Quotes from Lisa Gardner

Warn a kid with oppositional defiant disorder not to do something, and you've pretty much guaranteed the crime.

Not the cute kind of cuckoo, or the lights-on-but-nobody's-home loony. She's really, genuinely, sold my-soul-to-the-devil crazy. She don't care about me or anyone else in the place. I mean, sure, she killed Frankie. And maybe she wanted to save the rest of us or whatever. But mostly, she just plain wanted to kill him. I mean, she stabbed him like a zillion times. Then licked his blood. I don't remember Wonder woman ever doing that at the end of an episode.

IN A DETECTIVE'S WORLD there was one true blight on society, and it wasn't the master criminal; after all, superpredators were few and far between. It was the media. Sunday

Special Agent Quincy had earned his stripes as one of the Bureau's finest profilers.

Chances are that he's experiencing a great deal of guilt and self-loathing. Someone needs to help him come to terms with that. Otherwise, there is the danger that he will simply shut down that part of himself. He will start actively considering himself to be a remorseless killer. And he will become one.

People with a history of depression often appear happiest right before they commit suicide. Not because their depression has passed, but because they've finally chosen a course of action.

I know you have a past, but personally, I'm vested in our future.

And I won't stand in a corner anymore. I will step up. I will become part of the world I live in, even when it's scary. Because life is scary, but it still beats the alternative.

You can go three minutes without air, three hours without shelter, three days without water, and three weeks without food.

Humans are interesting, however. Our ability to adapt is truly impressive. Our rage against our own suffering. Our relentless need to find a way out, to do something, anything, to advance our lot in life.

Bad people don't want to deal with the powerful. They prey on the weak.

Sometimes I think rage is like a furnace, and I've been angry for so many years now, I'm perpetually heated from the inside out.

It takes a villain to make a hero. And it took a monster to make me.

And how many episodes of being "not yourself" do you get before people figure out this is who you really are? I

The human mind is complex. Telly can be both explosive and cunning. Impulsive and brilliant. One does not negate the other.

They have to get through each day, which makes truth a fickle companion.

I don't speak. In this day and age, we all talk too much and hear too little. Listening has become a forgotten art that the world is sorely missing.

We're about to be overrun by an entire generation of juvenile psychopaths.

it, Shep does his ordering for the department and for himself all from the same manufacturer.

Mr. Bosu began to get truly resentful. If killing was so damn easy, his employer should do it himself. Honest to God, a little murder and mayhem wasn't everything it was cracked up to be.

Good things can be forged from bone-deep fury.

I'd clawed my way back to the land of the living. Because of Vero. She needed me.

Most people don't realize what a financial luxury privacy is. An individual bedroom, time alone, designated workspace: These things cost money. Angelique got to sleep in a shared family room, while probably doing homework on the kitchen table on a refurbished laptop after her brother had his turn.

All happy families are alike, but each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way'?" "Anna Karenina.