159 Quotes by Lisa Gardner

Do you really think it’s all gone away? Mental illness has just moved underground, into the homeless shelters and the city parks. Out of sight, out of mind for the taxpayers. It’s a crying shame.

Being at the easternmost edge of the time zone, Massachusetts has one of the first sunrises in the country.

Luka loved the sheriff’s department. He moved in a stiff-legged trot, all keen eyes and pricked-up ears. Retired police officer, returning for duty.

Being a survivor didn’t just mean being strong. It meant being lonely.

When you’re on book tours, you definitely need chocolate. At all times.

Quincy, boyfriends apologize, shrinks analyze. Which are you?

You swim and you keep swimming without a thought in your head because that’s what you have to do. And you do the push-ups and you jog and you do all the things beyond exhaustion because you have to. Then one day you’ll discover you’re in the zone and you don’t feel your legs anymore, you don’t feel your arms anymore. You exist just as motion. That’s the zone. Then you can do anything.

It was not the past that broke you. – It was the empty future, the endless string of days filled with none of the people who mattered most.

Maybe she’d get a Siamese fighting fish. Or better yet, a ficus tree. God knows a plant would probably be a lot less offended that she ate take-out sushi almost every other night. It was a thought.