"I loved ghost stories, creaky staircases, stormy nights. If it guaranteed nightmares I read it by flashlight, after midnight."
"You try as a parent. You love beyond reason. You fight beyond endurance. You hope beyond despair. You never think, until the very last moment, that it still might not be enough."
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Source: Lisa Gardner (2010). “Live to Tell: A Detective D. D. Warren Novel”, p.87, Bantam
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