Quotes from Mary Higgins Clark

She had no idea that less than two miles away, a man was Googling her on his computer, learning more about her life and wondering when to make his next move.

She said she felt like Claudia Kincaid in From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler.

It had always been like this, even when she was a child. And now, fifty-five years old, happily married for thirty-two years, with one child, beautiful and gifted nineteen-year-old Susan, Rosemary could not be anything but a constant worrier, a living Cassandra. Something is going to go wrong.

If only we could bring all the kids home. If only we could rid the world of all the predators.

What kind of person hates dogs? What's wrong with him? That's an automatic swipe left.

BOLO was shorthand for "Be On the Look Out" for.

she vaguely remembered chatting with an attractive fiftyish redhead in the elevator, who had asked for her business

the table to wipe her face. An instant later Carter

There was a strength in Nancy, a directness that wouldn't tolerate evasion.

glass of juice and a bowl of cornflakes, and hopefully was now

The ones who are innocent help because they trust us. And the ones who aren't so innocent pretend to trust us because they're afraid of looking guilty.

He sincerely believed that the closest one could come to objective truth was reading and listening and trying to understand as many viewpoints as possible.