Quotes from Lisa Gardner

Survivors make it because they learn to adapt. Adaptation is coping. Coping is strength.

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

Men may be violent, Officer Dodge, but let's face it-women are cruel...

There are things that once done can't be undone, things that once said can't be unsaid.

Most people don't need the help of strangers to screw up their lives; most of them are quite capable of doing it themselves!

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.

Because it's one thing to survive. It is much, much harder to truly live.

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.

Dying for someone is easy." J.T. murmured now; as if reading my mind."Living for yourself, that's hard.

Pain is very useful. It warns you of danger, teaches you of hazards and provides consequences for your actions.

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.

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.

Pain has a flavor. The question is...what does it taste like to you?

This was the pattern of my life: to love men who didn't deserve me, and, knowing that, to yearn for their love anyway.

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.

There's no rewind, or erasing, or unmaking. The things that happened, they are you, you are them. You can escape, but you can't get away. Just the way it is.

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.

Because sometimes pain is knowing, and sometimes pain is sharing that knowledge with someone who loves you but can't do anything to help.

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.

Violence, the great equaliser. Cared nothing for money, class, occupation. One day, it simply found you.

God give me the strength to change the things I can change, the courage to let go of the things I need to let go and the wisdom to know the difference. - Bobby Dodge

Mothers hold close, fathers let go. Maybe that's the way of the world.

There's power in humility. It's one of the toughest lessons I've had to learn.

podes estar apaixonada e ao mesmo tempo incrivelmente só. Podes ter tudo o que sempre quiseste só para te dares conta que tudo o que querias estava errado. Podes ter um marido inteligente atraente e cheio de compaixão como o meu e mesmo assim não o ter na realidade. E algumas vezes podes olhar para a tua filha linda e preciosa e ficar genuinamente ciumenta de quanto ele a ama em vez de ti.