Still See You Everywhere Quotes

“History happens. It isn’t your responsibility to apologize for what came before you. It is all of our responsibility, however, to do better in the future.”
― Lisa Gardner, Still See You Everywhere

“It isn’t your responsibility to apologize for what came before you. It is all of our responsibility, however, to do better in the future.”
― Lisa Gardner, Still See You Everywhere

“complaints.”
― Lisa Gardner, Still See You Everywhere

“HOW DO YOU picture yourself in your mind? Do you see your child self, all wide eyes, beaming smile, and chubby cheeks? Or are you forever your high school photo, rocking the best skin, hair, figure of your life. Maybe you see yourself on your wedding day, or focus on your identity as a young parent, holding your toddler’s hand? At a certain point, we continue to physically change in real life, while slowly but surely freezing into a single static image in our heads. The identity we liked the best? The person we wished we were still? Or some amalgamation, a fleeting moment when all of the pieces of ourselves, the different roles from different ages all lock into place and we feel our most true. Yes, some voice whispers in the back of your mind. This is me. And having achieved such nirvana, we hold it tight, while averting our gaze from any reflective surface that might tell us differently.”
― Lisa Gardner, Still See You Everywhere

“When I try to fit in, conform, twist myself into the person other people think I should be, doing what other people think I should do, wanting the things other people think I should want… “I’m just me,” I repeat. “And for me, I am enough.”
― Lisa Gardner, Still See You Everywhere

“whinge.”
― Lisa Gardner, Still See You Everywhere

“haole.”
― Lisa Gardner, Still See You Everywhere

“You're not a killer," I whisper one last time. Then I drop to the ground, twisting as I roll to light up his form with my flashlight.

Inside Vaughn's cabin, Aolani pulls the trigger.

A single crack. Brent crumples where he stands.

"But now I am," I finish.”
― Lisa Gardner, Still See You Everywhere

“Honest to God, I'm a complete stranger to you. How hard is it to just walk away?

She has me there. So much so I feel profoundly stupid. Even ashamed. During all my years trying to save the world, I never once bothered to ask the world if it wanted to be saved.”
― Lisa Gardner, Still See You Everywhere

“I want someone to know me. At least enough to miss me when I’m gone.”
― Lisa Gardner, Still See You Everywhere

“Once you’ve experienced the worst-case scenario, you can never go back to believing bad things won’t happen. You can only remind yourself that you were strong enough to survive the first time, and you’ll be strong enough to survive again.”
― Lisa Gardner, Still See You Everywhere

“I had parents once. I loved a man once. And now… I’m just a shadow passing through other people’s lives.”
― Lisa Gardner, Still See You Everywhere

“My parents were my first lesson that you can genuinely love someone and still not do right by them. While my own downward spiral into alcoholism became my first education in that knowing better doesn’t mean you’ll behave better.”
― Lisa Gardner, Still See You Everywhere

“That’s the problem with geniuses. They generally became successful by doing something people told them couldn’t be done. Having been rewarded once for going against prevailing wisdom, they’re not apt to listen ever again.”
― Lisa Gardner, Still See You Everywhere