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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.
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Who do you love?
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Lisa Gardner |
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You can be the hunter, or you can be the hunted.
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revenge
life
hunter
retribution
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Lisa Gardner |
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It wasn't that strangers couldn't hurt you. It was simply that the people you loved could do it so much better.
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Lisa Gardner |
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Survivors make it because they learn to adapt. Adaptation is coping. Coping is strength.
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Lisa Gardner |
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Men may be violent, Officer Dodge, but let's face it-women are cruel...
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Lisa Gardner |
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Life may not be perfect, at least it offered moments that were perfect enough.
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say-goodbye
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Lisa Gardner |
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Most people don't need the help of strangers to screw up their lives; most of them are quite capable of doing it themselves!
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realization
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Lisa Gardner |
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There are things that once done can't be undone, things that once said can't be unsaid.
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present
past
life
reverse
said
the-neighbor
undone
mistakes
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Lisa Gardner |
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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.
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life
lisa-gardner
quotes
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Lisa Gardner |
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Because it's one thing to survive. It is much, much harder to truly live.
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Lisa Gardner |
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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.
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Lisa Gardner |
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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.
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Lisa Gardner |
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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.
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Lisa Gardner |
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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.
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humor
sarcasm
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Lisa Gardner |
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Pain is very useful. It warns you of danger, teaches you of hazards and provides consequences for your actions.
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Lisa Gardner |
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Dying for someone is easy." J.T. murmured now; as if reading my mind."Living for yourself, that's hard."
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inspirational
survival
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Lisa Gardner |
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Mothers hold close, fathers let go. Maybe that's the way of the world.
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Lisa Gardner |
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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.
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Lisa Gardner |
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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.
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Lisa Gardner |
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Violence, the great equaliser. Cared nothing for money, class, occupation. One day, it simply found you.
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Lisa Gardner |
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Kendinize ait parcalar vardir, sayisiz parcalar, bunlari bir kez feda ederseniz bir daha asla yerine koyamazsiniz.
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Lisa Gardner |
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There's no rewind, or erasing, or unmaking. The things that happened, they are you, you are them. You can escape, but you can't get away. Just the way it is.
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Lisa Gardner |
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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
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Lisa Gardner |
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Because sometimes pain is knowing, and sometimes pain is sharing that knowledge with someone who loves you but can't do anything to help.
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Lisa Gardner |
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The past has a will of its own. It wants to be heard.
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Lisa Gardner |
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podes estar apaixonada e ao mesmo tempo incrivelmente so. Podes ter tudo o que sempre quiseste so para te dares conta que tudo o que querias estava errado. Podes ter um marido inteligente atraente e cheio de compaixao como o meu e mesmo assim nao o ter na realidade. E algumas vezes podes olhar para a tua filha linda e preciosa e ficar genuinamente ciumenta de quanto ele a ama em vez de ti.
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Lisa Gardner |
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The world is a complex place and only idiots and assholes think they know it all.
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Lisa Gardner |
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This was the pattern of my life: to love men who didn't deserve me, and, knowing that, to yearn for their love anyway.
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Lisa Gardner |
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why worry about the monster beneath the bed when a very real bogeyman sleeps on top of it?
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Lisa Gardner |
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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.
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Lisa Gardner |
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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.
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Lisa Gardner |
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It's not the flying that's the hard part; it's the landing.
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Lisa Gardner |
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Pain is not what you see and not what you feel. Pain is what you can only hear, alone in the dark.
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Lisa Gardner |
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humanity is a messy business, where knowing what is right doesn't necessarily preclude you from doing what is wrong.
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Lisa Gardner |
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It's so much easier to fall in love, and so much more complicated to fall out of it.
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Lisa Gardner |
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Winners never quit, quitters never win
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Lisa Gardner |
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His job already had him lying and manipulating me. My past had me lying and manipulating him. Both of us thought we were right.
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Lisa Gardner |
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start fresh." "And Maryanne?" "She's devastated about what James put us through. I think she'd like a fresh start, too, and more time with Nathan. On the other hand . . . you know, she really loves James. Even after everything, I don't think she can bring herself to leave him." James was in a coma. Between the blood loss and damage to his internal organs, his system had shut down. Doctors didn't think he'd ever regain consciousness. Mostly,..
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Lisa Gardner |
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And part of brilliance isn't just solving a problem; it's seeing a problem no one else realizes is a problem yet.
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Lisa Gardner |
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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.
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Lisa Gardner |
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I know you have a past, but personally, I'm vested in our future.
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Lisa Gardner |
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It takes a villain to make a hero. And it took a monster to make me.
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Lisa Gardner |
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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.
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