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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 9431796 | To pry would involve being told an answer I didn't want to hear. So I didn't pry. | Lisa Gardner | ||
| 5d0a49c | 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. | Lisa Gardner | ||
| 647bc09 | 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. | Lisa Gardner | ||
| 65e9fce | Quincy, boyfriends apologize, shrinks analyze. Which are you? | Lisa Gardner | ||
| e126b55 | Loving a child was humbling. | Lisa Gardner | ||
| db18476 | 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. | Lisa Gardner | ||
| aec2057 | 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." | Lisa Gardner | ||
| 5dd1764 | 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. | Lisa Gardner | ||
| 94de700 | No. I joined the FBI so I could be heavily armed, and also help others. | Lisa Gardner | ||
| a6b825b | 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. | Lisa Gardner | ||
| 02d9414 | 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. | Lisa Gardner | ||
| 9799b87 | 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. | Lisa Gardner | ||
| 50321a7 | 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.. | Lisa Gardner | ||
| f0e1c62 | You can't change the world, but you can improve a bit of it a little at a time. | Lisa Gardner | ||
| 5d193b2 | Sugar and fat a socially acceptable drugs. | Lisa Gardner | ||
| 2024808 | 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. | Lisa Gardner | ||
| 57228fa | Is he a renegade, works best by himself, alienates those in authority? Actually, that would be you, dear. True | Lisa Gardner | ||
| cac8a53 | 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. | Lisa Gardner | ||
| 0960b9b | 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.. | Lisa Gardner | ||
| 31222ab | 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. | Lisa Gardner | ||
| 89a8790 | 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." | Lisa Gardner | ||
| 226c657 | 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. | Lisa Gardner | ||
| 1db5d8e | 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. | Lisa Gardner | ||
| 7d78f7c | How many infants are born each day - innocent, sweet, boundless - only to be ruined by the very people who have given them life? | Lisa Gardner | ||
| 8537740 | You know about trauma bonding, right?" the agent asked abruptly. "Forget kidnapping victims, you see it all the time with battered women. They're isolated, at the mercy of their dominating spouse, going through intense spells of abject terror followed by even more emotionally draining periods of soul-wrenching apologies. The trauma itself creates a powerful bonding element. The things these two have gone through together, how could anyone e.. | Lisa Gardner | ||
| deff5fc | Being a survivor didn't just mean being strong. It meant being lonely. | Lisa Gardner | ||
| 694c882 | You don't become a teacher without having some level of optimism. And you don't stay in the field if you don't believe that everyone, from bitter teens to burnt-out administrators, can change. I | Lisa Gardner | ||
| c215269 | Sometimes I think rage is like a furnace, and I've been angry for so many years now, I'm perpetually heated from the inside out. | Lisa Gardner | ||
| a5d107e | The academic world is competitive. For ideas, grants, students, funding. | Lisa Gardner | ||
| 3c7a619 | Good things can be forged from bone-deep fury. | Lisa Gardner | ||
| cc04276 | And what is a marriage except adding A to B and hoping it equals an amount greater than the sum of its parts? Briefly, the promise of a new life almost made the math work. Except A was still A, and B was still B. We could create a new life, but we couldn't stop being ourselves. | Lisa Gardner | ||
| e37df35 | 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. | Lisa Gardner | ||
| 3551e43 | being a math genius doesn't necessarily translate to financial gain. Lots of geniuses die poor. | Lisa Gardner | ||
| 02c46bb | We all wear masks. And the more we have to hide, the more accomplished the veneer. | Lisa Gardner | ||
| 7657443 | Once upon a time, there was a little girl in a big house who loved her father so much she was sure he would never leave her. But he did. And now this. | Lisa Gardner | ||
| 8946dca | The truth is, genius and depression have always gone hand in hand. Which was why I spent so many afternoons, sitting at the piano, playing and playing, because my father said my music soothed his spirit and allowed him to rest in a way a truly great mind could never completely be at ease. | Lisa Gardner | ||
| b100370 | I never believed Jacob was human. But sometimes, like a lot of predators, he did a decent impression of one. | Lisa Gardner | ||
| 4a06bd1 | But welcome to the world of being a survivor. You make it out alive, and yet you spend the rest of your life wondering woulda, coulda, shoulda. | Lisa Gardner | ||
| 249c2c7 | 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. | Lisa Gardner | ||
| 8c01af7 | It's not easy, though, being brilliant. Nor being married to one. | Lisa Gardner | ||
| 64a1906 | I wonder if that's how I look to others; like I'm normal and functional, too, when in fact, I feel completely emptied out. | Lisa Gardner | ||
| 475fc10 | It is always good When a man has two irons in the fire. | Beaumont and Fletcher | ||
| 837ffed | She's such a lovely woman, he'd tell me time and time again. I'd nod, because my mom is such a lovely woman. And charming and smart. Can't argue with any of that. She's also a fucking wack job. | relationships | Lisa Gardner | |
| 035627c | It took Saru a moment to realize he had been insulted twice in a matter of seconds. He clenched his fists and trembled like some overly anxious breed of small dog. | David Mack |