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I'd clawed my way back to the land of the living. Because of Vero. She needed me. -- Lisa Gardner
I still like the relationship part of any story. You don't want your character to figure everything out and then at the end of the day, go home and eat soup from a can by herself. -- Lisa Gardner
Because it's one thing to survive. It is much, much harder to truly live. -- Lisa Gardner
God give me the strength to change the things I can change, the courage to let go of the things I need to let go and the wisdom to know the difference. - Bobby Dodge -- Lisa Gardner
You try as a parent. You love beyond reason. You fight beyond endurance. You hope beyond despair.
You never think, until the very last moment, that it still might not be enough. -- Lisa Gardner
They died, leaving behind the kind of void that is never filled, a relentless ache that follows an abandoned child throughout her entire life. And -- Lisa Gardner
Asked Thomas; it's just him and me and has been for a very long time. We tell each other we are -- Lisa Gardner
Winners never quit, quitters never win -- Lisa Gardner
And a man and woman should fight. Frankly, they should have a good head-to-head battle about every six months, then make love until they break the box springs. -- Lisa Gardner
Expect nothing and life will be velvet. -- Lisa Gardner
it, Shep does his ordering for the department and for himself all from the same manufacturer. -- Lisa Gardner
I have a huge author crush on Stephen King. Have never met him. Would probably embarrass myself. But it would be worth it. -- Lisa Gardner
I'm unique for a suspense author in that I don't have a specialty background. A lot of suspense writers used to be lawyers or crime beat reporters. I didn't even know a cop when I started out. I finally figured out that I could visit prisons - I just had to be willing to make the phone calls. -- Lisa Gardner
We're all in this together - when one writer succeeds, all writers succeed. I love discovering new authors. I think we need to take care of each other and talk about craft and nurture talent. -- Lisa Gardner
It's human nature, Rainie. We're all looking for something to believe in, and someone to blame. -- Lisa Gardner
I loved ghost stories, creaky staircases, stormy nights. If it guaranteed nightmares I read it by flashlight, after midnight. -- Lisa Gardner
Humanity is a messy business, where knowing what is right doesn't necessarily preclude you from doing what is wrong. -- Lisa Gardner
There are things that once done can't be undone, things that once said can't be unsaid. -- Lisa Gardner
Mothers hold close, fathers let go. Maybe that's the way of the world. -- Lisa Gardner
It's so much easier to fall in love, and so much more complicated to fall out of it. -- Lisa Gardner
Pain is not what you see and not what you feel. Pain is what you can only hear, alone in the dark. -- Lisa Gardner
Oh, for the love of God. There is no agent more agent than you. I swear you have pin-striped ties encrypted into your DNA. When you die, the coffin is going to read Property of the FBI. -- Lisa Gardner
Dual-income families have turned out a batch of superpredators who have no sympathy or remorse. Blast 'em up on Nintendo; blast 'em up on the streets. -- Lisa Gardner
It is difficult to get men to pick up a female author. Women will read men, but men won't read women. -- Lisa Gardner
IN A DETECTIVE'S WORLD there was one true blight on society, and it wasn't the master criminal; after all, superpredators were few and far between. It was the media. Sunday -- Lisa Gardner
My secret vice is Sudoku puzzles. Can't stop playing them. My parents are accountants. I blame them entirely. -- Lisa Gardner
I don't know much about international policing and I would love to learn more. Especially in this day and age when the Internet is rapidly reducing borders and crime can happen on a larger scale than ever before. These things intrigue me. -- Lisa Gardner
It wasn't that strangers couldn't hurt you. It was simply that the people you loved could do it so much better. -- Lisa Gardner
All I've really ever done is write since I was 17, so I don't know anything about anything. For me to do a novel, I have to talk to people who know things. And what keeps me in suspense is that I am a crime aficionado. -- Lisa Gardner
Alex said, his voice subdued, tense. "So it would seem," D.D. -- Lisa Gardner
Before I became a suspense novelist, I wrote romantic suspense as Alicia Scott. -- Lisa Gardner
What I learned is that it's arrogant to be certain of anything. The world is a complex place and only idiots or assholes think they know it all. -- Lisa Gardner
When you buried your child, was it like imparting your greatest treasure into the sanctity of nature?
Love You More -- Lisa Gardner
What I loved about romances was the character, and I think I still bring that to my novels. What romance taught me was that the 'who' will always matter more than the 'what.' It's fun to come up with plots, but I want to make sure the reader cares about who it's happening to. -- Lisa Gardner
The past has a will of its own. It wants to be heard. -- Lisa Gardner
Because sometimes pain is knowing, and sometimes pain is sharing that knowledge with someone who loves you but can't do anything to help. -- Lisa Gardner
I want to cry but I don't. I don't. There are pieces of yourself, so many pieces of yourself, that, once you give away, you cannot get back again. -- Lisa Gardner
Men should spend less time with guns and more time in childbirth. -- Lisa Gardner
Look at him. But I can't. Too many things are exploding in my head, and the memories are both simpler and more horrible -- Lisa Gardner
Pain is very useful. It warns you of danger, teaches you of hazards and provides consequences for your actions. -- Lisa Gardner
I'm not the most detailed writer. I have a tendency to be more action-oriented vs. descriptive. -- Lisa Gardner
Most people don't need the help of strangers to screw up their lives; most of them are quite capable of doing it themselves! -- Lisa Gardner
I know you have a past, but personally, I'm vested in our future. -- Lisa Gardner
Whomever speaks first gives up some power. -- Lisa Gardner
Survivors make it because they learn to adapt. Adaptation is coping. Coping is strength. -- Lisa Gardner
Who do you love?
It's a question anyone should be able to answer. A question that defines a life, creates a future, guides most minutes of one's days. Simple, elegant encompassing.
Who do you love? -- Lisa Gardner
Men may be violent, Officer Dodge, but let's face it-women are cruel ... -- Lisa Gardner
Life may not be perfect, at least it offered moments that were perfect enough. -- Lisa Gardner
I like to believe my suspense novels marry the strong characters from my romance writing past, with the twisty, clever plots of my mystery writing present. -- Lisa Gardner
Women cry. Men laugh. Whiners moan. Men laugh. Wimps complain. Men laugh. -- Lisa Gardner
His job already had him lying and manipulating me. My past had me lying and manipulating him. Both of us thought we were right. -- Lisa Gardner
Special Agent Quincy had earned his stripes as one of the Bureau's finest profilers. -- Lisa Gardner
When you're on book tours, you definitely need chocolate. At all times. -- Lisa Gardner
God was in the details. -- Lisa Gardner
Parents think the worst thing that can happen to their five-year-old is cancer. They're wrong; the worst thing that can happen to their five-year-old is mental illness. -- Lisa Gardner
You can be the hunter, or you can be the hunted. -- Lisa Gardner
Youth is no excuse for sloppiness. -- Lisa Gardner
I think one of the appeals of suspense is to safely explore our innermost fears. -- Lisa Gardner
My mother would like me to start all interviews by stating that she and my father are perfectly normal. They are proud of me, and as perplexed as anyone by my novels. -- Lisa Gardner
You know what the difference between a cardiac surgeon and God is? God doesn't think he's a cardiac surgeon. -- Lisa Gardner
The only time you're calm, you're centered, you're at peace, is when someone's trying to kill you. And that's just plain twisted. -- Lisa Gardner
Pain has a flavor. -- Lisa Gardner
Post-apocalyptic novels tell you that in the future there is some great war. I would tell you that most cops say that it's going on right now. -- Lisa Gardner
They [Cops] were living in the media age, and in the media age, cops didn't get to fire their weapons. Cops were honored if they got themselves killed in the line of duty, but they were never suppose to draw their guns, not even in self-defense. -- Lisa Gardner
Mental illness is a disease and organic mental illness of young kids is becoming more and more of a disease ... we do need to talk about it. -- Lisa Gardner
Sure, they all have iPods, smartphones, whatever. Generally speaking, it's in our own best interest to keep some kind of electronic device in their hands. Otherwise they might talk to us. -- Lisa Gardner
There is a breed of men out there, you know, who are attracted to strong women. They just don't know what to do once they win us over. -- Lisa Gardner
Pain has a flavor. The question is ... what does it taste like to you? -- Lisa Gardner
That brought D.D. up short. -- Lisa Gardner
Dying for someone is easy." J.T. murmured now; as if reading my mind."Living for yourself, that's hard. -- Lisa Gardner
Why worry about the monster beneath the bed when a very real bogeyman sleeps on top of it? -- Lisa Gardner
Once, I was my mother's daughter. Now I am my daughter's mother. -- Lisa Gardner
It's not the flying that's the hard part; it's the landing. -- Lisa Gardner
Everyone should say what they wanted. It saved time. -- Lisa Gardner