Mary Higgins Clark Quotes & Sayings
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Famous Quotes By Mary Higgins Clark
In most marriages, one of the couple is more in love than the other, and it's best if it's the man. The marriage will have a better chance of going the whole way. — Mary Higgins Clark
I am a natural optimist but there were times when (it seemed like) I was doing nothing but adding up on the back of envelope what I had to pay this month. — Mary Higgins Clark
Happines is like mercury. Hard to hold, and when we drop it, it shatters into a million pieces. Maybe the bravest of all are those who have the courage to reach for it again. — Mary Higgins Clark
And beeping, obviously sure that I was either too stupid or too deaf to hear the racket. — Mary Higgins Clark
Sometimes it's enough just to know that if you believe hard enough and long enough, your wishes can come true. — Mary Higgins Clark
with perfect posture - shoulders back, gaze ahead - but her feet felt unsteady beneath her. The defendant. For three weeks, everyone in this courtroom had referred to her as "the defendant." Not Casey. Not her given name, Katherine Carter. Certainly not Mrs. Hunter Raleigh III, the name she would have taken by now if everything had been different. In this room, she'd been treated as a legal term, not as a real person, a person who had loved Hunter more deeply than she'd ever thought possible. When the judge gazed down from — Mary Higgins Clark
asked? That letter you mailed seemed pretty — Mary Higgins Clark
Funny, when you finally faced reality, it was amazing how clearly you could see things. — Mary Higgins Clark
The first four months of writing the book, my mental image is scratching with my hands through granite. My other image is pushing a train up the mountain, and it's icy, and I'm in bare feet. — Mary Higgins Clark
Writing is storytelling. No matter how you slice it, you're saying, 'Once upon a time.' That's what writing is all about. — Mary Higgins Clark
If you want to be happy for life, love what you do. — Mary Higgins Clark
Hello," he said. "Tom?" A whoop of joy. "Alice, where are you? Are you all right?" "Never better, Tom. And you? — Mary Higgins Clark
When Daddy didn't answer, I knew that something was wrong. Mariah thought back to that seemingly endless drive from Greenwich Village as she had rushed to New Jersey that night. — Mary Higgins Clark
As a writer, you paint strokes and leave suggestions so readers can create their own pictures. That allows you to know someone by a small action and it saves countless pages of explanation. — Mary Higgins Clark
It's funny how, even long after you've accepted the grief of losing someone you love and truly have gotten on with your life, every once in a while something comes up that plays "gotcha," and for a moment or tow the car tissue seperates and the wound is raw again. — Mary Higgins Clark
God works in mysterious ways, he thought with a sign. — Mary Higgins Clark
The truth is I hate cocktail parties when the only person I know is my supposed date, and he abandons me the minute we come in the door. — Mary Higgins Clark
A common question asked of writers is "When did you decide to become a writer?" The answer, of course, is that we didn't decide anything. It was decided for us. I firmly believe that mythical godmothers make appearances at our cradles, and bestow their gifts. The godmother who might have blessed me with a singing voice did not show up; the goddess of dance was nowhere in sight; the chef-to-the-angels was otherwise engaged. Only one made the journey to my cradle, and she whispered, "You will be a storyteller." — Mary Higgins Clark
Even though it was six o'clock, there was no sense of approaching dawn. — Mary Higgins Clark
and his wife, Lisa, were there. — Mary Higgins Clark
The two more useless words in the English language - Don't worry. — Mary Higgins Clark
their son. Sandra did not know — Mary Higgins Clark
what she perceived to be his condescending — Mary Higgins Clark
tries to make a pass at you, you — Mary Higgins Clark
the Pierre, she pictured Charlotte's face at lunch — Mary Higgins Clark
When someone is mean to me, I just make them a victim in my next book. — Mary Higgins Clark
When a scientist's son or daughter becomes a scientist they'll say "Wonderful! Wonderful!" So, why, in the name of God, would a mother be jealous to see her daughter become a successful writer? — Mary Higgins Clark
I'm always in before nine, Glady," Lane said, amused, "and you know it. Or if you want, I could meet you at her apartment?" She knew that that would bring a definite no. Glady liked the image of herself being followed by an assistant who was carrying sketches, swatches, and books of antique furniture and carpets. — Mary Higgins Clark
A library is a path to the future
find yours there. — Mary Higgins Clark
dolled up for their picture than we did, Barrott thought. The father and — Mary Higgins Clark
Right - but the words refused to pass her lips. It was too late. Lacey could see that. Isabelle — Mary Higgins Clark
even that could not help his game. — Mary Higgins Clark
Approach your lives as if they were novels, with their own heroes, villains, red herrings, and triumphs — Mary Higgins Clark
You can love a person without loving everything about that person. — Mary Higgins Clark
uncommonly slow this past month; now, finally, things would start to — Mary Higgins Clark
The flame of inspiration needs to be encouraged. Put a glass around that small candle and protect it from discouragement or ridicule. — Mary Higgins Clark
I certainly understand very much what it's (like when) an expense comes up and you're trying to figure out how to pay for it. — Mary Higgins Clark
To God - and to him. Most could barely make rent or put food on the — Mary Higgins Clark
live your life as if you may lose everything. — Mary Higgins Clark
and starting to stay even with — Mary Higgins Clark
Never judge a book by its cover, especially when the book is a person, was the lesson. — Mary Higgins Clark