Quotes from Lisa Gardner

I'll know if one of the bodies belongs to my son. A parent always knows his child. The look on his face would've broken my heart if I didn't want so badly to slap him. Martin, we've stumbled upon a killer's hunting grounds....We need to move.

If you won't take your body seriously, how is anyone else supposed to?

Harris Reed: Ah, you caught me. Bobby: And now's the part when I throw you back.

We are both women who understand there's no point to the coulda, woulda, shouldas of life.

I have a lab filled with millions of dollars' worth of equipment, and I can tell you none of it works as well as a good dog's nose. I've witnessed canines hitting on hundred-year-old remains. What they even smell, none of us can tell you. At that point, there's no organic matter left; the bone is little more than a dried sponge. But the dogs always know.

I was so sure Livia was the missing link. Knowing about her involvement now, you'd load up these videos, we'd spy her hat, her face, something and kapow! All the pieces of the puzzle would fall into place.

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.

You can't change the world, but you can improve a bit of it a little at a time.

My wife and I are raising a small child while juggling two careers. This isn't the honeymoon phase. This is work.

Oh no. I don't do children. They're small, needy, easily destroyed. Let's be honest. I've come a long way from my family history

Man can progress as much as we want. Mother Nature still owns our ass.

Life may not be perfect, at least it offered moments that were perfect enough.

Bob repeats an option that sounds pretty close to the birds I've been hearing in the morning. Not knowing amy species, I've been referring to them mentally as the happy birds. Versus crows and ravens, which are never happy. And seagulls and pigeons. which are just plain annoying.

In the wake of the recent shootings, several school districts have implemented 'student profiling.' School administrators have a checklist of 'suspicious' behavior to use to evaluate each student's potential for violence.

but I'm still the child of an abusive alcoholic and we don't make great parent material.

You had to see Catherine six years ago, when they first met. A little too thin, hollow-eyed, in a threadbare dress. She was not only beautiful, she was tragic , a regular damsel in distress. She told Jimmy he was the only chance at happiness she'd ever had, and Jimmy ate it up, hook, line and sinker. In a matter of months they were engaged, then married. Catherine Gagnon came, she saw, and she conquered.

Perfect families don't just happen. But they can be made. Mistakes, regret, repair.

wounds. No petechial hemorrhages, which rules out strangulation. No bleeding in the ears, which eliminates some brain traumas. We do have a large

Sergeant, I could've caught her in bed with the man, and I still wouldn't have killed her. Not that kind of guy? Not that kind of marriage.

So Jimmy gained a beautiful wife and Catherine gained a bank account. Bobby shrugged. Sounds like half the marriages of the rich and famous. What's the problem?

to transfer her rage after all. She wanted David Price dead. And then, for the first time, she truly understood Griffin. And then, for the first time, she had an inkling of an idea. The front door opened and shut. Laurie, who had gone out to get the mail, walked into the family room, sifting through the pile. She came

I never believed Jacob was human. But sometimes, like a lot of predators, he did a decent impression of one.

Sugar and fat a socially acceptable drugs.

It's a tough moment when you have to confront the level of your own complacency. I