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Tess Gerritsen QUOTES

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

― Tess Gerritsen , The Keepsake (Rizzoli & Isles, #7)

2 " I’m a dinosaur, he thought, lumbering through a world where truthtellers
are despised. "

― Tess Gerritsen , The Surgeon (Rizzoli & Isles, #1)

3 " With every year that I grow older, I also draw closer to (my loved ones) to the day when we will once again be together. So I march through the deepening shadows, serene and unafraid, because I know that at the end of my journey they will be waiting for me. "

― Tess Gerritsen , The Silent Girl (Rizzoli & Isles, #9)

4 " God, it's like reality's completely shifted on me. I used to think I was standing on such solid ground. If I wanted something badly enough, I just worked like hell for it. Now I can't decide what to do, which move to make. All the things I counted on aren't there for me anymore. "

― Tess Gerritsen , Harvest

5 " 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. "

― Tess Gerritsen , The Mephisto Club (Rizzoli & Isles, #6)

6 " Her technique was not perfect. Here and there he heard an off-pitch note, and her run of sixteenths was uneven. But her attack was fierce, her bow digging into the strings with such confidence that even her mistakes sounded intentional, every note played without apology. "

― Tess Gerritsen , Playing with Fire

7 " Only by the shuddering of the bed did Toby realize the girl was sobbing. Molly herself made no sound; it was as though her grief was trapped in a jar, her cries inaudible to anyone but her. "

― Tess Gerritsen , Life Support

8 " Evil doesn't die. It never dies. It just takes on a new face, a new name. Just because we've been touched by it once, it doesn't mean we're immune to ever being hurt again. Lightning can strike twice. "

― Tess Gerritsen , The Surgeon (Rizzoli & Isles, #1)

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

― Tess Gerritsen , Life Support

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

― Tess Gerritsen , Life Support

11 " It's just something I'll have to live with... The possibility of getting sick. Not knowing if I'll live another two years or forty years. I keep telling myself, I could walk outside and get hit by a bus. That's the way life is. Just surviving another day comes with its own risk. "

― Tess Gerritsen , Life Support

12 " No matter how much you try to maintain order in your life, no matter how careful you are to guard against mistakes, against imperfections, there is always some smudge, some flaw, lurking out of sight. Waiting to surprise you. "

― Tess Gerritsen , The Surgeon (Rizzoli & Isles, #1)

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

― Tess Gerritsen , Last to Die (Rizzoli & Isles, #10)

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

― Tess Gerritsen , The Sinner (Rizzoli & Isles, #3)

15 " Only the forgotten are truly dead. "

― Tess Gerritsen , The Sinner (Rizzoli & Isles, #3)

16 " You know that movie, where the little boy says 'I see dead people'?

The Sixth Sense.

Well, I see them all the time, and I'm getting tired of it. That's what's ruined my mood. Here it is, almost Christmas, and I didn't even think about putting up a tree, because I'm still seeing the autopsy lab in my head. I'm still smelling it on my hands. I come home on a day like this, after two postmortems, and I can't think about cooking dinner. I can't even look at a piece of meat without thinking of muscle fibers. All I can deal with is a cocktail. And then I pour the drink and smell the alcohol, and suddenly there I am, back in the lab. Alcohol, formalin, they both have that same sharp smell. "

― Tess Gerritsen , The Sinner (Rizzoli & Isles, #3)

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

― Tess Gerritsen , The Sinner (Rizzoli & Isles, #3)

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

― Tess Gerritsen , The Surgeon (Rizzoli & Isles, #1)

19 " Everything's a gamble, love most of all. "

― Tess Gerritsen , The Sinner (Rizzoli & Isles, #3)

20 " You don't have to die to go to hell. "

― Tess Gerritsen , The Sinner (Rizzoli & Isles, #3)