“Truly I never thought of myself as writing legal thrillers, and I still don't think I do. I write stories about women.”

“Nah. I'm a tough cookie. Except for the cancer, I'm fine.”

“I wonder if whoever invented World of Warcraft realizes it’s practice for sociopaths.”

“Truly I never thought of myself as writing legal thrillers, and I still don't think I do. I write stories about women.”

“What I'm doing is writing stories about women who care about justice. They are women who think about the difference between right and wrong, what's legal and illegal, ethical and unethical, moral and immoral.”

“We're here and we prey on you.We target you.We groom you.”

“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.”

“It's the Snickers bars. Snickers equal romance.”

“Jake thanked God he had a son to put to bed when he knew somewhere there was a family, right now, waiting for someone who would never come home.”

“If you can't be brave, be determined. And you'll end up in the same place.”

“How do you tell the psychiatrists from the patients in the hospital?The patients get better and leave.”