Look For Me Quotes

“Where are these perfect families? Is it yours? Your friend’s, your neighbor’s? I don’t think you can just point one out. The ones we’re most likely to admire are simply the ones with the best-kept secrets.
No, the real perfect families, they have warts and bruises and scars. They had to screw up and admit their mistakes. They had to do everything wrong so they could learn how to do a few things right. They had to hate so they could know what to love.”
― Lisa Gardner, Look For Me

“And that’s love, yes? Not making all the right decisions all the time, but being there when it matters the most.”
― Lisa Gardner, Look for Me

“Bad people don’t want to deal with the powerful. They prey on the weak.”
― Lisa Gardner, Look for Me

“It takes a villain to make a hero.
And it took a monster to make me.”
― Lisa Gardner, Look For Me

“Baking, my mother is in control of what will happen next. There’s not much in life that offers that.”
― Lisa Gardner, Look for Me

“Do you believe now? Do you understand our story? The lessons we had to learn? Perfect families don't just happen. But they can be made. Mistakes, regrets, repair.

Our mother loves us. Even when she hurts us. And we love her. Even when we hurt her. Mistakes, regret, repair.”
― Lisa Gardner, Look For Me

“I know," she says. 'I understand. I failed you. But please believe me. I love you all so much."

It's not enough. Is there anything that would be? So it'll have to do.”
― Lisa Gardner, Look For Me

“When I first started out, I thought things would be more black-and-white. Bad parents who didn't deserve their kids or good parents who needed time to get their act together. But all parents, whether they're good or bad, love their kids. And the kids, whether they should or not, love their parents.”
― Lisa Gardner, Look For Me

“He had puppy-dog eyes, I thought, but there was something different about his gaze. He was trying to meet mine, but remained just off. Not drugs. Asperger’s, maybe. Some kind of syndrome, high functioning, but enough to keep him forever separate. He was right—a tougher life in high school.”
― Lisa Gardner, Look for Me

“Being a survivor didn’t just mean being strong. It meant being lonely. Honestly, truly lonely. Knowing things other people weren’t supposed to know. Carrying memories I was desperate to forget and yet still couldn’t blank out of my head.”
― Lisa Gardner, Look for Me

“Being a survivor didn’t just mean being strong. It meant being lonely.”
― Lisa Gardner, Look for Me

“Basically, that snapshot the smart fridge took to help you figure out what fruit to buy might also include a view of your ex-husband’s dead body, which you’d planned on burying later in the day with the shovel Alexa had ordered for you from Amazon.”
― Lisa Gardner, Look for Me

“A perfect family, I think, is one that’s learned how to forgive.”
― Lisa Gardner, Look for Me

“carnage”
― Lisa Gardner, Look for Me

“found out”
― Lisa Gardner, Look for Me

“Already on it,” he assured her. Pedophiles loved to hide digital files—say, incriminating photos—as attachments to computer games, where the file sizes were already so huge and graphic-rich that it was hard to see the piggyback. Inside stereo speakers was also a favorite spot for stashing thumb drives. In this house, given this crime scene, they couldn’t afford to assume anything.”
― Lisa Gardner, Look for Me

“someone, probably Heidi, ran into the coffee”
― Lisa Gardner, Look for Me

“Perfect families don’t just happen. But they can be made. Mistakes, regret, repair.”
― Lisa Gardner, Look For Me

“Don’t”
― Lisa Gardner, Look for Me

“the same conclusion . . . She found the photo she wanted, a high-res close-up of the recovered shell casing, also dusted and documented at the scene. Like the whiskey bottle, it bore a distinct ridge pattern. D.D. pulled the image, placed it next to the one of the fifth of whiskey. “Advantage of the Amber Alert,” D.D. stated now. “I have the city’s full investigative and forensic resources at my disposal.” Meaning she could demand a rush job on the print identification in”
― Lisa Gardner, Look for Me

“Where are these perfect families? Is it yours? Your friend's, your neighbor's? I don't think you can just point one out. The ones we're most likely to admire are simply the ones with the best-kept secrets.
No, the real perfect families, they have warts and bruises and scars. They had to screw up and admit their mistakes. They had to do everything wrong so they could learn how to do few things right. They had to hate so they could know what to love.”
― Lisa Gardner, Look For Me

“Where are these perfect families? Is it yours? Your friend’s, your neighbor’s? I don’t think you can just point one out. The ones we’re most likely to admire are simply the ones with the best-kept secrets. No, the real perfect families, they have warts and bruises and scars. They had to screw up and admit their mistakes. They had to do everything wrong so they could learn how to do a few things right. They had to hate so they could know what to love.”
― Lisa Gardner, Look for Me