Quotes from Live to Tell

Lisa Gardner ·  388 pages

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“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, quote from Live to Tell


“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, quote from Live to Tell


“Kendinize ait parçalar vardır, sayısız parçalar, bunları bir kez feda ederseniz bir daha asla yerine koyamazsınız.”
― Lisa Gardner, quote from Live to Tell


“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.”
― Lisa Gardner, quote from Live to Tell


“All happy families are alike, but each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way’?” “Anna Karenina.”
― Lisa Gardner, quote from Live to Tell



“Being at the easternmost edge of the time zone, Massachusetts has one of the first sunrises in the country.”
― Lisa Gardner, quote from Live to Tell


“A child’s bonds with his or her mother are extremely powerful, so any negativity in the mother is being communicated to the child.”
― Lisa Gardner, quote from Live to Tell


“Alex said, his voice subdued, tense. “So it would seem,” D.D.”
― Lisa Gardner, quote from Live to Tell


About the author

Lisa Gardner
Born place: The United States
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