"live your life as if you may lose everything."
— Mary Higgins Clark (All Through the Night)

"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: A Novel)

"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 two the scar tissue separates and the wound is raw again. "
— Mary Higgins Clark

"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?)