Before She Disappeared Quotes

“Later came the hard knowledge that no one can save you from yourself.”
― Lisa Gardner, Before She Disappeared

“There’s power in humility. It’s one of the toughest lessons I’ve had to learn.”
― Lisa Gardner, Before She Disappeared

“How terrible to lose a child most of the world never knew was missing.”
― Lisa Gardner, Before She Disappeared

“So many think we must share the same beliefs to get along. In my experience, sharing the same fear is a far more effective strategy.”
― Lisa Gardner, Before She Disappeared

“Maybe the question shouldn’t be why am I doing this, but why isn’t everyone looking?”
― Lisa Gardner, Before She Disappeared

“It’s a popular trick among the streetwise to appear richer than they are.”
― Lisa Gardner, Before She Disappeared

“Most people don’t realize what a financial luxury privacy is. An individual bedroom, time alone, designated workspace: These things cost money. Angelique got to sleep in a shared family room, while probably doing homework on the kitchen table on a refurbished laptop after her brother had his turn.”
― Lisa Gardner, Before She Disappeared

“Feel your feels, as the saying goes. Except so many feelings are hard to take.”
― Lisa Gardner, Before She Disappeared

“They have to get through each day, which makes truth a fickle companion.”
― Lisa Gardner, Before She Disappeared

“Maybe Boston neighborhoods aren’t meant to be understood. You either know where you are, or you don’t.”
― Lisa Gardner, Before She Disappeared

“Funny, the things you can grow up not wanting, then suddenly crave with single-minded obsession.”
― Lisa Gardner, Before She Disappeared

“So many think we must share the same beliefs to get along. In my experience, sharing the same fear is a far more effective strategy”
― Lisa Gardner, Before She Disappeared

“The water feels like a cold caress against my face.”
― Lisa Gardner, Before She Disappeared

“People all over really are the same. They want to fall in love. They're glad to survive each day. They pray their children will have a better life than they did. These truths bind us.”
― Lisa Gardner, Before She Disappeared

“If clothes are camouflage, then scars are exclamation points of honesty.”
― Lisa Gardner, Before She Disappeared

“In the way Boston works, a random street has appeared ahead, forking a right diagonal, not to be confused with the three other diagonals flaring out around it.”
― Lisa Gardner, Before She Disappeared

“describe”
― Lisa Gardner, Before She Disappeared

“I love sex. The harder the better. A moment where I don’t have to think, where I can escape my own mind? Afterwards, I might even get a good night’s sleep. But the minute it’s over, you’re gonna want what you’re gonna want, and I’m still gonna be me.”
― Lisa Gardner, Before She Disappeared

“In this day and age of racial tension, gender fluidity, and political polarization, how do you most define yourself?”
― Lisa Gardner, Before She Disappeared

“brought”
― Lisa Gardner, Before She Disappeared

“There’s power in humility. It’s one of the toughest lessons I’ve had to learn. Like the other souls in this room, I live on unsteady ground. Each moment is a choice and for all my good choices, I’m a single mistake away from having to start my journey all over again.”
― Lisa Gardner, Before She Disappeared

“The world would be a better place if more people spent time drinking cheap coffee in church basements.”
― Lisa Gardner, Before She Disappeared

“Oxygen tanks.”
― Lisa Gardner, Before She Disappeared

“licenses.”
― Lisa Gardner, Before She Disappeared

“What I gleaned: Especially in situations where technology has failed, the right person asking the right questions can make all the difference. That total strangers care that much for the missing among us, I found powerful—though also heartbreaking. So this book is for the dedicated, whether they’re amateur detectives, professional pilots, registered dog handlers,”
― Lisa Gardner, Before She Disappeared

“A counterfeiting operation for student visas. Requiring one mastermind, followed by enough men to kidnap two teenage girls and force them into servitude. That shouldn’t require too many bodies.”
― Lisa Gardner, Before She Disappeared

“I know the signs too well. Deke Alarie, my lead candidate for all things evil, is about to die.”
― Lisa Gardner, Before She Disappeared

“In the end, it’s not much of a decision at all. Angelique. I am here to find Angelique. To save a girl. To redeem a sin I can never change. And maybe to chase a bullet I dodged ten years ago. I turn left, down the end of the hall to the fire escape. Then, I vanish into the dark.”
― Lisa Gardner, Before She Disappeared

“Given the girls’ aptitudes in computer programming and design, this little enterprise could’ve gone on and on, growing in scope and size. From a fake university for student visas to a fake corporation for work visas, such as Charlie described. That revenue potential would be through the roof. Definitely worth the risk of holding two girls captive.”
― Lisa Gardner, Before She Disappeared

“What would be worth kidnapping two enterprising teen girls and holding them hostage? How about setting up a system to generate real student visas? I can even see Angelique’s personal interest in taking on such a project, given her immigration status, and her brother’s. Maybe that had made it sound like a good idea … before it wasn’t.”
― Lisa Gardner, Before She Disappeared