Quotes by Lisa Gardner

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

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.

What I learned is that its arrogant to be certain of anything. The world is a complex place and only idiots or assholes think they know it all.

I want to cry but I don’t. I don’t. There are pieces of yourself, so many pieces of yourself, that, once you give away, you cannot get back again.

Dying for someone is easy. J.T. murmured now; as if reading my mind.Living for yourself, thats hard.

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.

You can be the hunter, or you can be the hunted.

I still read romance, and I read suspense. I read them both. And part of it is, I like stories with strong characters, and I like stories where theres closure at the end. And I like stories where theres hope. Thats a kind of empowerment. I think romance novels are very empowering, and I think suspense novels are, too.

Before I became a suspense novelist, I wrote romantic suspense as Alicia Scott.