Quotes from Mary Higgins Clark

When a scientist's son or daughter becomes a scientist they'll say "Wonderful! Wonderful!" So, why, in the name of God, would a mother be jealous to see her daughter become a successful writer?

live your life as if you may lose everything.

Even though it was six o'clock, there was no sense of approaching dawn.

Funny, when you finally faced reality, it was amazing how clearly you could see things.

When someone is mean to me, I just make them a victim in my next book.

It's funny how, even long after you've accepted the grief of losing someone you love and truly have gotten on with your life, every once in a while something comes up that plays gotcha, and for a moment or tow the car tissue seperates and the wound is raw again.

live your life as if you may lose everything.

Approach your lives as if they were novels, with their own heroes, villains, red herrings, and triumphs

Never judge a book by its cover, especially when the book is a person, was the lesson.

you can love a person without loving everything about that person.

If you want to be happy for a year, win the lottery. If you want to be happy for life, love what you do.

Get what you get honestly. Use what you get frugally. That's the way to live comfortably And die honorably.

The two more useless words in the English language - Don't worry.

Our children begin by loving us; as they grow up they judge us; sometimes they forgive us.

better to ask for forgiveness than permission.

In her room death would come as a friend, a friend with cool gentle hands . . .

one person's idea of live-and-let-live is another person's definition of betrayal

Keegi ei ole nii pime kui see, kes ei taha näha.

I've been very active in a lot of charities because I firmly believe that much is expected of those to whom much has been given

When the fever of life is over and our work is done… may He give us a safe lodging and a holy rest and peace at the last.

Exposed to the world for what she was; numbed with worry and fear; trying to answer the question... The same question the police had thrown at her over and over seven years ago.....Where are the Children?

Sometimes it's enough just to know that if you believe hard enough and long enough, your wishes can come true.

From the vanity in her bathroom she took her seldom-used cosmetic case. The image of her mother in her shell-pink dressing gown, so naturally pretty, so endearingly maternal, telling her to put on eyeshadow brought at last the scalding tears she had forced back for Laurie's sake.

I don't want to judge you or anything, but other mothers don't talk about murder at the dinner table.