159 Quotes by 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.

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.

It’s not easy, though, being brilliant. Nor being married to one.

You know what the difference between a cardiac surgeon and God is? God doesn’t think he’s a cardiac surgeon.

I’ve held a beating pulse between my fingers and I’ve squeezed. And it’s the best goddamn feeling in the world. DIFFORD:.

I don’t know who I am,” I say. “No one does. Everyone spends their lives figuring that out, even people who’ve never been kidnapped.

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.

Loving a child was humbling.

Once, I was my mother’s daughter. Now I am my daughter’s mother.