Lisa Gardner > Quotes

“You try as a parent. You love beyond reason. You fight beyond endurance. You hope beyond despair.
You never think, until the very last moment, that it still might not be enough.”
― Lisa Gardner, Live to Tell

“Once, I was my mother's daughter. Now I am my daughter's mother.”
― lisa gardner

“Who do you love?
It's a question anyone should be able to answer. A question that defines a life, creates a future, guides most minutes of one's days. Simple, elegant encompassing.
Who do you love?”
― Lisa Gardner

“You can be the hunter, or you can be the hunted.”
― Lisa Gardner, The Neighbor

“It wasn’t that strangers couldn’t hurt you. It was simply that the people you loved could do it so much better.”
― Lisa Gardner, Touch & Go

“Survivors make it because they learn to adapt. Adaptation is coping. Coping is strength.”
― Lisa Gardner, Find Her

“Life may not be perfect, at least it offered moments that were perfect enough.”
― Lisa Gardner, Say Goodbye

“There are things that once done can’t be undone, things that once said can’t be unsaid.”
― Lisa Gardner, The Neighbor

“Men may be violent, Officer Dodge, but let's face it-women are cruel...”
― Lisa Gardner, Alone

“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.”
― Lisa Gardner, The Survivors Club

“Most people don't need the help of strangers to screw up their lives; most of them are quite capable of doing it themselves!”
― Lisa Gardner, Say Goodbye

“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.”
― Lisa Gardner, Touch & Go

“Because it’s one thing to survive. It is much, much harder to truly live.”
― Lisa Gardner, Find Her

“Pain is very useful. It warns you of danger, teaches you of hazards and provides consequences for your actions.”
― Lisa Gardner, Fear Nothing

“Dying for someone is easy." J.T. murmured now; as if reading my mind."Living for yourself, that's hard.”
― Lisa Gardner, Catch Me

“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.”
― Lisa Gardner, Find Her

“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.”
― Lisa Gardner, The Killing Hour

“Because sometimes pain is knowing, and sometimes pain is sharing that knowledge with someone who loves you but can't do anything to help.”
― Lisa Gardner, Fear Nothing

“Violence, the great equaliser. Cared nothing for money, class, occupation. One day, it simply found you.”
― Lisa Gardner, Touch & Go

“This was the pattern of my life: to love men who didn’t deserve me, and, knowing that, to yearn for their love anyway.”
― Lisa Gardner, Love You More

“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.”
― Lisa Gardner, Live To Tell

“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.”
― Lisa Gardner, The Perfect Husband

“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.”
― Lisa Gardner, Crash & Burn

“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”
― Lisa Gardner, Hide

“And part of brilliance isn’t just solving a problem; it’s seeing a problem no one else realizes is a problem yet.”
― Lisa Gardner, Never Tell

“Pain has a flavor. The question is...what does it taste like to you?”
― Lisa Gardner

“Mothers hold close, fathers let go. Maybe that’s the way of the world.”
― Lisa Gardner, Love You More

“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.”
― Lisa Gardner, Alone

“There’s power in humility. It’s one of the toughest lessons I’ve had to learn.”
― Lisa Gardner, Before She Disappeared

“And a man and woman should fight. Frankly, they should have a good head-to-head battle about every six months, then make love until they break the box springs.”
― Lisa Gardner, The Killing Hour