Quotes from Mary Higgins Clark

If it's meant to be, it will happen naturally.

Looking at it from behind, he was shocked to behold a confusing array of threads that led nowhere. Such beauty on one side, total disharmony on the other, but both part of the same plan. It was then that the message became clear to him. In this life we see only the back side of the rug. We don't know how or why our unspeakable hardships are part of a beautiful design. That is why having faith is so important.

Maybe if I sat among these happy people, their lives would rub off on mine

Did you listen to that tape? It makes me sound terrible.

The key to success is the plan your work and work your plan.

beginning it was a well-planned pyramid

I was at his house.

Regret because you really can't control your life. Most of the time you don't act; you react.

The truth is I hate cocktail parties when the only person I know is my supposed date, and he abandons me the minute we come in the door.

The first four months of writing the book, my mental image is scratching with my hands through granite. My other image is pushing a train up the mountain, and it's icy, and I'm in bare feet.

If you want to be happy for life, love what you do.

We weep for what we may never lose

He never took his eyes off my face as I told him about Mack

She never wanted Robbie to feel entitled because he was a boy, and she never wanted Vanessa to feel limited because she was a girl.

I'll see if the director is available.

Do you make it a habit to go through Sarah's diaries?" The look Laurie gave him was pure pity. "You're the one who wants to know what everyone is thinking. What makes you better?

and beeping, obviously sure that I was either too stupid or too deaf to hear the racket.

I don't think there is any book that can't teach you something, even if it is how not to tell a story.

The defendant. For three weeks, everyone in this courtroom had referred to her as "the defendant." Not Casey. Not her given name, Katherine Carter. Certainly not Mrs. Hunter Raleigh III, the name she would have taken by now if everything had been different. In this room, she'd been treated as a legal term, not as a real person, a person who had loved Hunter more deeply than she'd ever thought possible.

Pasaré por casa de Kate. Cuando muere un ser querido los amigos vienen a verte los dos primeros días, pero es después del entierro cuando la persona que permanece en esta vida se da cuenta de que nunca volverá a ver esa cara ni oír esa voz. Es entonces cuando los amigos son realmente necesarios.

I am reading now "Where Are You Now

think he got a bum rap.

but he didn't kid himself. Seventeen years was too long

you'll be your usual overbearing self." Min smiled wanly and allowed him to lead her toward the bedroom. His arm was still around her, she was half-leaning against him. Her head fitted into the crook of his shoulder.