The Neighbor Quotes

“You can be the hunter, or you can be the hunted.”
― Lisa Gardner, The Neighbor

“There are things that once done can’t be undone, things that once said can’t be unsaid.”
― Lisa Gardner, The Neighbor

“Because you and I are alike that way. We know monsters are real, and they don't all live under the bed.”
― Lisa Gardner, The Neighbor

“podes estar apaixonada e ao mesmo tempo incrivelmente só. Podes ter tudo o que sempre quiseste só para te dares conta que tudo o que querias estava errado. Podes ter um marido inteligente atraente e cheio de compaixão como o meu e mesmo assim não o ter na realidade. E algumas vezes podes olhar para a tua filha linda e preciosa e ficar genuinamente ciumenta de quanto ele a ama em vez de ti.”
― Lisa Gardner, The Neighbor

“Today is going to be the real thing.

I have a hard time breathing. My heart races, I can feel my palms start to sweat. And I think so many things at once, my head begins to hurt and I hear someone groan and it confuses me until I realize it is myself.

Her smile, her sweet, sweet smile. The way she looks at me, as if I’m ten feet tall, as if I can hold the world in the palm of my hand.

And then, the tears streaming down her cheeks. “No, no, no. Please, Aidan, stop. No …”

The cops will come for me. Sooner or later. Two of them, three of them, an entire SWAT team, converging upon my doorstep. That’s why guys like me exist. Because every community has gotta have a villain, and no amount of pretend normal is ever gonna change that.

Gotta think. Gotta plan. Gotta get the fuck out of here.

To where? For how long? I don’t have that kind of cash….

I try to get my breathing under control. Find some sort of comfort. Tell myself it’s gonna be all right. I’m keeping with the program.”
― Lisa Gardner, The Neighbor

“You look down and to the left. When people are trying to remember something, they look up and to the left. When they’re avoiding the truth, however, they look down and to the left. Interesting bit of trivia they teach us in detective school.”
― Lisa Gardner, The Neighbor

“And it occurred to me, over a bowl of soggy cereal, that I could live like this. Compartmentalized. There, but separate. Together, but alone. Loving, but isolated. This is how I had been living most of my life, after all. In a household where my mother might appear in the middle of the night to do unspeakable things with a hairbrush. Then hours later, we’d sit across from one another sharing a platter of buttermilk biscuits for breakfast. My mother had prepared me well for this life. I glanced over at my husband, crunching away on Cheerios. I wondered who had prepared him.”
― Lisa Gardner, The Neighbor

“Without sadness, there can be no happiness, which means a state of eternal bliss really wouldn’t be that blissful. In fact, at a certain point, it would be mostly annoying. Nothing to strive for, nothing to look forward to, nothing to do.”
― Lisa Gardner, The Neighbor

“You can be in love and still feel incredibly lonely. You can have everything you ever wanted, only to realize that you wanted all the wrong things. You can have a husband as smart and sexy and compassionate as mine, and yet not really have him at all.”
― Lisa Gardner, The Neighbor

“Oh, wait till you meet this guy. Ever watch that show? The medical drama?"

"ER?"

"No, the one with more sex."

"Grey's Anatomy?”
― Lisa Gardner, The Neighbor

“Promise me, then: If you ever see my father, if he should ever show up at our front door, you'll kill him first, and ask questions later. He'll never touch Ree. Promise me that, Jason."

My husband looked me in the eye. He said, "Consider it done.”
― Lisa Gardner, The Neighbor

“The law is the law. I'm just saying that for most of the judicial system, you do your crime, you serve your time. Brewster went to jail but he's still serving time and will be for the rest of his life. Ironically enough, he would've been slightly better off had he killed the girl instead of sleeping with her. And as a member of the judicial system, I'm not comfortable with that analysis.”
― Lisa Gardner, The Neighbor

“Most of us laugh at the list first time through. One hundred and forty ways not to re-offend? Including such winners as call the police, take a cold shower, or my personal favorite, jump in the ocean in the middle of winter.

I go with the usual: Wasn't alone with children, stayed out of bars, didn't drive aimlessly, didn't place high expectations on myself, and snapped a rubber band.”
― Lisa Gardner, The Neighbor

“Sergeant, I could've caught her in bed with the man, and I still wouldn't have killed her.

Not that kind of guy?

Not that kind of marriage.”
― Lisa Gardner, The Neighbor

“I’m convinced these are the moments that ultimately make us or break us. Like a wave lapping against the same boulder day after day, eroding the stone, shaping the line of the shore, the ordinary minutia of our lives holds the real power, and thus all the hidden danger. The daily things we do, or don’t do, without ever understanding the long-term ramification of such minor acts.”
― Lisa Gardner, The Neighbor

“approximately”
― Lisa Gardner, The Neighbor

“First order of business: downloading and installing the Pasco forensic tool from Foundstone.”
― Lisa Gardner, The Neighbor

“The kind of kid who is meant to suffer for the first twenty years or so, but then would take his software company public at age twenty-one and wind up married to a supermodel and driving a Ferrari.”
― Lisa Gardner, The Neighbor

“My wife and I are raising a small child while juggling two careers. This isn't the honeymoon phase. This is work.”
― Lisa Gardner, The Neighbor

“shocking”
― Lisa Gardner, The Neighbour