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A hilarious collection of stories from the life of the New York Times bestselling author of Look Again At last, together in one collection, are Lisa Scottoline’s wildly popular Philadelphia Inquirer columns. In her column, Lisa lets her hair down, roots and all, to show the humorous... read more
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“Also, I was getting bollixed up by the fact that I had heard J. K. Rowling deliver the best commencement speech ever, and she outsells me 8,376,373,838 books to one.”
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Every day is a new day in which we wake up and choose how to live.
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If I killed somebody, they would show up with shovels and Hefty bags. A girlfriend is just another word for accessory after the fact.
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A woman is like a tea bag. You never know how strong she is until she’s in hot water. —Eleanor Roosevelt
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You and your child are different people, and your child is traveling through your life, just as you’re traveling through hers. All of us are traveling through this life, and though our paths overlap for a time, like routes on a highway map, eventually we all separate, one from the other.
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Be right where you are, in the present, in this moment. Your moment. Just be. And see and hear and smell. Because we are all of us so very lucky to begin again, every day.
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I don’t think it takes a village to raise a child. On the contrary, I think it takes one person who loves the child and places that child’s needs and interests above his own, for a good, long time. Like decades. And if you’ve done that for a child, it stands to reason that you’re going to miss them when they go, even if you gave them the roots and wings required by Hallmark cards.
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Life is moments. And smells, and tastes, and the sight of your daughter’s face. Or the sound of a kitten’s purr. So the only time is now.
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What Harry and my mother taught me that Thanksgiving, whether they knew it or not, was that you don’t just get your family, you can create your family.
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In the end, our own personal happiness is about figuring out what makes us feel the most ourselves, and living that way—and to hell with what anybody else thinks.
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Because the thing about love is that we can’t control whether we get it, but we can control whether we give it.
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I'm old enough to remember Ozzie and Harriet, which means that my idea of the nuclear family was born in the 1950s and never quite grew up.
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- Lisa Scottoline (Author)
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- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 814.54
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