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1 " Nobody ever gets what they want when it comes to love. "
― Scott Turow
2 " I am the prosecutor. I represent the state. I am here to present to you the evidence of a crime. Together you will weigh this evidence. You will deliberate upon it. You will decide if it proves the defendant's guilt. "
3 " What kills a person at twenty-five? Leukemia. An accident. But George knows the better odds are that someone who passes at that age dies of unhappiness. Drug overdose. Suicide. Reckless behavior. "
― Scott Turow , Limitations (Kindle County Legal Thriller #7)
4 " Who are we but the stories we tell ourselves, about ourselves, and believe? "
― Scott Turow , Ordinary Heroes
5 " There will always be cases that cry out to me for ultimate punishment. That is not the true issue. The pivotal question instead is whether a system of justice can be constructed that reaches only the rare, right cases, without also occasionally condemning the innocent or the undeserving. "
― Scott Turow , Ultimate Punishment: A Lawyer's Reflections on Dealing with the Death Penalty
6 " It was crime at its purest, in which empathy, that most fundamental aspect of human morality, evaporated and another being became only a target for untamed fantasy. "
7 " I was willing to do it. was determined to do it. By the end of the day, that had become my reaction to all of the signs of hard things ahead - a new purposefulness, hardy resolve. Everything I'd encountered so far - the law, my classmates, the great piece of discovery - had left me in deep thrall and I was bent on making sure that continued. I would have the best of it, I decided, whatever the obstacles. "
― Scott Turow , One L: The Turbulent True Story of a First Year at Harvard Law School
8 " I was willing to do it. I was determined to do it. By the end of the day, that had become my reaction to all of the signs of hard things ahead - a new purposefulness, hardy resolve. Everything I'd encountered so far - the law, my classmates, the great piece of discovery - had left me in deep thrall and I was bent on making sure that continued. I would have the best of it, I decided, whatever the obstacles. "
9 " Anna is part of a generation that often seems frozen in place by their unreleting sense of irony. Virtually everything people believe in can be exposed as possessing laughable inconsistencies. And so they laugh. And stand still. "
― Scott Turow , Innocent (Kindle County Legal Thriller #8)
10 " After a week, it's better. I miss her. I mourn her. But some peace has returned. She had been so unattainable - so young, so much a citizen of a different era - that it is hard to feel fully deprived. "
11 " As a defense lawyer, he refused to condemn his clients. Everyone else in the system--the cops, the prosecutors, the juries and judges--would take care of that; they didn't need his help. "
12 " The joke was thinking you were ever really in charge of your life. You pressed your oar down into the water to direct the canoe, but it was the current that shot you through the rapids. You just hung on and hoped not to hit a rock or a whirlpool. "
13 " Every American is from somewhere else. Each is hated for what he brings that is different from the rest. We live in uneasy peace. But it is peace, for the most part. "
14 " The years roll on and life seems like this more and more, that choices don't really exit in the way I thought they would when I was a child and expected the regal power of adulthood to provide clarity and insight. "
― Scott Turow , The Laws Of Our Fathers (Kindle County Legal Thriller #4)
15 " It wasn't luck or the order of the universe. It was simply what had happened. "
16 " This is life. You know the philosphers? The Present never stops. There's only the Present. You cheat life if you live in the Past. "
17 " He smiled hesitantly and she smiled back in the same fashion, but he was unsettled by the thought that Muriel had undergone a transformation. Some of the stuff that had come out of her mouth lately, about God or babies, made him wonder if she’d had a brain transplant at some point in the last ten years. It was funny what happened to people after forty, when they realized that our place here on earth was leased, not owned. "
― Scott Turow , Reversible Errors (Kindle County Legal Thriller #6)
18 " The fundamental tension of the profession is the struggle between bold advocacy of the client's interests and the need to establish and hold to limits that prevent advocacy from leading to irrational and inequitable results; and thus the lawyer's job in practice is to be on one hand the impassioned representative of his client to the world, and on the other the wise representative to his client of the legal system, and the society, explaining and upholding the demands and restrictions which that system places on them both. "
19 " Thus for me, the principal meaning of being a Jew was something people reliably held against me, a barrier to overcome. "
20 " This isn't on you,' he told her.It was nothing more than wicked coincidence. UCAs got made most often by cops or prosecutors who recognized them. "
― Scott Turow , Personal Injuries (Kindle County Legal Thriller #5)
