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A parent's approval always mattered, regardless of age--
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Fabric," she volunteered, kicking the large box ruefully. "Occupational hazard, I'm afraid." "For a client or 'just because'?" "Both," she admitted. "It always starts as an order for a client, then next thing I know, I've added two bolts of 'just because.' Frankly, it's a good thing I don't live in a bigger space, or Lord only knows."
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after-school
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Lisa Gardner |
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Men should spend less time with guns and more time in childbirth.
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Lisa Gardner |
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chore. You didn't like me doing
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Lisa Gardner |
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When men are cruel, it's capricious. When women are cruel, it's serious.
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Lisa Gardner |
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Is that what you lose over time? Not so much a loss of affection, as a slow clouding of your own sight? We became less and less focal points for each other, and more like pieces of furniture to maneuver around in the course of everyday life.
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Lisa Gardner |
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The man was dying to please. George Harlow was a consultant, he informed Bobby as he hastily led
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Lisa Gardner |
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No, wait, I drink any more java, I'm gonna start pissing Colombians.
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Lisa Gardner |
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The truth did not always set you free. Sometimes it bound you to dark, bloody deeds and cost you the people you loved.
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Lisa Gardner |
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It's human nature, Rainie. We're all looking for something to believe in, and someone to blame.
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troubles
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Mr. Bosu began to get truly resentful. If killing was so damn easy, his employer should do it himself. Honest to God, a little murder and mayhem wasn't everything it was cracked up to be.
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She had this conversation with herself once a year. Generally, right about now, when the holidays were looming and people were talking excitedly about family gatherings, and she went home each night to an empty condo that seemed much emptier than it did in spring-filled May or hot, sunny August.
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Shit, I'm being played like a fucking violin!" Rainie blinked. "Since when did you take up swearing?" "Yesterday. I'm finding it highly addictive. Like nicotine." "You're , too?" "No, but I haven't lost my deep and abiding love for metaphors."
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Stop psychoanalyzing me! Be less therapist, more man --" "Man? Last time I tried being a man, you looked at me as if I was going to hit you. You don't need a man, Rainie. You either need a blow-up doll or a damn saint!"
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You have to have faith...I know it's hard, but at some point, you have to believe. Some people are evil, some people will hurt you, but not everyone will. And trying to stay safe by going at it alone doesn't work in the end. Isolation is protection. I know. I thought it would be easier if I never opened up to my family, if I never got too close. Then I lost my dauther, and it hasn't been any easier at all. I am falling apart... But I am g..
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I'm from Georgia, honey. We consider all women dangerous; it's part of their charm.
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Lisa Gardner |
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You had to see Catherine six years ago, when they first met. A little too thin, hollow-eyed, in a threadbare dress. She was not only beautiful, she was , a regular damsel in distress. She told Jimmy he was the only chance at happiness she'd ever had, and Jimmy ate it up, hook, line and sinker. In a matter of months they were engaged, then married. Catherine Gagnon came, she saw, and she conquered.
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Lisa Gardner |
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So Jimmy gained a beautiful wife and Catherine gained a bank account. Bobby shrugged. Sounds like half the marriages of the rich and famous. What's the problem?
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Lisa Gardner |
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It's a tough moment when you have to confront the level of your own complacency. I
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Lisa Gardner |
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To pry would involve being told an answer I didn't want to hear. So I didn't pry.
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Lisa Gardner |
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Face it, you and Quincy have a genuine meeting of the minds. That's serious shit, Rainie. You can go an entire lifetime without finding anyone who matches like that. I know I have.
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For a bit, he picked up the paperbacks, thumbed the worn edges. Military thrillers. Books with clear right and wrong where the good guys always won in the end. Zero or hero. A part of Telly clearly wanted to be the hero. The brother who'd saved his sister. The troubled teen who, according to his PO, was trying to do better.
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Lisa Gardner |
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Quincy, boyfriends apologize, shrinks analyze. Which are you?
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Lisa Gardner |
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Loving a child was humbling.
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This new generation, they've been raised by their parents to assume they'll start at the top. No scut for them. They'll just sit in their parents' basement till the job offer for partner comes in.
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Is your father really evil?" I heard myself ask. "Yes." "Because he drank, did drugs?" "No, honey. Because God made him that way, and he liked it. Your father had an excuse. My father doesn't."
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So you've studied psychobabble and you've attended half of the FBI Academy. What does that make you? Someone who also lost her sister. And her mother, too, for that matter. Trump. In the contest of who has gotten dumped on more by life, I believe I just won.
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Lisa Gardner |
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No. I joined the FBI so I could be heavily armed, and also help others.
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Lisa Gardner |
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My family's loud. Not big, but definitely demonstrative. My father still grabs my mother around the waist and tries to lure her into dark corners. As an adult, I appreciate their relationship. As a kid...Hell, we were scared to death not to announce ourselves before walking down a darkened hall.
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One sister. Younger, of course. I terrorized her for most of our childhood. On the other hand, every time I fell asleep in the family room, she put makeup on my face and took pictures. So I guess it evens itself out. Plus, I'm the only man you'll ever meet who understands just how hard it is to remove waterproof mascara. And I guess I'll never run for political office. The photos alone would ruin me.
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I was always proud of him. Even when he had to leave in the middle of birthday parties or missed them altogether. His job sounded so larger-than-life to me. Like something a superhero would do. People got hurt. And my father went to save the day. I missed him, I'm sure I had tantrums, but mostly I remember feeling proud. My daddy was cool.
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You know what gets to me, though? You know what's truly ironic? What? She needed us. She was exactly the kind of person that my father and I have sworn our lives to protect. She wasn't tough. She made bad choices. She drank too much, she dated the wrong men, she believed anyone's pack of lies. God, she desperately needed someone to save her from herself. And we didn't do it. I spent so much of my childhood resenting her. Crying, complaining..
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Lisa Gardner |
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You can't change the world, but you can improve a bit of it a little at a time.
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Lisa Gardner |
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Sugar and fat a socially acceptable drugs.
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Lisa Gardner |
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So let's catch this son of a bitch, so I can return to my classes, and finish up my degree. Then I'll join law enforcement, neglect my own family, and the cycle will be complete.
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Is he a renegade, works best by himself, alienates those in authority? Actually, that would be you, dear. True
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Lisa Gardner |
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We're going to find this girl, we're going to save the day, and then we're going to walk out of this park so we can nail the bastard. Deal? You are a woman after my own heart.
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Lisa Gardner |
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Mac was the romantic. He brought her flowers, remembered her favorite song, kissed her on the back of her neck just because. She was the type-A workaholic. Every day an agenda, every hour a task that needed completing. She worked too hard, compartmentalized too little, and probably would have a nervous breakdown before the age of forty, except that Mac would never allow it. He was her rock; while, most likely, she was his ticket to sainthoo..
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Her hand now rested on the top of her left thigh. Where she had the knife strapped, he guessed, and immediately felt his gut tighten with a shot of good, old-fashioned male lust. He did not know why an armed woman should be so arousing, but man oh man, this one was.
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Lisa Gardner |
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He should've gone with his father's recommendation and walked in wearing a T-shirt that read "You're only Jealous Because the Voices are Talking to Me."
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Lisa Gardner |
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Then we did the best we could, all we could. He was the enemy, Kimberly. took their lives. And God help both of us, but sometimes the enemy is simply that good.
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Lisa Gardner |
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Dad, I don't know why I'm still alive... Because God took pity on me, Kimberly. Because without you, I think I would've gone insane.
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Lisa Gardner |
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How many infants are born each day - innocent, sweet, boundless - only to be ruined by the very people who have given them life?
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Lisa Gardner |