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What She Found (Tracy Crosswhite, #9) What She Found by Robert Dugoni
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“What I’ve learned is that life isn’t about memories. It isn’t about the past. It’s about living in the present and looking to the future, and what that future holds for each of us.” She looked at her mother and her”
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“had tracked”
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“We can’t make up lost time, but we can make the most of what time we have left.”
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“Einstein”
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“Her mother’d had Lisa tested as a child, and the doctors concluded she had autism, which according to her mother meant she was just a shade below brilliant.”
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“married.”
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“That set off the home security system—a chorus of deep barks from Rex and Sherlock, the two Rhodesian-mastiffs Tracy inherited when she and Dan married. Roger squirmed free and shot from her arms. A thud, followed by a second thud, came from upstairs. The dogs had been on the bed—against Tracy’s rules. Nails clicked on the hardwood floor as the two dogs rushed to the landing at the top of the steps. They looked down at Tracy, tails wagging, but tentative. “You know you’re not supposed to be on the bed,” she said. Rex shifted his eyes back to the master bedroom. An admission of guilt. Sherlock, apparently deciding to seek forgiveness, lumbered his 140 pounds down the steps to greet her. “Good boy,” she said. “You’re in the will. Rex, you get a lump of coal.” Rex whined and trudged back into the bedroom. The”
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“consequences are because of the actions a person chose to take, whatever that person’s reason or justification. The consequences lie with them. Not me.”
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“consequences are because of the actions a person chose to take,”
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“Tracy knew prisoners often said the most difficult thing to get used to wasn’t being locked behind bars or doors, but learning to deal with the constant noise, the lack of any peace or privacy.”
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“It’s just such a lost feeling to not know who I am, or how I fit in this world. I had no choice but to forge ahead . . . stiff upper lip and all. But from where I was forging . . . I didn’t have a center post to ground me.”
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“But odds are only created if a probability exists that there is an alternative.”
" What can it hurt to buy the ticket and entertain that false hope?” "...you are the eternal optimist, but I get your point.” “Maybe I am. I’d rather be the guy actually holding that winning lottery ticket, but . . . even I’m not that eternal of an optimist.”

“‘When justice is done, it brings joy to the righteous but terror to the evildoers.’ Proverbs 21:15.” "

"And I’ll tell you it’s a lot more fun moving forward with people you love and who love you.”

"The consequences are because of the actions a person chose to take, whatever that person’s reason or justification. The consequences lie with them."

"When people can no longer trust you, when they no longer see you as honorable, what are you left with? Not a lot. Sometimes, in those circumstances, it’s harder to live with yourself than it is to live with what you did.”

"Sometimes, people say, it takes a tragedy to make us realize what we have, to make us realize how blessed we really are and what we could lose. Sometimes we have to know loss to appreciate what we find. "

"What I’ve learned is that life isn’t about memories. It isn’t about the past. It’s about living in the present and looking to the future, and what that future holds for each of us”
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“and those poor souls who were lonely and just wanted to talk.”
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“She could get upset, but what good would that do? Bitterness was never a good recipe for happiness.”
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“And maybe ‘if ifs and buts were candy and nuts, we’d all have a merry Christmas”
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“But I know you. You’ll hem and haw for a bit, but in the end, you’ll go because you hate to lose—at anything.”
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“We can’t always control the outcomes, but we can control what we do.”
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“Tracy had always thought hope to be cruel, a tease that filled people with positive emotions, without any real basis.”
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“You just do your job, Tracy, and the chips will fall where they fall. You get me?”
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“And maybe ‘if ifs and buts were candy and nuts, we’d all have a merry Christmas,”
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“Then maybe God exists.” Tracy made a face, not following. “I’m sorry?” “‘When justice is done, it brings joy to the righteous but terror to the evildoers.’ Proverbs 21:15.”
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“Non-declarative memory is memories associated with skills and learning. It is acquired by practice, not by recollection.”
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“When justice is done, it brings joy to the righteous but terror to the evildoers.’ Proverbs 21:15.”
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“Just thirty years of studying human nature. The strongest biological urge may be to procreate, but it’s not far ahead of man’s innate compulsion to protect himself.”
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“If she didn’t have a deadline hanging over her head like a guillotine blade, she couldn’t focus worth a damn.”
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