Top 49 Mary Higgins Clark Quotes
#1. Even though it was six o'clock, there was no sense of approaching dawn.
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#2. 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.
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#4. The flame of inspiration needs to be encouraged. Put a glass around that small candle and protect it from discouragement or ridicule.
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#6. Writing is storytelling. No matter how you slice it, you're saying, 'Once upon a time.' That's what writing is all about.
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#7. 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.
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#8. 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.
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#9. 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.
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#14. 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.
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#16. When someone is mean to me, I just make them a victim in my next book.
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#17. Right - but the words refused to pass her lips. It was too late. Lacey could see that. Isabelle
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#21. You can love a person without loving everything about that person.
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#22. 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.
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#23. 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?
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#25. 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.
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#26. Hello," he said. "Tom?" A whoop of joy. "Alice, where are you? Are you all right?" "Never better, Tom. And you?
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#27. key in the other direction and pushed the door open. It parted a few
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#28. dolled up for their picture than we did, Barrott thought. The father and
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#29. 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.
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#30. Sometimes it's enough just to know that if you believe hard enough and long enough, your wishes can come true.
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#33. And beeping, obviously sure that I was either too stupid or too deaf to hear the racket.
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#34. 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.
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#35. In her room death would come as a friend, a friend with cool gentle hands ...
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#36. Approach your lives as if they were novels, with their own heroes, villains, red herrings, and triumphs
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#41. Never judge a book by its cover, especially when the book is a person, was the lesson.
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#42. uncommonly slow this past month; now, finally, things would start to
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#43. To God - and to him. Most could barely make rent or put food on the
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#45. Funny, when you finally faced reality, it was amazing how clearly you could see things.
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