
― Lisa Scottoline, Loyalty

“None of us is meant to live forever. We’re meant to live only in the time we have, in love and kindness. That’s all anyone can hope for.”
― Lisa Scottoline, Loyalty

“glances of the women and the respectful expressions of the men that everyone regarded them as strong, bold, and daring. The Sicilian word for such qualities was mafioso, and it was a compliment.”
― Lisa Scottoline, Loyalty

“Jews had lived in Sicily before Christians, settling on the east coast, then spreading outward, flourishing under Muslim rule. Palermo became a Jewish center, but everything changed under Aragonese rule.”
― Lisa Scottoline, Loyalty

“To have seen Italy without seeing Sicily is not to have seen Italy at all, for Sicily is the clue to everything. —GOETHE, ITALIAN JOURNEY”
― Lisa Scottoline, Loyalty

“Hope isn't a feeling, it's an act.”
― Lisa Scottoline, Loyalty

“That’s what love is. Love is faith.”
― Lisa Scottoline, Loyalty