Mary Higgins Clark > Quotes

“Funny, when you finally faced reality, it was amazing how clearly you could see things.”
― Mary Higgins Clark, Loves Music, Loves to Dance

“When someone is mean to me, I just make them a victim in my next book.”
― Mary Higgins Clark

“It's funny how, even long after you've accepted the grief of losing someone you love and truly have gotten on with your life, every once in a while something comes up that plays "gotcha," and for a moment or tow the car tissue seperates and the wound is raw again.”
― Mary Higgins Clark, The Second Time Around

“live your life as if you may lose everything.”
― Mary Higgins Clark, All Through the Night

“Approach your lives as if they were novels, with their own heroes, villains, red herrings, and triumphs”
― Mary Higgins Clark

“Never judge a book by its cover, especially when the book is a person, was the lesson.”
― Mary Higgins Clark, The Cinderella Murder

“If you want to be happy for a year, win the lottery. If you want to be happy for life, love what you do.”
― Mary Higgins Clark, On the Street Where You Live

“you can love a person without loving everything about that person.”
― Mary Higgins Clark, I Heard That Song Before

“Our children begin by loving us; as they grow up they judge us; sometimes they forgive us.”
― Mary Higgins Clark, Where Are You Now?

“Get what you get honestly. Use what you get frugally. That’s the way to live comfortably And die honorably.”
― Mary Higgins Clark, Mount Vernon Love Story: A Novel of George and Martha Washington

“better to ask for forgiveness than permission.”
― Mary Higgins Clark, The Cinderella Murder

“The two more useless words in the English language - Don't worry.”
― Mary Higgins Clark, I've Got You Under My Skin

“In her room death would come as a friend, a friend with cool gentle hands . . .”
― Mary Higgins Clark, A Stranger Is Watching

“one person’s idea of live-and-let-live is another person’s definition of betrayal,”
― Mary Higgins Clark, The Cinderella Murder

“The best answer I’ve heard came in a sermon given by an elderly priest many years ago. He was traveling in the Middle East and was overwhelmed by the majesty of the Persian rugs he saw. Those gorgeous creations so skillfully woven into such beautiful designs. One day he was in a shop where those rugs were on display. He walked behind one that was hanging on hooks from the ceiling. Looking at it from behind, he was shocked to behold a confusing array of threads that led nowhere. Such beauty on one side, total disharmony on the other, but both part of the same plan. It was then that the message became clear to him. In this life we see only the back side of the rug. We don’t know how or why our unspeakable hardships are part of a beautiful design. That is why having faith is so important.”
― Mary Higgins Clark, I've Got My Eyes on You

“I don’t think there is any book that can’t teach you something, even if it is how not to tell a story.”
― Mary Higgins Clark

“Sometimes it's enough just to know that if you believe hard enough and long enough, your wishes can come true.”
― Mary Higgins Clark, All Through the Night

“If it's meant to be, it will happen naturally.”
― Mary Higgins Clark, All Dressed in White

“Exposed to the world for what she was; numbed with worry and fear; trying to answer the question... The same question the police had thrown at her over and over seven years ago.....Where are the Children?”
― Mary Higgins Clark, Where Are the Children?

“When the fever of life is over and our work is done… may He give us a safe lodging and a holy rest and peace at the last.”
― Mary Higgins Clark, The Lost Years

“Keegi ei ole nii pime kui see, kes ei taha näha.”
― Mary Higgins Clark, I Heard That Song Before

“From the vanity in her bathroom she took her seldom-used cosmetic case. The image of her mother in her shell-pink dressing gown, so naturally pretty, so endearingly maternal, telling her to put on eyeshadow brought at last the scalding tears she had forced back for Laurie's sake.”
― Mary Higgins Clark, All Around the Town

“I’ve been very active in a lot of charities because I firmly believe that much is expected of those to whom much has been given”
― Mary Higgins Clark, All By Myself, Alone

“We weep for what we may never lose”
― Mary Higgins Clark, The Cradle Will Fall

“The heart has reasons of which reason knows nothing.”
― Mary Higgins Clark, I've Got My Eyes on You

“Looking at it from behind, he was shocked to behold a confusing array of threads that led nowhere. Such beauty on one side, total disharmony on the other, but both part of the same plan. It was then that the message became clear to him. In this life we see only the back side of the rug. We don’t know how or why our unspeakable hardships are part of a beautiful design. That is why having faith is so important.”
― Mary Higgins Clark, I've Got My Eyes on You

“Did you listen to that tape? It makes me sound terrible.”
― Mary Higgins Clark

“Maybe if I sat among these happy people, their lives would rub off on mine,”
― Mary Higgins Clark, You Don't Own Me

“The past has its own plans. And more often than not, the past finds a way into the here and now.”
― Mary Higgins Clark, Where Are the Children Now?

“Be a loyal friend. Be a kind person. Work hard. And choose to be happy.”
― Mary Higgins Clark, Where Are the Children Now?