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1 " There are things that once done can’t be undone, things that once said can’t be unsaid. "
― Lisa Gardner , The Neighbor (Detective D.D. Warren, #3)
2 " 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. "
― Lisa Gardner , Live to Tell (Detective D.D. Warren, #4)
3 " 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. "
― Lisa Gardner , The Survivors Club
4 " 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. "
5 " 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. "
― Lisa Gardner , The Killing Hour (Quincy & Rainie, #4)
6 " You can be the hunter, or you can be the hunted. "
7 " It wasn’t that strangers couldn’t hurt you. It was simply that the people you loved could do it so much better. "
― Lisa Gardner , Touch & Go (Tessa Leoni, #2)
8 " Survivors make it because they learn to adapt. Adaptation is coping. Coping is strength. "
― Lisa Gardner , Find Her (Detective D.D. Warren, #8)
9 " Men may be violent, Officer Dodge, but let's face it-women are cruel... "
― Lisa Gardner , Alone (Detective D.D. Warren, #1)
10 " Life may not be perfect, at least it offered moments that were perfect enough. "
― Lisa Gardner , Say Goodbye (Quincy & Rainie, #6)
11 " Most people don't need the help of strangers to screw up their lives; most of them are quite capable of doing it themselves! "
12 " Because it’s one thing to survive. It is much, much harder to truly live. "
13 " 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. "
― Lisa Gardner , Crash & Burn (Tessa Leoni, #3)
14 " 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. "
15 " 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. "
― Lisa Gardner , The Perfect Husband (Quincy & Rainie, #1)
16 " Pain is very useful. It warns you of danger, teaches you of hazards and provides consequences for your actions. "
― Lisa Gardner , Fear Nothing (Detective D.D. Warren, #7)
17 " Dying for someone is easy." J.T. murmured now; as if reading my mind."Living for yourself, that's hard. "
― Lisa Gardner , Catch Me (Detective D.D. Warren, #6)
18 " Mothers hold close, fathers let go. Maybe that’s the way of the world. "
― Lisa Gardner , Love You More (Tessa Leoni, #1; Detective D.D. Warren, #5)
19 " 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. "
20 " 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. "
