Quotes from Lisa Gardner

In contrast, I'm trying to get you to look inward. Focus on steady breathing, slowing your heart rate and lowering your blood pressure, which in turn, eases your nervous system and increases your threshold for pain. Hence, the deep-breathing techniques used for centuries by laboring mothers and yoga devotees.

approximately

In a rural community of five thousand, where the number of guns probably did outnumber the total population...

Its okay, she found herself telling him. We get in. We find our evidence. We get out. And we end this thing. I'm not nervous, he said curtly. I'm angry. Because of your team? Nah. Because I'm terrified. Frankly, that pisses me off.

As an advocate of the Family Systems model, I would say that's because you have acknowledged the piece of yourself that you were uncomfortable with, the Exile, resulting in your true Self being once more centered and in control.

Slivers of privacy in an arrangement where my younger brother is also living, sleeping, waking right beside me. And maybe I don't mind. I protected my baby brother from our father. I led him from our collapsing house. Even now, I have promised us both a better future.

No pimp wants the hired help to achieve financial independence.

Then another possibility came to me, scarier and sadder than all the others. She could've been kidnapped to serve as recruitment bait. A quiet, pretty immigrant teen. Held against her will, then sent out to bus stops and train stations to meet other unsuspecting teens and lure them over to meet her "friends": sex traffickers, pimps, dope dealers.

Based on the taste of the wind, the target crossed here, thirteen minutes ago, dressed in flannel and eating a Snickers bar.

being a math genius doesn't necessarily translate to financial gain. Lots of geniuses die poor.

I've held a beating pulse between my fingers and I've squeezed. And it's the best goddamn feeling in the world. DIFFORD:

People think they want knowledge. Until they have it, of course.

Bien sûr, des inconnus peuvent vous faire du mal. Mais les gens que vous aimez font ça tellement mieux...

Il est tellement plus facile de tomber amoureux que de cesser de l'être.

Lani might be a screw-up with horrible taste in men, but she was still a mom. Why people assumed those things couldn't go together, I'll never know.

It's a popular trick among the streetwise to appear richer than they are.

Shit, I'm being played like a fucking violin! Rainie blinked. Since when did you take up swearing? Yesterday. I'm finding it highly addictive. Like nicotine. You're smoking , too? No, but I haven't lost my deep and abiding love for metaphors.

Vous savez quoi ? Faire les cent pas toute la nuit n'empêchera pas l'avenir d'arriver.

Bostonians will tell you that Mattapan is that kind of neighborhood. Rough. Poor. Filled with hardworking souls, of course, and a rich cultural heritage thanks to having the country's largest Haitian population outside of Florida. But also a hotbed of gang activity

For heaven's sake, was there anything of value in the Y chromosome? One ounce of intelligence to go with all that raging testosterone?

Criminal enterprises are notoriously snobbish, and our local gangs aren't sophisticated enough for Russian interest.

We regard each other for a long moment. I can tell he has no more apologies in him, and I know I have no more forgiveness in me, so I guess that makes us even.

Don't leave behind anything you might need, don't bring anything you don't. Pace won't be hard, but once we set out, could be days before we come back.

I'm not a police officer. I'm not a private investigator. I have no special skills or training. I'm only me. An average, middle-aged white woman with more regrets than belongings, more sad stories than happy ones.