Exposed to the world for what she was; numbed with worry…

The first four months of writing the book, my mental image is scratching with my hands through granite. My other image is pushing a…

— 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 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…

— Mary Higgins Clark

Even though it was six o'clock, there was no sense of approaching dawn.

— Mary Higgins Clark

“and beeping, obviously sure that I was either too stupid or too deaf to hear the racket.”

— Mary Higgins Clark

Approach your lives as if they were novels, with their own heroes, villains, red herrings, and triumphs

— 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…

— Mary Higgins Clark

“In her room death would come as a friend, a friend with cool gentle hands . . .”

— Mary Higgins Clark

Funny, when you finally faced reality, it was amazing how clearly you could see things.

— Mary Higgins Clark

live your life as if you may lose everything.

— 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…

— 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…

— Mary Higgins Clark

“Never better, Tom. And you?”

— 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…

— Mary Higgins Clark

“closed her computer. She felt herself breathing rapidly. I was going to be okay, she thought, if Lady Em had died in her sleep.…

— Mary Higgins Clark