Right Behind You Quotes

“Which is why she’d fallen desperately in love the first time she’d met Sharlah. She’d looked into her foster daughter’s eyes and she’d known her. Just . . . known her. Sharlah’s fears, anxieties, fragile hope, bone-deep strength. Rainie saw all of her daughter. And she loved her, not in spite of her weaknesses, but because of them. Sharlah was a fighter.”
― Lisa Gardner, Right Behind You

“Family is family. Even if you hate them, it’s hard to let go.”
― Lisa Gardner, Right Behind You

“We are all a little bit broken, she tells me (the reason she doesn’t sleep at night?), but we all work on fixing ourselves.”
― Lisa Gardner, Right Behind You

“Warn a kid with oppositional defiant disorder not to do something, and you’ve pretty much guaranteed the crime.”
― Lisa Gardner, Right Behind You

“The human mind is complex. Telly can be both explosive and cunning. Impulsive and brilliant. One does not negate the other.”
― Lisa Gardner, Right Behind You

“Families aren’t built in a day. But they can be destroyed in an instant.”
― Lisa Gardner, Right Behind You

“This new generation, they’ve been raised by their parents to assume they’ll start at the top. No scut for them. They’ll just sit in their parents’ basement till the job offer for partner comes in.”
― Lisa Gardner, Right Behind You

“Is your father really evil?” I heard myself ask. “Yes.” “Because he drank, did drugs?” “No, honey. Because God made him that way, and he liked it. Your father had an excuse. My father doesn’t.”
― Lisa Gardner, Right Behind You

“For a bit, he picked up the paperbacks, thumbed the worn edges. Military thrillers. Books with clear right and wrong where the good guys always won in the end. Zero or hero. A part of Telly clearly wanted to be the hero. The brother who’d saved his sister. The troubled teen who, according to his PO, was trying to do better.”
― Lisa Gardner, Right Behind You

“approached alone, the hallway too small, the rooms too tightly bunched”
― Lisa Gardner, Right Behind You

“And how many episodes of being “not yourself” do you get before people figure out this is who you really are? I”
― Lisa Gardner, Right Behind You

“What’s the point of an entire Internet filled with news if you can’t learn what you need to know?”
― Lisa Gardner, Right Behind You

“The antidote to fear and anxiety was strength and self-reliance.”
― Lisa Gardner, Right Behind You

“She automatically shifted her stance sideways, making herself less of a target, as she approached the front of the worn-looking convenience store.”
― Lisa Gardner, Right Behind You

“Its okay," she found herself telling him. "We get in. We find our evidence. We get out. And we end this thing."
"I'm not nervous," he said curtly. "I'm angry."
"Because of your team?"
"Nah. Because I'm terrified. Frankly, that pisses me off.”
― Lisa Gardner, Right Behind You

“They met in the conference room. The official investigative team. Quincy thought. Two profilers one sheriff, a homicide sergeant, a volunteer tracker, and a thirteen-year-old girl. Definitely the most interesting team Quincy had ever seen assembled.”
― Lisa Gardner, Right Behind You

“Assuming I keep out of sight long enough, my brother, the state's most wanted killer, will find me.”
― Lisa Gardner, Right Behind You

“can’t do this. I suck at this. Which is why they’re making me go. Not to improve my swimming—who cares about that?—but to work on that whole playing-well-with-others thing. Another one of my broken bits. I don’t want to socialize with other kids. I don’t trust ’em, I don’t like ’em, and best I can tell, the feeling’s mutual.”
― Lisa Gardner, Right Behind You

“doorknob”
― Lisa Gardner, Right Behind You

“how many episodes of being “not yourself” do you get before people figure out this is who you really are?”
― Lisa Gardner, Right Behind You

“Based on the taste of the wind, the target crossed here, thirteen minutes ago, dressed in flannel and eating a Snickers bar.”
― Lisa Gardner, Right Behind You

“He set the photo aside, revealing the gun safe. He’d recently upgraded to a biometrics model.”
― Lisa Gardner, Right Behind You

“She tucked closer to the wall making herself less of a target.”
― Lisa Gardner, Right Behind You

“Hand still on her holster, she tucked herself beside the ice coolers and peered through the open door.”
― Lisa Gardner, Right Behind You

“Luka loved the sheriff's department. He moved in a stiff-legged trot, all keen eyes and pricked-up ears. Retired police officer, returning for duty.”
― Lisa Gardner, Right Behind You

“Don't leave behind anything you might need, don't bring anything you don't. Pace won't be hard, but once we set out, could be days before we come back.”
― Lisa Gardner, Right Behind You

“In a rural community of five thousand, where the number of guns probably did outnumber the total population...”
― Lisa Gardner, Right Behind You