Tess Gerritsen Quotes

The dead do not hurt you; only the living do.

That's what falling in love really amounted to, your brain on drugs. Adrenaline and dopamine, oxytocin and serotonin. Chemical insanity, celebrated by poets.

Only the forgotten are truly dead.

We dream our dreams, and sometimes they take us to places we never anticipate. But they are our dreams, and we go where they lead.

The most intimate feeling people can share is neither love nor hate, but pain.

Where we go depends on what we know, and what we know depends on where we go.

The one man you most want to sleep with may be the worst choice of all.

The Christmas tree, twinkling with lights, had a mountain of gifts piled up beneath it, like offerings to the great god of excess.

Death does not discriminate; whether saints or sinners, in the end, all are equal.

The heart makes its choices without weighing the consequences. It doesn't look ahead to the lonely nights that follow.

The most dangerous enemy in the world is the one you do not recognize.

Everything's a gamble, love most of all.

No man easily admits that he is afraid.

We never know until the beast of opportunity is staring us in the face.

My childhood was spent in my local library in a San Diego suburb. It's where I became a writer - by 1st becoming a reader!

I know there’s evil in the world, and there always has been. But you don’t need to believe in Satan or demons to explain it. Human beings are perfectly capable of evil all by themselves.

Only with maturity did I come to appreciate my own Chinese roots: not just the food and the ancient history, but also the philosophy of child-rearing and the respect for education and knowledge.

Parenthood is nothing but doubts.

Motherhood didn't make you stronger; it made you vulnerable and afraid of what death could steal from you.

If you want to remain at liberty, I suggest you not antagonize your defenders.

The best heroes in the world are the reluctant ones. Courage isn't fearlessness - it's acting in the face of fear.

Sometimes, the stars line up, the gods smile, and love gets a fighting chance. Just a chance. That's all it can really hope for. No guarantees, no certainties

She was the only woman in the homicide unit, and already there had been problems between her and another detective, charges of sexual harassment, countercharges of unrelenting bitchiness.

She now knew her death was inevitable, and with that acceptance came liberation. The courage of the condemned.

If I were stranded on a desert island, the one book I would have with me would is the Bible. There are enough stories in the Bible to keep you engaged for years.

We are all descended from monsters.

Sometimes, the person who could make you happiest is the one who waits patiently in the wings.

When you're a fifty-year-old woman, no one really bothers to look at you anymore, much less value your opinion. It's hard on the old ego. But damn, it does make it easy to get away with a lot.

We are not as impervious as we think we are. - Dr Maura Isles

One of the best Christmas presents I ever got was the globe that I now keep right beside my desk.

When you shine a bright light, a secret loses all its power.

Some people just couldn't commit to their own health. Instead they wasted their energy worrying about things they could do nothing about.

He looked at her, and she couldn't contradict him. Nor could she offer any false reassurance. Silence, at least, was honest.

I’m a dinosaur, he thought, lumbering through a world where truthtellersare despised.