Shadowheart Quotes

“And before you ask, stress management doesn’t just mean going for runs with Michele or consciously separating myself from the people I investigate and the people they hurt. It means accepting that I can’t fix the world or rescue everyone.”
― Meg Gardiner, Shadowheart

“I’m fine.” She smiled. “Seriously, I’m good.” The anxiety on Sandy’s face was plain to see. “I told you. I found a therapist. I’m learning healthy ways to handle stress.” “That sounds like a nice slogan.”
― Meg Gardiner, Shadowheart

“Loving one minute, icy the next. She was what shrinks called impulsive borderline. Landry had looked it up. Capricious, seductive, a risk-seeker. A stranger to empathy, terrified of abandonment, full of dark energy that could suddenly flare—an emotional IED.”
― Meg Gardiner, Shadowheart

“Life was a dark river. It sparkled with sunlight but was turbulent beneath, rife with eddies and rips and sharp rocks.”
― Meg Gardiner, Shadowheart

“Cognitive behavioral therapy had been great—it had quelled any urge to cut herself. For too long, she had ignored the ways the stress of her job might lead her to self-harm. A nightmarish case in Los Angeles had taken her over that edge. In the aftermath, she sought a referral to a stress psychologist. Dr. Silverberg worked with cops and federal agents, military and first responders. Caitlin wasn’t afraid of therapy—she’d had plenty in high school, when cutting seemed badass, seemed goth, when she convinced herself that inflicting pain meant she controlled her fear and despair. Once she sat down in Dr. Silverberg’s office, Caitlin discovered that she was ready to shed some destructive tendencies. It helped that Miriam Silverberg was practical and matter-of-fact. And that cognitive behavioral therapy worked by getting her to recognize negative beliefs about herself, see how they sabotaged her, and jettison them.”
― Meg Gardiner, Shadowheart

“I pay in blood, but not my own.—Bob Dylan”
― Meg Gardiner, Shadowheart