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 m…

- 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 s…

- Mary Higgins Clark

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

- Mary Higgins Clark

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

- 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

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 …

- 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 coura…

- 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 …

- 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