Jilliane Hoffman > Quotes

“Pa gdje je ona Zo? Gdje je moje dijete?”
― Jilliane Hoffman

“Sometimes we don’t see what it is we don’t want to see.”
― Jilliane Hoffman, The Cutting Room

“they would not be allowed to mourn him when he passed, either. They were just supposed to watch quietly with the rest of the witnesses when the warden pulled the black curtain back and the crowd outside the prison gates began to cheer. . . .”
― Jilliane Hoffman, Plea of Insanity

“NO SUSPECTS IN GABLES MASSACRE blared the front-page headline in her hands.”
― Jilliane Hoffman, Plea of Insanity

“She probably should’ve seen it coming, but she’d put too much faith in the system. And that was a hard pill to swallow.”
― Jilliane Hoffman, Plea of Insanity

“It was the pit prosecutors, as attorneys in division were known, that handled most of Miami’s 40,000+ felony arrests each year.”
― Jilliane Hoffman, Plea of Insanity

“Oh, you can’t help that,” said the Cat. “We’re all mad here. I’m mad. You’re mad.” “How do you know I’m mad?” said Alice. “You must be,” said the Cat, “or you wouldn’t have come here.”
― Jilliane Hoffman, Plea of Insanity

“brother.” “Oh,” he replied, seating”
― Jilliane Hoffman, Plea of Insanity

“It wasn’t a New York salary, that was for sure, but Miami was much prettier to look at in February and it did come with lots of crime—great job security for a prosecutor.”
― Jilliane Hoffman, Plea of Insanity

“Librarians were paid shit and required a masters; chefs traveled the world. Cooking school it was.”
― Jilliane Hoffman, Plea of Insanity

“Corrections had also sized his orange jumpsuit wrong—which they were known to do with child molesters and other particularly repugnant inmates—making him appear smaller and slighter”
― Jilliane Hoffman, Plea of Insanity

“Your fear of failure should never be greater than your fear of regret.”
― Jilliane Hoffman, Plea of Insanity

“C.J.’s words sounded again and again in her head. She knew that she had not given her an answer, because Lourdes honestly didn’t have one. It was her embattled conscience that had driven her out of Miami, away from a successful practice, from friends and family, to hide from her sins up here in the mountains, hoping time would ease its suffering. But it simply made the condition worse. Her conscience—was that friend made or born? Or was hers skewed with the help of a mother who’d read from the bible every night before dinner, even when there was no food on the table to eat? Some people supposedly didn’t even have a conscience—failing to develop one by the age of three or four, and were sunk for life. Some had one and ignored it constantly. Others had one, but it didn’t always work right. So what made the conscience, the friend, always right, anyway? Who draws that line, Lourdes?”
― Jilliane Hoffman, Last Witness

“Behind the razor wire and barred windows were some of the most violent men in the state of Florida. Murderers, robbers, pedophiles, rapists.”
― Jilliane Hoffman, Plea of Insanity

“Simply put, Rick was like cheesecake—sinfully rich, luscious, and oh-so-bad for you.”
― Jilliane Hoffman, Plea of Insanity

“Arson in 2-6, home invasion in 2-10, cocaine trafficking in 5-7: Pick a courtroom—any courtroom—and you’d be sure to be horrified.”
― Jilliane Hoffman, Plea of Insanity

“A fan of L.A. Law reruns and Law & Order, she’d put lawyer down on the list, hung up the phone, and taken the LSAT. Four years of night school and a shitload of student loans later, she was an attorney.”
― Jilliane Hoffman, Plea of Insanity

“hoping some would-be robber or rapist or killer would find her and do her the favor of ending what she herself could not. But nothing bad had ever happened.”
― Jilliane Hoffman, Plea of Insanity